Springsteen on human tragedy
The tragedy in Blacksburg this week reminded me of the sense of loss Bruce Springsteen was able to capture in several of the songs on “The Rising.” In “You’re Missing” he wrote of a wife’s coming to grips with the reality that her husband - and her kids’s father - was not coming home. The song ends with a poetic and musical tribute to some of the questions (with no answers) which remain when reality really sets in:
“God’s drifting in heaven / Devil’s in the mailbox / I got dust on my shoes / Nothing but tear drops.”
“You’re Missing,” from The Rising.
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