Bruce Springsteen - Wrecking Ball (2012)

Wrecking Ball

Marking his 17th studio album, Wrecking Ball features 11 new Springsteen recordings and was produced by Ron Aniello with Bruce Springsteen and executive producer Jon Landau. Said long-time manager Landau, “Bruce has dug down as deep as he can to come up with this vision of modern life. The lyrics tell a story you can’t hear anywhere else, and the music is his most innovative of recent years. The writing is some of the best of his career, and both veteran fans and those who are new to Bruce will find much to love on Wrecking Ball.”

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Bruce Springsteen - London Calling - Live In Hyde Park (2010)

London Calling: Live in Hyde Park

Recorded June 28, 2009 at London’s Hyde Park, this concert film captures an E Street Band festival appearance from their Working on a Dream world tour. Included are highlights of the 2009 set, including “Seeds” and the sign-request portion of the show. Brian Fallon of The Gaslight Anthem makes a surprise appearance on “No Surrender.”

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  • Label:Columbia Records
  • Producer:Jon Landau, George Travis and Barbara Carr
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  • 1 London Calling

    Lyrics

    London calling to the faraway towns
    Now war is declared, and battle come down
    London calling to the underworld
    Come out of the cupboard, you boys and girls
    London calling, now don't look to us
    Phoney Beatlemania has bitten the dust
    London calling, see we ain't got no swing
    'Cept for the ring of that truncheon thing

    [Chorus 1:]
    The ice age is coming, the sun's zooming in
    Meltdown expected, the wheat is growing thin
    Engines stop running, but I have no fear
    'Cause London is drowning, and I live by the river

    London calling to the imitation zone
    Forget it, brother, you can go it alone
    London calling to the zombies of death
    Quit holding out, and draw another breath
    London calling, and I don't wanna shout
    But while we were talking, I saw you nodding out
    London calling, see we ain't got no high
    Except for that one with the yellowy eyes

    [Chorus 2: x2]
    The ice age is coming, the sun's zooming in
    Engines stop running, the wheat is growing thin
    A nuclear error, but I have no fear
    'Cause London is drowning, and I live by the river

    Now get this

    London calling, yes, I was there, too
    An' you know what they said? Well, some of it was true!
    London calling at the top of the dial
    After all this, won't you give me a smile?
    London calling

    I never felt so much alike [fading] alike alike alike

  • 2 Badlands

    Lyrics

    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, girl
    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
    You better listen to me baby
    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 won't come
    Well don't waste your time waiting

    CHORUS
    Badlands, you gotta live it everyday
    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 fields
    Till you get your back burned
    Workin' 'neath the wheel
    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

    I believe in the love that you gave me
    I believe in the faith that can save me
    I believe in the hope and I pray
    That some day it may raise me
    Above these badlands

    (CHORUS)

    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

    (CHORUS)

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  • 3 Night

    Lyrics

    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

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  • 4 She's the One

    Lyrics

    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

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  • 5 Outlaw Pete

    Lyrics

    He was born a little baby on the Appalachian Trail
    At six months old he'd done three months in jail
    He robbed a bank in his diapers and little bare baby feet
    All he said was "Folks my name is Outlaw Pete"
    I'm Outlaw Pete, I'm Outlaw Pete, can you hear me?

    At 25 a Mustang pony he did steal
    And he rode her 'round and 'round on heaven's wheel
    Father Jesus I'm an outlaw, killer and a thief
    And I slow down only to sow my grief
    I'm Outlaw Pete, I'm Outlaw Pete, can you hear me?

    He cut his trail of tears across the countryside
    And where he went women wept and men died

    One night he awoke from a vision of his own death
    Saddled his pony and rode out deep into the West
    Married a Navajo girl and settled down on the res.
    And as the snow fell he held their beautiful daughter to his chest
    I'm Outlaw Pete, I'm Outlaw Pete, can you hear me?
    Can you hear me? Can you hear me?

    Out of the East on an Irish stallion came bounty hunter Dan
    His heart quickened and burdened by the need to get his man
    He found Pete peacefully fishing by the river
    Pulled his gun and got the drop
    He said "Pete you think you've changed but you have not"

    He cocked his pistol pulled the trigger and shouted, "Let it start"
    Pete drew a knife from his boot, threw it,
    And pierced Dan through the heart
    Dan smiled as he lay in his own blood dying in the sun
    Whispered in Pete's ear "We cannot undo these things we've done"
    You're Outlaw Pete, You're Outlaw Pete, can you hear me?
    Can you hear me? Can you hear me?

    For forty days & nights Pete rode and did not stop
    Till he sat high upon an icy mountaintop
    He watched a hawk on a desert updraft, slip & slide
    Moved to the edge and dug his spurs deep into his pony's side

    Some say Pete and his pony vanished over the edge
    And some say they remain frozen high up on that icy ledge
    A young Navajo girl washes in the river, her skin so fair
    And braids a piece of Pete's buckskin chaps into her hair
    Outlaw Pete, Outlaw Pete, can you hear me?
    Can you hear me? Can you hear me? Can you hear me?
    Can you hear me? Can you hear me?

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  • 6 Out in the Street

    Lyrics

    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

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  • 7 Working on a Dream

    Lyrics

    Out here the nights are long the days are lonely
    I think of you and I'm working on a dream
    I'm working on a dream

    The cards I've drawn's a rough hand darlin'
    I straighten my back and I'm working on a dream
    I'm working on a dream

    I'm working on a dream
    Though sometimes it feels so far away
    I'm working on a dream
    And how it will be mine someday

    Rain pourin' down I swing my hammer
    My hands are rough from working on a dream
    I'm working on a dream

    I'm working on a dream
    Though trouble can feel like it's here to stay
    I'm working on a dream
    Our love will chase the trouble away

    I'm working on a dream
    Though it can feel so far away
    I'm working on a dream
    And our love will make it real someday

    Sunrise come I climb the ladder
    The new day breaks and I'm working on a dream
    I'm working on a dream
    I'm working on a dream
    I'm working on a dream

    I'm working on a dream
    Though it can feel so far away
    I'm working on a dream
    And our love will make it real someday
    I'm working on a dream
    Though it can feel so far away
    I'm working on a dream
    And our love will make it real someday

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  • 8 Seeds

    Lyrics

    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

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  • 9 Johnny 99

    Lyrics

    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 fistfight 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 judge I had debts no honest man could pay
    The bank was holdin' my mortgage and they was takin' 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
    And if you can take a man's life for the thoughts that's in his head
    Then won't you 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 execution line

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  • 10 Youngstown

    Lyrics

    Here in north east Ohio
    Back in eighteen-o-three
    James and Danny Heaton
    Found the ore that was linin' yellow creek
    They built a blast furnace
    Here along the shore
    And they made the cannon balls
    That helped the union win the war

    Here in Youngstown
    Here in Youngstown
    My sweet Jenny, I'm sinkin' down
    Here darlin' in Youngstown

