• lfbno7 said on Sep 10, 2008....

  One thing it means is that Springsteen was a fan of Dylan and wanted to imitate Dylan's style of writing, making things unclear, throwing images around, sounding cool. Dylan used to do that once in a while.
  
  The teenage diplomat sounds Dylany. Dylan's song Memphis Blues Again mentions a diplomat. The adolescent pumping his way into his hat is one of the few understandable lines, about a kid masturbating into his hat, odd as that sounds.
  
  Some bloodshot forgetmenot whispers daddy's within earshot save the buckshot. I can figure that one out. The bloodshot forgetmenot is a girl with bloodshot eyes, probably drunk, she's a forgetmenot because she's looking for love, she brought her boyfriend back to her house but her father is nearby so she tells her boyfriend to save the buckshot, meaning don't fuck her right now. Turn up the band probably means she's telling her boyfriend to make the radio louder. Maybe that will cover their noise.
  
  Blinded by the light, cut loose like a deuce, another runner in the night. It seems like he's a little like the song Take a walk on the wild side. Blinded by the light is like living wild and having a ball and being blind to everyday life, the light being the excitement. Cut loose like a deuce is like that song Little Deuce Coupe, the deuce being a fast car. That blends well with the Walk on the wild side theme. Another runner in the night fits in with that too. Like the thrill seeking kids are being compared to fast cars, another runner in the night.
  
  Some fresh sown moonstone was messing with his frozen zone to remind him of the feeling of romance. That's like Cyndi Lauper's song She Bop. The guy's frozen zone is his genitals.
  
  The silicone sister is a girl with a boob job. She's asking Springsteen to play a certain song and she's promising that if he does she'll turn him on to something strong, which is most likely a drug.
  
  Go-Kart Mozart just sounds like a cute rhyme, where the rhyme of the words is more meaningful than the meaning of the words. Checking out the weather chart reminds me of a Dylan line from Subterranean Homesick Blues, and I think it's safe to assume that if it reminds me of a Dylan line, it reminds Springsteen of the same Dylan line, because Springsteen clearly had Dylan on the noodle. You don't have to be a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. The weathermen were militant activists against the Vietnam War. Checking out the weather chart to see if it was safe outside. Doesn't mean much to me, except that it wasn't safe to mess with the weathermen.
  
  Early Pearly just reminds me of Earl the Pearl Monroe, NY basketball star, but I don't see what he would have to do with it. Springsteen had to be very aware of Earl the Pearl Monroe and maybe that just stuck in his head and he liked it. The curly wurly sounds like a helicopter, and he does ask if he needs a ride. But Springsteen makes Early Pearly a girl (while Manfred Mann makes Early Pearly a guy).
  
  Scotland Yard sent a dude to say do what you want but don't do it here. That's a reference to cops telling the kids to move along. They're doing drugs or sex.
  
  Complaining that he caught the clap from some mousetrap he bought last night. Some kid bought a hooker and calls her a mousetrap, which makes his dick the mouse, since he caught the clap from her.
  
  At the end he winds it up by saying his mom warned him not to mess with all these wild things but he will ignore her warning because that's where the fun is.

• CayenneMan said on Sep 10, 2008....

      Ifbno7, that took some time to put together. I found it to be interesting and entertaining not to say the least educational. At first I thought I recognized this work and suspected it immediately but then I thought nah . . . but after reading it again I'm going with my first felt suspicions. Your Barack Obama's campaign manager . . . am I right ?     Great post Ifbno7  fun read fun ride.

• CayenneMan said on Sep 10, 2008....

     Oh I forgot to mention one other thing. A few days back I bumped into none other then Royce Gracie while in North Carolina. Believe it or not he was going into a dollar store. Just like when he shows up for a match, he travels in a pack of his family members. They look to be quite threatening in person. He was dressed in a thousand dollars worth of threads that night not to mention the soft black leather Italian made shoes and the gold watch. I towered over him being six foot four and weighing 240 pounds. I'm pretty muscular but I would'nt fuck with him or any body he was with. We had a breif chat and for only talking to him in that short period of time I found him to be one of the nicest people I have ever met. Shaking his hand was like shaking a brick.

• secretlife said on Sep 10, 2008....

  i love the Manfred Man Earth Band versions of this song-  actually the whole album The Roaring Silence is great-
  The Road to Babylon and their version of Spirits in the Night were terrific.
  Plus I clearly remember the album cover with the huge ear on the front!
   
  As a teenager I memorized every lyric in this song and tried like hell to figure out the lyrics.  When I was high, sometimes I'd think they made some kind of sense!
   
  I've heard it's a masturbation song-  but you couldn't prove that by me!

• beyondtheveil said on Sep 10, 2008....

  7- I read somewhere the lyrics were a description of a bunch of people (or weirdos) he used to know. I liked the song, still do. 

• lfbno7 said on Sep 12, 2008....

  Cayenne, that's cool about meeting Royce Gracie in a dollar store. Dressed as he was, it's funny to see him in a dollar store. I met his cousin Renzo once, and Renzo was amazingly nice. He was running around like a chicken without a head as a tournament in his school was about to start and for some reason he stopped when he saw me and started a conversation. I was just standing there with my daughter who was about 7 years old.
  
  Secret, the only version I'm really familiar with is the Manfred Mann song. I had to go out of my way just to hear the Springsteen version because I didn't buy that album. The only masturbation song I know is She Bop by Cyndi Lauper.
  
  Beyond, I guess its on Wikipedia where they describe the song that way. I always thought it was that anyhow. Sort of like Billy Joel's song about playing piano in a bar and describing the people there. In any event, Springsteen was being purposely vague, like Dylan often was, just coming out with images he thought would be cool.

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