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Im driving in my car
I turn on the radio
Im pulling you close
You just say no
You say you dont like it
But girl I know youre a liar
Cause when we kiss
Ooooh, Fire
Well, late at night
Im takin you home
When I say I wanna stay
You say you wanna be alone
You say you dont love me
Girl, you cant hide your desire
And when we kiss
Ooooh, Fire
Fire
You had a hold on me right from the start
Its a grip so tight, I couldnt tear it apart
My nerves all jumpin
Actin like a fool
Well your kisses they burn
But your heart stays cool
Damn!
Romeo and Juliet
Samson and Delilah
Baby, we can bet
Their love they didnt deny
Your words say split
But your words they lie
Cause when we kiss
Mmmmmm, Fire
Fire
Burnin in my soul
Its outta control |
In a place where outlaws abound from the range
???on a day mountains has fallen to falls???
In a land where boys are forbiden to grow
And Mell is the only master
Were the higway ends and the desert breakes
And buildings are bendt from great earthquackes
And statesmen crawl on their bellys like snakes
And feed of the public hunger
In a land were sky-scrapers scratch the sky
And delinquent daughters to their mothers still lie
Papa stands on the corner he ???waitin to beat the drum???
Welcome Home My Prodigal Son
When Rivers run raging through city streets
And great eagels have fallen from their loofty peaks
And policemen moonlight the sideshow freeks
For the final crime is commited
When Presidents ride in Ford Mustangs
And the Black man releases his Caddilac ???fangs???
And your chech died in bed as the landlord thanks the young girl next door
For the rent
Where telegraph wires are atached to your mind
Delinquent daughters to their mothers still lie
Papa stands on the corner ???waitin to beat the drum???
Welcome Home My Prodigal Son
When the telephone rings and falls of the hook
And your legs have been stolen by some defense department crook
And you startin to think about writing a book
But now you wont pledge allingence to anything
And the maid comes in with coffee and cake
In a low-cut dress she wore just for your sake
You explain your not dead and she takes it as a compliment
And sticks out her tounge and asks for requests
In a land were skyscrapers scrapes the sky
And delinquent daughters to their mothers still lie
Papa stands on the corner ???waitin to beat the drum???
Welcome Home My Prodigal Son |
The moon hung like a shadow on a rung over Shanghai
And the soldier boys were returning home screaming Bonzai!
And the kids are still playing their games
Getting hustled and rustled out in the rain
As I sat inside listening to the broadcast
Oh save my soul sweet rock and roll cuz Im sinking fast
And then the band played
Well now the legendary chaplain of the fighting 51st
Was getting ready to go
I said Padre do you know a cheap virgin who likes to tango?
He said You can try Linda Lee;
Around the corner and across the sea
Oh word is out, word is out shes fast.
Oh blow me down now Linda, cuz Im sinking fast
Yes and them cats are sure getting fat down in the trainyard
And the sandman brings them dreams they ship out in boxcars
The union says hold; break out the dice, break out the gold
Its lunchtime at last
And old big mama said George Raffs tonight on the late show
She sits straddling the kitchen chair really gung-ho
She shivers with chills, wet with slotcar thrills
Hypnotically lost in the glass
And we all sighed...
With the sunrise
As we watched the credits pass
And the little blue dot went away
And then the morning cloak fell down like a hoax over sleepytown
And garbage truck Big Lennys out drinking the last round
He hurriedly sipped his beer, and poking fun of the queer
And threatened to kick his ass
And the bell rang
And the horn blows
And hes outside pumping gas
But things were moving so slow tonight
So the kid goes back inside the station
And turns on the radio to his local AM station
And the band played
Right on the radio
Its on the radio
And he listened to the bass line
And the boys in the band sang
Whoa, whoa whoa-wo
Whoa, whoa whoa-wo
Whoa, whoa whoa-wo
Whoa, whoa whoa-wo
Whoa, whoa whoa-wo
Whoa, whoa whoa-wo
Whoa, whoa whoa-wo |
Spread out now Rosie doctor come cut loose her mamas reins
You know playin blind mans bluff is a little babys game
You pick up Little Dynamite Im gonna pick up Little Gun
And together were gonna go out tonight and make that highway run
You dont have to call me lieutenant Rosie and I dont want to be your son
The only lover Im ever gonna needs your soft sweet little girls tongue and Rosie youre the one
Dynamites in the belfry playin with the bats
Little Guns downtown in front of Woolworths tryin out his attitude on all the cats
Papas on the corner waitin for the bus
Mama shes home in the window waitin up for us
Shell be there in that chair when they wrestle her upstairs `cause you know we aint gonna come
I aint here for business, Im only here for fun
Rosalita jump a little lighter, senorita come sit by my fire
I just want to be your lover aint no liar, Rosalita youre my stone desire
Jack the Rabbit and Weak Knees Willie you know theyre gonna be there
Ah sloppy Sue and Big Bones Billie theyll be comin up for air
Were gonna play some pool, skip some school, act real cool
Stay out all night its gonna feel alright
Rosie come out tonight, Rosie come out tonight
Windows are for cheaters chimneys for the poor
Closets are for hangers winners use the door
Now I know your mama she dont like me `cause I play in a rock and roll band
And I know your daddy he dont dig me but he never did understand
Papa lowered the boom he locked you in your room
Im comin to lend a hand
Im comin to liberate you confiscate you I want to be your man
Someday well look back on this and it will all seem funny
But now youre sad your mamas mad
And your papa says he knows that I dont have any money
Tell him this is last chance to get his daughter in a fine romance
Because a record company Rosie just gave me big bucks
My tires were slashed and I almost crashed but the Lord had mercy
My machine shes a dud out stuck in the mud somewhere in the swamps of Jersey
Hold on tight stay up all night `cause Rosie Im 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
Theres 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 dont you know daddys comin |
I had a dream our love would last forever
I had a dream last night, she had a dream too
Shell be there tonight
If Im down then shell make me feel right
Ooh, rendezvous
Havent I told you, girl, how much I like you
I got a feeling that you like me too
So if you hold me tight
Well be riders, girl, on the night
Ooh, rendezvous
We deserve so much more than this, girl
Im riding on the power and living on the promise in your last kiss
Because I had a dream our love would last forever
I had a dream, tonight she had a dream too
So come on hold me tight
Well be riders, girl, on the night
Ooohh, ooohh, ooohh, rendezvous, I want to rendezvous
I want to rendez-, I want to rendez-, I want to rendezvous, I want a rendezvous |
The screen door slams, Marys dress sways
Like a vision she dances across the porch. As the radio plays
Roy Orbison singing for the lonely
Hey thats me and I want you only
Dont turn me home again, I just cant face myself alone again
Dont run back inside, darling you know just what Im here for
So youre scared and youre thinking
That maybe we aint that young anymore
Show a little faith, theres magic in the night
You aint a beauty, but hey youre alright
Oh and thats alright with me
You can hide `neath your covers and study your pain
Make crosses from your lovers, throw roses in the rain
Waste your summer praying in vain
For a saviour to rise from these streets
Well now Im no hero, thats 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 nights busting open
This two lanes will take us anywhere
We got one last chance to make it real
To trade in these wings on some wheels
Climb in back, Heavens waiting on down the tracks
Oh-oh come take my hand
Were riding out tonight to case the promised land
Oh-oh Thunder Road, oh Thunder Road, oh Thunder Road
Lying out there like a killer in the sun
Hey I know its 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 cars out back if youre ready to take that long walk
From your front porch to my front seat
The doors open but the ride it aint free
And I know youre lonely and theres words that I aint spoken
But tonight well be free, all the promisesll 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 theyre gone
On the wind, so Mary climb in
Its a town full of losers and Im pulling out of here to win |
New Jersey Turnpike
Riding on a wet night
Neath the refinerys glow
Down where the great black river flow
Licence, registration
I aint got none
But I got a clear conscience
Bout the things that I done
Mister State Trooper
Please dont stop me
Please dont stop me
Please dont stop me
Maybe you got a kid
Maybe you got a pretty wife
The only thing that I gots
Been bothering me my whole life
Mister State Trooper
Please dont stop me
Please dont stop me
Please dont ya stop me
Well, in the wee wee hours
Your mind gets hazy
Radio relay towers
Gonna lead me to my baby
Radios jammed up
With talk show stations
Its just talk, talk, talk, talk
Til you lose your patience
Mister State Trooper
Please dont stop me
Please dont stop me
Please dont ya stop me
Hey, somebody out there
Listen to my last prayer
Heigh-ho, Silver, oh
Deliver me from nowhere |
Well there she sits buddy just a-gleaming in the sun
There to greet a working man when his day is done
Im gonna pack my pa and Im gonna pack my aunt
Im gonna take them down to the Cadillac Ranch
Eldorado fins, heavy whitewalls and skirts
Rides just like a little bit of heaven here on earth
