The Gaslight Anthem, “Meet Me by the River’s Edge” (2008) The Kid Inside was finally issued in 1983, after Mellencamp's commercial breakthrough. This song was meant to serve as the title track for Mellencamp's second album but sat idle after his record label MCA refused to release it. The late '70s and early '80s were a time when John Mellencamp was searching for an identity that fit: He moved through the monikers Johnny Cougar, John Cougar and John Cougar Mellencamp before dropping the "Cougar" altogether in 1991. “It’s getting hard to justify my position / When everything I’m sayin’ can be said better by Mr. We look at 44 songs that mention Bruce Springsteen below. They sometimes employ his rhyme-worthy name to get a musical point across other times, these acts share a lyric from Springsteen's catalog to give the song some punch.Īlong the way, these scene-setting backdrops have reached far beyond Springsteen's home state – and into a striking number of musical styles. Plenty of musicians without such close bonds have used Springsteen as a sort of shorthand when recalling warm, top-down summer nights that carry a sense of freedom or nostalgia. "And when he was outside playing his guitar, squirt him with a garden hose." But the real story behind it, like always, belongs to who has written it."My grandfather would give Bruce quarters for the cigarette machine," Frost once recalled. These are very rich lyrics where you can find so many subtle hidden messages and figures of speech that I’d dare to say Eddie’s a genius. CUT to later(…)you’ve BLED yourself” or my favourite “If not for love I would be drowning I’ve seen it work both ways but I am UP, riding high amongst the waves”. These lyrics are so beautifully written, with amazing metaphors and other figures of speech like “The first time you saw blood. We could always interpret the song with specific facts that relate to Eddie’s story, but then maybe the song would loose some of it’s magic because we wouldn’t identify ourselves with it so much. So “Remember back the early days” could mean that he actually is talking about when they met, and she was young (his wife is more than 10 years younger than him) and she was amazed at all the things happening, Imagine a young girl dating a rock star like Eddie, she was most surely amazed with everything going on around her. There’s some references to that in the song: “I’ve seen it work in both ways”, “Remember back the early days”. Maybe the same person that has saved him was the same person he let go sometime ago. This could also apply to something else, like surf. Love ain’t love until you give it up, like Eddie said, must mean that in order to prove that it is indeed love, when you set someone free and the person comes back, you’re into something. It’s a pride to survive all that we are put through in life. You survived that, you didn’t drown, and you’re now among the fittest. Someway when you grew up, you matured with experience and the past doesn’t hurt you anymore like it did. everything, even surf, your hobbie, feels futile and meaningless…until you recover from that state of depression and ride again HIGH AMONGST THE WAVES!! The later part of the song, is talking about how life was simpler when we were young, nothing could put us down. It seems to contain flashes of memories, mixed up, where he his staying still in his surf board, thinking of drowning in the ocean, or maybe just unable to survive the waves around him, then there’s another flash of this girl that has been able to save him, with love, and then again a flash of him still in the surf board but this time he gets UP, riding high amongst the waves! Maybe a song about how love gone bad can influence you so much that you let yourself go. At this point the song has for me a dream like behaviour. He has seen love work in both ways, good and bad, but this time he’s UP, he catched the wave, got up and now he’s riding HIGH AMONGST THE WAVES!! His soul has been saved and he put away his early grave, he’s willing to fight again for survival and he won’t drown anymore. This person seems to have helped him save the tears and recover because if not for love he would be drowning (again, the figure of speech here), in his tears first, and later in the ocean of waves he’d have drowned because he didn’t have the strenght or willingness to survive and ride the waves. There’s a nice use of a figure of speech here when he refers to water from the tears, water from reservoir and water from the ocean, in let’s go swim tonigh darling. He was sad and crying, tears were waterfalling, but then he saved them and made a reservoir. In this song Eddie Vedder seems to refer to a moment in his past where his life was falling appart, like a house of cards.
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