single space: Halloween Store, by Andy Shauf
on car keys forgotten in the house, on house keys forgotten in the car
Hi, I’m Norm
Andy Shauf seems like a nice guy. He has a gentle voice, a good demeanour and seems to be someone you could relate to.
Not to confirm the stereotype, but Andy Shauf comes from Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. His first published record is from 2006, and he was born in 1987.
The thing is, he’s a really good songwriter, so he’s maybe more a complex character that appears.
Halloween Store is track #7 on Norm, the 9th studio album by the Canadian songwriter.
The song is a song that could fit in a short movie. It tells the story of Norm, but he’s not actually narrating anything. He’s recalling what he forgot to do after he got high: to get the keys to go check whether he locked the house or not, to get the car keys from the car he got out of to check the house, and so on.
It’s a song that lives to get to the Halloween Store, where Norm checks a car to see whether it’s someone’s car or not; he then imagines to enter the store, to navigate the aisles and to approach said someone.
But then he finally realizes that he is still in the car, and there actually is someone in the “blue car”, smiling at him.
That’s it. A little piece of everyday life, narrated and sang with a vibrant self-consciousness.
I think we’ve maybe met once before
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