    Well my daddy worked the furnaces
    Kept 'em hotter than hell
    I come home from 'Nam worked my way to scarfer
    A job that'd suit the devil as well
    Taconite, coke and limestone
    Fed my children and made my pay
    Then smokestacks reachin' like the arms of god
    Into a beautiful sky of soot and clay

    Here in Youngstown
    Here in Youngstown
    My sweet Jenny, I'm sinkin' down
    Here darlin' in Youngstown

    Well my daddy come on the 0hio works
    When he come home from world war two
    Now the yards just scrap and rubble
    He said, "Them big boys did what Hitler couldn't do"
    These mills they built the tanks and bombs
    That won this country's wars
    We sent our sons to Korea and Vietnam
    Now we're wondering what they were dyin' for

    Here in Youngstown
    Here in Youngstown
    My sweet Jenny, I'm sinkin' down
    Here darlin' in Youngstown

    From the Monongaleh valley
    To the Mesabi iron range
    To the coal mines of Appalacchia
    The story's always the same
    Seven-hundred tons of metal a day
    Now sir you tell me the world's changed
    Once I made you rich enough
    Rich enough to forget my name

    In Youngstown
    In Youngstown
    My sweet Jenny, I'm sinkin' down
    Here darlin' in Youngstown

    When I die I don't want no part of heaven
    I would not do heavens work well
    I pray the devil comes and takes me
    To stand in the fiery furnaces of hell

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  • 11 Good Lovin'

    Lyrics

    (Good lovin'.)
    (Good lovin'.)
    (Good lovin'.)

    I was feelin' somethin' bad,
    I asked my family doctor just what I had,
    I said, "Doctor, (Doctor,)
    Mr. M.D., (Doctor,)
    Now can you tell me, tell me, tell me,
    What's ailin' me?"
    (Doctor.)

    He said, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
    (Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,)
    Yes, indeed, all you really need,
    (Is good lovin'.)
    Gimme that good, good lovin.
    (Good lovin'.)
    All I need is lovin'.
    (Good lovin'.)
    Good lovin', baby.

    Baby please, squeeze me tight.
    (Squeeze me tight.)
    Now don't you want your baby,
    To feel alright? (Feel alright.)
    I said Baby, (Baby.)
    Now it's for sure,
    (It's for sure.)
    I got the fever, Baby, Baby,
    But you've got the cure.
    (You've got the cure.)

    I said, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
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    (Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
    Yes, indeed, all I really need,
    (Is good lovin'.)
    Gimme that good, good lovin.
    (Good lovin',)
    All I need is lovin',
    (Good lovin',)
    Good lovin', baby.

  • 12 Bobby Jean

    Lyrics

    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 sixteen
    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 nose
    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 nowhere 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

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  • 13 Trapped

    Lyrics

    Seems like I'm caught up in your trap again
    Seems like I'll be wearing the same old chains
    Good will conquer evil and the truth will set me free
    And I know someday I will find the key
    I know somewhere I will find the key
    Seems like I've been playing your game way too long
    Seems the game I've played has made you strong
    When the game is over I won't walk out the loser
    I know I'll walk out of here again
    I know someday I'll walk out of here again

    Well now I'm trapped
    OOh yeah
    Trapped
    OOh Yeah
    Trapped

    Seems like I've been sleeping in your bed too long
    Seems like you've been meaning to do me harm
    But I'll teach my eyes to see beyond these walls in front of me
    Someday I'll walk out of here again
    Someday I'll walk out of here again

    Trapped
    OOh yeah
    Trapped
    OOh Yeah
    Trapped
    OOh Yeah
    Trapped
    OOh Yeah

    Seems like I've been playing your game way too long
    Seems the game I've played has made you strong

    Trapped
    OOh yeah
    Trapped
    OOh Yeah
    Trapped
    OOh Yeah
    Trapped
    OOh Yeah

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  • 14 No Surrender

    Lyrics

    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 hear 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 no surrender
    Like soldiers in the winter's night with a vow to defend
    No retreat 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
    Well maybe we could cut someplace of our own
    With these drums and these guitars

    Blood brothers in the stormy night with a vow to defend
    No retreat no surrender

    Now on the street tonight the lights grow dim
    The walls of my room are closing in
    There's a war outside still raging
    you say it ain't ours anymore to win
    I want to sleep beneath peaceful skies in my lover's bed
    with a wide open country in my eyes
    and these romantic dreams in my head

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  • 15 Waitin' on a Sunny Day

    Lyrics

    It's rainin' but there ain't a cloud in the sky
    Musta been a tear from your eye
    Everything'll be okay
    Funny thought I felt a sweet summer breeze
    Musta been you sighin' so deep
    Don't worry we're gonna find a way

    I'm waitin', waitin' on a sunny day
    Gonna chase the clouds away
    Waitin' on a sunny day

    Without you I'm workin' with the rain fallin' down
    Half a party in a one dog town
    I need you to chase the blues away
    Without you I'm a drummer girl that can't keep a beat
    And ice cream truck on a deserted street
    I hope that you're coming to stay

    I'm waitin', waitin' on a sunny day
    Gonna chase the clouds away
    Waitin' on a sunny day

    Hard times baby, well they come to tell us all
    Sure as the tickin' of the clock on the wall
    Sure as the turnin' of the night into day
    Your smile girl, brings the mornin' light to my eyes
    Lifts away the blues when I rise
    I hope that you're coming to stay

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  • 16 The Promised Land

    Lyrics

    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

    CHORUS:
    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 whole town apart
    Take a knife and cut this pain from my heart
    Find somebody itching for something to start

    CHORUS

    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

    CHORUS

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  • 17 Racing in the Street

    Lyrics

    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
    For 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
    And 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
    For goin' racin' in the street

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  • 18 Radio Nowhere

    Lyrics

    I was tryin' to find my way home
    But all I heard was a drone
    Bouncing off a satellite
    Crushin' the last lone American night
    This is radio nowhere, is there anybody alive out there?
    This is radio nowhere, is there anybody alive out there?

    I was spinnin' 'round a dead dial
    Just another lost number in a file
    Dancin' down a dark hole
    Just searchin' for a world with some soul

    This is radio nowhere, is there anybody alive out there?
    This is radio nowhere, is there anybody alive out there?
    Is there anybody alive out there?

    I just want to hear some rhythm
    I just want to hear some rhythm
    I just want to hear some rhythm
    I just want to hear some rhythm

    I want a thousand guitars
    I want pounding drums
    I want a million different voices speaking in tongues

    This is radio nowhere, is there anybody alive out there?
    This is radio nowhere, is there anybody alive out there?
    Is there anybody alive out there?

    I was driving through the misty rain
    Searchin' for a mystery train
    Boppin' through the wild blue
    Tryin' to make a connection to you

    This is radio nowhere, is there anybody alive out there?
    This is radio nowhere, is there anybody alive out there?
    Is there anybody alive out there?

