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Meaning Of “Blinded By The Light” By Manfred Mann’s Earth Band

By Liam Flynn

December 19, 2023


It is quite unusual for a cover of a song to become a larger hit than its original. But it is not impossible. The British rock band, Manfred Mann’s Earth Band, managed to accomplish this feat in the 1970s with Blinded By The Light.

⁣The track, originally written and recorded by Bruce Springsteen, was released on his Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J. album from 1973. Manfred Mann had bought this album based on a recommendation by a local disc jockey from Philadelphia. He was one of a modest number of people who had bought the album as that was before Springsteen made it big with the mega-hit album Born To Run in 1975.

Meaning of Blinded By The Light Song Lyrics

According to Springsteen, the song was written when he looked through a rhyming dictionary and searched for appropriate lyrical wording. Blinded By The Light is about the ups and downs of a young musician’s life. However, the message always subtly reflects that the downs are the source of the struggles that bring talented musicians to the pinnacle of success.

Its music track is high-energy, and the lyrics talk about the thrill and hope only found in adolescence. Blinded By The Light reflects the invincibility of a youthful attitude that is filled with immeasurable hope and optimism that, in life, anything is possible.

The lyrics are reminiscent of an early Bruce Springsteen, the days when he was just beginning his career. In doing so, he had the good fortune of meeting unique and interesting characters when introducing his music across the Jersey Shore and the local music markets of Philadelphia and New York City.

The first line of the song, “Madman drummers bummers and Indians in the summer with a teenage diplomat” is likely an autobiographical reference:

“Madman drummers” refer to a drummer, Vini Lopez, who had several nicknames, including Mad Man and Mad Dog.

“Indians in the summer” pertains to the Little League Team of Springsteen.
“Teenage Diplomat” is a reference to Springsteen himself.

In the dumps with the mumps as the adolescent pumps his way into his hat

With a boulder on my shoulder feelin’ kinda older I tripped the Merry-go-round

The first line is a reference, according to his Aunt Dora Kirby, to the fact that Springsteen refused to take off his baseball hat.

A “merry-go-round” refers to baseball slang in which the pitcher consistently walks batters.

The song continues, adding other unrelated events, such as the beginning of verse 4:

Some silicone sister with her manager’s mister told me I got what it takes
She said I’ll turn you on sonny, to something strong if you play that song with the funky break
Blinded by the Light Lyric Controversy
When Manfred Mann’s Earth Band covered this Springsteen tune, the track became a super hit, despite the fact that the revised Blinded By The Light meaning was draped in controversy.
Springsteen originally wrote:
And she was blinded by the light
Oh, cut loose like a deuce
Another runner in the night
These were changed to:
Well she was blinded by the light
Wrapped up like a deuce
Another runner in the night

Note that the word ‘deuce’ references a 1932 Ford Model 18 with a V-8 engine, often called a Deuce Coupe, a two-seater hot-rod car, by automobile collectors and enthusiasts.

The controversy surrounded the fact that fans of the song notoriously misheard the lyrics, believing the “Wrapped up like a deuce” line sounded like “Wrapped up like a douche,” which references a feminine hygiene product.

Note that Mann wanted Springsteen to contribute to the record by singing the last part of the song. He even tried to reach out and ask him directly, avoiding the lengthy manager or publisher route.

But in the end, he sang the part he hoped Springsteen would have sung. Ironically, this part of the track is apparently the only time Mann’s voice can be heard on the recording of Blinded By The Light.

Blinded By The Light: Life as a Hit Record

Manfred Mann’s Earth Band’s cover of Blinded By The Light climbed slowly and steadily on the British rock charts but was outperformed in the United States. Its success was in spite (or perhaps because of) the attention the lyric controversy created.

In 1977, the cover by Manfred Mann’s Earth Band hit no. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States. It also reached the top ten in Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.

