well, many Springsteen's songs are just pure, fake shallow pretentious BS. I take simple, playful, even silly any day over that BS
Freddy Mercury is looking up at us from below and wishing that he would have had the creative talent it took to write lyrics such as these:
The screen door slams, Mary's dress sways
Like a vision she dances across the porch as the radio plays
Roy Orbison's singing for the lonely
Hey, that's me and I want you only
Don't turn me home again
I just can't face myself alone again. . . .