    I just want to feel some rhythm
    I just want to feel some rhythm
    I just want to feel your rhythm
    I just want to feel your rhythm
    I just want to feel your rhythm
    I just want to feel your rhythm
    I just want to feel your rhythm
    I just want to feel your rhythm

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  • 19 Lonesome Day

    Lyrics

    Once I thought I knew
    Everything I needed to know about you
    Your sweet whisper, Your tender touch
    But I didn't really know that much
    Joke's on me, It's gonna be okay
    If I can just get through this lonesome day

    Hell's brewin' dark sun's on the rise
    This storm'll blow through by and by
    House is on fire, Viper's in the grass
    A little revenge and this too shall pass
    This too shall pass, I'm gonna pray
    Right now all I got's this lonesome day

    It's alright... It's alright... It's alright

    Better ask questions before you shoot
    Deceit and betrayals bitter fruit
    It's hard to swallow, come time to pay
    That taste on your tongue don't easily slip away

    Let kingdom come I'm gonna find my way
    Through this lonesome day

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  • 20 The Rising

    Lyrics

    Can't see nothin' in front of me
    Can't see nothin' coming up behind
    I make my way through this darkness
    I can't feel nothing but this chain that binds me
    Lost track of how far I've gone
    How far I've gone, how high I've climbed
    On my back's a sixty pound stone
    On my shoulder a half mile line

    Come on up for the rising
    Com on up, lay your hands in mine
    Come on up for the rising
    Come on up for the rising tonight

    Left the house this morning
    Bells ringing filled the air
    Wearin' the cross of my calling
    On wheels of fire I come rollin' down here

    Come on up for the rising
    Come on up, lay your hands in mine
    Come on up for the rising
    Come on up for the rising tonight

    Li,li, li,li,li,li, li,li,li

    Spirits above and behind me
    Faces gone, black eyes burnin' bright
    May their precious blood forever bind me
    Lord as I stand before your fiery light

    Li,li, li,li,li,li, li,li,li

    I see you Mary in the garden
    In the garden of a thousand sighs
    There's holy pictures of our children
    Dancin' in a sky filled with light
    May I feel your arms around me
    May I feel your blood mix with mine
    A dream of life comes to me
    Like a catfish dancin' on the end of the line

    Sky of blackness and sorrow ( a dream of life)
    Sky of love, sky of tears (a dream of life)
    Sky of glory and sadness ( a dream of life)
    Sky of mercy, sky of fear ( a dream of life)
    Sky of memory and shadow ( a dream of life)
    Your burnin' wind fills my arms tonight
    Sky of longing and emptiness (a dream of life)
    Sky of fullness, sky of blessed life ( a dream of life)

    Come on up for the rising
    Come on up, lay your hands in mine
    Come on up for the rising
    Come on up for the rising tonight

    Li,li, li,li,li,li, li,li,li

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  • 21 Born to Run

    Lyrics

    In the day we sweat it out on the streets of a runaway American dream
    At night we ride through mansions of glory in suicide machines
    Sprung from cages 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 out 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 can 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

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  • 22 Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)

    Lyrics

    Spread out now Rosie, doctor come cut loose her mama's reins
    You know playin' blindman'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
    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
    And Rosie you're the one

    Rosalita jump a little lighter
    Senorita come sit by my fire
    I just want to be your love, ain't no lie
    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 all right
    So Rosie come out tonight, baby come out tonight
    Windows are for cheaters, chimneys for the poor
    Closets are for hangers, winners use the door
    So use it Rosie, that's what it's there for

    Rosalita jump a little lighter
    Senorita come sit by my fire
    I just want to be your love, ain't no lie
    Rosalita you're my stone desire

    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 his last chance to get his daughter in a fine romance
    Because the record company, Rosie, just gave me a big advance
    My tires were slashed and I almost crashed but the Lord had mercy
    My machine she's a dud, I'm 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'

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  • 23 Hard Times (Come Again No More)

    Lyrics

    Let us pause in life's pleasures and count its many tears,
    While we all sup sorrow with the poor;
    There's a song that will linger forever in our ears;
    Oh hard times come again no more.

    Tis the song, the sigh of the weary,
    Hard Times, hard times, come again no more
    Many days you have lingered around my cabin door;
    Oh hard times come again no more.

    While we seek mirth and beauty and music light and gay,
    There are frail forms fainting at the door;
    Though their voices are silent, their pleading looks will say
    Oh hard times come again no more.

    Chorus

    There's a pale drooping maiden who toils her life away,
    With a worn heart whose better days are o'er:
    Though her voice would be merry, 'tis sighing all the day,
    Oh hard times come again no more.

    Chorus

    Tis a sigh that is wafted across the troubled wave,
    Tis a wail that is heard upon the shore
    Tis a dirge that is murmured around the lowly grave
    Oh hard times come again no more.

    Chorus

  • 24 Jungleland

    Lyrics

    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

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  • 25 American Land

    Lyrics

    What is this land America so many travel there
    I'm going now while I'm still young my darling meet me there
    Wish me luck my lovely I'll send for you when I can
    And we'll make our home in the American land

    Over there all the woman wear silk and satin to their knees
    And children dear, the sweets, I hear, are growing on the trees
    Gold comes rushing out the rivers straight into your hands
    When you make your home in the American Land

    There's diamonds in the sidewalk the's gutters lined in song
    Dear I hear that beer flows through the faucets all night long
    There's treasure for the taking, for any hard working man
    Who will make his home in the American Land

    I docked at Ellis Island in a city of light and spires
    She met me in the valley of red-hot steel and fire
    We made the steel that built the cities with our sweat and two hands
    And we made our home in the American Land

    There's diamonds in the sidewalk the's gutters lined in song
    Dear I hear that beer flows through the faucets all night long
    There's treasure for the taking, for any hard working man
    Who will make his home in the American Land

    The McNicholas, the Posalski's, the Smiths, Zerillis, too
    The Blacks, the Irish, Italians, the Germans and the Jews
    Come across the water a thousand miles from home
    With nothin in their bellies but the fire down below

    They died building the railroads worked to bones and skin
    They died in the fields and factories names scattered in the wind
    They died to get here a hundred years ago they're still dyin now
    The hands that built the country were always trying to keep down

    There's diamonds in the sidewalk the gutters lined in song
    Dear I hear that beer flows through the faucets all night long
    There's treasure for the taking, for any hard working man
    Who will make his home in the American Land
    Who will make his home in the American Land
    Who will make his home in the American Land

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  • 26 Glory Days

    Lyrics

    I had a friend was a big baseball player
    back in high school
    He could throw that speedball by you
    Make you look like a fool boy
    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 he kept talking about was

    Chorus:
    Glory days well they'll pass you by
    Glory days in the wink of a young girl's eye
    Glory days, glory days

    Well there's a girl that lives up the block
    back in school she could turn all the boy's heads
    Sometimes on a 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 now
    We just sit around talking about the old times,
    she says when she feels like crying
    she starts laughing thinking about

    Chorus

    Now I think I'm going down to the well tonight
    and I'm going to drink till I get my fill
    And I hope when I get old 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 time slips away
    and leaves you with nothing mister but
    boring stories of glory days

    Chorus (repeat twice)