Mann, when attempting to explain the source of the controversy, notes that the recording machine’s azimuth (something about how the tape head angles on the recording tape) created a sound that many believed were the word ‘deuce,’ ‘douche,’ and even, ‘dooce.’

And just like that, Manfred Mann’s Earth Band’s no.1 song hit a controversial road bump. Quickly, radio stations from the southern parts of the United States (a.k.a., the Bible Belt) complained they couldn’t play the song on air because it sounded like the lyrics include words about a vaginal douche.

The irony of the lyric controversy was not lost on Mann or Springsteen.


⁣What Makes a Great Song Cover?

Manfred Mann’s Earth Band’s cover of the song Blinded By The Light is likely to be more well-known than the original recording by its songwriter.


Perhaps, it was the band’s unique style and sound that created the difference, although Springsteen’s raw, brilliant lyrics and vision remain at the core.

What makes a great cover song is the talent that shines through. Both Springsteen and Mann are distinct and hugely talented musicians, with each of their versions completely unique and terrific musical compositions.

Blinded By The Light is pure evidence that a cover can rise to the level of the original if done with a balanced blend of creativity and a healthy respect for the songwriter’s original ideas.




⁣Meaning Of "Blinded By The Light" By Manfred Mann's Earth Band (musicgrotto.com)

⁣"The `Iddah (the 3 month waiting period) is made up of cleanliness and
the menstrual period. So he divorces her while it is clear that she is
pregnant, or he does not due to having sex, or since he does not know if
she is pregnant or not. This is why the scholars said that there are
two types of divorce, one that conforms to the Sunnah and another
innovated. The divorce that conforms to the Sunnah is one where the
husband pronounces one divorce to his wife when she is not having her
menses and without having had sexual intercourse with her after the
menses ended. One could divorce his wife when it is clear that she is
pregnant. As for the innovated divorce, it occurs when one divorces his
wife when she is having her menses, or after the menses ends, has sexual
intercourse with her and then divorces her, even though he does not
know if she became pregnant or not. There is a third type of divorce,
which is neither a Sunnah nor an innovation where one divorces a young wife who has not begun to have menses, the wife who is beyond the age of having menses, and divorcing one's wife before the marriage was consummated.
The `Iddah of Those in Menopause and Those Who do not have Menses (Qur'an 65:4)

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⁣THE DRESDEN HOLOCAUST

At the end of WW2, at a time when the German army was all but defeated and retreating on all fronts, the Allied forces launched a joint British and American indiscriminate aerial fire bombing attack on the city of Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony,

Dresden was a cultural landmark with little strategic significance whose main export was dolls and cigarettes and provided no value to the German war industry. At that time, it housed hundreds of thousands of refugees that fled from the east as it was one of the only cities that remained relatively untouched from the war.

The purpose of the attack was to inflict maximum civilian casualties possible and to decimate the refugees that had fled there. In a memo sent to the Chiefs of Staff Committee by Air Marshal Sir Douglas Evill on 1 February, Evill states interfering with mass civilian movements was a key factor in the decision to bomb the city centre.

Attacking main railway junctions, telephone systems, city administration, and utilities would result in "chaos."

Estimates total the number of civilians casualties from the bombings to be around 200k-500k, including innocent men, women, and children who suffered the most brutal fate imaginable.

Bodies were incinerated and reduced to puddles of congealed fat on the concrete as temperatures reached 3000 degrees Farenheit. Nothing in sight was left standing. Those who made out alive were then targeted in the subsequent waves of attacks by allied bombers.

Allied propaganda has re-written history to claim the total number of casualties to be around 25k in order to cover up their involvement in a genocide of the German people and one of the most horrific crimes against humanity to ever be committed to date.

Why isn't this holocaust in schools? Where are the museums and memorials to commemorate it? Why weren't they paid out reparations? Where are the laws criminalizing the trivilization of the number of casualties in the historical record?

Does history have double standards?

