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Fountains of Wayne
writes songs that define the
Northeast. Its newest hit single
is a homage to Acela
Your girlfriend promised to meet you
at Penn Station for a weekend trip to
Boston. Where is she? You scour the
station and look in Hudson News but
she’s nowhere to be found. Maybe
she’s already on the train. You head
down the escalator and climb aboard
just before the doors close, but she’s
not there. You lean against a win-
dowpane and drink yourself into
a stupor, thinking, “Tell me baby,
where the hell are you?”
This quintessentially North-
east story is told in Acela, a song on
