Analysis of the song Born in the U.S.A.

Born in the U.S.A. Analysis

By Joey McCormick

The American Dream is gone. It's burning up.

           I believe the song is about the failure of the American dream. I believe this because at the beginning of the song he says "Born down in a dead man town." He makes it seem like his dream is differed and always doing a job for someone else instead of him. He is sent off to war and he comes back to the U.S.A. and he doesn't have anywhere to go.

Instead of chasing your dream. Your instead fighting in war.

         
              I'm trying to persuade my audience that the song is saying that the American dream is a failure and not all equal for everyone. Also it's trying to say that you really have to work hard to get what you want, it isn't just handed to you. You face a lot of obstacles.

           
              Bruce Springsteen is trying to say that the American dream isn't all true. In the beginning of the song he's talking about how tired and worn out he is. Then talks about going to war for some stupid reason and people are getting killed. At the end you come back home and you have no where to go and your dream is gone.

           



         

Video and Pictures

Video of the Song

Vietnam War. Bruce Springsteen refers to the Vietnam war 
and Saigon. Talks about his brother who is gone because of the war.

Lyrics of Born in the U.S.A.

Born in the U.S.A.

Born down in a dead man town
The first kick I took was when I hit the ground 
You end up like a dog that's been beat too much 
Till you spend half your life just covering up 

Born in the u.s.a., I was born in the u.s.a.
I was born in the u.s.a., born in the u.s.a. 

Got in a little hometown jam 
So they put a rifle in my hand 
Sent me off to a foreign land To go and kill the yellow man 

Born in the U.S.A... 
Come back home to the refinery 
Hiring man said son if it was up to me 
Went down to see my v.a. man 
He said son, don't you understand 

I had a brother at Khe Sahn 
Fighting off the Viet Cong 
They're still there, he's all gone 

He had a woman he loved in Saigon 
I got a picture of him in her arms now 

Down in the shadow of the penitentiary 
Out by the gas fires of the refinery 
I'm ten years burning down the road 
Nowhere to run aint got nowhere to go 

Born in the u.s.a., I was born in the u.s.a. 
Born in the u.s.a., I'm a long gone daddy in the u.s.a. 
Born in the u.s.a., born in the u.s.a. 
Born in the u.s.a., I'm a cool rocking daddy in the u.s.a