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⁣What happens when you give people with bizarre conspiracy theories a gun and a badge? Secret recordings from inside the troubled Millersville Police Department provide a sobering answer

Millersville cops team up with so-called pedophile hunter who blames 'satanic cult masquerading as Jews'

Town's conspiracy cop warns about "kids that are actively being smuggled, being chained to walls, that are being raped." Yet, conspiracy theorists can produce no photos or videos as evidence

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — An exclusive NewsChannel 5 investigation has now discovered the man who has helped to fuel some of the wild conspiracy theories inside the troubled Millersville Police Department.

That man, our investigation discovered, is a self-proclaimed pedophile hunter from Tucson who believes America is controlled by what he calls "a satanic cult masquerading as Jews."

And, like some of the Millersville cops, Craig "Sawman" Sawyer has a history of seeing conspiracies where there are none.

Watch full investigation on NewsChannel 5 at 6 p.m.

"Some of the information we're dealing with right now, it has to do with kids that are actively being smuggled, being chained to walls, that are being raped," said Shawn Taylor, the conspiracy theorist who was later hired as the assistant police chief in Millersville, a community of about 6,000 just north of Nashville.

After years of voicing some bizarre conspiracy theories, Taylor decided back in May to gather a group of like-minded MAGA activists to run a child sex-predator sting.

That group was led by Craig Sawyer.

"My name is Saw. I'm a Navy SEAL. Defending the innocent is my trade," Sawyer said in the 2013 introduction to an episode of Animal Planet's "Rhino Wars."

After his military service, Sawyer found a new career playing the hero on television's Rhino Wars and in a handful of sniper-related TV shows.

His next move: making a film about going after the pedophile rings he imagined his team of veterans would find on the southern border.

"I know that for this kind of work — especially dealing with cartels — I'd need a team of guys I could depend upon for high-threat security," Sawyer said in the "Contraland" movie.

"So I put together what I call the VIPR team: Veterans Interdicting Pedophile Rings."

Sawyer would also create a nonprofit group, Veterans for Child Rescue, although there's no evidence the group ever rescued any children — and the film doesn't show them actually interdicting any pedophile rings at the border.

Then in 2018 while filming "Contraland," Sawyer led local TV crews in Tucson to an encampment that he and his documentary team thought might have been their big break.

"What we found was a tree that looks like a rape tree back over here," the former NAVY Seal said. Showing a piece of wood nailed to a tree, Sawyer declared. "This may have been a place where a child was made to hold onto this."

Sawyer — who also portrays himself as a trained federal investigator — breathlessly reported his group's stunning conclusion.

"They're telling me this looks like a child rape camp," he said, letting out a big sigh. "That's what they're telling me."

In fact, Tucson Police reported there was no evidence it was anything but a homeless camp.

Still, as the local newspaper reported, the lack of evidence did not stamp out the flames of a sex-trafficking conspiracy theory that had caught fire.

These days, Sawyer continues to push his conspiracy theories on far-right podcasts, including unproven claims about planeloads of children being flown into the U.S. by sex traffickers — which is what he says brought him to Middle Tennessee back in May.

"And one of those locations is near Nashville, Tennessee, that they are flying the children into," Sawyer claimed. "So there's a lot of child trafficking around Nashville."

In fact, Nashville police say they have never had any reason to believe that such flights actually exist.

Of course, like with most conspiracy theories, Craig Sawyer with his hotshot Navy SEAL and law enforcement credentials has never actually produced any evidence. There are no photos or videos of planes, nor of children in cages.

But he does have a video camera where he makes the most outlandish of claims, soliciting donations in the name of combating child sex trafficking.

"In the almost four years that I worked with Veterans for Child Rescue, I'm not aware that they ever actually combated child trafficking — now, therein lies my actual concern," said former Sawyer associate Kim Kelley.

Kelley said, that as a child trafficking survivor herself, she came to the group hoping to make a difference.

What she found instead was what she calls "performance activism," tagging along with law enforcement as they conduct child predator stings — which was the plan in Millersville.

