| Bruce Springsteen – Born in the U.S.A. Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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This is a song that has a lot of mixed emotion within it because he starts out describing where he grew up and fast forwards to how Vietnam forced our country into a war not of our making, yet the servicemen were persecuted spit on and called baby killers for trying to save lives and fight an enemy not of our making as well. He then expresses how we then have a country turned upside down to where the very country they were there to protect mistreated them no different than if we were foreigners from another country. The kind of crap that was thrown at them emotionally, physically, mental trauma and images they will never forget, "on top of" the crap they got from the very people you would expect a "heroes welcome" instead get the exact opposite, and they pretty much get their lives down the tubes because they protested the war to the point where they would not even hire a vet, because they fought in that war, that was not of their making. So the song shows the lack of appreciation and mistreatment of those who sacrificed everything to only be mistreated and scorned for serving the very country they were born in. The United States of America. Hence, "Born in the USA" the very country that bore them and once supported them, turned their backs on them for no reason other than protest against a war not of their choosing. It is a song of both history, pain, and sorrow for the lack of respect the soldiers who sacrificed for our country only to be screwed over by there fellow man. |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Born in the U.S.A. Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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If you listen to the song as I am sure all or most of you have, it starts out giving where he came from, and then it leads to how the country went to war in Vietnam where we had been thrown in a jungle to fight a war, not of our choosing, but because we were told to serve our country. The last half of the song is almost like a plea for the weary and mistreated and degraded soldiers to get the respect and the honor they earned fighting for our country, but rather than a hero's welcome they were spit on, called baby killers, and the respect that they deserved was not given because there was such mixed emotions on that war. You can hear it in the tone of his voice that he is disheartened with the mistreatment and the cruelty towards Vietnam vets that came home from another man's war, only to fight their own personal war with the mass persecution of them. Comes back and finds that the country he left had completely changed and the attitude and the respect that was and still is deserved by our service men was taken for granted, and the song is basically like standing up for those vets and all those that were mistreated and made to believe that they were over there and they died for nothing and that it was wrong of our nation to be so turned against our own servicemen. There is a lot of heart felt emotion within this song, some pain for the mistreatment of the soldiers that deserved better and still do, and in part the sadness of what our country became out of the Vietnam war, we never asked to be sent over there but we got mistreated all the same for a war that was not of our making. Yet as a result of that war came a lot of hatred and unappreciated heroes, and he saw that they were fighting war at home and within their own selves whether emotionally, physical challenges, whatever that case was with all the vets that returned home they deserved better and he knew it! |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Born in the U.S.A. Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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If you listen to the song as I am sure all or most of you have, it starts out giving where he came from, and then it leads to how the country went to war in Vietnam where we had been thrown in a jungle to fight a war, not of our choosing, but because we were told to serve our country. The last half of the song is almost like a plea for the weary and mistreated and degraded soldiers to get the respect and the honor they earned fighting for our country, but rather than a hero's welcome they were spit on, called baby killers, and the respect that they deserved was not given because there was such mixed emotions on that war. You can hear it in the tone of his voice that he is disheartened with the mistreatment and the cruelty towards Vietnam vets that came home from another man's war, only to fight their own personal war with the mass persecution of them. Comes back and finds that the country he left had completely changed and the attitude and the respect that was and still is deserved by our service men was taken for granted, and the song is basically like standing up for those vets and all those that were mistreated and made to believe that they were over there and they died for nothing and that it was wrong of our nation to be so turned against our own servicemen. There is a lot of heart felt emotion within this song, some pain for the mistreatment of the soldiers that deserved better and still do, and in part the sadness of what our country became out of the Vietnam war, we never asked to be sent over there but we got mistreated all the same for a war that was not of our making. Yet as a result of that war came a lot of hatred and unappreciated heroes, and he saw that they were fighting war at home and within their own selves whether emotionally, physical challenges, whatever that case was with all the vets that returned home they deserved better and he knew it! |
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