re: Songs with lyrics that make no sense

its about car racing and little league baseball

not even the hard to understand
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It's a little more than that. All of the references are about the things that Springsteen experienced while starting out in his own band on the Jersey shore, and the transition to finally making it to the big time..." a silicon sister with her mannequin mister told me I got what it takes...". The "calliope crashed to the ground" probably refers to the calliope at the Jersey shore boardwalk, and the fact that he was finally moving on, musically. Just my opinion...