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Jul 3, 2024 · The friend remarks, “Texas always seems so big, but you know you’re in the largest state in the Union when you’re anchored down in Anchorage.” This line highlights the friend’s realization of the magnitude of their new surroundings and the sense of being anchored or grounded in a place far away from the familiar.
- Tasha Lowery
In her reply, her friend realizes she might have become a housewife "anchored down in Anchorage" but still dreaming about her childhood in Texas with her good friend Michelle, who went on to an exciting life as a musician and a "skateboard punk rocker in New York". [3]
There's certainly a sense of irony in the refrain "anchored down in Anchorage" but this pieces misses the fact that it cuts both ways, and diminishes the richness of the art. It's valid to suggest that the friend feels constrained, but it's worth seeing a sense of loss on Shocked's part as well in her lacking an anchor, which led her to burn ...
Aug 12, 2017 · Although we don’t know Michelle’s friends name, we do know she feels trapped. She feels stuck. She may be in beautiful Alaska, but she is feeling anchored down.
Aug 12, 2017 · Although we don’t know Michelle’s friends name, we do know she feels trapped. She feels stuck. She may be in beautiful Alaska, but she is feeling anchored down.
The song "Anchorage" from Michelle Shocked's second album, Short Sharp Shocked, takes the structure of a letter to a nearby friend in Dallas, Texas (Shocked herself resided most of her life in and around that same city). The narrator is surprised when she gets a response all the way from Anchorage, Alaska, far to the north.
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There's no hint of it in the song. It's not bad to be anchored, you know, especially when you have kids. She and Leroy seem to be doing fine. She did say, "i'll cross that burning bridge." Probably because it sounded cool and she neede a rhyme for "Anchorage"
