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Pillows and WillowsLOCATION: Home , IowaYEAR: 2005TAGS: Springsteen, RelationshipsPUBLISHED: April 4, 2008I listened to Brilliant Disguise on repeat for a week. It was one line that got me hooked: “I saw something tucked in shame underneath your pillow.” In all likelyhood, Springsteen chose the wording because he needed something that rhymed with “willow.” But I found that phrase full of potentional. “Something” could be anything, really—a letter, a photograph, a romance novel, a condom, a pair of muddy shoes, lingerie. That part about the gypsy pulled me in even deeper. Why did this couple, obviously struggling with the stasis of their love and the uncertainty of their future, bring a gypsy to the altar? Or, rather, why does Springsteen make it sound as if they did? Does this retrospectively foreshadow their confusion? I’m not sure why a less-than-elaborate song about unfulfilling grown-up love and confusion got to me at a time when I was supposed to feel nothing but optimism toward life. I had just moved to Iowa and I had all this time and all this space. But maybe that’s why “Brilliant Disguise” pulled at my heartstrings. I had too much time, too much space, and zero clarity. Maybe the rhyme between pillow and willow put a brave face on my own confusion.
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