Well buddy when I die throw my body in the back
And drive me to the junkyard in my Cadillac
Cadillac, Cadillac
Long and dark shiny and black
Open up your engines let em roar
Tearing up the highway like a big old dinosaur
James Dean in that Mercury 49
Junior Johnson runnin through the woods of Caroline
Even Burt Reynolds in that black Trans Am
All gonna meet down at the Cadillac Ranch
Cadillac, Cadillac
Long and dark shiny and black
Open up them engines let em roar
Tearing up the highway, just a big old dinosaur
Hey little girl in the blue jeans so tight
Drivin alone through the Wisconsin night
Youre my last love, baby, youre my last chance
Dont let em take me to the Cadillac Ranch
Cadillac, Cadillac
Long and dark shiny and black
Pulled up to my house today
Came and took my little girl away
Cadillac, Cadillac
Long and dark, shiny and black
Open up them engines let em roar
Tearing up the highway, just a big old dinosaur
Cadillac, Cadillac
Cadillac, Cadillac
Cadillac, Cadillac
Cadillac, Cadillac |
Crazy Janey and her mission man
Were back in the alley trading hands
Along came Wild Billy with his friend Gee Man
All duded up for Saturday night
Billy slammed on his coaster brakes, said
Anybody wanna go to Greasy Lake
Its a mile down on the dark side of Route 88
I got a bottle of rosé lets try it
Well pick up Hazy Davey and Killer Joe and
Ill take you all out to where the gypsy angels go
Theyre built like light and they dance like
Spirits in the night, all night
Oh you dont know what they can do to you
Spirits in the night, all night
In the night, all night
Stand right up and let them shoot through you
Wild Billy was a crazy cat
And he shook some dust out of his coon skin cap
He said try some of this itll show you where youre at
Or at least itll help you to feel it
By the time we made it up to Greasy Lake
My head was out the window
Janeys fingers were in the cake
I think I really dug her, I was too loose to fake
I said Im hurt she said Honey lets heal it
And we danced all night to a soul fairy band
And she kissed me just right
Like only a lonely angel can
She felt so nice, just as soft as a
Spirit in the night, all night
Janey dont know what she do to you
Spirits in the night, all night
In the night, all night
Stand right up and let her shoot through me
Spirits in the night, in the night
Spirits in the night, all night
Spirits in the night, in the night
Spirits in the night, all night
How the night was bright and the stars threw light
On Billy and Davey dancing in the Moonlight
Down near the water in a stoned mud fight
Killer Joe passed out on the lawn
Hazy Davey got really hurt
He ran into the lake in just his socks and a shirt
Me and Crazy Davey making love in the dirt
Singing our birthday songs
Janey said it was time to go, so we closed our eyes
And said goodbye to gypsy angel row
Felt so right together we moved like
Spirits in the night, all night
Oh you dont know what they can do to you
Spirits in the night, all night
All night, all night
Stand right up and let them shoot through you
Spirits in the night, all night
Oh you dont know what they can do to you
Spirits in the night, all night
Spirits in the night
Spirits in the night |
The lady keeps the doctor in a place inside her pocket
The circle made her circle like a wheel
The doctor gives a strange love, but the lady she dont knock it
Shes glad to get a piece of anything
Because the lady needs the medicine ????????????
Doctor needs the lady to see
The doctor keeps the lady in a page in a book
On the history of communicable diseases
The ladys been to school, she lets the doctor play it cool
He writes the script, she follows his lead
Cause the doctor writes love story so fine
The ladys learned to read between the lines
Sometime
The doctor, he takes housecalls where he visits the animals
In their stalls, shoots them full of juice and then goes home
The lady hits the supermarket where she rides the aisles in a shopping cart
till she feels shes played enough of the part to set by ooh
The lady feels its enough to just be good
But the doctor has his need to be understood
The doctor feels hes so abused and the lady feels shes so unused
And demands the doctor tends her daily parts
Ooh, but the doctor just cant do it because so long ago the lady
Blew it, theyre too old now to make another start
The lady feels the doctors made of stone
The doctor heart, it just aint fond of ?home? |
I stood stonelike at midnight suspended in my masquerade
I combed my hair till it was just right and commanded the night brigade
I was open to pain and crossed by the rain and I walked on a crooked crutch
I strolled all alone through a fallout zone and came out with my soul
Untouched
I hid in the clouded wrath of the crowd but when they said `Sit down I stood up
Ooh-ooh growin up
The flag of piracy flew from my mast my sails were set wing to wing
I had a jukebox graduate for first mate she couldnt sail but she sure could sing
I pushed B-52 and bombed `em with the blues with my gear set stubborn on standing
I broke all the rules strafed my old high school never once gave thought to landing
I hid in the clouded wrath of the crowd but when they said `Come down I threw up
Ooh-ooh growin up
I took month-long vacations in the stratosphere and you know its really hard to hold your breath
I swear I lost everything I ever loved or feared I was the cosmic kid
Well my feet they finally took root in the earth but I got me a nice little
Place in the stars
I swear I found the key to the universe in the engine of an old parked car
I hid in the clouded wrath of the crowd but when they said `Sit down I stood up
Ooh-ooh growin up
Ooh-ooh growin up |
Get out the way, old Dan Tucker
Youre too late to get your supper
Get out the way, old Dan Tucker
Youre too late to get your supper
Get out the way, old Dan Tucker
Youre too late to get your supper
Well, old Dan Tucker was a fine old man
Washed his face with a fryin pan
Combed his hair with a wagon wheel
And died with a toothache in his heel
Get out the way old Dan Tucker
Youre too late to get your supper
Get out the way old Dan Tucker
Youre too late to get your supper
Well old Dan Tucker come to town
Riding a billy goat, leading a hound
Hound dog barked, the billy goat jumped
Landed old Tucker on a stump
Get out the way old Dan Tucker
Youre too late to get your supper
Get out the way old Dan Tucker
Youre too late to get your supper
Well old Dan Tucker got drunk and fell
And the fire he kicked up- holy hell!
A red-hot coal got in his shoe
And oh my Lord the ashes flew
Get out the way old Dan Tucker
Youre too late to get your supper
Get out the way old Dan Tucker
Youre too late to get your supper
Old Dan Tucker come to town
Swinging them ladies all round
First to the right then to the left
Then to the gal that he loved best
Get out the way old Dan Tucker
Youre too late to get your supper
Get out the way old Dan Tucker
Youre too late to get your supper
Get out the way old Dan Tucker
Youre too late to get your supper
Get out the way old Dan Tucker
Youre too late to get your supper
Get out the way old Dan Tucker
Youre too late to get your supper
Get out the way old Dan Tucker
Youre too late to get your supper
Get out the way, old Dan Tucker
Youre too late to get your supper
Yes, well done! Whoah! |
Everybodys got a hungry heart
Everybodys got a hungry heart
Lay down your money and you play your part
Everybodys got a hungry heart
Everybodys got a hungry heart
Everybodys got a hungry heart
Lay down your money and you play your part
Everybodys got a hungry heart
Everybodys got a hungry heart
Everybodys got a hungry heart
Everybodys got a hungry heart
Everybodys got a hungry heart
Everybodys got a hungry heart
Everybodys got a hungry heart
Everybodys got a hungry heart
Everybodys got a hungry heart |
Remember when the music
Came from wooden boxes
Strung with silver wires
And as we sang
The words would set our hearts on fire
To believe in things
So wed sing
Remember when the music
Brought us all together
To stand inside the rain
And as wed join hands
Wed meet in the refrain
With dreams to live
And hope to give
Remember when the music
Was the best that wed dream of
For ours childrens time
And as wed worked wed sing
Cause we knew time
Was just a lie
A gift to say
A gift that future gave
Remember when the music
Was a rock we could cling to
So we would not despair
And as we sang wed knew
Wed hear an echo in the air
And if we werent smiling then
Wed smile again
And all the times I listened
And all the times I heard
And all the melodies Im missing
And all the magic words
All the beautiful words
All the beautiful voices
And all the choices we had theni hope you find you got
Those kind of choices once again
Remember when the music
Brought the night
Across the valley
And as we hum the melody
Wed be safe within the sound
So wed sleep
To awake with dreams
And promises to keep |
Well, they closed down the auto plant in Mahwah late that month
Ralph went out looking for a job but he couldnt find none
He came home too drunk from mixing Tanqueray and wine
Got a gun, shot a night clerk, now they call him Johnny 99
Down in the part of town where when you hit a red light you dont stop
Johnnys waving his gun around, threatening to blow his top
Til an off-duty cop snuck up on him from behind
Out 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 call it even, Johnny 99
A fist fight broke out in the courtroom, they had to drag Johnnys girl away
His mama stood up and shouted, Judge, dont take my boy this way
Well, son, you got any statement youd like to make
Fore the bailiff comes to forever take you away
Judge, judge, I had debts no honest man could pay
The bank was holding my mortgage and were gonna take my house away
