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Add to that the manor’s soon-to-be-revealed secret passages, to say nothing of a fortune in hidden jewels, and we have all the makings of a classic “old dark house” mystery.

Already, curtains of rain, dark skies, and raging seas have touched Cuba.

There are also black and white flashbacks to his childhood, and so we come to understand that this is the impetus behind the dark tone of the material Springsteen is writing.

The dark mustache he wore in his playing days has expanded into a neat salt-and-pepper beard and his body, well, it’s expanded too.

“We’re kind of drawn to the darker side of everything in life. Everything is just a little left of center. A lot left of center.”