Things happen to a town, and then it's never the same. Or it's the same in some new way. Whatever it was before, it's hard to think of it now without the new thing. Like the Parthenon in Athens or the Statue of Liberty in New York. It comes along and suddenly forever it is part of the identity of the town it came into. In the case of this town, it was a song. Or a few lines from a song.