Lost in the Flood
1973 · Columbia KC 31903 · Freehold, New Jersey
- Artist
- Bruce Springsteen
- Title
- Lost in the Flood
- Release
- Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J.
- Year
- 1973
- Label
- Columbia # KC 31903
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- English
- Country
- Freehold, New Jersey, USA
- Songwriter
- Bruce Springsteen
- Genre
- Rock · Americana
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Annotation — Bruce Springsteen Songs
The song "Lost in the Flood" on Springsteen's debut studio album Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J. (Columbia Records # KC 31903), which successfully launched his career, was recorded mid-1972, as US involvement in the Vietnam War was winding down. It was released in January 1973, the same month that the Nixon administration signed a peace deal to end the conflict, although Vietnam remained divided into North and South until 1975. The song contained several references to the war and a veteran back in the US, a theme Springsteen would return to throughout his career: "gunner is returnin' home, like a hungry runaway, he walks through town all alone". Springsteen then asked "have you thrown your senses to the war, or did you lose them in the flood?".
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
Columbia KC 31903, side A track 5, 5:14; released 5 January 1973; recorded 1972 at 914 Sound Studios, Blauvelt, NY. The "ragamuffin gunner" returning home. [From Discogs]
About the artist
Born Freehold, New Jersey, USA (23 September 1949). Currently Rumson, New Jersey.