Genius Meanings
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Bruce Springsteen – My Hometown
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“My Hometown” was the seventh and final single from Springsteen’s blockbuster 1984 album, Born in the USA. It reached the top 10 in the US (along with all other six singles from
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Bruce Springsteen – My Hometown (Introduction, Pt. 1) [Springsteen on Broadway]
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[Spoken] / Now everybody, everybody has a love-hate relationship with their hometown. It's just built into the equation of growing up. If you take me, I'm Mr. Born to Run. I'm Mr
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Bruce Springsteen – My Hometown (Springsteen on Broadway)
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[Verse 1] / I was eight years old and running with a dime in my hand / Into the bus stop to pick up a paper for my old man / I'd sit on his lap in that big old Buick / And steer as
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Bruce Springsteen – Death to My Hometown
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“Death To My Hometown” is the third single and fifth track on Bruce Springsteen’s Wrecking Ball album, which was released in May of 2012.
This song is undeniably angry and
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Bruce Springsteen – Born in the U.S.A.
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One of Springsteen’s most iconic songs, “Born in the U.S.A.” is about the troubled return home of a Vietnam veteran. It’s original working title was “Vietnam Blues”.
On January 3
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Bruce Springsteen – My Father's House (Springsteen on Broadway)
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[Verse 1] / Last night I dreamed that I was a child / Out where the pines grow wild and tall / I was trying to make it home through the forest / Before the darkness, darkness falls
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Bruce Springsteen – Brilliant Disguise (Introduction) [Springsteen on Broadway]
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[Spoken] / Trust uh, trust in a relationship's a fragile thing. Uh, always been a little complicated for me 'cause trust requires allowing others to see as much of our real selves
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Taylor Swift – London Boy
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“London Boy” is most likely an ode to Swift’s boyfriend as of the song’s release, British actor Joe Alwyn. Other songs on the album, including the title track, are assumed to be
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Bruce Springsteen – Glory Days
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The first verse actually happened. The second verse mostly happened, and the third verse, of course, is happening now.
– Bruce Springsteen, Greatest Hits liner notes
The song
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Bruce Springsteen – Local Hero
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[Verse 1] / I was driving through my hometown / I was just kinda killin' time / When I seen a face staring out of a black velvet painting / From the window of the five-and-dime / I
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Bruce Springsteen – Born to Run (Springsteen on Broadway)
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[Verse 1] / In the day we sweat it out on the streets of a runaway American dream / At night we ride through mansions of glory in suicide machines / We're sprung from cages out on
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Bruce Springsteen – My City of Ruins
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The final song on The Rising, “My City of Ruins” was initially written for Asbury Park, New Jersey (Springsteen’s hometown) in 2000 as it went through an economic depression. But
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Bruce Springsteen – I’m on Fire
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“I’m On Fire” was the fourth of seven singles from Born In The USA that reached the top 10 in the US. Overseas it reached the top 20 in eight countries including a #5 peak in the
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Bruce Springsteen – Nothing Man
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“Nothing Man” is the fourth track on 2002’s The Rising, and is different from most of the other songs as it was written in 1994.
The track title is taken from one of Springsteen’s
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Genius Lists – Songs of Protest and Politics
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Political and protest songs have a long history in music, and some of them are great music as well as political commentary or plea for social change.
This list covers all music
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Bruce Springsteen – My Love Will Not Let You Down (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY - June/July 2000)
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At night I go to bed but I just can't sleep / I got something running around my head / That just won't keep / In the silence I hear my heart beating, time slippin' away / I got a
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Bruce Springsteen – Dancing in the Dark (Introduction) [Springsteen on Broadway]
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[Spoken] / I always, I always thought I was a typical American, so I fought my whole life and I studied and I played and I worked, 'cause I wanted to hear and I wanted to know the
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Bruce Springsteen – Growin' Up (Introduction) [Springsteen on Broadway]
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[Spoken] / DNA, your natural ability, the study of your craft, a development of and devotion to an aesthetic philosophy, balls, naked desire for fame, love, adoration, attention
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Bruce Springsteen – My Oklahoma Home
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[Verse 1] / When they opened up the strip I was young and full of zip / I wanted some place to call my home / And so I made the race and I staked me out a place / And settled down
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Bruce Springsteen – Atlantic City
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Atlantic City is perhaps one of Springsteen’s most dour songs. It depicts a young couple’s romantic escape to the New Jersey seaside resort of Atlantic City, where the man in the
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