There’s a reasonBruce Springsteenis The Boss.

“Everything is everything, but you’re missing,” he intones.

Out in the Street fromThe River

What?

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You thought this was going to be all sad songs?

Fire fromThe Promise

This song f—s. That’s all there is to it.

When it comes to Springsteen and fire as a metaphor, he sureknows how to make it sexy.

It’s a fun, unabashedly joyous track.

Listening to it is as good a time as the party he describes in the lyrics.