Sullivan Street - Adam explanation

Song: Sullivan Street
Where: Town Hall, New York City, New York
When: September 18, 2007 (time mark 48:27)

Sullivan Street is a beautiful song off of the August and Everything After album.
For me Sullivan Street is the metaphorical road that I took on the way home after being out with my friends. It was a great time in that it was the first time I experienced youthful freedom. In the calm early morning hours when I would  come home, the mode of this song playing on the radio always seemed to hit the right chords.

From Adam on the August and Everything After: Live at Town Hall album:

"I had this girlfriend who lived in San Francisco

I lived in Berkeley

She lived on the far side on San Francisco and

Her mother came out to live with her from from New York

and her mother was really, really, really catholic

and so she could never stay at my house

We have to take her home every night

It was a long drive all the way from the hills of Berkeley 

down to the freeway and on to the bridge and across the bay into San Francisco

She lived on the far fu**ing side of the city 

and every time I drove back I had to let her go and you know 

It's like on top of everything else

I had to let her go  

I can never have stayed

She could never stay

and I don't know one day 

I just had this, I get this feeling lot

I think I wrote a bunch of songs about it

Just knew it wasn't going to last much longer 

Not that i wasn't in love with her

and it was even after her mother got the f**k out of town 

but I was thinking a lot about those drives

because I started thinking one day it was just going to be over soon 

I don't know for me sometimes it doesn't matter how good it is 

It's s just going to be over soon so

I wrote this song

I don't know why I called it what I did  because 

I didn't leave anywhere near any place named this but 

I wrote a song called Omaha I never been there before  in my life 

When we  first toured in Omaha the mayor tried to gives me the key to the city

I was so embarrassed that I didn't go 

I could have had these hug f**king now  but I don't got it

But this is a song about something matters and you just know it is going to go 

and it is about someone name Susan

I don't' know where she is now but it is called Sullivan Street"