A lot of Bruce Springsteen songs are about a kind of urban angst that I’ve never had to live with. I don’t fully understand this song, Lost in the Flood. But when I saw this 1975 concert on video, there were two lines that jumped out at me:
And I said, “Hey, gunner man, that’s quicksand, that’s quicksand, that ain’t mud.”
And later:
And he said, “Hey kid, you think that’s oil? Man, that ain’t oil, that’s blood.”
Somehow, those two lines, sung more than thirty years ago, seem to be about our present situation in Iraq.
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