The album itself is very beautiful: grounded, nostalgic and honest in an almost Dylanesque way, apart from its clarity and tunefulness. (Forgive me, Dylan die-hards.)
What's interesting, is that Springsteen 'leant' two singles off this album to two very different causes.
1. He donated the song 'The Wrestler', perhaps the darkest and most lyrically devastating offering to Mickey Rourke's come-back phenomenon. I always remember the line "If you've ever seen a one-trick-pony then you've seen me."
2. He campaigned with the then Senator Obama with the song 'Working On A Dream' as a true peoples' anthem, in contrast to the largely misunderstood 'Born In The U.S.A', which Regan tried to appropriate during his 1984 re-election bid.
The irony of that non-collaboration was that the content of 'Born In The U.S.A' contradicted its broad, rallying melody with an angry indictment on the Vietnam war, its victims both dead and returning and the living conditions of the working-class American at that time.
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