On a rattlesnake speedway in the Utah desert... in that single line Bruce Springsteen eclipsed pretty much every other song-writer. If anyone else had written a song like Promised Land they could retire happy knowing they had hit a peak; but not Bruce. Whereas Born To Run was about a teenager running away; Darkness On The Edge of Town is a man stopping to look at what he is running to; making the whole of the album say more about the truth behind the American Dream than any road movie or Beatnik novel ever could.