14 Songs That Sound Upbeat, But Actually Have Pretty Dark Meanings (2024)

"[It's]about a man who got into some trouble as a kid, got shipped off to Vietnam, saw his good friends die there, and was an outcast [from] society coming back home. Yet for some reason, it’s played all over the place as a patriotic anthem. Ronald Reagan even briefly used it as his campaign song before Springsteen told him to stop."

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14 Songs That Sound Upbeat, But Actually Have Pretty Dark Meanings (2024)
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