Aaron Lewis on Bruce Springsteen: "I think that he is a disgusting display of not appreciating what was handed to him, in this country as being an American, the success that he has had,” Lewis said. “The fact that he duped us all with one of the most anti-American songs ever and called it 'Born in the USA' as some sort of celebration of how great it is to be born in the USA. I'm angry at myself for not seeing it for so long and actually giving him, in my mind, the credit of being a representation of blue-collar America."
He continued: "I think that he has forgotten where he came from. I think that if you're not careful doing this, this career that that me and him have both been so blessed to have had, if you're not careful, it will consume you. And it's obvious that it creates a situation where you've lost sight of the reality of the country that you live in because you've lived such a cush… you have so much that it's really easy to take a stance that is so anti everything that you were lucky enough to have, lucky enough to create, lucky enough to change your situation in life. And, he's just lost touch with the struggles. He's lost touch with the struggle."
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The first kick I took was when I hit the ground
End up like a dog that's been beat too much
'Til you spend half your life just to cover it up now
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Got in a little hometown jam
So they put a rifle in my hands
Send me off to a foreign land
To go and kill the yellow man
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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, now?"
Oh, yeah
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I had a brother at Khe Sanh
Fightin' off them 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 burnin' down the road
Nowhere to run, ain't got nowhere to go
Not exactly the patriotic, up with America kinda song, is it.
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He always has been a twat. About the only thing I agree with him on is Roy Orbison's music. I knew this song was anti-American when it was released, since he was laying a ton of slander on our Vietnam Vets, without any redemption at the end of the song or anything positive about any of it at all. Mr. working class hero wannabe making a buck running down real men who do things in this life except perform for an audience. The vastly over-rated musical/singing/song writing of this hack band could otherwise be forgiven, as could the unwarranted New Jersey chauvinism, but when you take into account the sanctimonious Leftist activism, when he has the time, there is nothing left to do but change the station whenever he comes on.
ReplyDeleteShame it took DJT for people to listen to those lyrics. I noticed when the damned song first came out.
ReplyDeletelewis is from my hometown ft worth
ReplyDeleteIt was an anti war song for the most stupid and futile war in our history. The truth is out now and now everybody knows that all of the men who brought us that war and were generals in charge of it never fought to win and get out for one second. It was all an enormous waste of life and all for nothing at all. Kind of like OIF and OEF.
ReplyDeleteActually, the ten-year war in SE Asia forced the USSR to back the North Vietnamese. The Soviets spend billions during and after the conflict... and due to the US's involvement, the USSR is no longer around.
DeleteIt was a stupid war, but Lincoln's War was far worse, as was our pointless intervention in WW1 that cost 110,000 American lives in a year and a half. Vietnam does not even make the top 5 list of stupid American wars. Bruce Shitstain never soldiered a day in his life and was using Vietnam as a vehicle to boost his street cred with the anti America crowd like some new generation Pete Seeger. He also put this song out a decade after the war was over, which makes one wonder why the need to protest it. The lyrics really don't talk about the war itself, but cast the participants as either dead or mal-adjusted lowlifes. Way to make a buck milking a stereotype Bruce. That was the decade when the Vietnam Vets were finally getting some praise for their selfless service in one of our toughest wars. a true dogfight for those fighting it. yet here was Bruce going against the grain. I don't like him
DeleteHuey Lewis and Sammy Hagar sang the Pro-American stuff in California during the same era.
ReplyDeleteIt was anti-American, not anti-war. Springsteen still supports the political party that gave us Vietnam.
ReplyDelete"The Boss" is a despicable limp wrist libtard par excellence.
Delete...I had a brother at Khe Sanh
ReplyDeleteFightin' off them Viet Cong...
For the record, there were no Vietcong at Khe Sanh to speak of. The enemy there were PAVN or North Vietnamese regulars. This battle and Hue City were the only PAVN participation in the otherwise Vietcong dominated Tet offensive. The Marines in I Corps fought tough battles against battle hardened NVA regulars, the best the enemy had, for most of the war. Let's remember that.