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  • 6/18/2025
Bruce Springsteen's journey crafting his 1982 album Nebraska, which emerged as he recorded Born in the USA with the E Street Band. Based on Warren Zanes' book.
Transcript
00:00It's a 305 V8. Never owned a new car before.
00:04It's awfully fitting for some devil rock star.
00:08I do know who you are.
00:10Well, that makes one of us.
00:14Hey, boss, can you do a mic check?
00:22How's that sound?
00:23Uh, looks about right.
00:24Don't need to be perfect. I want it to feel like I'm in the room by myself.
00:28Yeah, let's try one.
00:32Here's what I want you to understand.
00:34This is not about either one of us.
00:37This is not about the charts.
00:41This is about Bruce Springsteen.
00:47And these are the songs that he wants to work on right now.
00:51I saw her standing on her front lawn.
00:58Just stood twirling her bedroom.
01:04I'm going to tell you a little story.
01:06When Bruce was little, he had a hole in the floor of his bedroom.
01:09The floor that's supposed to be solid.
01:18That you're supposed to be able to stand on.
01:22Bruce, he didn't have that.
01:23Bruce, he didn't have that.
01:30Bruce is a repairman.
01:34And what he's doing with this album,
01:37is he's repairing that hole in his floor.
01:42He's repairing that hole in himself.
01:44And once he's done that,
01:51he's going to repair the entire world.
01:57Trying to find something real in all the noise.
02:04You always do.
02:05You always do.
02:35That's my story because I don't think it's at all.
02:37But I don't think it's at all.
02:39If it's in control,
02:43this is not the Government of America.
02:46You always do.
02:47You always do.
02:49You always do.
02:50You always do.
02:52You always do.
02:53You always do.
02:55You always do.
02:57That was a good place.
02:59You always do.
03:01You always do.

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