Bruce Springsteen's Song 'Tunnel Of Love'

Life is full of unforgettable events including loving relationships and breakups. For some people love comes easy and holding a bond between one another is not hard but for others it can be a rocky road and a hard battle. In the song “Tunnel of Love,” Bruce Springsteen is trying to convey a message about being in a relationship that is very tough and hard to hold on to. He makes the tunnel portray an image of dark scary moments and frightening past that he is reminded of. It seems as if the relationship he had brought him to a time where he was lost and broken. Tunnel of Love is trying to give a message to the listeners as that relationships can be hard and as much as anyone tries to solve all of the problems in them, sometimes it is better to let go. Springsteen uses descriptive language and hidden metaphors to help tell the love story between two people that ends up turning bitter. In the song, Springsteen seems to be reminded of the relationship he had such as him feeling the soft silk of her blouse and the soft thrills they both had in the little fun house. It seems as if at one point he had a great bond between this person and the relationship was very

The song “Tunnel of Love” does just that by giving a metaphorical story behind the scary amusement ride. Bruce Springsteen had a great loving bond between his lover but it turned into a rough rocky road that only left him with haunting memories of his past. People that have rough past tend to never forget what happen they always have something that reminds them of it such as how Bruce Springsteen is reminded of this Tunnel of Love everyday but as he says it in the song “you’ve got to learn to live with what you can’t rise above,” (18) meaning if the relationship is rough and cannot be fixed sometimes it is better to move