--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "Gabrielle Obre"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> tommy, writing about the working class IS political. i would argue
> everything is political...not in the smarmy, manipulative, position
> juggling, ulterior motive use of the word...but in that how we live
> together, how we treat one another, care for one another, protect
> those who need care and punish those who trample the rights of
>others.
> everything is political essentially.
I disagree. It isn't political when you aren't looking back and
assigning blame or looking forward and suggesting a future.
A million other lesser songwriters do that crap.
With a few exceptions (like Born to Run) Bruce sings about the
people who aren't getting out - the people who will die where they
were born, who won't be more than they are right now.
Folks like that need Bruce - to be sure the world knows they are
there.
When Bruce gets into past and future stuff, he abandons them. There
are plenty of others to get into the political.
Bruce needs to stay were he is and give those people strength, not
to get out, just to get through.
Shut up and sing, Bruce.
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