The Promise - Tracy Chapman - Bruce Springsteen

Nothing is as dangerous as making a promise. Most likely, that promise will be broken a very good reason not to make a promise and stick to surprising someone.
Parents are very good in making promises or giving the hint that it is a promise. Nothing sucks that much as a broken promise to a child. If it comes to not sticking to one's word, children do have a very good memory and these are the disappointments they carry around their entire life.

The Promise... my first thought is Tracy Chapman (yes indeed, it's her again). She wrote a beautiful song worth listening at (her words are way clearer sung than with Bruce Springsteen. The beauty of his song, apparently it is there if I read the comments, I don't hear and also cannot feel. I leave the song text at the bottom of my post. Even after reading it I don't feel what others write about.
In Bruce's case, it is about a broken dream. Is it? If it comes to dreams,s I do believe it's possible to make them come true yourself, although there's no need to make all dreams come true because if that's the case, it means there's nothing left to live for.

Songtext: The Promise - Bruce Springsteen


Johnny works in a factory and Billy works downtown

Terry works in a rock'n'roll band

Looking for that million-dollar sound

Me I don't do nothing much,

I spend a lot of time alone

Some nights I go to the drive-in,

And some night I stay home

I followed that dream

Just like those guys do way up on the screen

Drove a chopped up Challenger

down Route 9

Through the dead ends and all the bad scenes

And when the promise was broken

I cashed in a few of my dream

Well, I built that Challenger by myself

But I needed money and so I sold it

I lived a secret I should've kept to myself

But I got drunk one night and I told it

All my life I fought that fight

The one that no man can never win

And every day it just gets harder

To live the dream I'm believing in

Thunder Road ...

I stay up every morning until it turns light

Thunder Road ...

There's something dying out on the highway tonight

Well now I won big once and I hit the coast,

Oh but somehow I paid the big cost

Inside I felt like I was carrying

The broken spirits of all the other ones who lost

When the promise is broken you go on living

But man it takes something from down in your soul

Like when the truth is spoken, it don't make no

difference

Finally something in your heart turns cold

Yeah I followed that dream, me and some guysIn the dead ends and all the

two-bit bars

The night the promise was broken

I was drunk and far away from home,

Sleeping with a stranger

In the back seat of a borrowed car

Thunder Road ...

Here's one for the lost lovers and all the fixed games

Thunder Road ...

Here's one for the tires rushing by in the rain

Thunder Road ...

I remember when me and Billy, we'd always say

Thunder Road ...

We were gonna take it all, and throw it all away

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