"routine sucked the wind from his sails"
Oh man what a line! I've thought about it since the first time I listened to this. How can you say so much in seven words? How many dreams have died from the same ole same ole? What a way to frame that.
Written 35 years ago? This is so much better than a lot of what was happening then. Any artist who wanted to ride the coat tails of The Man -- hell, the man himself -- should've jumped all over this. Your songs over the years on the forum have yielded a LOT of
consistently positive Springsteen references. BTW, although removed from Born To Run we were listening to Nebraska the other day and we both thought "un huh -- mr jane."

You wrapped it all up in a fine production. I gotta study that half-time guitar notion. It really works.
Superb!
J&B