Complete Collection of Bruce Springsteen's Lyrics November 1, 1992 - 1st compiled. Compiled from Internet archives, Updated - July 4, 1994 edited, organized by Louis Puccio. Lou@phantom.com 194 pages. Compuserve: 71051,3236. A O L(PC Link): Bdybilder. Greetings to all you Springsteen fans and music lovers! Here are the lyrics to all the songs from every released album, as well as many un-released, 'B' sides, covers and songs Bruce has written for others. How this came about: After checking many file archives I found that many lyrics were scattered all over in various files, directories and locations on the Internet. Some sites only had complete lyrics from a few albums and perhaps a few songs mixed in from other albums. Some members of the Backstreets email newsletter (see below for names) were kind enough to forward lyrics from sites located all over the world, and also from their own collections. I then combined everything into one large file you have now. I alphabetized, spell-checked, polished and put everything into a standard format. The format is all titles in capitals and song information at the end of each song. Thanks to all who emailed lyrics to me: (In alphabetical order, first name): Anthony Petrosino Jr. - petrosa@ctrvax.Vanderbilt.Edu Diego Barros - alien@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au Gareth Waddell - gareth@esoft.uucp Janne Karila - karila@cc.helsinki.fi Kevin Kinder - kvk@iexist.att.com Matt - atmrm@acad2.alaska.edu Monty - montys@mapme6.map.tek.com Paul Maclauchlan - paul@moore.com Rich McGee - rich%csusb@nic.csu.net Susan DeSerio - deserio@kwacha.enet.dec.com Suzy Shaw - suzshaw@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu Tom Theaker - tomt@hpindwa.cup.hp.com Warren Brake - warren@irma.cs.mun.ca warren@pooky.cs.mun.ca Also thanks to all those anonymous contributors who over the years have typed all these lyrics at their keyboards unselfishly. Without their efforts this compilation would have been almost impossible. How is this file organized: Alphabetically by song title. The song titles appear exactly as on the albums. The album name and year follow each song lyric. Just about every released song was typed exactly as it appeared on the album. Songs starting with 'The' are in the 'T' section. 'The River' e.g., is in the 't' section, not the 'r'. Released material appears first. Following this are un-released and 'outakes' songs, and 'cover' songs that Bruce has frequently played in concert that were written by others. Unreleased and also 'B' side lyrics were mainly typed after listening to the song. 'B' Side songs can be found in the released section. All cover songs will have the song writer's name in parenthesis. How do I find my favorite song or album in this large file: Just type the name exactly as it appears on the album or single using a word processor 'search' feature, of course. If you don't have a search feature, just page through until you get to the song. To find all the songs on an album do the same thing - type the album title exactly. There are many, but not all, UN-released lyrics here. To find an un-released song go to the end of the list of released songs, Or search for the word: unreleased. (Using your word processor.) That will bring you to the beginning of the un-released section. A line of: ************************* seperates the two listings. Please send any other lyrics not found here to my email address. Does a file exist with all the lyrics grouped by album, instead of by song title? Yes, but you have to look around at the popular sites for lyrics. You, can use the lyrics in this file to create other files organized in any way you see fit. Please post it to the appropriate archives and also contact me at my internet address. What about typos or misspellings? How do I know if every word Springsteen wrote has been included? I corrected obvious misspellings. However, words such as runnin', drivin', etc. were left alone. As for missing words or lines, it would be very difficult to compare each song here word for word with the album version. However, most likely anyone that has taken time to type out a song must be a dedicated fan. Someone that truly enjoys what they're doing is not likely to make many errors. However, if you really must have total accuracy for a few songs that you truly like, compare the number of typed lines and/or the words with the album. Miscellaneous notes: Please send me any other lyrics you have. This will be highly appreciated! You can send entire files you have and I will sort out the one's to be included. They will be added in future updates. Also, please send any interviews and concert monologues that you may have transcribed from a live concert tape or other sources. It would be great to have other files with interviews, monos, trivia, record sources, criticisms, folklore, stories, or whatever. I hope this inspires others to be creative and come up with other files of Bruce material. Feel free to make copies of this file and send it to anyone you like. If you have other lyrics please do not add them to this list and upload it again. Doing so would create many different versions of this file at many archive sites. Only one person should add new lyrics every few months and create an updated version with a new version number. So send new lyrics on to me. Please use the same file name found on this file if uploading this to any BBS or archive site. If you received this via email please remove all email 'header' information. Start of file is at words - Complete Collection Of.... Please send ideas, suggestions, comments or a note saying 'hi' to my email addresses: Lou@phantom.com (Internet). Compuserve: 71051,3236. A O L(PC Link): Bdybilder. All lyrics up to and including 1992's Human Touch and Lucky Town are included here. All the 1975-1985 Live songs (except for a few) appear on a released album. On the actual albums, each new line of lyric starts with a capital letter. Because email systems move some characters to the next line, you may see lines that do not start with capitals. Those few words belong on the line above. Therefore, you may have to move some lines around to make a song appear as it does on the album lyric sheets. Following this info section is some general info about all the albums. Since 1972, Bruce Has: - performed a total of 1039 live shows - performed 318 different songs - performed in 29 different countries, 319 different cities, and 501 different venues. note - these are approximate figures. South Street in Freehold, NJ - Spent most of childhood. Next to Doug Slattery's Sinclair station. Bruce Frederick Springsteen - 9/23/49 Bought first guitar in a pawn shop for $18 in 1964. Jailhouse Rock was first record he bought. The Backstreets email newsletter has many loyal fans that discuss anything to do with Bruce. To subscribe send a note with your email address to: Internet: backstreets-request@fuggles.acc.virginia.edu backstreets-request@uvaarpa.virginia.edu BITNET: bs-req@virginia UUCP: ...!uunet!virginia!backstreets-request This is the FTP site to obtain chords for some of Bruce's songs: ftp.nevada.edu (131.216.1.11) cd pub/guitar mget *.crd Feel free to send me any spare concert tickets! :> Finally, this entire file is dedicated to everyone who has enjoyed the Boss's music over the years and in the future. You all know the special meaning he and his music has for us. Following is information about each album, in alphabetical order: BORN IN THE U.S.A. Roy Bittan - synthesizer, piano, background vocals Clarence Clemmons - saxaphone, percussion, background vocals Danny Federici - organ, glockenspiel, piano on "Born In The USA" Garry Tallent - bass, horn, background vocals Steve van Zandt - acoustic guitar, mandolin, harmony vocals Bruce Springsteen - lead vocals, guitar, harmonica Max Weinberg - drums, background vocals Richie Rosenberg - Trombone La Bamba - background vocals on "Cover Me" and "No Surrender" Ruth Jackson - background vocals on "My Hometown" All songs words and music by Bruce Springsteen (1984) Charts : Billboard #001, entered Jun 23, 1984 BORN IN THE USA BOBBY JEAN NO SURRENDER BORN IN THE U.S.A. I'M ON FIRE DANCING IN THE DARK GLORY DAYS I'M GOIN' DOWN COVER ME WORKING ON THE HIGHWAY DARLINGTON COUNTY DOWNBOUND TRAIN MY HOMETOWN BORN TO RUN 1975 All songs written and arranged by Bruce Springsteen. Produced by Bruce Springsteen, Jon Landau, and Mike Appel. Recorded, mixed and masterd at Record Plant Studio, NYC. Born To Run recorded at 914 Sound Studio, Blauvelt NY. Wayne Andre - Trombone Mike Appel - Vocal Roy Bittan - Keyboards Michael Brecker - Horn Randy Brecker - Horn Ernest Carter - Drums Clarence Clemons - Sax, Vocal Richard Davis - Bass Danny Federici - Keyboards, Vocal David Sanborn - Sax David Sancious - Keyboards, Sax Bruce Springsteen - g/v/hrc/b Garry Tallent - Bass, Horn Steve Van Zandt - Guitar, Vocal Max Weinberg - Drums BORN TO RUN JUNGLELAND THUNDER ROAD NIGHT SHE'S THE ONE MEETING ACROSS THE RIVER TENTH AVENUE FREEZE-OUT BORN TO RUN BACKSTREETS CHIMES OF FREEDOM 1988 Words and music by Bruce Springsteen except Chimes of Freedom - words by Bob Dylan. Roy Bittan - synthesizer, piano Clarence Clemmons - saxaphone, percussion Danny Federici - organ, synthesizer Garry Tallent - bass Patty Scialfa - vocals, guitar Bruce Springsteen - lead vocals, guitar Max Weinberg - drums Some of the proceeds of this album were donated to Amnesty International. DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN 1978 Roy Bittan - Keyboards Clarence Clemons - Sax, Vocal Danny Federici - Keyboards, Vocal Bruce Springsteen - g/v/hrc/b Garry Tallent - Bass, Horn Steve Van Zandt - Guitar, Vocal Max Weinberg - Drums All songs by Bruce Springsteen Charts : Billboard #005, entered Jun 17, 1978 FACTORY SOMETHING IN THE NIGHT STREETS OF FIRE PROVE IT ALL NIGHT ADAM RAISED A CAIN BADLANDS DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN CANDY'S ROOM THE PROMISED LAND RACING IN THE STREET GREETINGS FROM ASBURY PARK N.J. 1973 All selections written and arranged by Bruce Springsteen. Recorded at 914 Sound Studios, Blauvelt, NY. Vincent "Loper" Lopez, Clarence Clemmons, Garry Tallent, David Sancious, Harold Wheeler (Piano on Blinded By The Light and Spirit In The Night). Clarence Clemons - Sax, Vocal Richard Davis - Bass Vini Lopez - d/v/hrn David Sancious - Keyboards, Sax Bruce Springsteen - g/v/hrc/b Garry Tallent - Bass, Horn Harold Wheeler - Piano THE ANGEL SPIRIT IN THE NIGHT DOES THIS BUS STOP AT 82nd STREET? IT'S HARD TO BE A SAINT IN THE CITY FOR YOU GROWIN' UP LOST IN THE FLOOD BLINDED BY THE LIGHT MARY QUEEN OF ARKANSAS HUMAN TOUCH 1992 Musicians (except where noted): Roy Bittan - Keyboards, Producer Michael Fisher - Percussion Bobby Hatfield - vbc Mark Isham - Trumpet Randy Jackson - Bass Bobby King - vbc Jon Landau - Producer Douglas Lunn - Bass Ian McLagan - Piano Samuel Moore - vbc Tim Pierce - vbc Chuck Plotkin - Producer Jeff Porcaro - Drums, Percussion David Sancious - Organ (Hammond) Toby Scott - Engineer Bruce Springsteen - g/v/b Kurt Wortman - Drums All songs by Bruce Springsteen (1992) except "Cross My Heart" - music by Bruce Springsteen, lyrics by Bruce Springsteen and Sonny Boy Williamson "Roll of the Dice" and "Real World" - by Bruce Springsteen and Roy Bittan "Pony Boy" - traditional, arrangement & additional lyrics by Springsteen. Charts : Billboard #001, entered Nov 29, 1986 REAL WORLD 57 CHANNELS (AND NOTHIN' ON) HUMAN TOUCH I WISH I WERE BLIND MAN'S JOB ROLL OF THE DICE SOUL DRIVER ALL OR NOTHIN' AT ALL CROSS MY HEART GLORIA'S EYES PONY BOY REAL MAN THE LONG GOODBYE WITH EVERY WISH LUCKY TOWN 1992 All songs by Bruce Springsteen Produced by Bruce Springsteen with Jon Landau and Chuck Plotkin Additional production by Roy Bittan: "Leap of Faith", "The Big Muddy", "Living Proof" Recorded by Toby Scott Mixed by Bob Clearmountain Mastered by Bob Ludwing Roy Bittan - Keyboards, Bass Randy Jackson - Bass Jon Landau - Producer Lisa Lowell - vbc Gary Mallabar - Drums Ian McLagan - Organ (Hammond) Chuck Plotkin - Producer Patti Scialfa - vbc Toby Scott - Engineer Bruce Springsteen - v/g/b/prd Soozie Tyrell - vbc Artist : Bruce Springsteen Charts : Billboard #003, entered Oct 9, 1982 LIVING PROOF BETTER DAYS IF I SHOULD FALL BEHIND LEAP OF FAITH LOCAL HERO LUCKY TOWN MY BEAUTIFUL REWARD BOOK OF DREAMS THE BIG MUDDY SOULS OF THE DEPARTED NEBRASKA 1982 All words and music written by Bruce Springsteen Mastered at Atlantic Studios by Dennis King REASON TO BELIEVE NEBRASKA MY FATHER'S HOUSE STATE TROOPER OPEN ALL NIGHT USED CARS MANSION ON THE HILL ATLANTIC CITY HIGHWAY PATROLMAN JOHNNY 99 THE RIVER 1980 All words and music by Bruce Springsteen. Recorded at The Power Station, NYC. Mixed at Clover Recording Studios, LA. Roy Bittan - Keyboards Clarence Clemons - Sax, Vocal Danny Federici - Keyboards, Vocal Howard "Eddie" Kaylan - Vocal Bruce Springsteen - g/v/hrc/b Garry Tallent - Bass, Horn Steve Van Zandt - Guitar, Vocal Mark Volman - Vocal Max Weinberg - Drums Charts : Billboard #001, entered Nov 1 , 1980 THE RIVER CADILLAC RANCH YOU CAN LOOK (BUT YOU BETTER NOT TOUCH) DRIVE ALL NIGHT I'M A ROCKER CRUSH ON YOU FADE AWAY HUNGRY HEART I WANNA MARRY YOU INDEPENDENCE DAY JACKSON CAGE OUT IN THE STREET RAMROD SHERRY DARLING STOLEN CAR THE PRICE YOU PAY THE TIES THAT BIND TWO HEARTS POINT BLANK WRECK ON THE HIGHWAY THE WILD, THE INNOCENT & THE E STREET SHUFFLE 1973 All songs written and arranged by Bruce Springsteen. Recorded at 914 Sound Studios, Blauvelt, NY Richard Blackwell - Percussion Clarence Clemons - Sax, Vocal Danny Federici - Keyboards, Vocal Vini Lopez - d/v/hrn David Sancious - Keyboards, Sax Bruce Springsteen - g/v/hrc/b Garry Tallent - Bass, Horn Albany Tellone - Sax THE E STREET SHUFFLE INCIDENT ON 57th STREET KITTY'S BACK NEW YORK CITY SERENADE WILD BILLY'S CIRCUS STORY ROSALITA (COME OUT TONIGHT) 4TH OF JULY, ASBURY PARK (SANDY) TUNNEL OF LOVE 1987 All words and music by Bruce Springsteen (1987). Recorded in New Jersey ("One Step Up" recorded at A&M Studios. LA, CA) Mixed at A&M Studios, LA, CA. Tunnel Of Love, Mixed at The Hit Factory - NYC. Roy Bittan - Keyboards Clarence Clemons - Sax, Vocal Danny Federici - Keyboards, Vocal Nils Lofgren - Guitar, Vocal Bruce Springsteen - g/v/hrc/b Garry Tallent - Bass, Horn Max Weinberg - Drums James Wood - Harmonica CAUTIOUS MAN SPARE PARTS AIN'T GOT YOU TOUGHER THAN THE REST TUNNEL OF LOVE TWO FACES ALL THAT HEAVEN WILL ALLOW VALENTINE'S DAY BRILLIANT DISGUISE WHEN YOU'RE ALONE ONE STEP UP WALK LIKE A MAN Mar 1973 Greetings From Asbury Park, NJ Feb 1974 The Wild, The Innocent And The E-Street Shuffle Oct 1975 Born To Run May 1978 Darkness On The Edge Of Town Dec 1979 No Nukes - Various Artists Concert - Includes Two Springsteen Tracks : "Devil With The Blue Dress On" and "Stay" - with Jackson Browne Oct 1980 The River - Double album Sep 1982 Nebraska Jun 1984 Born In The USA May 1985 We Are The World - Various Artists Compilation - Includes Springsteen's - "Trapped." Dec 1986 Live 1975-85 5 LP's - 3 CD's - 3 Tapes Of Live Tracks In Box Set - with Color Booklet Oct 1987 Tunnel Of Love Oct 1987 A Very Special Xmas - Various Compilations - Includes "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" Nov 1987 Tunnel Of Love - Picture Disc CD 1988 Interview Picture Disc Oct 1988 Folkways: A Vision Shared - Various Compilations - Includes "Vigilante Man" and "I Ain't Got No Home" 1988 Chimes of Freedom special 4 track 12" album 1990 The Last Temptation Of Elvis - Various Artists Compilation - Includes "Viva Las Vegas" Mar 1992 Human Touch Mar 1992 Lucky Town Chronological Album List |Date| Label | Number ===============================+====+==========+======== In Concert/MTV Plugged |1993|Phantom | Unplugged |1992| | Lucky Town |1992|Columbia |53001 Human Touch |1992|Columbia |53000 57 Channels (And Nothin' On) |1992|CBS |74416 Video Anthology 1978-1988 |1989|CBS |49010 Video Anthology 1978-88 |1988| | Conversation |1988|Audio Visu|018 Chimes of Freedom |1988|CBS |44445 Tunnel of Love |1987|Columbia |40999 Live 1975-1985 |1986|Columbia |40558 Born in the U.S.A. |1984|Columbia |38653 Nebraska |1982|Columbia |38358 Requested Around the World |1981|CBS |978 River, The |1980|Columbia |36854 Bruce Springsteen |1979|CBS |66353 Darkness on the Edge of Town |1978|Columbia |35318 Born to Run |1975|Columbia |33795 Wild, the Innocent and the E St|1973|Columbia |32432 Greetings from Asbury Park NJ |1973|Columbia |31903 Video Anthology '78-'88 |Z |CBS |49010 Plugged: In Concert 199 |Z |Alx |3322 Human Touch/Better Days |Z |CBS |74273 Anthology 1978-88 |Z |Sony |6325 Other albums where a Springsteen song appeared: For Our Children "Chicken Lips and Lizard Hips" Roy Orbison and Friends: A black and White Night Harry Chapin Tribute "Remember When The Music" The heart of rock 1988. Columbia: C 44381 (on container: 6C 44381). Songs, performed by various artists. "Brilliant disguise (4:12)" Ruthless people: the original motion picture soundtrack. Epic - 1986. E 40398 (container: SE 40398). "Stand on it" (2:30) "Ladies and gentlemen, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band....." 4TH OF JULY, ASBURY PARK (SANDY) Sandy the fireworks are hailin' over Little Eden tonight Forcin' a light into all those stoned-out faces left stranded on this Fourth of July Down in town the circuit's full with switchblade lovers so fast so shiny so sharp And the wizards play down on Pinball Way on the boardwalk way past dark And the boys from the casino dance with their shirts open like Latin lovers along the shore Chasin' all them silly New York girls Sandy the aurora is risin' behind us, the pier lights our carnival life forever Love me tonight for I may never see you again, hey Sandy girl Now the greasers they tramp the streets or get busted for trying to sleep on the beach all night Them boys in their spiked high heels ah Sandy their skins are so white And me I just got tired of hangin' in them dusty arcades bangin' them pleasure machines Chasin' the factory girls underneath the boardwalk where they promise to unsnap their jeans And you know that tilt-a-whirl down on the south beach drag I got on it last night and my shirt got caught And that Joey kept me spinnin' I didn't think I'd ever get off Oh Sandy the aurora is risin' behind us The pier lights our carnival life on the water Runnin' down the beach at night with my boss's daughter Well he ain't my boss no more Sandy Sandy the angels have lost their desire for us I spoke to `em just last night and they said they won't set themselves on fire for us anymore Every summer when the weather gets hot they ride that road down from heaven on their Harleys they come and they go And you can see `em dressed like stars in all the cheap little seashore bars parked making love with their babies out on the Kokomo Well the cops finally busted Madame Marie for tellin' fortunes better than they do This boardwalk life for me is through You know you ought to quit this scene too Sandy the aurora's rising behind us, the pier lights our carnival life forever Oh love me tonight and I promise I'll love you forever >From "The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle" 1973 57 CHANNELS (AND NOTHIN' ON) Bruce Springsteen - bass I bought a bourgeois house in the Hollywood hills With a truckload of hundred thousand dollar bills Man came by to hook up my cable TV We settled in for the night my baby and me We switched 'round and 'round 'til half-past dawn There was fifty-seven channels and nothin' on Well now home entertainment was my baby's wish So I hopped into town for a satellite dish I tied it to the top of my Japanese car I came home and I pointed it out into the stars A message came back from the great beyond There's fifty-seven channels and nothin' on Well we might'a made some friends with some billionaires We might'a got all nice and friendly if we'd made it upstairs All I got was a note that said "Bye-bye John Our love is fifty-seven channels and nothin' on" So I bought a .44 magnum it was solid steel cast And in the blessed name of Elvis well I just let it blast 'Til my TV lay in pieces there at my feet And they busted me for disturbing the almighty peace Judge said "What you got in your defense son?" "Fifty-seven channels and nothin' on" I can see by your eyes friend you're just about gone Fifty-seven channels and nothin' on... Human Touch 1992 AIN'T GOT YOU I got a fortune of heaven in diamonds and gold I got all the bonds baby that the bank could hold I got houses 'cross the country honey end to end And everybody buddy wants to be my friend Well I got all the riches honey any man every knew But the only thing I ain't got honey I ain't got you I got a house full of Rembrandt and priceless art And all the little girls they wanna tear me apart When I walk down the street people stop and stare Well you think I might be thrilled but baby I don't care Cause I got more good luck honey than old King Farouk But the only thing I ain't got baby I ain't got you I got a big diamond watch sittin' on my wrist I try to tempt you baby but you just resist I made a deal with the devil babe I won't deny Until I got you in my arms I can't be satisfied I got a pound of caviar sitting home on ice I got a fancy foreign car that rides like paradise I got a hundred pretty women knockin' down my door And folks wanna kiss me I ain't even seen before I been around the world and all across the seven seas Been paid a king's ransom for doin' what comes naturally But I'm still the biggest fool honey this world ever knew 'Cause the only thing I ain't got baby I ain't got you Tunnel Of Love 1987 ADAM RAISED A CAIN In the summer that I was baptized my father held me to his side As they put me to the water he said how on that day I cried We were prisoners of love a love in chains He was standin' in the door I was standin' in the rain With the same hot blood burning in our veins Adam raised a Cain All of the old faces ask you why you're back They fit you with position and the keys to your daddy's Cadillac In the darkness of your room your mother calls you by your true name You remember the faces the places the names You know it's never over it's relentless as the rain Adam raised a Cain In the Bible Cain slew Abel and East of Eden he was cast You're born into this life paying for the sins of somebody else's past Daddy worked his whole life for nothing but the pain Now he walks these empty rooms looking for something to blame You inherit the sins you inherit the flames Adam raised a Cain Lost but not forgotten from the dark heart of a dream Adam raised a Cain Darkness on the Edge of Town 1978 ALL OR NOTHIN' AT ALL Said you'd give me just a little kiss And you'd rock me for a little while Well you'd slip me just a piece of it Listen up little child I Want it all or nothin' at all I Want it all or nothin' at all Said you'd take me for a little dance If you had a little time on your hands Well all I do is push and shove Just to get a little piece of your love I want it all or nothin' at all I want it all or nothin' at all Well now I don't wanna be greedy But when it comes to love there ain't no doubt You just ain't gonna get what you want With one foot in and one foot out You got to give it all or nothin' at all All or nothin' at all Now I only got a little time So if you're gonna change your mind Then shout out what you're thinking of If what you're thinkin' of is love I want it all or nothin' at all I want it all or nothin' at all Human Touch 1992 ALL THAT HEAVEN WILL ALLOW Max Weinberg - percussion I got a dollar in my pocket there ain't a cloud up above I got a picture in a locket that says baby I love you Well if you didn't look then boys then fellas don't go lookin' now Well here she comes a-walkin' all that heaven will allow Say hey there mister bouncer now all I wanna dance But I swear I left my wallet back home in my workin' pants C'mon Slim slip me in man I'll make it up to you somehow I can't be late I got a date with all that heaven will allow Rain and storm and dark skies well now they don't mean a thing If you got a girl that loves you and who wants to wear your ring So c'mon mister trouble we'll make it through you somehow We'll fill this house with all the love all that heaven will allow Now some may wanna die young man young and gloriously Get it straight now mister hey buddy that ain't me 'Cause I got something on my mind that sets me straight and walking proud And I want all the time all that heaven will allow Tunnel Of Love 1987 ATLANTIC CITY Well, they blew up the chicken man in Philly last night Now, they blew up his house, too Down on the boardwalk they're gettin' ready for a fight Gonna see what them racket boys can do Now, there's trouble bustin' in from outta state And the D.A. can't get no relief Gonna be a rumble out on the promenade And the gamblin' commission's hangin' on by the skin of his teeth Well now, ev'rything dies, baby, that's a fact But maybe ev'rything that dies someday comes back Put your makeup on, fix your hair up pretty And meet me tonight in Atlantic City Well, I got a job and tried to put my money away But I got debts that no honest man can pay So I drew what I had from the Central Trust And I bought us two tickets on that Coast City bus Now, baby, ev'rything dies, honey, that's a fact... Now our luck may have died and our love may be cold But with you forever I'll stay We're goin' out where the sand's turnin' to gold Put on your stockin's baby, `cause the night's getting cold And maybe ev'rything dies, baby, that's a fact But maybe ev'rything that dies someday comes back Now, I been lookin' for a job, but it's hard to find Down here it's just winners and losers and don't get caught on the wrong side of that line Well, I'm tired of comin' out on the losin' end So, honey, last night I met this guy and I'm gonna do a little favor for him Well, I guess everything dies, baby, that's a fact... Nebraska 1982 BACKSTREETS One soft infested summer me and Terry became friends Trying in vain to breathe the fire we was born in Catching rides to the outskirts tying faith between our teeth Sleeping in that old abandoned beach house getting wasted in the heat And hiding on the backstreets, hiding on the backstreets With a love so hard and filled with defeat Running for our lives at night on them backstreets Slow dancing in the dark on the beach at Stockton's Wing Where desperate lovers park we sat with the last of the Duke Street Kings Huddled in our cars waiting for the bells that ring In the deep heart of the night to set us loose from everything to go running on the backstreets, running on the backstreets We swore we'd live forever on the backstreets we take it together Endless juke joints and Valentino drag where dancers scraped the tears Up off the street dressed down in rags running into the darkness Some hurt bad some really dying at night sometimes it seemed You could hear the whole damn city crying blame it on the lies that killed us Blame it on the truth that ran us down you can blame it all on me Terry It don't matter to me now when the breakdown hit at midnight There was nothing left to say but I hated him and I hated you when you went away Laying here in the dark you're like an angel on my chest Just another tramp of hearts crying tears of faithlessness Remember all the movies, Terry, we'd go see Trying to learn how to walk like heroes we thought we had to be And after all this time to find we're just like all the rest Stranded in the park and forced to confess To hiding on the backstreets, hiding on the backstreets We swore forever friends on the backstreets until the end Hiding on the backstreets, hiding on the backstreets Born to Run 1976 BADLANDS Lights out tonight trouble in the heartland Got a head-on collision smashin' in my guts man I'm caught in a crossfire that I don't understand But there's one thing I know for sure I don't give a damn For the same old played out scenes I don't give a damn For just the in-betweens honey I want the heart I want the soul I want control right now talk about a dream Try to make it real you wake up in the night With a fear so real spend your life waiting For a moment that just don't come Well don't waste your time waiting Badlands you gotta live it every day Let the broken hearts stand As the price you've gotta pay We'll keep pushin' till it's understood And these badlands start treating us good Workin' in the field till you get your back burned Workin' `neath the wheels till you get your facts learned Baby I got my facts learned real good right now You better get it straight darling Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king And a king ain't satisfied till he rules everything I wanna go out tonight, I wanna find out what I got Now I believe in the love that you gave me I believe in the faith that could save me I believe in the hope and I pray that some day It will raise me above these Badlands... For the ones who had a notion, a notion deep inside That it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive I wanna find one face that ain't looking through me I wanna find one place, I wanna spit in the face of these Badlands... Darkness on the Edge of Town 1980 BECAUSE THE NIGHT Take me now baby here as I am Pull me close try an understand I work all day out in the hot sun Stay with me now till the mornin' comes Come on now try and understand The way I feel when I'm in your hands Take me now as the sun descends They can't hurt you now They can't hurt you now They can't hurt you now Because the night belongs to lovers Because the night belongs to us Because the night belongs to lovers Because the night belongs to us What I got I have earned What I'm not I have learned Desire and hunger is the fire I breathe Just stay in my bed till the morning comes Come on now try and understand The way I feel when I'm in your hands Take me now as the sun descends They can't hurt you now They can't hurt you now They can't hurt you now Because the night... Your love is here and now The vicious circle turns and burns without Though I cannot live forgive me now The time has come to take this moment and They can't hurt you now Because the night... Springsteen-Patti Smith 1978 BETTER DAYS Well my soul checked out missing as I sat listening To the hours and minutes tickin' away Yeah, just sittin' around waitin' for my life to begin While it was all just slippin' away. I'm tired of waitin' for tomorrow to come Or that train to come roarin' 'round the bend. I got a new suit of clothes a pretty red rose And a woman I can call my friend These are better days baby Yeah there's better days shining through These are better days baby Better days with a girl like you Well I took a piss at fortune's sweet kiss It's like eatin' caviar and dirt It's a sad funny ending to find yourself pretending A rich man in a poor man's shirt Now my ass was draggin' when from a passin' gypsy wagon Your heart like a diamond shone Tonight I'm layin' in your arms carvin' lucky charms Out of these heard luck bones These are better days baby These are better days it's true These are better days There's better days shining through Now a life of leisure and a pirate's treasure Don't make much for tragedy But it's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin And can't stand the company Every fool's got a reason to feelin' sorry for himself And turn his heart to stone Tonight this fool's halfway to heaven and just a mile outta hell And I feel like I'm comin' home These are better days baby There's better days shining through These are better days Better days with a girl like you These are better days baby These are better days it's true These are better days Better days are shining through Randy Jackson, bass Lisa Lowell, backing vocals Patti Scialfa, backing vocals Soozie Tyrell, backing vocals Lucky Town 1992 BLINDED BY THE LIGHT Madman drummers bummers and Indians in the summer with a teenage diplomat In the dumps with the mumps as the adolescent pumps his way into his hat With a boulder on my shoulder feelin' kinda older I tripped the merry-go-round With this very unpleasing sneezing and wheezing the calliope crashed to the ground Some all-hot half-shot was headin' for the hot spot snappin' his fingers clappin' his hands And some fleshpot mascot was tied into a lover's knot with a whatnot in her hand And now young Scott with a slingshot finally found a tender spot and throws his lover in the sand And some bloodshot forget-menot whispers daddy's within earshot save the buckshot turn up the band And she was blinded by the light. Cut loose like a deuce Another runner in the night. Blinded by the light She got down but she never got tight, but she'll make it alright Some brimstone baritone anticyclone rolling stone preacher from the east He says: "Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in its funny bone, that's where they expect it least" And some new-mown chaperone was standin' in the corner all alone watchin' the young girls dance And some fresh-sown moonstone was messin' with his frozen zone to remind him of the feeling of romance Yeah he was blinded by the light. Cut loose like a deuce Another runner in the night. Blinded by the light He got down but she never got tight, but he's gonna make it tonight Some silicone sister with her manager's mister told me I got what it takes She said I'll turn you on sonny to something strong if you play that song with the funky break And go-cart Mozart was checkin' out the weather chart to see if it was safe to go outside And little Early-Pearly came in by her curly-wurly and asked me if I needed a ride Oh, some hazard from Harvard was skunked on beer playin' backyard bombardier Yes and Scotland Yard was trying hard, they sent a dude with a calling card, he said, do what you like, but don't do it here Well I jumped up, spit in the air, fell on the ground, asked wich was the way back home He said take a right at the light, keep going straight until right, and then boy you're on your own And now in Zanzibar a shootin' star was ridin' in a side car hummin' a lunar tune Yes, and the avatar said blow the bar but first remove the cookie jar, we're gonna teach those boys to laugh too soon And some kidnapped handicap was complaining that he caught the clap from some mousetrap he bought last night Well I unsnapped his skull cap and between his ears I saw a gap but he'd figured he'd be all right He was just blinded by the light. Cut loose like a deuce Another runner in the night. Blinded by the light Mama always told me not to look into the sights of the sun Oh but mama that's where the fun is Greetings from Asbury Park - N.J. 1975 BOBBY JEAN Well I came by your house the other day, your mother said you went away She said there was nothing that I could have done There was nothing nobody could say Me and you we've known each other ever since we were sixsteen I wished I would have known I wished I could have called you Just to say goodbye Bobby Jean Now you hung with me when all the others turned away turned up their noise We liked the same music we liked the same bands we liked the same clothes We told each other that we were the wildest, the wildest things we'd ever seen Now I wished you would have told me I wished I could have talked to you Just to say goodbye Bobby Jean Now we went walking in the rain talking about the pain from the world we hid Now there ain't nobody nowherer nohow gonna ever understand me the way you did Maybe you'll be out there on that road somewhere In some bus or train traveling along In some motel room there'll be a radio playing And you'll hear me sing this song Well if you do you'll know I'm thinking of you and all the miles in between And I'm just calling one last time not to change your mind But just to say I miss you baby, good luck goodbye, Bobby Jean Born In The USA 1984 BOOK OF DREAMS I'm standing in the backyard Listening to the party Inside Tonight I'm drinkin' in the forgiveness This life provides The scars we carry remain but the pain slips away it seems Oh won't you baby be in my book of dreams I'm watchin' you through the window With your girlfriends from back home You 're showin' off your dress There's laughter and a toast >From your daddy to the prettiest bride he's ever seen Oh won't you baby be in my book of dreams In the darkness my fingers slip across your skin I feel your sweet reply The room fades away and suddenly I'm way up high Just holdin' you to me As through the window the moonlight streams Oh won't you baby be in my book of dreams Now the ritual begins 'Neath the wedding garland we meet as strangers The dance floor is alive with beauty Mystery and danger We dance out 'neath the stars' ancient light into the darkening trees Oh won't you baby be in my book of dreams Lucky Town 1992 BORN IN THE U.S.A. Born down in a dead man's town The first kick I took was when I hit the ground You end up like a dog that's been beat too much Till you spend half your life just covering up Born in the U.S.A., I was born in the U.S.A. I was born in the U.S.A., born in the U.S.A. Got in a little hometown jam So they put a rifle in my hand Sent me off to a foreign land To go and kill the yellow man Born in the U.S.A.... Come back home to the refinery Hiring man said "Son if it was up to me" Went down to see my V.A. man He said "Son, don't you understand" I had a brother at Khe Sahn Fighting off the Viet Cong They're still there, he's all gone He had a woman he loved in Saigon I got a picture of him in her arms now Down in the shadow of the penitentiary Out by the gas fires of the refinery I'm ten years burning down the road Nowhere to run ain't got nowhere to go Born in the U.S.A., I was born in the U.S.A. Born in the U.S.A., I'm a long gone Daddy in the U.S.A. Born in the U.S.A., Born in the U.S.A. Born in the U.S.A., I'm a cool rocking Daddy in the U.S.A. Born In The USA 1984 BORN TO RUN In the day we sweat it out in the streets of a runaway American dream At night we ride through mansions of glory in suicide machines Sprung from cages out on highway 9, Chrome wheeled, fuel injected and steppin' out over the line Baby this town rips the bones from your back It's a death trap, it's a suicide rap We gotta get out while we're young `Cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run Wendy let me in I wanna be your friend I want to guard your dreams and visions Just wrap your legs round these velvet rims and strap your hands across my engines Together we could break this trap We'll run till we drop, baby we'll never go back Will you walk with me out on the wire `Cause baby I'm just a scared and lonely rider But I gotta find out how it feels I want to know if love is wild, girl I want to know if love is real Beyond the Palace hemi-powered drones scream down the boulevard The girls comb their hair in rearview mirrors And the boys try to look so hard The amusement park rises bold and stark Kids are huddled on the beach in a mist I wanna die with you Wendy on the streets tonight In an everlasting kiss The highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive Everybody's out on the run tonight but there's no place left to hide Together Wendy we'll live with the sadness I'll love you with all the madness in my soul Someday girl I don't know when we're gonna get to that place Where we really want to go and we'll walk in the sun But till then tramps like us baby we were born to run Born to Run 1976 Live, acoustic version appears on Chimes of Freedom album, 1988. BRILLIANT DISGUISE Roy Bittan - piano Max Weinberg - percussion Danny Federici - organ I hold you in my arms as the band plays What are those words whispered baby just as you turn away I saw you last night out on the edge of town I wanna read your mind and know just what I've got in this new thing I've found So tell me what I see when I look in your eyes Is that you baby or just a brilliant disguise I heard somebody call your name from underneath our willow I saw something tucked in shame underneath your pillow Well I've tried so hard baby but I just can't see What a woman like you is doing with me So tell me what I see when I look in your eyes Is that you baby or just a brilliant disguise Now look at me baby struggling to do everything right And then it all falls apart when out go the lights I'm just a lonely pilgrim I walk this world in wealth I want to know if it's you I don't trust 'cause I damn sure don't trust myself Now you play the loving woman I'll play the faithful man But just don't look too close into the palm of my hand We stood at the alter the gypsy swore our future was right But come the wee wee hours maybe baby the gypsy lied So when you look at me you better look hard and look twice Is that me baby or just a brilliant disguise Tonight our bed is cold I'm lost in the darkness of our love God have mercy on the man Who doubts what he's sure of Tunnel Of Love 1987 CADILLAC RANCH Well there she sits buddy just a-gleaming in the sun There to greet a working man when his day is done I'm gonna pack my pa and I'm gonna pack my aunt I'm gonna take them down to the Cadillac Ranch Eldorado fins, whitewalls and skirts Rides just like a little bit of heaven here on earth Well buddy when I die throw my body in the back And drive me to the junkyard in my Cadillac Cadillac, Cadillac Long and dark shiny and black Open up your engines let `em roar Tearing up the highway like a big old dinosaur James Dean in that Mercury `49 Junior Johnson runnin' through the woods of Caroline Even Burt Reynolds in that black Trans Am All gonna meet down at the Cadillac Ranch Cadillac, Cadillac... Hey little girlie in the blue jeans so tight Drivin' alone through the Wisconsin night You're my last love you're my last chance Don't let `em take me to the Cadillac Ranch Cadillac, Cadillac... The River 1980 CANDY'S ROOM In Candy's room there are pictures of her heroes on the wall But to get to Candy's room you gotta walk the darkness of Candy's hall Strangers from the city call my baby's number and they bring her toys When I come knocking she smiles pretty she knows I wanna be Candy's boy There's a sadness hidden in that pretty face A sadness all her own from which no man can keep Candy safe We kiss my heart's pumpin' to my brain The blood rushes in my veins fire rushes towards the sky We go driving driving deep into the night I go driving deep into the light in Candy's eyes She says baby if you wanna be wild you got a lot to learn, close your eyes Let them melt let them fire let them burn `Cause in the darkness there'll be hidden worlds that shine When I hold Candy close she makes these hidden worlds mine She has fancy clothes and diamond rings She has men who'll give her anything she wants but they don't see That what she wants is me, oh and I want her so I'll never let her go no no no She knows that I'd give all that I got to live All that I want all that I live to make Candy mine Tonight Darkness on the Edge of Town 1978 CAUTIOUS MAN Bill Horton was a cautious man of the road He walked lookin' over his shoulder and remained faithful to its code When something caught his eye he'd measure his need And then very carefully he'd proceed Billy met a yound girl in the early days of May It was there in her arms he let his cautiousness slip away In their lovers twilight as the evening sky grew dim He'd lay back in her arms and laugh what had happened to him On his right hand Billy tatooed the word love and on his left hand was the word fear And in which hand he held his fate was never clear Come