So Jersey Lyrics
He walked in his parents footsteps on his way home from school
Those ties that were so sweet also burned under his feet
Now he is ready to walk a path that is new
He can't turn back
He made it out alive.
Betting everything on himself tonight
She's driving down the same old roads her parents took her through
Hypnotized by those broken lines, broken records lost in time
She's turning down the road that is new
She can't turn back
It's a new day light
Betting everything on herself tonight
Skeletons of this old town, feels like it's coming alive
Riots and corruption, New Jersey roots
This songs for the keys to the engines of our growing up
Forgive ourselves for all those lies.
Send some notes to all the lonely
Don't forget we're all one family
For helping us to survive
Lost in one lonely dream
Born to run and live free
Walking in our own footsteps
A search for something new
We can't turn back
We're betting everything, we're betting everything
We're betting everything on ourselves tonight
The general message of this song is great, how we're a new generation forging our own path, but a lot of this is really neat Jersey cultural reffrences, asbery is a really broken down town where a lot of great shows have happened, hell its where Bruce got his start, and a lot still happens there. Its where i went to quite a few of my first shows. Jersey does have a very corupt history, but this generation has done so much with the music scene, i'm not old enough to remember it but people i go to school with have told me stories about the vfw scene, where they'd just rent out vfw halls and have shows, it was such a real punk thing, its becoming so damn comcercial now, to bad i was born so late.
another GREAT song on a great album :)
This band is amazing. They only talk about good topics. They do not talk about love cliche and bullshit like that.
This song is about the begining of dream and the courage to fight for it all by yourself , all alone.
I am going to Finland next year. I have never been there. I am scared like shit. But as the song says : Now he is ready to walk a different path and he can not turn back.
I know I will be probably all alone in that cold place and the only thing that I will have to fight for will be my own dreams. I know sometimes I will wish come back home...but as the bruce says ¨You can´t turn back¨.
And the only thing I will have to survive is myself , the bouncing souls´s music and the music´s another great punk bands and the faith in my own lonely dream.
God bless all the good American Punk bands. God bless the bouncing souls.
god bless them? most of them are atheists..
people can give jersey as much shit as they want. we have some pretty amazing people living here. this song just proves it.