The line “I got my first real six-string” reminded him of Foreigner’s “Juke Box Hero” and the line “I bought a beat up six-string in a second-hand store.” The image “Standin’ on your mama’s porch, you told me that you’d wait forever” carries inside it Bruce Springsteen’s “Thunder Road” and that image of the porch and the doorway. “When you held my hand, I knew that it was now or never” leans on The Beatles’ “I Want To Hold Your Hand.” None of this means copy. It means the song was born inside a dialogue with the great American rock mythology.