| Bruce Hornsby – The Valley Road Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I was told that this song tells the story of a young, rape victim who is too ashamed to tell anyone the truth of what happened. The girl in the song is described coming back around "like nothing really happened", and with the line "good enough to hire not good enough to marry", which, to me, indicates some sort of unwanted, sexual encounter. This is supported by the fact that the people described in the song inhabit the south (old plantation), which tells me that any discussion of an inappropriate sexual encounter would be a shameful burden or a taboo on a young girl. Truly a beautiful, thoughtful and deep song by one of the greats of our time. The second best Bruce in music, after his royal Bossness (Bruce Springsteen, of course). | |
| Bruce Springsteen – Badlands Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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"Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king And a king ain't satisfied till he rules everything" Wow... I used this quote in a philosophy essay on Kant. Basically Immanuel Kant used 25 pages to say what Bruce summed up in 2 lines. My professor loved the use of an outside artist (poet in Bruce's case), and I received an "A". Is there any other artist out there that can sing so deeply? I'll answer that for you. No. |
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