The songs of "Magic:'' "You'll Be Comin' Down''
When I first heard this, I thought it was a "she done him wrong'' song. With a chorus like "You'll be comin' down now, baby/You'll be comin' down/What goes around, it comes around and/You'll be comin' down,'' that's what springs to mind.
If this was the case, it would be unusual. Springsteen rarely does these kinds of songs. Relationships go south in his music, but the blame is generally fixed on both parties.
Then I figured it was in the "Like A Rolling Stone'' mode: a cautionary tale tinged with some bitterness.
But there is no bitterness in the singer's voice: he's singing in a straight-forward manner. These are the facts - "You'll be fine as long as you're pretty face holds out/Then it's gonna get pretty cold out'' -- interrupted at times by a soaring saxophone. The singer's voice is doubled at times, and more on the chorus, as if to say, "This isn't just me talking.'' The whole world knows that this is how the world works.
"Like a thief on a Sunday morning'' Springsteen says, ''It all falls apart with no warning,'' an interesting twist on Jesus' eschatological warning of bad times coming "like a thief in the night.''
If this was the case, it would be unusual. Springsteen rarely does these kinds of songs. Relationships go south in his music, but the blame is generally fixed on both parties.
Then I figured it was in the "Like A Rolling Stone'' mode: a cautionary tale tinged with some bitterness.
But there is no bitterness in the singer's voice: he's singing in a straight-forward manner. These are the facts - "You'll be fine as long as you're pretty face holds out/Then it's gonna get pretty cold out'' -- interrupted at times by a soaring saxophone. The singer's voice is doubled at times, and more on the chorus, as if to say, "This isn't just me talking.'' The whole world knows that this is how the world works.
"Like a thief on a Sunday morning'' Springsteen says, ''It all falls apart with no warning,'' an interesting twist on Jesus' eschatological warning of bad times coming "like a thief in the night.''
posted by Michael Riley at 11:55 AM
9 Comments:
With those lyrics, he obviously did not have his wife Patty Scialfa in mind. "Pretty face"? Maybe his eyesight is second thing to go aftertall.
Yeah he could have just sung Dust in the Wind by Kansas but then again there's nothing new under the sun is there?
I think he was singing about his cow on the farm in Colts Neck.
Is that what he calls Patty these days?
Yeah, she looks like a Cow Patty!
I'm pretty sure he's talking about the Bush-era supporters...he's actually gloating and saying "I told you so" This song has nothing to do with a male/female relationship to me.
I hate political songs. Can't we just enjoy a mindless ditty occasionally, or a love song about a man and a woman?
Personally, I need lyrics that actually say something instead of the throw-away junk that's more fit for elevators.
I love elevator music!
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