10 Underrated Bruce Springsteen Songs You Should Listen To

Bruce always knew how to surround himself with top notch musicians, and Mark Isham's trumpets are a delight on here. This track is the jazziest Bruce ever got since Born to Run, and more of it would've turned Human Touch into a more enjoyable album.

"With Every Wish" illustrates the attention Bruce gives to details, and how it makes his work go from good to great. Details like the title-line, which sounds familiar because it is reminiscing of well-known sayings ("Be careful what you wish for", "a gift and a curse") but is actually a fully original and thus more intriguing formulation; the modulation of his voice to sound weary and melancholic; the ambiguity of the final verse, in which the warning ends mid-sentence.

Indeed, you can interpret the ending of this "dark fairytale" (in the words of Bruce) in two ways. A more hopeful one, in which the narrator is willing to try his luck at love regardless of the consequences. Or a darker one, perhaps more fitting: in pursuit of love, the narrator dove head first into the river, not even waiting for the end of the warning, and unware that a curse awaits him.

Also, it takes a lot of skill to mention "the angel of the lake" in a song, and not sound ridiculous.