As I dive deeper into the idea of stewarding ideas into the world, I was taken back to July 4th 1985. I was at Wembley Stadium in London to hear Bruce Springsteen on his Born In The USA tour.
When it came to the song Hungry Heart, after the introduction, when his vocals began, Bruce didn’t sing, he simply held the microphone out to us and 90,000 of us sang back to him,
“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
Everybody’s got a hungry heart
Everybody’s got a hungry heart
Lay down your money and you play your part
Everybody’s got a h-h-hungry heart”
Bruce smiled, we all cheered, and then he took over and carried on to sing the song
A massive tingle went down my spine
How must that feel to hear your song sung back to you like that?
How must it feel to know that people have taken something you created so deeply into their hearts?
That moment always stayed with me
What we bring into the world has a life of its own, a life beyond us as its steward.
What we cause to exist no longer belongs just to us. Our creations live in the hearts and minds of other people.
