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This is a bit like asking me, "What's your favorite kind of dirt?" Or, "What's your favorite dental procedure?" I had to really stretch my thinking muscle to think of one that met the criteria here, because I generally don't like popular love songs, and I really like break-up songs, unrequited love songs, and weird love songs. Depressing songs make me happy. Happy songs make me stabby. And then it hit me: Bruce. For Springsteen, love isn't some magical realm of fairy dust and flowers, rainbows and candy hearts. It's tough, it's work, and sometimes, it breaks. And then I had to think of one that's not overdone or cliché, because, you know, technically, Born to Run is a love song. "Together, Wendy, we can live with the sadness; I'll love you with all the madness in my soul." And I'm not downplaying the exuberant awesomeness of that song, or what it means to me, or how it was the ballad that made Springsteen Springsteen. No, I'm going to go with something maybe more subtle, a deeper cut (pun absolutely intended, because love can cut very deep indeed): Cautious Man, appropriately enough from the 1987 album Tunnel of Love. It is (in my interpretation, anyway) much more mature than the spirited teen angst of Born to Run, though only about 14 years separate the songs, and in some ways represents the antithesis and the culmination: after all the running, at some point, you find a place and stay there. The recklessness of the past may be a happy memory, but new and more enduring joys replace it. On his right hand Billy tattooed the word love and on his left hand was the word fear And in which hand he held his fate was never clear  C==|==============> the pun is mightier than the sword |
Re: QOTD Friday February 14, 2025 · 02-14-25 1:51am 
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