Only members can comment. Become a member. Already a member? Log In. For the latest songwriting tips, reviews, podcasts, and more. My Interpretation 1 this song is awesome.
To elaborate, they are extremely creative and you can tell through that creativeness that he just really lets his hair down and has fun with them. For example, in Drink In My Hand there is a line that says "I have a 40 hour week, worth of trouble to drown. How many of them have been able to convert that into song lyrics this well? Anyway, back to Springsteen. Someone mentioned earlier about the song taking place during a date at a Springsteen concert and I agree.
The absolute coolest thing about it is back to his lyrical prowess that Springsteen could sing this song. He could have just sang a song about he and a girl at a Springsteen concert. By making this song sound like something off of a Springsteen album he is taking us to that concert in our minds.
He's using our sense of hearing to take us there. The way our sense of hearing, smell, touch, etc enables us to relive a memory. I dated a girl for a few years and some of the best times we had together were tailgating at her apartment beside of Bryant Denny Stadium. It isn't just the times I remember, but the sound of college football on her tv through the balcony doors, the perfume she wore, etc.
In my mind, this is what Eric Church is trying to do. If it were us reminiscing about a girl we were with at a Springsteen concert, we would think of what she wore, how she smelled, etc.
More importantly, and as it relates to this song, we would be able to hear the music Springsteen was playing in our memory. He is making is more personal for the listener. As a matter of fact, the Boss sent Church a handwritten note telling him how much he and his family liked the song. The song is beautiful but the human condition commands that we look at our pasts. Any rational person must experience sadness in doing so.
Those carnal joys are fleeting and though those memories are brought out when you're exposed to a specific auditory stimuli and you smile, if you have half a brain you should cry because that beauty is dead.
That memory only matters to you and you couldn't express it properly if you tried. WoodyBoogie on September 27, Link. My Opinion I came to this song as a huge Bruce Springsteen fan. I think Eric Church did a great job, both in incorporating Springsteen lyrics, and in evoking Springsteen's feel of young love in working class America.
I just have one more crazy interpretation, and it's surprising to me that I hadn't ever had this thought before, but perhaps Eric Church did. Even in the context of this song, the name "Springsteen" comes across as almost a non sequitur unless, of course, the other commenters are correct and it took place at a Springsteen concert, which is possible.
I have such a reverence for Bruce Springsteen's career and how he's built it. More From East Texas' 1 For New Country. The Boot Staff Published: January 22,
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