Lucky Town

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It took Bruce Springsteen several years to finally feel that he was finished with <i>Human Touch</i>, the first record he’d made without the E Street Band. About a week after sending off the album to be mixed, Springsteen called his engineer with the news that, while finishing up the track “Living Proof,” he’d also written a whole <i>new</i> batch of songs he wanted to record. The tunes he’d written for what would become <i>Lucky Town</i> sounded nothing like the smooth synthesizer compositions on <i>Human Touch</i>—and, in fact, the whole project came together in a little over a month. The inspiration for the lyrics on <i>Lucky Town</i> came from the same places that they did on <i>Human Touch</i>—relationship, men and women, fatherhood—but the stories are simpler, and there’s more humor: “Better Days” features the line “I took a piss in fortune’s sweet ki,” while “Local Hero” tells the sardonic story of Springsteen seeing his photograph in the front window of the drugstore in downtown Freehold, New Jersey. But <i>Lucky Town</i> also gets deep. “Living Proof” is a confessional about the birth of Springsteen and Patti Scialfa’s first child, “Souls of the Departed” was inspired by the Gulf War, and “If I Should Fall Behind” could have doubled as wedding vow. .

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