Indian summer he took his young lover for his bride And with own hands built a great house down by the riverside Now Billy was an honest man he wanted to do what was right He worked hard to fill their lives with happy days and loving nights Alone on his knees in the darkness for steadiness he'd pray For he knew in a restless heart the seed of betrayal lay One night Billy awoke froma terrible dream callin' his wife's name She lay breathing beside him in a peaceful sleep a thousand miles away He got dressed in the moonlight and down to the highway he strode When he got there he didn't find nothing but road Billy felt a coldness rise up inside him that he couldn't name Just as the words tattooed 'cross his knuckles he knew would always remain At their bedside he brushed the hair from his wife's face as the moon shone on her skin so white Filling their room with the beauty of God's fallen light Tunnel Of Love 1987 COVER ME The times are tough now, just getting tougher This old world is rough, it's just getting rougher Cover me, come on baby, cover me Well I'm looking for a lover who will come on in and cover me Promise me baby you won't let them find us Hold me in your arms, let's let our love blind us Cover me, shut the door and cover me Well I'm looking for a lover who will come on in and cover me Outside's the rain, the driving snow I can hear the wild wind blowing Turn out the light, bolt the door I ain't going out there no more This whole world is out there just trying to score I've seen enough I don't want to see any more, Cover me, come on and cover me I'm looking for a lover who will come on in and cover me Looking for a lover who will come on in and cover me From "Born in the U.S.A" 1984 CROSS MY HEART First time I crossed my heart I was beggin' baby, please At your bedside, down on my knees When I crossed my heart When I crossed my heart I crossed my heart, pretty baby over you Second time I crossed my heart rain came in from the south I was lyin' there with something sweet and salty in my mouth When I crossed my heart When I crossed my heart When I crossed my heart, pretty darlin' over you Well, you may think the world's black and white And you're dirty or you're clean You better watch out you don't slip Through them spaces in between Where the night gets sticky and the sky gets black I grabbed you, baby, and you grabbed me back And we crossed our hearts We crossed our hearts Yeah, I crossed my heart... Little boys, little girls They know their wrongs from their rights Once you cross your heart You ain't ever supposed to lie Well, life ain't nothin' but a cold hard ride I ain't leavin' 'til I'm satisfied I cross my heart Yeah, I cross my heart Well, I cross my heart, pretty darlin' over you Human Touch 1992 CRUSH ON YOU My feets were flyin' down the street just the other night When a Hong Kong special pulled up at the light What was inside, man, was just c'est magnifique I wanted to hold the bumper and let her drag me down the street (Chorus) Ooh, ooh, I gotta crush on you Ooh, ooh, I gotta crush on you Ooh, ooh, I gotta crush on you tonight Sometimes I spot a little stranger standing 'cross the room My brain takes a vacation just to give my heart more room For one kiss, darling I swear everything I would give Cause you're a walking, talking reason to live (Chorus) Well now she might be the talk of high society She's probably got a lousy personality She might be a heiress to Rockefeller She might be a waitress or a bank teller She makes the Venus de Milo look like she's got no style She make Sheena of the Jungle look meek and mild I need a quick shot, Doc, knock me off my feet Cause I'll be minding my own business walking down the street... watchout! (Chorus) The River 1980 DANCING IN THE DARK I get up in the evening, and I ain't got nothing to say I come home in the moring, I go to bed feeling the same way I ain't nothing but tired, man I'm just tired and bored with myself Hey there baby, I could use just a little help You can't start a fire, you can't start a fire without a spark This gun's for hire even if we're just dancing in the dark Message keeps getting clearer, radio's on and I'm moving round the place I check myself out in the mirror I wanna change my clothes my hair my face Man I ain't getting nowhere just sitting in a dump like this There's something happening somewhere baby I just know that there is You can't start a fire... You sit around getting older there's a joke here somewhere and it's on me I'll shake this world off my shoulders come baby this laughs on me Stay on the streets of this town and they'll be carving you up alright They say you got to stay hungry hey baby I'm just about starving tonight I'm dying for some action I'm sick of sitting 'round here trying to write this book I need a love reaction come on now baby give me just one look You can't start a fire.. Born In The USA 1984 DARLINGTON COUNTY Driving in to Darlington County Me and Wayne on the Fourth of July Driving in to Darlington County Looking for some work on the county line We drove down from New York City Where the girls are pretty but they just want to know your name Driving in to Darlington City Got a union connection with an uncle of Wayne's We drove eight hundred miles without seeing a cop We got rock and roll music blasting off the T-top singing Sha la la la la la la la la, Sha la la la la la la Hey little girl standing on the corner Today's your lucky day for sure all right Me and my buddy we're from New York City We got two hundred dollars we want to rock all night Girl you're looking at two big spenders Why the world don't know what me and Wayne might do Our pa's each own one of the World Trade Centers For a kiss and a smile I'll give mine all to you Come on baby take a seat on my fender It's a long night and tell me what else were you gonna do Just me and you we could Sha la la... Little girl sitting in the window Ain't seen my buddy in seven days County man tells me the same thing He don't work and he don't get paid Little girl you're so young and pretty Walk with me and you can have your way And we'll leave this Darlington City For a ride down that Dixie Highway Driving out of Darlington County My eyes seen the glory of the coming of the Lord Driving out of Darlington County Seen Wayne handcuffed to the bumper of a state trooper's Ford Sha la la... From "Born in the U.S.A." 1984 DOWNBOUND TRAIN I had a job, I had a girl I had something going mister in this world I got laid off down at the lumber yard Our love went bad, times got hard Now I work down at the carwash Where all it ever does is rain Don't you feel like you're a rider on a downbound train She just said "Joe I gotta go We had it once we ain't got it any more" She packed her bags left me behind She bought a ticket on the Central Line Nights as I sleep, I hear that whistle whining I feel her kiss in the misty rain And I feel like I'm a rider on a downbound train Last night I heard your voice You were crying, crying, you were so alone You said your love had never died You were waiting for me at home Put on my jacket, I ran through the woods I ran till I thought my chest would explode There in the clearing, beyond the highway In the moonlight, our wedding house shone I rushed through the yard, I burst through the front door My head pounding hard, up the stairs I climbed The room was dark, our bed was empty Then I heard that long whistle whine And I dropped to my knees, hung my head and cried Now I swing a sledge hammer on a railroad gang Knocking down them cross ties, working in the rain Now don't it feel like you're a rider on a downbound train From "Born in the U.S.A." 1984 DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN They're still racing out at the Trestles But that blood it never burned in her veins Now I hear she's got a house up in Fairview And a style she's trying to maintain Well if she wants to see me You can tell her that I'm easily found Tell her there's a spot out `neath Abram's Bridge And tell her there's a darkness on the edge of town Everybody's got a secret Sonny Something that they just can't face Some folks spend their whole lives trying to keep it They carry it with them every step that they take Till some day they just cut it loose Cut it loose or let it drag `em down Where no one asks any questions Or looks too long in your face In the darkness on the edge of town Some folks are born into a good life Other folks get it anyway anyhow I lost my money and I lost my wife Them things don't seem to matter much to me now Tonight I'll be on that hill `cause I can't stop I'll be on that hill with everything I got Lives on the line where dreams are found and lost I'll be there on time and I'll pay the cost For wanting things that can only be found In the darkness on the edge of town From "Darkness on the Edge of Town" 1978 DOES THIS BUS STOP AT 82nd STREET? Hey bus driver keep the change, bless your children, give them names, Don't trust men who walk with canes, drink this and you'll grow wings on your feet Broadway Mary, Joan Fontaine, advertiser on a downtown train Christmas crier bustin' cane, He's in love again. Where dock worker's dreams mix with panther's schemes to someday own the rodeo Tainted women in Vistavision perform for out-of-state kids at the late show. Wizard imps and sweat sock pimps, interstellar mongrel nymphs Rex said that lady left him limp. Love's like that (sure it is). Queen of diamonds, ace of spades newly discovered lovers of the everglades They take out a full page ad in the trades to announce their arrival And Mary Lou she found out how to cope, she rides to heaven on a gyroscope The Daily News asks her for the dope She says "Man, the dope's that there's still hope" Senorita, Spanish rose, wipes her eyes and blows her nose Uptown in Harlem she throw a rose to some lucky, young matador. Greetings from Asbury Park - N.J. 1975 DRIVE ALL NIGHT When I lost you honey sometimes I think I lost my guts too And I wish God would send me a word send me something I'm afraid to lose Lying in the heat of the night like prisoners all our lives I get shivers down my spine and all I wanna do is hold you tight (Chorus) I swear I'll drive all night just to buy you some shoes And to taste your tender charms And I just wanna sleep tonight again in your arms Tonight there's fallen angels and they're waiting for us down in the street Tonight there's calling strangers, hear them crying in defeat. Let them go, let them go, let them go, do their dances of the dead (let'em go right ahead) You just dry your eyes girl, and c'mon c'mon c'mon let's go to bed, baby, baby, baby (Chorus) There's machines and there's fire waiting on the edge of town They're out there for hire but baby they can't hurt us now Cause you've got, you've got, you've got, you've got my love, you've got my love Through the wind, through the rain, the snow, the wind, the rain You've got, you've got my, my love heart and soul The River 1980 FACTORY Early in the morning factory whistle blows, Man rises from bed and puts on his clothes, Man takes his lunch, walks out in the morning light, It's the working, the working, just the working life. Through the mansions of fear, through the mansions of pain, I see my daddy walking through them factory gates in the rain, Factory takes his hearing, factory gives him life, The working, the working, just the working life. End of the day, factory whistle cries, Men walk through these gates with death in their eyes. And you just better believe, boy, somebody's gonna get hurt tonight, It's the working, the working, just the working life. Darkness On The Edge of Town 1978 FADE AWAY Well now you say you've found another man who does things to you that I can't And that no matter what I do it's all over now between me and you girl But I can't believe what you say No I can't believe what you say 'cause baby (Chorus) I don't wanna fade away Oh I don't wanna fade away Tell me what can I do what can I say Cause darlin' I don't wanna fade away Well now you say that you've made up your mind it's been such a long, long time since it's been good with us And that somewhere back along the line you lost your love and I lost your trust Now rooms that once were so bright are filled with the coming night, darlin' (Chorus) You say it's not easy for you And that you've been so lonely While other girls go out doing what they want to do You say that you miss the nights when we'd go out dancing The days when you and I walked as two Well girl I miss them too Oh I swear that I do Oh girl Now baby I don't wanna be just another useless memory holding you tight Or just some other ghost out on the street to whom you stop and politely speak when you pass on by vanashing into the night left to vanish into the night No baby (Chorus) The River 1980 FIRE I'm driving in my car, I turn on the radio I'm pulling you close, you just say no You say you don't like it, but girl I know you're a liar `Cause when we kiss, Fire Late at night I'm takin' you home I say I wanna stay, you say you wanna be alone You say you don't love me, girl you can't hide your desire `Cause when we kiss, Fire You had a hold on me, right from the start A grip so tight I couldn't tear it apart My nerves all jumpin' actin' like a fool Well your kisses they burn but your heart stays cool Romeo and Juliet, Samson and Delilah Baby you can bet their love they didn't deny Your words say split but your words they lie `Cause when we kiss, Fire On 'Live Album 1975-1985' 1978 FOR YOU Princess cards she sends me with her regards Barroom eyes shine vacancy, to see her you gotta look hard Wounded deep in battle, I stand stuffed like some soldier undaunted To her Cheshire smile. I'll stand on file, she's all I ever wanted But you let your blue walls get in the way of these facts Honey, get your carpetbaggers off my back You wouldn't even give me time to cover my tracks You said "Here's your mirror and your ball and jacks" But they're not what I came for, and I'm sure you see that too I came for you, for you, I came for you, but you did not need my urgency I came for you, for you, I came for you, but your life was one long emergency And your cloud line urges me, and my electric surges free Crawl into my ambulance, your pulse is getting weak Reveal yourself all now to me girl while you've got the strength to speak `Cause they're waiting for you at Bellevue with their oxygen masks But I could give it all to you now if only you could ask And don't call for your surgeon even he says it's too late It's not your lungs this time, it's your heart that holds your fate Don't give me money, honey, I don't want it back You and your pony face and your union jack Well take your local joker and teach him how to act I swear I was never that way even when I really cracked Didn't you think I knew that you were born with the power of a locomotive Able tomleap tall buildings in a single bound? And your Chelsea suicide with no apparent motive You could laugh and cry in a single sound And your strength is devastating in the face of all these odds Remember how I kept you waiting when it was my turn to be the god? You were not quite half so proud when I found you broken on the beach Remember how I poured salt on your tongue and hung just out of reach And the band they played the homecoming theme as I caressed your cheek They ragged, jagged melody she still clings to me like a leach But that medal you wore on your chest always got in the way Like a little girl with a traphy so soft to buy her way We were both hitchhikers but you had your ear tuned to the roar Of some metal-tempered engine on an alien, distant shore So you, left to find a better reason than the one we were living for And it's not that nursery mouth I came back for It's not the way you're stretched out on the floor `Cause I've broken all your windows and I've rammed through all your doors And who am I to ask you to lick my sores? And you should know that's true I came for you, for you, I came for you, but you did not need my urgency I came for you, for you, I came for you, but your life was one long emergency And your cloud line urges me, and my electric surges free Greetings from Asbury Park - N.J. 1975 GLORIA'S EYES I was your big man I was your prince charming King on a white horse hey now look how far I've fallen I tried to trick you yeah but baby you got wise You cut me cut me right down to size Now I'm just a fool in Gloria's eyes Swore I'd get you back I was so sure I'd get you back like I done so many times before A little sweet talk to cover over all of the lies You came runnin' back but to my surprise Well there was somethin' gone in Gloria's eyes Well in the dark when it was just me and you I asked the question that I knew the answer to Is that a smile my little dolly on the shelf Tell me is that a smile Of is it something else? Now I work hard to prove my love is true Now I work hard and I bring it on home to you At night I pray as silently you lie Some day my love again will rise Like a shining torch in Gloria's eyes I was your big man your prince charming King on a white horse now look how far I've fallen Human Touch 1992 GLORY DAYS I had a friend was a big baseball player back in highschool He could throw that speedball by ya, make you look like a fool Saw him the other night at this roadside bar I was walking in he was walking out We went back inside, sat down, had a few drinks, but all we kept talking about Glory Days, yeah they'll pass you by Glory Days, in the wink of a young girl's eye Glory Days, glory days There's this girl that lives up the block, back in school she could turn all the boys heads Sometimes on Friday I'll stop by and have a few drinks after she put her kids to bed Her and her husband Bobby, well they split up, I guess it's two years gone by We just sit around talking about the old times, she says when she feels like crying she starts laughing thinking about Glory Days... Think I'm going down to the well tonight and I'm gonna drink till I get my fill I hope when I get older I don't sit around thinking about it, but I probably will Yeah just sitting back trying to recapture a little of the glory of Well the time slips away and leaves you with nothing, mister, but boring stories of Glory Days... All right boys keep it rocking now We gonna go home now Let's go! Born In The USA 1984 GROWIN' UP I stood stonelike at midnight suspended in my masquerade I combed my hair till it was just right and commanded the night brigade I was open to pain and crossed by the rain and I walked on a crooked crutch I strolled all alone through a fallout zone and came out with my soul untouched I hid in the clouded wrath of the crowd but when they said`Sit down'I stood up Ooh-ooh growin' up The flag of piracy flew from my mast my sails were set wing to wing I had a jukebox graduate for first mate she couldn't sail but she sure could sing I pushed B-52 and bombed `em with the blues with my gear set stubborn on standing I broke all the rules strafed my old high school never once gave thought to landing I hid in the clouded wrath of the crowd but when they said`Come down'I threw up Ooh-ooh growin' up I took month-long vacations in the stratosphere and you know it's really hard to hold your breath I swear I lost everything I ever loved or feared I was the cosmic kid Well my feet they finally took root in the earth but I got me a nice little place in the stars I swear I found the key to the universe in the engine of an old parked car I hid in the clouded wrath of the crowd but when they said`Sit down'I stood up Ooh-ooh growin' up Ooh-ooh growin' up Greetings from Asbury Park - N.J. 1975 HIGHWAY PATROLMAN My name is Joe Roberts I work for the state I'm a sergeant out of Perrineville barracks number 8 I always done an honest job as honest as I could I got a brother named Frankie and Frankie ain't no good Now ever since we was young kids it's been the same come down I get a call over the radio Frankie's in trouble downtown Well if it was any other man, I'd put him straight away But when it's your brother sometimes you look the other way Yeah me and Frankie laughin' and drinkin' Nothin' feels better than blood on blood Takin' turns dancin' with Maria as the band Played "Night of the Johnstown Flood" I catch him when he's strayin' like any brother would Man turns his back on his family well he just ain't no good Well Frankie went in the army back in 1965 I got a farm deferment, settled down, took Maria for my wife But them wheat prices kept on droppin' till it was like we were gettin' robbed Frankie came home in `68, and me, I took this job Yeah we're laughin' and drinkin' Nothin' feels better than blood on blood Takin' turns dancin' with Maria as the band Played "Night of the Johnstown Flood" I catch him when he's strayin' teach him how to walk that line Man turns his back on his family he ain't no friend of mine Well the night was like any other, I got a call `bout quarter to nine There was trouble in a roadhouse out on the Michigan line There was a kid lyin' on the floor lookin' bad bleedin' hard from his head There was a girl cry'n' at a table and it was Frank, they said Well I went out and I jumped in my car and I hit the lights Well I musta done one hundred and ten through Michigan county that night It was out at the crossroads, down `round Willow bank Seen a Buick with Ohio plates. Behind the wheel was Frank Well I chased him through them county roads Till a sign said "Canadian border five miles from here" I pulled over the side of the highway and watched his tail-lights disappear Me and Frankie laughin' and drinkin' Nothin' feels better than blood on blood Takin' turns dancin' with Maria as the band Played "Night of the Johnstown Flood" >From "Nebraska" 1982 HUMAN TOUCH You and me we were the pretenders We let it all slip away In the end what you don't surrender Well the world just strips away Girl, ain't no kindness in the face of strangers Ain't gonna find no miracles here Well you can wait on your blesses my darling I got a deal for you right here I ain't looking for praise or pity I ain't coming 'round searching for a crutch I just want someone to talk to And a little of that Human Touch Just a little of that Human Touch Ain't no mercy on the streets of this town Ain't no bread from Heavenly skies Ain't nobody drawing wine from this blood It's just you and me tonight Tell me, in a world without pity Do you think what I'm askin's too much I just want something to hold on to And a little of that Human Touch Just a little of that Human Touch Oh girl that feeling of safety that you prize Well it comes at a hard hard price You can't shut off the risk and the pain Without losing the love that remains We're all riders on this train So you've been broken and you've been hurt Show me somebody who ain't Yeah, I know I ain't nobody's bargain But, hell, a little touch up and a little paint... You might need something to hold on to When all the answers, they don't amount to much Somebody that you could just to talk to And a little of that Human Touch Baby, in a world without pity Do you think what I'm askin's too much I just want to feel you in my arms Share a little of that Human Touch Feel a little of that Human Touch Give me a little of that Human Touch Human Touch 1992 HUNGRY HEART Got a wife and kids in Baltimore Jack I went out for a ride and I never went back Like a river that don't know where it's flowing I took a wrong turn and I just kept going Everybody's got a hungry heart Everybody's got a hungry heart Lay down your money and you play your part Everybody's got a hungry heart I met her in a Kingstown bar We fell in love I knew it had to end We took what we had and we ripped it apart Now here I am down in Kingstone again Everybody's got a hungry heart... Everybody needs a place to rest Everybody wants to have a home Don't make no difference what nobody says Ain't nobody like to be alone Everybody's got a hungry heart... The River 1980 I'M A ROCKER I got a 007 watch and it's a one and only It's got a I-Spy beeper that tells me when you're lonely I got a Batmobile so I can reach ya' in a fast shake When your world's in crisis of an impendin' heartbreak Now don't you call James Bond or Secret Agent Man Cause they can't do it, like I can I'm a rocker, baby, I'm a rocker - every day I'm a rocker, baby, I'm a rocker If you're hanging from a cliff or you're tied to the tracks, girl Columbo split and you can't find Kojak True love is broken and your tears are fallin' faster You're sufferin' from a pain in your heart or some other natural disaster Now I don't care what kind of shape you're in If they put up a roadblock, I'll parachute in I'm a rocker, baby, I'm a rocker - I'm in love I'm a rocker, baby, I'm a rocker - every day I'm a rocker, baby, I'm a rocker - with you So you fell for some jerk who was tall, dark and handsome Then he kidnapped your heart and now he's holdin' it for ransom Well, like a mission impossible I'm gonna go and get it back You know I would'a taken better care of it, baby, than that Sometimes I get so hot girl, well, I can't talk But when I'm with you I cool off , and I walk I'm a rocker, baby, I'm a rocker, and I talk I'm a rocker, baby, I'm a rocker, every day I'm a rocker, baby, I'm a rocker, every day The River 1980 I'M GOIN' DOWN We sit in the car outside your house I can feel the heat coming 'round I go to put my arm around you and you give me a look like I'm way out of bounds well you let out one of your bored sighs Well lately when I look into your eyes I'm goin down We get dressed up and we go out, baby, for the night We come home early burning, burning in some fire fight I'm sick and tired of you setting me up Setting me up just to knock-a knock-a knock-a me down I pull you close but when we kiss I can feel a doubt I remember back when we started My kisses used to turn you inside out I used to drive you to work in the morning Friday night I'd drive you all around You used to love to drive me wild But lately girl you get your kicks from just driving me down Born In The USA 1984 I WANNA MARRY YOU I see you walking, baby, down the street Pushing that baby carriage at your feet I see the lonely ribbon in your hair Tell me I am the man for whom you put it there You never smile girl, you never speak You just walk on by, darlin' week after week Raising two kids alone in this mixed up world Must be a lonely life for a working girl (Chorus) Little girl, I wanna marry you Oh yeah, little girl, I wanna marry you Yes I do Little girl, I wanna marry you Now honey, I don't wanna clip your wings But a time comes when two people should think of these things Having a home and a family Facing up to their responsibilities They say in the end true love prevails But in the end true love can't be no fairytale To say I'll make your dreams come true would be wrong But maybe, darlin', I could help them along (Chorus) My daddy said right before he died That true, true love was just a lie He went to his grave a broken heart An unfulfilled life, makes a man hard Oh, darlin' There's something happy and there's something sad 'Bout wanting somebody, oh so bad, I wear my love darlin', without shame I'd be proud if you would wear my name The River 1980 I WISH I WERE BLIND Bobby Hatfield - harmony vocals I love to see the cottonwood blossom in the early spring I love to see the message of love that the bluebird brings But when I see you walking with him down along the strand I wish I were blind when I see you with your man I love to see your hair shining in the long summer's light I love to watch the stars fill the sky on a summer night The music plays, you take his hand I watch how you touch him as you start to dance And I wish I were blind when I see you with your man We struggle here but all our love's in vain And these eyes that once filled me with your beauty now fill me with pain And the light that once entered here is banished from me And this darkness is all, baby, that my heart sees And though the world is filled with the grace and beauty of God's hand Oh I wish I were blind when I see you with your man Human Touch 1992 IF I SHOULD FALL BEHIND We said we'd walk together baby come what may That come the twilight should we lose our way If as we're walkin a hand should slip free I'll wait for you And should I fall behind Wait for me We swore we'd travel darlin' side by side We'd help each other stay in stride But each lover's steps fall so differently But I'll wait for you And if I should fall behind Wait for me Now everyone dreams of a love lasting and true But you and I know what this world can do So let's make our steps clear that the other may see And I'll wait for you If I should fall behind Wait for me Now there's a beautiful river in the valley ahead There 'neath the oak's bough soon we will be wed Should we lose each other in the shadow of the evening trees I'll wait for you And should I fall behind Wait for me Darlin' I'll wait for you Should I fall behind Wait for me Lucky Town 1992 I'M ON FIRE Hey little girl is your daddy home Did he go away and leave you all alone I got a bad desire I'm on fire Tell me now baby is he good to you Can he do to you the things that I do I can take you higher I'm on fire Sometimes it's like someone tooh a knife baby edgy and dull and cut a six-inch valley through the middle of my soul At night I wake up with the sheets soaking wet and a freight train running through the middle of my head Only you can cool my desire I'm on fire Born In The USA 1984 INCIDENT ON 57th STREET Spanish Johnny drove in from the underworld last night with bruised arms and broken rhythm and a beat-up old Buick but dressed just like dynamite, He tried sellin' his heart to the hard girls over on Easy Street, But they said, "Johnny, it falls apart so easy and you know hearts these days are cheap." And the pimps swung their axes and said, "Johnny, you're a cheater." Well, the pimps swung their axes and said, "Johnny, you're a liar." And from out of the shadows cam e a young girl's voice, said: "Johnny don't cry." Puerto Rican Jane, oh won't you tell me what's your name. I want to drive you down to the other side of town where paradise ain't so crowded and there'll be action goin' down on Shanty Lane tonight All the golden heeled fairies in a real bitch-fight pull thirty-eights and kiss their girls goodnight. Goodnight, it's alright, Jane Now let them black boys in to light the soul flame, We may find it out on the street tonight, baby, Or we may walk until the daylight, maybe. Well, like a cool Romeo he made his moves, oh she looked so fine Like a late Juliet she knew she'd never be true but then she really didn't mind, Upstairs a band was playin' and the singer was singin' something about going home, She whispered, "Spanish Johnny, you can leave me tonight, but just don't leave me alone." And Johnny cried, "Puerto Rican Jane, word is down the cops have found the vein." Them bare foot boys left their homes for the woods Them little barefoot street boys, they said their homes ain't no good, They left the corners, threw away their switchblade knives and kissed each other goodbye. Johnny was sittin' on the fire escape watchin' the kids playin' down the street, He called down, "Hey little heroes, summer's long but I guess it ain't very sweet around here anymore, Janey sleeps in sheets damp with sweat, Johnny sits up alone and watches her dream on, dream on, And the sister prays for lost souls then breaks down in the chapel after everyone's gone. Jane moves over to share her pillow but opens her eyes to see Johnny up and putting his clothes on, She says, "Those romantic young boys, all they ever want to do is fight, Those romantic young boys, they're callin' through the window: Hey, Spanish Johnny, you want to make a little easy money tonight?" And Johnny whispered, "Goodnight, it's all tight Jane, I'll meet you tomorrow night on Lover's Lane We may find it out on the street tonight now baby Or we may walk until the daylight, baby." Goodnight, it's alright Jane, I'm gonna meet you tomorrow night on Lover's Lane, We can find it out on the street tonight, baby, Or we may walk until it's daylight, maybe. >From "The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle" 1973 INDEPENDENCE DAY Well Papa go to bed now it's getting late Nothing we can say is gonna change anything now I'll be leaving in the morning from St. Mary's Gate We wouldn't change this thing even if we could somehow `Cause the darkness of this house has got the best of us There's a darkness in this town that's got us too But they can't touch me now and you can't touch me now They ain't gonna do to me what I watched them do to you So say goodbye it's Independence Day It's Independence Day all down the line Just say goodbye it's Independence Day It's Independence Day this time Now I don't know what it always was with us We chose the words and yeah we drew the lines There was just no way this house could hold the two of us I guess that we were just too much of the same kind Well say goodbye it's Independence Day All boys must run away come Independence Day So say goodbye it's Independence Day All men must make their way come Independence Day Now the rooms are all empty down at Frankie's joint And the highway she's deserted down to Breaker's Point There's a lot of people leaving town now Leaving their friends their homes At night they walk that dark and dusty highway all alone Well Papa go to bed now it's getting late Nothing we can say can change anything now Because there's just different people coming down here now And they see things in different ways And soon everything we've known will just be swept away So say goodbye it's Independence Day Papa now I know the things you wanted that you could not say But won't you just say goodbye it's Independence Day I swear I never meant to take those things away The River 1980 IT'S HARD TO BE A SAINT IN THE CITY I had skin like leather and the diamond-hard look of a cobra I was born blue and weathered but I burst just like a supernova I could walk like Brando right into the sun Then dance just like a Casanova With my blackjack and jacket and hair slicked sweet Silver star studs on my duds like a Harley in heat When I strut down the street I could feel its heartbeat The sisters fell back and said "Don't that man look pretty" The cripple on the corner cried out "Nickels for your pity" Them downtown boys sure talk gritty It's so hard to be a saint in the city I was the king of the alley I could talk some trash I was the prince of the paupers crowned downtown at the beggar's bash I was the pimp's main prophet I kept everything cool A backstreet gambler with the luck to lose And when the heat came down it was left on the ground The devil appeared like Jesus through the steam in the street Showin' me a hand I knew even the cops couldn't beat I felt his hot breath on my neck as I dove into the heat It's so hard to be a saint when you're just a boy And the sages of the subway sit just like the living dead As the tracks clack out the rhythm their eyes fixed straight ahead They ride the line of balance and hold on by just a thread But it's too hot in these tunnels you can get hit up by the heat You get up to get out at your next stop but they push you back down in your seat Your heart starts beatin' faster as you struggle to your feet Then you're outa that hole and back up on the street And them South Side sisters sure look pretty The cripple on the corner cries out "Nickels for your pity" And them downtown boys sure talk gritty It's so hard to be a saint in the city Greetings from Asbury Park - N.J. 1975 JACKSON CAGE Driving home she grabs something to eat Turns a corner and drives down her street Into a row of houses she just melts away Like the scenery in another man's play Into a house where the blinds are closed To keep from seeing things she don't wanna know She pulls the blinds and looks out on the street The cool of the night takes the edge off the heat In the Jackson Cage Down in Jackson Cage You can try with all your might But you're reminded every night That you been judged and handed life Down in Jackson Cage Every day ends in wasted motion Just crossed swords on the killing floor To settle back is to settle without knowing The hard edge that you're settling for Because there's always just one more day And it's always gonna be that way Little girl you've been down here so long I can tell by the way that you move you belong to The Jackson Cage Down in Jackson Cage And it don't matter just what you say Are you tough enough to play the game they play Or will you just do your time and fade away Down into the Jackson Cage Baby there's nights when I dream of a better world But I wake up so downhearted girl I see you feeling so tired and confused I wonder what it's worth to me or you Just waiting to see some sun Never knowing if that day will ever come Left alone standing out on the street Till you become the hand that turns the key down in Jackson Cage Down in Jackson Cage Well darlin' can you understand The way that they will turn a man Into a stranger to waste away Down in the Jackson Cage The River 1980 JOHNNY 99 Well they closed down the auto plant in Mahwah late that month Ralph went out lookin' for a job but he couldn't find none He came home too drunk from mixin' Tanqueray and wine He got a gun shot a night clerk now they call'm Johnny 99 Down in the part of town where when you hit a red light you don't stop Johnny's wavin' his gun around and threatenin' to blow his top When an off-duty cop snuck up on him from behind Out in front of the Club Tip Top they slapped the cuffs on Johnny 99 Well the city supplied a public defender but the judge was Mean John Brown He came into the courtroom and stared young Johnny down Well the evidence is clear gonna let the sentence son fit the crime Prison for 98 and a year and we'll call it even Johnny 99 A fist fight broke out in the courtroom they had to drag Johnny's girl away His mama stood up and shouted "Judge don't take my boy this way" Well son you got a statement you'd like to make Before the bailiff comes to forever take you away Now judge I had debts no honest man could pay The bank was holdin' my mortgage and they were gonna take my house away Now I ain't sayin' that makes me an innocent man But it was more `n all this that put that gun in my hand Well your honor I do believe I'd be better off dead So if you can take a man's life for the thoughts that's in his head Then sit back in that chair and think it over judge one more time And let `em shave off my hair and put me on that killin' line From "Nebraska" 1982 JUNGLELAND The rangers had a homecoming in Harlem late last night And the Magic Rat drove his sleek machine over the Jersey state line Barefoot girl sitting on the hood of a Dodge Drinking warm beer in the soft summer rain The Rat pulls into town rolls up his pants Together they take a stab at romance and disappear down Flamingo Lane Well the Maximum Lawman run down Flamingo chasing the Rat and the barefoot girl And the kids round here look just like shadows always quiet, holding hands >From the churches to the jails tonight all is silence in the world As we take our stand down in Jungleland The midnight gang's assembled and picked a rendezvous for the night They'll meet `neath that giant Exxon sign that brings this fair city light Man there's an opera out on the Turnpike There's a ballet being fought out in the alley Until the local cops, Cherry Tops, rips this holy night The street's alive as secret debts are paid Contacts made, they vanished unseen Kids flash guitars just like switch-blades hustling for the record machine The hungry and the hunted explode into rock'n'roll bands That face off against each other out in the street down in Jungleland In the parking lot the visionaries dress in the latest rage Inside the backstreet girls are dancing to the records that the D.J. plays Lonely-hearted lovers struggle in dark corners Desperate as the night moves on, just a look and a whisper, and they're gone Beneath the city two hearts beat Soul engines running through a night so tender in a bedroom locked In whispers of soft refusal and then surrender in the tunnels uptown The Rat's own dream guns him down as shots echo down them hallways in the night No one watches when the ambulance pulls away Or as the girl shuts out the bedroom light Outside the street's on fire in a real death waltz Between flesh and what's fantasy and the poets down here Don't write nothing at all, they just stand back and let it all be And in the quick of the night they reach for their moment And try to make an honest stand but they wind up wounded, not even dead Tonight in Jungleland >From "Born to Run" 1978 KITTY'S BACK Catlong sighs holdin' Kitty's black tooth, She left to marry some top cat, ain't it the cold truth, And there hasn't been a tally since Sally left the alley, Since Kitty left with Big Pretty things have got pretty thin, It's tight on this fence since them young dudes are musclin' in. Jack Knife cries cause Baby's in a bundle, She goes runnin' nightly, lightly through the jungle, And them tin cans are explodin' out of the ninety degree heat, Cat somehow lost his baby down on Bleeker Street, It's sad but it sure is true Cat shrugs his shoulders, sits back and sighs. Catlong lies back bent on a trash can, Flashin' lights cut the night, dude in the white says he's the man, Well you better move fast when you're young or you're not long around, Cat somehow lost his Kitty in the city pound, So get right, get tight, get down. Who's that down at the end of the alley, she's been gone so long, Here she comes, here she comes, here she comes, here she comes, Kitty's back in town, here she comes now, Kitty's back in town, Cat knows Kitty's been untrue and that she left him for a city dude, Well she's so soft, she's so blue, When he looks into her eyes he just sits back and sighs, OOh what can I do, ooh what can I do? OOh what can I do, ohh what can I do? Alright. OOh alright, ooh alright, ooh alright, ooh alright. >From "The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle" 1973 LEAP OF FAITH All over the world the rain was pourin' I was scratchin' where it itched Oh heartbreak and despair got nothing but boring So I grapped you baby like a wild pitch It takes a leap of faith to get things going It takes a leap of faith you gotta show some guts It takes a leap of faith to get things going In your heart you must trust Now your legs were heaven your breasts were the altar Your body was the holy land You shouted "jump" but my heart faltered You laughed and said "Baby don't you understand?" It takes a leap of faith to get things going It takes a leap of faith you gotta show some guts It takes a leap of faith to get things going In your heart you must trust Now you were the Red Sea I was Moses I kissed you and slipped into a bed of roses The waters parted and love rushed inside I was Jesus' son sanctified Tonight the moon's looking young but I'm feelin' younger 'Neath a veil of dreams sweet blessings rain Honey I can feel the first breeze of summer And in your love I'm born again It takes a leap of faith to get things going It takes a leap of faith you gotta show some guts It takes a leap of faith to get things going In your heart you must trust Roy Bittan, keyboards Lisa Lowell, backing vocals Patti Scialfa, backing vocals Soozie Tyrell, backing vocals Lucky Town 1992 LIVING PROOF Well now on a summer night in a dusky room Come a little