Well, I aint saying that makes me an innocent man
But it was more than all this that put that gun in my hand
Well, your honor, I do believe Id be better off dead
And if you can take a mans life for the thoughts thats in his head
Well, sit back in that chair and think it over, judge, one more time
Gonna shave off my hair and put me on that execution line |
Got a wife and kids in Baltimore, Jack
I went out for a ride and I never went back
Like a river that dont know where its flowing
I took a wrong turn and I just kept going
Everybodys got a hungry heart
Everybodys got a hungry heart
Lay down your money and you play your part
Everybodys 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
Everybodys got a hungry heart
Everybodys got a hungry heart
Lay down your money and you play your part
Everybodys got a hungry heart
Everybody needs a place to rest
Everybody wants to have a home
Dont make no difference what nobody says
Aint nobody like to be alone
Everybodys got a hungry heart
Everybodys got a hungry heart
Lay down your money and you play your part
Everybodys got a hungry heart
Everybodys got a hungry heart
Lay down your money and you play your part
Everybodys got a hungry heart |
Tear drops on the city
Bad Scooter searching for his groove
Seem like the whole world walking pretty
And you cant find the room to move
Well everybody better move over, thats all
Im running on the bad side
And I got my back to the wall
Tenth Avenue freeze-out, Tenth Avenue freeze-out
Im stranded in the jungle
Taking all the heat they was giving
The night is dark but the sidewalks bright
And lined with the light of the living
From a tenement window a transistor blasts
Turn around the corner things got real quiet real fast
She hit me with a Tenth Avenue freeze-out
Tenth Avenue freeze-out
And Im all alone, Im all alone
And kid you better get the picture
And Im on my own, Im on my own
And I cant go home
When the change was made uptown
And the Big Man joined the band
From the coastline to the city
All the little pretties raise their hands
Im gonna sit back right easy and laugh
When Scooter and the Big Man bust this city in half
With a Tenth Avenue freeze-out, Tenth Avenue freeze-out
Tenth Avenue freeze-out... |
Mm, hmm
Mm, hmm, hmm
Darling, I dont know much
I know that I love you so much
My life depends on your touch
And my love is a river runnin a-soul deep
Way down inside me its a a-soul deep
Its too big to hide and it cant be denied
My love is a river runnin soul deep
I work myself to death for ya
Just to show I adore ya
Nothing I wouldnt do for ya
’Cause my love is a river runnin soul deep
Way down inside me its a a-soul deep
Its too big to hide and it cant be denied
My love is a river runnin soul deep
All I ever hope to be
Depends on your love for me
Baby believe me, if you should leave me
Id be nothing but an empty shell
I know darn well
Darling, I dont know much
I know I love you so much
My life depends on your touch
And my love is a river runnin soul deep
Way down inside me its a a-soul deep
Its too big to hide and it cant be denied
My love is a river runnin soul deep
My love is a river runnin soul deep
My love is a river runnin soul deep
Oh yeah
My love is soul deep
My love is soul deep
My love is soul deep
Soul deep
My love is soul deep
Soul deep
My love is soul deep
Soul deep
My love is soul deep
Soul deep
Yeah
My love is a river runnin soul deep
Way down inside me its a soul deep
My love is a river runnin soul deep
Way down inside me its a soul deep
My love is a river runnin soul deep
Way down inside me its a soul deep
My love is a river runnin soul deep |
I met a little girl and I settled down
In a little house out on the edge of town
We got married, and swore wed never part
And little by little we drifted from each others hearts
At first I thought it was just restlessness
That would fade as time went by and our love grew deep
In the end it was something more, I guess
That tore us apart and made us weep
And Im driving a stolen car
Down on Eldridge Avenue
Each night I wait to get caught
But I never do
She asked if I remembered the letters I wrote
When our love was young and bold
She said last night she read those letters
And they made her feel one hundred years old
Im driving a stolen car
On a pitch black night
And Im telling myself
Its gonna be alright
I drive by night
And I travel in fear
That in this darkness
I will disappear
Im driving a stolen car
On a pitch black night
And Im telling myself
Its gonna be alright
Its gonna be alright
Its gonna be alright
Its gonna be alright
Its gonna be alright |
Well its Saturday night in New Jersey
And youre feeling kinda wet
Now the summer heat is getting you worried
So you try to look as innocent as you can as you sweat
And youve got a woman on the other side of the law
But it aint cool to go see her yet
Because her ex-old mans a city cop
Who thinks hes auditioning for Dragnet
So you stand on the corner looking kinda torn
And in the Blue Light Lounge
Where death was born
The jazz musician blows his horn
You pop a letter to your baby in Richmond
Cause youre feeling pretty down
Shes kinda small but at least shes a rich one
Oh, and she needs you real bad
And sometimes thats all that counts
You had a teenage band and flying hands
And oh, you was pretty big, you were pretty big in the
South
But you passed out on stage and flew into a rage
And someone tried to revive you
Mouth to mouth
You felt a pain in your chest
As you passed the crown
And in the Blue Light Lounge
The lights went down
And the audience slipped silently out of town
Well now the atheist he burns you for laughing out loud
Because he cant understand what youre saying
And the words out when they pushed him in the hole
Everybody knows that he went out praying
Oh, now the park is dark but the sidewalks bright
And alive with the light of the living
Oh and mama can I walk you home tonight
Cause its a big bad city
And this boys got a lot for the givingIm stranded in the jungle
First stage witness at a company killing
Im clutching my high school diploma, shuffling my feet
Promised sixty bucks a week
And guaranteed top billing
Well you can live a life of love in New York
Only if you dont, if you dont love living
And I met this taxi driver who drives me around town
Telling tales of his back seat women
And out on the corner theres no room to move
Cause everybodys trying so hard to groove
And in the Blue Light Lounge
The jazz musician plays his blues |
Breakin rocks in the hot sun
I fought the law and the law won
I fougth the law and the law won
I needed money cause I had none
I fought the law and the law won
I fought the law and the law won
I miss my baby and I feel so bad
I guess my race is run
She was the best girl that I ever had
I fought the law and the law won
I fought the law and the law won
Robbin people with a six-gun
I fought the law and the law won
I fought the law and the law won
I miss my baby and the good fun
I fought the law and the law won
I fought the law and the law won
I miss my baby and I feel so bad
I guess my race is run
She was the best girl that I ever had
I fought the law and the law won
I fought the law and the law won |
Got a wife and kids in Baltimore, Jack
I went out for a ride and I never went back
Like a river that dont know where its flowin
I took a wrong turn and I just kept goin
Everybodys got a hungry heart
Everybodys got a hungry heart
Lay down your money and you play your part
Everybodys 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, we ripped it apart
Now here I am down in Kingstown, again
Everybodys got a hungry heart
Everybodys got a hungry heart
Lay down your money and you play your part
Everybodys got a hungry heart
Everybody needs a place to rest
Everybody wants to have a home
Dont make no difference what nobody says
Aint nobody like to be alone
Everybodys got a hungry heart
Everybodys got a hungry heart
Lay down your money and you play your part
Everybodys got a hungry heart |
Well if I could I surely would
Stand on the rock where Moses stood
Pharaohs army got drownded
O Mary don’t you weep
O Mary dont you weep, dont you mourn
O Mary don’t you weep, dont you mourn
Pharaohs army got drownded
O Mary dont you weep
Mary wore three links of chain
On every link was Jesus name
Pharaohs army got drownded
O Mary dont you weep
O Mary dont you weep, don’t you mourn
O Mary don’t you weep, dont you mourn
Pharaoh’s army got drownded
O Mary dont you weep
One of these nights ‘bout 12 oclock
This whole world is gonna rock
Pharaohs army got drownded
O Mary don’t you weep
Moses stood on the Red Sea shore
Smote the water with a two by four
Pharaohs army got drownded
O Mary dont you weep
O Mary dont you weep, dont you mourn
O Mary dont you weep, dont you mourn
Pharaohs army got drownded
O Mary dont you weep
Old Mr. Satan he got mad
Missed that soul that he thought he had
Pharaohs army got drownded
O Mary dont you weep
Brothers and sisters dont you cry
Therell be better times by and by
Pharaohs army got drownded
O Mary dont you weep
O Mary dont you weep, dont you mourn
O Mary dont you weep, dont you mourn
Pharaohs army got drownded
O Mary dont you weep
God gave Noah the rainbow sign
No more water, but fire next time
Pharaohs army got drownded
O Mary dont you weep
Sing it!
Sing it!
O Mary dont you weep, dont you mourn
O Mary dont you weep, dont you mourn
Pharaohs army got drownded
O Mary dont you weep
O Mary dont you weep, dont you mourn
Pharaohs army got drownded
Oooooooh, Mary dont you weep
Thank you! Sam Bardfeld on fiddle! |
Hey little girl, is your daddy home?
Did he go away and leave you all alone?
Oh I got a bad desire
Oh oh oh, Im on fire
Tell me now, baby, is he good to you?
Does he do to you the things that I do?
