Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Because it's summer: smooth song of the day #21

Hungry Heart by Bruce Springsteen
 It's a sing along song. You can open your mouth and belt it out. It's got a narrow range and it's in a key that pretty much anybody can sing with easy-to-memorize lyrics that aren't going to challenge your brain.
Got a wife and kids in Baltimore, Jack
I went out for a ride and I never went back
Like a river that don't know where it's flowin'
I took a wrong turn and I just kept goin'
Now, strictly speaking this is a stupid lyric. What can "a river that don't know where it's flowin'" possibly mean? Perhaps he is thinking of all those other rivers that do know where they are flowin'. But it doesn't matter because a smooth, clean girl could lean back her head and sing those words with abandon knowing this wasn't about her life and it never would be.




The series starts here.

The next song is here.

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