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by Anthony Flack_Archive
Janeway wrote:blinded by the lightwrapped up like a douche!another runner in the nighti didnt know it wasnt douche, i always thought "whats this guy talking about?" like why would he sing about a douche bag?Bruce Springsteen originally wrote it as "cut loose like a deuce" which sounds to me like he was using a crude pooping metaphor to indicate that somebody had been casually discarded.The Manfred Mann version changed it to "revved up like a deuce" in order to make it a hotrod metaphor and not be about pooping. This is undermined by the fact that they clearly, unmistakably and without any doubt say "douche" and not "deuce", every time, with added emphasis on the SHHH.Which makes me wonder if some shenanigans were going on, regarding the changed and subsequently rechanged lyrics.