Midnight Love Story from the pool hall to the T Tee Peep.

One of the most authentic love ballads composed since the days of Joyce, Beckett or Kavanagh.
Bob Seger is the evenings emperor.
There is a great beauty in composing a love song about a crush on a local stripper. It has few words but encapsulates the very taboo he finds himself consumed by. I love a song that tells as story, or even better , one like this..... that draws a picture. I can visualise the dark night, the grey concrete jungle, the city lights, the neon, the smoky pool hall. It is a beautiful piece of writing and the guitar lick is famous globally. Pure whiskey n blues.
I have seen the audacious worker, skip her way up the street, does she see her audience looking on from the pool hall? Always needs focus to concentrate your vision through the glass, the opaque mirror of the poolhall, out onto the street.
Trying to get his courage up. Only someone who understands the scenario can understand this truth. Its' irony and yet the subtle respects that exist between worker and John, client and the street, the losers and the hustlas and the nobodies .... walking on past.