Oh, I can take you higher
Oh oh oh, Im on fire
Sometimes its like someone took a knife, baby, edgy and dull
And cut a six-inch valley through the middle of my skull/soul
At night I wake up with the sheets soaking wet
And a freight train running through the middle of my head
Only you can cool my desire
Oh oh oh, Im on fire
Oh oh oh, Im on fire
Oh oh oh, Im on fire |
Baby I - Dont need you loving no more
Baby I - Dont need your kisses no more
Baby I - Dont need your tender touch
Baby I
Baby I - Dont need your tender kiss
Baby I - Youll never miss
Baby I - Dony Want you round me no more
Baby I
Cause I got someone new
Somebody better than you
Somebody wholl be true
Somebody better than you |
I was there when you needed someone
Look now, baby, see what you have undone
I did most of the talking
But you were the one who lied
Bye-bye, baby, our love is tumblin down
I cant be hangin around
Love on the wrong side of town
You were gone when I needed you by my side
There was no one to dry the tears from my eyes
You were the one who cheated
But I was the one who cried
Bye-bye, baby, our love is tumblin down
I cant be hangin around
Love on the wrong side of town
Love on the wrong side of town
Bye-bye, baby, love on the wrong side of town
Bye-bye, baby
Bruce Springsteen Music/Blue Midnight Music
Ramrod Music/Nightshift Music ASCAP |
Last night I dreamed that I was a child
Out where the pines grow wild and tall
I was trying to make it home through the forest
Before the darkness falls
I heard the wind rustling through the trees
And ghostly voices rose from the fields
I ran with my heart pounding down that broken path
With The Devil snappin at my heels
I broke through the trees and there in the night
My fathers house stood shining hard and bright
The branches and brambles tore my clothes and scratched my arms
But I ran till I fell, shaking in his arms
I awoke and I imagined the hard things that pulled us apart
Will never again, sir, tear us from each others hearts
I got dressed and to that house I did ride
From out on the road, I could see its windows shining in light
I walked up the steps and stood on the porch
A woman I didnt recognize came and spoke to me through a chained door
I told her my story and who Id come for
She said Im sorry, son, but no one by that name lives here anymore
My fathers house shines hard and bright
It stands like a beacon calling me in the night
Calling and calling, so cold and alone
Shining cross this dark highway where our sins lie unatoned |
We sit in the car outside your house youre quiet
I can feel the heat coming around
I go to put my arm around you
And you give me a look like Im way out of bounds
Well, you let out one of your bored sighs
Well, lately when I look into your eyes
Im goin down, down, down, down
Im goin down, down, down, down
Im goin down, down, down, down
Im goin down, down, down, down
We get dressed up, and we go out, baby, for the night
We come home early burning, burning in some fire fight
Im sick and tired of you setting me up, yeah
Setting me up just to knock-a knock-a knock-a me down
Down, down, down
Im goin down, down, down, down
Im goin down, down, down, down
Im goin down, down, down, down
Im goin down, down, down, down
I pull you close now, baby, but when we kiss, I can feel a doubt
I remember back when we started
My kisses used to turn you inside out
I used to drive you to work in the morning
Friday night Id drive you all around
You used to love to drive me wild, yeah
But lately girl you get your kicks from just driving me down
Down, down, down
Im goin down, down, down, down
Im goin down, down, down, down
Im goin down, down, down, down
Im goin down, down, down, down |
The times are tough now, just getting tougher
This old world is rough, its just getting rougher
Cover me, come on baby, cover me
Well Im looking for a lover who will come on in and cover me
Promise me baby you wont let them find us
Hold me in your arms, lets let our love blind us
Cover me, shut the door and cover me
Well Im looking for a lover who will come on in and cover me
Outsides the rain, the driving snow
I can hear the wild wind blowing
Turn out the light, bolt the door
I aint going out there no more
This whole world is out there just trying to score
Ive seen enough I dont want to see any more
Cover me, come on and cover me
Im looking for a lover who will come on in and cover me
Looking for a lover who will come on in and cover me |
Jesse James was a lad that killed many a man
He robbed the Glendale train
He stole from the rich and he gave to the poor
Hed a hand and a heart and a brain
Well it was Robert Ford, that dirty little coward
Wonder now how he feels
For he ate of Jesse’s bread and he slept in Jesses bed
And he laid poor Jesse in his grave
Poor Jesse had a wife to mourn for his life
Three children now they were brave
Well that dirty little coward that shot Mr. Howard
He laid poor Jesse in his grave
Whoah!
Well, Jesse was a man, a friend to the poor
Hed never rob a mother or a child
Well there never was a man with the law in his hand
That could take Jesse James when alive
It was on a Saturday night, the moon was hanging bright
They robbed the Glendale train
People they did say o’er many miles away
It was those outlaws, theyre Frank and Jesse James
Well Jesse had a wife to mourn for his life
Three children now they were brave
That dirty little coward that shot Mr. Howard
He laid poor Jesse in his grave
The people held their breath when they heard of Jesses death
They wondered how hed ever come to fall
Robert Ford, it was a fact, he shot Jesse in the back
While Jesse hung a picture on the wall
Jesse went to rest with his head on his breast
The devil upon his knee
He was born one day, yeah in the County Clay
And he came from a solitary race
Jesse had a wife to mourn for his life
Three children now they were brave
That dirty little coward that shot Mr. Howard
He laid poor Jesse in his grave
Thank you, Dublin! Thank you! |
Well if I could, I surely would
Stand on the rock where Moses stood
Pharohs army got drownded
Oh Mary dont you weep
Oh Mary dont you weep no more
Oh Mary dont you weep no more
Pharohs army got drownded
Oh Mary dont you weep
Well Mary wore three links of chain
On every link was Jesus name
Pharohs army got drownded
Oh Mary dont you weep
Oh Mary dont you weep no more
Oh Mary dont you weep no more
Pharohs army got drownded
Oh Mary dont you weep
Well one of these nights about 12 oclock
This old world is gonna rock
Pharohs army got drownded
Oh Mary dont you weep
Well Moses stood on the Red Sea shore
Smote the water with a two by four
Pharohs army got drownded
Oh Mary dont you weep
Oh Mary dont you weep no more
Oh Mary dont you weep no more
Pharohs army got drownded
Oh Mary dont you weep
Well old Mister Satan he got mad
Missed that soul that he thought he had
Pharohs army got drownded
Oh Mary dont you weep
Brothers and sisters, dont you cry
Therell be good times by and by
Pharohs army got drownded
Oh Mary dont you weep
Oh Mary dont you weep no more
Oh Mary dont you weep no more
Pharohs army got drownded
Oh Mary dont you weep
God gave Noah the rainbow sign
No more water, but fire next time
Pharohs army got drownded
Oh Mary dont you weep
Oh Mary dont you weep no more
Oh Mary dont you weep no more
Pharohs army got drownded
Oh Mary dont you weep
Pharohs army got drownded
Oh Mary dont you weep
Oh Mary dont you weep no more
Oh Mary dont you weep no more
Pharohs army got drownded
Oh Mary dont you weep |
My names Joe Roberts, I work for the state
Im a sergeant out of Perrineville, barracks number eight
I always done an honest job, as honest as I could
Got a brother named Franky, Franky aint no good
Ever since we was young kids, its been the same come down
I get a call on the shortwave, Frankys in trouble downtown
If it was any other man, Id put him straight away
But when its your brother sometimes you look the other way
Yeah me and Franky laughin and drinkin, nothin feels better than blood on blood
Takin turns dancin with Maria as the band played Night of the Johnstown Flood, I
Catch him when hes strayin like any brother would
Man turns his back on his family, he just aint no good
Well Franky went in the army back in 1965
I got a farm deferment, settled down, took Maria for my bride
Them wheat prices kept on droppin till it was like we were gettin robbed
Franky came home in 68 and me I took this job
Yeah me and Franky laughin and drinkin, nothin feels better than blood on blood
Takin turns dancin with Maria as the band played Night of the Johnstown Flood, I
Catch him when hes strayin, like any brother would
Man turns his back on his family, he just aint no good
Well the night was like any other, I get a call about quarter to nine
There was trouble in a roadhouse out on the Michigan line
There was a kid lyin on the floor lookin bad, bleedin hard from his head
Was a girl cryin at a table; it was Frank, they said
Well I went out and I jumped in my car, and I hit the lights
I musta done a hundred and ten through Michigan county that night
It was out at the crossroads, yeah, down round Willow bank
I seen a Buick with Ohio plates, behind the wheel was Frank
Well I chased him through those county roads
Till a sign said Canadian border five miles from here
I pulled over the side of the highway and watched his taillights disappear
Yeah, me and Franky laughin and drinkin, nothin feels better than blood on blood
Takin turns dancin with Maria as the band played Night of the Johnstown Flood, I
Catch him when hes strayin like any brother would
Man turns his back on his family, he just aint no good
Help me!
