Lyric discussion by lolaz 

Cover art for Radio Nowhere lyrics by Bruce Springsteen

Springsteen (from Rolling Stone magazine, November 1, 2007): "It's an end-of-the-world scenario - he's seeing the apocalypse. All communications are down. That's my business, that's what it's all about - trying to connect to you. It comes down to trying to make people happy, feel less lonely, but also being a conduit for a dialogue about the events of the day, the issues that impact people's lives, personal and social and political and religious. That's how I always saw the job of our band."

Yes, this sounds like a kind of "hell on earth" in the end:

I was spinning round a dirt dive Just another lost number in a file Dancing down a dark hole Just searching for a world with some soul

I was driving through the misty rain Just searching for a mystery train Bopping through the wild gloom Trying to make a connection with you

sounds very dark, they're a lost number in a file, destruction of your life, depressing, lonely and they hear nothing...Radio Nowhere and they want to hear something...anything.