The Reunion of the Lloyd University Class of '89

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I wanted to evoke the kind of early 70’s recording session that would have involved grizzled veteran session musicians with names like “Kooch”, “Hooch”, and “Goose”. I was thinking about Steve Cropper and Robbie Robertson when I played the guitar. I wanted to make a certain messy grandeur with a horn trio. I hope you like it.

Lyrics

In a huddle at the campus dance
It was June of '22
I was laughing with Tom and Little Man
In the way we always used to do
We hadn't been together for ten years
But our souls were still entwined
At the reunion of the Lloyd University class of '89

And then I felt her looking right at me
She was the one that had got away
She had to go and get a PhD
And I wasn't gonna beg her to stay
I never got very far with her but man was she ever fine
At the reunion of the Lloyd University class of '89

When I was last hanging out with these fools
Our whole lives stretched ahead
We never followed anybody's rules
We never listened to what the man said

Now I don't recognize the boy I was
Though he was father to the man
I never thought about the future because
I never seemed to need a plan

And when the sky was turning to dawn
There was nothing really left to say
Cause everybody knew before too long
We would have to go our separate ways
We smoked a little of whatever we had, and we drank up all of the wine
At the reunion of the Lloyd University class of '89

See you next June at the next reunion of the
Lloyd University class of '89