| Bruce Springsteen – Streets of Philadelphia Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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@[dmerrill:24434] It's 6-and-a-half years since your post, so I doubt you even remember posting it, but I had to thank you for your input. I've never had any inkling what this song might have even remotely been about, but nevertheless, I've always found it poignant, moving and even bittersweet in a lonely kind of way. Now I know why and I need to thank you for helping me to understand the sub-text. While there remain swaths of lyrics -here and there- whose meaning still elude my comprehension, I now know what umbrella these metaphors are all covered by. Thank you. Also, re: the other commenters, I was also a young'un in the 70s/ 80s, so I remember the fear and stigma around the dark, early days of AIDS. I remember each day/ week/ month would showcase a new segment on the news, or a special report by current affairs shows revealing even more horrors about this new plague... The 80s were scary enough with the constant threat of nuclear annihilation hanging over our heads every minute of every day. Then the news gave us another thing and told us to be mortally afraid of this new threat, too... Man, we were a poorly informed bunch of twonks back then! While I lived through these years, I can't even imagine what it must have been like to have lived through them while under the spectre's shadow of AIDS. So I salute our brave brothers and sisters who pioneered this trail, so that people today can live a 'normal' life with HIV/ AIDS. Peace Raz |
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