| Eric Clapton – Circus Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Clapton definitely has the emotion in this. Needless to say, the song is about his dead son. It's somewhat similiar to Tears in Heaven but it holds the rawness of sudden loss in it (instead of looking in to the future). |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Independence Day Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Of all Bruce's songs, Independence Day brings up the most of emotions in me. The raw, down-to-earth sound just gets me. It sounds so honest I can relate a part of me in it and almost brings me to tears. | |
| Bruce Springsteen – Racing in the Street Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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The song's got a decent amount of history behind it. First of all it starts at the time he and Sonny built her straight out of scratch. They spend their time on the strip just to race in the street. Then he tells us "Some guys they just give up living and start dying little by little, piece by piece..." meaning that people just give up on racing in the streets for a reason or another. Yet Bruce and Sonny are still eager to race. Meaning themselves: "Some guys come home from work and wash up and go racin' in the street". Finally he meets his girl and grows up with her. In the end he realises - "now that there's wrinkles around my baby's eyes" - she's more important than racing. So instead of keeping up the habit, they go to the sea and wash the sins out their hands. And so he's finally free of racing and ready to commit to his girl. |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Backstreets Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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It could be his father with whom he had not had a successful relationship. It could also be his best friend he "hated him when he went away". This is backed by the stories Bruce tells. They both relate to each other by having hated their fathers. "With a love so hard and filled with defeat. Running for our lives at night on them backstreets." "Sleeping in that old abandoned beach house getting wasted in the heat"... Most likely to be done with his friend. Hiding in the backstreets - wherever it might be - would indicate that they are afraid of being exposed. That's something every kid is afraid of when they're young; especially when something is done ethically wrong. They would get their rush on running on the backstreets and experiencing things like youngsters do. He could have visualized and related his friend acting like his father: "There was nothing left to say but I hated him and I hated you when you went away." In the last verse he just reminisces his friend and don't hold anything against him because "We swore forever friends on the backstreets until the end. Hiding on the backstreets, hiding on the backstreets..." |
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