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Bruce Springsteen - Souls Of The Departed

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Album: Lucky Town
Released: 1992

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Springsteen was inspired by television images of the Persian Gulf War and the Los Angeles Riots.

This is a commentary on racial and social injustice. Often viewed as a patriotic champion after "Born In The USA," Springsteen has been openly critical of American politics.

Lucky Town and Human Touch were released on the same day, almost 5 years since Springsteen's last album, Tunnel Of Love. Many fans felt he should have released one double-album rather than 2 full price singles.

Bruce Springsteen - Lucky Town

Bruce Springsteen - Lucky Town Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Lucky Town
Released: 1992

Lucky Town Lyrics

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This was the title track to the album released simultaneously with Human Touch. It probably would have sold better, but Springsteen alienated many fans by releasing both albums the same day at full price.

A live version was released as a single in England.

In 2007, this was used in the film Lucky You, a box office flop starring Drew Barrymore and Robert Duvall. (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)

Bruce Springsteen - Living Proof

Bruce Springsteen - Living Proof Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Lucky Town
Released: 1992

Living Proof Lyrics

Well now on a summer night in a dusky room
Come a little piece of the Lord's undying light
Crying like he swallowed the fiery moon
In his mother's arms it was all the beauty I could take
Like the missing words to some prayer that I could never make
In a world so hard and dirty so fouled and confused
Searching for a little bit of God's mercy
I found Living Proof

I put my heart and soul I put 'em high upon a shelf
Right next to the faith the faith that I'd lost in myself
I went down into the desert city
Just tryin' so hard to shed my skin
I crawled deep into some kind of darkness
Lookin' to burn out every trace of who I'd been
You do some sad sad things baby
When it's your you 're tryin' to lose
You do some sad and hurtful things
I've seen living proof

You shot through my anger and rage
To show me my prison was just an open cage
There were no keys no guards
Just one frightened man and some old shadows for bars

Well now all that's sure on the boulevard
Is that life is just a house of cards
As fragile as each and every breath
Of this boy sleepin' in our bed
Tonight let's lie beneath the eaves
Just a close band of happy thieves
And when that train comes we'll get on board
And steal what we can from the treasures of the Lord
It's been along long drought baby
Tonight the rain's pourin' down on our roof
Looking for a little bit of God's mercy
I found living proof

Writer/s: MACRAE, JOHNNY / CLARK, STEPHEN LEWIS
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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The "Living Proof" are children. Springsteen had a young son at the time.

Written by Springsteen to finish the Human Touch album. He decided to keep writing songs and release 2 albums at the same time, putting this on Lucky Town.

Springsteen: "About the common strength it takes to constitute a family."

Bruce Springsteen - Book Of Dreams

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Album: Lucky Town
Released: 1992

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Springsteen says this song is about second chances.

Dion DiMucci covered this on his 2000 album Deja Nu. Dion had hits in the '60s with "Runaround Sue" and "Abraham, Martin and John." Springsteen is a fan of Dion's and contributed to the liner notes.