| Bruce Springsteen – Adam Raised a Cain Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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In the part where he sings about "all the old faces asked you why you're back, etc." I take that to mean the storyteller has come back to his home town to live with his parents, possibly after failing at a dream, and the old faces set him up with a job and he drives to work in his father's car. The part about "in the darkness of your room your mother calls you by your true name," this is just a guess, but I think Springsteen was Catholic, and in this song the storyteller's mother is calling him by his real name instead of his Catholic name, which his dad might do. |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Adam Raised a Cain Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| I doubt that Springsteen meant to go too deep into the mythology, but making a metaphor of the two pairs of sons and fathers makes quite a comment on how he sees his family. Cain was the first murderer and Abel was the first person to be killed because they were actually the first human beings (their mother and father were divine creations and the brothers were born of woman). Was Cain evil? If he was, then was Adam also evil? Or was he more like Abel, the "good son"? And is the father/son pair in this song alike only in their bitterness and rage? Or is there something evil about them too? | |
| Simon and Garfunkel – America Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| @[annie1030:22892] I think this is the best comment I've read on this song. Good work. | |
| Don McLean – American Pie Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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The "pink carnation" reference comes from a 1957 song called "White Sport Coat," words and music both written by Marty Robbins. The lyrics from that song go, "A white sport coat And a pink carnation (ooh-ah-ooh) I'm all alone at the dance..." |
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