Not only are you exactly right, Gav, but the last few years he has been regularly taking requests from fans in the pit holding up signs for rare or cover songs for the band. At the end of the
Magic Tour a few years back, they were tackling a number of covers of great songs they'd never before played, which Bruce was calling "Stump the E Street Band." They got requests for songs by the Who, the Clash, the Ramones, the Stones... those concerts are unlike anyone else's in rock.
Words don't deserve that kind of malarkey. They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good anymore…I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.