To mark its 40th anniversary, NPR’s All Songs ... us what the song is really about. “The refrain makes it feel like a celebration of America,” he acknowledges, “Yet there's more to ‘Born ...
Every single track on Born in the U.S.A. channels regret, fear, pain, loss, aging, and/or frustration — in its lyrics. Yet those songs filled stadiums. The album octupled Springsteen’s store ...