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Song · 2000 · Country

Back Where I Come From

2000

★ 2.4 editorial score

Mac McAnally's 1990 original about his Mississippi hometown reached number fourteen; Chesney's cover went gold without ever being a single.

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Home Small-town life Nostalgia

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Quote · 2002

“Memories warm you up from the inside but they also tear you apart.”

Haruki Murakami

Quote · 1984

“In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.”

Milan Kundera

Quote · 1834

“Bygone images, and scenes of early life, have stolen into my mind, like breezes blown from the spice-islands of Youth and Hope-those twin realities of this phantom world!”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge