(And Now) Diner - Liner Notes
By Roughly Enforcing Nostalgia
(5/3/98)
For John "Ace" Stevens.


“Now the rooms are all empty down at Frankie’s joint
And the highway she’s deserted clear down to Breaker’s Point
There’s a lot of people leaving town now, leaving their friends, their homes
At night they walk that dark and dusty highway all alone
Well Papa go to bed now, it’s getting late
Nothing we can say can change anything now
Because there’s just different people coming down here now
And they see things in different ways
And soon everything we’ve known will just be swept away.”

- Bruce Springsteen, “Independence Day” (1979)


“You don’t have to stray tho oceans away
Waves roll in my thoughts Hold tight the ring . . .
The sea will rise . . . Please stand by the shore . . .
I will be . . . I will be there once more . . .”

- Eddie Vedder, “Oceans” (1991)


“All the people we used to know
They’re an illusion to me now.
Some are mathematicians
Some are carpenter’s wives.
Don’t know how it all got started,
I don’t know what they’re doin’ with their lives.
But me, I’m still on the road
Headin’ for another joint.”

- Bob Dylan, “Tangled Up in Blue” (1974)


“Big clouds pick on the little ones
Evening shade drives out the sun
Sorry for the stuff I’ve done
T o me your still the only one
Cold winds blowin’ from the edge of town
Circus tents all got blown down
All freaks are running ‘round
And I lost every friend I’d found
I’m wanderin’
Lost and wanderin’.”

- Chris Isaak, “Wanderin’” (1999)