Shackled and Drawn

Album: Wrecking Ball (2012)
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  • This country-folk stomper finds Springsteen channeling Woody Guthrie. Like most of the tracks on Wrecking Ball, it paints a picture of an ordinary working man whose life is being ruined by the recession and the greed of the money men. Bruce proclaims: "Gambling man rolls the dice, workingman pays the bill/ It's still fat and easy up on banker's hill/ Up on banker's hill, the party's going strong/ Down here below we're shackled and drawn."

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