it's your hometown

so i am stumbling down to my computer to write these words lest i lose the feel of them by putting this off... tears are streaming down my face... i just watched something that touched me in a deep and true part of my soul... watching bruce springsteen on the today show... i have never really been a fan but somehow i kept coming up on the screen as he was singing... at first just this little snippet of singing back and forth the audience and bruce "it's your hometown"... he did it back and forth so many times i kind of got irritated... but the more he said it the more i felt that sense of what it means to have a hometown... went away for a few minutes came back and there he was again singing that sad refrain.... the faces of those listening were a beautiful portrait of his words... one woman's face was such a history of all it means to have lived... maybe lived somewhere for a long time.... she wasn't old but not young maybe 40-50 but she knew about what was being sung.... about thinking about moving from this damn place... of being so sick of what has occurred there you look for a way to leave but even in that you know perhaps you will stay and there will be a cost...