“Got a wife and kids in Baltimore Jack;
I went out for a ride and I never went back.
Like a river that don't know where it's flowing,
I took a wrong turn and I just kept going”

— Bruce Springsteen

"Hungry Heart"
Song lyrics, The River (1980)

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American singer and songwriter 1949

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