Yeah, me and Franky laughin and drinkin, nothin feels better than blood on blood
Takin turns dancin with Maria as the band played Night of the Johnstown Flood, I
Catch him when hes strayin like any brother would
Man turns his back on his family, he just aint no good
Thank you! |
Well, its Saturday night
Youre all dressed up in blue
I been watching you awhile
Maybe you been watching me, too
So somebody ran out
Left somebodys heart in a mess
Well, if youre looking for love
Honey, Im tougher than the rest
Some girls, they want a handsome Dan
Or some good-lookin Joe
Some girls on their arm want a sweet-talkin Romeo
Well, round here, baby
I learned you get what you can get
And if youre rough enough for love
Honey, Im tougher than the rest
Well, the road is dark
And its a thin thin line
But I want you to know Ill walk it for you any time
Maybe your other girlfriends
Couldnt pass the test
But if youre rough and ready for love
Honey, Im tougher than the rest
Well, it aint no secret
Ive been around a time or two
Well, I dont know baby maybe youve been around too
Well, theres one more dance
All you gotta do is say yes
Cause if youre looking for love
Honey, Im tougher than the rest
If youre rough and ready for love
Honey, Im tougher than the rest |
Intro to: I SOLD MY HEART TO THE JUNKMAN
...this is a very sad song, this next song were gonna do
The song is so sad that sometimes I have to leave the stage and
Cry in the backstage a little bit while Im singing this song. The reason
This song is so sad because this story happened to me just a little
While ago And it was, it was
A thing where I met this this beautiful girl, right? was she a
Beautiful girl as she was, she was nice and ... and I gave her my whole
Heart, every every bit, and she gave it back to me a month later all
Beat up, so bad and so terrible looking that
I Sold My Heart To The Junkman !
Now I can never fall in love again....
...song, this is a very sad song, this next
Song were gonna do
The song is so sad that sometimes I have to
Leave the stage and cry in the backstage a
Little bit while Im singing this song
The reason this song is so sad because this
Story happened to me just a little while ago
And it was, it was a thing where I met this
This beautiful girl, right? was she a
Beautiful girl as she was, she was nice and ...
And I gave her my whole heart, every every bit
And she gave it back to me a month later all
Beat up, so bad and
So terrible looking that
I Sold My Heart To The Junkman !
Now I can never fall in love again....
Well I gave my heart to you, open, so open and trusting
And you gave it back to me, it was broken up and busting
I sold my heart to the junkman
I sold my heart to the junkman
I can never fall in love again
Oh and I know you took my heart, you thought that you
Could use it
When you gave it back like a toy
You broken and bruised
I sold my heart to the junkman
I sold my heart to the junkman
I can never fall in love again
Now, it was a movie sad scene, I played my part
Ooh I wanted the happy ending, but all I got was
A broken heart
I sold my heart to the junkman I sold my
Heart to the junkman
I can never fall in love again
Now I swear it was a movie setting, baby I played my part
And all I wanted was a happy ending
But now Im left with a broken heart
I sold my heart to the junkman
I sold my heart to the junkman
I can never fall in love again
I gave my heart to you, so open and trusting
And you gave it back to me, it was broken up and busting
I sold my heart to the junkman
I sold my heart to the junkman
I can never fall in love again
Yes I did sold my heart to the junkman
Yes I did, yes I did
Sold my heart to the junkman
Now I can never fall in love again
Since I sold my heart to the junkman |
I was bruised and battered
I couldnt tell what I felt
I was unrecognizable to myself
I saw my reflection in a window
I didnt know my own face
Oh brother are you gonna leave me wastin away
On the streets of Philadelphia
On the streets of Philadelphia
I walked the avenue till my legs felt like stone
I heard the voices of friends vanished and gone
At night I could hear the blood in my veins
Black and whispering as the rain
On the streets of Philadelphia
On the streets of Philadelphia
Aint no angel gonna greet me
Its just you and me my friend
My clothes dont fit me no more
I walked a thousand miles
Just to slip this skin
The night has fallen, Im lyin awake
I can feel myself fading away
So receive me brother with your faithless kiss
Or will we leave each other alone like this
On the streets of Philadelphia
On the streets of Philadelphia
On the streets of Philadelphia
On the streets of Philadelphia
On the streets of Philadelphia
On the streets of Philadelphia |
I got a wife and kids in Baltimore, Jack
I went out for a ride and I never went back
Just like a river that dont know where its flowing
I took a wrong turn and I just kept going
Everybodys got a hungry heart
Everybodys got a hungry heart
Lay down your money and you play your part
Everybodys got a hungry heart
Well I, 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 in Kingstown again
Everybodys got a hungry heart
Everybodys got a hungry heart
Lay down your money and you play your part
Everybodys got a hungry heart
Everybody needs a place to rest
Everybody wants to have a home
Dont make no difference what nobody says
Aint nobody like to be alone
Everybodys got a hungry heart
Everybodys got a hungry heart
Lay down your money and you play your part
Everybodys got a hungry heart |
In the summer that I was baptized my father held me to his side
As they put me to the water he said how on that day I cried
We were prisoners of love a love in chains
He was standin in the door I was standin in the rain
With the same hot blood burning in our veins
Adam raised a Cain
All of the old faces ask you why youre back
They fit you with position and the keys to your daddys Cadillac
In the darkness of your room your mother calls you by your true name
You remember the faces the places the names
You know its never over its relentless as the rain
Adam raised a Cain
In the Bible Cain slew Abel and East of Eden he was cast
Youre born into this life paying for the sins of somebody elses past
Daddy worked his whole life for nothing but the pain
Now he walks these empty rooms looking for something to blame
You inherit the sins you inherit the flames
Adam raised a Cain
Lost but not forgotten from the dark heart of a dream
Adam raised a Cain |
We sit in the car outside your house youre quiet
I can feel the heat coming around
I go to put my arm around you
And you give me a look like Im way out of bounds
You let out one of your bored sighs
Well, lately when I look into your eyes
Im goin down, down, down, down
Im goin down, down, down, down
Im goin down, down, down, down
Im goin down, down, down, down
We get dressed up, and we go out, baby, for the night
We come home early burning, burning in some fire fight
Im sick and tired of you setting me up, yeah
Setting me up just to knock-a knock-a knock-a me down
Down, down, down
Im goin down, down, down, down
Im goin down, down, down, down
Im goin down, down, down, down
I pull you close now, baby, but when we kiss, I can feel a doubt
I remеmber back when we startеd
My kisses used to turn you inside out
I used to drive you to work in the morning
Friday night, Id drive you all around
You used to love to drive me wild, yeah
But lately you just get your kicks from just knocking me down
Down, down, down
Im goin down, down, down, down
Im goin down, down, down, down
Im goin down, down, down, down
Down, down, down, down
Down, down, down, down
Down, down, down, down
Down, down, down, down |
We said wed walk together, baby, come what may
That come the twilight should we lose our way
Its as if we were walking and a hand should slip free
You know, Ill wait for you
And should I fall behind, wait for me
We swore wed travel, darling, always side by side
Wed help each other stay in their stride
But each lovers steps, they fall so differently
You know, Ill wait for you
If I should fall behind, please, wait for me
If I should fall behind
Now everyone dreams of a lover lasting and true
Oh, but you and I know what this world can do
So lets make our steps clear so each other can see
You know, Ill wait for you
And if I should fall behind, wait for me
Now theres a beautiful river in the valley ahead
Underneath the old oaks bough where we soon shall be wed
But should we lose each other in the shadows of the evening trees
You know, Ill wait for you, should I fall behind
If I should fall behind, I know, I hope youll wait for me
You said wed walk together, baby, come what may
That come the twilight if we should ever lose our way
And as if were walking and a hand should slip free
You know, Ill always wait for you
And should I fall behind, wait for me |
One of the most iconic albums both of the 1970’s and of Bruce Springsteen’s career was his “Born To Run” album. This album portrays urban industrial life, building images both of the hardship and desperation of normal life, and of a promised freedom, found outside the city in empty highways and fast cars. This album and its representation of society echo many of the main tenets of transcendentalism, especially its aversion to society and desire to escape it. While this was most probably not intentional, the album’s message bears a remarkable similarity to the beliefs set forth in transcendentalist writing.
Bruce Springsteen’s “Born To Run” album, while it is not directly transcendentalist, is motivated by the same dissatisfaction with the society, and advocates for the same departure from society. While the album was new and creative in many regards, the format of the album itself is exceedingly unimaginative. Most vinyl albums would have between eight and ten songs, with four or five per side. “Born To Run,” with eight songs total, was no exception. With this arrangement, the first songs of each side are, respectively, Thunder Road and Born to Run. In this format, these two songs are given the most emphasized positions on the album. Perhaps because of this, they are the two songs most indicative of the album’s message.
Thunder Road describes the singer’s invitation to a woman, Mary, to drive away together on “thunder road.” In the song, society, and life within it, are described as broken, desperate, and decidedly unidealized. Mary, while she is described as “a vision” in the first lines, is later told, rather undiplomatically, “you ain’t a beauty, but, hey you’re all right.” Society waits for “a savior to rise from these streets,” but even Springsteen is “not a hero.” He and Mary have “one last chance to make it real” in a “town full of losers.” Society overall is portrayed as smothering, and hopeless, with escape to Thunder Road their last hope.
Standing out from Springsteen’s unrelentingly bleak landscape is Thunder Road, the only thing idealized or glorified in the song. However, Thunder Road itself is left ambiguous. If it is a place, it is never specified, but it is described as “two lanes that will take anywhere”. However, the focus is not on Thunder Road as a place, but rather as an action or a state of being. They are leaving, not to reach a specific place, but rather “to case the promised land.” His deliberate imprecision makes his offer even more appealing to the audience, who can create Thunder Road in their mind as they wish.
