My Hometown / Bruce Springsteen

 

 

 

브루스스프링스틴은 어렸을때 조금씩 쇠퇴해가는 소도시와 그 도시를

둘러싸고 있는 긴장감 그런것과는 약 간 다른 어린 아이의 느낌

그리고 어느날 아버지가 자신을 차에 태우고 그곳을 일주하면서

이곳이 네 고향이니 잘 봐두라고 이야기하던 것들에 대한 기억을 들려주고 있다.

그 화자가 커서 결혼하고 아이를 가졌지만 더 이상 직장을 구할 수 없는

그 곳을 다시 떠나야 하고 아버지가 했던 것처럼

자신도 아이를 차에 태우고는 그 도시를 일주하면서

자신의 아이에게 그곳을 잘 기억해 두라고 이야기해주는

 이 곡의 가사는 정착하지 못하고 끊임없이 외각으로 밀려나는

소외된 가족에 대한 이야기다.

 

My Hometown / Bruce Springsteen

 

I was eight years old and running with a dime in my hand
Into the bus stop to pick up a paper for my old man
I'd sit on his lap in that big old Buick
and steer as we drove through town
He'd tousle my hair and say, Son take a good look around,
this is your hometown

This is your hometown
This is your hometown
This is your hometown

In '65 tension was running high at my high school
There was a lot of fights between the black and white
There was nothing you could do
Two cars at a light on a saturday night,
in the backseat there was a gun
Words were passed,in a shotgun blast
Troubled times had come, to my hometown

My hometown
My hometown
My hometown

Now Main Street's whitewashed windows and vacant stores
Seems like there ain't nobody wants to come down here no more
They're closing down the textile mill across the railroad tracks
Foreman says, These jobs are going boys
and they ain't coming back to your hometown

Your hometown
Your hometown
Your hometown

Last night me and Kate we laid in bed
Talking about getting out
Packing up our bags maybe heading south
I'm thirty-five, we got a boy of out own now
Last night I sat him up behind the wheel
and said, Son take a good look around, this is your hometown