According to David Masciotra in Working on a Dream: The Progressive Political Vision of Bruce Springsteen, this is "a song about love, human solidarity and communitarian possibilities that bind us all together if we embrace them, and which we reject at our own peril."
According to David Masciotra in Working on a Dream: The Progressive Political Vision of Bruce Springsteen, this is "a song about love, human solidarity and communitarian possibilities that bind us all together if we embrace them, and which we reject at our own peril."