Bruce Springsteen / Nebraska (US, Columbia, TC 38358) <September 30, 1982>

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Bruce Springsteen / Nebraska (Columbia, TC 38358) <September 30, 1982>
(side 1) AL 38358-1AA
(side 2) BL-38358 G2B
side 2 のマトの末尾「2B」は確かですが、その手前ははっきりと読めません。

タイトル曲は1950年代のネブラスカで起きた実際の事件を題材にした内容で、連続殺人犯の独白というスタイルになっています。ちなみにこの事件はOliver Stoneの映画"Natural Born Killers"にもなっています。

Nebraska

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oy2dpbGhaz8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTHc_ZXsqXU

I saw her stangin' on her front lawn
Just twirlin' her baton
Me and her went for a ride sir
And ten innocent people died

From the town of Lincoln Nebraska
Aith a sawed-off .410 on my lap
Through to the badlands of Wyoming
I killed everything in my path

I can't say that I'm sorry
For the things that we done
At least for a little while sir
Me and her we had us some fun

The jury brought in a guilty verdict
And the judge he sentenced me to death
Midnight in prision storeroom
With leather straps across my chest

Sheriff when the man pulls
That switch sir and snaps my poor neck back
You make sure my pretty baby
Is sittin' right there on my lap

They declared me unfit to live
Said into that great void my soul'd be hurled
They wanted to know why I did what I did
Well sir I guess there's just a meanness in this world

この、とんでもない内容のタイトル曲を、匿名掲示板もない時代に暮らす平凡な中学生だったころに聴きました。特に理由もない、ただ純粋な「悪意」というものを初めて意識して、心底気味悪かったのを思い出します。

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