piece of the Lord's undying light Crying like he swallowed the fiery moon In his mother's arms it was all the beauty I could take Like the missing words to some prayer that I could never make In a world so hard and dirty so fouled and confused Searching for a little bit of God's mercy I found living proof I put my heart and soul I put 'em high upon a shelf Right next to the faith the faith that I'd lost in myself I went down into the desert city Just tryin' so hard to shed my skin I crawled deep into some kind of darkness Lookin' to burn out every trace of who I'd been You do some sad sad things baby When it's your you 're tryin' to lose You do some sad and hurtfull things I've seen living proof You shot through my anger and rage To show me my prison was just an open cage There were no keys no guards Just one frightened man and some old shadows for bars Well now all that's sure on the boulevard Is that life is just a house of cards As fragile as each and every breath Of this boy sleepin' in our bed Tonight let's lie beneath the eaves Just a close band of happy thieves And when that train comes we'll get on board And steal what we can from the treasures of the Lord It's been along long drought baby Tonight the rain's pourin' down on our roof Looking for a little bit of God's mercy I found living proof Roy Bittan, keyboards Lucky Town 1992 LOCAL HERO I was driving through my hometown I was just kinda killin' time When I seen a face staring out of a black velvet painting >From the window of the five and dime I couldn't quite recall the name But the pose looked familiar to me So I asked the salesgirl "Who was that man Between the doberman and Bruce Lee?" She said "Just a local hero" "Local hero" she said with a smile "Yeah a local hero he used to live here for a while" I met a stranger dressed in black At the train station He said "Son your soul can be saved" There's a beautiful women nights of low livin' And some dangerous money to be made There's a big town 'cross the whiskey line And if we turn the right card up They make us boss the devil pays off And them folks that are real hard up They get their local hero Somebody with the right style They get their local hero Somebody with just the right smile Well I learned my job I learned it well Fit myself with religion and a story to tell First they made me the king then they made me pope Then they brought the rope I woke to a gypsy girl sayin' "Drink this" Well my hands had lost all sensation These days I'm feeling all right 'Cept I can't tell my courage from my desperation >From the tainted chalice Well I drunk some heady wine Tonight I'm layin' here But there's something in my ear Sayin' there's a little town just beneath the floodline Needs a local hero Somebody with the right style Lookin' for a local hero Someone with the right smile Local hero local hero she said with a smile Local hero he used to live here for a while Lisa Lowell, backing vocals Patti Scialfa, backing vocals Soozie Tyrell, backing vocals Lucky Town 1992 LOST IN THE FLOOD The ragamuffin gunner is returnin' home like a hungry runaway He walks through town all alone He must be from the fort he hears the high school girls say His countryside's burnin' with wolfman fairies dressed in drag for homicide The hit and run, plead sanctuary, `neath a holy stone they hide They're breakin' beams and crosses with a spastic's reelin' perfection Nuns run bald through Vatican halls pregnant, pleadin' immaculate conception And everybody's wrecked on Main Street from drinking unholy blood Sticker smiles sweet as gunner breathes deep, his ankles caked in mud And I said "Hey gunner man that's quicksand, that's quicksand that ain't mud Have you thrown your senses to the war or did you lose them in the flood?" That pure American brother, dull-eyed and empty-faced Races Sundays in Jersey in a Chevy stock super eight He rides `er low on the hip, on the side he's got Bound For Glory in red, white and blue flash paint He leans on the hood telling racing stories, the kids call him Jimmy The Saint Well the blaze and noise boy, he's gunnin' that bitch loaded to blastin' point He rides head first into a hurricane and disappears into a point And there's nothin' left but some blood where the body fell That is, nothin' left that you could sell Just junk all across the horizon, a real highwayman's farewell And he said "Hey kid, you think that's oil? Man, that ain't oil that's blood" I wonder what he was thinking when he hit that storm Or was he just lost in the flood? Eighth Avenue sailors in satin shirts whisper in the air Some storefront incarnation of Maria, she's puttin' on me the stare And Bronx's best apostle stands with his hand on his own hard ware Everything stops, you hear five, quick shots, the cops come up for air And now the whiz-bang gang from uptown, they're shootin' up the street And that cat from the Bronx starts lettin' loose but he gets blown right off his feet And some kid comes blastin' round the corner but a cop puts him right away He lays on the street holding his leg screaming something in Spanish Still breathing when I walked away And somebody said "Hey man did you see that? His body hit the street with such a beautiful thud" I wonder what the dude was sayin' or was he just lost in the flood? Hey man, did you see that, those poor cats are sure messed up I wonder what they were gettin' into, or were they just lost in the flood? Greetings from Asbury Park - N.J. 1975 LUCKY TOWN House got too crowded clothes got too tight And I don't know just where I'm going tonight Out where the sky's been cleared by a good hard rain There's somebody callin' my secret name I'm going down to Lucky Town Going down to Lucky Town I wanna lose these blues I've found Down in Lucky Town Down in Lucky Town Had a coat of fine leather and snakeskin boots But that coat always had a tread hangin' loose Well I pulled it one night and to my surprise It led me right past your house and on over the rise I'm going down to Lucky Town Down to Lucky Town I'm gonna lose these blues I've found Down in Lucky Town Down in Lucky Town I had some victory that was just failure in deceit Now the joke's comin' up through the soles of my feet I been a long time walking on fortune's cane Tonight I'm steppin' lightly and feelin' no pain Well here's to your good looks baby now here's to my health Here's to the loaded places that we take ourselves When it comes to luck you make your own Tonight I got dirt on my hands but I'm building me a new home Down in Lucky Town Down in Lucky Town I'm gonna lose these blues I've found Down in Lucky Town B. Springsteen, bass Lucky Town 1992 MAN'S JOB Bobby King - vocals Sam Moore - vocals Well you can go out with him Play with all of his toys But takin' care of you darlin' Ain't for one of the boys Oh there's somethin' in your soul That he's gonna rob And lovin' you baby lovin' you darlin' Lovin' you woman is a man's man's job Lovin' you's a man's job baby Lovin' you's a man's job Lovin' you's a man's job baby Lovin' you's a man's job Well now his kisses may thrill Those other girls that he likes But when it comes to treatin' A real woman right Well of all of his tricks No they won't be enough 'Cause lovin' you baby lovin' you woman Lovin' you darlin' is a man's man's job Lovin' you's a man's job baby Lovin' you's a man's job Lovin' you's a man's job baby Lovin' you's a man's job You're dancin' with him he's holding you tight I'm standing here waitin' to catch your eye Your hand's on his neck as the music sways All my illusions slip away REPEAT RIFF FROM INTRO TWICE Now if you're lookin' for a hero Someone to save the day Well darlin' my feet They're made of clay But I've got something in my soul And I wanna give it up But gettin' up the nerve Gettin' up the nerve Gettin' up the nerve is a man's man's job Lovin' you's a man's job baby Lovin' you's a man's job Lovin' you's a man's job woman Lovin' you's a man's job Human Touch 1992 MANSION ON THE HILL There's a place out on the edge of town, sir, Risin' above the factories and the fields Now, ever since I was a child, I can remember That mansion on the hill In the day you can see the children playing On the road that leads to those gates of hardened steel Steel gates that completely surround, sir, The mansion on the hill At night my daddy'd take me and we'd ride Through the streets of a town so silent and still Park on a back road along the highway side Look up at that mansion on the hill In the summer all the lights would shine There'd be music playin', people laughin' all the time Me and my sister, we'd hide out in the tall cornfields Sit and listen to the mansion on the hill Tonight down here in Linden Town I watch the cars rushin' by, home from the mill There's a beautiful full moon rising Above the mansion on the hill From "Nebraska" 1982 MARY QUEEN OF ARKANSAS Mary queen of Arkansas, it's not too early for dreamin' The sky is grown with cloud seed sown and a bastard's love can be redeeming Mary, my queen, your soft hulk is reviving No, you're not too late to desecrate, the servants are just rising Well I'm just a lonely acrobat, the live wire is my trade I've been a shine boy for your acid brat and a wharf rat of your state Mary, my queen, your blows for freedom are missing You're not man enough for me to hate or woman enough for kissing The big top is for dreamers, we can take the circus all the way to the border And the gallows wait for martyrs whose papers are in order But I was not born to live to die and you were not born for queenin' It's not too late to infiltrate, the servants are just leavin' Mary queen of Arkansas, your white skin is deceivin' You wake and wait to lie in bait and you almost got me believin' But on your bed Mary I can see the shadow of a noose I don't understand how you can hold ma so tight and love me so damn loose But I know a place where we can go, Mary Where I can get a good job and start all over again clean I got contacts deep in Mexico where the servants have been seen Greetings from Asbury Park - N.J. 1975 MEETING ACROSS THE RIVER Hey, Eddie, can you lend me a few bucks And tonight can you get us a ride Gotta make it through the tunnel Got a meeting with a man on the other side Hey Eddie, this guy, he's the real thing So if you want to come along You gotta promise you won't say anything `Cause this guy don't dance And the word's been passed this is our last chance We gotta stay cool tonight, Eddie `Cause man, we got ourselves out on that line And if we blow this one They ain't gonna be looking for just me this time And all we gotta do is hold up our end Here stuff this in your pocket It'll look like you're carrying a friend And remember, just don't smile Change your shirt, `cause tonight we got style Well Cherry says she's gonna walk `Cause she found out I took her radio and hocked it But Eddie, man, she don't understand That two grand's practically sitting here in my pocket And tonight's gonna be everything that I said And when I walk through that door I'm just gonna throw that money on the bed She'll see this time I wasn't just talking Then I'm gonna go out walking Hey Eddie, can you catch us a ride? From "Born to Run" 1976 MY BEAUTIFUL REWARD Well I sought gold and diamond rings My own drug to ease the pain that living brings Walked from the mountain to the valley floor Searching for my beautiful reward Searching for my beautiful reward >From a house on a hill a sacred light shines I walk through these rooms but none of them are mine Down empty hallways I went from door to door Searching for my beautiful reward Searching for my beautiful reward Well your hair shone in the sun I was so high I was the lucky one Then I came crashing down like a drunk on a barroom floor Searching for my beautiful reward Searching for my beautiful reward Tonight I can feel the cold wind at my back I'm flyin' high over gray fields my feathers long and black Down along the river's silent edge I soar Searching for my beautiful reward Searching for my beautiful reward Ian McLagen, Hammond organ Lucky Town 1992 MY FATHER'S HOUSE Last night I dreamed that I was a child Out where the pines grow wild and tall I was trying to make it home through the forest Before the darkness falls I heard the wind rustling through the trees And ghostly voices rose from the fields I ran with my heart pounding down that broken path With the devil snappin' at my heels I broke through the trees, and there in the night My father's house stood shining hard and bright The branches and brambles tore my clothes and scratched my arms But I ran till I fell, shaking in his arms I awoke and I imagined the hard things that pulled us apart Will never again, sir, tear us from each other's hearts I got dressed, and to that house I did ride From out on the road, I could see its windows shining in light I walked up the steps and stood on the porch A woman I didn't recognize came and spoke to me through a chained door I told her my story, and who I'd come for She said "I'm sorry, son, but no one by that name lives here anymore" My father's house shines hard and bright It stands like a beacon calling me in the night Calling and calling, so cold and alone Shining `cross this dark highway where our sins lie unatoned From "Nebraska" 1982 MY HOMETOWN I was eight years old and running with a dime in my hand Into the bus stop to pick up a paper for my old man I'd sit on his lap in that big old Buick and steer as we drove through town He'd tousle my hair and say son take a good look around This is your hometown, this is your hometown This is your hometown, this is your hometown In `65 tension was running high at my high school There was a lot of fights between the black and white There was nothing you could do Two cars at a light on a Saturday night in the back seat there was a gun Words were passed in a shotgun blast Troubled times had come to my hometown My hometown, my hometown, my hometown Now Main Street's whitewashed windows and vacant stores Seems like there ain't nobody wants to come down here no more They're closing down the textile mill across the railroad tracks Foreman says these jobs are going boys and they ain't coming back to Your hometown, your hometown, your hometown, your hometown Last night me and Kate we laid in bed talking about getting out Packing up our bags maybe heading south I'm thirty-five we got a boy of our own now Last night I sat him up behind the wheel and said son take a good look around This is your hometown Born in the U.S.A. 1984 NEBRASKA I saw her standin' on her front lawn just twirlin' her baton Me and her went for a ride sir and ten innocent people died From the town of Lincoln Nebraska with a sawed-off .410 on my lap Through to the badlands of Wyoming I killed everything in my path I can't say that I'm sorry for the things that we done At least for a little while sir me and her we had us some fun The jury brought in a guilty verdict and the judge he sentenced me to death Midnight in a prison storeroom with leather straps across my chest Sheriff when the man pulls that switch sir and snaps my poor neck back You make sure my pretty baby is sittin' right there on my lap They declared me unfit to live said into that great void my soul'd be hurled They wanted to know why I did what I did Well sir I guess there's just a meanness in this world From "Nebraska" 1982 NEW YORK CITY SERENADE Billy, he's down by the railroad tracks, sittin' low in the back seat of his Cadillac, Diamond Jackie, she's so intact, she falls so softly beneath him, Jackie's heels are stacked, Billy's got cleats on his boots, Together they're gonna boogaloo down Broadway and come back home with the loot, It's midnight in Manhattan, this is no time to get cute, it's a mad dog's promenade, So walk tall, or baby don't walk at all. Fish lady, fish lady, fish lady she baits them tenement walls, She won't take cornerboys, ain't got no money, and they're so easy, I said, "Hey baby won't you take my hand, walk me down Broadway, I'm a young man and I talk real loud, yeah, baby walk real proud for you. So shake it away, so shake away your street life, shake away your city life, And hook up to the train, hook up to the night train, hook it up hook up to the, hook up to the train, But I know that she won't take the train, no she won't take the train, No she won't take the train, no she won't take the train She's afraid them tracks are gonna slow her down, And when she turns this boy'll be gone So long, sometimes you just gotta walk on. Hey vibes man, hey jazz man play me your serenade Any deeper blue and you're playin' in your grave Save your notes, don't spend 'em on the blues boy, Save your notes, don't spend 'em on the darlin' yearlin' sharp boy, Straight for the church note ringin', vibes man sting a trash can Listen to your junk man, listen to your junk man, Listen to your junk man, listen to your junk man, He's singin', singin', singin', singin'. All dressed up in satin, walkin' past the alley. Watch out for you junk man, watch out for your junk man, Watch out for your junk man. >From "The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle" 1973 NIGHT You get up every morning at the sound of the bell You get to work late and the boss man's giving you hell Till you're out on a midnight run Losing your heart to a beautiful one And it feels right as you lock up the house Turn out the lights and step out into the night And the world is busting at its seams And you're just a prisoner of your dreams Holding on for your life `cause you work all day To blow `em away in the night The rat traps filled with soul crusaders The circuits lined and jammed with chromed invaders And she's so pretty that you're lost in the stars As you jockey your way through the cars And sit at the light, as it changes to green With your faith in your machine off you scream into the night And you're in love with all the wonder it brings And every muscle in your body sings as the highway ignites You work nine to five and somehow you survive till the night Hell all day they're busting you up on the outside But tonight you're gonna break on through to the inside And it'll be right, it'll be right, and it'll be tonight And you know she will be waiting there And you'll find her somehow you swear Somewhere tonight you run sad and free Until all you can see is the night From "Born to Run" 1976 NO SURRENDER We busted out of class had to get away from those fools We learned more from a three-minute record than we ever learned in school Tonight I heart the neighborhood drummer sound I can feel my heart begin to pound You say you're tired and you just want to close your eyes and follow your dreams down We made a promise we swore we'd always remember No retreat, believe me, no surrender Like soldiers in the winter's night with a vow to defend No retreat, believe me, no surrender Now young faces grow sad and old and hearts of fire grow cold We swore blood brothers against the wind I'm ready to grow young again And hear your sister's voice calling us home across the open yards Believin' we could cut someplace of our own With these drums and these guitars We made a promise we swore we'd always remember No retreat, believe me, no surrender Blood brothers in the stormy night with a vow to defend No retreat, believe me, no surrender Now on the street tonight the lights grow dim The walls of my room are closing in But it's good to see your smiling face and to hear your voice again We could sleep in the twilight by the river side With a wide open country in our hearts And these romanics dreams in our heads We made a promise... Born In The USA 1984 ONE STEP UP Patti Scialfa - vocals Woke up this morning my house was cold Checked out the furnace she wasn't burnin' Went out and hoped in my old Ford Hit the engine but she ain't turnin' We've given each other some hard lessons lately But we ain't learnin' We're the same sad story that's a fact One step up and two steps back Bird on a wire outside my motel room But he ain't singin' Girl in white outside a church in June But the church bells they ain't ringing I'm sitting here in this bar tonight But all I'm thinkin' is I'm the same old story same old act One step up and two steps back It's the same thing night on night Who's wrong baby who's right Another fight and I slam the door on Another battle in our dirty little war When I look at myself I don't see The man I wanted to be Somewhere along the line I slipped off track I'm caught movin' one step up and two steps back There's a girl across the bar I get the message she's sending Mmm she ain't lookin' to married And me well honey I'm pretending Last night I dreamed I held you in my arms The music was never-ending We danced as the evening sky faded to black One step up and two steps back Tunnel Of Love - 1987 OPEN ALL NIGHT Well, I had the carburator, baby, cleaned and checked With her line blown out she's hummin' like a turbojet Propped her up in the backyard on concrete blocks For a new clutch plate and a new set of shocks Took her down to the carwash, check the plugs and point Well, I'm goin' out tonight. I'm gonna rock that joint Early north Jersey industrial skyline I'm a all-set cobra jet creepin' through the nighttime Gotta find a gas station, gotta find a pay phone This turnpike sure is spooky at night when you're all alone Gotta hit the gas, baby. I'm running late This New Jersey in the mornin' like a lunar landscape Now, the boss don't dig me, so he put me on the night shift It's an all-night run to get back to where my baby lives In the wee, wee hours your mind gets hazy Radio relays towers, won't you lead me to my baby? Underneath the overpass, trooper hits his party light switch Good night, good luck. One, two power shift I met Wanda when she was employed Behind the counter at Route Sixty Bob's Big Boy Fried Chicken On the front seat, she's sittin' in my lap We're wipin' our fingers on a Texaco road map I remember Wanda up on scrap metal hill With them big brown eyes that make your heart stand still Well, at five a.m., oil pressure's sinkin' fast I make a pit stop, wipe the windshield, check the gas Gotta call my baby on the telephone Let her know that her daddy's comin' on home Sit tight, little mama, I'm comin' `round I got three more hours, but I'm coverin' ground Your eyes get itchy in the wee, wee hours Sun's just a red ball risin' over them refinery towers Radio's jammed up with gospel stations Lost souls callin' long distance salvation Hey, mister deejay, won'tcha hear my last prayer? Hey, ho, rock'n'roll, deliver me from nowhere From "Nebraska" 1982 OUT IN THE STREET Put on your best dress baby And darlin', fix your hair up right Cause there's a party, honey Way down beneath the neon lights All day you've been working that hard line Now tonight you're gonna have a good time I work five days a week girl Loading crates down on the dock I take my hard earned money And meet my girl down on the block And Monday when the foreman calls time I've already got Friday on my mind When that whistle blows Girl, I'm down the street I'm home, I'm out of my work clothes When I'm out in the street I walk the way I wanna walk When I'm out in the street I talk the way I wanna talk When I'm out in the street When I'm out in the street When I'm out in the street, girl Well, I never feel alone When I'm out in the street, girl In the crowd I feel at home The black and whites they cruise by And they watch us from the corner of their eye But there ain't no doubt girl, down here We ain't gonna take what they're handing out When I'm out in the street I walk the way I wanna walk When I'm out in the street I talk the way I wanna talk Baby, out in the street I don't feel sad or blue Baby, out in the street I'll be waiting for you When the whistle blows Girl, I'm down the street I'm home, I'm out of my work clothes When I'm out in the street I walk the way I wanna walk When I'm out in the street I talk the way I wanna talk When I'm out in the street Pretty girls, they're all passing by When I'm out in the street >From the corner, we give them the eye Baby, out in the street I just feel all right Meet me out in the street, little girl, tonight Meet me out in the street Meet me out in the street The River 1980 PART MAN PART MONKEY They prosecuted some poor sucker in these United States for teachin' that man descended from the apes They coulda settles that case without a fuss or fight If they'd seen me chasin' you sugar Thru the jungle last night They'd a called in that jury and a one two three said 'Part man part monkey, definitely' Well the church bell rings from the corner steeple Man in a monkey suit swears he'll do no evil Offers his lover's prayer but his soul lies Dark and driftin and unsatisfied Well hey bartender tell me what'd ya see Part man part monkey looks like to me Well the night is dark the moon is full The flowers of romance exert their pull We talk a while my fingers slip I'm hard and cracking like a whip Well did God make man in a breath of holy fire Or did he crawl on up out of the muck and mire Well the man on the street Believes what the bible tells him so But you can ask me mister because I know Tell them soul-suckin' preachers to come on down and see Part man part monkey, baby that's me Roy Bittan: keyboards Michael Fisher: Percussion Omar Hakim: Drums Randy Jackson: bass David Sancious: Hammond Organ Bruce Springsteen: Guitar/Vocals PONY BOY Patti Scialfa - vocals Pony boy pony boy Won't you be my pony boy Giddy-up giddy-up giddy-up whoo My pony boy Ride with me ride with me Won't you take a ride with me Underneath the starry sky My pony boy O'er the hills and through the trees We'll go ridin' you and me Giddy-up giddy-up giddy-away My pony boy Down into the valley deep 'Neath the eaves we will sleep Sky of dreams up above My pony boy Human Touch 1992 RACING IN THE STREET I got a sixty-nine Chevy with a 396 Fuelie heads and a Hurst on the floor She's waiting tonight down in the parking lot Outside the Seven-Eleven store Me and my partner Sonny built her straight out of scratch And he rides with me from town to town We only run for the money got no strings attached We shut `em up and then we shut `em down Tonight tonight the strip's just right I wanna blow `em off in my first heat Summer's here and the time is right We're goin' racin' in the street We take all the action we can meet And we cover all the northeast state When the strip shuts down we run `em in the street From the fire roads to the interstate Some guys they just give up living And start dying little by little piece by piece Some guys come home from work and wash up Then go racin' in the street Tonight tonight the strip's just right I wanna blow `em all out of their seats Calling out around the world We're going racin' in the street I met her on the strip three years ago In a Camaro with this dude from L.A. I blew that Camaro off my back and drove that little girl away But now there's wrinkles around my baby's eyes And she cries herself to sleep at night When I come home the house is dark She sighs "Baby did you make it all right" She sits on the porch of her daddy's house But all her pretty dreams are torn She stares off alone into the night With the eyes of one who hates for just being born For all the shut-down strangers and hot rod angels Rumbling through this promised land Tonight my baby and me we're gonna ride to the sea And wash these sins off our hands Tonight tonight the highway's bright Out of our way mister you best keep `Cause summer's here and the time is right We're goin' racin' in the street Darkness on the Edge of Town 1978 POINT BLANK Do you still say your prayers little darlin' do you go to bed at night Prayin' that tommorow, everything will be alright But tommorow's fall in number in number one by one You wake up and you're dying you don't even know what from Well they shot you point blank you been shot in the back Baby point blank you been fooled this time little girl that's a fact Right between the eyes baby, point blank right between the pretty lies that they tell Little girl you fell You grew up where young girls they grow up fast You took what you were handed and left behind what was asked but what they asked baby wasn't right you didn't have to live that life, I was gonna be your Romeo you were gonna be my Juliet These days you don't wait on Romeo's you wait on that welfare check and on all the pretty things that you can't ever have and on all the promises That always end up point blank, shot between the eyes Point blank like little white lies you tell to ease the pain You're walkin' in the sights, girl of point blank and it's one false move and baby the lights go out Once I dreamed we were together again baby you and me Back home in those old clubs the way we used to be We were standin' at the bar it was hard to hear The band was playin' loud and you were shoutin' somethin' in my ear You pulled my jacket off and as the drummer counted four You grabbed my hand and pulled me out on the floor You just stood there and held me, then you started dancin' slow And as I pulled you tighter I swore I'd never let you go Well I saw you last night down on the avenue Your face was in the shadows but I knew that it was you You were standin' in the doorway out of the rain You didn't answer when I called out your name You just turned, and then you looked away like just another stranger waitin' to get blown away Point blank, right between the eyes Point blank, right between the pretty lies you fell Point blank, shot right through the heart Yea point blank, you've been twisted up till you've become just another part of it Point blank, you're walkin' in the sights Point blank, livin' one false move just one false move away Point blank, they caught you in their sights Point blank, did you forget how to love, girl, did you forget how to fight. Point blank they must have shot you in the head Cause point blank, bang bang baby you're dead. The River 1980 PROVE IT ALL NIGHT I've been working real hard, trying to get my hands clean, Tonight we'll drive that dusty road from Monroe to Angeline, To buy you a gold ring and pretty dress of blue, Baby just one kiss will get these things for you, A kiss to seal our fate tonight, A kiss to prove it all night. (Chorus) Prove it all night, Girl there's nothing else that we can do, Sp prove it all night, prove it all night, And girl I'll prove it all night for you. Everybody's got a hunger, a hunger they can't resist, There's so much that you want, you deserve much more than this, But if dreams came true, oh, wouldn't that be nice, But this ain't no dream we're living through tonight, Girl, you want it, you take it, you pay the price. (Chorus) Prove it all night, prove it all night girl and call the bluff, prove it all night, prove it all night and girl, I prove it all night for your love. Baby, tie your hair back in a long white bow, Meet me in the fields out behind the dynamo, You hear the voices telling you not to go, They made their choices and they'll never know, What it means to steal, to cheat, to lie, What it's like to live and die. (Chorus) To prove it all night... Darkness On the Edge of Town 1978 RAMROD Hey, little dolly with the blue jeans on I wanna ramrod with you honey, till half- past dawn Let your hair down sugar and pick up this beat Come on and meet me tonight down on Bluebird Street I've been working all week, I'm up to my neck in hock Come Saturday night I let my ramrod rock She's a hot stepping hemi with a four on the floor She's a roadrunner engine in a '32 Ford Late at night when I'm dead on the line I swear I think of your pretty face when I let her unwind Well look over yonder see them city lights Come on little dolly 'n' go ramroddin' tonight Come on, come on, come on little baby Come on, come on let's shake it tonight Come on, come, come on little sugar Dance with your daddy and we'll go ramroddin' tonight Hey, little dolly won't you say you will Meet me tonight up on top of the hill Well just a few miles cross the county line There's a cute little chapel nestled down in the pines Say you'll be mine little girl I'll put my foot to the floor Give me the word now sugar, we'll go ramroddin' forever more The River 1980 REAL MAN Ian Mclagen - piano David Sancious - organ Took my baby to a picture show Found a seat in the back row Sound came up lights went down Rambo he was blowin' 'em down I don't need no gun in my fist baby All I need is your sweet kiss To get me feelin' like a real man Feelin' like a real man Well you can beat on your chest Hell any monkey can But you got me feelin' like a real man Oh feelin' like a real man Me and my girl Saturday night Late movie on channel five The girls were droppin' they're droppin' like flies To some smooth talkin' cool walkin' private eye I ain't got no nerves of steel But all I got to know is if your love is real To get me feelin' like a real man Oh feelin' like a real man Well you can beat... I ain't no fighter that's easy to see And as a lover I ain't goin' down in history But when the lights go down and you pull me close Well I look in your eyes and there's one thing I know Baby I'll be tough enough If I can find the guts to give you all my love Then I'll be feelin' like a real man Oh feelin' like a real man Well you can beat... Human Touch 1992 REAL WORLD Mr. Trouble come walkin' this way Year gone by feels like one long day but I'm alive And I'm feelin' all right Well I run that hard road outta heartbreak city Built a roadside carnival out of hurt and self-pity, it was all wrong Well now I'm moving on Ain't no church bells ringing Ain't no flags unfurled It's just me and you and the love we're bringing Into the real world Into the real world I built a shrine in my heart, iasn't pretty to see Made out of fool's gold memory and tears cried Now I'm headin' over the rise I'm searchin' for one clear moment of love and truth I still got a little faith but what I need is some proof tonight I'm lookin' for it in your eyes Ain't no church bells ringing Ain't no flags unfurled Just me and you and the faith we're bringing into the real world Into the real world Well tonight I just wanna shout I feel my soul waist deep and sinking into this black river of doubt I just wanna rise and walk along the riverside And when the morning comes baby I don't wanna hide I'll stand right at your side with my arms open wide (killer guitar solo here) Well tonight I just wanna shout I feel my soul waist deep and sinking into this black river of doubt I just wanna rise and walk along the riverside 'Til the morning comes I'll stand right by your side I wanna find some answers I wanna ask for some help I'm tired of running scared baby let's get our bags packed We'll take it here to hell and heaven and back And if love is hopeless, hopeless at best Come on put on your party dress, it's ours tonight And we're goin' with the tumblin' dice Ain't no church bells ringing Ain't no flags unfurled It's just me and you and the hope we're bringing into the real world Well into the real world Oh into the real world Human Touch 1992 REASON TO BELIEVE Seen a man standin' over a dead dog lyin' by the highway in a ditch He's lookin' down kinda puzzled pokin' that dog with a stick Got his car door flung open he's standin' out on Highway 31 Like if he stood there long enough that dog'd get up and run Struck me kinda funny seem kinda funny sir to me At the end of every hard earned day people find some reason to believe Now Mary Lou loved Johnny with a love mean and true She said "Baby I'll work for you every day and bring my money home to you" One day he up and left her and ever since that She waits down at the end of that dirt road for young Johnny to come back Struck me kinda funny seemed kind of funny sir to me How at the end of every hard earned day people find some reason to believe Take a baby to the river Kyle William they called him Wash the baby in the water take away little Kyle's sin In a whitewash shotgun shack an old man passes away Take his body to the graveyard and over him they pray Lord won't you tell us tell us what does it mean Still at the end of every hard earned day people find some reason to believe Congregation gathers down by the riverside Preacher stands with his Bible groom stands waitin' for his bride Congregation gone and the sun sets behind a weepin' willow tree Groom stands alone and watches the river rush on so effortlessly Lord and he's wonderin' where can his baby be Still at the end of every hard earned day people find some reason to believe From "Nebraska" 1982 ROLL OF THE DICE Well I've been a losin' gambler Just throwin' snake eyes Love ain't got me downhearted I know up around the corner lies My fool's paradise In just another roll of the dice All my elevens and sevens been comin' up Sixes and nines But since I fell for you baby Been comin' on changin' times They're just waitin' over the rise Just another roll of the dice I've stumbled and I know I made my mistakes But tonight I'm gonna be playin' for all of the stakes Well it's never too late so come on girl The tables are waiting You and me and lady luck well tonight We'll be celebrating Drinkin' champagne on ice In just another roll of the dice High-rollers lay down your bets and I'll raise 'em Well I know the odds ain't in my favor Maybe I'm just a clown throwin' down Looking' to come up busted I'm a thief in the house of love And I can't be trusted Well I'll be making my heist In just another roll of the dice Move on up Come on seven Roll me baby In this fool's heaven Human Touch 1992 ROSALITA (COME OUT TONIGHT) Spread out now Rosie doctor come cut loose her mama's reins You know playin' blind man's bluff is a little baby's game You pick up Little Dynamite I'm gonna pick up Little Gun And together we're gonna go out tonight and make that highway run You don't have to call me lieutenant Rosie and I don't want to be your son The only lover I'm ever gonna need's your soft sweet little girl's tongue and Rosie you're the one Dynamite's in the belfry playin' with the bats Little Gun's downtown in front of Woolworth's tryin' out his attitude on all the cats Papa's on the corner waitin' for the bus Mama she's home in the window waitin' up for us She'll be there in that chair when they wrestle her upstairs `cause you know we ain't gonna come I ain't here for business, I'm only here for fun Rosalita jump a little lighter, senorita come sit by my fire I just want to be your lover ain't no liar, Rosalita you're my stone desire Jack the Rabbit and Weak Knees Willie you know they're gonna be there Ah sloppy Sue and Big Bones Billie they'll be comin' up for air We're gonna play some pool skip some school act real cool Stay out all night it's gonna feel alright Rosie come out tonight, Rosie come out tonight Windows are for cheaters chimneys for the poor Closets are for hangers winners use the door Rosalita jump a little... Now I know your mama she don't like me `cause I play in a rock and roll band And I know your daddy he don't dig me but he never did understand Papa lowered the boom he locked you in your room I'm comin' to lend a hand I'm comin' to liberate you confiscate you I want to be your man Someday we'll look back on this and it will all seem funny But now you're sad your mama's mad And your papa says he knows that I don't have any money Tell him this is last chance to get his daughter in a fine romance Because a record company Rosie just gave me big bucks My tires were slashed and I almost crashed but the Lord had mercy My machine she's a dud out stuck in the mud somewhere in the swamps of Jersey Hold on tight stay up all night `cause Rosie I'm comin' on strong By the time we meet the morning light I will hold you in my arms I know a pretty little place in Southern California down San Diego way There's a little cafe where they play guitars all night and day You can hear them in the back room strummin' So hold tight baby `cause don't you know daddy's comin' Rosalita jump a little... >From "The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle" 1973 SEEDS Well a great black river a man had found So he put all his money in a hole in the ground And sent a big steel arm drivin' down down down Man now I live on the streets of Houston town Packed up my wife and kids when winter came along And we headed down south with just spit and a song But they said "Sorry son it's gone gone gone" Well there's men hunkered down by the railroad tracks The Elkhorn Special blowin' my hair back Tents pitched on the highway in the dirty moonlight And I don't know where I'm gonna sleep tonight Parked in the lumberyard freezin' our asses off My kids in the back seat got a graveyard cough Well I'm sleepin' up in front with my wife Billy club tappin' on the windshield in the middle of the night Says "Move along man move along" Well big limousine long shiny and black You don't look ahead you don't look back How many times can you get up after you've been hit? Well I swear if I could spare the spit I'd lay one on your shiny chrome And send you on your way back home So if you're gonna leave your town where the north wind blow To go on down where that sweet soda river flow Well you better think twice on it Jack You're better off buyin' a shotgun dead off the rack You ain't gonna find nothin' down here friend Except seeds blowin' up the highway in the south wind Movin' on movin' on it's gone gone it's all gone 1986 from 'Live Album 1975-1985' SHE'S THE ONE With her killer graces and her secret places That no boy can fill with her hands on her hips Oh and that smile on her lips Because she knows that it kills me With her soft french cream Standing in that doorway like a dream I wish she'd just leave me alone Because french cream won't soften them boots And french kisses will not break that heart of stone With her long hair falling And her eyes that shine like a midnight sun Oh-o she's the one, she's the one That Thunder in your heart At night when you're kneeling in the dark It says you're never gonna leave her But there's this angel in her eyes That tells such desperate lies And all you want to do is believe her And tonight you'll try just one more time To leave it all behind and to break on through Oh she can take you, but if she wants to break you She's gonna find out that ain't so easy to do And no matter where you sleep tonight or how far you run Oh-o she's the one, she's the one Oh-o and just one kiss She'd fill them long summer nights With her tenderness that secret pact you made Back when her love could save you from the bitterness Oh she's the one, oh she's the one Oh she's the one, oh she's the one Oh she's the one, oh she's the one From "Born to Run" 1976 SHERRY DARLING Your mamma's yappin' in the back seat Tell her to push over and move them big feet Every Monday morning I gotta drive her down to the unemployment agency Well this morning I aint fighting tell her I give up Tell her she wins if she'll just shut up But it's the last time that she's gonna be ridin' with me (Chorus) You can tell her there's a hot sun beatin' on the blacktop She keeps talkin' she'll be walkin' that last block She can take a subway back to the ghetto tonight Well I got some beer and the highway's free And I got you, and baby you've got me. Hey, hey, hey whataya say Sherry Darlin' Now there's girls melting on the beach And they're so fine but so far out of reach Cause I'm stuck in traffic down here on 53rd street Now Sherry my love for you is real But I didn't count on this package deal And baby this car