Yes,
What everyone has written is pretty much accurate. Ben Folds did cover
the song from BTS (he even acknowledges in the liner notes that he would
be content to just be a BTS cover band). Doug grew up in Twin Falls and
later moved to Boise then to Seattle then back to Boise. However Doug is
not even old enough to have turned 17 in 1983 as he is just starting to
go into his 30's. So the age doesn't add up. Just a little bit of
fictionalized rhyming.
-Trav
