I have to say I'm amazed I'm the first one commenting here, but, oh well.
This is really a departure from a lot of other Springsteen unrequited love songs in its dreamlike arrangement. There's also a lack of road-car-anomie-escape in this one. What we have seems to be a very mundane situation but with Bruce, it's really anything but. This is really such a beautiful song but also it speaks to the whole idea that the woman of your dreams might be wearing a company cap in a supermarket. It reminds me of the lyric from "Crush on You" --
"Well now she might be the talk of high society
She's probably got a lousy personality
She might be a heiress to Rockefeller
She might be a waitress or a bank teller"
And that's what I take away from this song. We find true love in the most unlikely places. It's almost a dream sequence song but ends up with an almost trademark 'reason to believe:'
"As I lift my groceries in to my car
I turn back for a moment and catch a smile
That blows this whole fucking place apart"
That saves the song from terminally sappy which, in this case, Bruce went up to the line but didn't quite cross it.
Too bad about the F bomb in this case - unless dubbed it will never be on commercial radio. And that's a shame.
In retrospect, this is my favorite song on the CD which, generally, I was disappointed with. "Magic" was so much better - maybe the Boss should have waited and worked a little longer before releasing "Working on a Dream." It reminds me too much of "Lucky Town."
I have to say I'm amazed I'm the first one commenting here, but, oh well.
This is really a departure from a lot of other Springsteen unrequited love songs in its dreamlike arrangement. There's also a lack of road-car-anomie-escape in this one. What we have seems to be a very mundane situation but with Bruce, it's really anything but. This is really such a beautiful song but also it speaks to the whole idea that the woman of your dreams might be wearing a company cap in a supermarket. It reminds me of the lyric from "Crush on You" --
"Well now she might be the talk of high society She's probably got a lousy personality She might be a heiress to Rockefeller She might be a waitress or a bank teller"
And that's what I take away from this song. We find true love in the most unlikely places. It's almost a dream sequence song but ends up with an almost trademark 'reason to believe:'
"As I lift my groceries in to my car I turn back for a moment and catch a smile That blows this whole fucking place apart"
That saves the song from terminally sappy which, in this case, Bruce went up to the line but didn't quite cross it.
Too bad about the F bomb in this case - unless dubbed it will never be on commercial radio. And that's a shame.
In retrospect, this is my favorite song on the CD which, generally, I was disappointed with. "Magic" was so much better - maybe the Boss should have waited and worked a little longer before releasing "Working on a Dream." It reminds me too much of "Lucky Town."