Lovetown

Album: Philadelphia Soundtrack (1993)
Charted: 49
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Songfacts®:

  • This is about facing down painful experiences from the past so they do not effect you in the future.
  • The video was based on the art of Yayoi Kusama.
  • This was used in the movie Philadelphia, starring Tom Hanks as an AIDS victim.

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  • Max from Hamburg, Germanylovetown is about the real cause of aids
    he mows the lawn
    detergent a deeper meaning in the soil.
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