Blinded by the light, Whats the song about?

Question

Blinded by the light, Whats the song about?

Answer 1

I've heard that the song was about being on drugs, or about masturbation, but I found this pretty reasonable explanation on a fansite:

"This song is about the music industry, not drugs, petafile sex, or even mastrubation! "Blinded by the light" refers to being caught up in the moment... to be a shining star, if you will, yet having the wool pulled over your eyes by managers and producers. Being so caught up in the stive to be a star that you a blinded to what the music industry is doing to you. Manipulating your music (Some brimstone baritone anticyclone rolling stone preacher from the east says, "Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone, that's where they expect it least"), saying exactly what you want to hear (Some silicone sister with a manager mister told me I go what it takes She said "I'll turn you on sonny to something strong, play the song with the funky break"), chaufering you like a star (And little Early-Pearly came by in his curly-wurly and asked me if I needed a ride). However, while being a young artist with a chip on his shoulder, he gave it a shot, but, the audience was not pleased (With a boulder on my shoulder, feelin' kinda older, I tripped the merry-go-round. With this very unpleasin', sneezin' and wheezin, the calliope crashed to the ground). And finally, although he knew this was a chance and it may be a dangerous ride with respect to his career, he knew, that's where the success would eventually come from (Mama always told me not to look into the eye's of the sun But mama, that's where the fun is).... at least that is my interpretation! ."

Answer 2

White Light/White Heat - Lou Reed Blue Light - David Gilmour Dancing within the Moonlight - King Harvest I Saw the Light - Todd Rundgren Paradise via the Dashboard Light - Meatloaf two,000 Light Years from Home - Rolling Stones Moonlight Mile - Rolling Stones Hit the Lights - Metallica Lightning Crashes - Live Lights - Journey Limelight - Rush One Headlight - Wallflowers With Twilight as my Guide - Mars Volta

Answer 3

Standard explanition:


Springsteen wrote the song after most of the others on Greetings were finished, and was intended to be the first single, which it was. It is also one of the few songs Springsteen ever wrote the words to before arranging the music. Those swiftly-paced, jumbled lyrics are stream of consciousness descriptions of a series of bizarre individuals he met while a young artist in New Jersey.

In other words a drug induced bunch of lyrics!

But they are pretty cool!!

Answer 4

Pretty much a bunch of nonsense lyrics as far as I can tell!

Blinded by the light, revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night
Blinded by the light, revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night
Blinded by the light, revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night

Madman drummers bummers, Indians in the summer with a teenage diplomat
In the dumps with the mumps as the adolescent pumps his way into his hat
With a boulder on my shoulder, feelin kinda older, I tripped the merry-go-round
With this very unpleasin, sneezin and wheezin, the calliope crashed to the ground
The calliope crashed to the ground

But she was...
Blinded by the light, revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night
Blinded by the light, revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night
Blinded by the light, revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night
Blinded by the light, revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night

Some silicone sister with a manager mister told me I go what it takes
She said Ill turn you on sonny to something strong, play the song with the funky break
And go-cart Mozart was checkin out the weather chart to see if it was safe outside
And little Early-Pearly came by in his curly-wurly and asked me if I needed a ride
Asked me if I needed a ride

But she was...
Blinded by the light, revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night
Blinded by the light

She got down but she never got tired
Shes gonna make it through the night
Shes gonna make it through the night

------ guitar solo ------

But mama, thats where the fun is
But mama, thats where the fun is
Mama always told me not to look into the eyes of the sun
But mama, thats where the fun is

Some brimstone baritone anticyclone rolling stone preacher from the east
Says, Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in its funny bone, thats where they expect it least
And some new-mown chaperone was standin in the corner, watching the young girls dance
And some fresh-sown moonstone was messin with his frozen zone, reminding him of romance
The calliope crashed to the ground

But she was...
Blinded by the light, revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night
Blinded by the light, revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night

My husband says that the "deuce" is a Deuce Coupe car.

Answer 5

It's about a girl who goes to a dance club against her mother's wishes and falls for a guy who takes her out in his car afterwards for what will be a night of casual sex.