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The River, 1980
Written by Bruce Springsteen
A blistering song with a killer riff, this ain't one of the Boss' more serious tales of the overlooked, the lonely, the underemployed, the wild, the restless, the desperate. Possibly uniquely in Springsteen's catalog, it's a series of pop culture references from the '60s and early '70s, when Springsteen was growing up. The narrator boasts of his "007 watch," "I-Spy beeper," and Batmobile, all gadgets deigned to make him a hero to a girl in trouble. If she's in a jam ("If you're hanging from a cliff or you're tied to the tracks, girl / Columbo split and you can't find Kojak"), then he'll be her protector, swooping in like an action hero, "like a mission impossible" he'll get her heart back. It's all adolescent ramrod energy, pure '50s swagger.
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