BRUCE SPRINGTEEN - The river - lyrics

    This is a heartbreaking storytelling at its very best, cinematic and vivid in every way.  A close listening to the lyrics reveals  the song is about teen love,and sudden pregnancy that in a while makes a stop to your youth...He knows that period was difficult and serious, but now that he's an adult he can't help remembering it with a sad smile of nostalgia, thinking back to his true love and his immaturity... 

"Is a dream a lie if it don't come true
Or is it something worse"

  This kind of songwriting  allows you to shake your  body through your pain and maybe shake off some of that pain, as well.