Everybody needs a place to rest. Everybody wants to have a home. Don't make no difference what nobody says, ain't nobody like to be alone. - Bruce Springsteen's "Hungry Heart"
Late nights are especially conducive to writing. Late nights are also especially good times for Paul Baribeau and Ginger Alford covers of Bruce Springsteen. I'm going to continue blaming my recent Boss kick on Kurt Warner and this.
It has occurred to me that Kurt Warner is a living Bruce Springsteen song. A mix between "Born to Run," "Long Time Comin'" and "Glory Days" with a touch of "Queen of the Supermarket." Let's take a look at the facts.
1. Bruce Springsteen writes a bunch of songs about the triumphs and failures of working-class Americans.
2. Kurt Warner was a working class American who was a stock boy at a grocery store after getting cut by the Green Bay Packers.
3. Bruce Springsteen has written a song that takes place in a supermarket.
4. Kurt kept trying and eventually became the starting quarterback for the St. Louis Rams. He won a Super Bowl and a bunch of awards. He hit a rough patch and then made a stunning comeback.
5. He even married his wife before he was rich and famous! And she was a divorcee with two kids! And her parents died in a tornado! Her life was probably also written by Bruce which is why she married Kurt Warner.
This shit belongs on "Born to Run."
Two questions:
Is Bruce Springsteen God?
If he isn't, how did he write Kurt Warner's life?
I am blown away.
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March 13, 2016 at 9pm EST
7 years ago
2 comments:
I think you give Bruce a bit too much credit for being a positive thinker. I always saw him as a songwriter who used his triumphant musical dressings to mask an incredibly bleak undercurrent.
I might but I don't think he uses his triumphant musical dressings solely to mask an incredibly bleak undercurrent. I think that sometimes he puts that undercurrent on his shoulders and raises it up. But there I go giving too much credit again...
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