It’s also one of his most important works. It’s the perfect way to close side one of the album. Even when the story goes darker and hope almost seems lost there is still that race to be run, that one last shot at redemption, a reason not to give up no matter what. It’s simply a metaphor for finding something to hold onto. A story about the difference between a man who gives up on life and the man who won’t let his spirit be destroyed by the harshness of life and finds his joy in car racing. The man who does not have much left but his pride and his car. “Racing In The Street,” is the story of the working man. It’s in the song “Racing In The Street,” where Bruce Springsteen delivered one of his finest moments on record. After the album’s first four songs had hit us all pretty hard Bruce Springsteen closes side one with a song of hope bathed in reality. The album’s next track “Candy’s Room,” was the first of the two fantasy songs found on the Darkness On The Edge Of Townalbum.This was an explosive exciting rock and roll song pumped to the max with energy which was much needed after the slow moving “Something In The Night.” Yet, of course there was still a darkness in that fantasy continuing with the album’s storyline. The songs message was “hey this is what we got, lets deal with it.” Welcome aboard, try not to jump. The album opener “Badlands,” was obviously written with an eye on his concert performances as it was this loud rocking anthemic song that perfectly set the tone for the record with its angry undertones fueled by the song’s title itself. The brilliance of the Darkness On The Edge Of Town album was not in the dark picture that Bruce Springsteen had painted about life experiences, it was in the small glimmers of hope that resounded in many of the songs on the record. Born To Runwas an escape album filled with teenage dreams, Darkness On The Edge Of Town was an adult album dealing with fading dreams. He was dealing with family experiences that still lingered on in his memories while coming to grips with them as a young adult. Not just his most recent years, but his teen and elementary years and the issues he had with his father. The issues that Bruce Springsteen had with his former manager Mike Appel had not only delayed the release of the Darkness On The Edge Of Town album it, gave Bruce Springsteen more time to reflect on life itself as he began to move into his mid 20s. The Darkness On The Edge Of Town album was an angry album that was a response to the deep wounds inflicted on one’s soul due to betrayal and deeper issues of family, work and relationships. However, the story had boldly changed, as something called reality got firmly in the way. Well, in many ways we did get Born To Run II. Even Bruce Springsteen’s voice sounded different on the Darkness On The Edge Of Town album. The Darkness On The Edge Of Town album was such a dramatic change in musical and lyrical style from the Born To Run album. Released three years later, the Darkness On The Edge Of Town album painted a completely different picture from the one we all immersed ourselves in on the Born to Run album.
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The album offered a new road to run free on, with all the great possibilities that life held for us staring at us down the road.
The Born to Run album painted a picture of a world we all kind of wanted to live in because it was exciting, it was romantic and thrilling and offered hope of a new day.
No, his loyal following began with the Born to Run album. That was an audience that misunderstood his message and for the most part have long since abandoned him. Born To Run was the album that gained him his largest loyal following, greater than any other record.
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