It was an add on since the label wasn’t happy with the first version of album. Again, the song is about riding around town in your car, and the line is “revved up like a deuce.” Deuce means “Deuce coupe” which refers to a 1932 Ford Coupe, the hot-rod of its day.īlinded by the Light was the first single released on Springsteen’s first album with Columbia Records, Greetings from Asbury, Park, N.J., in 1973. Some who understand that the word is ‘deuce’ instead of ‘douche’ still mishear the lyrics as ‘wrapped up like a deuce’ which still makes no sense. What Does Deuce Mean in Blinded by the Light? As in “wrapped up like a douche,” at least in the Manfred Mann version, the one people remember from the radio. Most people remember hearing a word they couldn’t believe could be on the radio: douche.
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