I always thought the lyric was, “Racked up like a douchebag in the middle of the night.”
I would bet that Bruce was doing a little acid back in those days. The lyrics to that song are just weird, but it was the late sixties or early seventies.
“Blinded by the light
Revved up like a deuce
Another runner in the night
Blinded by the light”
Huh?
Manfred Mann’s version is a great tune, but I will never get Springsteen’s lyrics.
That sounds about right.