Born to Run Was an album that in many ways talked about how teenagers/young adults have that urge to leave. To drive away and to enjoy the night, the time when people are free to live in the moment and forget about the pains of the day, to learn how to love and be happy. Each of the songs I decided to focus on had positive and upbeat mood. Starting with "Thunder Road" which discusses the fear or uncertainty of running away from the habitual lives that they are forced to live and to let thunder road take them anywhere.
The next Song in Born To Run that I connected with was "Night" which talked about the hardships of working and living in the world we know. He talks about the how you work all day just to go out and enjoy life at night. One of my favorite country songs (Leave the Night On) leaves a very similar message about going out after the sun goes down. Sam Hunt sings about leaving the night on rather than just going home. He talks about the positive aspects of being on the road. He sings to a girl talking about how she makes him want to go out and just drive, to not let the world take the magic out of living and just to enjoy going to "find a road with no name, lay back in the slow lane... well be rollin' down the windows, i bet you we're catching our second win... we don't have to go home we can leave the night on." In The last two songs that I focused on were Born to Run and Jungleland which talked about going out and meeting up with friends and meeting girls to fall in love with. The upbeat instruments in the background matching the emotion of his voice leave the listener with a feeling like there is hope and happiness. Bruce sings about the great things that the city has to offer them. But as Jungleland progresses we get to see the negative side of the town, where people are doing things they shouldn't and getting caught by the cops. Leaving the media paining over the death of innocents but how they still live and move on as if it was something of the past. Overall there is one major song that connects with the atmosphere and tone of his songs with basically the same concept as each of Bruces songs in this album. My all time favorite country song, "Life is a Highway", is all about how life is one big highway. This song describes the idea that life is hard but that we can fight through all of it. "There ain't no load that I can't hold, road so rough this I know... Just tell 'em we're survivors." This song connects to Bruce's song in the aspect that most of the characters go working their rough roads, working their jobs and then using the road and cars to get away from all of it; to be able to see life as a something important. Life is something that can be here one day and gone the next, and Life is a Highway talks about how you should take the people who are going the same way and take them with you, enjoy your own life by filling it with others who make it better.
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