He's now experiencing freedom because he escaped, bailed, or 'jumped' out of this undesirable situation. He was often punished with a strap because of his bad grades.Р”В«ut Jack is doing much better now since he grew up and left his dysfunctional family situation. This situation at home means he also did poorly in school. He felt like it was just an insult and they might as well have driven a spike right through his head because he knew they didn't truly care about him. It only made Jack angry because he knew better and always frowned on this. He was always feeling 'drowned, washed up, and left for dead.' Sure, sometimes they would throw him a few bread crumbs here and there to pretend they cared about him, but it never really did any good. He was never getting any help with anything. It was a situation of an individual during their youth who felt like everything at home was hopeless. (Like many youth of the day who associated with the message of rock and roll music.) This is because Jack was a troubled individual during his youth and he rebelled against his family. Jack lived in a broken home where he often thought of his mother as a bearded, toothless hag. 'Jack' is telling us it's all right now, but it wasn't always that way for him in the past.Р”Р„fter Jack was born he talks about how he was raised. 'Jack' was born into the world under very unusual harsh conditions into a less than ideal dysfunctional family situation in the past. It's a story about a person named 'Jack' (who could be anyone of us really) who has overcome unusual burden and hardships in life. 'Jack' to me is a kind of musical 'Cool Hand Luke,' 'Sometimes 'nothing' can be a real cool hand.' Perhaps 'Jack' is both Keith and Mick and the lives they led and what they had to and will survive.

A box of macaroni is a banquet, A simple cot to lay your head is like a luxury bed. He has nothing left to prove, his manhood, even, is 'secure.' 'It was hell but I survived and now everything is gravy.' When you have lived with nothing for so long, faced terrible hardship, then a beater car that gives you independence is like a limo. I think that 'Jack' has been through hell and has come out the other side, different but wiser, maybe more carefree, more content that he has survived what most would't have. Probably not important but the British Hawker Hurricane aircraft was doing a lot of the defense of Kent as the more powerful Spitfires were running raids of their own on German positions in northwestern France.

In some ways they WERE both literally 'born in a crossfire hurricane' of WWII. 1943 was at the heart of WWII, when, even though the Germans were no longer bombing London, there were still almost daily air raids by German fighters on the far east of England. It's interesting that both Mick and Keith were born in 1943 in Dartford, Kent.

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