Crucial Track for May 1, 2025
"Highway Patrolman" by Bruce Springsteen
Share a song that tells a great story. Highway Patrolman by Bruce Springsteen on Nebraska - In just a few minutes, the narrator of this song lays out a tale that would be hard for a director to capture in a two-hour movie. It's about brothers who took different paths in the 1960s. One of them got drafted and went to war, coming home damaged. The other could have played it safe at home, but didn't. He took a job as a cop. On the fateful night the song is about, he gets called out to a crime scene of his brother's making. Instead of arresting him, he just chases him to the Canadian border and watched his tail lights disappear.