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  • 27 Dancing in the Dark

    Lyrics

    I get up in the evening
    and I ain't got nothing to say
    I come home in the morning
    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 my look in the mirror
    I wanna change my clothes, my hair, my face
    Man I ain't getting nowhere
    I'm just living in a dump like this
    There's something happening somewhere
    baby I just know that there is

    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

    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 on baby this laugh's on me

    Stay on the streets of this town
    and they'll be carving you up alright
    They say you gotta 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 gimme just one look

    You can't start a fire sitting 'round crying over a broken heart
    This gun's for hire
    Even if we're just dancing in the dark
    You can't start a fire worrying about your little world falling apart
    This gun's for hire
    Even if we're just dancing in the dark
    Even if we're just dancing in the dark
    Even if we're just dancing in the dark
    Even if we're just dancing in the dark
    Hey baby

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  • 28 The River

    Lyrics

    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 nineteenth 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
    Oh 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
    That sends me down to the river tonight
    Down to the river
    my baby and I
    Oh down to the river we ride

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  • 29 Wrecking Ball

    Lyrics

    I was raised outta steel
    Here in the swamps of Jersey
    Some misty years ago
    Through the mud and the beer
    The blood and the cheers
    I’ve seen champions come and go
    So if you’ve got the guts mister
    Yeah, if you got the balls
    If you think it’s your time
    Then step to the line
    And bring on your wrecking ball

    Bring on your wrecking ball
    Bring on your wrecking ball
    C’mon and take your best shot
    Let me see what you got
    Bring on your wrecking ball

    Now, my home’s here in these meadowlands
    Where mosquitoes grow big as airplanes
    Here where the blood is spilled
    The arena’s filled and giants played their games

    So raise up your glasses
    And let me hear your voices call
    ’Cause tonight all the dead are here
    So bring on your wrecking ball

    Bring on your wrecking ball
    Bring on your wrecking ball
    C’mon and take your best shot
    Let me see what you got
    Bring on your wrecking ball

    Yeah, we know that come tomorrow
    None of this will be here
    So hold tight to your anger
    Hold tight to your anger
    Hold tight to your anger
    And don’t fall to your fears

    Now, when all this steel and these stories
    Drift away to rust
    And all our youth and beauty
    Has been given to the dust
    When the game has been decided
    And we're burnin’ down the clock
    And all our little victories and glories
    Have turned into parking lots
    When your best hopes and desires
    Are scattered to the wind
    And hard times come and hard times go and
    Hard times come and hard times go and
    Hard times come and hard times go and
    Hard times come and hard times go and
    Hard times come and hard times go
    Yeah, just to come again

    Bring on your wrecking ball
    Bring on your wrecking ball
    C’mon and take your best shot
    Let me see what you got
    Bring on your wrecking ball

    Bring on your wrecking ball
    Bring on your wrecking ball
    C’mon and take your best shot
    Let me see what you got
    Bring on your wrecking ball

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Bruce Springsteen - Working on a Dream (2009)

Working on a Dream

At the end of the Magic sessions, Springsteen found himself still writing songs. Encouraged by producer Brendan O’Brien, he recorded during breaks on tour, exploring a classic pop sound for an album release coinciding with Super Bowl XLIII and the inauguration of President Barack Obama. “The Last Carnival” pays tribute to E Street organist Danny Federici, who passed away in 2008.

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  • Label:Columbia Records
  • Producer:Brendan O'Brien
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  • 1 Outlaw Pete

    Lyrics

    He was born a little baby on the Appalachian Trail
    At six months old he'd done three months in jail
    He robbed a bank in his diapers and little bare baby feet
    All he said was "Folks my name is Outlaw Pete"
    I'm Outlaw Pete, I'm Outlaw Pete, can you hear me?

    At 25 a Mustang pony he did steal
    And he rode her 'round and 'round on heaven's wheel
    Father Jesus I'm an outlaw, killer and a thief
    And I slow down only to sow my grief
    I'm Outlaw Pete, I'm Outlaw Pete, can you hear me?

    He cut his trail of tears across the countryside
    And where he went women wept and men died

    One night he awoke from a vision of his own death
    Saddled his pony and rode out deep into the West
    Married a Navajo girl and settled down on the res.
    And as the snow fell he held their beautiful daughter to his chest
    I'm Outlaw Pete, I'm Outlaw Pete, can you hear me?
    Can you hear me? Can you hear me?

    Out of the East on an Irish stallion came bounty hunter Dan
    His heart quickened and burdened by the need to get his man
    He found Pete peacefully fishing by the river
    Pulled his gun and got the drop
    He said "Pete you think you've changed but you have not"

    He cocked his pistol pulled the trigger and shouted, "Let it start"
    Pete drew a knife from his boot, threw it,
    And pierced Dan through the heart
    Dan smiled as he lay in his own blood dying in the sun
    Whispered in Pete's ear "We cannot undo these things we've done"
    You're Outlaw Pete, You're Outlaw Pete, can you hear me?
    Can you hear me? Can you hear me?

    For forty days & nights Pete rode and did not stop
    Till he sat high upon an icy mountaintop
    He watched a hawk on a desert updraft, slip & slide
    Moved to the edge and dug his spurs deep into his pony's side

    Some say Pete and his pony vanished over the edge
    And some say they remain frozen high up on that icy ledge
    A young Navajo girl washes in the river, her skin so fair
    And braids a piece of Pete's buckskin chaps into her hair
    Outlaw Pete, Outlaw Pete, can you hear me?
    Can you hear me? Can you hear me? Can you hear me?
    Can you hear me? Can you hear me?

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  • 2 My Lucky Day

    Lyrics

    In the room where fortune falls
    On a day when chance is all
    In the dark of this exile
    I felt the grace of your smile
    Honey you're my lucky day
    Baby you're my lucky day
    When I've lost all the other bets I've made
    Honey you're my lucky day

    I've seen strong hearts give way
    To the burdens of the day
    To the weary hands of time
    Where fortune is not kind
    Honey you're my lucky day
    Baby you're my lucky day
    When I've lost all the other bets I've made
    Honey you're my lucky day

    I have waited at your side
    I've counted the tears you've cried
    But to win darling we must pay
    So don't hide your heart away
    Honey you're my lucky day
    Baby you're my lucky day
    When I've lost all the other bets I've made
    Honey you're my lucky day

  • 3 Working on a Dream

    Lyrics

    Out here the nights are long the days are lonely
    I think of you and I'm working on a dream
    I'm working on a dream

    The cards I've drawn's a rough hand darlin'
    I straighten my back and I'm working on a dream
    I'm working on a dream

    I'm working on a dream
    Though sometimes it feels so far away
    I'm working on a dream
    And how it will be mine someday

    Rain pourin' down I swing my hammer
    My hands are rough from working on a dream
    I'm working on a dream

    I'm working on a dream
    Though trouble can feel like it's here to stay
    I'm working on a dream
    Our love will chase the trouble away

    I'm working on a dream
    Though it can feel so far away
    I'm working on a dream
    And our love will make it real someday

    Sunrise come I climb the ladder
    The new day breaks and I'm working on a dream
    I'm working on a dream
    I'm working on a dream
    I'm working on a dream

