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Released by Bruce Springsteen, it's a bleak anthem about a Vietnam War veteran who comes home to find himself with a dead-end job and little to look forward to.
Born in a rough, poor town in a poor state, the character in the song has a hard upbringing, having to grow up early and taking many hard knocks before he is drafted to go and fight in Vietnam. He doesn't want to go and doesn't understand what the war is for- he survives, goes back home and tries to get a job at the local oil refinery. The manager there is himself a Vietnam vet. and had a girlfriend in Saigon- the singer is looking back on all this after 10 years working at the refinery, knowing that he has no hope of promotion, little to look forward to in his life, and faced with a grim future of working in a polluting, dirty environment that makes it hard to feel proud about yourself.
The song is deliberately crafted to sound like a patriotic song about being proud to be an American, but this is ironic- the lyrics tell a very different story, that it's NOT always brilliant to be born in the USA and that many Americans have a very hard time of it.
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