I’m a single Dad raising two awesome kids. I’m trying to keep it together while coping with the death of my wife. I’m attempting to keep things as “normal” as possible. My hope is that this blog helps out other people who are unfortunately in my situation. Their seems to be plenty of material out there for women who have lost their husbands, but not so much for men who have lost their wives. If my ramblings, rants and thoughts can help someone else out…that would be good.
A Classic — Darkness on the Edge of Town
Okay so my hockey team lost today (the Flyers) then the Phillies also were defeated…but I take solace in this. I just watched the HBO documentary “The Promise: the making of Darkness on the Edge of Town”. What an awesome and inspiring hour of television.
I made a list of my top 25 albums a couple of years ago and Darkness on the Edge of Town was number 1. Here is what I wrote back then…
My Personal Number One
No 1. Bruce Springsteen – Darkness on the Edge of Town (vinyl – cassette – CD)
This album is dark and I spent countless hours of my youth, adolescence and adulthood life listening over and over. Songs about letting go, busting out and yearning for more just hit to close to home at various points in my life – “Something in Night”, “Streets of Fire”, “Racing in the Street”, “Candy’s Room”, “The Promised Land” all classic Springsteen.
It’s an album that I owned as a true vinyl album…as a cassette tape and as a CD. I wasted countless hours of my youth, adolescence and even my adulthood years listening to it. It’s a very dark album. Many of the songs are about coming of age, the struggles we go through and wanting to break out for “something more”…it’s an awesome collection of songs.
I can’t tell you how many nights me and my buddies wasted listening to that album…over and over…and how many beers we drank but it was many…and it’s funny there was always one rule – NO SINGING during the playing of Darkness. It was like we just wanted to listen to the words…what was being said…if you got caught singing you were punched and were told to “shut up”. Not many albums had that effect on me, but to me Darkness was like a piece of art for me and for my friends. Listening to it, as silly and ridiculous as it sounds gave me inspiration. I just knew deep down inside that I was going to break away from where I grew up and get out…and I did.
I can still recall some of the deep and meaningful conversations that were discussed and the locations while listening to that album. Hearing those songs always brings me back to a time and place from long ago. A time when things were simpler and less complex yet more confusing if that makes any sense. Even now those songs ring true for me…it’s sort of like an old friend who you haven’t spoke to in years and when you see each other time hasn’t missed a beat. What sucks is I have some old friends that I do miss…they don’t read this blog…they won’t ever know…and I won’t call them, but I have to believe that when they hear those songs…they have the same feelings…
Of all the songs on the album…”Something in the Night” was always my personal favorite…
Something in the Night
I’m riding down Kingsley,
figuring I’ll get a drink
Turn the radio up loud,
so I don’t have to think,
I take her to the floor,
looking for a moment when the world seems right,
And I tear into the guts,
of something in the night
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You’re born with nothing,
and better off that way,
Soon as you’ve got something they send
someone to try and take it away,
You can ride this road ’till dawn,
without another human being in sight,
Just kids wasted on
something in the night.
Nothing is forgotten or forgiven,
when it’s your last time around,
I got stuff running ’round my head
That I just can’t live down.
When we found the things we loved,
They were crushed and dying in the dirt.
We tried to pick up the pieces,
And get away without getting hurt,
But they caught us at the state line,
And burned our cars in one last fight,
And left us running burned and blind,
Chasing something in the night.
Bill Applegate
Monroeville, PA
