[Gossip] Bruce's separations

The Tunnel of Love album is about the break up with his first wife.

Yes, I know.
Who knows if he met her ever since...
And all the other separations?

I alway thought Be True & Mary Lou were about a real relationship.
I don't have any facts to back that up.
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Be true

Your scrapbook's filled with pictures of all your leading men
Well baby don't put my picture in there with them
Don't make us some little girl's dream that can't ever come true
That only serves to hurt and make you cry like you do
Well baby don't do it to me and I won't do it to you

You see all the romantic movies, you dream and take the boys home
But when the action fades you're left all alone
You deserve better than this, little girl, can't you see that you do
Do you need somebody to prove it to you?
Well you prove it to me and I'll prove it to you

Now every night you go out looking for true love's satisfaction

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Mary Lou
You're scrapbook's filled with pictures of all your leading men
Well baby don't put my picture in there with them
Don't make us some little girl's dream that can never come true
Oh baby don't do it to me I won't do it to you

Mary Lou, I'm not like all those other guys
Mary Lou, I won't fill your pretty head with their pretty lies
Mary Lou, and dreams that never, never, never ever will come true
Mary Lou, that'd only serve to hurt and make you cry like you do

You've seen all the romantic movies, you dream and take the boys home
But when the action fades you're left all alone
You deserve more than this, a real love that can grow
And I ain't playin' outtakes, girl, from some late late show, no

Mary Lou, you're not like all those others girls
Mary Lou, so afraid to shake up that real world

Every night you go out looking for true love's satisfaction
But you allways end up setting for just lights, camera, action
And another cameo role with some bit player you're befriending
You're gonna go broken-hearted looking for that happy ending

Mary Lou, I've seen all those movies too
Mary Lou, I know the hurt too much dreaming can do
Mary Lou, you're gonna end up just another lonely ticket sold
Mary Lou, crying alone in the theatre as the credits roll
Let's go

Maybe. I feel that 'The Promise' is about Caren Darvin. I know it was written as a follow up to what happened after 'Thunder Road'. What do you think Gob?

I don't know anything about Caren Darvin and am not really familier with The Promise. I have it, but I guess I haven't paid much attention to it.

Educate me.

How is it a follow up to Thunder Road?
How does it relate to Caren Darvin?

Well, the most 'love' song of Born To Run is Thunder Road. Next year he began singing The Promise and inside the song he sings: "Thunder Road, oh baby you were so right / Thunder Road, there's something dying on the highway tonight". Thunder Road is full of highways. "When the Promise was broken i was far away from home / sleeping in the back seat of a borrowed car". Maybe he was on tour when they broke up.
I don't believe it's about the lawsuit.

how do they sound to you?

A borrowed car could be another woman, a groupie or a prostitute.

I'm going to have to look a the lyrics now.

After reviewing the thunder road lyrics, I don't think they are about love, but more about lust.

He tells her she is a tramp.

This isn't a proposal, it is a proposition

He hasn't promised anything yet, and he doesn't plan to tonight.

Here is that line from an alternate version of the Promise

http://www.xs4all.nl/~maroen/engels/lyrics/theprom3.htm

Thunder Road say "Baby take a chance on me tonight, because I'm rock star and I and I will show you an exciting time".
The Promise seems closed to Racing in the streets. Car racing imagery and failing relationships.

Back Streets is the love song off of B2R. TR is the promise of a temporary reprieve from daily existence.


The Promise is about looking back at what you were running from and what lies ahead is not always better whether it be a metaphor for relationships or everyday life.

Interesting position. I thought that 'Backstreets' is about friendship. I still believe it's about friendship. It says nothing about love. Am I so plain?

Backsteets, to my ears, is very sexual

"You could hear the whole damn city crying blame it on the lies that killed us
Blame it on the truth that ran us down you can blame it all on me Terry
It don't matter to me now when the breakdown hit at midnight
There was nothing left to say but I hated him and I hated you when you went away

Laying here in the dark you're like an angel on my chest
Just another tramp of hearts crying tears of faithlessness"