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"plaintext": "Time for an odd thing to say: this is one of the most consciously \"songy\" of the songs so far. The repeated refrain of \"I've got a radio\" and the tight but coherent narrative break it away from the \"sung poetry\" of a lot of the cassette tape songs."
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"plaintext": "There's a particular anger in the vocals and the lyrics that are historically interesting as they feel like a contemporary version of what a lot of John's later songs were trying to recapture. The anger of youth, the lack of control, the iron grip on the small things that the singer can control."
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