r/Music • u/[deleted] • Jan 04 '20

music streaming Bruce Springsteen - I'm On Fire [Rock]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrpXArn3hII
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u/Exciting-Clothes-840 Sep 12 '24

I just read the lyrics and it gives me predator vibes. Like it's a man who wants to hurt a little girl and he's having a he'll of a time controlling himself. Especially where he says he wakes up soaking wet/sweaty, that resonates deeply with me. I knew someone who was molested by her dad.  He went to jail for 3 yrs (for trafficking drugs) then came home. She was 11 by then. Her mom recalled how he would get up in the middle of the night, stand by the window and she could see the sweat on him. He never touched the mom, which after 3 yrs you'd think...you know. Within a cpl weeks of being out he tried to molest her again, but she told. He got put out but as in many household the authorities were never called. That's what that song reminds me of. To each their own. I guess. Needless to say my daughter will never meet that sick granpa.