| Bruce Springsteen – Thunder Road Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This man is a genius. He has this talent to "tell it like it is" or really convey the feelings of a boy in his mid-late teens/early twenties without being corny or superficial. The feeling of the frustration of wanting to escape or find something better that your sure is out there. The feeling of being left behind. Then there's the desire for love. Bruce truly understands a teen's desire of wanting to get this person you love and leave this town you hate. He also understands it's not that easy. "don't turn me home again, i just can't face myself alone again." Like others have said this song heavily mirrors Born to Run. The theme of wanting to escape with your girl and leave a town of losers before you become one of them. Like Born to Run he doesn't tell us the ending. No artist can relate to the people as well as Bruce can. This song just makes me want to climb in my car and floor it down the highway. |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Thunder Road Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| very true. puts me right in my house at seaside. | |
| Bruce Springsteen – Born to Run Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This also gives a good look into the Asbury Park scene of the town in its heyday. People would drive to the circuit and go racing on the strip. It is ashame that Asbury has fallin into such despair. Even the efforts to revitalize the town have not done any good. Unfortunately, Asbury has become a gay resort. No longer is it a town for family vacations or is it the exciting hangout for local teens. The circuit has become a depressed breeding ground for criminals, gays and the like. The famous Empress Hotel reopened as a predominately gay hotel to go along with the rest of the scene. What was once called the "Jewel of the Jersey Shore" is now the complete opposite. It is a shame that we will never see it as Bruce did 30-40 years ago. |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Born to Run Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| This song really hits the nail on the head for small northeast towns. You can really appreciate this song a lot more when you live in one of those towns. Having lived in the northeast my whole life you grow up with this attitude of wanting to escape and find something better. I've been to the midwest and south before and let me tell you it's like a whole other country here. To narrow it down even more it really describes the mundane life in South Jersey. Bruce really knows how to manipulate words in such a way that he can describe the working class way of life to perfection. Great song | |
| Bruce Springsteen – Meeting Across the River Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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They dont actually have a gun........"Here stuff this in your pocket It'll LOOK like you're carrying a friend" they are acting like they have a gun.......not very relavant but thought id share |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Racing in the Street Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| All comments stated before are true. I also think though that this song is showing the simple life of growing up in Jersey. South Jersey specifically because of their placement of importance on cars and street racing in the '70s. In all of Springsteen's first four albums you can find some reference to street racing. In Greetings From Asbury Park it's mentioned in "Lost in The Flood" (Races sundays in jersey...) Can't think of any in The Wild The Innocent and The E Street Shuffle right off hand, but I'm sure there are. Born to Run has probably the most. Racing is mentioned in "Born to Run" and "Backstreets" and I'm sure there's more. I think some people may be looking in to this a little too much. It's just about life in South Jersey and the passion for street racing. | |
| Bruce Springsteen – Atlantic City Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I have always seen this song differently. This song is not about getting out of Atlantic City; it's about getting to Atlantic City in hopes of a new beginning ("Goin' out where the sands turnin' to gold"). The protagonist is a guy from a small, working class town somewhere in Jersey/Pennsylvania/New York. He might owe some money ("Debts that no honest man can pay") so he's running away from that because of the promise of making it in AC. The beginning of the song is a backdrop with the hit of the Philly mob boss Salvatore Testa who had strong ties in AC. Then with the D.A. and the gambling commision. All this is setting a tone. The main story is about a guy, as described before, trying to get him and his girlfriend/wife a new, better life. Their relationship isnt good anymore and they are on the brink of poverty but he's going to try and make it work. ("Well our luck may have died and our love may be cold, but with you forever I'll stay.") The lines "Everything dies baby thats a fact, well maybe everything that dies some day comes back" is metaphorical for their life and their love. Atlantic City is suppose to be the promised land. He gets there and gets on the wrong side of the law, probably getting involved in the mob. The hope for a better life is then dead. |
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