Bruce Springsteen workin' options

well it's a great line because it's comparing the shit actual real working people have to go through with the thoughtless news prose bullshit that doesn't effect all of the people who cause that economy to go tits up. 'on account of the economy' is like an act of god - something actual working people can never deal with or fight.

so yeah, deceptively good line.

oh that was a terrible sentence. sorry BROOCE.

other options

"Lately there ain't been much work / on account of the failure of Reaganomics"

"Lately there ain't been much work / on account of the passage of NAFTA"

"Lately there ain't been much work / on account of the bust of the housing bubble"

"Lately there ain't been much work / on account of my plug going upstate"

No "I've been workin' all week I'm up to my neck in hock," no credibility.

Well, I got a job and tried to put my money away/But I got debts that no honest man can pay

Prefer doing a little favor for this guy I met last night

"Used to bag work in VA at the Econo Lo / Now I'm laying out at the Delano though"

" I got debts that no honest man can pay"

he uses this line in two songs, right?

great line

he must have high-fived himself when he wrote that

Please note that Bruce will also "work for your love."

Pumpin' 4 the Man

" I got debts that no honest man can pay"

he uses this line in two songs, right?

great line

two songs on the same album even, so he wasn't trying to hide it

he must have high-fived himself when he wrote that

― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist),

Imagining Bruce clapping in the studio

this must do
http://i25.tinypic.com/2582vpx.jpg

i love "on account of the economy"!

me too, ftr

feel like it's an easily regurgitatible soundbite from pundits that an unemployed person from the 80s would use in a bar as an oversimplified excuse. and it's the way he sort of belts the line with extra drama that sells it with irony

or at least it's something an imaginary bruce working class gentleman would use

otm

now just imagine clarence clemons belting that line in the .gif above

i think a more pointed and poignant line about that shadowy scapegoat known as "the economy" is "hiring man said 'son if it was up to me.'" it's saying the same thing as the line in "the river," but this time there's someone actually saying it rather than it just being so. it's a human moment and it's delivered nonjudgmentally. should we be angry at the hiring man, or should we feel sorry for him too?

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I realise I forgot to put in "construction, at the Jonestown company" as a poll option.

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Was emailing with a friend of mine in France and mentioned that I'm looking for a teaching job but don't expect to find one for next year because hardly any jobs are being posted. She just emailed back to ask why, and honestly the best I can do is, "Uh, idk, the economy?"

"At the rendering plant (it ain't gonna make me rich)" was robbed