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| Bruce Springsteen – For You Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Glad I could be of help. I'm a huge Springsteen fan, and I really enjoy his more metaphorical songs. There are few artists that can match his song writing ability. If ya have any questions on other songs I'd be glad to give my input the best I can, though I don't claim to know all of them, ha. |
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| Bruce Springsteen – For You Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Sorry it took me so long to respond that interview was in Rolling Stone in the "Springsteen's Restless Heart" issue. |
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| Bruce Springsteen – I'll Work For Your Love Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Seven drops of blood refers to the seven occasions on which Jesus bled. The whole song has religious metaphors to it, the cross, crown of thorns, halos, temple of bones, revelations, book of faith. Unlike almost all the rest of the songs on Magic I feel this one may just be a love song, without broad reaching social meaning behind it. |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Long Walk Home Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I'm gonna go ahead and say that this song uses the relationship with the girl as a metaphor for the relationship with the country. Bruce is saying that it's a long walk home to finish what was ruined. Something was slipped inside his palm, something that couldn't be said. Unspeakable things have occurred in the country over the years. The line about the flag "Who we are... what we'll do... and what we won't." Bruce is saying that the American people have let things go to the point where we're not who we once were.
Absolutely brilliant song. The line about the flag over the courthouse damn near brings tears to my eyes whenever I hear it, such a harsh reality we have to face. Bruce had tears in his eyes while singing this in concert. |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Growin' Up Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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The acoustic version on 18 tracks is way better than the Asbury Park version in my opinion. I think this song can be related to anyone in the teenage/early 20 years. |
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| Bruce Springsteen – The Ghost Of Tom Joad Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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the quote you refer to wadler is taken almost verbatim from The Grapes of Wrath. The song is about how the poor are treated unfairly by the exceptionally rich, and in writing the song I feel Bruce is saying little has changed since the Great Depression. |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Radio Nowhere Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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"I want a thousand guitars... I want pounding drums...I want a million different voices speaking in tongues" Best lyric of the whole song |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Jungleland Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I don't know, I could be wrong but I don't think that the soft refusal has anything sexual to it. The "Magic Rat" is no doubt doing something illegal, as many Springsteen characters do, nothing to bad, just something to try and get by, showing that you do what you have to do in the city to get by. I think that the barefoot girl is up waiting for the "Magic Rat" and he's not coming, she's trying to convince herself that he's alright, although slowly realizing he may not be, the surrender. Then it flashes to the "tunnels up town" where the Rat has been killed, and then the girl shuts out the bed room light. I just feel this would more closely follow Born to Run's romanticizing of youthful discretions.
The ending is the best, most powerful though. You just get the sense of urgency, and yet they wind up wounded... not even dead, where death is seen as the better alternative. Bruce's opus, no doubt about it. From beginning to end not ONE bad lyric. |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Backstreets Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Also a good interpretation, Frost, never thought of the speaker of the song addressing two people with the song, I assumed that Terry was a girl and he was addressing her and some guy she ran off with, but I think your's is definitely a possibility as well. I'm disappointed in the concerts I've been to he hasn't played this one as I'd like to hear the emotion of this one live. |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Last to Die Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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The line "The wise men were all fools... what to do." It simultaneously tells the story and the hopelessness of it. Very political, but that's one of the best part about Bruce. He is simultaneously a poet and an activist. Who would want it any other way, as he says in Jungleland, "And man the poets down here don't write nothing at all... they just stand back and let it all be." |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Gypsy Biker Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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The best thing with this song is to listen to "Shut out the Light" right before it, which was the B side to Born in the USA if you have the record as a single. That song is about a guy coming home from Vietnam, he's not dead, but he may as well be. The songs even share a lyric, in that one it says "Bobby pulled his Ford out of the garage and they polished up the chrome." In that song the vet comes home to everything he loved and after the horrors of war he is not the same person. "He stares across the lights of the city and dreams of where he's been." This song tells a similar story, but this time he returns in a coffin. Beautiful song, excellently written. Bruce once again proves his ability to not only interpret the present, but put it in the scope of the past. Listen to "Shut out the Light" and then "Gypsy Biker." Scary to think we can make the same mistake twice... |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Johnny 99 Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Interesting side note, at a concert, Bruce was talking about Ronald Reagan talking about "Born in the USA" as a source of American pride, even though the whole song is about how badly we messed up in Vietnam, Bruce said at the concert, "I don't think Ronny's listening" and then played this song. Basically this song is Bruce's ode to the loss of blue collar jobs, something that Reaganomics did plenty too help with later on. Ralph/Johnny loses his job, can't afford to support his family or even keep his house, gets drunk, loses it, and shoots a night clerk. |
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| Bruce Springsteen – For You Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I'd like to say too, that in a recent interview Springsteen said that when he writes songs he purposely makes it that there's an obvious meaning behind it, in this case of a girl actually killing herself, but also that there's an interpretation beyond that, in my theory that it's about the relationship not her actual life. I think in Prozac Nation she interpreted it in a way that would relate to her, but I think that it would be too obvious of a song if it just ended there, especially for his early stuff when he agonized over deep metaphors while writing them. |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Backstreets Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I think it's very possible that Terry is a guy, but I think the meaning rings true either way. Maybe it's left up to interpretation, but either way I think this song has a lot that anyone can relate to. Personally, "Blame it on the lies that killed us, blame it on the truth that ran us down, you can blame it all on me, Terry, it don't matter to me now," is one of my favorite lyrics. Also, I think this is probably Bruce's best vocal performance. Also, props to jimmy the saint, nice Bruce reference, not one you hear too often ha. |
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| Bruce Springsteen – For You Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I always had kind of a different idea about the meaning of this song. I thought the death itself was a metaphor for the ending of the relationship. I took it as they've both had their mistakes, and the girl ended the relationship, thus killing the relationship. "But you let your blue walls get in the way of these facts. Honey, get your carpet baggers off my back. You wouldn't even give me time to cover my tracks, you said here's your mirror and your ball and jacks." I think it's saying the girl is being too stubborn to give it another shot, even though she wants it too. "Don't call for your surgeon, even he says it's too late, it's not your lungs this time, it's your heart that holds your fate." Specifficallly mention the heart makes me believe this too. I'm a die hard Springsteen fan though, so I probably look a little deeper in to it, as it's one of my favorites. |
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