Bobby Jean

Una de mis canciones favoritas del Boss es Bobby Jean.

Well I came by your house the other day
Your mother said you went away
She said there was nothing that I could have done
There was nothing nobody could say
Me and you we've known each other ever since we were sixteen
I wished I would have known
I wished I could have called you
Just to say goodbye Bobby Jean

Now you hung with me when all the others turned away, turned up their nose
We liked the same music, we liked the same bands, we liked the same clothes
We told each other that we were the wildest
The wildest things we'd ever seen
Now I wished you would have told me
I wished I could have talked to you
Just to say goodbye Bobby Jean

Now we went walking in the rain talking about the pain that from the world we hid
Now there ain't nobody, nowhere nohow gonna ever understand me the way you did
Maybe you'll be out there on that road somewhere, in some bus or train traveling along, in some motel room there'll be a radio playing and you'll hear me sing this song
Well, if you do, you'll know I'm thinking of you and all the miles in between and
I'm just calling one last time
Not to change your mind, but just to say I miss you baby, good luck, goodbye
Bobby Jean

Llevo mucho tiempo buscando la verdadera historia detrás de la canción, pero todavía no he encontrado una fuente oficial. Hoy en día hay muchos bloggeros que hablan de ella y casi todos coinciden en lo mismo: es una canción de exaltación de la amistad, quizás dirigida a su amigo Steve Van Zandt cuando dejó la banda.

La quiero dedicar a todos los que gastáis unos minutos de vuestras ajetreadas realidades en acercaros por aquí. Y a los Bobby Jean que han pasado por vuestras vidas...