\u201cOne of the points I\u2019m making in the book is that, whoever you\u2019ve been and wherever you\u2019ve been, it never leaves you,\u201d he said, expanding upon this thought with the most Springsteen-esque metaphor possible: \u201cI always picture it as a car. All your selves are in it. And a new self can get in, but the old selves can\u2019t ever get out. The important thing is, who\u2019s got their hands on the wheel at any given moment?\u201d<\/p>\n
In Born to Run<\/em>, the Bruce in the driver\u2019s seat is often the kid or the conflicted young man who cowered or sulked in the presence of his father, Doug. The Springsteen catalogue abounds with songs about difficult father-son relationships, such as the recriminatory \u201cAdam Raised a Cain,\u201d the rueful \u201cMy Father\u2019s House,\u201d and the valedictory leaving-home ballad \u201cIndependence Day\u201d (\u201cThe darkness of this house has got the best of us\u201d), the last of which Springsteen introduced to the Gothenburg crowd as a song about \u201ctwo people that love each other but struggle to understand one another.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\nBook going on sale soon ? \u00a0 I’ll be there on time, and I’ll pay the cost.<\/p>\n
For the book, I mean.<\/p>\n
(Not a Bruce fan? \u00a0Get your own blog).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Springsteen’s autobiography is due in stores shortly. And at least one reviewer raves. I do love this particular pull-quote: \u201cOne of the points I\u2019m making in the book is that, whoever you\u2019ve been and wherever you\u2019ve been, it never leaves you,\u201d he said, expanding upon this thought with the most Springsteen-esque metaphor possible: \u201cI always […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[172],"class_list":["post-60199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-n-e","tag-springsteen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60200,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60199\/revisions\/60200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}