 Genius Meanings
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Bruce Springsteen – Hello Sunshine
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“Hello Sunshine” is the first single off Bruce Springsteen’s 2019 album, Western Stars. It is a song about changing your perspective while there is still time: to enjoy the present
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Bruce Springsteen – Tucson Train
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In tune (pun intended) with the setting of Western Stars, “Tucson Train” is the third song off of the album.
“Tucson Train” fits in well with other cryptic Springsteen love songs
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Bruce Springsteen – Stones
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[Chorus] / I woke up this morning with stones in my mouth / Said those were only the lies you've told me / Those are only the lies you've told me / [Verse 1] / I pulled my collar
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Bruce Springsteen – Born to Run
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Written at 7½ West End Court in Long Branch, New Jersey in early 1974, the song was Bruce Springsteen’s last-ditch effort to make it big. The prior year, Springsteen had released
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Bruce Springsteen – Two Faces
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[Verse 1] / I met a girl and we ran away / I swore I'd make her happy every day / And how I made her cry / Two faces have I / [Verse 2] / Sometimes, mister, I feel sunny and wild
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Bruce Springsteen – Hitch Hikin'
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Thumb stuck out as I go / I'm just travelin' up the road / Maps don't do much for me, friend / I follow the weather and the wind / I'm hitch hikin' all day long / Got what I can
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Bruce Springsteen – The Wayfarer
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“The Wayfarer” is the 2nd song off of Bruce Springsteen’s 2019 studio album Western Stars. It was released along with the album on June 14, 2019. The song was produced by Bruce
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Bruce Springsteen – Western Stars
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[Verse 1] / I wake up in the morning, just glad my boots are on / Instead of empty in the whispering grasses / Down the Five at Forest Lawn / On the set, the makeup girl brings me
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Bruce Springsteen – Sundown
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[Verse 1] / I'm 25 hundred miles from where I wanna be / It feels like a hundred years since you've been near to me / I guess what goes around, baby, comes around / Just wishing
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Bruce Springsteen – Moonlight Motel
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[Verse 1] / There's a place on a blank stretch of road where / Nobody travels and nobody goes and the / Deskman says these days 'round here / Where two young folks could probably
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Bruce Springsteen – Drive Fast (The Stuntman)
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[Verse 1] / I got two pins in my ankle and a busted collarbone / A steel rod in my leg, but it walks me home / At nine, I climbed high into the boughs of our neighborhood's tallest
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Bruce Springsteen – Chasin' Wild Horses
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[Verse 1] / Guess it was somethin' I shouldn't have done / Guess I regret it now / Ever since I was a kid / Tryin' to keep my temper down is like / Chasin' wild horses, chasin
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Bruce Springsteen – There Goes My Miracle
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[Verse 1] / Sunrise, sundown / The streets gone golden brown / Auburn skies above / I'm searching for my love / I'm searching for my love / [Chorus] / There goes my miracle
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Bruce Springsteen – Sleepy Joe's Café
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[Verse 1] / There's a place out on the highway 'cross the San Bernardino line / Where the truckers and the bikers gather every night at the same time / At seven the band comes in
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Bruce Springsteen – Somewhere North of Nashville
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This is one of Springsteen’s shortest songs, clocking in at just 1:53. It’s a stripped down, stark accounting of a struggling musician filled with regret and angst over leaving his
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Glee Cast – Fire
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“Fire” by Bruce Springsteen is featured in Home, the sixteenth episode of Season One. It is sung by April (Kristin Chenoweth) and Will (Matthew Morrison).
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The Beatles – Come Together
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“Come Together” is the opening track to Abbey Road, written by John Lennon and to be used as a campaign song for famed LSD enthusiast Timothy Leary, who was running for Governor of
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Country Genius – Songs of the South: Louisiana
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Songs of the South
You’ll find a series of articles on this subject in the archives and each one focuses on the music of a state in the south. While great country music comes
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AC/DC – Highway to Hell
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For all it’s heavy riffing and dark imagery, “Highway to Hell” is a depiction of something altogether more lighthearted. A typical move, considering the overriding sense of humor
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Meat Loaf – Bat Out of Hell
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“Bat out of Hell” is the first song of Meat Loaf’s Bat out of Hell album trilogy. It was written by Jim Steinman, who had a love for “car crash songs”. He saw an operatic narrative
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