Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the U.S.A."

The recurring use of the words “Born in the U.S.A” by Bruce Springsteen ironically highlights how lousy it can be for one person to live in the U.S.A. There are a few good examples Bruce talks about, one being, “got in a little hometown jam; so they put a rifle in my hand.” This explains how he had the choice to go to jail or the army. Another display of the harsh country is when he mentioned “sent me off to a foreign land, to go and kill the yellow man.” So even though he chose this option; it wasn’t the path he was thinking about going down. The final example is when the writer says “I’m ten years burning down the road, nowhere to run ain’t got nowhere to go.” In this he talks about how he got mistreated in his days there. Bruce Springsteen shows good ways and examples of how the U.S.A. was at one time not as great a country, that’s why he made this song.