    I'm working on a dream
    Though it can feel so far away
    I'm working on a dream
    And our love will make it real someday
    I'm working on a dream
    Though it can feel so far away
    I'm working on a dream
    And our love will make it real someday

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  • 4 Queen of the Supermarket

    Lyrics

    There's a wonderful world where all you desire
    And everything you've longed for is at your fingertips
    Where the bittersweet taste of life is at your lips
    Where aisles and aisles of dreams await you
    And the cool promise of ecstasy fills the air
    At the end of each working day she's waiting there

    I'm in love with the queen of the supermarket
    As the evening sky turns blue
    A dream awaits in aisle number two

    With my shopping cart I move through the heart
    Of a sea of fools so blissfully unaware
    That they're in the presence of something wonderful and rare
    The way she moves behind the counter
    Beneath her white apron her secrets remain hers
    As she bags the groceries, her eyes so bored
    And sure she is unobserved

    I'm in love with the queen of the supermarket
    There's nothing I can say
    Each night I take my groceries and I drift away, and I drift away

    With guidance from the gods above
    At night I pray for the strength to tell the one I love
    I love, I love, I love her so
    I take my place in the checkout line
    For one moment her eyes meet mine
    And I'm lifted up, lifted up, lifted up, lifted up, lifted away

    I'm in love with the queen of the supermarket
    Though a company cap covers her hair
    Nothing can hide the beauty waiting there
    The beauty waiting there

    As I lift my groceries into my cart
    I turn back for a moment and catch a smile
    That blows this whole fucking place apart
    I'm in love with the queen of the supermarket
    I'm in love with the queen of the supermarket

  • 5 What Love Can Do

    Lyrics

    There's a pillar in the temple where I carved your name
    There's a soul sitting sad and blue
    Now the remedies you've taken are all in vain
    Let me show you what love can do
    Let me show you what love can do

    Darlin', I can't stop the rain
    Or turn your black sky blue
    But let me show you what love can do
    Let me show you what love can do

    Well, now our truth lay shattered you stood at world's end
    As the dead sun rose in view
    Well, if any of this matters, with a kiss my friend
    Let me show you what love can do
    Let me show you what love can do

    Darling, we can't stop this train
    When it comes crashing through
    But let me show you what love can do
    Let me show you what love can do

    When the bed you lie on is nails and rust
    And the love you've given's turned to ashes and dust
    When the hope you've gathered's drifted to the wind
    And it's you and I my friend
    You and I now friend

    Here our memory lay corrupted and our city lay dry
    Let me make this vow to you
    Here where it's blood for blood and an eye for an eye
    Let me show you what love can do
    Let me show you what love can do

    Here we bear the mark of Cain
    We'll let the light shine through
    Let me show you what love can do
    Let me show you what love can do
    Let me show you what love can do
    Let me show you what love can do

  • 6 This Life

    Lyrics

    A bang then stardust in your eyes
    A billion years or just this night
    Either way it'll be all right
    A blackness then the light of a million stars
    As you slip into my car the evening sky strikes sparks
    This life, this life and then the next
    With you I have been blessed, what more can you expect

    At night at my telescope alone
    This emptiness I've roamed
    Searching for a home
    The stars a brief string of shining charms
    Rushing in red out of our arms into the drifting dark
    This life, this life and then the next
    With you I have been blessed, what more can you expect
    This life, this life and then the next
    I finger the hem of your dress, my universe at rest

    We reach for starlight all night long but gravity's too strong
    Chained to this earth we go on and on and on
    Then a million suns cresting where you stood
    A beauty in the neighborhood
    This lonely planet never looked so good

    This life, this life and then the next
    With you I have been blessed, what more can you expect
    This life, this life and then the next
    I finger the hem of your dress, my universe at rest

  • 7 Good Eye

    Lyrics

    I was standing by the river where the cold black water run
    I was standing by the river where the cold black water run
    I had my good eye to the dark and my blind eye to the sun

    I had all earthly riches I had each and every one
    I had all earthly riches I had each and every one
    But I had my good eye to the dark and my blind eye to the sun

    Well I swore to you my darlin', that you were the only one
    Yes I swore to you my darlin', you were the only one
    But I had my good eye to the dark and my blind eye to the sun

  • 8 Tomorrow Never Knows

    Lyrics

    Where the cold wind blows
    Tomorrow never knows
    Where your sweet smile goes
    Tomorrow never knows
    You and me, we been standing here my dear
    Waiting for our time to come
    Where the green grass grows
    Tomorrow never knows

    In the field your long hair flowed
    Down by the Tildenberry tracks
    There 'neath the water tower
    I carried you on my back
    Over the rusted spikes of that highway of steel
    Where no more thunder sounds
    Where the time goes
    Tomorrow never knows

    He who waits for the day's riches will be lost
    In the whispering tide
    Where the river flows
    Tomorrow never knows

  • 9 Life Itself

    Lyrics

    We met down in the valley where the wine of love and destruction flowed
    There in that curve of darkness where the flowers of temptation grow
    I left the rest for the others it was you and nothing else
    You felt so good to me baby, good as life itself
    You were life itself, rushing over me
    Life itself, the wind in black elms,
    Life itself in your heart and in your eyes, I can't make it without you

    I knew you were in trouble anyone could tell
    You carried your little black book from which all your secrets fell
    You squandered all your riches your beauty and your wealth
    Like you had no further use for, for life itself
    You were life itself, rushing over me
    Life itself, the wind in black elms,
    Life itself in your heart and in your eyes, I can't make it without you

    Why do the things that we treasure most, slip away in time
    Till to the music we grow deaf, to God's beauty blind
    Why do the things that connect us slowly pull us apart?
    Till we fall away in our own darkness, a stranger to our own hearts
    And life itself, rushing over me
    Life itself, the wind in black elms,
    Life itself in your heart and in your eyes, I can't make it without you

    So here's one for the road, here's one to your health and to
    Life itself, rushing over me
    Life itself, the wind in the black elms,
    Life itself in your heart and in your eyes, I can't make it without you

    Life itself, life itself, life itself...

  • 10 Kingdom of Days

    Lyrics

    With you I don't hear the minutes ticking by
    I don't feel the hours as they fly
    I don't see the summer as it wanes
    Just a subtle change of light upon your face

    Walk away, walk away, walk away, walk away
    This is our kingdom of days

    I watch the sun as it rises and sets
    I watch the moon trace its arc with no regrets
    My jacket around your shoulders, the falling leaves
    The wet grass on our backs as the autumn breeze drifts through the trees

    Walk away, walk away, walk away, walk away
    This is our kingdom of days
    This is our kingdom of days

    I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you I do
    You whisper "Then prove it, then prove it, then prove it to me baby blue."

