Song – Fairfield
Here is my first entry into the SpinTunes song writing competition. The challenge was to write a song about your hometown. I’ve had a lot of them, but Fairfield, NJ is where I grew up and lived the longest so that’s what I’m going with. The main problem I came across in this challenge is what to cram into a 3 minute song about your hometown? Luckily for me, there’s not much in Fairfield that’s too exciting to write a song about so that made my job somewhat easy. Then again, I compare everything to Disney World so I could be wrong.
The song draws mostly from childhood memories and images from growing up. I’m not a big fan about explaining every last detail about a song but since this is about a place that I’m sure most of you have never been to, I’ll try my best to keep it brief. Ready?
The diner does have a name and it’s name is Versailles. The old library was somehow removed to build a new one across town. Whether it was blown up or zapped by aliens I couldn’t tell you for sure. I didn’t see it happen so I wouldn’t rule it out. The Ice Caverns is where scary animated Santas and Mrs. Santas stand and twist and turn and wave in different holiday settings. It was always FREE, until recently. Sniff… 
The bush with the hand was at my cousin’s house down the street from where my family lived. We used to hide in it as kids and wave to cars to see the reactions. Sorry to ruin the illusion for all you people that drove by and thought it was real. The song then goes on to reference the ongoing flood problem brought on by the mighty Passaic River during heavy long rainstorms. And yes I have a brother Davey that I was forced to watch play softball. Good Tymes was a bar in town that is no longer there and Calandras is the often mispronounced bakery. Stevenson and Churchill are the two rival grammar schools in town and we had arcade games where any kid would rather be than school. Whew!
You can check out the results of the contest here and also read the judges reviews.
The entire SpinTunes round 1 album can be found here. The #1 song, London, is by far my favorite of the round! Great job by everybody involved.
Fairfield
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