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Bruce Springsteen's journey crafting his 1982 album Nebraska, which emerged as he recorded Born in the USA with the E Street Band. Based on Warren Zanes' book.
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00:00It's a hard thing, realizing people aren't who you want them to be.
00:11It feels different coming home. There's a real emptiness.
00:18I think Bruce is afraid of what's coming, and he feels guilty leaving behind the world he knows.
00:26It's like I'm always running away from something.
00:30I like the past just breathing down my neck.
00:35I don't have to tell you, we got to head it out of the park with the next record, Bruce Springsteen.
00:39He's on a rocket ship. We don't want to miss that window.
00:43The label, once you have your first top ten, they're just thinking about momentum.
00:47I'm trying to find something real.
00:49These new souls, they're different, but they're the only thing making sense to me right now.
00:55The only thing I can still believe in.
00:57Then we'll get it. Whatever it takes.
01:08This is a highly unorthodox career move. That's the point.
01:12He's channeling something deeply personal.
01:17But in this office, my office, we believe in Bruce Springsteen.
01:23Songwriting's a funny thing.
01:32It's about searching for something.
01:37Something that's gonna give your life a little bit of meaning.
01:40This is where you're meant to go.
01:43This is where you're meant to go.
01:55I don't need to be perfect.
01:57I just want it to feel right.
01:58I just want it to feel right.
02:00I just want it to feel right.
02:02Maybe everything that dies, someday comes back.
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