Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Quotes 229. The quote today is by this singer and
songwriter Bruce Springsteen. It's the first time we're ever doing a quote by
him and then the song is from Badlands. And here's one of the quotes that always
kind of stood out in the middle of this song. Let's take a look at it. " Poor man
want to be rich. Rich man want to be king, And a king ain't satisfied til he
rules everything. " All right. Let's continue with the note here. This philosophical
quote by the famous songwriter and singer is pointing out one of the truths
in life. Whether we like it or not. Yes. Sometimes we don't like to think this. We
don't like to think you know, people really want to or is only interested in
wealth and getting more power and something like that.
We don't like to think that. That, that is true for many, many people. But let's
continue here. However his song is not about politics and it's not really about
philosophy either, but he does touch on it in this song.
He has many lines in the song about dreams that don't come true and how hard
life can be at times. Yeah. You know, I say you know working hard every day or
working in the fields getting sunburned or you know how tired you could be
something like that. He also touches on the fear of never finding or reaching
you know, what you want in life. I think there's a line in there where you know
you wake up in the middle a night with a fear so real. You know, about life like
what is this all about ? You know, basically. In the end, it is really a love
song because the only thing that he finds that is true and real is the love
he shares with this girl. It is something that he can raise him above the
hardships of life or we might actually even say the badlands because he, he named the
song the badlands and he refers to that. He wants
to get above that. He wants to go beyond that. It is something that he can believe
in. Yeah. It is kind of funny. I you know, only in recent years did I I find
out that there really is such a place called the Badlands. I always kind of
wondered why do Bruce Springsteen call this song "The Badlands" was he just making
an analogy or there really is a Badlands and the Badlands is a place that's not
very fertile. Really crops can't grow there it's mostly rocks there. So I guess
he's kind of really referring to the the hardships in life or you know some of
the things that people are going for as kind of like this. That it's not very
fertile. You can't really get with it. You really can't get far with it. You
shouldn't be following it. Anyway, let's continue. However getting back to the
original quote. In life the average man is often struggling with the goal of
being rich or trying to get rich and to be honest most people don't even get
this far. Most people don't really usually end up being rich or getting
well. So, so most people don't really often have to actually face this, this
dilemma or face this question. But for those that do get wealth sometimes they
are pulled in into into this thing above being rich. So if he attains wealth then
power is usually his next goal. So a lot of people they get great wealth and
maybe that's it, that's the next thing they want. If you take that power it can
overwhelm him and sometimes make make a more make you desire more and more until
you just desire it all. Yeah. We do know in in life we've seen is that with
there's a lot of really really rich very wealthy people and we think well you
know when I'm well they just take it easy. They probably have more money than
they'll ever be able to spend. But we see a lot of them will use that money to
gain more power. To gain more power over people. So it does make you wonder
sometimes. You know it reminds you a little bit of like "Lord of the Rings. "
You know, with that once you wear that ring it gives you
power. It kind of the evil of wanting more power kind of overwhelms you. So it's
kind of like related to that idea. Okay. So the line from this song also reminds
me of the famous quote from Lord Acton I was like this quote too. "Power corrupts and
absolute power, corrupts absolutely. "So whether he probably wasn't actually
trying to you know restate to this quote. They both just had these quotes
and they do kind of reflect each other. You know,
poor want to be rich , rich man want to be king, and a King ain't satisfied
til he rules everything. So once you got all that power, you want more and you
want more and it might make you more corrupt. You might be doing, be willing to
do things that you probably shouldn't do. Things that are bad or immoral in order
to get it. So anyway that's what it kind of is focusing on. But anyway in the end
just like I said you know his song is is it uplifting song. Because you know, I think
for him he was he has lines this also at this same old played out thing. Saying like
this is what everybody's doing. This is not what he's about. You know the thing
that he found that's important to him was the love that he had for the girl.
This, this could bring him beyond this could this could bring him above all of
this. Okay, Anyway I hope you got it, I hope you enjoyed it. Thank you for your
time. Bye bye.