Thanks Mousethief, I hadn't thought of posting the song.

Well, Bob P...I can't see where you got your spin of the song from, though I respect your right to interpret it that way.

I see it a bit differently.

Cliche ridden, as too much of Ani's stuff is because she writes too fast and recklessly.

But I believe she hails from Buffalo, and the song is about so-called "white flight". I didn't interpret the part about "the country" as you refer to it, as a negative assessment of rural folk at all. Rather, it strikes me as a pretty naive folkie projection of rural romanticism onto suburban sprawl.

Not a very articulate piece, is it?