Bruce Springsteen - Balboa Park at Point Theatre in Dublin, Ireland on March 20/1996. From the DVD "On The Floor In Dublin" 20.03.96 Dublin, Ireland, intro to ´Balboa Park´ ´´I don´t like people touching my stuff....and uh....that´s what kids like to do but you can´t yell at somebody else´s kid, you know what that´s like, it´s very touchy, so you have to sit there.... and out of the corner of your eye, you´re seeing ´em tiptoeing all around (chuckles) then finally it´s ´Oh ! gee, I´m sorry, was that expensive ?´ (chuckles) ´Nah, I can get another guitar anytime´ (chuckles) you know, then you do, you do, you have your own....you get to seek revenge (chuckles) ´Ooh yeah, go on, go get that´ (chuckles) how sweet it is (chuckles) then I get to bore thousands speaking about my own kids (chuckles)(?) but uh, I guess the big, there´s something that they do, you know, people ask you what´s the difference, I think the kids when they come into your life they....kids have this window onto the grace that´s in the world and that can be hard to get to but they seem to have this, this access to it and they bring it into your life all the time....I think that as you get older, that, that window closes down (?) what, what the world does or....from your own fear, I don´t know what....I don´t know, I guess that´s what sort of drives people to films and to music and to read novels and engage in unusual sexual practises (chuckles) to bring that grace back into their life (chuckles) but uh, yeah....but, uh, kids bring it with them when they come, I remember after my first, when I had my first son, I remember going out (?) the wind felt different on your face and the sun.....felt different, you know....you want to yell at everybody to stop shopping or something (chuckles) but uh, this is a song about kids, I think that once you have your own (?) you know, you´re always....in touch with ´em, this is a song about kids that come across the border to San Diego, 10, 11, 12, 13 years old....they end up running dope or selling themselves in this place called Balboa Park....that´s what happens when that grace, that grace gets violated....´´

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