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Springsteen's lyrics tell the story of a legendary creature known as the "Jersey Devil"; in 1735 a woman called "Mother Leeds" gave birth to her 13th child, who metamorphosed into an evil creature with bat wings, forked feet and a horse's head; because of this, his parents threw him in a river where he drowned and now haunts the Pine Barrens in ...
Its lyrics were penned by Key, whose songwriting focus at the time was "translating bigger moments and scenes into songs that sounded more specific." [9] Its opening lyrics date to a journal of Key's, who wrote the song primarily about growing up and leaving his hometown of Jacksonville, Florida. For the band, "Ocean Avenue" represented "saying ...
"Brooklyn/Jersey Get Wild" by M.O.P. "Brooklyn Keeps On Takin' It" by Chop Shop "Brooklyn Kids" by Pete Townshend "A Brooklyn Kind Of Life" by Widow Prizum (hip hop) "Brooklyn King" by Masta Killa "Brooklyn Kisses" by Janice Robinson "Brooklyn Miracle" by Mike Heron "Brooklyn Movements" by Da Bush Babees
The song, performed by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, was released as the B-side of the 1984 single "Cover Me". [3] Springsteen slightly rewrote it to replace a Waits line about "whores on Eighth Avenue" with "the girls out on the avenue", and added a verse about taking "that little brat of yours and drop[ping] her off at your mom's" [4] (This line was originally written for "Party ...
Author June Skinner Sawyers describes the theme of the song to be "the struggle to create meaning for oneself." [7] She notes that it "just tells a story, honestly and simply, offering one of Springsteen's most precise lyrics." [7] Patrick Humphries describes the effect as being similar to the Robert Mitchum film noir Build My Gallows High. [5]
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Originally written as an elegy for Asbury Park, New Jersey, [1] "My City of Ruins" took on new meaning as a message of hope following the September 11 attacks. The song was included as the final track on Springsteen's 2002 album The Rising; it was released as a single in New Zealand in 2011, charting at number 17.