prettyface's blog: "The Inside Story"

while cruising the news sites while her boss was busy, my mother stumbled across an article on KSDK about a pair of songwriters, one from Indiana (a real Hoosier) and the other from Saskatchewan (that's Canada for those of you that don't know Canada). they moved here and have since written a song about the bizarre quirks St Louis is known for. here are the lyrics and their video.

i may be from here, but i'm not *OF* here. dig ?
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Symmetry - I'm Not From Here
(video link here -- http://www.ksdk.com/video/default.aspx?aid=108549 )

i just wanted some direction to a place i'd never been
as i listened intently for the street names
instead he rattled landmarks and places long torn down
"Go past the old Arena and the Famous Barr downtown,"
"turn left at the big Amoco" and right at the "Old Sears"
I don't know what he's talkin' 'bout cuz, hey, I'm not from here

I'm not from here (I'm not from here!)
I'm not from here (I'm not from here!)
I can't your find your dusty buildings
I don't drink your kind of beer
I'm not from here (I'm not from here!)
I'm not from here (I'm not from here!)
I got the nerve to be born elsewhere
makes me really not from here

I got an awful hankerin' for a little bite to eat
but I can't understand what's on the menu
where I come from the cuts are beef but here you've got pork steak
and the only thing you got for sweets is gooey butter cake
your pizza's on a cracker, there's no K in mostacholli
you sling dough in the fryer, call it toasted ravioli

I'm not from here (I'm not from here!)
i'm not from here (i'm not from here!)
I don't eat your frozen custard
I don't drink your kind of beer
I'm not from here (I'm not from here!)
I'm not from here (I'm not from here!)
I got the nerve to be born elsewhere
makes me really not from here

it doesn't matter if you moved here when you were just a teen
it doesn't matter if you've come and gone and stayed here in between
doesn't matter if you've owned your home for 47 years
if you've ever lived a day outside this town...you're not from here!

you're not from here (i'm not from here!)
I'm not from here (I'm not from here!)
I didn't grow up on the 'South Side'
I don't drink your kind of beer
I'm not from here (I'm not from here!)
I'm not from here (I'm not from here!)
I got the nerve to be born elsewhere
makes me really not from here

stick around for just a spell, the questions will commence
you'll recognize the folks are mighty friendly
they'll ask you for your high school and their eyes will come to life
as they swear they know your nephew's cousin's husband's second wife
when you say you have no parish, the knowing looks appear
"she can't help it, she don't know no one cuz, hey, she's not from here"

she's not from here (i'm not from here!)
I'm not from here (I'm not from here!)
I didn't go to your high school
I don't drink your kind of beer
I'm not from here (I'm not from here!)
I'm not from here (I'm not from here!)
I got the nerve to be born elsewhere
makes me really not from here

I'm not from here (i'm not from here!)
I'm not from here (I'm not from here!)
I didn't go to Nerinx high school
I don't drink Budweiser beer
I'm not from here (I'm not from here!)
I'm not from here (I'm not from here!)
I got the nerve to be born elsewhere
makes me really not from here

I got the nerve to be born elsewhere
makes me really not from here
i'm not from here
i'm not from here
we're not from here!