Coming in a close second to “Tonight” as the greatest ever rock’n’roll title, pretty much most songs you could write called “She’s The One” would be good right there. Obviously, the whole “Born To Run” album is almost faultless (almost: I could pick holes in it, but I’d need time, which I’m sure you have no intention of giving me…), but this is one of the highlights (it was also a B-side, if you’re wondering how it qualifies here… OK, we stretched a point, so…?). It seems strident and grand and triumphant but really it’s desperate and powerless and hopeless: he’s locked into something that’s out of his control, beautiful but doomed (anything ‘doomed’ was always popular, apparently). There’s some “She’s The One” going on in our “When The Girl Wants To Be Free”, and of course we also had our own song called this… which was specially done as a B-side, to be like the Springsteen one! Come to think of it, there’s also another “She’s The One” in the unused “Think Bubble” bunch. But look, honest, if one day he’d walked in and we'd been presented with one called “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out” we definitely would’ve drawn the line, I can assure you.
"Think Bubble" is an album (LP only) of 1995 demos for an unreleased Pooh Sticks album. See 'About Me' for details.
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