http://www.wiretotheear.com/2008/11/02/sunday-sounds-sad-songs-i-understand/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:31:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.wiretotheear.com/2008/11/02/sunday-sounds-sad-songs-i-understand/comment-page-1/#comment-2567 robe Sun, 02 Nov 2008 13:27:52 +0000 http://www.wiretotheear.com/?p=1488#comment-2567 In reading "For You," at first it's hard to believe that one performer could possibly have touched this many people this deeply — lifted them from depression, kept them from suicide, helped them through divorce or the death of a parent, or worse, a child. But story after story reveals just how much Springsteen's music and his almost superhuman presence on the concert stage have penetrated people's lives and, in as much as it is possible for music to do so, made them whole. In reading “For You,” at first it’s hard to believe that one performer could possibly have touched this many people this deeply — lifted them from depression, kept them from suicide, helped them through divorce or the death of a parent, or worse, a child. But story after story reveals just how much Springsteen’s music and his almost superhuman presence on the concert stage have penetrated people’s lives and, in as much as it is possible for music to do so, made them whole.

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