Bruce Sprinsgteen was my hero. One of the heroes of my youth. Mid-80s. No cell phone. People used to find each other personaly to communicate. I had a Commodore 64 as a computer which had a 64 KB memory. This song “Dancing in the dark” was talking about “teenagehood” I was thinking that time. I was a teenager,too. A teenager was the one who was dancing in the dark. Not knowing who he was. I was self-aware. A teenager is the person who has to show himself to the society. He has to prove, be accepted. Mistakes always happen when you are a teenager and you are always afraid of making one. You try to understand the “system” and are rebellious, and are afraid that the “system” will judge of you will be or are.
So, as a teenager you’d better dance in the dark. To my teenagehood…and to 80s.
Bruce Springsteen — Dancing In The Dark lyrics
I get up in the evening, and I ain’t got nothing to say
I come home in the moring, I go to bed feeling the same way
I ain’t nothing but tired, man I’m just tired and bored with myself
Hey there baby, I could use just a little help
(Chorus)
You can’t start a fire, you can’t start a fire without a spark
This gun’s for hire even if we’re just dancing in the dark
Message keeps getting clearer, radio’s on and I’m moving round the place
I check myself out in the mirror I wanna change my clothes my hair my face
Man I ain’t getting nowhere just sitting in a dump like this
There’s something happening somewhere baby I just know that there is
(Chorus)
You sit around getting older there’s a joke here somewhere and it’s on me
I’ll shake this world off my shoulders come baby this laughs on me
Stay on the streets of this town and they’ll be carving you up alright
They say you got to stay hungry hey baby I’m just about starving tonight
I’m dying for some action I’m sick of sitting ’round here trying to write
this book
I need a love reaction come on now baby give me just one look
(Chorus)
Hey baby!