"Catching pedophiles on the internet, that's a worthy cause but that's not the same thing as child sex trafficking," Kelley said.

"Those are two separate things. You can try to coordinate that, but it's not necessarily so."

Online, Sawyer spouts all sorts of bizarre conspiracy theories about a secretive organization, or cabal, engaged in the "torture, rape, organ harvesting and ritual murder" of children, decrying the "Satanic pedos" who "run America."

He also believes Taylor Swift may have "sold her soul" and "the children are her target."

"This whole picture that he's painted of this whole leftist cabal and all of these things, I see them as sort of trigger words or the narrative that he's painting because his followers like to believe that story," Kelley said.

In fact, we discovered that Sawyer announced the creation of Veterans for Child Rescue in 2017 on Alex Jones' show on InfoWars.

"A lot of these pedophiles are very connected. They’re very wealthy, and they own a lot of the media. And things just get swept under the rug," Sawyer told Jones.

He later announced that Jones — the notorious conspiracy theorist who had mocked the murder of innocent children at Sandy Hook — had written a $100,000 check for the cause.

More recently, the former Navy SEAL has given credit for supporting his organization to the Rev. Sean Moon, head of the gun-loving Rod of Iron Ministries, now based in East Tennessee.

Sean Moon believes his father was a new Messiah and that his father chose him as his successor. Sean Moon's crown is a crown of bullets — and he views himself as ruling over a kingdom that will come to rule the Earth.

NewsChannel 5 Investigates asked Kelley about the relationship with Moon, "So Craig viewed it as it's a source of money?"

"Right, they literally were saying we would take money from the devil if we could use it to protect children," Kelley answered.

"Again, my problem is they are not actually protecting children with that money. But knowingly associating with a known cult, a very notorious cult, like you can't play stupid that hard to pretend like you don't know."

And Sawyer continues to court the MAGA crowd.

Then, when I began to investigate his friend Shawn Taylor, the Sawman decided to train his sights on me, texting his team, "It seems like a pretty radical, overly-aggressive & desperate effort to stop Shawn from disrupting the cabal in TN."

Sawyer then returned to InfoWars, labeling me a "Pedophile Protector."

There, and on other far-right platforms, he leveled all sorts of bizarre accusations: "It doesn't make any sense on the surface unless there's a criminal network or a pedophilia aspect that Williams is desperate to protect."

"They go on this whole rant with, it's a false premise," Kim Kelley said.

I wanted to know, "Do you think he really believes that?"

"Oof!" she exclaimed. "It's hard for me to understand the mind of a conspiracy theorist because I think a lot of times they get more attention for perpetuating those beliefs and they know what revs people up or gives their followers clickbait to be excited about."

And that's why Kim Kelley argues that people who are driven by conspiracy theories, rather than facts, are distracting from the real problems of human trafficking.

"I look at that as exploiting the problem or profiting off of the problem, which I think makes you part of the problem."

We wanted to give Mr. Sawyer a chance to respond to the findings of our investigation. But, instead of talking to me, he went on a podcast run by another conspiracy theorist to respond.

Tuesday at 6 p.m., we'll take a look at that interview — and show what it reveals about the twisted mind of a conspiracy theorist.

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“I write this email knowing that many of you will think I’m crazy after reading it,” Bateman wrote in the email’s first sentence. From there, the entrepreneur claimed, without any basis, that “for 300 years the Jews have been trying to infiltrate the Catholic Church and place a Jew covertly at the top,” and that such an effort had succeeded with the inauguration of Pope Francis. The email also made unfounded claims that both Covid and its vaccines would deliberately destroy people’s immune systems. “I believe the pandemic and systemic extermination of billions of people will lead to an effort to consolidate all the countries in the world under a single flag with totalitarian rule,” Bateman wrote. The email shared other unfounded conspiracy theories about the vaccine’s effects, adding that “everything is being expertly censored,” even as the email contained links to websites making similar claims.
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