Bruce Springsteen: “Trust is a fragile thing. It requires allowing others to see as much of ourselves as we have the courage to reveal. But “Brilliant Disguise” postulates that when you drop one mask, you find another behind it until you begin to doubt your own feelings about who you are.”
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Bruce Springsteen - Brilliant Disguise (Official Video)
Bruce Springsteen, intro to Brilliant Disguise, 11/16/1990 Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA
TRANSCRIPT: How ya doing? It's been a while. I'd like to thank everybody for coming down tonight and I'd like to say, it sounds a little funny, but it's been a while since I did this so if you're moved to clap along, please don't. It's gonna mix me up.
does anyone remember the 2016 jeb bush please clap moment
I hold you in my arms
As the band plays
What are those words whispered, baby?
Just as you turn away
I saw you last night
Out on the edge of town
I want to read your mind to know just what I've got
In this new thing I've found
So tell me what I see when I look in your eyes
Is that you, baby? Or just a brilliant disguise?
I heard somebody call your name
From underneath our willow
I saw something tucked in shame
Underneath your pillow
Well I've tried so hard, baby
But I just can't see
What a woman like you
Is doing with me
So tell me who I see when I look in your eyes
Is that you, baby? Or just a brilliant disguise?
Now look at me, baby
Struggling to do everything right
And then it all falls apart
When out go the lights
I'm just a lonely pilgrim
I walk this world in wealth
I want to know if it's you I don't trust
'Cause I damn sure don't trust myself
Now you play the loving woman
I'll play the faithful man
But just don't look too close
Into the palm of my hand
We stood at the altar
The gypsy swore our future was right
But come the wee wee hours
Well, maybe baby, the gypsy lied
So when you look at me
You better look hard and look twice
Is that me, baby? Or just a brilliant disguise
Tonight our bed is cold
Lost in the darkness of our love
God have mercy on the man
Who doubts what he's sure of
superman/clark kent and lois lane but clark fully expected lois to recognize him the first time she met him as superman only she didn't and still somehow thinks he's two different people so now he's just barely even hiding it waiting to see how long it takes her to notice and he literally can't believe it but no matter how many times she interacts with him as superman after sitting across from him at work all day as clark she still doesn't recognize him. he begins to wonder if she's been messing with him all this time
What's crazy is that Barristan has the character development that people pretend Jaime has but because he supports Dany and doesn't spend all of his page time talking/thinking about how evil Targaryens are, it gets ignored
(My phone failed to save the I AM NOT OWNED gif so take the outdated meme instead) LISTEN, in my defense, this is a huge progress!! Going from obnoxiously sexualizing clerics to obnoxiously sexualizing the deities is the one and only form of skill improvement I can go through!
Okay for real though pls don't make me 'own up to it' this simping legitimately makes me EMBARRASSED and don't ask me how cones Santa Zeus in my eyes is worse than Hojo At Home because I don't know т.т