Beautiful Disaster

Album: Honky Tonk Union (2000)
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  • Roger Clyne likes to include paradox and juxtaposition in his songwriting, which explains the title "Beautiful Disaster." Here's what he told Songfacts about this song: "It's just a fun rock song. I'd never used the highway metaphor before, and when I started to use that, I started finding myself running into the same literary devices that Bruce Springsteen uses all the time, he couldn't get around them. So I decided to put that middle section, 'Take the wheel, the highway's clear,' and basically lift that out of 'Born To Run' for however many bars that is, like 6 or 8 bars, and just to acknowledge that it's a tribute, and not a pilfering, I put the glockenspiel behind it, because it comes right out of Born To Run. But it's about being very, very enthusiastic about your power and freedom."

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  • Leo from Milwaukee,, WiThats a glockenspiel ?!? no wonder I couldnt identify it !! nice touch. Not a fan of Springsteen... you guys however are a totally different story ...great song, great metaphor.

    Favorite line.." you know how I love to watch those angels fighting over you"
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