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Bruce Springsteen - Shut Out The Light (Live) - Paris, 1985

Shut Out the Light (Tracks) – The B-side to “Born in the USA,” and a far more obvious criticism of Viet Nam than the single was. It’s about a man returning home from the war to people who love him, but he can’t stop reliving what he’d seen over and over in his head: “mama, mama, mama come quick / I got the shakes and I’m gonna be sick / throw your arms around me in the cold, dark night / hey now, mama, don’t shut out the light.” And what’s going on in his head is contrasted with all these happy scenes of his family so glad to have him back, and getting his job back, and his wife sleeping next to him … but in the end, none of it is strong enough to hold back the force of his memory. Small but powerful.