just aint big enough for her and me (Chorus) So you can tell her there's a hot sun beatin' on the blacktop She keeps talkin' she'll be walkin' that last block She can take a subway back to the ghetto tonight Well I got some beer and the highway's free And I got you, and baby you've got me. Hey, hey, hey whataya say Sherry Darlin' Well let there be sunlight, let there be rain Let the brokenheart love again Sherry we can run with our arms open before the tide To all the girls down at Sacred Heart And all you operators back in the Park Say hey, hey, hey whataya say Sherry Darlin' Hey, hey, hey, whataya say Sherry Darlin' The River 1980 SOMETHING IN THE NIGHT I'm riding down Kingsley, figuring I'll get a drink Turn the radio up loud, so I don't have to think, I take her to the floor, looking for a moment when the world seems right, And I tear into the guts, of something in the night. You're born with nothing, and better off that way, Soon as you've got something the send someone to try and take it away, You can ride this road 'till dawn, without another human being in sight, Just kids wasted on something in the night. Nothing is forgotten or forgiven, when it's your last time around, I got stuff running around 'round my head That I just can't live down When we found the things we loved, They were crushed and dying in the dirt. We tried to pick up the pieces, And get away without getting hurt, But they caught us at the state line, And burned our cars in one last fight, And left us running burned and blind, Chasing something in the night. Darkness On The Edge of Town - 1978 SOUL DRIVER Michael Fisher - percussion Sam Moore - harmony vocals Tim Pierce - second guitar David Sancious - hammond organ I rode through forty nights of the Gospels rain 'neath black sky pouring snakes, frogs, and a love in vain You were down where the river runs wide Baby, let me be your soul driver Well if something in the air feels a little unkind Don't worry darling, oh it'll slip your mind I'll be your gypsy joker your shotgun rider Baby let me be your soul driver Well now no one knows which way love's wheel turns We may get rich or crash and burn This fortune weight or just the black hand of fate This love rushes over us and its ghostly voice If the angels are unkind or if the seasons are dark Or if in the air love just falls apart Well then here's to our destruction Baby let me be your soul driver Yea here's to our destruction Baby let me be your soul driver Human Touch 1992 SOULS OF THE DEPARTED On the road to Basra stood young Lieutenant Jimmy Bly Detailed to go through the clothes of the soldiers who died At night in dreams he sees their souls rise Like dark geese into the Oklahoma skies Well this is a prayer for the souls of the departed Those who've gone and left their babies brokenhearted This is a prayer for the souls of the departed Now Raphael Rodriguez was just seven years old Shot down in a schoolyard by some East Compton Cholos His mamma cried "My beautiful boy is dead" In the hills the self-made men just sighed and shook their heads This is a prayer for the souls of the departed Those who've gone and left their babies brokenhearted Young lives over before they got started This is a prayer for the souls of the departed Tonight as I tuck my own son in bed All I can think of is what if it would've been him instead I want to build me a wall so high nothing can burn it down Right here on my own piece of dirty ground Now I ply my trade in the land of king dollar Where you get paid and your silence passes as honor And all the hatred and dirty little lies Been written off the books and into decent men's eyes Lucky Town 1992 SPARE PARTS Garry Tallent - bass Max Weinberg - percussion Danny Federici - organ Jimmie Wood - harmonica Booby said he'd pull out Bobby stayed in Janey had a baby wasn't any sin They were set to marry on a summer day Bobby got scared and he ran away Jane moved in with here ma out on Shawnee Lake She sighed ma sometimes my whole life feels like one big mistake She settled in in a back room time passed on Later that winter a son came along Spare parts and broken hearts Keep the world turnin' around Now Janey walked that baby across the floor night after night But she was a young girl and she missed the party lights Meanwhile in South Texas in a dirty oil patch Bobby heard about his son bein' born and swore he wasn't ever goin' back Spare parts and broken hearts Keep the world turnin' around Janey heard about a woman over in Calverton Put her baby in the river let the river roll on She looked at her boy in the crib where he lay Got down on her knees cried till she prayed Mist was on the water low run the tide Janey held her son down at the riverside Waist deep in water how bright the sun shone She lifted him in her arms and carried him home As he lay sleeping in her bed Janey took a look around at everything Went to a drawer in her bureau and got out her old engagement ring Took out her wedding dress tied that ring up in its sash Went straight down to the pawn shop man and walked out with some good cold cash Spare parts and broken hearts Keep the world turnin' around Tunnel Of Love 1987 SPIRIT IN THE NIGHT Crazy Janey and her mission man were back in the alley tradin' hands `Long came Wild Billy with his friend G-man all duded up for Saturday night Billy slammed on his coaster brakes and said anybody wanna go on up to Greasy Lake It's about a mile down on the dark side of Route 88 I got a bottle of rose so let's try it We'll pick up Hazy Davy and Killer Joe and I'll take you all out to where the gypsy angels go They're built like light And they dance like spirits in the night (all night) in the night (all night) Oh you don't know what they can do to you Spirits in the night, in the night Stand up now and let it shoot through you Well now Wild Billy was a crazy cat and he shook some dust out of his coonskin cap He said "Trust some of this it'll show you where you're at or at least it'll help you really feel it" By the time we made it up to Greasy Lake I had my head out the window and Janey's fingers in the cake I think I really dug her `cause I was too loose to fake I said "I'm hurt" she said "Honey let me heal it" And we danced all night to a soul fairy band And she kissed me just right like only a lonely angel can She felt just right just like as sweet as a spirit in the night In the night baby don't know what she do to you Spirits in the night, in the night Stand up now and let her shoot right through you Now the night grew bright and the stars threw light in Billy and Davy Dancin' in the moonlight We were down near the water in a stone mud fight Killer Joe'd passed out on the lawn Well Hazy Davy got really hurt he crawled into the lake in just his socks and a shirt Me and Crazy Janey were makin' love in the dirt singin' our birthday songs Janey said "Hey little brother don't you think it's time now we go" So we closed our eyes and said goodbye to gypsy angel row felt just right Together we moved like spirits in the night, all night Baby don't know what it do to you Spirits in the night, all night Stand up now and let it shoot right through you Greetings from Asbury Park - N.J. 1975 STATE TROOPER New Jersey Turnpike, ridin' on a wet night `neath the refin'ry's glow Out where the great black rivers flow License, registration: I ain't got none But I got a clear conscience `bout the things that I done Mister state trooper, please don't stop me Please don't stop me, please don't stop me Maybe you got a kid, maybe you got a pretty wife The only thing that I got's been both'rin' me my whole life Mister state trooper, please don't stop me Please don't stop me, please don't stop me In the wee, wee hours your mind get hazy Radio relay towers lead me to my baby The radio's jammed up with talk show stations It's just talk, talk, talk, talk, till you lose your patience Mister state trooper, please don't stop me Hey, somebody out there, listen to my last prayer Hiho silver-o, deliver me from nowhere From "Nebraska" 1982 STOLEN CAR I met a little girl and I settled down In a little house out on the edge of town We got married, and swore we'd never part Then little by little we drifted from each other's heart At first I thought it was just restlessness That would fade as time went by and our love grew deep In the end it was something more I guess That tore us apart and made us weep And I'm driving a stolen car Down on Eldridge Avenue Each night I wait to get caught But I never do She asked if I remembered the letters I wrote When our love was young and bold She said last night she read those letters And they made her feel one hundred years old And I'm driving a stolen car On a pitch black night And I'm telling myself I'm gonna be alright But I ride by night and I travel in fear That in this darkness I will disappear The River 1980 STREETS OF FIRE When the nigth's quiet and you don't care anymore, And your eyes are tired and there's someone at your door And you realize you wanna let go And the weak lies and the cold walls you embrace Eat at your insides and leave you face to face with Streets of fire I'm wandering, a loser down these tracks I'm dying, but girl I can't go back 'Cause in the darkness I hear somebody call my name And when you realize how they tricked you this time And it's all lies but I'm strung out on the wire In these streets of fire I live now, only with strangers I talk to only strangers I walk with angels that have no place Streets of fire Darkness On the Edge Of Town 1978 TENTH AVENUE FREEZE-OUT Tear drops on the city Bad Scooter searching for his groove Seem like the whole world walking pretty And you can't find the room to move Well everybody better move over, that's all I'm running on the bad side And I got my back to the wall Tenth Avenue freeze-out, Tenth Avenue freeze-out I'm stranded in the jungle Taking all the heat they was giving The night is dark but the sidewalk's bright And lined with the light of the living From a tenement window a transistor blasts Turn around the corner things got real quiet real fast She hit me with a Tenth Avenue freeze-out Tenth Avenue freeze-out And I'm all alone, I'm all alone And kid you better get the picture And I'm on my own, I'm on my own And I can't go home When the change was made uptown And the Big Man joined the band From the coastline to the city All the little pretties raise their hands I'm gonna sit back right easy and laugh When Scooter and the Big Man bust this city in half With a Tenth Avenue freeze-out, Tenth Avenue freeze-out Tenth Avenue freeze-out... From "Born to Run" 1976 THE ANGEL The angel rides with hunch-backed children, poison oozing from his engine Wieldin' love as a lethal weapon, on his way to hubcap heaven Baseball cards poked in his spokes, his boots in oil he's patiently soaked The roadside attendant nervously jokes as the angel's tires strokes his precious pavement The interstate's choked with nomadic hordes in Volkswagen vans with full running boards dragging great anchors Followin' dead-end signs into the sores The angel rides by humpin' his hunk metal whore Madison Avenue's claim to fame in a trainer bra with eyes like rain She rubs against the weather-beaten frame and asks the angel for his name Off in the distance the marble dome reflects across the flatlands with a naked feel off into parts unknown The woman strokes his polished chrome and lies beside the angel's bones Greeting from Asbury Park - N.J. 1975 THE BIG MUDDY Billy had a mistress down on 'A' and 12th She was that little somethin' that he did for himself His own little secret didn't hurt nobody Come the afternoon he'd take her wadin' Waist deep in the big muddy Waist deep in the big muddy You start out standing but end up crawlin' Got in some trouble and needed a hand from a friend of mine This old friend he had a figure in mind It was nothing illegal just a little bit funny He said "C'mon don't tell me that the rich don't know Sooner or later it all comes down to money" And you're waist deep in the big muddy Waist deep in the big muddy You start on higher ground but end up crawlin' Well I had a friend said "You watch what you do Poison snake bites you and you're poison too"* How beautiful the river flows and the birds they sing But you and I we're messier things There ain't no one leavin' this world buddy Without their shirttail dirty Or their hands bloody Waist deep in the big muddy Waist deep in the big muddy You start on higher ground but end up somehow crawlin' Waist deep in the big muddy Roy Bittan, keyboard bass Lucky Town 1992 THE E STREET SHUFFLE Sparks fly on E Street when the boy prophets walk it handsome and hot, All the little girls' souls grow weak when the manchild gives them a double shot, The schoolboy pops pull out all the stops on a Friday night, The teenage tramps in skin-tight pants do the E Street dance and everything's alright, Little kids down there either dancin' or hooked up in a scuffle, Dressed in snake-skin suits packed with Detroit muscle They're doin' the E Street Shuffle. Now those E Street brats in twilight duel flashlight phantoms in full star stream, Down fire trails on silver nights with blonde girls pledged sweet sixteen, The newsboys say the heat's been bad since Power Thirteen gave a trooper all he had in a summer scuffle, And Power's girl, Little Angel, been on the corner keepin' those crazy boys out of trouble, Little Angel steps the shuffle like she ain't got no brains, She's deaf in combat down on Lover's Lane She drives all them local boys insane. Little Angel says, "Oh, everybody form a line. Oh, everybody form a line." Sparks fly on E Street when the boy-prophets walk it handsome and hot, All them little girls' souls grow weak when the manchild gives them a double shot, Little Angel hangs out at Easy Joe's. it's a club where all the riot squad goes when they're cashin' in for a cheap hustle, But them boys are still on the corner loose and doin' that lazy E Street Shuffle, As them sweet summer nights turn into summer dreams Little Angel picks up Power and he slips on his jeans as they move on out down to the scene All the kids are dancin'. The Wild, The Innocent and the E Street Shuffle 1973 THE PRICE YOU PAY You make up your mind, you choose the chance you take You ride to where the highway ends and the desert breaks Out on to an open road you ride until the day You learn to sleep at night with the price you pay Now with their hands held high, they reached out for the open skies And in one last breath they built the roads they'd ride to their death Driving on through the night, unable to break away >From the restless pull of the price you pay (Chorus) Oh, the price you pay, oh, the price you pay Now you can't walk away from the price you pay Now they'd come so far and they'd waited so long Just to end up caught in a dream where everything goes wrong Where the dark of night holds back the light of day And you've gotta stand and fight for the price you pay (Chorus) Little girl down on the strand With that pretty little baby in your hands Do you remember the story of the promised land How he crossed the desert sands And could not enter the chosen land On the banks of the river he stayed To face the price you pay So let the games start, you better run you little wild heart You can run through all the nights and all the days But just across the county line, a stranger passing through put up a sign That counts the men fallen away to the price you pay, and girl before the end of the day, I'm gonna tear it down and throw it away The River 1980 THE LONG GOODBYE My soul went walkin' but I stayed here Feel like I been workin' for a thousand years Chippin' away at this chain of my own lies Climbin' a wall a hundred thousand miles high Well I woke up this morning on the other side Yeah yeah this is the long goodbye Hey yeah this is the long goodbye Same old faces it's the same old town What once was laughs is draggin' me now Waliin' on rain hangin' on for love Words of forgiveness from some God above Ain't no words of mercy comin' from on high Oh no just a long goodbye Yeah yeah just one long goodbye Well I went to leave twenty years ago Since then I guess I been packin' kinda slow Sure did like that admirin' touch Guess I like'd it a little too much The moon is high and here I am Sittin' here with this hammer in hand One more drink oughta ease the pain Starin' at that last link in the chain Well let's raise our glass and let this hammer fly Hey yeah this is the long goodbye Hey yeah this is the long goodbye Human Touch 1992 THE PROMISED LAND On a rattlesnake speedway in the Utah desert I pick up my money and head back into town Driving cross the Waynesboro county line I got the radio on and I'm just killing time Working all day in my daddy's garage Driving all night chasing some mirage Pretty soon little girl I'm gonna take charge The dogs on Main Street howl `cause they understand If I could take one moment into my hands Mister I ain't a boy no I'm a man And I believe in a promised land I've done my best to live the right way I get up every morning and go to work each day But your eyes go blind and your blood runs cold Sometimes I feel so weak I just want to explode Explode and tear this town apart Take a knife and cut this pain from my heart Find somebody itching for something to start The dogs on Main Street... There's a dark cloud rising from the desert floor I packed my bags and I'm heading straight into the storm Gonna be a twister to blow everything down That ain't got the faith to stand its ground Blow away the dreams that tear you apart Blow away the dreams that break your heart Blow away the lies that leave you nothing but lost and brokenhearted The dogs on Main Street... Darkness on the Edge of Town 1978 THE RIVER I come from down in the valley where mister when you're young They bring you up to do like your daddy done Me and Mary we met in high school when she was just seventeen We'd ride out of that valley down to where the fields were green We'd go down to the river And into the river we'd dive Oh down to the river we'd ride Then I got Mary pregnant and man that was all she wrote And for my nineteen birthday I got a union card and a wedding coat We went down to the courthouse and the judge put it all to rest No wedding day smiles no walk down the aisle No flowers no wedding dress That night we went down to the river And into the river we'd dive On down to the river we did ride I got a job working construction for the Johnstown Company But lately there ain't been much work on account of the economy Now all them things that seemed so important Well mister they vanished right into the air Now I just act like I don't remember, Mary acts like she don't care But I remember us riding in my brother's car Her body tan and wet down at the reservoir At night on them banks I'd lie awake And pull her close just to feel each breath she'd take Now those memories come back to haunt me, they haunt me like a curse Is a dream a lie if it don't come true Or is it something worse that sends me Down to the river though I know the river is dry Down to the river, my baby and I Oh down to the river we ride From "The River" 1980 THE TIES THAT BIND You been hurt and you're all cried out you say You walk down the street pushin' people outta your way You packed your bags and all alone you wanna ride, You don't want nothin', don't need no one by your side You're walkin' tough baby, but you're walkin' blind (Chorus) The ties that bind Now you can't break the ties that bind Cheap romance, it's all just a crutch You don't want nothin' that anybody can touch You're so afraid of being somebody's fool Not walkin' tough baby, not walkin' cool You walk cool, but darlin', can you walk the line And face the ties that bind The ties that bind Now you can't break the ties that bind I would rather feel the hurt inside, yes I would darlin', Than know the emptiness your heart must hide, Yes I would darlin', yes I would darlin', Yes I would baby You sit and wonder just who's gonna stop the rain Who'll ease the sadness, who's gonna quiet the pain It's a long dark highway and a thin white line Connecting baby, your heart to mine We're runnin' now but darlin' we will stand in time To face the ties that bind The ties that bind Now you can't break the ties that bind You can't forsake the ties that bind The River 1980 THUNDER ROAD The screen door slams, Mary's dress sways 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 You can hide `neath your covers and study your pain Make crosses from your lovers, throw roses in the rain Waste your summer praying in vain For a saviour 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 good 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 busting open This 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: Heaven's waiting on down the tracks Oh-oh come take my hand Riding out tonight to case the promised land Oh-oh Thunder Road, oh Thunder Road, oh Thunder Road, Lying out there like a killer in the sun Hey I know it's late we can make it if we run Oh Thunder Road, sit tight take hold, Thunder Road Well I got this guitar and I learned how to make it talk And my car's out back if you're ready to take that long walk From your front porch to my front seat The door's open but the ride it ain't free And I know you're lonely and there's words that I ain't spoken But tonight we'll be free, all the promises'll be broken There were ghosts in the eyes of all the boys you sent away They haunt this dusty beach road In the skeleton frames of burned out Chevrolets They scream your name at night in the street Your graduation gown lies in rags at their feet And in the lonely cool before dawn you hear their engines roaring on But when you get to the porch they're gone On the wind, so Mary climb in It's a town full of losers and I'm pulling out of here to win. From "Born to Run" 1976 TOUGHER THAN THE REST Max Weinberg - percussion Danny Federici - organ Well It's Saturday night you're all dressed up in blue I been watching you awhile maybe you been watching me too So somebody ran out left somebody's heart in a mess Well if you're looking for love honey I'm tougher than the rest Some girls they want a handsome Dan or some good-lookin' Joe On their arms some girls like a sweet-talkin' Romeo Well 'round here baby I learned you get what you can get So if you're rough enough for love honey I'm tougher than the rest The road is dark and it's a thin thin line But I want you to know I'll walk it for you anytime Maybe your other boyfriends couldn't pass the test Well if you're rough and ready for love honey I'm tougher than the rest Well it ain't no secret I've been around a time or two Well I don't know baby maybe you've been around too Well there's another dance all you gotta do is say yes And if you're rough and ready for love honey I'm tougher than the rest If you're rough enough for love baby I'm tougher than the rest Tunnel Of Love 1987 live version appears on Chimes of Freedom album, 1988. TUNNEL OF LOVE Max Weinberg - percussion Roy Bittan - synthesizers Nils Lofgren - solo guitar Patti Scialfa - vocals Bruce Springsteen - sound effects The Schiffer Family - roller coaster, Pt. Pleasant Beach, NJ Fat man sitting on a little stool Takes the money from my hand while his eyes take a walk all over you Hands me the ticket smiles and whispers good luck Cuddle up angel cuddle up my little dove We'll ride down baby into this tunnel of love I can feel the soft silk of your blouse And them soft thrills in our little fun house Then the lights go out and it's just the three of us You me and all that stuff we're so scared of Gotta ride down baby into this tunnel of love There's a crazy mirror showing us both in 5-D I'm laughing at you you're laughing at me There's a room of shadows that gets so dark brother It's easy for two people to lose each other in this tunnel of love it ought to be easy ought to be simple enough Man meets woman and they fall in love But the house is haunted and the ride gets rough And you've got to learn to live with what you can't rise above if you want to ride on down in through this tunnel of love Tunnel Of Love 1987 TWO FACES Max Weinberg - percussion I met a girl and we ran away I swore I'd make her happy every day And how I made her cry Two faces have I Sometimes mister I feel sunny and wild Lord I love to see my baby smile Then dark clouds come rolling by Two faces have I One that laughs one that cries One says hello one says goodbye One does things I don't understand Makes me feel like half a man At night I get down on my knees and pray Our love will make that other man go away But he'll never say goodbye Two faces have I Last night as I kissed you 'neath the willow tree He swore he'd take your love away from me He said our life was just a lie And two faces have I Well go ahead and let him try Tunnel Of Love 1987 TWO HEARTS I went out walking the other day Seen a little girl crying along the way She'd been hurt so bad said she'd never love again Someday your crying girl will end And you'll find once again Two hearts are better than one Two hearts girl get the job done Two hearts are better than one Once I spent my time playing tough guy scenes But I was living in a world of childish dreams Someday these childish dreams must end To become a man and grow up to dream again Now I believe in the end Two hearts are better than one... Sometimes it might seem like it was planned For you to roam empty hearted through this land Though the world turns you hard and cold There's one thing mister that I know That's if you think your heart is stone And that you're rough enough to whip this world alone Alone buddy there ain't no peace of mind That's why I'll keep searching till I find my special one Two hearts are better than one... The River 1980 USED CARS My sister's in the front seat with an ice cream cone My ma's in the black seat sittin' all alone As my pa steers her slow out of the lot For a test drive down Michigan Avenue Now, my ma, she fingers her wedding band And watches the salesman stare at my old man's hands He's telling us all about the break he'd give us If he could, but he just can't Well if I could, I swear I know just what I'd do Now, mister, the day the lottery I win I ain't ever gonna ride in no used car again Now, the neighbors come from near and far As we pull up in our brandnew used car I wish he'd just hit the gas and let out a cry Tell `em all they can kiss our asses goodbye My dad, he sweats the same job from mornin' to morn Me, I walk home on the same dirty streets where I was born Up the block I can hear my little sister In the front seat blowin' that horn The sounds echoin' all down Michigan Avenue Now, mister, the day my numbers comes in I ain't ever gonna ride in no used car again From "Nebraska" 1982 VALENTINE'S DAY I'm driving a big lazy car rushin' up the highway in the dark I got one hand steady on the wheel and one hand's tremblin' over my heart It's pounding baby like it's gonna bust right on through And it ain't gonna stop till I'm alone again with you A friend of mine became a father last night When we spoke in his voice I could hear the light Of the skies and the rivers the timberwolf in the pines And that great jukebox out on Route 39 They say he travels fastest who travels alone But tonight I miss my girl mister tonight I miss my home Is it the sound of the leaves left blown by the wayside That's got me out here on this spooky old highway tonight Is it the cry of the river With the moonlight shining through That ain't what scares me baby What scares me is losing you They if you die in your dreams you really die in your bed But honey last night I dreamed my eyes rolled straight back in my head And God's light came shinin' on through I woke up in the darkness scared and breathin' and born anew It wasn't the cold river bottom I felt rushing over me It wasn't the bitterness of a dream that didn't come true It wasn't the wind in the grey fields I felt rushing through my arms No no baby it was you So hold me close honey say you're forever mine And tell me you'll be my lonely valentine Tunnel Of Love 1987 WALK LIKE A MAN Max Weinberg - percussion I remember how rough your hand felt on mine on my wedding day And the tears cried onmy shoulder I couldn't turn away Well so much has happened to me that I don't understand All I can think of is being five years old following behind you at the beach tracing your footprints in the sand Trying to walk like a man By Our Lady Of The Roses we lived in the shadow of the elms I remember ma draggin' me and my sister up the street to the church whenever she heard those wedding bells Well would they ever look so happy again the handsome groom and his bride As they stepped into that long black limosine for their mystery ride Well tonight you step away from me and alone at the alter I stand And as I watch my bride coming down the aisle I pray for the strength to walk like a man Well now the years have gone and I've grown from that seed you've sown But I didn't think there'd be so many steps I'd have to learn on my own Well I was young and I didn't know what to do When I saw your best steps stolen away from you Now I'll do what I can I'll walk like a man And I'll keep on walkin' Tunnel of Love 1987 WHEN YOU'RE ALONE Patti Scialfa - vocals Nils Lofgren - vocals Clarence Clemmons - vocals Max Weinberg - drums Times were tough love was not enough So you said sorry Johnny I'm gone gone gone You said my act was funny But we both knew what was missing honey So you let out on your own Now that pretty form that you've got baby Will make sure you get along But you're gonna find our someday honey When You're alone you're alone When You're alone you're alone When You're alone you're alone When You're alone you ain't nothing but alone Now I was young and pretty on the mean streets of the dity And I fought to make'em my home With just the shirt on my back I left and swore I'd never look back And man I was gone gone gone But there's things that'll knock you down you don't even see coming And send you crawling like a baby back home You're gonna find out that day sugar When you're alone... I knew some day your runnin' would be through And you'd think back on me and you And your love would be strong You'd forget all the bad and think only of all the laughs that we had And you'd wanna come home Now it ain't hard feelings or nothin' sugar That ain't what's got me singing this song It's just nobody knows baby where love goes But when it goes it's gone gone When you're alone... Tunnel Of Love 1987 WILD BILLY'S CIRCUS STORY The Machinist climbs his ferris wheel like a brave and the fire-eater's lyin' in a pool of sweat victim of the heatwave, Behind the tent the hired hand tightens his legs on the sword swallowers blade, Circus town's on the shortwave Well the runway lies ahead like a great false dawn, Fat lady, big mama, Missy Bimbo sits in her chair and yawns, And the man-beast lies in his cage sniffin' popcorn and the midget licks his fingers and suffers Missy Bimbo's scorn Circus town's been born. And a press roll drummer go, ballerina to-and-fro cartwheelin' up on that tightrope, With a cannon blast, lightin' flash, movin' fast through the tent, Mars bent, He's gonna miss his fall, oh God save the human cannonball. And the flying Zambini's watch Marguarita do her neck twist, And the ringmaster gets the crowd to count along: 95, 96, 97. A ragged suitcase in his hand, he steals silently away from the circus grounds, And the highway's haunted by the carnival sounds They dance like a great greasepaint ghost on the wind, A man in baggy pants, a lonely face, a crazy grin, runnin' home to some small Ohio town Jesus, send some sweet women to save all your clowns And circus boy dances like a monkey on barbed wire, and the barker romances with a junkie, she's got a flat tire, And now the elephants dance real funky and the band plays like a jungle fire, Circus town's on the live wire. And the strong man Sampson lifts the midget, little Tiny Tim, up on his shoulders, way up, and carries carries him on down the midway past the kids, past the sailors, to his dimly lit trailer, And the ferris wheel turns and turns like it ain't ever gonna stop, And the circus boss leans over and whispers into the little boy's ear, hey son you want to try the big top? All aboard, Nebraska's our next stop. >From "The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle" 1973 WITH EVERY WISH Ol' catfish in the lake, we called him Big Jim When I was a kid, my only wish was to get my line in him Skipped church one Sunday and throw'd in my line Jim took that hook, pole and me right over the side Went drifting down past old tires and rusty cans of beer The angel of the lake whispered in my ear "Before you chose your wish, son, you'd better think first With every wish there comes a curse" I fell in love with beautiful Doreen She was the prettiest thing this old town'd ever seen I courted her and I made her mine But I grew jealous whenever another man'd come walkin' down the line And my jealousy made me treat her mean and cruel She sighed, "Bobby, oh Bobby, you're such a fool Don't you know before you chose your wish you'd better think first With every wish there comes a curse" These days I sit around and laugh at all the rivers I've crossed But on the far banks there's always another forest where a man can get lost Well there in the high trees love's bluebird glides Guiding us 'cross another river on the other side And there someone is waitin' with a look in her eyes And though my heart's grown weary, and more than a little bit shy Tonight I'll drink from her waters to quench my thirst And leave the angels to worry With every wish... Human Touch 1992 WORKING ON THE HIGHWAY Friday night's pay night guys fresh out of work Talking about the weekend scrubbing off the dirt Some heading home to their families some looking to get hurt Some going down to Stovell wearing trouble on their shirts I work for the county out on 95 All day I hold a red flag and watch the traffic pass me by In my head I keep a picture of a pretty little miss Someday mister I'm gonna lead a better life than this Working on the highway laying down the blacktop Working on the highway all day long I don't stop Working on the highway blasting through the bedrock Working on the highway, working on the highway I met her at a dance down at the union hall She was standing with her brothers back up against the wall Sometimes we'd go walking down the union tracks One day I looked straight at her and she looked straight back Working on the highway... I saved up my money and I put it all away I went to see her daddy but we didn't have much to say "Son can't you see that she's just a little girl She don't know nothing about this cruel cruel world" We lit out down to Florida we got along all right One day her brothers came and got her and they took me in a black and white The prosecutor kept the promise that he made on that day And the judge got mad and he put me straight away I wake up every morning to the work bell clang Me and the warden go swinging on the Charlotte County road gang Working on the highway... From "Born in the U.S.A." 1984 WRECK ON THE HIGHWAY Last night I was out driving Coming home at the end of the working day I was riding alone through the drizzling rain On a deserted stretch of a county two- lane When I cam upon a wreck on the highway There was blood and glass all over And there was nobody there but me As the rain tumbled down hard and cold I seen a young man lying by the side of the road He cried Mister, won't you help me please An ambulance finally came and took him to Riverside I watched as they drove him away And I thought of a girlfriend or a young wife And a state trooper knocking in the middle of the night To say your baby died in a wreck on the highway Sometimes I sit up in the darkness And I watch my baby as she sleeps Then I climb in bed and I hold her tight I just lay there awake in the middle of the night Thinking 'bout the wreck on the highway The River - 1980 YOU CAN LOOK (BUT YOU BETTER NOT TOUCH) Yesterday I went shopping buddy down to the mall Looking for something pretty I could hang on my wall I knocked over a lamp before it hit the floor I caught it A salesman turned around said "Boy you break that thing you bought it" You can look but you better not touch boy You can look but you better not touch Mess around and you'll end up in dutch boy You can look but you better not no you better not no you better not touch Well I came home from work and I switched on channel 5 There was a pretty little girly lookin' straight into my eyes Well I watched as she wiggled back and forth across the screen She didn't get me excited she just made me feel mean You can look... Well I called up Dirty Annie on the telephone I took her out to the drive-in just to get her alone I found a lover's rendezvous the music low set to park I heard a tappin' on the window and a voice in the dark You can look... The River 1980 End of released material *************************************************************************** UNRELEASED, B SIDES AND COVERS Here are the lyrics to "30 Days Out", one of the outtakes. It's another River-style rocker which in its theme of troubled marriage is very reminiscent of "One Step Up." This song would have worked really well as an up-tempo tune on the TOL album, but wouldn't fit in with the theme of either of the new albums. Some killer lyrics though. Kevin Kinder kvk@iexist.att.com 30 DAYS OUT We fell in love and I made you the world I spent all my time tryin' to satisfy you, girl Just one thing that I can't figure out [?] Closer I get, farther baby I am out [?] 