Do You Know What You’re Singing? 10 Songs With Surprising Meanings
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Kendra Koger
Bruce Springsteen – “Born in the USA”
If you’re very patriotic, but oppose the war, this song’s for you. Bruce Springsteen saw the injustices that were put upon Vietnam veterans and wrote an anthem for them.
However, political parties who supported the war and ran for office tended to use this as their anthems.
Suspect lyrics: “Got in a little hometown jam, / So they put a rifle in my hand / Sent off to a foreign land / To go kill the yellow man.”
A lot of people were “dancing in the dark” to the meaning of this song. See what I did there?
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