The other main song of the album is “Born to Run.” It gives the title to the album, and is one of Springsteen’s most famous songs. This song has a similar structure to “Thunder Road,” in that it describes the singer’s promise to a woman that they are “born to run” from all of the stifling influences of society. Society is described here as a “death trap,” that “rips the bones from your back.” He states that “ gotta get out while young.” Again, Springsteen promises that “we’re gonna get to that place/ where we really want to go.” Here he also chooses to make their final place of freedom as vague as possible. However, the song is still centered entirely around their escape from society.
Transcendentalism was a literary movement that arose in the late 1800’s as a reaction to industrialization and the cultural and environmental changes that followed the industrial revolution. It had two main components: First, an aversion to the structure and institution of society, and second, a desire to leave society altogether, continuously traveling away from society into nature to try to escape its influence. This album parallels the argument made by transcendentalism in both of these respects. In both of the songs discussed above, the song begins by portraying society as smothering and painful.
In these songs, society is described not only as unidealistic or unpleasant, but as deadly. In Thunder Road, they live in “a town full of losers,” while in Born to Run the town is a “suicide rap” that “rips the bones from your back.” Springsteen’s characters are trapped in a society that they find to be a “death trap,” and they look for escape through driving. Where transcendentalism looked for societal escape in nature, Springsteen looks for it in driving. Thunder Road is focused entirely on Springsteen’s offer of freedom, which he offers in the form of Thunder Road. They are driving “to case the promised land,” and to leave on “two lanes that will take anywhere.” Similarly, in Born to Run they ride at night through “mansions of glory,” and while the “highway is jammed with broken heroes,” they can escape because they are born to run.
Beyond just wishing to leave, their aversion to society is fundamental and unchanging- they are “born to run” until they reach “that place where really want to go.” Springsteen’s word choice in “born to run” implies that they are different from the rest of society in a basic and innate way. In addition, it implies that they will continue running forever. In Thunder Road as well, the focus is not on the location and nature of Thunder Road as a destination, but instead on its characteristics as a means or process of escape. This parallels the transcendental idea that escape from society is found in the continuing act of leaving society, rather than reaching a specific place. Here, as in transcendentalism, society must be escaped in order for the individual to be happy, but for Springsteen his means of escaping society lies in driving away, rather than withdrawing to nature.
One major criticism of transcendentalism is its sexism. Transcendentalism focuses on the manly virtues of the intrepid explorer of nature. Here the poet or speaker is obviously male, and has all the traits of traditional manly virtue. He brings the ideas of transcendentalism to those yet unenlightened, who are defined as those still stuck in the structure and institution of society. Women are left out of the image of the transcendentalist, and included only implicitly in those still trapped in society. This undercurrent is reflected in Springsteen’s portrayal of women in these two songs. In both songs Springsteen is the one with the knowledge of how to escape from society. The woman in both songs lacks character development, and occupies the more passive role- escape is offered to them, rather than vice versa. The image of the woman between the two songs is entirely interchangeable- the only difference between them is their names. All of the agency and wisdom is given to the speaker, while the woman’s role is simply to get into the passenger seat.
While the “Born To Run” album was not produced as a work of transcendentalism, it shows many parallels to their arguments. In Springsteen’s case, the reaction is not against the industrialization of society, but rather against the structure and hierarchy of society. Escape is found through the items of industrialization that the original transcendentalists were trying to escape. The reaction is not against the technology associated with industrialization, but instead with the social arrangements that follow industrialization. Throughout his music, Springsteen deliberately chooses to portray blue-collar, working class life. Choosing to portray this section of society builds his argument against the hierarchy of society. More broadly however, the parallels between the two arguments show that the impulse to escape society is still attractive to many within society. However, the choice to run to mechanical escapes rather than natural ones could reflect that society as a whole is no longer uncomfortable with the idea of industrialization- society as a whole likes its mechanical comforts too much to try to return to an age without industrial technology. This shows that it is the effects of the order and structure of society, rather than the effect of technology, that make individual members of society wish to leave. |
The screen door slams, Marys dress waves
Like a vision she dances across the porch as the radio plays
Roy Orbisons singing for the lonely
Hey, thats me and I want you only
Dont turn me home again, I just cant face myself alone again
Dont run back inside, darling, you know just what Im here for
So youre scared and youre thinking that maybe we aint that young anymore
Show a little faith, theres magic in the night
You aint a beauty, but hey, youre alright
Oh, and thats alright with me
You can hide neath your covers and study your pain
Make crosses from your lovers, throw roses in the rain
Waste your summer praying in vain
For a savior to rise from these streets
Well now, Im no hero, thats 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 nights busted 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, heavens waiting down on the tracks
Oh, come take my hand
Were 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 its late, we can make it if we run
Oh, Thunder Road, sit tight
Take hold, Thunder Road
Well, I got this guitar and Ive learned how to make it talk
And my cars out back if youre ready to take that long walk
From your front porch to my front seat
The doors open but the ride aint free
And I know youre lonely for words that I aint spoken
Tonight well be free, all the promises will 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 theyre gone on the wind
So Mary climb in
Its a town full of losers, Im pulling out of here to win |
Well, hurry up hurry up, here we go
Cmon lets hit the road
Here we go
Rockin all over the world
Well, giddy up giddy up and get away
Were goin crazy and were goin today
Here we go
Rockin all over the world
And I like it, I like it, I like it
Here we go
Rockin all over the world
Well, Im gonna tell your mama what youre gonna do
Hey come tonight, we got dancin shoes
Here we go
Rockin all over the world
And I like it, I like it... |
Get up stand up, stand up for your right
Get up stand up, dont give up the fight
Preacher man dont tell me
Heaven is under the earth
I know you dont know
What life is really worth
Its not all that glitters is gold
Half the story has never been told
So now you see the light
Stand up for your right
Get up stand up, stand up for your right
Get up stand up, dont give up the fight
Most people think
Great God will come from the sky
Take away everything
And make everybody feel high
But if you knew what life is worth
You could look for yours on earth
And now youve seen the light
Stand up for your rights
Get up stand up, stand up for your right
Get up stand up, dont give up the fight
Were sick and tired of your easing kissing
Gone to die and go to heaven in jesus name
We know and we understand
Almighty God is a living man
You can fool some people sometimes
But you cant fool all the people all the time
And weve seen the light
Were gonna stand up for our rights |
Every day here you come walking
I hold my tongue
I dont do much talking
You say youre happy and youre doin fine
Well go ahead, baby
I got plenty of time
Sad eyes never lie
Sad eyes never lie
Well for a while
Ive been watching you steady
Aint gonna move til youre good and ready
You show up and then you shy away
But I know pretty soon youll be walkin this way
Sad eyes never lie
Sad eyes never lie
Baby dont you know I dont care
Dont you know that Ive been there
Well if something in the air feels a little unkind
Dont worry darling, itll slip your mind
I know you think youd never be mine
Well thats okay, baby, I dont mind
That shy smiles sweet, thats a fact
Go ahead
I dont mind the act
Here you come all dressed up for a date
Well one more step and itll be too late
Blue blue rib-bon in your hair
Like youre so sure
Ill be standing there
Sad eyes never lie
Sad
Blue blue ribbon in your hair
Like youre so sure
Ill be standing there
Sad eyes never lie
Sad eyes never lie
Sad eyes never lie
Sad eyes never lie |
I had the carburetor cleaned and checked
With her line blown out shes hummin like a turbojet
Propped her up in the backyard on concrete blocks
For a new clutch plate and a new set of shocks
Took her down to the carwash check the plugs and points
Im goin out tonight, Im gonna rock this joint
Early north Jersey industrial skyline
Im a all set cobra jet creepin through the nighttime
Gotta find a gas station gotta find a payphone
This turnpike sure is spooky at night when youre all alone
Gotta hit the gas baby Im runnin late
This New Jersey in the mornin like a lunar landscape
The boss dont dig me so he put me on the nightshift
It takes me two hours to get back to where my baby lives
In the wee wee hours your mind gets hazy
Radio relay towers wont you lead me to my baby
Underneath the overpass trooper hits his party light switch
Goodnight good luck one two powershift
I met Wanda when she was employed
Behind the counter at the route 60 Bobs Big Boy
Fried Chicken on the front seat shes sittin in my lap
Were wipin our fingers on a Texaco roadmap
I remember Wanda up on scrap metal hill
With them big brown eyes that make your heart stand still
5 A.M. oil pressures sinkin fast
I make a pit stop wipe the windshield check the gas
Gotta call my baby on the telephone
Let her know that her daddys comin on home
Sit tight little mamma Im comin round
I got 3 more hours but Im coverin ground
Your eyes get itchy in the wee wee hours
Suns just a red ball risin over them refinery towers
Radios jammed up with gospel stations
Lost souls callin long distance salvation
Hey Mr. DJ wont ya hear my last prayer
Hey ho rock n roll deliver me from nowhere |
One soft infested summer me and Terry became friends
Trying in vain to breathe the fire we was born in
Catching rides to the outskirts tying faith between our teeth
Sleeping in that old abandoned beach house getting wasted in the heat
And hiding on the backstreets, hiding on the backstreets
With a love so hard and filled with defeat
Running for our lives at night on them backstreets
Slow dancing in the dark on the beach at Stocktons Wing
Where desperate lovers park we sat with the last of the Duke Street Kings
Huddled in our cars waiting for the bells that ring
In the deep heart of the night to set us loose from everything
To go running on the backstreets, running on the backstreets
We swore wed live forever on the backstreets we take it together
Endless juke joints and Valentino drag where dancers scraped the tears up off the street dressed down in rags
Running into the darkness, some hurt bad some really dying
At night sometimes it seemed you could hear the whole damn city crying
Blame it on the lies that killed us
Blame it on the truth that ran us down
You can blame it all on me Terry
It dont matter to me now
When the breakdown hit at midnight
There was nothing left to say but I hated him and I hated you when you went away
Laying here in the dark youre like an angel on my chest
Just another tramp of hearts crying tears of faithlessness
Remember all the movies, Terry, wed go see
Trying to learn how to walk like heroes we thought we had to be
And after all this time to find were just like all the rest
Stranded in the park and forced to confess
To hiding on the backstreets, hiding on the backstreets
We swore forever friends on the backstreets until the end
Hiding on the backstreets, hiding on the backstreets |
Ive been drinking, Ive been drinking
I get filthy when that liquor get into me
Ive been thinking, Ive been thinking
Why cant I keep my fingers off you, baby?
