What I like about Springsteen is he pulls no punches in his songs. He knows that not everyone leads a happy life. People fall out of love, people lose their jobs, people go to jail; bad things do happen and usually to otherwise decent people. Here he explores what happens to a couple to whom life had dealt a bad hand in the poker game of life. Depressing sure, true to life, ABSOLUTELY. If you love Springsteen, you love him because he DOES sing songs like these. A great song from the one of the best albums of the 80's.
What I like about Springsteen is he pulls no punches in his songs. He knows that not everyone leads a happy life. People fall out of love, people lose their jobs, people go to jail; bad things do happen and usually to otherwise decent people. Here he explores what happens to a couple to whom life had dealt a bad hand in the poker game of life. Depressing sure, true to life, ABSOLUTELY. If you love Springsteen, you love him because he DOES sing songs like these. A great song from the one of the best albums of the 80's.