    And I count my blessings that you're mine for always
    We laugh beneath the covers and count the wrinkles and the grays
    Sing away, sing away, sing away, sing away
    Sing away, sing away, my darling, we'll sing away
    This is our kingdom of days
    This is our kingdom of days
    This is our kingdom of days

  • 11 Surprise, Surprise

    Lyrics

    Well, surprise, surprise, surprise
    Yea, surprise, surprise, surprise
    Well, surprise, surprise
    C'mon open your eyes and let your love shine down
    Well, surprise, surprise, surprise
    Yea, surprise, surprise, surprise
    Well, surprise, surprise
    C'mon open your eyes and let your love shine down

    Today is your birthday we traveled so far we two
    So let's blow out the candles on your cake and we'll raise a glass or two
    And when the sun comes out tomorrow
    It'll be the start of a brand new day
    And all that you have wished for I know will come your way

    Well, surprise, surprise, surprise
    Yea, surprise, surprise, surprise
    Well, surprise, surprise
    C'mon open your eyes and let your love shine down

    In the hollow of the evening, as you lay your head to rest
    May the evening stars scatter a shining crown upon your breast
    In the darkness of the morning as the sky struggles to light
    May the rising sun caress and bless your soul for all your life

    Well, surprise, surprise, surprise
    Yea, surprise, surprise, surprise
    Well, surprise, surprise
    C'mon open your eyes and let your love shine down

    Well, surprise, surprise, surprise
    Yea, surprise, surprise, surprise
    Well, surprise, surprise
    C'mon open your eyes and let your love shine down

    Surprise, surprise
    C'mon open your eyes and let your love shine down

  • 12 The Last Carnival

    Lyrics

    Sundown, sundown
    They're taking all the tents down
    Where have you gone my handsome Billy?

    Sundown, sundown
    The carnival trains' leavin' town
    Where are you now my darlin' Billy?

    We won't be dancing together on the high wire
    Facing the lions with you at my side anymore
    We won't be breathin' the smoke and the fire
    On the midway

    Hangin' from the trapeze my wrists waitin' for your wrists
    Two daredevils high up on the wall of death
    You throwin' the knife that lands inches from my heart
    Sundown

    Moonrise, moonrise
    The light that was in your eyes
    Has gone away

    Daybreak, daybreak
    The thing in you that made me ache
    Has gone to stay

    We'll be riding the train without you tonight
    The train that keeps on movin'
    Its black smoke scorching the evening sky
    A million stars shining above us like every soul livin' and dead
    Has been gathered together by a God to sing a hymn over your bones

    Sundown, sundown
    Empty are the fairgrounds
    Where are you now my handsome Billy?

  • 13 The Wrestler

    Lyrics

    Have you ever seen a one trick pony in the field so happy and free
    If you've ever seen a one trick pony then you've seen me
    Have you ever seen a one legged dog makin' his way down the street
    If you've ever seen a one legged dog then you've seen me

    (Then you've seen me) I come and stand at every door
    (Then you've seen me) I always leave with less than I had before
    (Then you've seen me) but I can make you smile when the blood it hits the floor
    Tell me friend can you ask for anything more
    Tell me friend can you ask for anything more

    Have you ever seen a scarecrow filled with nothing but dust and weeds
    If you've ever seen that scarecrow then you've seen me
    Have you ever seen a one armed man punchin' at nothing but the breeze
    If you've ever seen a one armed man then you've seen me

    (Then you've seen me) I come and stand at every door
    (Then you've seen me) I always leave with less than I had before
    (Then you've seen me) but I can make you smile when the blood it hits the floor
    Tell me friend can you ask for anything more
    Tell me friend can you ask for anything more

    These things that have comforted me I drive away (anything more)
    This place that is my home I cannot stay (anything more)
    My only faith is in the broken bones and bruises I display

    Have you ever seen a one legged man tryin' to dance his way free
    If you've ever seen a one legged man then you've seen me

Bruce Springsteen - Greatest Hits (2009)

Greatest Hits (2009)

The only compilation album crediting the E Street Band, Greatest Hits was an exclusive Wal-Mart release. Dropping material recorded between between Born in the U.S.A. and the E Street reunion, it adds songs from The Rising and Magic and, unlike 1995′s Greatest Hits, offers a pre-Born to Run favorite, “Rosalita.” A European version with an alternative tracklist was later released.

  • Released:
  • Label:Columbia Records
  • Producer:Bruce Springsteen, Jon Landau, Chuck Plotkin, Steve Van Zandt, Jim Cretecos, Mike Appel, Brendan O'Brien
  • 1 Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)

    Lyrics

    Spread out now Rosie, doctor come cut loose her mama's reins
    You know playin' blindman'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
    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
    And Rosie you're the one

    Rosalita jump a little lighter
    Senorita come sit by my fire
    I just want to be your love, ain't no lie
    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 all right
    So Rosie come out tonight, baby come out tonight
    Windows are for cheaters, chimneys for the poor
    Closets are for hangers, winners use the door
    So use it Rosie, that's what it's there for

    Rosalita jump a little lighter
    Senorita come sit by my fire
    I just want to be your love, ain't no lie
    Rosalita you're my stone desire

    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 his last chance to get his daughter in a fine romance
    Because the record company, Rosie, just gave me a big advance
    My tires were slashed and I almost crashed but the Lord had mercy
    My machine she's a dud, I'm 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'

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  • 2 Born to Run

    Lyrics

    In the day we sweat it out on the streets of a runaway American dream
    At night we ride through mansions of glory in suicide machines
    Sprung from cages 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 out 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 can 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

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  • 3 Thunder Road

    Lyrics

    The screen door slams
    Mary's dress waves
    Like a vision she dances across the porch
    As the radio plays
    Roy Orbison singing for the lonely
    Hey that's me and I want you only
    Don't turn me home again
    I just can't face myself alone again
    Don't run back inside
    darling you know just what I'm here for
    So you're scared and you're thinking
    That maybe we ain't that young anymore
    Show a little faith, there's magic in the night
    You ain't a beauty but hey you're all right
    Oh and that's all right 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 savior to rise from these streets
    Well now I'm no hero
    That's understood
    All the redemption I can offer, girl
    Is beneath this dirty hood
    With a chance to make it 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
    These two lanes will take us anywhere
    We got one last chance to make it real
    To trade in these wings on some wheels
    Climb in back, heaven's waiting on down the tracks
    Oh come take my hand
    We're riding out tonight to case the promised land
    Oh Thunder Road, oh Thunder Road
    oh Thunder Road
    Lying out there like a killer in the sun
    Hey I know 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 ain't free
    And I know you're lonely
    For 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.