I want you, na na
Why cant I keep my fingers off you, baby?
I want you, na na
Cigars on ice, cigars on ice
Feeling like an animal with these cameras all in my grill
Flashing lights, flashing lights
You got me faded, faded, faded
Baby, I want you, na na
Cant keep your eyes off my fatty
Daddy, I want you, na na
Drunk in love, I want you
We woke up in the kitchen saying
How the hell did this shit happen? Oh baby
Drunk in love we be all night
Last thing I remember is our beautiful bodies grinding up in that club
Drunk in love
We be all night, love, love
We be all night, love, love
We be all night, and everything alright
No complaints for my body, so fluorescent under these lights, boy Im drinking
Walking in my lassemblage
Im rubbin on it, rub-rubbin
If you scared, call that reverend, boy Im drinking
Get my brain right
Armand de Brignac, gangster wife
Louis sheets, he sweat it out, like washrags, he wet it up , boy Im drinking
Im singin on the mic to my boy toys
Then I fill the tub up halfway then riding with my surfboard
Surfboard, surfboard
Grainin on that wood, grainin, grainin on that wood
Im swerving on that, swerving, swerving on that
Big body been servin all this
Swerve, surfin all in this good-good
We woke up in the kitchen saying
How the hell did this shit happen? Oh baby
Drunk in love we be all night
Last thing I remember is our beautiful bodies grinding up in that club
Drunk in love
We be all night, love, love
We be all night, love, love
That DUSSÉ is the shit if I do say so myself
If I do say so myself, if I do say so myself
Hold up, stumble all in the house
Time to back up all that mouth
That you had all in the car
Talkin about you the baddest bitch thus far
Talkin about you be reppin that Third
I wanna see all that shit that I heard
Know I sling Clint Eastwood
Hope you can handle this curve, uh
Foreplay in a foyer, fucked up my Warhol
Slid the panties right to the side
Aint got the time to take drawers off on sight
Catch a charge I might
Beat the box up, like Mike in 97, I bite
Im Ike Turner, turn up, baby, no I dont play
Now eat the cake, Anna Mae! Said, Eat the cake, Anna Mae! Im nice!
For yall to reach these heights
You gon need G3, 4, 5, 6 flights, sleep tight
We sex again in the morning
Your breasteses is my breakfast, we goin in
We be all night love, love
We be all night, love, love
Im never tired, never tired
I been sippin, thats the only thing, thats keepin me on fire, we on fire
Didnt mean to spill that liquor all on my attire
Ive been drinkin, watermelon
I want your body right here, daddy, I want you, right now
Cant keep your eyes off my fatty, daddy, I want you
We be all night, love, love
We be all night, love, love |
Well my mother rolled over and died in michigan
My dog got hit by a truck and I cried in michigan
I got drunk and puked up my guts in michigan
But Im alright, Im alright, Im alright, Im alright
And man Im riding here tonight in michigan
I ran a race and came in dead last in michigan
Yeah, I shot myself in the ass in michigan
I was lookin for someplace to feel free but they busted my for just
Being me in michigan
But alright, its alright, its alright, its alright
And baby Im riding high tonight in michigan
I ran into a little bad luck in michigan
I met a woman ? ? ?
Baby Im running late but you got here one hell of a state
In michigan
Oh michigan
This song has been played in a few towns in the us, each time the
Title has been changed and some of the lyrics as well |
Vibes man in the alley, play me your spitball serenade
And a deeper blue and youll be playing in your grave
Save your notes, spend them on your blues, boy
Help your darlin yearlin blues, boy
Hit the church note, ring it!
Vibes man sing the trashcan hear your junkman singing
Fish lady, dont you bait those tenement walls
Dont take corner boys because theyre too easy
You were born black and blue
You didnt have to wait for somebody to hit you
Take my arm, Ill move with you down Broadway
Take my arm, oh honey, Ill walk with you down Broadway
Im the young man and Ill be proud
And I can talk real loud
And Im from out of town, too
Wont you come home with me
Wont you come home with me
But no, cause she wont take a train
Oh, she wont take that train
Oh, she wont take a train
Oh, she wont take that train
She wont take a train
Oh, she wont take that train
Oh, she wont take a train
Oh, she wont take that train
You wont take the train
She wont take the train
Cause shes afraid those tracks are gonna slow her down
And when she turns around
Im gonna be gone like the ??????? |
Madman drummers bummers indians in the summer
With a teenage diplomat
In the dumps with the mumps as the adolescent pumps
His way into his hat
With a boulder on my shoulder feelin kinda older
We tripped the merry-go-round
With this very unpleasing sneezing and wheezing
The caliope crashed to the ground
She was blinded by the light
Wrapped up like a deuce another runner in the light
Blinded by the light
She got down but she never got tight
Gonna make it through the night
Some silcone sister with her manager mister
Told me you got what it takes
She said Ill turn you on sonny to something strong
Play the song with the funky break
And go-cart Mozart was checking out the weather chart
To see if it was safe outside
When little early-pearly came by in his curly-wurly
And asked me if I needed a ride
She was blinded by the light
Wrapped up like a deuce another runner in the light
Blinded by the light
She got down but she never got tight
Gonna make it through the night
She was blinded by the light
Wrapped up like a deuce another runner in the light
Blinded by the light
Wrapped up like a deuce another runner in the light
Blinded by the light
Wrapped up like a deuce another runner in the light
Blinded by the light
Blinded, blinded by the light
Blinded by the light
Blinded, blinded by the light
Blinded by the light
She was blinded by the light
Wrapped up like a deuce another runner in the light
Blinded by the light
Wrapped up like a deuce another runner in the light
Blinded by the light
Wrapped up like a deuce another runner in the light
Blinded by the light |
Well they blew up the chicken man in Philly last night
They blew up his house too
Down on the boardwalk theyre gettin ready for a hell of a fight
Gonna see what those racket boys can do
Now theres trouble busin in from outta state
And the D.A. cant get no relief
Gonna be a rumble out on the promenade
And the gamblin commissions hangin on by the skin of its teeth
Well now everything dies baby thats a fact
Maybe everything that dies someday comes back
Put your makeup on, fix your hair up pretty
And meet me tonight in Atlantic City
Well I got a job and tried to put my money away
But Ive got debts that no honest man can pay
So I drew what I had from the Central Trust
And I bought us two tickets on that Coast City bus
Well now everything dies baby thats a fact
Maybe everything that dies someday comes back
Put your makeup on, fix your hair up pretty
And meet me tonight in Atlantic City
Now our luck may have died and our love may be cold but
With you forever Ill stay
Were goin out where the sands turnin to gold
Put on your stockings, babe
Cause the nights getting cold
Now I been lookin for a job but its hard to find
Down here its just winners and losers
And dont get caught on the wrong side of that line
But Im tired of comin out on the losin end
So last night I met this guy and Im gonna do a little favor for him
Everything dies baby thats a fact
Maybe everything that dies someday comes back
Put your makeup on, fix your hair up pretty
And meet me tonight in Atlantic City |
Princess cards she sends me with her regards
Barroom eyes shine vacancy, to see her you gotta look hard
Wounded deep in battle, I stand stuffed like some soldier undaunted
To her Cheshire smile. Ill stand on file, she’s all I ever wanted
But you let your blue walls get in the way of these facts
Honey, get your carpetbaggers off my back
You wouldnt even give me time to cover my tracks
You said Heres your mirror and your ball and jacks
But they’re not what I came for, and Im sure you see that too
I came for you, for you, I came for you, but you did not need my urgency
I came for you, for you, I came for you, but your life was one long emergency
And your cloud line urges me, and my electric surges free
Crawl into my ambulance, your pulse is getting weak
Reveal yourself all now to me girl while youve got the strength to speak
`Cause theyre waiting for you at Bellevue with their oxygen masks
But I could give it all to you now if only you could ask
And dont call for your surgeon even he says its too late
Its not your lungs this time, its your heart that holds your fate
Don’t give me money, honey, I don’t want it back
You and your pony face and your union jack
Well take your local joker and teach him how to act
I swear I was never that way even when I really cracked
Didnt you think I knew that you were born with the power of a locomotive
Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound?
