this song is not about small town, because if it was about small towns where was jason ld when the smith marie county people were fighting for clean water, where we see when these towns were closing, where we see when these people in the community were suffering from starvation wages, but then he comes to sing a song that harkens back to the vision, harkens back to the fear of outsiders, this racist violence that lead my grandparents to leave the smal l town's, fleeing joke renal jim crow terrorism. this is not something this is something we must condemn, because if we normalized thi s