badrogue17 wrote:
As with Blinded by the Light, Manfred Manns version blows Springsteens away.
Bullshit. 1 and 1A at best. Springsteen's "For You" is a whirlwind of words. (So is "Blinded by the Light," come to think of it.) I love this passage so much:
Quote:
We were both hitchhikers but you had your ears tuned to the roar
Of some metal-tempered engine on an alien, distant shore
So you left to find a better reason than the one we were living for
And it's not that nursery mouth I came back for
It's not the way you're stretched out on the floor
'Cause I've broken all your windows and I've rammed through all your doors
And who am I to ask you to lick my sores?
And you should know that's true
I came for you, for you, I came for you, but you did not need my urgency
I came for you, for you, I came for you, your life was one long emergency
And your cloud line urges me, oh, and my electric surges free
Compare and contrast with "booooooooooooorn in the USA, I was boooooooooorn in the USA"
EDIT: best cut off
Greetings from Asbury Park is "Lost in the Flood," but I don't think Manfred Mann covered that one.
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