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Artist:

Bruce Springsteen

Song:

Backstreets

Album: 

Born To Run

Year: 

1975
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Bruce Springsteen came out of New Jersey in the early 1970s sounding like a cross between Bob Dylan and early Tom Waits, backed by the rambunctious...
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jdunham62 | MEMORY FROM 1982

Terri

LOCATION: My 1st Apartment , Knoxville, TN

YEAR: 1982

TAGS: Knoxville, Backstreets, Springsteen, Born To Run

PUBLISHED: May 25, 2008

Terri and I dated for a year and a half before she broke up with me for another guy in college the summer of '82.

My roommate Bill loved Springsteen and played "Born To Run" incessantly which, in turn, made me hate Springsteen.

I was laying on our beat-up couch pining my loss and Bill, in one of his many attempts to help me "get" Springsteen told me to just listen to the lyrics of "Backstreets".

And then I heard:

"Blame it on the lies that killed us,

Blame it on the truth that ran us down,

You can blame it all on me, Terri,

It don't matter to me now.

When the breakdown came at midnight there was nothing left to say,

'Cept I hated him,

And I hated you

When you went away".

And then this mournful wail from a man who UNDERSTOOD MY PAIN AT THAT VERY MOMENT followed those lyrics.

I have no idea what happened to Terri. But I still have Springsteen. Hindsight and all ... it was an even trade.

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