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I believe they are both songs about New Jersey as that is where he hails from.

Egads! How could I have forgotten Springsteen! I was married to a Joysee Guyal for 10 years.

The screen door slams
Mary's dress waves
Like a vision she dances across the porch as the radio plays
Roy Orbison singing for the lonely
Hey that's me and I want you only
Don't turn me home again
I just can't face myself alone again
Don't run back inside
darling you know just what I'm here for
So you're scared and you're thinking
That maybe we ain't that young anymore
Show a little faith, there's magic in the night
You ain't a beauty, but hey you're alright
Oh and that's alright with me..............

Seems like in most songs about the north they're trying to get the hell out of there.

Or this -
"In the tunnels uptown,
The Rat's own dream guns him down,
Shots echo down them hallways in the night
No one watches as the ambulance pulls away
And as the girl shuts out the bedroom light>
Outside the street's on fire in a real death waltz
Between what's flesh and what's fantasy
And the poets down here don't write nothin at all
They just sit back and let it all be.
And like the flick of a knife they reach for the moment
And try to make an honest stand.
Tonight in Jungle Land."

To finish out your point -

You can hide with your colors and study your pain
Make crosses for lovers
Throw roses in the rain
Waste your summer praying in vain
For a savior to rise from these streets.
Well now I'm no hero that's understood
All the redemption I can offer girl is beneath this dirty hood
With a chance to make it real somehow
Hey what else can we do now?
Except roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair.
Well the night's busted open
And these two lanes will take us anywhere
We got one last chance to make it real.
To trade in these wings on some wheels.
Climb in back everyone's waiting down on the track.
We're ridin out tonight to case the promised land
Oh Thunder Road
Oh Thunder Road
Oh Thunder Road
Lying out there like a killer in the sun
Hey I know its late we can make it if we run.
Oh Thunder Road
Sit right
Hang on tight
Thunder Road."