The Promise

The promise – When In Rome

Like song titles, lyrics and basically everything to do with songs that aren’t short, random melody lines that worm into my head, i’m terrible with band names. I asked everyone at work last night who this song was by (a fact i had once briefly known. I’ve even posted this song before) but no one could help. I knew it was a band with a stupid but once in vogue “phrase” name, but i couldn’t pick it. When In Rome. Could you get away with a name like that these days? Anyway, i promise never to forget again, because i truly love this song.

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The Promise

The promise – When In Rome

Well this song has completely taken over my life. This is just like it seems to have taken over the lives of every pop punk (not MTX, Sicko, etc. pop punk. The other kind) earlier this/last decade. Hey Mercedes, the Eyeliners, New Found Glory, Anberlin, and i’m sure some others who’ve had this song resurface for them, be it from Napoleon Dynamite or whichever volume of that snowball that they happened to be hit by and caught up in. So i guess i’m late to this. See what happens when you avoid youth culture?

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The Promise

The Promise – When In Rome

And now i know who this song is by. When In Rome. I guess those words had to eventually fall as some band’s name. This is a really great song. And it’s in Napoleon Dynamite! That’s my generation’s link to it. The cool part of my generation that knows how to have fun. That’s a defense of the movie.

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