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  • 4 Darkness on the Edge of Town

    Lyrics

    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

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  • 5 Badlands

    Lyrics

    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, girl
    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
    You better listen to me baby
    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 won't come
    Well don't waste your time waiting

    CHORUS
    Badlands, you gotta live it everyday
    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 fields
    Till you get your back burned
    Workin' 'neath the wheel
    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

    I believe in the love that you gave me
    I believe in the faith that can save me
    I believe in the hope and I pray
    That some day it may raise me
    Above these badlands

    (CHORUS)

    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

    (CHORUS)

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  • 6 Hungry Heart

    Lyrics

    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

    CHORUS
    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 Kingstown again

    (CHORUS)

    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

    (CHORUS)

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  • 7 Glory Days

    Lyrics

    I had a friend was a big baseball player
    back in high school
    He could throw that speedball by you
    Make you look like a fool boy
    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 he kept talking about was

    Chorus:
    Glory days well they'll pass you by
    Glory days in the wink of a young girl's eye
    Glory days, glory days

    Well there's a girl that lives up the block
    back in school she could turn all the boy's heads
    Sometimes on a 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 now
    We just sit around talking about the old times,
    she says when she feels like crying
    she starts laughing thinking about

    Chorus

    Now I think I'm going down to the well tonight
    and I'm going to drink till I get my fill
    And I hope when I get old 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 time slips away
    and leaves you with nothing mister but
    boring stories of glory days

    Chorus (repeat twice)

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  • 8 Dancing in the Dark

    Lyrics

    I get up in the evening
    and I ain't got nothing to say
    I come home in the morning
    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 my look in the mirror
    I wanna change my clothes, my hair, my face
    Man I ain't getting nowhere
    I'm just living in a dump like this
    There's something happening somewhere
    baby I just know that there is

    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

    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 on baby this laugh's on me

    Stay on the streets of this town
    and they'll be carving you up alright
    They say you gotta 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 gimme just one look

    You can't start a fire sitting 'round crying over a broken heart
    This gun's for hire
    Even if we're just dancing in the dark
    You can't start a fire worrying about your little world falling apart
    This gun's for hire
    Even if we're just dancing in the dark
    Even if we're just dancing in the dark
    Even if we're just dancing in the dark
    Even if we're just dancing in the dark
    Hey baby

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  • 9 Born in the U.S.A.

    Lyrics

    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.
    I was 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.

    Come back home to the refinery
    Hiring man says "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.

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  • 10 The Rising

    Lyrics

    Can't see nothin' in front of me
    Can't see nothin' coming up behind
    I make my way through this darkness
    I can't feel nothing but this chain that binds me
    Lost track of how far I've gone
    How far I've gone, how high I've climbed
    On my back's a sixty pound stone
    On my shoulder a half mile line

    Come on up for the rising
    Com on up, lay your hands in mine
    Come on up for the rising
    Come on up for the rising tonight

    Left the house this morning
    Bells ringing filled the air
    Wearin' the cross of my calling
    On wheels of fire I come rollin' down here

    Come on up for the rising
    Come on up, lay your hands in mine
    Come on up for the rising
    Come on up for the rising tonight

    Li,li, li,li,li,li, li,li,li

    Spirits above and behind me
    Faces gone, black eyes burnin' bright
    May their precious blood forever bind me
    Lord as I stand before your fiery light

    Li,li, li,li,li,li, li,li,li

    I see you Mary in the garden
    In the garden of a thousand sighs
    There's holy pictures of our children
    Dancin' in a sky filled with light
    May I feel your arms around me
    May I feel your blood mix with mine
    A dream of life comes to me
    Like a catfish dancin' on the end of the line

    Sky of blackness and sorrow ( a dream of life)
    Sky of love, sky of tears (a dream of life)
    Sky of glory and sadness ( a dream of life)
    Sky of mercy, sky of fear ( a dream of life)
    Sky of memory and shadow ( a dream of life)
    Your burnin' wind fills my arms tonight
    Sky of longing and emptiness (a dream of life)
    Sky of fullness, sky of blessed life ( a dream of life)

    Come on up for the rising
    Come on up, lay your hands in mine
    Come on up for the rising
    Come on up for the rising tonight

    Li,li, li,li,li,li, li,li,li

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  • 11 Lonesome Day

    Lyrics

    Once I thought I knew
    Everything I needed to know about you
    Your sweet whisper, Your tender touch
    But I didn't really know that much
    Joke's on me, It's gonna be okay
    If I can just get through this lonesome day

    Hell's brewin' dark sun's on the rise
    This storm'll blow through by and by
    House is on fire, Viper's in the grass
    A little revenge and this too shall pass
    This too shall pass, I'm gonna pray
    Right now all I got's this lonesome day

    It's alright... It's alright... It's alright

    Better ask questions before you shoot
    Deceit and betrayals bitter fruit
    It's hard to swallow, come time to pay
    That taste on your tongue don't easily slip away

    Let kingdom come I'm gonna find my way
    Through this lonesome day

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  • 12 Radio Nowhere

    Lyrics

    I was tryin' to find my way home
    But all I heard was a drone
    Bouncing off a satellite
    Crushin' the last lone American night
    This is radio nowhere, is there anybody alive out there?
    This is radio nowhere, is there anybody alive out there?

    I was spinnin' 'round a dead dial
    Just another lost number in a file
    Dancin' down a dark hole
    Just searchin' for a world with some soul

    This is radio nowhere, is there anybody alive out there?
    This is radio nowhere, is there anybody alive out there?
    Is there anybody alive out there?

    I just want to hear some rhythm
    I just want to hear some rhythm
    I just want to hear some rhythm
    I just want to hear some rhythm

    I want a thousand guitars
    I want pounding drums
    I want a million different voices speaking in tongues

    This is radio nowhere, is there anybody alive out there?
    This is radio nowhere, is there anybody alive out there?
    Is there anybody alive out there?

    I was driving through the misty rain
    Searchin' for a mystery train
    Boppin' through the wild blue
    Tryin' to make a connection to you

    This is radio nowhere, is there anybody alive out there?
    This is radio nowhere, is there anybody alive out there?
    Is there anybody alive out there?

    I just want to feel some rhythm
    I just want to feel some rhythm
    I just want to feel your rhythm
    I just want to feel your rhythm
    I just want to feel your rhythm
    I just want to feel your rhythm
    I just want to feel your rhythm
    I just want to feel your rhythm

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Bruce Springsteen - Magic Tour Highlights (2008)

Magic Tour Highlights

Recorded during the 2008 Magic tour, with guests Alejandro Escovedo (Houston, April 14), Tom Morello (Anaheim, April 7) and Roger McGuinn (Orlando, April 23). “Sandy” is taken from Danny Federici’s last performance with the E Street Band (Indianapolis, March 20). Proceeds from sales of this digital-only EP benefit the Danny Federici Melanoma Fund.

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  • Label:Columbia Records
  • Producer:John Cooper
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  • 1 Always a Friend

    Lyrics

    Go

    Wasn't I always
    A friend to you?
    Wasn't I always
    A friend to you?
    Do you wanna
    Be my friend?
    Ooh, ooh
    Do you wanna
    Be my friend?
    Ooh, ooh

    Every once in a while
    Honey
    Let your love show
    Every once in a while
    Honey
    Let yourself show
    Nobody gets hurt
    No, no
    Ooh, ooh
    Nobody gets hurt

    Well
    We came here as two
    We laid down as one
    I don't care
    If I'm not your only
    What I see in you
    You see in me
    But if I be wrong
    Smoke my smoke
    Drink my wine
    Bury
    My snakeskin boots
    Somewhere
    I'll never find
    Still be
    Your lover baby

    Oo, oo, oo

    Wasn't I always
    A friend to you?
    Wasn't I always
    A friend to you?
    Do you wanna
    Be my friend?
    Ooh ooh
    Do you wanna
    Be my friend?
    Ooh, ooh
    [ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/b/bruce_springsteen/always_a_friend.html ]
    Every once in a while
    Honey
    Let yourself go
    Every once in a while
    Honey
    Let yourself show

    Nobody gets hurt
    No, no
    Ooh ooh
    Nobody gets hurt

    Well
    I could be
    An astronaut
    On the wrong side
    Of the moon
    Or wrapped up
    Like a baby
    On a bus under you
    Wherever I go
    You go with me
    But if I do you wrong
    Take the master suite
    I'll take the floor
    Sleep in late
    Get some rest
    I'll get mine
    Still be
    Your lover baby

    Oo, oo, oo

    Wasn't I always
    A friend to you?
    Wasn't I always
    A friend to you?

