It's My Favorite Bruce Song Because . . .

3 minutes? Song is a shitload longer than 3 minutes?

I'm Goin' Down now that, that tells a story in 3 minutes.

Yeah, I under cut the time. So 9 minutes, give or take.

But is that why it's your favorite, if it is?

Nebraska because it mentions my hometown.

Hey, I said my hometown. Ha. That's another Bruce song I love but it's not about my own hometown even though you can say really it's about everyone's hometown. I mean, if you're an Amerian.

Promised Land

It is the perfect song

Thunder Road.

Because is one of the first Bruce's song I heard a long time ago and it reminds me of a long lost love. It's a town full of losers but I'm pulling out of here to win. Well, maybe.

I could hear that one ever day.

The River.

I think it is perfectly structured song. It has beautiful lyrics, and it is full of imagery and love-lost feeling. It also encapsulates everything that is best about Bruce - his sympathy for the struggles of people trapped by things beyond their power. The beauty and heartbreak of love. The tiny glimmer of redemption. And I especially like it because it is not dressed up in a fun upbeat rhythm that tricks the unwary into thinking that it is a "fun song".

Darkness on the Edge of Town.

There's nothing like seeing this video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzS2Vug-esA

The eyebrow goes up, and the passion just comes flowing out when he comes to "but if she wants to see me, you can tell her that I'm easily found".

It so neatly encapsulates the longing, the heartbreak, and the no-so-naive belief that if she just wanted to, she'd be coming back.

I love secret garden, used in Jerry Maguire...I love how the song gives me that happy but sad feeling....hes a legend!

very simple for me.The Promised Land is my motto in life.Badlands precisely tells the story of my life.
and there's no way i could ever leave "Valentine's Day" behind,it recalls me someone i knew a long time ago.this song makes me cry.

Ofer

down bound train

for some reason this verse reminds me of a girl i used to bang years ago when i was 16,

Put on my jacket, I ran through the woods
I ran till I thought my chest would explode
There in the clearing, beyond the highway
In the moonlight, our wedding house shone
I rushed through the yard, I burst through the front door
My head pounding hard, up the stairs I climbed
The room was dark, our bed was empty
Then I heard that long whistle whine
And I dropped to my knees, hung my head and cried

we'd do it at her sisters place on the next road over from her parents house, and we'd cut through a wooded lot on a trail from her parents to her sisters.
dont know why that verse reminds me of those days but it does. i guess its the running through the woods scene? i dont know

You are invited to the reject board.

i think you missed the point:

I had a job, I HAD A GIRL
I had something going mister in this world.

Ofer

im already there, along with the rest of you fine people