Bruce Springsteen & E Street Band. Bobby Jean

Una de las facetas que más me gusta de Bruce Springsteen son sus letras. En este campo no tiene tan buena prensa como algunos de sus contemporáneos o de algunos totems del género que no nombraré pero lo cierto es que yo conecto mucho antes con la prosa del de New Jersey que con las tribulaciones y metafísica de otros. Admito que soy un tipo muy básico, cada vez más y me pierdo en metáforas y recovecos literarios fuera de mi alcance. 

Bobby Jean es una de mis canciones favoritas de este buen hombre. Y si, me gusta pensar que es cierta la historia de que está dedicada a Little Steven. Para mi esa es una interpretación perfecta. El amigo Van Zandt es muy grande y por supuesto Springsteen lo sabe. La amistad, esa que está por encima de las circunstancias y es ajena al tiempo, es una de las cosas más importantes de esta vida y cultivarla una tarea necesaria, vital diría yo.

Well I came by your house the other day, your mother said you went away
She said there was nothing that I could have done
There was nothing nobody could say
Me and you weve known each other ever since we were sixteen
I wished I would have known I wished I could have called you
Just to say goodbye bobby jean

Now you hung with me when all the others turned away turned up their noise
We liked the same music we liked the same bands we liked the same clothes
We told each other that we were the wildest, the wildest things wed ever
Seen
Now I wished you would have told me I wished I could have talked to you
Just to say goodbye bobby jean

Now we went walking in the rain talking about the pain from the world we hid
Now there aint nobody nowhere nohow gonna ever understand me the way you did
Maybe you'll be out there on that road somewhere
In some bus or train traveling along
In some motel room therell be a radio playing
And you'll hear me sing this song
Well if you do you'll know Im thinking of you and all the miles in between
And Im just calling one last time not to change your mind
But just to say I miss you baby, good luck goodbye, bobby jean