Like most folks I know, there are many things I love about the USA and some things I do not love. With the 4th of July approaching, I listened to the album Born in the USA by Bruce Springsteen top to bottom. And then this happened. (Ok, I cheated with 5-7-5 words. Sue me already)
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The Dark Side of Born in the USA as Told in Haiku
Born in the USA
You will take this gun
To go and kill the yellow man
I’m Born in the USA
Cover Me:
Times are tough getting tougher
The whole world is rough just getting rougher
Looking for lover cover me
Darlington County
Big city guys came to party
With the small town girls in Darlington
Wayne handcuffed was somebody raped?
Working on the Highway
I’m working on the highway
Cracking rocks on a prison chain gang
Young girl definitely was raped
Downbound Train
You were waiting for me
You said your love had never died
I hear that long whistle whine
I’m on Fire
Someone took knife edgy dull
And cut a valley through my soul
Wake up sheets soaking wet
No Surrender
We are never gonna win
Be a kamikaze die like a man
No retreat baby no surrender
Bobby Jean
I came by your house
Your mother said that you went away
Wish you had told me
I’m Going Down
I’m going down down down
Down down down down down down down
Down down down down down
Glory Days
Drinking hard at a bar
Time slips away and leaves you nothing
Except boring stories glory days
Dancing in the Dark
You sit around getting older
There is a joke it’s on me
Man I’m not getting nowhere
My Hometown
Main street white washed windows
Laid in bed thought of getting out
Getting out of my hometown
Colin Gawel plays solo and in the band Watershed. He works on Pencilstorm at Colin’s Coffee. For more info google some of the following words: Colin Gawel Bruce Springsteen Cheap Trick Pencilstorm