This Year 365 songs: January 24th
Jan. 25th, 2026 11:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
js_thrill And today we are Going to Hungary
The annotations here are particularly interesting because Darnielle describes how he would re-write some of the lyrics if he were writing them today (he would rework the last lines to end on "gentle" rather than "Lincoln Continental"). It's an interesting bit of insight, to see him thinking about little tweaks like that 20 odd years later. That is a sort of change I would spend a lot of time on, if I were writing lyrics.
I don't have a ton to say about the song itself, other than it is a nice occasion for me to think about the time I went to Budapest, which I really enjoyed.
The annotations here are particularly interesting because Darnielle describes how he would re-write some of the lyrics if he were writing them today (he would rework the last lines to end on "gentle" rather than "Lincoln Continental"). It's an interesting bit of insight, to see him thinking about little tweaks like that 20 odd years later. That is a sort of change I would spend a lot of time on, if I were writing lyrics.
I don't have a ton to say about the song itself, other than it is a nice occasion for me to think about the time I went to Budapest, which I really enjoyed.
