From the lyrics, What “scene” is this song trying to set?

What setting is this song trying to set. I really don’t understand it.

[b][quote]I'm a 45 spinning on an old Victrola.
I'm a two strike swinger, I'm a Pepsi Cola.
I'm a blue jean quarterback saying "I love you" to the prom queen, In a Chevy.
I'm John Wayne, Superman, California.
I'm a Kris Kristofferson Sunday morning.
I'm a mama and daddy singing along to Don McLean, At the levee.

I'm Mark Twain on the Mississippi.
I'm Hemingway with a shot of whiskey.
I'm a TV dinner on a tray trying to figure out the wheel, of fortune.
I'm a Texaco star, I'm a Gibson guitar.
I'm still a teenage kid trying to go too far.
I'm a jukebox waiting in a neon bar, for a quarter.[/quote][/b]

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DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

Attempting to define himself, yet some of that can't possibly fit.

For instance. Victrola just simply can't fit. It wouldn't even fit my parents who were born in 1920.

Not going to go into every line the doesn't fit.

Yet "mama and daddy" is referring to the "Momma's and Poppas". They were often harmonized to by adults in the 60s. Hence singing to, not harmonizing to, Don Mclean's song: American pie.

Lots of inferences in those lyrics that only certain Americans can understand.... Texico star... A gas station whose Logo was a star. Yet Gibson guitar really doesn't fit. Texico would run you off the lot!

Iwillwait · M

You're A two strike felon waiting be discovered . (Untapped Talent)

uncalled4 · 56-60, M

I would guess the 50s in some ways, but I think it's all just good fun. Victrolas played 78s, not 45s.

LordShadowfire · M

It sounds like they're saying they are classic Americana.

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MethDozer · M

@LordShadowfire @XenonRush American isn't really patriotism or about that it's more just the style and quirks kinda unique or indicative to he Average American way of life and experience. Often in a nostalgic sense

Baseball, route 66, blue jeans,. Blues music and rock and roll,. BBQ and apple pie, Thanksgiving football, That kind of stuff.

LordShadowfire · M

@MethDozer I always associated Americana with the good kind of patriotism. The kind that makes you kind of happy to live here, and be a part of the whole democratic experiment, Not the kind that makes you drive around in a stupidly large pickup truck with a huge American flag on one side and a huge Confederate flag on the other, lol.

MethDozer · M

@LordShadowfire I can see that and how it can invoke that but they aren't synonymous really.

NativePortlander1970

It's gibberish

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