As if they were planning to murder someone but didn’t want to fire a gun.Yes, this song is about coming of age, for sure. Something entirely new and different never before heard by the human ear!!! I think it may have some threads within it about our whole civilization. Springsteen has never responded directly to that assertion, but he did say this about the song:Springsteen also talked about the song on an episode of VH1 Storytellers. if you ask me.I really like this song especially Manfred Mans version and have never heard Bruces version of his own song.I think there are a lot of hidden meanings in the words and it is up to your interpretation on what the song is about.I love the way the verses all rhyme you can sing along but not really know what you are singing about.I think the song is partly about drug taking like when you are tripping the light can blind you.Very unpleasant sneezing and weezing may relate to smoking maryj.Sex and drugs with- she said I will turn you on sonny to and she got down but she never got tired she gonna make it through the night.That last refrain means you are tripping all night and you do not get tired until you come down when the effects of the drug wear off.A truly great song 1 of the best from the psychedelic 1970sI have listen to this song for years and still to this day it means nothing. The hometown of the organizer and lead singer of a band that may have first forced gay rights onto the center-stage of the human agenda seems to have been also been mentioned in this song….., Zanzibar. "Blinded by the Light" is a song written and originally recorded by Bruce … If you don’t mind, picture yourself in the 1850’s. The jaunty sort of “tooting” refrains of the song very much resembled the old fashioned sound of a calliope. Never before had such a sleek and powerful machine been heard or seen, let alone squealed its tires and roared its engine. Undeterred, members of the band made journeys to South Africa to record African musicians for the 1983 album In 1986 Thompson and King exited the group and Mick Rogers returned with both himself and Thompson appearing on the album Manfred Mann's Earth Band was revived in 1991 with a lineup of Manfred Mann, Mick Rogers, The Earth Band has had a fluctuating line-up, with Mann being the only continuous member. Blinded By The Light by Manfred Mann's Earth Band: The Story Behind Song. The dawn of a new and powerful age of man. To quote KuKulKan: “[A]nd with its splendors intolerable, blinds feeble, sensual, or selfish souls.” …Because when we’re sent on these wild goose chases for the meaning of it all, or for en-“light”-enment, it’s on purpose in order to block those unwilling to serve.
A cynical rock hack might argue that Manfred Mann made a career out of Bob Dylan in the 60s and a career out of Bruce Springsteen in the 70s. I would imagine that it was probably then the fondest dream of nearly every musician who had then first heard the bright and hopeful sound of a calliope, to own one….. to own a symbol of the new age of man.Now the old and faded calliope is long gone and forgotten, perhaps lying dusty and unplayed in a Barnum and Bailey’s museum somewhere, and no longer performing proudly on the center-stage of human technology. From his coming of age as a man and on into his careerThe meaning’s in the title. Not only has the power of steam now created the most powerful machines ever seen or known on earth, called locomotives and steam shovels, but it has also created this new unearthly music. In 1932 it was seen as a sort of a “rocketship” into a brave and bold new future. Consider this. Suddenly a carnival rolls into town, and these strange bright toots, seemingly from another realm, playing familiar yet new music in a new and lively way can be heard throughout the town.Now this is something revolutionary!