30 days, 30 days out Well I'm six days runnin' but I'm 30 days out 30 days, 30 days out With every kiss you leave a little shadow of doubt The roof was leakin' honey where we live And I'm wonderin' what's that something that you won't give I started loving you but I gotta stop You got me mostly waitin' for that other shoe to drop 30 days, 30 days out You keep me six days runnin' but I'm 30 days out 30 days, 30 days out With every kiss you leave a little shadow of doubt Tried to talk about what's goin' on You just smile and tell me "Baby there ain't nothin' wrong" In your smile there's a sign in red It said "Thousand miles of hard road dead ahead" 30 days, 30 days out Yeah I'm six days runnin' but I'm 30 days out 30 days, 30 days out With every kiss you leave a little shadow of doubt 30 days, 30 days out Well I'm six days runnin' but I'm 30 days out 30 days, 30 days out With every kiss you leave a little shadow of doubt A LOVE SO FINE (PARADISE BY THE SEA) Well there's sparklin' angels on your fire-escape tonight They line them up for you trying to keep you safe But with them fire alley burglars on a midnight vamp You lost your heart on Main Street to a beautiful tramp That's all right, I don;t mind `Cause I got (you got) a love so fine A love so fine, me and my baby A love so fine, me and my baby A love so fine The rat's traps are filled with soul crusaders Everybody's popping and hopping and jumping At Little Melvin and The Invaders You're out on the floor and you can't get up Your baby's out there dancing and struttin' that Continental Strut She looks so good, she looks so fine (she blows your mind) Oh we (you) got a love so fine A love so fine A love so fine A love so fine Everybody's reeling when the band hits the ceiling Don't you know you just wanna go The boys start (joint gets) rockin', your knees start knockin' Everybody party, go Let's go The bar's closed down (It's 3 o'clock and the bar's closed) You walk to the shady side of town all alone (Well you walk along with your) Papa's screaming at you, he wants some cash (baby to the dirty side of town) Mama's chewing you (me) off about hanging out with (alley) trash That's allm right, oh you don't mind 'Cause you've got a love so fine, oh me and my baby A love so fine A love so fine A love so fine ACROSS THE BORDERLINE (Ry Cooder/John Hiatt/Jim Dickinson) There's a place, so I've been told, Every street is paved with gold And it's just across the borderline And when it's time to take your turn There's a lesson that you must learn You may lose more than you'll ever hope to find. (chorus) And when you reach that broken promised land And all your dreams slip though your hand You have learned it's too late to change your mind Cause you pay the price to come so far Just to wind up where you are And you're still just across the borderline. Up and down The Rio Grande A thousand foot prints in the sand Reveal a secret no one can define The river rolls on like a breath In between our life and death Tell me who is next to cross that borderline. (chorus) And when you reach that broken promised land And all your dreams slip though your hand You'll know it's too late to change your mind Cause you pay the price to come so far Just to wind up where you are And you're still just across the borderline. ACTION IN THE STREETS Well don't move Why don't you listen to what I'm saying And hey you You better get up if you plan to be staying Get loose You got to listen to what the band is playing Oh tonight There's action in the street all night We're bopping to the big beat, go Get up off your seat and roll At school The girls you know their dancing, mister 's just my speed And hey cool If action is the thing you need Well don't fool The kid's satisfaction guaranteed Oh tonight There's action in the street all night We're bopping to the big beat, go Get up off your seat and roll Well hey man Yeah don't let the little girl sigh Understand If you just move your body side to side Raise your hand Shout until you're satisfied Oh tonight There's action in the street all night We're bopping to the big beat, go Get up off your seat and roll AFTER THE THUNDER An echo fades of sounds once heard By thousands brought together for His ringing voice, a soul that stirred The faithful to a mighty roar. For twenty years upon the stage For twenty years upon the stage The passion deep within his soul Brought forth the anger and the rage His vision locked upon one goal. The promises of rock and roll could Break the chains upon his life, Guitar in hand he vowed he would Be free from pain and inner strife. He shook the rafters in the halls And brought the faithful to their feet, His river coursed through mighty walls Across this land, down every street. With flag unfurled he took the word Across the seas to hungry youth Who raised their hands when e'er they heard His cries for faith, and hope, and truth. Today he stands with inner peace A man content with home and health, Upon his brow a jagged crease A symbol of success and wealth. The thunder of his younger days Has passed, and now his words reveal A calmer soul in many ways Fulfilled with satisfactions real. His arms upraised against the light He stands alone, his eyes look toward The ground below, a bird in flight Still searching for his true reward. His mission done, he finds retreat With children and a loving wife, His body tired from the heat The price he pays for touring life. But deep within the longings stir The music runs within him still, His passions for the times that were Are stronger than his iron will. And all of us who know the man Will come together when he cries The message we all understand The thunder in us never dies. ALL I NEED (cover: Gary U.S. Bonds. Written by Springsteen) Some men need riches and lots of money to spend Some men need power to hold over other men But not me baby, girl you can believe I'm telling you my darling You're, you're all I need You're, you're all I need You're, you're all I need In this world, girl Some men need fine clothes, big diamond rings To feel like somebody some men need expensive things But I feel like somebody, girl, every time you look at me I don't need nothing to remind me that You're, you're all I need You're, you're all I need You're, you're all I need In this world, girl Some men need a fine home on a far hillside Some men need a big car to show off as they ride Some men need a pretty woman just to walk by their side And some men need to see the fear in another man's eyes But all I need baby, is all I can see When you wrap your loving arms around me You're, you're all I need You're, you're all I need You're, you're all I need You're, you're all I need In this world, girl ALL THE WAY HOME I know what it's like to have failed baby With the whole world lookin' on I know what it's like to have been so sure Wake up and find it all gone Now you've got no reason to trust me And tonight my confidence is a little rusty It's getting late And if you don't feel leavin' alone Well maybe I can walk you baby All the way home Our old fears and failures Well they do linger (oh yes they do) Like the shadow of that ring That was on your finger Well those days darling, Those days are dead and gone Oh I could walk you baby All the way home Now there's things no one can rearrange We both have yesterdays that we can't change It's closing time - bartender's ringing last call These days I don't stand on pride and I've learned how to take a fall Now the time has come And if your first choice - he's gone Well that's alright baby 'Cause I can walk you all the way home All the way home All the way home AND THE BAND PLAYED The moon hung like a shadow on a rung over Shangai Them soldier boys were returning home screaming "Banzai" And the kids are still playing their games Gettin hustled and rustled out in the rain As I sat inside listening to the broadcast Oh save my soul sweet rock'n'roll 'cause I'm sinkin' fast And then the band played Out of nowhere, it was alright Well now the legendary chaplain of the fightin' 51st was gettin' ready to go I said: Padre, do you know a cheap virgin who like to tango? He said: You can try Linda Lee, Around the corner and across the sea Oh word is out word is out she's fast Oh blow me down Linda 'cause I'm sinkin' fast Yes and them cats are sure getting fat down in the train yard And the sandman brings them dreams to ship out in boxcars The union says hold, break out the dice, break out the gold It's lunchtime at last And old Big Mama said: "Georges Raft's tonight on the late show" She sits straddlin' a kitchen chair, really gung-ho She shivers with chills, wet with her slot-card thrills Hypnotically lost in the glass And we all sigh with the sunrise As we watch the credits pass And the little blue dot went away And then the morning cloak fell down like a hoax over Sleepytown Them garbage truck vigilantes outmaking their last rounds The inheritor he sipped his beer And poked fun at the queer And threatened to kick his ass And the bell rings, a horn blows And he's outside pumpin' gas But the things were movin' so slow tonight So the kid goes back inside the station And turns on his radio to his local AM station And then the band played Right on the radio, it was alright And the boys in the band sung And the band played, everybody ANGELYNE (cover: Gary U.S. Bonds. Written by Springsteen) He was a bouncer in a joint called Tony's Body Shop She was a night cashier down at the Stop 'n' Shop He was kinda good-lookin' And she was kinda fun They met 'neath that big oak tree Out where the river runs Little Angelyne, little Angelyne As the sun goes down and the moonlight shines Back of a greyhound bus sit two lovers entwined Just Big Bill and little Angelyne She was just in from Texas, didn't know her way around So he took her to a roadhouse on the edge of town In the beerhall light she looked so fine And so he popped the question that was on his mind It was a simple affair, only a friend or two Preacher asked if they did, they said they do She bought two tickets with her Dady's American Express And hopped a greyhound bus in her wedding dress Little Angelyne, little Angelyne As the sun goes down and the moonlight shines Back of a greyhound bus sit two lovers entwined Just Big Bill and little Angelyne In a six dollar motel with the honey bun With seven glorious days in the Nevada sun He played the tables, she pumped the slots full of dimes They came back broke but they had a good time Now many fell aprt in the years come and gone But Big Bill and little Angel they'd last on and on They held together when the times grew thin A little boy that looked like her, and a girl that looked like him So mister don't you pay it no mind Let the sun go down and the moonlight shine Back of a greyhound bus sit two lovers entwined Just Big Bill and little Angelyne Little Angelyne, little Angelyne As the sun goes down and the moonlight shines Back of a greyhound bus sit two lovers entwined Just Big Bill and little Angelyne Little Angelyne, little Angelyne As the sun goes down and the moonlight shines Back of a greyhound bus sit two lovers entwined Just Big Bill and little Angelyne BAD MOON RISING(John Fogerty/Creedence Clearwater Revival) I see a bad moon rising I see troubles on the way I see earthquakes and lightning I see bad times today Don't go 'round tonight Well, it's bound to take your life There's a bad moon on the rise I hear hurricanes a-blowin' I know the end it's coming soon I fear rivers overflowing I hear the voice of rage and ruin Don't go 'round tonight Well, it's bound to take your life There's a bad moon on the rise Hope you got your things together Hope you're quite prepared to die Looks like we're in for nasty weather One eye is taken for an eye Don't go 'round tonight Well, it's bound to take your life There's a bad moon on the rise Don't go 'round tonight Well, it's bound to take your life There's a bad moon on the rise ARABIAN NIGHTS Shrieks of Sheikhs as they run across the movie screen A thousand sand-dune soldiers led by an Arabian Queen And the harem girls move like fancy (Clancy's) dancers In my dirty dreams And I wake up on the floor clutching the bed-lamp And Mama comes in, she screams "Hey you been out with that tramp again last night You know that silver-sequined Arab black bitch The one that Mama don't like ?" But Mama she sings me moontime melodies With this great Top 40 hook She shrugs her shoulders, she don't care Papa just stares and says "Mary, look the girl's alright The girl's alright" And there's a tenseness in the air He turns and says Don't you know, can't you feel it "Tell me son, what's the word ?" Because there's something hanging there 'Cos you know he can't hear it Pull back the mist and reveal it But don't go near it And even if you fear waht you near It's criticised as too absurd Don't conceal it Even the animals fear it 'Cos if what Mama feels is too real Papa says "Fetch me my flashlight, son" She just claims she don't feel it And she stumbles out the front door So come out from behind your bunkers 'Cos the lift-off's been a bust Oh Papa's Gone and Mama's dead And buried in my rocket dust You're alone now for the first time Don't worry, 'cos that's all right All fear will complete;y disappear Come the Arabian Night Well the soundman smiles and turns the dials To set the meter readin' rising He pulls the singer's voice from out of his pocket To see if the audience likes it Oh and in the very first row sits sweet Jenny Rue With a bell on her shoe and she wants him to make it He flicks a switch but Jenny moves too fast And the audience sways to the sound of her shotgun blast The manager comes running out from behind stage and says Check the band's arms for bullet holes Make that man roll up his sleeves" The drummer shoots himself with cyanide And then asks to be relieved And me, I say "Well, it's too crazy in here Which is the stage door out, I gotta get up tomorrow morning for work" And the promotor says "Man, once you're in they all lead out What's the matter man, ain't you heard ? There's a war going on on the outside And I'm paying you to sing like a bird So get in and get tough or get up and get out Because things aren't too tight" I said "Don't worry, man, everything's gonna loosen up Come the Arabian Night" Come the Arabian Night So I get back in my bed But outside my window I hear another gang fight It's Duke and the boys against the Devil's best man And both sides have drawn their knives And Duke he's a well-known knife-fighter And with one quick jab he brings the Devil down He smiles 'cos he knows there's a high bounty on Devils In any God-fearin' town Well they say Duke sold the Devil to some priest in Pennsylvania To exhibit on his altar Christmas Night But the Devil's eyes they still burn red with fire As long as Duke walks upright And he swears there's a going to be a showdown Come sundown on the ArabiaWPWPCCOMSPECPROMPT@ @ BLOWING IN THE WIND(Bob Dylan/Bob Dylan) How many roads must a man walk down Before you can call him a man Yes 'n how many seas must a white dove sail Before she sleeps in the sand Yes and how many times must the cannonballs fly Before they're forever banned The answer my friend is blowing in the wind The answer is blowing in the wind Yes and how many years can a mountain exist Before it is washed to the sea Yes and how many years can some people exist Before they're allowed to be free Yes and how many times can a man turn his head And pretend that he just doesn't see The answer my friend is blowing in the wind The answer is blowing in the wind Yes and how many times must a man look up Before he can see the sky Yes and how many ears must one man have Before he can hear people cry Yes and how many deaths will it take 'till he knows That too many people have died The answer my friend is blowing in the wind The answer is blowing in the wind BE TRUE Your scrapbook's filled with pictures of all your leading men Well baby don't put my picture in there with them Don't make us some little girls dream that can't ever come true That only serves to hurt us and make you cry like you do Well baby don't do it to me and I won't do it to you You've seen all the romantic movies you dream you take the boys home But when the action fades your left all alone You deserve better than this little girl can't you see you do Do you need somebody to prove it to you? Well baby you prove it to me and I'll prove it to you. Now every night you go out looking for true lust satisfaction But in the morning you end up with second thoughts that came from your actions And another cameo roll with some big player your befriending Your gonna go broken hearted looking for that happy ending Well girl your gonna end up just another lonely ticket sold Crying alone in the theater as the credits roll You see I won't be like those other guys Who filled your head with pretty lies And dreams that can never come true Well listen Baby you be true to me and I'll be true to you So how about it? Is it a deal? BISHOP DANCE Bishop danced with a thumbscrew woman Did a double-quick back-flip and slid across the floor The Catholic traffic flowed freely across the river And Fiddlestick fiddled quick out the front door Baby dumpling, mama's in the back tree If the bough breaks mama might fall Little sad and only, baby don't be lonely Mama knows 'rithmetic, knows how to take a fall Mama knows 'rithmetic, knows how to take a fall And the kids are crying Flapjacks, make'em fat, early in the morning Little Jack, grab your hat hear the breakfast call Muskrat, bad old cat, kick him in the fireplace There's someone in the kitchen blowing Dinah on their horn There's someome in the kitchen blowing Dinah like they're born Maverick Daddy got one-night prize The glides like a monkey-mule kickin' on the backslide Over hill, over hill, Daddy don't you spill now Papa got a switch-stick, he's pumping little Bill Papa got a switch-stick, he's pumping little Bill And Bill, he's crying Tomahawk, tomahawk, Daddy better duck out The Mohawks, the Mohawks, they're still out there in the woods Molatar, Okenah, running through my dreams now With fire on their fingertips and injun's screams Fire on their fingertips and feathers made of moonbeams Early in the morning the cannoneer cried I seem the sailor's warning in the western sky Oh mountain man, if you can, cut me down a fir tree Branches full of candlesticks for baby and me And my darling cried, she said, Honey, the weather vane lately it's been pointin' the way to heaven Scatterbrains, Scatterbrains, watch out where you fallChampagne, champagne, a round for all the old choirboys They're bustin' off the altar chasing Dinah through the hall They're bustin' off the altar chasing Dinah through the hall And like kids they're crying Flapjacks, make 'em fat, early in the morning Little Jack, grab your hat hear the breakfast call Muskrat, bad old cat, kick him in the fireplace There's someone in the kitchen blowing Dinah on their horn There's someone in the kitchen blowing Dinah like they're born. BLOWIN' IN THE WIND How many roads must a man walk down Before you call him a man? Yes, 'n' how many seas must a white dove sail Before she sleeps in the sand? Yes, and how many times must the cannon balls fly Before they're forever banned? The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, The answer is blowin' in the wind. How many times must a man look up Before he can see the sky? Yes, 'n' how many ears must one man have Before he can hear people cry? Yes, 'n' how many deaths will it take till he knows That too many people have died? The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, The answer is blowin' in the wind. How many years can a mountain exist Before it is washed to the sea Yes, 'n' how many years can some people exist Before they're allowed to be free? Yes, 'n' how many times can a man turn his head, Pretending he just doesn't see? The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, The answer is blowin' in the wind. (Bob Dylan 1962) BOOM BOOM BOOM (John Lee Hooker/John Lee Hooker) Boom boom boom boom I wanna shoot you right down Take you in my arms I'm in love with you a love that is true Boom boom boom boom I need you right now I mean right now I don't mean tomorrow I mean right now come on come on I wanna give it up babe Shake it up babe Come on and shake Shake it up babe Come on come on shake it up babe I like the way you walk I like the way you talk when you walk that walk and you talk that talk you knock me out right over my feet Shake it up babe Come on and shake Shake it up babe Come on come on shake it up babe Boom boom boom boom I wanna shoot you right down Take you in my arms I'm in love with you a love that is true Boom boom boom boom BOOK OF DREAMS I'm standing in the backyard Listening to the party inside Tonight I'm drinkin' in the forgiveness This life provides The scars we carry remain but the pain slips away it seems Oh won't you baby be in my book of dreams I'm watchin' you through the window With your girlfriends from back home You're showin' off your dress There's laughter and a toast >From your daddy to the prettiest bride he's ever seen Oh won't you baby be in my book of dreams In the darkness my fingers slip across your skin I feel your sweet reply The room fades away and suddenly I'm way up high Just holdin' you to me As through the window the moonlight streams Oh won't you baby be in my book of dreams Now the ritual begins 'Neath the wedding garland we meet as strangers The dance floor is alive with beauty Mystery and danger We dance out 'neath the stars' ancient light into the darkening trees Oh won't you baby be in my book of dreams BYE BYE JOHHNY By Chuck Berry She drew out all her money out of the Southern Trust And put her little boy aboard a Greyhound Bus Leaving Louisiana for the Golden West Down came the tears from her happiness Her own little son name 'o Johnny B. Goode Was gonna make some motion pictures out in Hollywood Bye, bye, bye, bye Bye, bye, bye, bye Bye bye Johnny Good bye Johnny B. Goode She remembered taking money out from gathering crop And buying Johnny's guitar at a broker shop As long as he would play it by the railroad side And wouldn't get in trouble he was satisfied But never thought that there would come a day like this When she would have to give her son a goodby kiss Going Bye, bye, bye, bye Bye, bye, bye, bye Bye bye Johnny Good bye Johnny B. Goode She finally got the letter she was dreaming of Johnny wrote and told her he had fell in love As soon as he was married he would bring her back And build a mansion for 'em by the railroad track So every time they heard the locomotive roar They'd be a' standin', a' wavin' by the kitchen door Howling Bye, bye, bye, bye Bye, bye, bye, bye Bye bye Johnny Good bye Johnny B. Goode CHICKEN LIPS AND LIZARD HIPS(J.& N. Cassidy) When I was a little kid I never liked to eat Mom would put things on my plate And I'd dump 'em on her feet But then one day she made this soup I ate it all in bed I asked her what she put in it And this is what she said: "Oh, chicken lips and lizard hips And alligator eyes Monkey legs and buzzard eggs And salamander thighs Rabbit ears and camel rears And tasty toenail pies Stir 'em all together And it's mama's soup surprise" I went into the bathroom And I stood beside the sink I said, "I'm feeling slightly ill And I think I'd like a drink" Mama said, "I've just the thing I'll get it in a wink It's full of lots of protein And vitamins, I think" "Oh, chicken lips and lizard hips And alligator eyes Monkey legs and buzzard eggs And salamander thighs Rabbit ears and camel rears And tasty toenail pies Stir 'em all together And it's mama's soup surprise" from "For Our Children:" CHIMES OF FREEDOM (Bob Dylan/Bob Dylan) Well, far between sundown's finish and midnight's broken toll We ducked inside the doorway, thunder crashin' As majestic bells of boats struck shadows in the sun; Sayin', it may be the chimes of freedom flashin' Flashin' for the warriors whose strength is not to fight; Flashin' for the refugees on their unarmed road of flight. And for each and every underdog soldier in the night We gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashin' Well, in the city's melted furnace unexpectedly we watched With faces hidden here while the walls were tightenin' As the echo of the wedding bells before the blowing rain; Dissolved into the wild bales of lightnin' Yeah, tollin' for the rebel, yeah, tollin' for the raked Tollin' for the luckless, the abandoned and forsaked. Yeah, tollin' for the outcasts burnin' constantly at stakes And we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashin' Oh yeah! (instrumental solo) And then through a cloud-like curtain in a far off corner flashed There's a hypnotic, splattered mist was slowly liftin' Well, electric light still struck like arrows Fired but for the ones condemned to drift or else be kept from driftin' Well, tollin' for the searching ones on this speechless, secret trail For the lonesome haunted lovers with too personal a tale. And for each young heart for each channeled soul misplaced inside a jail Yeah, we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashin' Well, starry eyed and laughin' I recall when we were caught, Trapped by an old track of vows for the hands suspended As we listened one last time, and we watched with one last look Spellbound and swallowed "Has the tollin' ended?" Yeah, tollin' for the achin' ones whose wounds cannot be nursed For the countless, confused, accused, misused strung out ones at worst. And for every hung out person in the whole wide universe We gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashin' Uh uh uh... (to end) - recorded live July 3, 1988, Stocholm, Sweden. Chimes Of Freedom special 4 track 12" album 1988. CINDY I pick you up with flowers when you get off from work It's like you don't even care it's like I'm some kind of jerk I take you out on a date and then you won't even kiss me Boy when I ain't around I'll bet you don't even miss me I don't know why I love you like I do I try and try, you treat me like a fool It makes me want to cry, it makes me feel so rude But I just do, baby I just do I call you up just to pass the time Soon as you hear my voice you disconnect the line And when I call you back your mother says you ain't home Cindy I know that you're on the other end of this phone Oh in this world there ain't another like you My little candy girl, so hard-hearted and cruel I think that's what keeps me coming back I'm a fool for you Cindy and I like it like that I came to get you last night, Cindy at quarter to six Your Daddy came to the door, he said Cindy got sick She got sent home from work with a note from the nurse And I worry your presence would make her condition worse But it ain't your health, 'cuz you sure look so fine Little girl it's something else that's on my mind Whatever you got, well you can give it me 'Cuz if it's good enough for you it's good enough for me I don't know why I love you like I do You make me cry and feel like a fool I guess I like it when you hurt me this way You dish it out and I just put it away CLUB SOUL CITY (cover: Gary U.S. Bonds. Written by Springsteen) Pack up your bags Don't look back There's a little place Out 'cross the the railroad tracks If you're broken-hearted And you don't know what to do But they got a place down there that's just for you Club Soul, Club Soul City, yeah yeah yeah Club Soul, Club Soul City, oh yeah There's a waitress at the back bar Goes with the the guy that runs the place She's got hair like a weeping willow And tears running down her face She's seen a lot of guys like you coming around Looking for something that they've lost Or trying to lose something that they've found Down at Club Soul, Club Soul City, yeah yeah yeah Club Soul, Club Soul City, oh yeah So if you're down on your spirit And there ain't no-one who cares If you're lost and you're lonely You won't be lonely down there You can't miss it, it's just up the highway On the front door there's a sign that says Restricted to the losing kind Club Soul, Club Soul City, yeah yeah yeah Club Soul, Club Soul City, oh yeah Club Soul, Club Soul City, yeah yeah yeah Club Soul, Club Soul City, oh yeah COWBOYS OF THE SEA They ride beneath the waves at 20,000 leagues On stallions stitched to seaweed strands So smiling, so smiling They herd the fishes of the deep They ride for you and me They ranch the rich and the sunken soil At the bottom of the sea In the dead of night, alive in sleep I hear them calling me Them deep sea desperadoes Them midnight maelstrom freaks The cowboy of the sea So on wings of sleep I pierce the deep And ride like a hurricane At midnight still I paid my bill And turned my back on the land With the help of Old Paint, that seaweed nag It's just Jesse James and me We ride the depths and rob the banks At the bottom of the sea With a seaman's grip on navigation And some fired, hired hands We set forth to confront the nation And lend a cowboy's hand We do the Dolphins' Dance duet My mermaid babe and me Then I ride of into the blue sunset At the bottom of the sea And with the seaman's grip on submarining And some aqualung outlaws Our guns are made of solid dreamin' And bullets from a broken cause And with hand held high to touch the sky A good Texas Ranger I'll beBut sometimes I feel like a lone stranger 'Midst the cowboys of the sea Oh and men above he cannot make love He's got to rape his mother the sea And because of his greed We're a vanishing breed We cowboys of the sea CYNTHIA Cynthia, when you come walkin' by you're an inspirin' sight Cynthia, you don't smile or say "hi" but baby that's alright 'Cause I don't need to hold you or taste your kiss I just like knowin' Cynthia, you exist at all in a world like this Cynthia, when you pass it seems like this whole town drops Cynthia, maybe it's just me babe Some fool stuck here watchin' the clock Well, you give us a reason to start whisper "why" To stop singin', baby, and salute your style Yeah Cynthia Well now you ain't the finest thing I'll never have And when you go the hurt you leave Well, baby, it ain't so bad No it ain't Cynthia Yeah there ain't a man in this whole town Who'll say you ain't fine D'you hear them guys talkin' tell me, baby, do you mind Well you make us happy, honey, when we feel sad To see sump'n'so good, in a world gone bad There's still cynthia, oh yeah Cynthia, no one knows your number No one knows where you live Cynthia, I wonder do you understand This strange thing you give Yeah, well baby, is it your style The mistery in your smile Or just how cool you walk in a world gone wild Ah tell me if you will, Cynthia Well I gotta be pretty naive to believe in you I know you ain't ever gonna be my dream come true That's alright, I gotta dream That's as good as you, Cynthia Oh now baby, this ain't no come-on It's a walk on, walk on Oh that's right, oh yeah Mmmm, you make me holier yeah, yeah, alright I said yeah, yeah, alright Well she's a yeah, yeah, alright I said yeah, yeah, alright Well it's a yeah, yeah, alright Well she's a yeah, yeah, alright I said yeah, yeah, alright DROP ON DOWN AND COVER ME Times are tough there baby there It's getting tougher now This world is rough honey it's Just getting rougher now Their on top there baby Just tryin' to score-well Seen enough, honey I don't Wanna see no more Drop on down and cover me On down and cover me Sometimes girl I just wanna Leave it all behind us, yeah Hold me in your arms tonight let's Let our love blind us, yeah Inside I feel the pain that The hatred and the sorrow I wanna shut the light, baby C'mon and shut the door Drop on down and cover me On down and cover I just wanna close my eyes and Let your love surround me I wanna close my heart to To this world around me The anger and the heartlessness All the good things guilty Come closer baby Now-closer still now Drop on down and cover me On down and cover me CINDY I pick you up with flowers When you get off from work It's like you don't even care It's like I'm some kind of jerk I take you out on a date And then you won't even kiss me Boy when I ain't around I'll bet you don't even miss me I don't know why I love you like I do I try and try You treat me like a fool It makes me want to cry It makes me feel so blue But I just do, baby, I just do I call you up Just to pass the time Soon as you hear my voice You disconnect the line And when I call you back Your mother says you ain't home Cindy I know that's you on the other end of this phone Oh in this world There ain't another like you My little candy girl So hard-hearted and cruel I think that's what Keeps me coming back I'm a fool for you Cindy and I like it like that I came to get you last night Cindy, at quarter to six Your daddy came to the door He said Cindy got sick She got sent home from work With a note from the nurse And my very presenceWould make your condition worse But it ain't your health 'Cause well you sure look fine Little girl it's something else That's on my mind Well you can give it to me 'Cause if it's good enough for you It's good enough for me I don't know why I love you like I do You make me cry And feel like such a fool I guess I like it When you hurt me this way You dish it out and I just put it away - River album outtake DEDICATION (cover: Gary U.S. Bonds. Written by Springsteen) Well way back in the Bible time A cat named Noah built an ocean liner Everybody laughed whent hey told him why But when the rain came, Noah was high and dry 'Cause he had Dedication baby through and through Dedication like I give to you Dedication girl every way Dedication girl every day Well Admiral Byrd and some eskimos They took a little trip to the old North Pole When they said it was a miracle they made it back Well they said that wasn't any miracle, Jack Dedication baby through and through Dedication like I give to you Dedication girl every way Dedication girl every day Well now there was a movie star out in Hollywood He met a little girl, they got along real good He tried to split but the chick said "Buddy, not so fast Ain't gonna wrap me on your arms, then wrap me in some cash" Now it was on TV every word they said If you didn't see it man, you must have been late She got on the witness pedestal without care She turned to the judge and this is what she said Dedication judge every way Dedication judge in every way I need some Dedication judge that can't be spent A little dedication judge to pay the rent Dedication baby through and through Dedication like I give to you Dedication girl every way Dedication girl every day D-E-D-I-C-A-T-I-O-N D-E-D-I-C-A-T-I-O-N D-E-D-I-C-A-T-I-O-N DON'T LOOK BACK Cold rain running down the front of my shirt I'm flat on my back wheels in the dirt Angel makes her face up out on baker Street She's straddlin; the shifter in my front seat There's nothing to lose It's a set-up (heartbreak) The deck's stacked So put your foot to the floor And darling don't look back Well making night tracks through the blazing rain Blow them pistons, work (move) in the fast lane White line burning, pockets full of cash Angel writes her name in lipstick on my dash There's nothing to lose It's a set-up (except a heartbreak) (just a bad break) The deck's stacked (baby we're back) Tonight we'll blow off the doors (Put your foot to the floor) And honey we won't look back (And darling don't look back) We held it in our hearts in the puring rain We made it through the heart of a hurricane We tore it apart and put it together again We'll wash out sins, girl down in the sea Angel won't you believe in love for me (Come on meet me tonight darlin' out in the street) We'll move with the city in the dark You got to walk it talk it in your heart There's nothin' to lose It's a set-up (just a heartache) The deck's stacked So put your foot to the floor (and) darling Tonight we'll blow out (off) the doors darling (baby) Put your foot to the floor (we're gonna even the score) And darling don't look back (honey we won't look back) Don't look back Ah, baby, don't look back FEVER When I get home from my job I turn on my T.V. But I can't keep my mind on the show When I lay down at night I don't get no sleep So I turn on the radio But, Lord, the only thing I hear Is you whisperin' in my ear The words that you used to say Well, now the days grow longer My love grows stronger And the fever gets worse every day I got a fever for a girl He's got the fever Oh, he's got the fever Nothing that a boy can do When he's got the fever for a girl He's got the fever Oh, he's got the fever Left this little boy blue I can remember comin' home See you standin' at the stove With the dishes on the table Dinner ready to go Or maybe out to a movie show Something that you'd like to see Oh, you were my sun in the morning And my moon at night When you put your arms around me Made me fell alright Well, now the days grow longer And my love just grows stronger And the fever gets so bad at night I got a fever for a girl He's got the fever Oh, he's got the feverNothing that a boy can do When he's got the fever for a girl He's got the fever Oh, he's got the fever Left this little boy blue It's gonna be alright, now If I can make it to the morning I'm gonna be alright, now If I can just make it to the morning It's just this long and lonely nights Everytime I close my eyes All I see is her face Everytime I shut my eyes All I see is her face But I'm gonna be alright, now I'll be alright, now When I shut down all the lights When I turn off all the lights When I turn down all the lights And when I lay my head on the pillow I can't stop myself in thinking "Baby, where are you tonight?" "Where is she tonight?" FOREVER YOUNG May God bless and keep you always May your wishes all come true May you always do for others And let others do for you May you build a ladder to the stars And climb on every rung May you stay forever young Forever young, forever young May you stay forever young May you grow up to be righteous, May you grow up to be true May you always know the truth And see the lights surrounding you May you always be courageous Stand upright and be strong May you stay forever young Forever young, forever young May you stay forever young May your hands always be busy May your feet always be swift May you have a strong foundation When the winds of changes shift May your heart always be joyful May your song always be sung May you stay forever young Forever young, forever young May you stay forever young (Bob Dylan 1973) FOLLOW THAT DREAM(Weis, Weisman, B.Springsteen,R.Orbison/B.Springsteen) If your heart is restless, from waiting so long If you're tired and weary, and you can't go on If a distant dream is callin' you Then there's just one thing you can do Follow that dream, wherever it may lead Come on follow that dream, to find the love you need Come on follow that dream Now I've been searching for a heart that's free Searching for someone, to search with me 'Cause I need a love, a love I can trust Together we' ll search for the things that come to us In dreams, wherever they may be Come on follow that dream to find the love you need Come on follow that dream Now every man has the right to live The right to a chance, to give what he has to give The right to fight for the things he believes For the things that come to him in dreams Yeah, follow that dream, wherever it may lead Come on follow that dream, to find the love you need Follow that dream, wherever it may lead Come on follow that dream, to find the love you need Come on follow that dream Well follow that dream Yeah come on and follow that dream Come on follow that dream, to find the love you need FORTUNATE SON(John Fogerty/Creedence Clearwater Revival) Some folks are born made to wave the flag Ooh, they're red, white and blue And when the band plays "Hail to the chief" They point the cannon right at you It ain't me, it ain't me I ain't no senator's son It ain't me, it ain't me I ain't no fortunate son Some folks are born silver spoon in hand Lord they don't help themselves But when the taxman comes to the door Lord, the house looks like a rummmage sale It ain't me, it ain't me I ain't no millionare's son It ain't me, it ain't me I ain't no fortunate son Some folks inherit star spangled eyes Ooh, they send you down to war And when you ask them "how much should we give ?" They only answer more! more! more! It ain't me, it ain't me I ain't no military's son It ain't me, it ain't me I ain't no fortunate son It ain't me, it ain't me I ain't no fortunate one, no no It ain't me, it ain't me I ain't no fortunate son FRANKIE Dark weekends in the sun, out on Chelsea Row Descending the stairs, Frankie my love Check your make-up in the mirror Come on, baby, let's go We'll dance round this dirty town 'Till the night is all done Then all the finer things sleep alone tonight Then all the minor kings lose their thrones tonight Don't worry about me baby, I'll be alright There's machines and there's fire On the outside of town Young boys for hire Waiting to blow us all down There are strange flashes in the sky up above I'll spend the night at the movies With my secret love At dusk the stars all appear on the screen Just like they do each night in my dreams But tonight's no dream, Frankie I can feel myself move Living and dying Like I was born to do Walk softly tonight little angel I wanna be alone with you Talk softly to me tonight angel Make all my dream-world come true I remember standing in the freezing rain Reading them "Want" ads out on Chelsea Row Winging down the street in search of new games Hustling through the night packs where the actors go Frankie they are crazy, let's run and hide In the darkness there'll be hidden worlds that shine When all of the glory in this disperate land Will rise like raindrops in the palm of our hands Rise like the rain Let your sadness rise Walk softly tonight little angel Into the shadows where the lovers go Talk softly tonight angel Whisper your secrets so soft and low FROM SMALL THINGS BIG THINGS COME At sixteen she quit high school To make a fortune in the Promised Land She got a job behind the counter In an all-night hamburger stand She rode faithfully home to Mama Now, Mama don't you worry none >From small things, Mama, big things one day come It was late one Friday He pulled in out of the dark He was tall and handsome First she took his order, then she took his heart They bought a house up on the hillside Where little feet soon would run >From small things, Mama, big things one day come Oh, but love is bleeding It's sad but it's true When your heart is beating You don't want to hear the news She packed her bags And with a Wyoming County Interstate map She drove down to Tampa In an Eldorado Grand She wrote back, Dear Mama Life is just heaven in the sun >From small things, Mama, big things one day come Well, she shot him dead on a sunny Florida road When they caught her all she said Was she couldn't stand the way he drove Back home lonesome Johnny waits for his baby's parole He waits high on the hillside Where the Wyoming rivers roll And his seed have almost grown now To a daughter and a handsome son >From small things, Mama, big things one day come GET UP STAND UP(Bob Marley, Peter Tosh/Bob Marley and The Wailers) Get up stand up, stand up for your right Get up stand up, don't give up the fight Preacher man don't tell me Heaven is under the earth I know you don't know What life is really worth It's not all that glitters is gold Half the story has never been told So now you see the light Stand up for your right Get up stand up, stand up for your right Get up stand up, don't give up the fight Most people think Great God will come from the sky Take away everything And make everybody feel high But if you knew what life is worth You could look for yours on earth And now you've seen the light Stand up for your rights Get up stand up, stand up for your right Get up stand up, don't give up the fight We're sick and tired of your easing kissing Gone to die and go to heaven in Jesus name We know and we understand Almighty God is a living man You can fool some people sometimes But you can't fool all the people all the time And we've seen the light We're gonna stand up for our rights GOOD ROCKIN' TONIGHT(Roy Brown/Elvis Presley) I heard the news, there's good rockin' tonight Gonna hold my baby as tight as I can Tonight she'll know I'm a mighty man I heard the news, there's good rockin' tonight Oh, lead me in the alley behind the barn Don't be afraid, I'll do you no harm Baby, bring my rockin' shoes 'Cause tonight I'm gonna rock away all my blues Have you heard the news, there's good rockin' tonight Well, Elder Brown, Deacon Jones, They've left their happy home They'll be there, just you wait and see A-jumpin' and a-stompin' at the jubilee Hey man, there's good rockin' tonight Sweet Lorraine, Sioux City Sue, Sweet Georgia Brown, Caledonia, too They'll be there jumpin' like mad Hey, sister, ain't you glad We got the news there's good rockin' tonight GYPSY WOMAN >From nowhere through the caravan Round the campfire light Lovely woman in motion With hair as dark as night Her eyes were like that of a cat in the dark that hypnotized me with love She was a gypsy woman She was a gypsy woman She was a gypsy woman She was a gypsy woman She was a gypsy woman She danced around and round Guitar's melody >From the fire her face was aglow How she enchanted me I'd like to hold her near And kiss her hair and whisper in her ear I love you gypsy woman I love you gypsy woman I love you gypsy woman I love you gypsy woman All through the caravan She was dancing with all the men Waiting for the rising sun Everyone was having fun Hated to see her go Knowing that she'll never know that I love her that I love her I love you gypsy woman I love you gypsy woman I love you gypsy woman I love you gypsy woman Whoever compared it to Part Monkey Part Man hit the nail on the head. It has that same kind of dark, mysterious sound. The vocals are soft and understated, somewhat reminiscent to those on If I should fall behind or Pony Boy. The song is sung with that nasally twang Bruce has grown so fond of lately. Jackie HEARTBREAK HOTEL(Mae Boren Axton, Tommy Durden, Elvis Presley/E. Presley) Since my baby left me I found a new place to dwell Down at the end of Lonely street at Heartbreak Hotel I get so lonely baby I get so lonely I get so lonely I could die Altough it's always crowded I still can find some room Where those broked hearted lovers Cry away their gloom, oh! I get so lonely I get so lonely Get so lonely I could die Bellhop's tears keep flowing Desk clerk dressed in black They been so long on lonely street They ain't never comin' back I get so lonely I get so lonely Get so lonely I could die If your baby leaves you And you have a tale to tell Just take a walk Down Lonely street to Heartbreak Hotel I get so lonely baby I get so lonely I get so lonely I could die HELD UP WITHOUT A GUN I was out driving, just taking it slow Looked at my tank it was reading low Pulled in an Exxon station out on Highway One Look out! Help up without a gun Help up without a gun Help up without a gun (Some man) drew eight hundred dollars (doing off a squeeze) Ain't got nowhere to go and nothing to eat (Driving up so blow us) better sign here son Watch out! Help up without a gun Help up without a gun Now it's a sin and it oughta be a crime You know it happens buddy all the time If I don't break the limit tryin' to have a little fun Help up without a gun Help up without a gun Help up without a gun Help up without a gun - B-side to Hungry Heart released in 1980 HENRY BOY They broke your toys this morning, Henry Rode your board right into dust Surrounded you with strangers who you could not trust And then they had the gall To write your name up on the girls' room wall And send you out to Maria Who spoke of babies and all And wanted to shoot yor joy It's a hard world when you're the new kid in town Ain't it, Henry Boy Well the North side is for diamond-studded woman Subtly selling their wares And the West side is for debutantes And would be millionaires Oh the East side is for lost boys Who know their moves too well The South side is for gamblers, Henry Boy The train stops once for Hell It's a hard world when they're forcing you To live your life out on Broadway But Henry I'm sure you're gonna like it well The constellation she points to Gate Eleven That's where you got your connections Let me take a look inside my magic book I don't think you're beyond my inventions Oh these doctor's appendages I'm giving you for wings I'm sure it'll meet the occasion I'm gonna mix you some magic, you'll spittin' sparks And ready for the invasion Oh and the Milky Way's a trip for dippers They saw ya coming a mile away In the amusement park you'll get clipped by rippers Hiding behind candy 'cades In the alleyway you'll get ripped by strippers All who know your name In the stalls sit the soldier-boy kissersOn leave for just a day And Henry couldn't take it He's gonna be a submariner Riding underground for the Pope Gonna stand on the corner of Broadway And scream: "Up 'scope" HEARTS OF STONE You stare in the mirror at the lines in your face And you try so hard to see The way things were when we were at your place Everyday was