GOTHWATCH: Bruce Springsteen, 1975

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Evidence A:

"There were ghosts in the eyes
Of all the boys you sent away
They haunt this dusty beach road
In the skeleton frames of burned out Chevrolets
They scream your name at night in the street
Your graduation gown lies in rags at their feet
And in the lonely cool before dawn
You hear their engines roaring on
But when you get to the porch they're gone"

Evidence B:

"Outside the street’s on fire in a real death waltz between flesh and what’s fantasy"

Evidence C:

All that stuff about riding through mansions of glory on suicide machines.

GREAT STUFF BRUCE.

(But was he grebo?)

Comments

I JUDGE THAT...

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

no drum machines = B. SPRAMMSTEIN is goth

especially his wee-lets-be-serial-killers meisterwerk NEBRASKA

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

i understand the shipyards and/or the factory may be closing down

unemployed = sitting around moping in bedroom = GOTH

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Steelworks!

Also

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

They scream your name at night in the street
And in the lonely cool before dawn

viz. goths hang around on their own in Scream pubs drinking snakebite innit.

Re: Also

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Yes I got bored of highlighting teh gothwords sorry!

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

entire goth verses:

Everybody's got a secret Sonny
Something that they just can't face
Some folks spend their whole lives trying to keep it
They carry it with them every step that they take
Till some day they just cut it loose
Cut it loose or let it drag 'em down
Where no one asks any questions
Or looks too long in your face
In the darkness on the edge of town

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Is a dream a lie if it don't come true?
Or is it something Cthulhoid WORSE!