HOW BROKEN HEARTS STAND

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Future Nobel Prize winner Bruuuuce nails broken hearts.

Badlands, you gotta live it every day
Let the broken hearts stand
As the price you’ve gotta pay

Broken hearts happen all the time.

Hearts break next to you and you don’t hear a thing.

Bruce Springsteen sang about broken hearts in Badlands. It fit the song, the beat, but the emotional reality brings it home.

Let the broken hearts stand as the price you’ve gotta pay?

Plural hearts? More than one?

The same song plays in it’s Hot 100 release days until you can’t stand it anymore.

Then it catches a second life in a movie soundtrack before going immortal.

History happens when a song goes into heavy rotation on KGON.

Once it hits Classic Rock it’s here to stay.

This is when deeper meaning finally sinks into brains bombarded with the same sound for forty years.

Let the broken hearts stand?

I haven’t consulted a cardiologist, but lost love breaks two hearts.

The first of two broken hearts happens in the person who didn’t read the signals, didn’t see the signs.

All they heard was the message that comes in three flavors.

1. “We’ve grown apart.”

2. “I’ve met someone who makes me feel like me again.”

3. “I never loved you.”

Each flavor comes with it’s own special circumstances.

Growing apart happens when one of two in a committed relationship looks in the mirror and holds up a picture of Jennifer Lawrence or Leonardo DiCaprio.

If the couple are man and woman, the man realizes he needs to change if he ever expects to land a Jennifer, any Jennifer. Having a wife makes the job more complicated.

The woman has seen Leo morph from his Jodie Foster impersonating start to his Cary Grant maturity. And she loves Cary Grant.

Her husband is no Cary Grant.

#2 occurs when men and women step out of the shadows of parenthood, parent care, roles that turn everyone into the same person: a voice for others.

If they’re physically and emotionally intact after running that gauntlet they need to recharge.

They need to seek new experiences and share them with their sweethearts, not fall for the first new thrill.

Come on.

Who goes to the depths of #3?

I never loved you, you’re just the mother/father of our children, the person I promised in oath to love and respect. That’s all.

The only one who says that carries a hollow heart running on self destruct.

Anyone who’s heard this knows the lie.

The person who says this never loved themselves, never loved their mom or dad, sister or brother, dog or hometown, with a heart so rundown.

Never loved you? How weak is that?

The first broken hearts of lost love is the person hearing one of the three lines.

The second is the heart they find in someone else.

Then they heal together.