Picture it. Lebanon (PA). Mid 80's. A boy who has had one too many exposures to Revelations and it's various interpretations (it's surely the trippiest book in the Bible, no?) and had seen the Thief in the Night series at his local church is awakened by a cataclysmic noise of an explosion and a bright flash of light through his window. Cowering in the corner, he waits for signs that the Rapture occurred.
In the same house, in the attic converted into a bedroom, his step-sister is taping songs off the radio ('cause that's what we did back in the day, waiting for hours on end for the station to play the song we just had to hear) and she manages to capture the moment in her recording.
And, as you might already know, Christ didn't return that day ... but a squirrel sure did sacrifice himself to a transformer in the alley behind Cumberland Street (all-home-days week continues!) and it sure did scare the beJesus out of me!
The song being taped off the radio -- Madness' "Our House", found at the link below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwIe_sjKeAY
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