Incredibly powerful song, off an incredibly powerful album. Two parts, in particular, resonate with me.
The standard line about the Darkness LP is that it was informed by the long, drawn-out lawsuit that Bruce went through after Born To Run, to gain his artistic and financial freedom. However, I have often thought that there is far more to it than that...it's more about a crucial turning point in your life when you've got to make something of yourself or continue down the path to being nobody. BUT...there is this part that would seem to allude to the court fight:
"You're born with nothing,
and better off that way,
Soon as you've got something they send
someone to try and take it away."
And the other part that really sticks with me is a line that shows Bruce leaving his own past behind. Earlier songs like "Spirit in the Night" celebrated cruising and getting drunk and being young, but here Bruce just dismisses all that youthful play with the very curt lines:
"Just kids wasted on
something in the night."
The whole song is great, but those few lines in the second verse have always hit home with me.
Incredibly powerful song, off an incredibly powerful album. Two parts, in particular, resonate with me.
The standard line about the Darkness LP is that it was informed by the long, drawn-out lawsuit that Bruce went through after Born To Run, to gain his artistic and financial freedom. However, I have often thought that there is far more to it than that...it's more about a crucial turning point in your life when you've got to make something of yourself or continue down the path to being nobody. BUT...there is this part that would seem to allude to the court fight: "You're born with nothing, and better off that way, Soon as you've got something they send someone to try and take it away."
And the other part that really sticks with me is a line that shows Bruce leaving his own past behind. Earlier songs like "Spirit in the Night" celebrated cruising and getting drunk and being young, but here Bruce just dismisses all that youthful play with the very curt lines: "Just kids wasted on something in the night."
The whole song is great, but those few lines in the second verse have always hit home with me.