just you and me And you cry because things ain't like before Well, don't you know it can't be that way anymore But don't worry baby 'Cause I can't talk now, I'm not alone So put your ear close to the phone 'Cause this is the last dance, the last chance For hearts of stone If there was something, baby, That I could do, Something that would last, honey, I would But you should know better than to think that you Can return to the past So close your eyes and I'll be there Hold you once more and not go anywhere I wish I could babe But I can't talk now, I'm not alone So put your ear close to the phone 'Cause this is the last dance, the last chance For hearts of stone And you cry because things get so strange so fast And you cry because nothing good ever lasts Well, I know babe But I can't talk now, I'm not alone So put your ear close to the phone 'Cause this is the last dance, the last chance For hearts of stone I can't talk now, I'm not alone So put your ear close to the phone 'Cause this is the last dance, the last chance For hearts of stone HIGHWAY 61 REVISITED Oh God said to Abraham, "Kill me a son" Abe says, "Man, you must be putting me on" God say, "No". Abe say, "What?" God say, "You can do what you want Abe, but The next time you see me comin' you better run" Well Abe says, "Where do you want this killing done?" God says, "Out on Highway 61". Well Georgia Sam he had a bloody nose Welfare Department they wouldn't give him no clothes He asked poor Howard where can I go Howard said there's only one place I know Sam said tell me quick man I got to run Ol' Howard just pointed with his gun And said that way down on Highway 61. Well Mack the Finger said to Louie the King I got forty red white and blue shoe strings And a thousand telephones that don't ring Do you know where I can get rid of these things And Louie the King said let me think for a minute son And he said yes I think it can be easily done Just take everything down to Highway 61. Now the fifth daughter on the twelfth night Told the first father that things weren't right My complexion she said is much too white He said come here and step into the light he says hmm you're right Let me tell the second mother this has been done But the second mother was with the seventh son And they were both out on Highway 61. Now the rovin' gambler he was very bored He was tryin' to create a next world war He found a promoter who nearly fell off the floor He said I never engaged in this kind of thing before But yes I think it can be very easily done We'll just put some bleachers out in the sun And have it on Highway 61. (Bob Dylan 1965) I AIN'T GOT NO HOME (Woody Guthrie/Woody Guthrie) I ain't got no home, I'm just a ramblin' around A hard working ramblin' man, I go from town to town The police make it hard wherever I may go And I ain't got no home in this world anymore I was farmin' on the shares and always I was poor My crops I laid into the banker's door And my wife took down and died upon the cabin floor And I ain't got no home in this world anymore I ain't got no home, I'm just a ramblin' around A hard working ramblin' man, I go from town to town The police make it hard wherever I may go And I Ain't Got No Home in this world anymore Now as I look around it's mighty plain to see This wide wicked world is a funny place to be The gamblin' man is rich and the workin' man is poor And I ain't got no home in this world anymore Words & music by Woody Guthrie Performed by Bruce Springsteen on the Folkways: A Vision Shared, A Tribute To Woody Guthrie & Leadbelly I CAN'T HELP FALLING IN LOVE (Peretti, Creators, Weis/Elvis Presley) Wise men say only fools rush in but I can't help falling in love with you Shall I say would it be a sin 'cause I can't help falling in love with you Like the river flows flowing to the sea darling so it goes some things were meant to be Take my hand, take my whole life too 'cause I can't help falling in love with you No, I can't help falling in love with you I SOLD MY HEART TO THE JUNKMAN(P. Labelle/Patty Labelle and The Bluebells) "...song, this is a very sad song, this next song we're gonna do. The song is so sad that sometimes I have to leave the stage and cry in the backstage a little bit while I'm singing this song. The reason this song is so sad because this story happened to me just a little while ago (not true, but true) (audience laughs) And it was, it was a thing where I met this this beautiful girl, right? was she a beautiful girl as she was, she was nice and ... and I gave her my whole heart, every every bit, and she gave it back to me a month later all beat up, so bad and so terrible looking that I Sold My Heart To The Junkman ! Now I can never fall in love again...." Well I gave my heart to you, open, so open and trusting And you gave it back to me, it was broken up and busting (sold my heart) I sold my heart to the junkman (sold my heart) I sold my heart to the junkman I can never fall in love again Oh and I know you took my heart, you thought that you could use it When you gave it back like a toy you broken and bruised (sold my heart) I sold my heart to the junkman (I sold my heart) I sold my heart to the junkman I can never fall in love again Now, it was a movie sad scene, I played my part Ooh I wanted the happy ending, but all I got was a broken heart (all he got was a broken heart) (I sold my heart) I sold my heart to the junkman(I sold my heart) I sold my heart to the junkman I can never fall in love again Now I swear it was a movie setting, baby I played my part And all I wanted was a happy ending, but now I'm left with a broken heart (now he's left with a broken heart) (I sold my heart) I sold my heart to the junkman (I sold my heart) I sold my heart to the junkman I can never fall in love again I gave my heart to you, so open and trusting And you gave it back to me, it was broken up and busting (so I sold) I sold my heart to the junkman (yes I sold) I sold my heart to the junkman I can never fall in love again Yes I did sold my heart to the junkman Yes I did, yes I did Sold my heart to the junkman Now I can never fall in love again Since I sold my heart to the junkman. I WANNA BE WITH YOU So let the frozen sands crumble, crumble and fall Yeah that's all right, I don't mind at all Well let it all tumble right into the sea Yeah that's all right, that's fine with me Since you came down the line I don't sleep at night I got one thing on my mind And so every day, every night I wanna be with you I wanna be with you That's what I wanna do 'Cause you're so out of sight I wanna be with you I wanna be with you That's what I wanna do Well I lost my job at the Texaco station Instead of pumpin' gas I dreamed of you I got thrown out of my house I got such a bad reputation 'Cause all I wanna do is be seen with you They gave me my pay and said walk I don't care what they say Go ahead and let 'em all talk Until the world falls apart I wanna be with you I wanna be with you That's what I wanna do Until they rip out my heart I wanna be with you I wanna be with you That's what I wanna do Bedtime, hold tight, love me just a little bit All night, a little bit more Tonight, tonight ... Oh I don't know, I don't know I don't understand itYou ain't pretty at all But I come when you whisper I run when you call And baby I can't stand it And baby that's all Ridin' by your side in my car Oh, oh I wanna be with you I wanna be with you Darlin' don't you know Oh, oh I wanna be with you I wanna be with you Because I love you so I'M A COWARD (WHEN IT COMES TO LOVE) (G.Washington, B.Springsteen/B. Springsteen) I ain't afraid of no lions I ain't afraid of no grizzly bear I got in a wrestlin' match with old King Kong He didn't even muss my hair There's just one thing in the whole wide world That make me doubt my stuff I'm a coward when it comes to love Now bring down old Hulk Hogan King Kong bundy too Bring down old Big Mike Tyson I'll show them what a real man can do They say the tougher' get goin' Now baby that's when the goin' get tough But I'm a coward when it comes to love I'm a coward when it comes to love I'm a coward when it comes to love You can bring on a different sexy girl At every night of the week Buddy that's okay But I start tremblin', my knees get weak Whenever I hear her say "Do you love me baby?" "Do you love me baby?" "Do you love me baby?" I got a muscle of iron I got another muscle made of steel But when we start kissin' 'n' huggin' You may be the bravest man in the whole wide world But Buddy, that ain't enough I'm a coward when it comes to love I'm a coward when it comes to love I'm a coward when it comes to love IF I WAS THE PRIEST Well there's a light on yonder mountain And it's calling me to shine There's a girl over by the water fountain And she's asking to be mine And ain't that Jesus, he's standing in the doorway With a buckskin jacket, boots and spurs, so really fine He says "We need you up in Dodge City, son 'Cause there's oh so many bad boys (just too many outlaw) Tryin' to work the same line" Well now if Jesus was the sheriff and I were the priest If my lady was an heiress and my mama was a thief Oh and Papa rode shotgun for the Fargo line There's still too many outlaws Tryin' to work the same line Now old sweet Virgin Mary She runs the Holy Grail saloon Where for a nickel they'll give you whisky And the personally blessed balloon And the Holy Ghost, he's the host with the most He runs the burlesque show Where they let you in for free But oh hit you for your soul when you go And Mary serves Mass on Sunday And then she sells her body on Monday To the bootlegger who will pay the highest price But he don't know he got stuck with a loser Mary's a stone junkie, what's more she's a boozer And she's only been made once or twice By some kind of magic Well things ain't been the same in Heaven Ever since big bad Bobby came to town He's been known to down eleven And then ask for another round And me I got scabs on my knees >From kneeling way too long I gotta take a stand, be the man, up where you belong And forget about the old friends and the old times Because there's just too many new boys Tryin' to work the same line Well now if Jesus was the sheriff and I were the priest If my lady was an heiress and my mama was a thief Oh and Papa rode shotgun for the Fargo line There's still too many bad boys Tryin' to work the same line Now there's a light on yonder mountain And it's calling me to shine There's a girl by the water fountain And she's asking to be mine And Jesus, he's standing in the doorway With his six-guns drawn, and ready to fan He says "We need you son, up in Dodge City" But I'm already overdue in Cheyenne [As recorded for the Laurel Canyon Publishing demo tape - 1972] I WANT YOU(Bob Dylan/Bob Dylan) The guilty undertaker sighs The lonesome orangegrinder cries The silver saxophone says I should refuse you The cracked bells and washed out horns Blow into my face with scorn But it's not that way I wasn't born to lose you I want you I want you I want you so bad Honey I want you The drunken politician leaps Upon the streets where mothers weep And the saviors who are fast asleep They wait for you And I wait for them to interrupt Me drinking from my broken cup And ask me to open up The gate for you Now all my fathers They've gone down True love They've been without it But all their daughters Put me down 'Cause I don't Think about it Well I return to the queen of spades And talk with my chamber maid She knows that I'm not afraid to Look at her She is good to me and there's Nothing she doesn't see She knows where I'd like to be But it doesn't matter Now your dancing child with the chinese suit He spoke to me I took his flute No I wasn't very cute to him Was I But I did it because he lied Because he took you for a ride And because time was on his side And because I Want you I want you I want you so bad Honey I want you JANEY, DON'T YOU LOSE HEART You got your book baby with all your fears Let me honey and I'll catch your tears I'll take your sorrow if you want me to Come tomorrow That's what I'll do Listen to me Janey don't you lose heart Janey don't you lose heart Janey don't you lose heart Janey don't you lose heart Well you say you got no new dreams to touch You feel like a stranger babe who knows too much You come home late and get undressed You lie in bed and feel this emptiness Well listen to me Janey don't you lose heart Janey don't you lose heart Janey don't you lose heart Janey don't you lose heart Till every river it runs dry Until the sun's torn from the sky Till every feel you've felt burst free Gone tumblin' down into the sea Listen to me Janey don't you lose heart Janey don't you lose heart Janey don't you lose heart Janey don't you lose heart JAZZ MUSICIAN Well it's Saturday night in New Jersey And you're feeling kinda wet Now the summer heat is getting you worried So you try to look as innocent as you can as you sweat And you've got a woman on the other side of the law But it ain't cool to go see her yet Because her ex-old man's a city cop Who thinks he's auditioning for Dragnet So you stand on the corner looking kinda torn And in the Blue Light Lounge Where death was born The jazz musician blows his horn You pop a letter to your baby in Richmond 'Cause you're feeling pretty down She's kinda small but at least she's a rich one Oh, and she needs you real bad And sometimes that's all that counts You had a teenage band and flying hands And oh, you was pretty big, you were pretty big in the South But you passed out on stage and flew into a rage And someone tried to revive you mouth to mouth You felt a pain in your chest As you passed the crown And in the Blue Light Lounge The lights went down And the audience slipped silently out of town Well now the atheist he burns you for laughing out loud Because he can't understand what you're saying And the word's out when they pushed him in the hole Everybody knows that he went out praying Oh, now the park is dark but the sidewalk's bright And alive with the light of the living Oh and mama can I walk you home tonight 'Cause it's a big bad city And this boy's got a lot for the givingI'm stranded in the jungle First stage witness at a company killing I'm clutching my high school diploma, shuffling my feet Promised sixty bucks a week And guaranteed top billing Well you can live a life of love in New York Only if you don't, if you don't love living And I met this taxi driver who drives me around town Telling tales of his back seat women And out on the corner there's no room to move 'Cause everybody's trying so hard to groove And in the Blue Light Lounge The jazz musician plays his blues JEANNIE NEEDS A SHOOTER (cover: Warren Zevon. Written by Springsteen) I was born down by the river Where the dirty river flows And the cool wind cut through me It cut right through my clothes And the anger and the yearning Like fever in my veins Set the fire burning She came down from Knightstown With her hands hard from the line >From the first time I laid eyes on her I knew that she's be mine Her father was a lawman He swore he'd shoot me dead 'Cause he knew I wanted Jeannie And I'd have her like I'd said Jeannie needs a shooter, shooter like me Jeannie needs a shooter Jeannie needs a shooter, shooter on her side Jeannie needs a shooter Jeannie needs a shooter Jeannie needs a shooter We met down by the river On the final day in May And when I leaned down to kiss her She did not turn away I drew out all my money And together we did vow To meet that very evening And to get away somehow Jeannie needs a shooter, shooter like me Jeannie needs a shooter Jeannie needs a shooter, shooter on her side Jeannie needs a shooter Jeannie needs a shooter Jeannie needs a shooter The night was cold and rainy Down by the borderline I was riding hard to meet her When a shot rang out behind As I lay there in the darkness With a pistol by my side Jeannie and her father Rode off into the night Jeannie needs a shooter JERSEY GIRL (Tom Waits) I got no time for the corner boys Down in the street making all that noise Or the girls out on the avenue `Cause tonight I wanna be with you Tonight I'm gonna take that ride Across the river to the Jersey side Take my baby to the carnival And I'll take her on all the rides `Cause down the shore everything's all right You and your baby on a Saturday night You know all my dreams come true When I'm walking down the street with you Sha la la la la la la Sha la la la la la la la la Sha la la la la la la Sha la la la I'm in love with a Jersey girl You know she thrills me with all her charms When I'm wrapped up in my baby's arms My little girl gives me everything I know that some day she'll wear my ring So don't bother me man I ain't got no time I'm on my way to see that girl of mine `Cause nothing matters in this whole wide world When you're in love with a Jersey girl Sha la la la... I see you on the street and you look so tired I know that job you got leaves you so uninspired When I come by to take you out to eat You're lyin' all dressed up on the bed baby fast asleep Go in the bathroom and put your makeup on We're gonna take that little brat of yours and drop her off at your mom's I know a place where the dancing's free Now baby won't you come with me `Cause down the shore everything's all right You and your baby on a Saturday night Nothing matters in this whole wide world When you're in love with a Jersey girl On 'Live Album 1975-1985' 1980 JOHNNY BYE BYE Well she drew out all her money from the Southern Trust And put her little boy on the Greyhound Bus Leaving Memphis with a guitar in his hand With a one way ticket to the Promised Land Hey little girl with the red dress on There's party tonight down in Memphis down I'll be going down there if you need a ride The man on the radio says Elvis Presley's died We drove to Memphis the sky was hard and black Up over the ridge came a white Cadillac They drawed out all his money and they laid him in the back A woman cried from the roadside "Oh he's gone, he's gone" They found him slumped up against the drain With a whole lotta trouble running through his veins Bye bye Johnny Johnny bye Bye You didn't have to die You didn't have to die (All aboard! Train I ride... Sixteen coaches long) JUST LIKE A WOMAN (Bob Dylan/Bob Dylan) Nobody feels any pain Tonight as I stand inside the rain Everybody knows That baby has got me closed But lately I see her ribbons and her bows Have fallen from her curls She takes just like a woman, yes she does She makes love just like a woman, yes she does And she aches just like a woman But she breaks just like a little girl Queen Mary she's my friend Yes I believe I'll go see her again Nobody has to guess That baby can't be blessed 'Till she finally sees That she's like all the rest With her fog her amphetamine and her pearls It was raining from the first And I was dying there of thirst So I came in here And your long time curse hurts But what's worse Is this pain in here I can't stay in here Ain't it clear that I just can't fit Yes I believe it's for us to quit When we meet again introduced as friends Please don't let on that you knew me when I was hungry and it was your world Ah you fake just like a woman, yes you do You make love just like a woman, yes you do And you ache just like a woman But you break just like a little girl LET'S GO TONIGHT (JOHNNY BYE BYE) Hey little girl with the red dress on There's a party tonight down in ... Yeah and I'm goin' if you need a ride Come on, come on, let's go tonight Well baby the dreamers .... They ride down the streets with death in their eyes And the new world's defeat, baby, it eats your eyes Come on, come on, let's go tonight I said come on, come on, let's go tonight Well a man ... And he lost his wife He walks down the streets babe, with death in his eyes Well everybody wants heaven But nobody wants to die Come on, come on, let's go tonight Baby, come on, come on, let's go tonight I said come on, come on, let's go tonight LIKE A ROLLING STONE (Bob Dylan/Bob Dylan) Once upon a time you dressed so fine You threw the bums a dime in your prime Didn't you People called say beware doll You're bound to fall You thought they were all Kidding you You used to laugh about Everybody that was hanging it out Now you don't talk so loud Now you don't seem so proud About having to be scrounging For your next meal How does it feel How does it feel To be without a home Like a complete unknown Like a rolling stone You've gone to the finest school Allright miss lonely But you know you only used to get Juiced in it Nobody's ever taught you How to live in the street And now you're gonna have to get Used to it You say you never compromise With the mistery tramp But now you realize He's not selling any alibis As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes And say do you want to do Make a deal How does it feel How does it feel To be on your homeWith no direction home A complete unknown Like a rolling stone You never turned around to see the frowns On the jugglers and the clowns When they all did tricks for you You never understood that it ain't no good You shouldn't let other people Get your kicks for you You used to ride on the chrome horse With your diplomat Who carried on his shoulder a siamese cat Ain't it hard when you discover that He really wasn't where it's at After he took from you everything He could steal How does it feel How does it feel To hang on your home With no direction home Like a complete unknown Like a rolling stone Princess on the steeple And all the pretty people They're drinking thinking That they got it made Exchanging all precious gifts But you'd better Take a diamond ring You'd better pawn it babe You used to be so amused At Napoleon in rags And the language that he used Go to him now he calls you You can't refuse When you ain't got nothing You got nothing to lose You are invisible nowYou got no secrets to conceal How does it feel How does it feel To be on your home With no direction home Like a complete unknown Like a rolling stone LIGHT OF DAY Well I've been out of the woods for six days and nights now I'm a little hot wired and I'm feeling alright now I got some money in my pocket and I won't need a ride now I got a big cherry car and my baby by my side now (chorus) Well I'm a little hot-wired but I'm feeling ok And I got a little lost along the way And I'm just around the corner from the light of day Just around the corner from the light of day Well driving 500 miles got 100 to go, yeah I've got rock and roll music on the radio I've got a brother on the rig who's from the Gulf Coast He said the girls down there are really the most, yeah (chorus) Well I got thrown out of work on the Kokomo Don't ask me what I'm doing cause I don't know He wasn't joking when he wrote me that letter Things can't get worse so they got to get better (chorus) First performed 4/12/87 at the Stone Pony by Bruce and a few E-Streeters, in the first of the pre-Tunnel of Love tour club appearances down the Shore): LINDA LET ME BE THE ONE Midnight boys are outside Scrapin' tears up off the street Standing guard over the window Where the lonely Linda sleeps There's a kid named Eddie Walks like an angel in defeat The ashes of a romance come Traces Linda's name in a seat Calls Linda will you let me be the one Linda will you, hey let me be the one Linda will you let me be the one Linda will you let me be the one In a room full of contenders Shadow boxin', Eddie's strong Till he drops through a feigned surrender To the canvas draped in scarves Stole from Linda's bedroom The night he laid at her feet And the midnight boys were wasted Down on King Street He calls out Linda will you let me be the one Linda will you, hey let me be the one Linda will you let me be the one Linda will you let me be the one Midnight's base is St Mary's Midnight boys hide from the rain Stay with the stolen sisters Till the streets are dry again Talking fast cars and chrome parts Different worlds and strange girls Empty homes, busted hearts And kneeling with Linda in the dark Linda will you let me be the one Linda will you, hey let me be the one Linda will you let me be the one LITTLE GIRL SO FINE (cover: Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes. Written by Springsteen) After the music had stopped I still heard it playing I moved a little closer to hear The words she was saying She said I'll never break your heart I'll never try to fake it My love is here for you All you have to do is take it Kisses sweeter than wine My little girl so fine The night seemed to say it was right But could I believe her My heart said, it's time to go But my eyes wouldn't leave her There's always somebody trying to break your heart Somebody trying to take it My little girl tried so hard To help me make it Kisses sweeter than wine My little girl so fine Oh, oh, oh, oh, sha la la Oh, oh, sha la la So fine Oh, oh, oh, oh, sha la la Oh, oh, sha la la So fine When we danced I forgot everything and whispered Hold me tight Take a chance On what tomorrown brings Won't you be mine, be mine Be mine tonight We walked away laughing together Into the night for ever and ever and ever Now I know I'll never break me baby's heart I'll never try to fake it I'll give her all my love All she has to do is take it Kisses sweeter than wine My little girl so fine Kisses sweeter than wine My little girl so fine Oh, oh, oh, oh Kisses sweeter than wine My little girl so fine Oh, oh, oh, oh, sha la la Oh, oh, sha la la So fine LOOSE ENDS We met out on open streets When we had no place to go I remember how my heart beat When you said "I love you so" Then little by little We choked out all the life that out love could hold No, no It was like we held a noose And baby without check We pulled it a little tighter around our necks Each one waiting for the other Darling to say when Now baby you can leave me wonight on the loose end We didn't count tomorrows We took what we had and baby we ran There was no place for sorrow Every place we went I held your hand And when the night closed in I was sure your kisses told me all I had to know But oh no It was like we held a noose And baby without check We pulled it a little tighter around our necks Each one waiting for the other Darling to say when Well baby you can leave me tonight on the loose end Our love has fallen around us Like we saaid it never would We saw it happen to all the others But to us it never would Well how could something so bad, darling Come from something that was so good I don't know But it's like we held a noose And baby without check We pulled it a little tighter around our necks Each one waiting for the other Darling to say when Well baby you can leave me tonight on the lose end On a loose end LOVE ON THE WRONG SIDE OF TOWN (cover: Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes. Written by Springsteen) I was there When you needed someone Look now baby And see what we have undone Oh I did most of the talking But you were the one who lied Bye bye baby Out love is tumbling down I can't be hanging around Love on the wrong side of town Oh baby You were gone When I needed you by my side There was no one To dry the tears from my eyes Oh you were the one who cheated But I was the one who cried Bye bye baby Out love is tumbling down I can't be hanging around Love on the wrong side of town Bye bye baby Out love is tumbling down I can't be hanging around Love on the wrong side of town Bye bye baby Love on the wrong side of town Bye bye baby Bye bye darling Bye bye baby LOVE'S ON THE LINE (cover: Gary U.S.Bonds. Written by Springsteen) Tell me baby Have we lost everything that we had before What do you do in the day When I walk out the door I can see you made up your mind And I know our love's on the line Love's on the line, our love's on the line Love's on the line, our love's on the line Love's on the line, our love's on the line With each passing day I gotta watch more and more what I say to you I can feel your eyes looking through me As I sit at the table at dinnertime I can feel our love's on the line Love's on the line, our love's on the line Love's on the line, our love's on the line Love's on the line, our love's on the line I watch our kids Growin' up, going to school Is there anything else for us now Are we both just fools Wasting our precious time At night we lay in bed But it's like you're not even there There's something real bad Going wrong somewhere Last night I heard you cry And I know our love's on the line Love's on the line, our love's on the line Love's on the line, our love's on the line Love's on the line, our love's on the line Love's on the line MAN AT THE TOP Here comes a lawyer,here comes a cop. Here comes a rich, here comes a car-hop. Goin' on forever, ain't ever gonna stop. Everybody wants to be the man at the top. Everybody wants to be the man at the top. Everybody wants to be the man at the top. Well, name your gun, son, shoot your shot. Everybody wants to be the man at the top. Now rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief. Doctor, lawyer, indian chief. Don't ever start to ask them why. Everybody wants to be the man at the top. Everybody wants to be the man at the top. Everybody wants to be the man at the top. Well, name your gun, son, shoot your shot. Everybody wants to be the man at the top. All right (All right). Oh yeah (Oh yeah) All right now (All right). Oh yeah (Oh yeah) Man at the top says it's lonely up there. If it is man, I don't care. Build a big white house. Build a parking lot. Everybody wants to be the man at the top. Here comes a banker, here comes a businessman. Here comes a kid with a guitar in his hand. Dreamin' of his record in number one spot. Everybody wants to be the man at the top. Everybody wants to be the man at the top. Everybody wants to be the man at the top. Well, name your gun son, shoot your shot. Everybody wants to be the man at the top. Say right now (All right). Say yeah now (Oh yeah) Say right...Who's the man at the top? Who's the man at the top, now? MANY RIVERS TO CROSS There's so many rivers to cross and I can't seem to find my way home. Wandering, I'm lost as I travel [along the wide closed outdoors? alone the wide closed-up doors? -- I can't figure this part out!] Many rivers to cross and it's only my wind that keeps me alive. I've been hurt, washed up for years and it's only my pride that lets me survive. And this loneliness won't leave me alone, it's such a drag to be on your own my baby left, and she wouldn't say why, Now all I do is cry... I've got many rivers to cross and it's only my wind that keeps me alive I've got so many rivers to cross, oh, so many rivers to cross... MARIE Marie, she comes to me in the twilight When the wind blows down across the river So cold, the fishermen cry She rapes me in a rage of rainbow violence Till my bare nerves, they sing Like the strings of a violin And the room seeps into a savage silence Soaked in colours, red as blood, blue as night And Marie she skins me alive Carves her initials in my side Lures me with her purrs and cuts me with her knife And the horses pound like thunder They bolt like lightning on her range She feels she's going under and she zeros in the rein She's so strange Well, Marie, you know, she's the queen of all the stallions And I'm her prince of mules And one of her principal fools Marie, she's got the claws of a falcon And she's perched on my shoulder, and slowly digging in But she, oh she can be so strange sometimes Like at night ... Or when the neighbors come to dine Marie, she skins me alive Burns her initials in my hide and then leaves me all alone Branded to the bone And my heart pounds like her horses Oh, stampeding on the range Marie knows all the sources And she shoots me with her pain And for her, I take it, Lord, down in my veins And I watch her dance like some berserk fairy All across the concrete prairies of Bleecker Street Marie, she can be so strangeBut she's the only lonely cowgirl on my range MARY LOU Your scrapbook's filled with pictures of all your leading men Well baby don't me picture in there with them Don't make me some little girl's dream that can never come true Oh baby, don't do it to me I won't do it to you Mary Lou, I'm not like all those other guys Mary Lou, I won't fill pretty head with their pretty lies Mary Lou, and dreams that never, never, never ever will come true Mary Lou, I don't deserve to hurt and make you cry like you do You seen all the romantic movies You dream to take the boys home But when the action fades you're left all alone You deserve more than this, oh your love that can grow And not playing outtakes, girl, from some lata-late show, no no Mary Lou, you're not like all those others girls Mary Lou, so afraid to shake up that real world Every night you go out lookin' for true love's satisfaction But you'll end up setting for just lights, camera, action In another cameo role with some bit-player you befriended You're gonna go broken-hearted lookin' for that happy ending Mary Lou, I know all those movies too Mary Lou, now one wants the dreams, baby, more than I do But Mary Lou, you're gonna end up baby just another ticket stub Mary Lou, cryin' alone in the theatre as the credits roll MERRY CHRISTMAS BABY (Baxter, Moore) Bring it Down, band! Now , I just came here tonight to say I just wanna say ... I just wanna say ... Merry Christmas baby, you surely treat me nice Merry Christmas baby, you surely treat me nice I feel just like I'm living in paradise Now listen Now you see, I feel real good tonight And I got music on the radio And I feel good tonight And I got music on the radio And I feel just like I wanna kiss you Underneath my wistle-toe But now listen Santa came down chimney, half past three With lots of nice little presents for my baby and me Merry Christmas baby, you surely treat me nice And I feel like I'm living, just living in paradise Come on boys Well now Santa came down chimney, half past three With lots of nice little presents for my baby and me Merry Christmas baby, you surely treat me nice And I feel like I'm living, just living in paradise And I just came down to say ... merry Christmas baby I just wanna say ... merry Christmas baby I just wanna say ... merry Christmas baby I just wanna say ... merry Christmas baby And happy new year too Oh yeah Play it boys go ! Merry Christmas, happy new year MURDER INCORPORATED Bobby's got a gun that he keeps beneath his pillow (oh yeah) Out on the streets your chances are zero (oh yeah) Take a look around you (come on down) It ain't too complicated You're messin' with Murder Incorporated Now you check over your shoulder everywhere that you go (oh yeah) Walkin down the streets, there's eyes in every shadow (oh yeah) You better take a look around you (come on down) That equipment you got's so outdated You can't compete with Murder Incorporated Everywhere you look now there's Murder Incorporated So you keep a little secret down deep inside your dresser drawer >From dealing with the heat you're feelin' down on the killin' floor No matter where you step you feel you're never out of danger SO COMPLICATED YOU KEEP COMPLAINING SOME BONES HURTIN' I hear that you, you got dogged downtown, man it leaves your head cold (oh yea) And everywhere you look life ain't got no soul (oh yeah) That apartment you live in feels like it's just a place to hide When your walkin' down the streets you won't need nowhere there to hide Now the cops reported you as just another homicide I could tell that you was just frustrated from livin' with Murder Incorporated Incorporated Everywhere you look now Murder Incorporated Down on your knees Murder Everywhere that you turn it's murder Murder Everywhere you look there's murder. Aaaah, mmmmm, yeah, I said aaah, mmmmm, yeah I said aaah, wooo, yeah 11/17/90 Christic Institute Benefit concert. MY LOVE WILL NOT LET YOU DOWN At night I go to bed But I just can't sleep I got something runnin' around my head Ooh that just won't keep In the silence I hear my heart beatin' Time slippin' away I got a time bomb tickin' deep inside of me Girl all I wan't to say I keep searchin' for you darlin' Searchin everywhere I go And when I find you there's gonna be just one thing that you gotta know One thing you gotta know My love, love, love, love, love, love, will not let you down My love, love, love, love, love, love, will not let you down At night I walk the streets lookin' for romance But I always end up stumblin' in a half transe I search for a connection in some new eyes That hardly protect you from too many dreams passed by I see you standin, across the room watchin' me without a sound I'm gonna push my way through that crowd I'm gonna tear your holy walls down Tear all your walls down My love, love, love, love, love, love, will not let you down My love, love, love, love, love, love, will not let you down My love, love, love, love, love, love, will not let you down My love, love, love, love, love, love, will not let you down Well hold still now darlin' Hold still for God's sake Cause I got me a promise I ain't afraid to make (I ain't afraid to make) My love, love, love, love, love, love, will not let you down My love, love, love, love, love, love, will not let you down My love, love, love, love, love, love, will not let you down My love, love, love, love, love, love, will not let you down My love, love, love, love, love, love, will not let you down My love, love, love, love, love, love, will not let you down My love, love, love, love, love, love, will not let you down My love, love, love, love, love, love, will not let you down NO NEED She's a broken winged angel Refugee from things her mama knew And she's done everything the Bible say not to do Well I don't know if she believes in Jesus The good book, or even Satan you see I'm just trying to get her to believe in me Oh, 'cause when I see her face No matter where I am I'm in the right place And the girls I left behind Oh, they never satisfied me, it's so true But baby, baby, you do She's the belle of Eighth Street High society's midnight vamp Oh, she's my queen and I'm her tramp Yes she's a free falling flyer And she flows whichever way that the wind blows And she's the only woman I never knew Who could teach me more about me, bind me in chains And still let me be free My heart swells up inside Starts beating like I'm gonna die And my body breaks in pain As she falls down on me like the rain It's only her and my songs that keep me from going insane And I guess I'm one of those people Who measures love in pain You see, I never had too much personal success And to me there's nothing sweeter Than a teardrop of rain I just love that feeling of sadness Oh and it worries me so ... She's my West Side angel She looks so funky in her Hollywood wing And she knows how I stumble when I talk So she says: "Don't talk, babe, just sing" And I have seen her body in candle glow In the deep heart of the night When you finally let loose of everything Oh, and she loves me like such a good woman And still, oh, she's just a sweet young thing And I know this might sound crazy or just the words of a young fool But I swear I'd be on the floor And she ever walked out the door I swear I'd wish that she would shoot me first And I know that sounds insane but sometimes I believe it's true And that's what scares me worst 'Cause I dance for her Take any chance for her And I play for her Lord God knows I play for her And I need for her And I bleed for her NONE BUT THE BRAVE Tonight down on Union Street I'm thinkin' back, baby, to you and me To the way you used to be And your words come back to me >From passing cars Their voices sing out In empy bars where guitars ring out We'd be the lucky one to get out You said, None baby but the brave No one baby but the brave Oh strong enough to save something >From what they gave None baby but the brave No one baby but the brave Now in dreams these nights I see you my friend The way you were back then Ah, on a night like this I know that girl no longer exists Except for a moment in some stranger's eyes Or in a nameless girl In cars rushin' by That's where I find you tonight And in my heart it still survives To none, baby, but the brave No one baby but the brave Oh strong enough to save Something from the love they gave Yeah, none baby but the brave No one baby but the brave Now tonight once more I search Every face on that crowded floor Looking for I don't know what for Something that ain't there no more There's a girl standin' by the band She reminds me of you And I asked her to danceAs the drummer counts his play I take her hand and we move away And tonight, now I'll see old friends caught in things they got no chance to win Just gettin' beaten, and then playin' again 'Till their strength gives out Or their hearts give in Who's that man who thinks he can decide whose dreams will live And who(se) shall be pushed aside Did he ever walk down this streets at night And looked into the eyes Baby, of none, baby, but the brave No one baby but the brave No, none baby but the brave No one baby but the brave No one baby,no one but the brave ON THE PROWL (cover: Cats On A Smooth Surface. Written by Springsteen) Well night after lonely night My head don't touch the bed I'm on a two-lane black-top Cruisin' in my rocket sled I'm on the prowl Yeah I'm on the prowl Well I'm looking for a gal, gal, gal Hey, hey, hey, I'm on the prowl There's only one thing that I'm certain Every mile, mile, mile Keep a-serachin', serachin', serachin' For a wild, wild, child I'm on the prowl I'm on the prowl I'm looking for a gal, gal, gal Hey, hey, hey, I'm on the prowl They got a name for Dracula And Frankenstein's son They ain;t got no name now (Mister) For this monster (thing that) I've become I'm on the prowl I'm on the prowl I'm looking for a gal, gal, gal Hey, hey, hey, I'm on the prowl I keep lookin' I keep searchin' I keep searchin' I keep searchin' Only one thing that I'm certain Every mile, mile, mile I keep searchin', searchin', searchin', searchin', searchin' In the morning I check my mirror And I hang my head and cry But at night I get a burning, burning, burning deep inside I'm on the prowl I'm on the prowl I'm looking for a gal, gal, gal Hey, hey, hey, I'm on the prowl In the morning I check my mirror And I hang my head and cry But at night I get a burning, burning, burning, burning, burning. burning There's only one thing that I'm certain Every while, while, while While my heart is hurtin', hurtin' Every mile, mile, mile I gotta keep searchin', searchin', searchin', searchin', searchin' OUT OF WORK (cover: Gary U.S.Bonds. Written by Springsteen) 8 a.m. I'm up and my feet beating on the sidewalk Down at the unemployment agency, all I get is talk I check the want ads but there just ain't nobody hiring What's a man supposed to do when he's down and he's Out of work I need a job, I'm out of work I'm unemployed, I'm out of work I need a job, I'm out of work I go to pick my girl up Her name is Linda Brown Her dad invites me in He tells me to sit down The small talk that we're making Is going pretty smooth But then he drops a bomb "Son, what d'ya do ?" I'm out of work I need a job, I'm out of work I'm unemployed, I'm out of work I need a job, I'm out of work Hey Mr President I know you got your plans You're doing all you can now to aid the little man We got to do our best to whip that inflation down Maybe you got a job for me just driving you around I'm out of work These hard times, they're enough To make a man lose his mind I'm out of work Up there you got a job but down here below I'm out of work I need a job, I'm out of work I'm unemployed, I'm out of work I need a job, I'm out of work I'm out of work I'm out of work I'm out of work I'm out of work I'm out of work I'm out of work I'm out of work OUTSIDE LOOKING IN It's over now, the thing we had I ain't sorry, babe, I just feel mad You walk real pretty and you talk real fine Night after night you wrote the lines My life's the same story Again and again I' m on the outside looking in On the outside looking in Hey, make-believe ain't real I don't doubt the way I feel You walk real pretty and you talk real sweet Well babe I was born in the driving seat My life's the same story Again and again I' m on the outside looking in On the outside looking in Yes I' m on the outside looking in It's over now, the thing we had I ain't sorry, babe, I just feel mad You walk real pretty and you talk real fine Night after night you wrote the lines My life's the same story Beginning to end Beginning to end I' m on the outside looking in On the outside looking in Yes I' m on the outside looking in Yes I am Yes I guess I am Baby I' m on the outside looking in PINK CADILLAC You may think I'm fooling For the foolish things I do You may wonder how come I love you When you get on my nerves like you do Well baby, you know you bug me There ain't no secret about that Well come on over here and hug me And, baby, I'll spill the facts Well, honey it ain't your money Cause baby I got plenty of that I love you for your pink Cadillac Crushed velvet seats Riding in the back, oozing down the street Waving to the girls Feeling out of sight Spending all my money on a Saturday night Honey, I just wonder what you do there in back of your pink Cadillac Pink Cadillac Well now way back in the Bible, temptations always come along There's always somebody tempting you Somebody into doing something they know is wrong Well they tempt you man with silver and they tempt you sir with gold And they tempt you with the pleasures that the flesh does surely hold They say Eve tempted Adam with an apple Man I ain't going for that I know it was her pink Cadillac Crushed velvet seats Riding in the back, oozing down the street Waving to the girls Feeling out of sight Spending all my money on a Saturday night Honey, I just wonder what you do there in back of your pink Cadillac Now some folks say it's too big and uses too much gas Some folks say it's too old and that it goes too fast But my love is bigger than a Honda, it's bigger than a Subaru Hey man there's only one thing and one car that will do Anyway we don't have to drive it honey, we can park it out in back And have a party in your pink Cadillac From: uunet!relay.cs.net!montys%mapme6.map.tek.com (Monty) Here's the lyrics to Preacher's Daughter. Note the similarities. If you haven't heard this song, it's DEFINITELY a must. IMHO, this takes a VERY close second for his best song of all time, just behind the acoustic Thunder Road (far surpassing anything that was ever released!). PREACHER'S DAUGHTER [opens very soft and slow, to the tune of Mona/She's the One] I got a date with the preacher's daughter She give me life she bring me water. Every Sunday I watch her work Pretty little (siff?) in a pretty little church Daddy gives her nod she takes collection Daddy gives her nod she kneels by her side. Well I'd sell my soul for just one touch The Lord would too if he loved her half as much. Well I got a date with the preacher's daughter. Her Daddy say that the boy's no good Just want to raise some (coons?) out through the back woods Well baby better believe what your Daddy say Just wanna ramrod baby my life away. It's a long walk to heaven and a road filled with sin And they better open up the freeway to let me in. 