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| Bruce Springsteen – I'm on Fire Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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I sincerely doubt that this song is about paedophilia, as some people seem to be suggesting. When referring to the girl's "daddy", he's obviously not talking about her actual father, but her partner. Especially in light of the lyrics "Tell me now baby, is he good to you / Can he do to you the things that I'll do". Bruce singing about incest and paedophilia in one song, that'd be a first.
To me, the song is pretty straightforward in its meaning: a man (or maybe a horny teenage boy) passionately lusting after a woman who's already committed to someone else, losing sleep and his mind over it. Bruce's "screams" at the end are fantastic expressions of this agonizing frustration. |
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| Eels – Novocaine For The Soul Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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You're completely right about the bigger meaning of the song, but I think the first line ("life is hard, and so am I") IS deliberately sexual. Maybe he craves sex with some attractive girl to fill that void, to escape his mind-numbingly boring life.
You probably won't read this though, seeing as how you posted your message over 9 years ago. |
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