Cover Me has always been about a Vietnam Vet to me. Look at Born In the USA, a song about a man who has returned to the United States in hard times, now listen to the verses of Cover Me. This is a man who is suffering from severe PTSD. The world feels terribly dangerous and stormy. Now add in the line "Shut out the light." Look up the lyric, it is actually the name of another Springsteen song which much more clearly talks about the same story of a veteran suffering crippling PTSD.
@dakota1669 I can see that. Definiately! To take it further, having dated an Iraq vet with PTSD, he was looking for someone to save him from himself. Thinking love could save him. (It can't really.) When this song was written was called Battle Fatigue I think.
@dakota1669 I can see that. Definiately! To take it further, having dated an Iraq vet with PTSD, he was looking for someone to save him from himself. Thinking love could save him. (It can't really.) When this song was written was called Battle Fatigue I think.
Cover Me has always been about a Vietnam Vet to me. Look at Born In the USA, a song about a man who has returned to the United States in hard times, now listen to the verses of Cover Me. This is a man who is suffering from severe PTSD. The world feels terribly dangerous and stormy. Now add in the line "Shut out the light." Look up the lyric, it is actually the name of another Springsteen song which much more clearly talks about the same story of a veteran suffering crippling PTSD.
@dakota1669 I can see that. Definiately! To take it further, having dated an Iraq vet with PTSD, he was looking for someone to save him from himself. Thinking love could save him. (It can't really.) When this song was written was called Battle Fatigue I think.
@dakota1669 I can see that. Definiately! To take it further, having dated an Iraq vet with PTSD, he was looking for someone to save him from himself. Thinking love could save him. (It can't really.) When this song was written was called Battle Fatigue I think.