    Every once in a while
    Honey
    Let your love show
    Every once in a while
    Honey let yourself
    Go
    Nobody gets hurt
    It's only love
    Love, love
    Oo, oo, oo

    Wasn't I always
    A friend to you?
    Wasn't I always
    A friend to you?
    Wasn't I always
    A friend to you?
    Wasn't I always
    A friend to you?

  • 2 The Ghost of Tom Joad

    Lyrics

    Men walkin' 'long the railroad tracks
    Goin' someplace there's no goin' back
    Highway patrol choppers comin' up over the ridge
    Hot soup on a campfire under the bridge
    Shelter line stretchin' round the corner
    Welcome to the new world order
    Families sleepin' in their cars in the southwest
    No home no job no peace no rest

    The highway is alive tonight
    But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes
    I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light
    Searchin' for the ghost of Tom Joad

    He pulls prayer book out of his sleeping bag
    Preacher lights up a butt and takes a drag
    Waitin' for when the last shall be first and the first shall be last
    In a cardboard box 'neath the underpass
    Got a one-way ticket to the promised land
    You got a hole in your belly and gun in your hand
    Sleeping on a pillow of solid rock
    Bathin' in the city aqueduct

    The highway is alive tonight
    But where it's headed everybody knows
    I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light
    Waitin' on the ghost of Tom Joad

    Now Tom said "Mom, wherever there's a cop beatin' a guy
    Wherever a hungry newborn baby cries
    Where there's a fight 'gainst the blood and hatred in the air
    Look for me Mom I'll be there
    Wherever there's somebody fightin' for a place to stand
    Or decent job or a helpin' hand
    Wherever somebody's strugglin' to be free
    Look in their eyes Mom you'll see me."

    The highway is alive tonight
    But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes
    I'm sittin' downhere in the campfire light
    With the ghost of old Tom Joad

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  • 3 Turn! Turn! Turn!

    Lyrics

    To everything - turn, turn, turn
    There is a season - turn, turn, turn
    And a time for every purpose under heaven

    A time to be born, a time to die
    A time to plant, a time to reap
    A time to kill, a time to heal
    A time to laugh, a time to weep

    To everything - turn, turn, turn
    There is a season - turn, turn, turn
    And a time for every purpose under heaven

    A time to build up, a time to break down
    A time to dance, a time to mourn
    A time to cast away stones
    A time to gather stones together

    To everything - turn, turn, turn
    There is a season - turn, turn, turn
    And a time for every purpose under heaven

    A time of war, a time of peace
    A time of love, a time of hate
    A time you may embrace
    A time to refrain from embracing

    To everything - turn, turn, turn
    There is a season - turn, turn, turn
    And a time for every purpose under heaven

    A time to gain, a time to lose
    A time to rend, a time to sew
    A time to love, a time to hate
    A time of peace, I swear it's not too late!

  • 4 4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)

    Lyrics

    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 our 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

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Bruce Springsteen - Girls in their Summer Clothes EP (2008)

Girls in their Summer Clothes EP

“Girls in their Summer Clothes,” from 2007′s Magic, entered the Billboard Hot 100 and won the 2008 Grammy Award for Best Rock Song. This digital-only EP includes two audio tracks, the “Winter Mix” and a live performance from the 2007 Magic tour, as well as the song’s Mark Pellington-directed music video, filmed in Asbury Park and Ocean Grove, NJ.

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  • Label:Columbia Records
  • Producer:Brendan O'Brien
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  • 1 Girls in Their Summer Clothes (Winter Mix)

    Lyrics

    Well, the streetlights shine down on Blessing Avenue
    Lovers they walk by, holding hands two by two
    A breeze crosses the porch, bicycle spokes spin 'round
    My jackets on, I'm out the door
    And tonight I'm gonna burn this town down

    The girls in their summer clothes
    In the cool of the evening light
    The girls in their summer clothes, pass me by

    A kids rubber ball smacks
    Off the gutter 'neath the lamp light
    Big bank clock chimes
    Off go the sleepy front porch lights
    Downtown the stores alight as the evening's underway
    Things been a little tight
    But I know their gonna turn my way

    And the girls in their summer clothes
    In the cool of the evening light
    The girls in their summer clothes, pass me by

    Frankie's diner, an old friend on the edge of town
    The neon sign spinning round
    Like a cross over the lost and found
    The fluorescent lights flick over Pop's Grill
    Shaniqua brings the coffee and asks "Fill?" and says "Penny for your thoughts now my boy, Bill"

    She went away, she cut me like a knife
    Hello beautiful thing, maybe you could save my life
    In just a glance, down here on magic street
    Loves a fool's dance
    And I ain't got much sense, but I still got my feet

    The girls in their summer clothes
    In the cool of the evening light
    The girls in their summer clothes, pass me by

    The girls in their summer clothes
    In the cool of the evening light
    The girls in their summer clothes, pass me by

  • 2 Girls in Their Summer Clothes (Live)

    Lyrics

    Well, the streetlights shine down on Blessing Avenue
    Lovers they walk by, holding hands two by two
    A breeze crosses the porch, bicycle spokes spin 'round
    My jackets on, I'm out the door
    And tonight I'm gonna burn this town down

    The girls in their summer clothes
    In the cool of the evening light
    The girls in their summer clothes, pass me by

    A kids rubber ball smacks
    Off the gutter 'neath the lamp light
    Big bank clock chimes
    Off go the sleepy front porch lights
    Downtown the stores alight as the evening's underway
    Things been a little tight
    But I know their gonna turn my way

    And the girls in their summer clothes
    In the cool of the evening light
    The girls in their summer clothes, pass me by

    Frankie's diner, an old friend on the edge of town
    The neon sign spinning round
    Like a cross over the lost and found
    The fluorescent lights flick over Pop's Grill
    Shaniqua brings the coffee and asks "Fill?" and says "Penny for your thoughts now my boy, Bill"

    She went away, she cut me like a knife
    Hello beautiful thing, maybe you could save my life
    In just a glance, down here on magic street
    Loves a fool's dance
    And I ain't got much sense, but I still got my feet

    The girls in their summer clothes
    In the cool of the evening light
    The girls in their summer clothes, pass me by

    The girls in their summer clothes
    In the cool of the evening light
    The girls in their summer clothes, pass me by