'Cuz I got a date with the preacher's daughter Well now I don't care what the preacher say Haaaaayyyy [IDENTICAL to "Haaaaayyyy, Mona"] Well now I don't care what the preacher do Haaaaayyyy I don't care what the preacher like Haaaaayyyy I don't care what the preacher think Haaaaayyyy Leads me to water but won't let me drink. He leads me to water but won't let me drink. (Big Man) [maracas start, music picks up, Bruce starts yelling] And now it's (whole little world?) on Saturday night Two boys fighting in a halo of light Car door flung open and a radio loud And everybody shouting and running around. Two guys bloody and one I don't know And all little girls shouting "Go Billy go" Go Billy go. Well just as I got the preacher's daughter ready for a light And (missed a VH fire?) and something ain't right. And like a she-devil howlin' from the gates of hell Goddam here come the preacher in his Coupe DeVille Burnin' up the backroad kicking in the dirt And oh baby preacher thinks he is church Well now your lips they shine in the willow mist And I swear I'd take you down (young croft?) for just one kiss I got a date with the preacher's daughter I got a date with the preacher's daughter And it's haaaaayyyyoooo I got a date with the preacher's daughter hmmmmm... PROTECTION (cover: Donna Summer. Written by Springsteen) Night after night I keep holding on You say you love me Then you leave me so lonely Baby I don't believe a word you're sayin' I think it's all some evil game you're playin' Still all day long all I do is think about you You got me believin' that I can't live without you Well if you want it, here's my confession Baby I can't help it, you're my obsession Protection, that's what I need I need protection, baby, from your love Protection, that's what I need I need protection, baby, from your love I wait at home by the telephone When I call your house, baby, you're not there Knock on the door and I rush down the stairs When I open up, baby, you're not there When we're together When we're together and you put your arms around me You keep my mind Forever, ever in doubt You want me believin' That, baby, I can't live without Protection, that's what I need I need protection, baby, from your love Protection, that's what I need I need protection, baby, from your love We stand alone, at my window And stare out, at the shadows down below I mfeel your fingers on my face I want to stay, I want to run away Protection, that's what I need I need protection, baby, from your love Protection, that's what I need I need protection, baby, from your love RAISE YOUR HAND (Steven Cropper, Eddie Floyd, Alvertis Isbell) If there's something you need That you just don't have Well just don't sit there Feeling bad Come on now get up Try and understand Just raise your hand Baby here I am You know I'm standing in line I wanna give you my love Please let me try Come on now get up Try and understand Just raise your hand 1966 RED-HEADED WOMAN (performed live 11/16/90 & 11/17/90) Well, brunettes are fine, man. Blondes are fun. But, when it comes to getting the dirty job done, I'll take a red-headed woman, a red-headed woman. Yeah, a red-headed woman sure can get that job done. Well, listen up, sir, Your life's been wasted Until you've been down on your knees, Oh, man, tasted a red-headed woman, a red-headed woman. Yeah, a red-headed woman sure gets a dirty job done. Eh ha ha woo hoo woo. ee ee ah ee ah ha ea ha ha woo woo (etc.) Yeah, little tight skirt, strawberry hair. Tell me what you've got, baby, waiting under there. Big green eyes that look like sun They can see every cheap thing that you ever done Well, I don't care how many girls you dated. Man, you ain't lived Till you've had your tires rotated By a red-headed woman, a red-headed woman. A red-headed woman sure can get the job done. Well, all you girls out there tonight sure look fine, But my heart and soul and this body of mine Is a red-headed woman's, a red-headed woman's. Yeah, a red-headed woman sure gets a dirty job done. Eh ha ha woo hoo woo. ee ee ah ee ah ha ea ha ha woo woo (etc.) REMEMBER WHEN THE MUSIC(Harry Chapin/Harry Chapin) Remember when the music Came from wooden boxes Strung with silver wires And as we sang The words would set our hearts on fire To believe in things So we'd sing Remember when the music Brought us all together To stand inside the rain And as we'd join hands We'd meet in the refrain With dreams to live And hope to give Remember when the music Was the best that we'd dream of For our's children's time And as we'd worked we'd sing Cause we knew time Was just a lie A gift to say A gift that future gave Remember when the music Was a rock we could cling to So we would not despair And as we sang we'd knew We'd hear an echo in the air And if we weren't smiling then We'd smile again And all the times I listened And all the times I heard And all the melodies I'm missing And all the magic words All the beautiful words All the beautiful voices And all the choices we had thenI hope you find you got Those kind of choices once again Remember when the music Brought the night Across the valley And as we hum the melody We'd be safe within the sound So we'd sleep To awake with dreams And promises to keep RENDEZ-VOUS I had a dream My love would last forever I had a dream Tonight my dream come true And if you'll hold me tight We'll be riders on the night Oohh, rendez-vous, I want a rendez-vous And when I told you, girl, How much I liked you I got a feeling that you liked me, too And if you'll hold me tight We'll be riders on the night Oohh, rendez-vous, I want a rendez-vous I got a feeling that we should stay together 'Cause I think our love could be forever Because I had a dream My love would last forever I had a dream Tonight my dream come true And if you'll hold me tight We'll be riders on the night Oohh, rendez-vous, I want a rendez-vous You deserve so much more than this, girl 'Cause I'm running on the power And living on the promise In your last kiss Because I had a dream My love would last forever I had a dream Tonight my dream come true And if you'll hold me tight We'll be riders on the night Oohh, rendez-vous, I want a rendez-vous NOTE: Have included 2 versions of the following song. RESTLESS NIGHTS Wished we ran and lived as one In another world my little one Where strange trees and dark rivers run I told a dream to you Now outside the streets of pain And the childhood games we play Have faded away But my baby, she has restless nights She has restless nights My baby, she has restless nights On late night movie screens Youngs lovers look so sure Lost in wide awake dreams That they can't afford Once I held you in my arms On a bed of stone Now we have grown (But darling) Well my baby she has restless nights She has restless nights My baby she has restless nights Wished we ran and lived as one A different world my little one Where strange trees and dark rivers run I told a dream to you Now outside the streets of pain But here inside my heart It all falls apart But my baby, she has restless nights She has restless nights My baby, she has restless nights But my baby, she has restless nights She has restless nights My baby, she has restless nights RESTLESS NIGHTS Mystery riding left us once In another world, my little one Where strange trees and dark rivers run And I told a dream to you Now outside the streets are grey And the childhood games we played Have faded away But my baby, she has restless nights She has restless nights My baby, she has restless nights On late night movie screens Young lovers look so assured Lost in wide awake dreams That they can't afford Once I held you in my arms On a bed of storms Now we have grown a little taller, baby My baby, she has restless nights She has restless nights My baby, she has restless nights Mystery riding left us once In another world, my little one Where strange trees and dark rivers run And I told a dream to you Now outside the streets are grey But here inside my heart It all falls apart My baby, she has restless nights She has restless nights My baby, she has restless nights - River album outake RICKIE Well look out Mama your little girl she has changed She cut her baby curls and she's got her act rearranged Look out Daddy what she needs now she can't find at home Oh Rickie wants a man of her She wants a man of her Rickie wants a man of her own Mama says her little girl won't talk to her anymore She just goes in her room, turns on the radio and shuts the door She's got her own bathroom, TV, stereo, extension phone Oh, but Mama, Rickie wants a man of her She wants a man of her Rickie wants a man of her own Well Daddy says when he drop her off Friday night at the gym She slides way down in the front seat So the kids won't see her with him She don't do no work She won't tell nobody when she's coming home And she makes poor Daddy wait down on the corner At midnight all alone Well Daddy's pullin' out his hair He says that girl ain't got no direction She don't care to bring her boyfriends home to pass Daddy's inspection Now we're left peeking through the curtains Everytime that we hear a horn blow Well I guess Rickie wants a man of her own Mama says: "Son, talk to her, she'll listen to you" Yeah, she listens real nice and she does what she wants to do Well Daddy says: "She wears her jeans so tight Well, you change 'em or you're staying home"Ah, but daddy, Rickie wants a man of her She wants a man of her Rickie wants a man of her own She's almost grown Rickie wants a man of her She wants a man of her Rickie wants a man of her own ROCKIN' ALL OVER THE WORLD(John Fogerty/Creedence Clearwater Revival) Well, hurry up hurry up, here we go c'mon let's hit the road Here we go Rockin' all over the world Well, giddy up giddy up and get away we're goin' crazy and we're goin' today Here we go Rockin' all over the world And I like it, I like it, I like it Here we go Rockin' all over the world Well, I'm gonna tell your mama what you're gonna do Hey come tonight, we got dancin' shoes Here we go Rockin' all over the world And I like it, I like it... ROULETTE We left the toys out in the back yard I took my wife and kids and left my house unguarded We packed what we could into the car No one here knows how it started Suddenly everything was just so out of control Now I want some answers, mister, I need to know I hear all the talk but I don't know what you're sayin' But I think I got a good idea of the game that you're playin' Roulette, that's the name Roulette, that's the game now Roulette, I don't know what they're sayin' Roulette, and everybody's playin' I grew up here on this street where nothin' moves, just a strange breeze In a town full of worthless memories there's a shadow in my backyard I've got a house full of things that I can't touch Well all those things won't do me much good now I was a fireman out at Riker's, I did my job Mister, I've been cheated, I feel like I've been robbed I'm the big expendable, my life's just cancelled, null and void But what are you gonna do about your new boy Roulette, you're playin' with my life Roulette, with my children and my wife Roulette, every day the stakes get bigger Roulette, a different finger on the trigger Down by the river that talks the night speaks in searchlights And shortwave radios squawk, the police patrol the streets But I've left behind the man I used to be, everything he believed in and all that belonged to me I tried to find my way out to somewhere where I thought it'd be safe They stopped me at the roadblock they put up on the interstate They put me in detention but I broke loose and then I ran They said they want to ask me a few questions but I think they had other plans Now I don't know who to trust and I don't know what I can believe They say they want to help me but with the stuff they keep on sayin' I think those guys just wanna keep on playin' Roulette, with my life Roulette, with my kids and my wife Roulette, the bullet's in the chamber Roulette, who's the unlucky stranger Roulette, surprise, you're dead Roulette, the gun's to your head Roulette, the bullet's spinning in the chamber Roulette, pull the trigger, feel the click No further danger Here is a transcription of one of the best Sad Eyes ever. It is from 2-15-77 at the Masonic Temple Auditorium in Detroit. SAD EYES Til the end Just me and you baby Just me and you girl I remember I-i-i-i remember I was gonna take all the money out of the bank And you were gonna quit your job And I was gonna quit my job too. And I remember that you promised, I remember you swore you was never... Never gonna leave, never gonna go anyplace...without me I remember you promised, we both swore that you were never gonna go anyplace (?) (sings) I remember, I remember I remember it was chilly and I was standing at the bus station Standing there in the rain (sings) And the rain came tumbling down I remember the buses were pulling in And I was standing there and I remember that you promised that you were never gonna go anyplace without me (sings) And the rain came tumbling down I was standing there waiting for you I was just thinking of all of the things that you promised. That you were never gonna go anyplace without me. (sings) And the rain came tumbling down And the rain came tumbling down I was standing there in the rain. That's when... (piano, then bells start, then build) I was standing there waiting for you And I figured it all out Had it all figured out (bells build) YOU LIED!!!! YOU LIED!!!! YOU LIED!!!! YOU LIED!!!! (screamed at the TOP of his lungs) Hiding on the backstreets... This last part is so powerful that it still knocks me off my feet even when I know it's coming. (Monty) The following is from a book "Songs To Orphans" which contains many of Bruce's lyrics. SAD EYES Baby I remember you Baby I remember you Standin' on the corner Standin' on the corner Of Richmond (Kingsley) Avenue With your hair all up high With your hair all up high With your hair all up high With an eye for every boy That was passin' you by And I swore that for you I'd drive For you little girl I'd drive All night long Little girl I'd drive all night long Little girl I'd drive all night long Just to buy you some shoes And to taste your tender charms To have you hold me in your arms For just one kiss And a look from your sad eyes Yeah just one look from your pretty sad eyes I could tell you'd been crying Cry cry cry Darlin' you'd been crying And me I was so ready to be your fool I though somehow I could stop your cryin' Maybe somehow I could stop your cryin' But I didn't know how That baby you'd been lyin' Baby you'd been lyin' Little girl you'd been lyin' Little girl you'd been lyin' Little girl you'd been lyin' But now you're back Well baby I'm back too And I'm gonna say some things About me, about you We got to stop Little girl we got to stop Little girl we got to stop Little girl we got to stop Little girl we got to stop Little girl we got to stop Little girl we got to stop Little girl we got to stop Little girl we got to STOP SANTA ANA >From a tin roof top The little boy did watch The procession down through town Through the museum Where Daniel walked with the Devil With them boys from the Underground Where the giants of science Fight for tight control Over the wild lands of New Mexico Sam Houston's ghost's in Texas Fighting for his soul And the town folks rest uneasy Beneath the guns of Kid Cole And the Kid says: "Hey, where's Santa Ana He who could romance the dumb into talking Take a chance with me tonight my Contessa, If it don't work out, I ain't lame, I can walk" Now some folks they just can't take it To the streets of this town But Sam easily can, and he lays his money down Them cats in from the canyon Strut their stuff in town But there's only secret sinners here Lord, there's only secret thieves Only a fool would try to save What the desert chose to leave And now, hey there Senorita, With your playboys in their Spanish bandanas French cream won't soften them bullets baby French kisses will not break your heart Oh, painted night, set free with light Glows outside the Rainbow Saloon Match embraces with a Spanish lady Beneath a graduation moon No more colleges, no more coronations Some punk's idea of a teenage nation Has forced Santa Ana to change his stationFrom soldier to cartoon And the giants of science Spend their days and nights Not with wives, not with lovers But searching for the lights They started in the desert on their helicopter flights Just to be lost in the dust and the night Ah, hey my Contessa In your juke joint rides You always bring candy for the kids Come waltz with me tonight Senorita 'Cause only fools are alone on a night like this SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN (Coots, Gillespie) You'd better watch out, you'd better not cry You'd better not pout, I'm telling you why Santa Claus is coming to town Santa Claus is coming to town Santa Claus is coming to town He's making a list, he's checkin' it twice He's gonna find out whose daughter you're nice Santa Claus is coming to town Santa Claus is coming to town Santa Claus is coming to town He sees you when you're sleeping He knows if you're awake He knows if you've been bad or good (so you'd) better be good for goodness sake Better be good for goodness sake You'd better watch out, you'd better not cry You'd better not pout, I'm telling you why Santa Claus is coming to town Santa Claus is coming to town Santa Claus is coming to town He sees you when you're sleeping He knows if you're awake He knows if you've been bad or good (so you'd) better be good for goodness sake Better be good for goodness sake You'd better watch out, you'd better not cry You'd better not pout, I'm telling you why Santa Claus is coming to town Santa Claus is coming to town Santa Claus is coming to town SAVIN' UP (cover: Clarence Clemons & The Red Bank Rockers. Written by Springsteen) You may have diamonds You may have pearls You may think you got it baby Over all the other girls But honey you ain't got nothing And I'll tell you why If you're empty as a soul can be, baby Deep down inside You better start savin' up For the things that money can't buy You better start savin' up For the things that money can't buy You better start savin' up For the things that money can't buy You better start savin' up For the things that money can't buy You may have a big backyard And ruby rings And my love's just a second-place runner, honey To your fancy things But what you got to hold on to When the lights go down You come lookin' for me baby But I ain't nowhere around You better start savin' up For the things that money can't buy You better start savin' up For the things that money can't buy You better start You need a strong man, baby To love and understand you A man who ain't afraid, sugar To get some dirt on his hands for you And when you're feeling so down-hearted And all you wanna do is cry Ah, just come on, take my hand, baby Together you and I We could start savin' up For the things that money can't buy We'd better start savin' up For the things that money can't buy You better start savin' up For the things that money can't buy You better start savin' up For the things that money can't buy SEASIDE BAR SONG Well Billy bought a Chevy '40 Coupe Deluxe Chrome wheels, stick shift Give her gas, pop the clutch Little girls on the corner Like a diamond they shine Someday Billy I'm gonna make 'em all mine Hey girl, you wanna ride in Daddy's Cadillac? Because I love the way your long hair falls down your back Bo Diddley, Bo Diddley's at the Seaside Bar We'll run barefoot in the sand, listen to his guitar You say your mum's gonna meet you when the morning comes And your papa's gonna beat you 'cause he knows you're out on the run I'm gonna live a life of love and tonight you're the one The highway is alive tonight So baby do not be frightened There's something 'bout a pretty girl on a sweet summer night That gets this boy excited Radio man finally understands and plays you something you can move to You lay back easy ... Your girl leans over and says "Daddy, can you turn that radio up any louder?" Ah, the juke joint's humming Everybody came down Little Willy and his Soul Boom putting all that stuff down Well don't let that daylight steal your soul Get in your wheels and roll, roll, roll, roll, roll Mama's gonna meet you when the morning comes And your daddy's gonna beat you 'cause he knows you're out on the runBut I don't care I'm gonna live and laugh and love while the night's still young SEEDS Well the great black river a man had found So he put all his money in a hole in the ground Sent a big steel arm drivin' down, down, down. Man, now I live on the streets on the streets of Houston town. Packed up my wife and kids when winter came along And we headed down south with just spit and a song And they say "Sorry, son it's gone, gone, gone." Hey, it's all gone. Well there's men hunkered down by the railroad tracks The Elkhorn Special blowin' my hair back Tents pitched on the highway in the dirty moonlight And I don't know where I'm gonna sleep tonight. Parked in a lumberyard freezin our asses off My kid's in the back seat; got a graveyard cough. I'm sleepin' up in front with my wife Billy club tappin on the windshield in the middle of the night Come on man, c'mon move it on, get outta here? Well big limousine all shiny and black You don't look ahead and you don't look back How many times can you get up after you been hit I swear if I could spare to spit I'd lay one on your shiny chrome And send you off on your way back home. So if your gonna leave your town where the north wind blows To go on down where the sweet southern river flows You better think twice on it Jack You better find a shotgun, take it off the rack. You ain't gonna find nothin down here ????? Except seeds blowin in the highway in the south wind. Move it on, move it on. It's gone, gone, it's all gone. SHE'S LEAVING She's leaving, she's leaving Everybody knows She's leaving, she's leaving And I feel like such a fool She left me standing here just two feet tall I just don't know how she could do it In front of our friends and all She had better things to do and bigger plans I thought we could make it with just us two But I guess we can't 'Cause she can't And I'm only one man But I love her It's winter Suddenly it's winter And I feel so cold inside It's different It could've been so different If only she didn't feel that need to lie What's the matter girl Didn't you think I was that strong That you couldn't tell me What was going on SHE'S SO FINE Hey baby Well she's vicious as a razor Resting on your mainline She's brutal as an ace Laid on the table at just the right time She's like a devil-woman But she's locked in over-drive Her eyes are cold stone But she's backed by a power-glide She's sweet, she's educated She knows about history, geometry She's so fine Oh she says I ain't got the love I ain't got the time Ain't gonna give you no kiss Ain't gonna hand ya All I want's a ride, Sweet William All I want's a ride And it's oh baby, oh baby Won't you come, don't you wanna go for a ride? I'll get in my car and burn it up Now switch on the radio and turn it up And we're gonna be burning down a straight load I want some love and I got to truck along Well she's vicious as a razor Resting on your mainline She's brutal as an ace Laid on the table at just the right time She's like a devil-woman But she's locked in over-drive Her eyes are cold stone But she's backed by a power-glide She's so educated She's got a nice mama, she got a nice pop She's so fine Oh and the boys say she swings a silver rodThe kids call her angel Some kids call her god down on Lover's Lane Be my baby Won't you be my lover Come on baby I said hey baby SONG TO THE ORPHANS The moltitude assembled and tried to make the noise The black blind poet generals and restless loud white boys But time grew thin and the axis Was left somehow incomplete Where instead of child lions We found ageing junkie sheep How many wasted have I seen signed "Hollywood or bust" Left to ride them ever ghostly Arizona gusts Oh, cheerleader tramps and kids with big amps Sounding in the void High society vamps and ex-heavyweight champs Mistaking soot for soil So break me now Big Mama As Old Faithful breaks the day Believe me, my good Linda, The aurora will shine your way The Confederacy, she's in my name now And the hounds are held at bay The axis needs a stronger arm Do you feel your muscles play? The doorstep blanket weaver Madonna she's pushing bells >From house to house to house to house Giving last kisses and wishing well To every gipsy, mystic and all star hero That the kids might find the place Who've been lost forever to papa and mama On their weekends out in space Now the sons they search for fathers But their fathers have all gone The lost souls search for saviours But saviours don't last long Those aimless, questionless renegade brats Who live their lives in songs They run the length of a candle In a goodnight whisper and a puff they're gone So break me now Big Mama As Old Faithful breaks the day Believe me, my good Linda, The aurora will shine your way The Confederacy, she's in my name now And the hounds are held at bay The axis needs a stronger arm Do you feel your muscles play? The missions are filled with hermits looking for a friend The terraces are filled with cat-men looking for a way in There are orphans junked on silver mountains Lost in celestial alleyways They wait for that old tramp Dog Man Moses He takes in all the strays "Now, don't grow on empty legends or lonely cradle songs 'Cause Billy The Kid was just a bowery boy Who made his living twirling his guns" The night she's long, she's lanky She speaks in her mother tongue And lullabies the refugees With an amplifier's hum So break us now Big Mama As Old Faithful breaks the day Believe me, my sweet Linda, Oh, help is sure on the way The Confederacy, she's in my name now And the hounds are held at bay The axis needs a stronger arm Do you feel your muscles play? The Confederacy, she's in my name now And the hounds are held at bay The axis needs a stronger arm Do you feel your muscles play? SHUT OUT THE LIGHT The runway rushed up at him, as he felt the wheels touch down He stood out on the blacktop, and took a taxi into town. He got off down on Main Street, and went into a local bar Bought a drink and found a seat in the corner in the dark She called up her mama to make sure the kids were outa' the house She checked herself out in the dining room mirror, and undid an extra button on her blouse He felt her lyin' next to him and the clock said 4 am He was starin' at the ceilin' he couldn't move his hands {Chorus}: Oh mama, mama, mama come quick, I've got the shakes and I'm gonna be sick, throw your arms around me in the cold dark night, hey now mama don't shut out the light, don't you shut out the light,.... Well on his porch they stretched a banner, that said Johnny Welcome Home Bobby pulled his Ford outa' the garage and they polished up the chrome His mama said Johnny oh Johnny, I'm so glad to have you back with me His pa said he was sure they'd give him his job back at the renderin' factory {Repeat Chorus} Well deep in a dark forest, a forest filled with rain Beyond a stretch of Maryland pines there's a river without a name In the cold black water, Johnson Linnier stands He stares across the lights of the city and dreams of where he's been. {Repeat Chorus} SOUTHERN SON Born on the Hudson, twenty-two years gone Bred and raised in the City >From my daddy's knee I learned the Union songs But Grandma sang lullabies of Dixie And though the Northern winter fills my heart with joy Oh it's a Southern sun that shines down On this Yankee boy Mama dreamed of Paris nights And boatin' on the Seine She said, we're gonna make it there too Soon as Papa comes home again And she'd speak to me in broken french Dressed like a painting of Lautrec's In the night she'd clutch me to her breast And say, we'll make it outta here yet And though Parisienne women Strut so fine down the Eiffel mall It's a Southern one I sing my songs for Well with the local bunch of do-good boys And an old man from the West We crossed the land in the caravan Yes we travelled with the best With circus acts and vaudeville hacks And the Mississippi Delta Queen She told me the news and sold me her blues In an alley in New Orleans And though the Western plains are still stained With the blood of great cowboys It's a Southern sun That shine down on this Yankee boy SPANISH EYES Little Christine We're takin' one more run Secret heart, when the time has begun Come to part And hey, you're the one And now we know My heart is sold And though we tried You took me with your spanish eyes Hey badlands Realise That someone else is yearning Special sunday night And baby there's time Time enough to cry With all our sad stories And all the bad that we've done And all the times we've rode on for glory And ... And you took me with your spanish eyes Stretch out baby And call your daddy home 'Cause I'm runnin' tonight Couldn't be all alone Yes I know how something died But baby it was just for kicks It was just for fun Even with all the bad that we done They can't say we didn't try And I fell for your Spanish eyes Saturday night special Waitin' in the sheets Oh come on Talk to me, my sweet And I'll try to make it complete this timeCome close and let me dry your eyes Let me try to turn the lies And let me kiss your spanish eyes Let me kiss your spanish eyes Let me kiss your spanish eyes Let me kiss your spanish eyes Come here, baby STAND ON IT Well, Jimmy Lee was hookin' 'round the fan turn of a funky Southern Florida dirt track. He had mud caked on his goggles and a screamin' three fifty stacked up on his back. Well, as he passed the stands, he feeling all tuckered out, when through the roar of his engine he heard somebody shout. "Stand on it. Come on, boy, stand on it." Mary Beth started to shift, she hit the shift, but she just couldn't get a hand on it. She was racin' some red hill boys; she had the deed to the ranch and a grand on it. With eight grand blowin' hot on the red line, she blew past a hitchhiker out on Route 39. He hollered, "Stand on it. Come on, baby, stand on it." (Chorus) Well, now when in doubt and you can't figure it out, Just stand on it. Well, if your mind's confused; you don't know what you're gonna do, Well buddy, stand on it! Well, if you've lost control of the situation at hand, Go grab a girl; go see a rock 'n roll band, and stand on it. Come on, man, stand on it! Well now, Columbus, he discovered America even though he hadn't planned on it. He got lost and woke up one morning when he's about to land on it. He wouldn't have got out of Italy, man, that's for sure, without Queen Isabella standing on the shore shouting, "Stand on it! Go ahead, man, stand on it." (repeat chorus) STREET QUEEN She got high class, She rides around in a cut down Chevy machine. Her eyes are plate glass, Oh and legs like a limousine. She comes stocked with sass, And pride ain't there to be mean. She's the baddest thing this town's ever seen. Oh, Street Queen. Well, she got a turbine engine, mama, With maximum thrust. Cadillac hips, she's got the best on the strip, She knows how to use a clutch. She comes on shiny and black, And, boys, if you hit her you better be tough. Oh she's the slickest thing that I've ever seen. Oh, Street Queen. And you can always tell a moment she's around, You can hear the loud engine roaring. She says, "Come on, get in. Hey baby, you want to go for a ride?" I know she sets your mind soaring. Oh and the boys, they jump back, As that engine unwinds. I'm glued to my seat, mama, As I watch that speed-o-meter climb. Oh she moves so fast she's almost obscene. Street Queen. Well, if you're going to come streakin' down my street, baby, Like an angel with them Chevy Wings. If you're going to come streakin' down my street, baby, Like an angel with them Chevy Wings. You better watch out, Street Queen, Cause you're messing with the king. 1972 As recorded for the Laurel Canyon Publishing demo tape STREETS OF PHILADELPHIA I was bruised and battered I couldn't tell what I felt I was unrecognizable to myself Saw my reflection in a window Didn't know my own face So brother don't leave me On the streets of Philadelphia I walk the avenue 'til my legs feel like stone I heard voices of friend vanished and gone At night I hear the blood in my veins Just as black and wispy as the rain On the streets of Philadelphia Ain't no angel gonna greet me It's just you and I my friend And my clothes don't fit me no more Thousand miles just to slip this skin (?) Night has fallen, I'm flying away I can feel myself fading away So receive me brother with your fateless kiss or will we leave each other alone like this? On the streets of Philadelphia SUGARLAND They're grazin' the field Covered with tar Can't get a price To see my way clear I'm sitting down At the Sugarland Bar It might as well bury My body right here Tractors and combines Out in the cold Sheds piled high With the wheat we ain't sold silos filled with Last year's crops If something don't break me We'll gonna drop Well my wife got another Coming in july She's just laid up in bed All she does is cries, cries, cries Tommy, oh Tommy I'm so alone Tommy, oh Tommy Oh! Won't you stay home Pa' don't say nothing except when it rains He sits by the window Listening to the sound of passing trains Roaring out of the night Carrying an empty load We got a whole lot of grain That ain't got nowhere to go Well, if prices Don't get no higher I'll fill this dustbin with gasAnd set these fields on fire Sit out on a ridge Where the bluebirds fly And watch the flame rise up Against this sugarland sky SWEET SOUL MUSIC (O.Redding, A.Conley/Otis Redding) Do you like good music ? Sweet soul music ? how must I strike her sometime Oh yeah Spotlight out on this ring sing and laugh-laugh-laugh sing and laugh-laugh-laugh tonight Oh yeah Spotlight on the Big Man don't he look great ? He lost a lot of weight Oh yeah, oh yeah Spotlight on you now you sure look fine moving down the line come on yeah yeah Spotlight on me now I sure look good feeling so fine now that's right Oh yeah Spotlight on the band now sure rocking fine you working on that line you come on come on yeah yeah TAKE EM AS THEY COME Last night I dreamed he was runnin' through the avalanch Tears streamed your pretty face all burned red Once your dead its done and not much remains Down the highway another stranger comes You gotta take em baby when they come Little girl put on your red dress Cause we're goin' out on the town tonight And when I hold this switchblade Lets be sure some fools gonna want to fight You gotta take em baby as they come You gotta take em Take em as they come girl Take em as they come girl Take em as they come girl Take em baby as they come God save the rider in the black night Save the man who taught that it was right To do what they have drempt of So we come what we have become You gotta take em baby when they come Little girl gone are birthdays Faded away into the clear blue night And all the promises we made Lie shattered and broken in the morning light You gotta take em baby when they come You gotta take em Take em as they come girl Take em as they come girl Take em as they come girl Take em baby as they come I know your heart is breakin' I can feel it too girl Though my finger on the trigger is shakin' There's just one thing you could do girl There's winners and losers All the same from the other side But we could choose here girl We could try, couldn't we hon To take em baby when they come Take em as they come girl Take em as they come girl Take em as they come girl Take em baby as they come Take em as they come girl Take em as they come girl Take em as they come girl Take em baby as they come Take em baby as they come Take em baby as they come Take em baby as they come Take em baby as they come - River album outake TALK TO ME (cover: Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes. Written by Springtseen) Well every night I see a light up in your window But every night you won't answer your door But although you won't ever let me in >From the street I can see your silhouette sittin' close to him What must I do What does it take To get you to Talk to me Until the night is over Talk to me Well until the night is over, yeah yeah yeah I got a full week's pay And baby I've been working hard each day I'm not asking for the world you see I'm just asking girl Talk to me Well late at night I hear the music that you're playing soft and low Yes and late at night I see the two of you swayin', so close I don't understand darling what was my sin Why am I down here below while you're up there with him What did I do What did I say What must I pay To get you to Talk to me Until the night is over Talk to me Well until the night is over, yeah yeah yeah I got a full week's pay And baby I've been working hard each day I'm not asking for the world you see I'm just asking girl Talk to me Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah I don't understand darling what was my sin Why am I down here below while you're up there with him What did I do What did I say What must I pay To get you to Talk to me Until the night is over Talk to me Well until the night is over, yeah yeah yeah I got a full week's pay And baby I've been working hard each day I'm not asking for the world you see I'm down on my bended knees I'm just asking darling please won't you Talk to me TAXI CAB Taxicab, taxicab at the light Won't you take me on a ride Through this city at night I got some money and I'm feelin' fine I ain't no hurry so just take your time Some people wanna die young and gloriously Well taxicab driver, hey that ain't me I got a cute little baby down at 12th and Vine And she opens for business just about closin' time Ah hey hey, ah hey hey City at night, city at night I don't believe what I see in this street I don't know how they can take the heat Well baby I'm a liar, I'm a cheat And I don't care I got my money, I can't take my fare I'm ridin' tonight, I'm on my way C'mon baby... I can take it or live it, when it comes Got my baby by the light of the sun You know she brings it with her and then she comes Hey, hey, city at night Hey, hey, city at night Ride on THE ICEMAN Sleepy town ain't got the guts to budge Baby this emptyness has already been judged I wanna go out tonight, I wanna find out what I got You're a strange part of me you're a preacher's girl And I don't want no piece of this mechanical world Got my arms open wide and my blood is running hot We'll take the midnight road right to the devil's door And even the white angels of Eden with their flaming swords Won't be able to stop us from hitting town in this dirty old Ford Well it don't take no nerve when you got nothing to guard I got tombstone in my eyes and I'm running real hard My baby was a lover and the world just blew her away Once they tried to steal my heart, beat it right out of my head Well baby they didn't know that I was born dead I am the iceman, fighting for the right to live I say better than the glory roads of heaven Better off riding hell-bound in the dirt Better than bright line of the freeway Better than the shadows of your daddy's church Better than the hands of waiting (?) Baby better off is the search THE PROMISE Johnny works in a factory and Billy works downtown Terry works in a rock'n'roll band Looking for that million-dollar sound Me I don't do nothing much, I spend a lot of time alone Some nights I go to the drive-in, And some night I stay home I followed that dream Just like those guys do way up on the screen Drove a chopped up Challenger down Route 9 Through the dead ends and all