| Bruce Springsteen – The New Timer Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I don't know exactly why, but this is my favorite track off Tom Joad. It's so sad and lonely and for me the live described is so pointless, just about staying alive. There are a couple of lines that really hit me. First, the lines about Frank, who was found dead, "His body lyin' on a muddy hill / nothin' taken nothin' stolen / somebody killin' just to kill" Second, the lines where he thinks about his own son who he left behind: "Now I wonder does my son miss me / Does he wonder where I am" While other Springsteen songs, though sometimes very dark, always have some kind of hope or at least the possibility of hope, the person in this song has rezignation in his misfortune. Seems like the only reason he still lives is to find the one who killed Frank, but he hasn't even got his name. |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Wreck On The Highway Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Anyone else who thinks that the "young man lying by the side of the road" might be the protagonist of 'Drive all night'? Drive all night is right prior to this song on the River album (these are the two last songs on that album). Furthermore there is the resemblance of the "drizzling rain". And the protagonist on drive all night who would drive "through the wind, through the rain." And of course the girl he wants to drive to, and the "girlfriend or a young wife" in this song. If you look at it that way this song gives 'Drive all night' a very sad twist. I personally believe it is no coincidence that 'Wreck on the Highway' is following 'Drive all night'. I just think it is another sign of Springsteen brilliance, to see that there are multiple layers in an album and that there are connections and relations between songs. Of course you could also interpret them seperately, but for me, this turns the hope and love on Drive all Night to some sort of inevitable failure. (besides that, this is a great song on its own!) |
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| Bruce Springsteen – A Good Man Is Hard To Find Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Actually, there is a connection. She influence him on his scaled-down songwriting on Nebraska. Springsteen, for instance, used that "meanness" concept. In some article I read that Springsteen said in an interview: "I was interested in writing kind of smaller than I had been, writing with just detail." And he connects a sudden transformation in his songwriting style at the time with "these stories I was reading by Flannery O'Connor," exclaiming to the interviewer, "she's just incredible". Springsteen also wrote in a letter to Will Percy: "Right prior to the record Nebraska, I was deep into O'Connor." and later on: "There was something in those stories of hers that I felt captured a certain part of the American character that I was interested in writing about. They were a big, big revelation. She got to the heart of some part of meaness that she never spelled out, because if she spelled it out you wouldn't be getting it. It was always at the core of every one of her stories - the way she left that hole there, that hole that's inside of everybody. There was some dark thing - component of spirituality - that I sensed in her stories, and thath set me off exploring characters of my own." I guess this song must be seen as some kind of 'homage' to Flannery O'Connor. Besides, see last lines in the second verse: "She's gonna have to tell about the meanness in this world / And how a good man is so hard to find". These are two direct references to O'Connor's work. |
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| Bruce Springsteen – A Good Man Is Hard To Find Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Sorry, meant to reply it to the one above ;) | |
| Bruce Springsteen – A Good Man Is Hard To Find Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Actually, there is a connection. She influence him on his scaled-down songwriting on Nebraska. Springsteen, for instance, used that "meanness" concept. In some article I read that Springsteen said in an interview: "I was interested in writing kind of smaller than I had been, writing with just detail." And he connects a sudden transformation in his songwriting style at the time with "these stories I was reading by Flannery O'Connor," exclaiming to the interviewer, "she's just incredible". Springsteen also wrote in a letter to Will Percy: "Right prior to the record Nebraska, I was deep into O'Connor." and later on: "There was something in those stories of hers that I felt captured a certain part of the American character that I was interested in writing about. They were a big, big revelation. She got to the heart of some part of meaness that she never spelled out, because if she spelled it out you wouldn't be getting it. It was always at the core of every one of her stories - the way she left that hole there, that hole that's inside of everybody. There was some dark thing - component of spirituality - that I sensed in her stories, and thath set me off exploring characters of my own." I guess this song must be seen as some kind of 'homage' to Flannery O'Connor. Besides, see last lines in the second verse: "She's gonna have to tell about the meanness in this world / And how a good man is so hard to find". These are two direct references to O'Connor's work. |
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