| Bruce Springsteen – Independence Day Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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For me, this song takes a turn during the saxophone solo in the middle. Clearly, the first part of the song is a father struggling to impress his own realities and priorities upon his son. I feel the son resents his father's love affair with his own beliefs, his town.... a love affair the young son refuses to buy into. "There's a darkness in this town thats got us too..but they cant touch me now and you can't touch me now" and so... all men must make their way come independence day. FAST FORWARD. I see the son returning to the town now a man. The town, what its stood for, has changed. The people, the culture, the values that the father tried to impress upon his son previously, have devolved over time. The highway is deserted, people have left town,"theres just people coming down now and they see things in different ways and soon everything we know will be swept away"......... when son returns.... he's not triumphant as he once surely would have been. Rather, he is too late to preserve the values of his father that he once strived to avoid... and over time... arrived at independently of his father's force. The use of the word "NOW" changes drastically throughout the song..... and come the end of the song, son is with father, and explaining to him that now he.... the father.... must say goodbye to his own town and values. "I now know the things you wanted that you could not say.......i swear i never meant to take those things away." Those things being the values, beliefs and traditions of the town that have now abandoned the father, and ironically enough.... the son.... as well. At the end, a matured grown son aligns with his father, who now must face his own independence day.... and rediscover himself... with his son by his side. |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Downbound Train Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| jhoin, I think your out of your god-damned mind..... | |
| Bruce Springsteen – Lost In The Flood Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Here goes my interpretation: The man returning home from Vietnam and clearly seeing what his society has become. Wolfman fairies dressed in drag for homicide I feel is the new role of Heroin in post Vietnam 1970's. Wolfman Fairies are the dealers, disguised but amongst society... for homicide, symbolizing... to disguise their true evil. Hit and Run meaning deal and get out... all of this while people's faith and religion is put on the back burner. "Everybody drinkin unholy blood..." is how the community in "the Bronx" has become. We then see the gunner himself doing heroin when he breathes deep. The important part of the song is the perspective of the man who is alive to see drugs destroy gunner, and then slowly destroy society... symbolizing the rising waters of the flood this man has witnessed. The line that puts the comparison of war to a drug ridden society is "Have you thrown your senses to the war, or did you lose them in the flood?" The Flood began, gunner drowned in the flood, and it escalated slowly throughout the song. Quicksand symbolizing a degeneration and sinking which will continue slowly... unlike mud which you can easily take care of. Dull Eyed and empty faced we find Gunner living life and slowly sinking.... in the background of the U.S in the 1970's. Gunner then crashes his car horribly and the flood ultimately usurps him. Clearly, "nothing left that you could sell" means that Gunner has sold all of his items for drug money. "Junk all across the horizon" symbolizing his fatal downfall because of the drug. What was he thinking when he hit the storm, or was he just lost in the flood, informs us that indeed the feeling on the drug is "the flood", that gunner most likely was slowly drowning the entire time and may not have even had time to realize his degeneration. The song then shifts...... Eighth Avenue Sailors in satin shirts whispering are still drug dealers (satin!?), we see a drug community, bronx's best apostle holding his hardware (gun) when the cops come flooding into battle the gang (the flood is taking over, the pitch crescendo's......... you can almost feel a titanic like rise in the background keyboard........ everything is out of control. We now see the society and the world that usurped Gunner..... and are forced to remember that he was a nationalistic person.... a person fighting for this country which is under the flood. Leading us to ask what are we really fighting for? The Irony of Gunner's death being caused NOT by fighting in the war, but by the very society he was fighting for is the purpose of the song to me. A victim of his own freedom, which while willing to die for, took his own life. That's how I feel. |
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