Tougher Than the Rest by Bruce Springsteen

If only manhood were as simple as hanging a set of giant chrome nuts from my trailer hitch, we'd all be made in the shade. Drinking lemonade.
"Yeah the road is dark, and it's a thin thin line / But I want you to know I'll walk it for you any time"
I understand this song to say I Will Be There For You No Matter What Happens. Or as Bruce himself said during his visit to Howard Stern, "I'm the one who will last."
In a world of handsome Dans, good lookin' Joes and sweet talkin' Romeos, the man who'll Be There For You no matter what is exactly the opposite of who I was raised to be. There was a combination of factors, and I wouldn't point fingers at any one person. There were mysteries I couldn't unravel. But let's say that there were a number of people around me (definitely not just women) who'd been hurt deeply enough by men throughout their lives that they were not about to let me, the little prince in their midst, grow up without having big doubts about the value of old school manhood and manliness.
A voice in my head started saying: Men are a big bummer, don’t let yourself become one. It was a voice I hadn’t put there.
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