born in the usa?

Question

the song by bruce springsteen.

what does it mean to you?

if you look beyond the chorus of course and actually hear the verses.....

well in my mind, this was not about terrorists, one because it was written in 1984 lol...

its about the vietnam war in my opinon, read the lyrics. i'm not saying there wasnt any terrorists then, however, in 1984 we were SUPPORTING some terrorists and Islamic radical groups.

Answer 1

Pride.

Answer 2

Got in a little hometown jam
So they put a rifle in my hand
Sent me off to a foreign land
To go and kill the yellow man

It's an anti Vietnam Song. It's also a song about the limits of the American Dream:

Down in the shadow of the penitentiary
Out by the gas fires of the refinery
Im ten years burning down the road
Nowhere to run ain't got nowhere to go

Answer 3

It defines his frustration at being misused. It is a valid lament, as a young man, free, white and 21, he has been reduced to a tool for killing Vietnamese, and working in a pollution belching New Jersey refinery, spending time in jail and other dead-end activities instead of the soaring lofty ideals of the promise of the pursuit of happiness.

The other thing this song means to me is that my daughter who would not talk otherwise would shout the refrain at the top of her lungs whenever she heard this song! She was all of two, and Bruce touched her somehow!

Answer 4

It's Anti-Authoritarian and a memorial to the veterans of Vietnam

Born down in a dead man's town
The first kick I took was when I hit the ground
You end up like a dog that's been beat too much
Till you spend half your life just covering up

Born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.

Got in a little hometown jam
So they put a rifle in my hand
Sent me off to a foreign land
To go and kill the yellow man

Born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.

Come back home to the refinery
Hiring man says "Son if it was up to me"
Went down to see my V.A. man
He said "Son, don't you understand"

I had a brother at Khe Sahn fighting off the Viet Cong
They're still there, he's all gone

He had a woman he loved in Saigon
I got a picture of him in her arms now

Down in the shadow of the penitentiary
Out by the gas fires of the refinery
I'm ten years burning down the road
Nowhere to run ain't got nowhere to go

Born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
I'm a long gone Daddy in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
I'm a cool rocking Daddy in the U.S.A.

Answer 5

no terrorists in 1984? Is this what liberals teach you little kids in school now It means nothing just a song I get my beliefs from inside not stupid music

Answer 6

well it's not about supporting the Vietnam War, I know that. too bad I really like the song. Oh, that's cause i only knew the chorus words....

Answer 7

Sounds like a persons opinion of himself and how he feels about whats going on around him.

People give far too much credibility to music. It's just a song.

Answer 8

the first thing that comes to mind when i think of that song is sitting at the baseball feild watching fireworks because that's the only time they play it

Answer 9

Pandering. Marketing: How to get 10 million pretentious patriots to buy your album even though it was made in China.

Answer 10

he was writing about how the american people are consistently betrayed by their imperialist, capitalist masters. how sadly true.

born down in a dead man's town....
you spend half your life just covering up.... (or, for republicans, their whole lives.)