the bad scenes And when the promise was broken I cashed in a few of my dream Well, I built that Challenger by myself But I needed money and so I sold it I lived a secret I should've kept to myself But I got drunk one night and I told it All my life I fought that fight The one that no man can never win And every day it just gets harder To live the dream I'm believing in Thunder Road ... I stay up every morning until it turns light Thunder Road ... There's something dying out on the highway tonight Well now I won big once and I hit the coast, Oh but somehow I paid the big cost Inside I felt like I was carrying The broken spirits of all the other ones who lost When the promise is broken you go on living But man it takes something from down in your soul Like when the truth is spoken, it don't make no difference Finally something in your heart turns cold Yeah I followed that dream, me and some guysIn the dead ends and all the two-bit bars The night the promise was broken I was drunk and far away from home, Sleeping with a stranger In the back seat of a borrowed car Thunder Road ... Here's one for the lost lovers and all the fixed games Thunder Road ... Here's one for the tires rushing by in the rain Thunder Road ... I remember when me and billy, we'd always say Thunder Road ... We were gonna take it all, and throw it all away - NOTE: Monmouth Arts Center in Red Bank, NJ, 8/3/76, songs debut? THE PROMISE II Johnny works in a factory and Billy works downtown Terry works in a rock 'n' roll band looking for that million-dollar sound Me I got a little job down in Darlington but some nights I don't go Some nights I go to the drive-in and some night I stay home You see I followed that dream just like those guys do way up on the screen With a built-up Challenger down route 9 Through the dead ends and all the bad scenes And when the promise was broken I cashed in a few of my old dreams You see I built that Challenger by myself But I needed money and so I sold it And I lived a secret I should have kept to myself But I got drunk one night and I told it All my life I fought that fight The one that I can't ever win And everyday it just gets harder to live The dreams I'm believing in Thunder Road Oh baby you were so right Thunder Road There's something dying on the Highway tonight Well now my Daddy taught me how to walk quiet And how to make my peace with the past And I learned real good to tighten up inside And I don't say nothin' unless I'm asked When the promise is broken you go on livin' But it takes something from down in your soul Like when the truth is spoken And it don't make no difference Something in your heart turns cold You see I followed that dream, me and some guys Through the dead ends and all the two-bit bars When the promise was broken I was drunk and far away from home Sleeping with a stranger in the back seat of a borrowed car Thunder Road And when it washes away with the rain Thunder Road You learn to walk among the remains Thunder Road I remember when me and Terry we'd always say Thunder Road We were gonna take it all And throw it all Away THE WAY The way your heart beats when I hold you tight The way you sigh when we kiss goodnight The way the wind blows through the trees Well hey, that's the way you belong to me The way you warm me baby when I'm cold The way you make me want you body and soul The way the rivers run to the sea Well hey, that's the way you belong to me The way you soothe me when I'm in pain The way you make the blood rush in my veins The way the winds rush through the trees Well hey, that's the way you belong to me When I lose faith you take my hand The way you make me feel like I'm a man The way the sun belongs to the sea Well hey, that's the way you belong to me The way you make me feel like I belong And if I could girl though I know it'd be wrong I'd lock you deep inside 'till the last rains fall And hide you from the emptiness of it all Sometimes at night I lie awake I pull you close and feel each breath you take The way the rivers belong to the seas Well hey, that's the way you belong to me Well hey, that's the way you belong to me As requested here are the lyrics to one of the never-before heard songs. The Wish was done only at the 11/17/90 show, introduced (quite a funny intro, actually) by Bruce as a song for his mother that he wrote some time ago but never recorded. I think it's definitely got some touching lyrics, and is one of the most personal Springsteen songs I've heard. Anyway, lyrics to "The Wish" follow. Enjoy. Kevin Kinder kvk@iexist.att.com THE WISH Dirty old street, all slushed up in the rain and snow. Little boy and his ma, standin' outside a run-down music store window. On top of the Christmas tree shines one beautiful star, and lyin' underneath, a brand new Japanese guitar. I remember in the mornin' Ma, hearin' your alarm clock ring. I'd lie awake and listen to you gettin' ready for work, the sound of your makeup case on the sink. And the ladies at the office, all silk stockin's and rustlin' skirts. And how proud and happy you always looked, walkin' home from work. Well if Pa's eyes were windows, into a world so deadly and true, you couldn't stop me from lookin', but you kept me from crawlin' through. Well it's a funny old world Ma, where a little boys's wishes come true. Well I got a few in my pocket, and a special one just for you. It ain't no phone call on Sunday, flowers, or a Mother's day card. It ain't no house on the hill, with a garden and a nice little yard. I got my hot rod down on Bond Street, I'm older but you'll know me at a glance. We'll find us a rock 'n roll bar, baby we'll go out and dance. Well it was me in my Beatle boots, you in pink curlers and matador pants, gettin' up in the livin' room, to do the twist for my uncles and aunts. Well I got a girl of my own now Ma, yeah, we're doin' OK. And I've been workin' up the nerve, to say what it is I got to say. Last night we sat around laughin', at all those things that guitar brought us, and I laid awake thinkin' about the other things it's brought. Well tonight I'm takin's requests here in the kitchen, this one's for you, let me come right out and say, that if you're lookin' for a sad song, well, I'm not gonna play. (performed live 11/17/90) THE WORD Well you flash your tongue like diamonds You tied me to your wildcat schemes And you forced me into a power dive And left your mark on my jeans And I hear the word on your soldiers And I hear the word on Jesus too I heard the word on the country But I never heard the word on you Your love was like a machine gun I wore your bugle in my belt And I was your kid glove lover All the cards were yours You always dealt And I stood before your soapbox Noiseless and shoeless Playing my pantry boy's games You had your hands raised up to the sky Shouting Oh Sunday deity Oh Big Daddy Longlegs Come down and bless your sister please You were shoutin' orders about the construction Going on down the highway You were namin' names, blamin' blames And you blamed me You wore your heart like a challenge Far and apart for anyone who came Open and wide like the river With rocks on both sides to keep the water tame But I heard the word on your high tides And I felt the pain when I tried To rip your flood gates wide And pull your body on over to my side Where we both could hide But you heard about the freedom ride And you heard about the Highway Crew Who could cut the light a little bit faster than you So you left me just your shoes And I hear the word on Jesus And I hear the word on his marching troop And I hear the word on the country But I never heard the word on you THIS HARD LAND Well, Hey there mister can you tell me What happened to the seeds I've sown ? Can you give me a reason Sir ? As to why they ain't ever grown ? They just blow around from town to town Back out onto these fields Where they fall from, from my hand Back onto the dirt of this hard land Well, me and my sister >From German town yeah we did ride And we made our bed from the rock On the mountain side We've been blowin' around from town to town Looking for a place to land And fall like a circle, a circle of fire Down on this hard land Well, now ever the rain it don't come round Don't come round here no more And the only sound at night it's the wind Slammin' the back porch door Yeah, it stirs you up like it wants To just blow you down Twistin' and turning up the sand Leaving all them scarecrows lying face down Into the dirt of this hard land Well, from the building up on the hill I hear a tape deck blasting "Home on the range" I can hear the barrin' shoppers Sweepin' all across the plains That's you and me Frank, we're lookin' for lost cattle Our hooves twistin' and churnin' up the sand Yeah, we're ridin' in the wirlwind, searchin' for treasure Way down South of the Rio Grande We're ridin' 'cross that river in the moonlight Yep-onto the banks of this hard land Well, hey Frank won't you pack your bags And meet me tonight down in Liberty Hall Oh, just a kiss from you my brother And we'll ride until we fall We'll sleep out in the fields, we'll sleep on the rivers And in the morning we make a plan Well, if you can make it stay hard, stay hungry, stay alive If you can meet me in a dream of this hard land THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND (Woody Guthrie/Woody Guthrie 1956) Well I rode that ribbon highway I saw above me the endless sky I saw below me the golden valley This land was made for you and me I've roamed and rambled and followed my footsteps Through the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts And all around me a voice was calling This land was made for you and me This land is your land This land is my land >From California To the New York island >From the Redwood Forest To the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and me Well the sun came shining and I was strolling Through wheat fields waving and dust clouds rolling And a voice was sounding As the fog was lifting Saying this land was made for you and me This land is your land This land is my land >From California To the New York island >From the Redwood Forest To the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and me from 'Live Album 1975-1985' THIS LITTLE GIRL (cover: Gary U.S.Bonds. Written by Springsteen) Here she comes, walking down the street You know she's walking just like she's walking to come and see Oh she's so young And she's so fine I know what's on your mind, know what you want to do But if you mess with her, I'm gonna mess with you You better watch your step, you better stay in line This little girl is mine, oh oh This little girl is mine, oh oh This little girl is mine, this little girl, this little girl is mine Oh oh this little girl is mine This little girl is mine, oh oh This little girl is mine, this little girl, this little girl is mine Well if the world were mine to do with what I want to do, sir Well I'd wrap it up in a bow and giver it all to her Yeah and all of my love, all of the time You know I'd hold her tight, I'd never let her go And late at night you know I'd love her so Yeah I'd treat her right, so she'd never mind That This little girl is mine, oh oh This little girl is mine, oh oh This little girl is mine, this little girl, this little girl is mine Hey ! You better watch out I'm telling you the score Or you're gonna be sweeping your broken heart up off the floor Oh and that ain't all I'm telling you my friend I know what's on your mind, know what you wanna do But if you mess with her, I'm gonna mess with you You like the way she moves, you like to watch her walk You better listen up, 'cause man this ain't just talk You better watch your step, you better stay in line This little girl is mine, oh oh This little girl is mine, oh oh This little girl is mine, this little girl, this little girl is mine Oh oh this little girl is mine This little girl is mine, oh oh This little girl is mine, this little girl, this little girl is mine This little girl is mine, oh oh This little girl is mine, oh oh This little girl is mine, this little girl, this little girl is mine Oh oh this little girl is mine This little girl is mine, oh oh This little girl is mine, this little girl, this little girl is mine THUNDERCRACK Well, her brains they rattle and her bones they shake, OH! She's a angel from the inner lake Her brains they rattle and her bones they shake, OH! She's a angel from the inner lake Band: Bruce: Her brains they rattle and Don't dance with her Elway her bones they shake, Don't dance with Jake All: OH! She's a angel from the inner lake Her brains they rattle and She give me all the lovin' her bones they shake, That a good man can take OH! She's a angel from the inner lake Sha na Na na Na-ah O-oh Sha na Na na Na-ah O-oh Sha na Na na Na-ah O-oh Sha na Na na Na-ah O-oh Thundercrack! Baby's back This time she'll tell me how she really feels And bring me down to her lightning shack You can watch my partner reeling She moves up! She moves back! Out on the floor there ain't nobody cleaner She does this thing she calls the "Jump back Jack" She's got the heart of a ballerina Straight from the Bronx, hung on the line. She slips she slides she slops she bops, she bumps, she grinds Even them dance hall hacks from the west side of the tracks Move in close to catch her timing She moves up! She moves back! Out on the floor there ain't nobody cleaner She does this thing she calls the "Jump back Jack" She's got the heart of a ballerina She ain't no little girl, she ain't got no curls And in her brown little eyes an image Round and round and round and round and round... She whirls My heart's wood, she's a carpenter She's an angel in the night what she does is all right. Dance with me partner Dance with me partner Dance with me partner Dance with me partner 'Til the dawn! Oh 'til the dawn Thundercrack! Baby's back This time she'll tell me how she really feels And bring me down to her lightning shack You can watch my partner reeling She moves up! She moves back! Out on the floor there ain't nobody cleaner She does this thing she calls the "Jump back Jack" She's got the heart of a ballerina She has parents! She has religion! She has sisters! Round and round and round and round and round... She whirls My heart's wood, she's a carpenter She's an angel in the night what she does is all right. Dance with me partner Dance with me partner Dance with me partner Dance with me partner All night (repeat) TOKYO The moon hung like a shadow on a rung over Shanghai And the soldier boys were returning home screaming "Bonzai!" And the kids are still playing their games, Getting hustled and rustled out in the rain As I sat inside listening to the broadcast. Oh save my soul sweet rock and roll 'cuz I'm sinking fast. And then the band played. (Out of nowhere) (Everybody) (Everybody) Well now the legendary chaplain of the fighting 51st Was getting ready to go. I said "Padre do you know a cheap virgin who likes to tango?" He said "You can try Linda Lee; Around the corner and across the sea. Oh word is out, word is out she's fast." Oh blow me down now Linda, 'cuz I'm sinking fast. Yes and them cats are sure getting fat down in the trainyard. And the sandman brings them dreams they ship out in boxcars. The union says hold; break out the dice, break out the gold. It's lunchtime at last. And old big mama said George Raff's tonight on the late show. She sits straddling the kitchen chair really gung-ho She shivers with chills, wet with slotcar thrills Hypnotically lost in the glass And we all sighed... With the sunrise As we watched the credits pass. And the little blue dot went away. And then the morning cloak fell down like a hoax over sleepytown And garbage truck Big Lenny's out drinking the last round He hurriedly sipped his beer, and poking fun of the queer And threatened to kick his ass. And the bell rang And the horn blows And he's outside pumping gas But things were moving so slow tonight So the kid goes back inside the station And turns on the radio to his local AM station And the band played Right on the radio It's on the radio And he listened to the bass line And the boys in the band sang Whoa, whoa whoa-wo Whoa, whoa whoa-wo (They're so excited about it) Whoa, whoa whoa-wo (Everybody alright) Whoa, whoa whoa-wo (And the band played) Whoa, whoa whoa-wo (and the band played) Whoa, whoa whoa-wo (Everybody) Whoa, whoa whoa-wo TRAPPED (Jimmy Cliff/Jimmy Cliff) Recorded live at the Meadowlands August 6, 1984 Well it seems like I'm caught up in your trap again And it seems like I'll be wearin' the same ol' chains Good will conquer evil and the truth will set you free Then I know someday I'll find the key Then I know somewhere I'll find the key Well it seem like I've been playin' the game way too long And it seems the game I played has made you strong Well when the game is over, I won't walk out a loser And I know that I'll walk out of here again And I know that someday I'll walk out of here again But now I'm trapped...Oh yeah! Trapped...Oh yeah yeah! Trapped...Oh yeah! Trapped...Oh yeah! Now it seems like I've been sleepin' in your bed too long And it seems like you've been meanin' to do me harm But I'll teach my eyes to see beyond these walls in front of me And someday I'll walk out of here again Yeah I know someday I'll walk out of here again (Chorus) Well it seem like I've been playin' the game way too long And it seems the game I played has made you strong Because I'm trapped...Oh yeah! Trapped...Oh yeah yeah! Trapped...Oh yeah yeah! Trapped...Oh yeah! I'm trapped...Oh yeah yeah! Trapped...Oh yeah yeah Trapped...Oh yeahhhhhh Trapped....oh yeahhhh I'm trapped. - written by Jimmy Cliff TRAPPED AGAIN (cover: Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes. Written by Springsteen) Here I am baby, right where you found me Trying to break these chains that surround me If I look a little different, it's because I've changed Half-painted pictures are all that remains I can't let my past mistakes Let 'em bring me down I ain't waitin' on no angel of mercy I've tried my best and I can't help myself And I'm trapped again And I can't get out without losing you And I'm trapped again Why can't you feel what I'm going through I'm trapped again I need an answer girl, can't you see I'm trapped again Come and rescue me Monday morning came so fast What a fool to think that dreams would last Close my eyes and it's still so clear Remember the night girl, the world disappeared Can't let the hand of fate Let it drag me down I can't get no angel of mercy I cam to stay but I got swept away And I'm trapped again And I can't get out without losing you And I'm trapped again Why can't you feel what I'm going through I'm trapped again I need an answer girl, can't you see I'm trapped again Come and rescue me Can't let the hand of fate Let it drag me down I can't get no angel of mercy I cam to stay but I got swept away And I'm trapped again And I can't get out without losing you And I'm trapped again Why can't you feel what I'm going through I'm trapped again I need an answer girl, can't you see I'm trapped again Come and rescue me And I'm trapped again And I can't get out without losing you And I'm trapped again Why can't you feel what I'm going through I'm trapped again Here are the lyrics to "Trouble River" (alternatively could be titled "I Can't Keep From Crying"), one of the outtakes. It's another rocking song with a driving bass line recalling to me the Byrds' "So You Wanna Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star." Lyrically it seems to be another song of self-exploration; I think this one didn't make it because the lyrics didn't quite click, but musically I like it. I couldn't help but think of "The Big Muddy" with the references to being stuck in muddy ground, and "Living Proof" with the line about shedding your skin. TROUBLE RIVER (I CAN'T KEEP FROM CRYING) Well, the river runs through this valley Combing deep and black [?] Coming like a tombstone's Shadows across my back Trouble River Six foot high and risin' Trouble River I can't keep from cryin' Woke up last night a'shakin' Shakin' from a dream All I seen was smilin' faces Starin' back at me Trouble River Six foot high and risin' Trouble River I can't keep from cryin' Snakes crawling in the house I'm stuck in muddy ground Tonight I'm gonna shed this skin Cause water's risin' and I goin' down to Trouble River Six foot high and risin' Trouble River I can't keep from cryin' from the Human Touch sessions. 1992 TWEETER AND THE MONKEY MAN (Bob Dylan) Tweeter and the Monkey Man were hard up for cash, They stayed up all night selling cocaine and hash, To an Undercover Cop who had a sister named Jan. For reasons unexplained she loved the Monkey Man. Tweeter was a Boy Scout 'fore she went to Vietnam, And found out the hard way, nobody gives a damn. They knew that they found freedom just across the Jersey line, So they hopped into a stolen car, took Highway 99. And the walls came down, All the way to hell. Never saw them when they're standing, Never saw them when they fell. The Undercover Cop never liked the Monkey Man, Even back in childhood he wanted to see him in the can. Jan got married at fourteen to a racketeer named Bill, She made secret calls to the Monkey Man from a mansion on the hill. It was out on Thunder Road, Tweeter at the wheel, They crashed into paradise, they could hear them tires squeal. The Undercover Cop pulled up and said "Everyone of you's a liar, If you don't surrender now it's gonna go down to the wire." And the walls came down, All the way to hell. Never saw them when they're standing, Never saw them when they fell. An ambulance rolled up, a state-trooper close behind, Tweeter took his gun away and messed up his mind. The Undercover Cop was left tied up to a tree, Near the souvenir stand, by the old abandoned factory. Next day the Undercover Cop was hot in pursuit, He was taking the whole thing personal, he didn't care about the loot. Jan had told him many times, "It was you to me who taught In Jersey anything's legal, as long as you don't get caught". And the walls came down, All the way to hell. Never saw them when they're standing, Never saw them when they fell. Some place by Rahwey Prison they ran out of gas, The Undercover Cop had cornered them, said, "Boy you didn't think this could last?" Jan jumped out of bed, said, "There's someplace I gotta go". She took the gun out of the drawer, said, "It's best that you don't know". The Undercover Cop was found face down in a field, The Monkey Man was on the river bridge, using Tweeter as a shield. Jan said to the Monkey Man, "I'm not fooled by Tweeter's curl, I knew him long before he became a Jersey Girl." And the walls came down, All the way to hell. Never saw them when they're standing, Never saw them when they fell. Now the town of Jersey City is quieting down again, I'm sitting in a gambling club called the Lion's Den. The TV set was blown up, every bit of it is gone, Ever since the nightly news showed that the Monkey Man was on. I guess I'll go to Florida and get myself some sun, There ain't no more opportunity here, everything's been done. Sometimes I think of Tweeter, sometimes I think of Jan, Sometimes I don't think about nothing but the Monkey Man. And the walls came down, All the way to hell. Never saw them when they're standing, Never saw them when they fell. (from Traveling Wilburys songbook) TWO FOR THE ROAD It's one for the money, one for the show I got one kiss for you honey so come on let's go I didn't see it coming but girl now I know It takes one for the running but two for the road One thousand dreams whispered in the dark But a dream's just a dream in one empty heart It takes more than one to rev it up and go So let's get it running, we're two for the road Two one-way tickets and a diamond ring Hell it don't matter what the rain might bring When this world treats you hard and cold I'll stand beside you, we're two for the road When you're alone my love will shine the light Through the dark and starless night I'll hold you close and never let you go Come on now honey, we're two for the road I'll stand beside you and I'll never go Come on now girl, we're two for the road TWO HEARTS IN TRUE WALTZ TIME Well the first frame finds her running But the night pushes her deep within the tunnel She camouflages herself in dayglo paint And she sings her love songs through a funnel And she clings to the walls like a cat who calls The shots for life and for death Wearing nothing but the make-up she uses To try and cover up for herself Well if she can't hide her sword She gives no terms for surrender 'Cause she's living the Third World War The Tunnel Police, they steadily increase The search for where she hides her kid She swings on avine across the State Line they measured the length of her skid She nevr goes back to do something she didn't Or undo something she did Smoke streams from the street And the night is complete With a long and fiery belch She's just another Orphan Annie cartoon and a Raquel Welch She rides like Caesar, brandishing a whip On the hood of his squad car As the siren wails she silently sails Leaving footprints in the tar Oh she breaks with the dawn And by morning she's gone Leaving nothing but another night She returns to her home Like a dog returns to a bone Another unsatisfied wife And there's little Booth Secure from the truth He wants her more than he's got the guts to say 'Cause as she needs to be real He needs to conceal The realness of his place So he sings a little song And in a chiffon sarong She performs a black ballet in space But she's another flop with a fancy name And he's just another cop with a pretty face So together they commit the ultimate crime Two hearts locked in true waltz time VIBES MAN Vibes man in the alley, play me your spitball serenade, And a deeper blue and you'll be playing in your grave. Save your notes, spend them on your blues, boy. Help your darlin' yearlin' blues, boy. Hit the church note, ring it! Vibes man sing the trashcan hear your junkman singing. Fish lady, don't you bait those tenement walls. Don't take corner boys because they're too easy. You were born black and blue, You didn't have to wait for somebody to hit you. Take my arm, I'll move with you down Broadway. Take my arm, oh honey, I'll walk with you down Broadway. I'm the young man and I'll be proud, And I can talk real loud. And I'm from out of town, too. Won't you come home with me. Won't you come home with me. But no, cause she won't take a train, Oh, she won't take that train. Oh, she won't take a train. Oh, she won't take that train. She won't take a train. Oh, she won't take that train. Oh, she won't take a train. Oh, she won't take that train. You won't take the train. She won't take the train. Cause she's afraid those tracks are gonna slow her down. And when she turns around, I'm gonna be gone like the ??????? [As recorded for the Laurel Canyon Publishing demo tape - 1972] VIGILANTE MAN (Woody Guthrie/Woody Guthrie) Rainy night down in the engine house Sleepin' just as still as a mouse A man came along and chase us out in the rain Well was that a vigilante man? Stormy days, we pass the time away Sleeping in some good warm place A cop come along we give him a little race Say was that a vigilante man? Well tell me why does a vigilante man Tell me why does a vigilante man Carry that sawed off shotgun in his hands To shoot his brothers and sisters down that no good vigilante man Well I ramble around from town to town Yeah I ramble around from town to town Yeah and they run us around like a wild herd of cattle lord is that your vigilante man? Well tell me why does a vigilante man Tell me why does a vigilante man Carry that club in his hands Would he beat an innocent man down that no good vigilante man Words and Music by Woody Guthrie Performed by Bruce Springsteen Album Folkways: A Vision Shared, A Tribute To Woody Guthrie & Leadbelly VISITATION AT FORT HORN Behind the wals where heat lightning falls On five starred gnat-faced princess The buffalo man shoots at the tin cats Turns and shouts "Children, blow your bridges" On death row halls where dustmen stall Where time's an enemy and a friend At night jackals crawl from the cracks in the walls And salvation is never spoken Morning sickness breaks the garrison gate The cavalry cries for treason The soldier strokes his pony and goes to shine the Captain's sword In this young boy's eyes lie reason And the sergeant bursts in and cries "I caught a prisoner, Captain, A prisoner, what ho !" The Captain looks up and says "Let her go" "But Captain, she patrols the light ships that patrol the sea around The rainbow tips, whose bagpiper wail unbroken She haunts the nigth and the dawnin' light On her sounds and words your cavalry chokin' " The Captain says "Have no fear, boys For what you hear Because danger can't be spoken " The whirlwind crackles and I hear the rustle of shackles >From the stockade door bursts Merlin His eyes red, and swollen, like they've been pushed into the sun His robes aflame and burnin' He jumps a horse, tries to get away But he gets caught in his eyes, tangled in his eyes He falls to the ground, his neck is broken His spirit rises high in the western sky The magician lies an empty token the sergeant walks over and kicks his body And says "Captain, he's dead - What shall we do with him ?" The Captain says "Hang him For though his live moments on this earth are well spent And I can se his body is sure well bent It's magic that must be broken " Now night cradles low The penniless weed plays wrath felt in the Captain's corner With anvil spread wide, the Captain glides Each blow to scare her, not to hurt her She spits "what truth" at the Captain's boots But he holds his rage suspended The sergeant comes in stinkin' of soldier's gin And cries "Captain, the storm she blows unending" Oh and the lightning cracked and the sky was hacked By dagger rain it was torn And the yard was charged into a raging sea And the Captain ran crazily For the first time in his life, in the Captain's heart Fear was born The Captain storms out on the stoop, panic strikes He sees Merlin's hung body stretched by the neck Silhouetted on his door The sergeant screams "Captain, look high, look to the sky !" Some whirling, swirling emission ... -- more -- But the Captain falls to his knees crying silent pleas 'Cause he knows, he knows, and he thinks to himself "A Magician..." VIVA LAS VEGAS Hey blackjack dealer, Hit me man! Bright lights city gonna set my soul gonna set my soul on fire I got a whole lotta money that's ready to burn so get those stakes up high There's a thousand pretty women just-a waiting out there hey're all living just the devil may care And I'm just a devil with love to spare So Viva Las Vegas I wish that there were more than twenty-four hours in a day Even if there were forty more I wouldn't sleep a minute away There's blackjack, poker, and roulette wheel A fortune won and lost on every deal All you need is money and nerves of steel Viva Las Vegas Well viva Las Vegas with the neon flashing And the walls crashing all your hopes down the drain Yea viva Las Vegas turning day into nighttime Turning night into daytime if you seen it once you'll never be the same again I'm gonna be on the run I'm gonna have me some fun if it costs me my very last dime If I wind up broke, well, I'll always remember that I had me a swinging time I'm gonna give it everything I got Lady Luck I want you let the dice stay hot Let me shoot a seven with every shot Viva Las Vegas Busted! Hey man, you going anywhere near Vegas? Originally performed by ELvis Presley Performed by Bruce Springsteen on the album: The Last Temptation Of Elvis WALKING IN THE STREET Oh Billy stares at Cherry in the hall And walks out into the rain so blessed and tall Standin' on the corner with a gun underneath his coat Beneath the stars on the street Oh on Lexington Avenue they stand Velvet aces they case the promised land Reachin' out across the hoods with both hands Oh, tryin' to catch a ride Tonight we're lovers in the cold Running past the graveyards in the snow Walking in the street with nowhere to go And it's no, no, no Oh and the getaway driver waits outside the store He pulls away just as Billy runs out the door Oh and Billy won't run anymore, no, no, no Oh baby I can;t lay the stars at your feet Oh but I think we could take it all, just you and me Oh come on, you'll see, there's a lot of room For you baby, in this front seat Tonight we're lovers on that road (in the snow) Running past the graveyards in the snow Walking in the street with nowhere to go And it's oh, oh, oh WINGS FOR WHEELS (THUNDER ROAD) The screen door slams, Christine's (Angelina'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 (babe) and I want you only Don't turn me home again I just can't face myself alone (in that mirror) again tonight Don't run back inside, you know just what I'm here for So you're scared and you're thinking That maybe you (we) ain;t that young anymore Show a little faith (well woman) there's magic in the night You ain't a beauty but hey (baby, ah) you're alright And that's alright with me This 4/4 she's gonna overheat Make up your mind girl I gotta get her back out on the street I know you're lonely like me so baby don't try and fake it I'm no prince and I can;t lay the stars at your feet But I got this old car and she's pretty tough to beat There's plenty of room in my front seat, baby if you wanna take it Oh roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair It's like the rushing touch, the dirty wings them highway Angels wear Well tonight we're gonna find out how it feels I'm gonna trade in your wings - for wheels Climb in back, heaven's waiting down on the tracks Ah, mama, come take my hand (Well now try hard Chrissie to understand) We're gonna ride all the way to the promised land Oh I'm gonna dance all the way, dance all the way (Babe if you're born with nothing in your hands Hey it's your only chance) Well I don;t know but baby I've been told There's something waiting for us, down that dirty road Oh take a chance, take a chance, take a chance (Oh I wish you would come So leave what you've lost, leave what's grown old on Thunder Road) Well now I bought this guitar and I learned how to make it talk I got my car parked out back if you're ready to take that long walk >From your front porch to my front seat Well I think we could take it all babe, just you and me Climb in back baby, the ride's for free Oh come take my hand, we're gonna ride all the way to the promised land We'll dance all the way Oh baby I don;t know but I;ve been told There's something waiting for us, down that dirty road If we take our chance, take our chance Now the season's over and I feel it getting cold I wish I could take you to some sandy beach where we'd never grow old Ah but baby you know that's just jive But tonight's bustin' open and I'm alive Oh do (baby) whay you can to make me feel like a man But this 4/4/2's gonna overheat Make up your mind girl, I gotta get her back out on the street I know you're lonely like me, oh so don;t fake it And maybe I can;t lay the stars at your feet But I got this old car and she's pretty tough to beat There's plenty of room in my front seat Oh if you think you can make it, climb in (So Christine climb in) This is town full of losers and baby I was born to win WAR (Barret Strong, Norman Whitfield/Edwin Star) War What is it good for Absolutely nothing War What is it good for Absolutely nothing War is something that I despise For it means destruction of innocent lives For it means tears in thousands of mothers' eyes When their sons go out to fight to give their lives War What is it good for Absolutely nothing Say it again War What is it good for Absolutely nothing War It's nothing but a heartbreaker War Friend only to the undertaker War is the enemy of all mankind The thought of war blows my mind Handed down from generation to generation Induction destruction Who wants to die War What is it good for Absolutely nothing Say it again War What is it good for Absolutely nothing War has shattered many young men's dreams Made them disabled bitter and meanLife is too precious to be fighting wars each day War can't give life it can only take it away War It's nothing but a heartbreaker War Friend only to the undertaker Peace love and understanding There must be some place for these things today They say we must fight to keep our freedom But Lord there's gotta be a better way That's better than War War What is it good for Absolutely nothing Say it again War What is it good for Absolutely nothing 1970 from 'Live Album 1975-1985' WHEN THE LIGHTS GO OUT (performed live 11/16/90 & 11/17/90) Well you say you have a friend You trust him with your life You trust him with your car, you trust him with your kids You even trust him with your wife You better watch what's going down when the lights go out When the night is dark, when there ain't nobody looking around WHen the lights go out Down in this dirty little town Well now the world is dark and funny You better listen to what I say You ain't gonna know what's going on By what you see in the light of day You better watch what's going on when the lights go out When the night is dark, when there ain't nobody looking around When the lights go out Down in this dirty little town Well now baby she trusted Billy With reason you understand But Billy he kept coming home late at night And in the morning he had that smell on his hand Well now the world is turning Rome is burning Me I'm watching And I'm learning They say it sure is God's hand in the ticking of the clock the Lord's light shining under every dirty rock Well now last night I slept right here And I heard God's voice whisper in my ear You better watch what's going on when the lights go out When the night is dark, when there ain't nobody looking around When the lights go out Down in this dirty little town Down in this dirty little town Down in this dirty little town WHEN YOU DANCE (cover: Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes. Written by Springsteen) When you dance I hear the music rocking everywhere When you dance I see the lights shining through your hair When you dance The band is blowing like a hurricane When you dance You look so fine but you don't know my name Come near baby, don't be afraid Just one taste won't do I can't hold back one more day Sugar I know I got to dance with you When you dance Your smile ain't hiding what you're thinking of When you dance Your body trembles like you're making love When you move, baby My soul is aching and my blood runs hot Run into me now My heart is breaking, shaking what you got Come near baby, don't be afraid Just one taste won't do I can't hold back one more day Sugar I know I got to dance with you Shake 'em down now Come near baby, don't be afraid Just one taste won't do I can't hold back one more day Sugar I know I got to dance with you Oh yeah baby When you dance I hear the music rocking everywhere When you dance, baby This time you tumble, honey, I don't care When you dance WHO'LL STOP THE RAIN (John Fogerty/Creedence Clearwater Revival) Long as I remember The rain been falling down Clouds of myst'ry pourin' Confusion on the ground Good men through the ages They try to find the sun But I wonder, still I wonder Who'll stop the rain I went down Virginia Seekin' shelter from the storm Just caught up in the fable I watched the tower grow Five-year plan and new deals Wrapped in golden chains Still I wonder, yes I wonder Who'll stop the rain Heard the singers playin' How we cheered for more The crowd had rushed together Tryin' to keep warm Still the rain keeps falling Fallin' through the years And I wonder, still I wonder Who'll stop the rain I wanna know, baby I wanna know YOU MEAN SO MUCH TO ME (cover: Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes with Ronnie Spector written by Springsteen) Well, she comes to me like a childhood soul Or an old time friend I ain't seen so long When she sings to me, it's like a loving song She can be so sweet, she don't do me no wrong You mean so much to me, baby You know you drive me crazy You mean so much to me, baby I want you for my girl Well, sometimes she's like a baby playing with a toy, Then she's so much woman she makes me feel like a little boy And when she comes to me, and she's all alone, And she cries: "Oh daddy, oh Daddy make me strong!" That's when she means so much to me baby, You know you drive me crazy You mean so much to me, baby I want you for my girl YOUR LOVE (cover: Gary U.S. Bonds. Written by Springsteen) She promises to be yours forever and always And you're too young to know it don't work out that way When she kisses you and your heart skips And you're ten feet off the ground Soon you'll be crying and that when you'll have found That Your love is gonna let you down, boy Your love is gonna let you down Your love is gonna let you down, boy Your love is gonna let you down Well it's kisses and sweet talk When she first starts coming round But soon tears start falling down You say every day she makes your dreams come true But soon those very dreams will be the death of you Well Your love is gonna let you down, boy Your love is gonna let you down Your love is gonna let you down, boy Your love is gonna let you down No cold denials, no-one really lied It was time spent, promise inplied And suddenly you see something new in her eyes And in that moment you realise Lately you've been walking the streets at night Like an empty shadow in the morning light Like an empty shadow that's suddenly found That your love is gonna let you down Your love is gonna let you down, boy Your love is gonna let you down Your love is gonna let you down, boy Your love is gonna let you down ZERO AND BLIND TERRY The Skulls met the Pythons Down at the First Street station Alliance has been made in alleyways All across the nation These boys live off the milk of a silver jet And the love of sweet young women The Pythons are down from old Englishtown And they 're looking to do some living Well the leader of the Pythons Is a kid they just call Zero Now Terry's pop says these kids Are some kind of monsters But Terry says "No, Pop They're just plain heroes" Zero and Terry had found a love That burned like wild fire Now Terry's dad understood That this zero was no good A tramp, a thief and a liar Well from out of the darkness That breaks the dawn Zero rode like twilight He said "Tonight's the night Blind Terry come on Terry come on Tonight is the night Pack your bags baby" And together they ran like reindeers Through the streets Well like tomorrow the earth Is gonna catch on fire Now Terry's dad hired some troopers To kill zero and bring Terry back home They caught up in the night, like firelightThem starlight troopers.... Zero marches through Terry's field They met the Pythons down on Route Nine But they refused to yield Now the Pythons fought with blazed guns And the troopers with swords of light And Zero and Terry they ran away And the gang fought all through the night Now some folks say Zero and Terry got away Other said they were caught and brought back Ah, still young pilgrims to this day Go to that spot way down by the railroad tracks Where the troopers met the Pythons Old timers cry on a hot August night If you look hard enough, if you try You'll see Zero and Terry and all the Pythons Just hiking them streets up in the sky. * * * "Goodnight everyone!!"  New York City. Internet address: lou@mindvox.phantom.com