Secret Garden

Day 70

--STATS--

Artist: Bruce Springsteen AKA The Boss

Genre: Folk Rock

album: Greatest Hits

Released: 1995



She'll let you in her house
If you come knockin late at night
She'll let you in her mouth
If the words you say are right
If you pay the price
She'll let you deep inside
But there's a secret garden she hides

She'll let you in her car
To go drivin round
She'll let you into the parts of herself
That'll bring you down
She'll let you in her heart
If you got a hammer and a vise
But into her secret garden, don't think twice

You've gone a million miles
How far'd you get
To that place where you can't remember
And you can't forget

She'll lead you down a path
There'll be tenderness in the air
She'll let you come just far enough
So you know she's really there
She'll look at you and smile
And her eyes will say
She's got a secret garden
Where everything you want
Where everything you need
Will always stay
A million miles away



A simple song with a deep meaning. She has everything he needs, but is virtually unabtainable. Though from his Greatest Hits album, this song achieved universal recognition when it was used in that movie "Jerry Maguire" in 1996. The movie was a pretty big deal for some reason. Couldn't tell you why. As a sixth grader most of it was a little over my head. Actually, I really do enjoy that movie, possibly because he had me at "Hello."

In the fall of 1996, something monumental happened. Dump The Duke was born. OK-- it was only a big thing for myself & my best friend, Heidi. As sixth graders, we were looking for a creative outlet to release all our healthy pre-teen energy into. For us, that was a blank tape & cassette player with a built in voice recorder. High tech, I know. But it got the job done.

What is Dump The Duke, you dare ask? Well my curious followers, Dump The Duke was our very own radio station, where we hosted a very intriguing, up & coming talk show. We liked to talk. About everything. And nothing. Don't ask where the name came from. It was developed on the spot & was very random ( Don't even know what it means!). luckily, random was very fitting for our "program". Each show was an hour long (as that was as long as the tape would allow us.), & featured talking segments with guest celebrity's & speakers & call- in's ( all the voices were done by us. Yes, we were that awesome.), as well as
periods of music, and the selection was broad. Anything from old Pop Folk to country to Opera to new day Hip-Hop. Eclectic doesn't even begin to describe it. I hear those radio stations now days claiming they play great variety & I just laugh to myself. Amatuers! Sadly, I don't think I saved any of those recordings. We had like, probably fifty of them, plus one soap opera like session of barbies on tape! My only hope is that Heidi has one lying around some where..


Does anyone else do this? Or were we the only ones...