And your Chelsea suicide with no apparent motive
You could laugh and cry in a single sound
And your strength is devastating in the face of all these odds
Remember how I kept you waiting when it was my turn to be the god?
You were not quite half so proud when I found you broken on the beach
Remember how I poured salt on your tongue and hung just out of reach
And the band they played the homecoming theme as I caressed your cheek
They ragged, jagged melody she still clings to me like a leach
But that medal you wore on your chest always got in the way
Like a little girl with a traphy so soft to buy her way
We were both hitchhikers but you had your ear tuned to the roar
Of some metal-tempered engine on an alien, distant shore
So you, left to find a better reason than the one we were living for
And it’s not that nursery mouth I came back for
Its not the way youre stretched out on the floor
Cause I’ve broken all your windows and Ive rammed through all your doors
And who am I to ask you to lick my sores? And you should know thats true
I came for you, for you, I came for you, but you did not need my urgency
I came for you, for you, I came for you, but your life was one long emergency
And your cloud line urges me, and my electric surges free |
Hey little girl is your daddy home
Did he go away and leave you all alone
I got a bad desire
Im on fire
Tell me now baby is he good to you
Can he do to you the things that I do
I can take you higher
Im on fire
Sometimes its like someone tooh a knife baby
Edgy and dull and cut a six-inch valley
Through the middle of my soul
At night I wake up with the sheets soaking wet
And a freight train running through the
Middle of my head
Only you can cool my desire
Im on fire |
Lights out tonight trouble in the heartland
Got a head-on collision smashin in my guts man
Im caught in a crossfire that I dont understand
But theres one thing I know for sure I dont give a damn
For the same old played out scenes I dont give a damn
For just the in-betweens honey I want the heart I want the soul
I want control right now talk about a dream
Try to make it real you wake up in the night
With a fear so real spend your life waiting
For a moment that just dont come
Well dont waste your time waiting
Badlands you gotta live it every day
Let the broken hearts stand
As the price youve gotta pay
Well keep pushin till its understood
And these badlands start treating us good
Workin in the field till you get your back burned
Workin `neath the wheels till you get your facts learned
Baby I got my facts learned real good right now
You better get it straight darling
Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king
And a king aint satisfied till he rules everything
I wanna go out tonight, I wanna find out what I got
Now I believe in the love that you gave me
I believe in the faith that could save me
I believe in the hope and I pray that some day
It will raise me above these
Badlands...
For the ones who had a notion, a notion deep inside
That it aint no sin to be glad youre alive
I wanna find one face that aint looking through me
I wanna find one place, I wanna spit in the face of these
Badlands... |
At 16 she quit high school
To make a fortune in the promise land
Got a job behind the counter
Of an all-night hamburger stand
She wrote faithfully home to Mama:
Now Mama, dont you worry none
From small things, Mama, big things one day come
It was late one Friday
As he pulled in out of the dark
He was tall and handsome;
First she took his order; then she took his heart
They bought a house up on a hillside
Where little feet once had run
From small things, Mama, big things one day come
Good love is fleeting
Its sad but its true
But when your heart is bleeding
You dont wanna hear the news
She packed her bags; went to Wyoming with a real estate man
They drove down to Tampa in an El Dorado Grande
She writes home dear Mama, life is heaven in the sun
From small things, Mama, big things one day come
She shot him dead
On a sunny Florida road
But when they caught her asll she said was
She couldnt stand the way he drove
Back home, lonesome Johnny
Waits for his babys parole;
He sits high up on a hillside
Where the Wyoming river flows
At his feet, and almost grown now
Sits a daughter and a handsome son
From small things, Mama, big things one day come |
Well, we busted out of class
Had to get away from those fools
We learned more from a three-minute record, baby
Than we ever learned in school
Tonight I hear the neighborhood drummer sound
I can feel my heart begin to pound
You say youre tired and you just want to close your eyes
And follow your dreams down
Well we made a promise we swore wed always remember
No retreat, baby, no surrender
Like soldiers in the winters night with a vow to defend
No retreat, baby, no surrender
Well, now young faces grow sad and old
And hearts of fire grow cold
We swore blood brothers against the wind
Im ready to grow young again
And hear your sisters voice calling us home
Across the open yards
Well maybe well cut someplace of our own
With these drums and these guitars
Well we made a promise we swore wed always remember
No retreat, baby, no surrender
Like soldiers in the winters night with a vow to defend
No retreat, baby, no surrender
Now on the street tonight the lights grow dim
The walls of my room are closing in
Theres a war outside still raging
You say it aint ours anymore to win
I want to sleep beneath
Peaceful skies in my lovers bed
With a wide open country in my eyes
And these romantic dreams in my head
Well we made a promise we swore wed always remember
No retreat, baby, no surrender
Like soldiers in the winters night with a vow to defend
No retreat, baby, no surrender |
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 gangs assembled and picked a rendezvous for the night
Theyll meet `neath that giant Exxon sign that brings this fair city light
Man theres an opera out on the Turnpike
Theres a ballet being fought out in the alley
Until the local cops, Cherry Tops, rips this holy night
The streets 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 theyre 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 Rats 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 streets on fire in a real death waltz
Between flesh and whats fantasy and the poets down here
Dont 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 |
I got a sixty-nine Chevy with a 396
Fuelie heads and a Hurst on the floor
Shes 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 strips just right
I wanna blow `em off in my first heat
Summers here and the time is right
Were goin racin in the street
We take all the action we can meet
And we cover all the northeast state
When the strip shuts down we run `em in the street
From the fire roads to the interstate
Some guys they just give up living
And start dying little by little piece by piece
Some guys come home from work and wash up
Then go racin in the street
Tonight tonight the strips just right
I wanna blow `em all out of their seats
Calling out around the world
Were 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 theres wrinkles around my babys 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 daddys 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 were gonna ride to the sea
And wash these sins off our hands
Tonight tonight the highways bright
Out of our way mister you best keep
`Cause summers here and the time is right
Were goin racin in the street |
Got a wife and kids in Baltimore Jack
I went out for a ride and I never went back
Like a river that dont know where its flowing
I took a wrong turn and I just kept going
Everybodys got a hungry heart
Everybodys got a hungry heart
Lay down your money and you play your part
Everybodys got a hungry heart
I met her in a Kingstown bar
We fell in love I knew it had to end
We took what we had and we ripped it apart
Now here I am down in Kingstone again
Everybodys got a hungry heart...
Everybody needs a place to rest
Everybody wants to have a home
Dont make no difference what nobody says
Aint nobody like to be alone
Everybodys got a hungry heart... |
Theres so many rivers to cross
But I cant seem to find my way over
Wandering, Im lost
As I travel along the white cliffs of Dover
Many rivers to cross
And its only my will that keeps me alive
Ive been hurt, washed up for years
But I mearly survive because of my pride
And this loneliness wont leave me alone
Its such a drag to be on your own
My baby left, and she wouldnt say why
Now all I do is cry...
Ive got many rivers to cross
And its only my will that keeps me alive
Ive got so many rivers to cross
Oh, so many rivers to cross... |
The ragamuffin gunner is returnin home like a hungry runaway
He walks through town all alone
He must be from the fort he hears the high school girls say
His countrysides burnin with wolfman fairies dressed in drag for homicide
The hit and run, plead sanctuary, `neath a holy stone they hide
Theyre breakin beams and crosses with a spastics reelin perfection
Nuns run bald through Vatican halls pregnant, pleadin immaculate conception
And everybodys wrecked on Main Street from drinking unholy blood
Sticker smiles sweet as gunner breathes deep, his ankles caked in mud
And I said Hey gunner man thats quicksand, thats quicksand that aint mud
Have you thrown your senses to the war or did you lose them in the flood?
That pure American brother, dull-eyed and empty-faced
Races Sundays in Jersey in a Chevy stock super eight
He rides `er low on the hip, on the side hes got Bound For Glory in red, white and blue flash paint
He leans on the hood telling racing stories, the kids call him Jimmy The Saint
Well the blaze and noise boy, hes gunnin that bitch loaded to blastin point
He rides head first into a hurricane and disappears into a point
And theres nothin left but some blood where the body fell
That is, nothin left that you could sell
Just junk all across the horizon, a real highwaymans farewell
And he said Hey kid, you think thats oil? Man, that aint oil thats blood
I wonder what he was thinking when he hit that storm
Or was he just lost in the flood?
Eighth Avenue sailors in satin shirts whisper in the air
Some storefront incarnation of Maria, shes puttin on me the stare
And Bronxs best apostle stands with his hand on his own hard ware
Everything stops, you hear five, quick shots, the cops come up for air
And now the whiz-bang gang from uptown, theyre shootin up the street
And that cat from the Bronx starts lettin loose but he gets blown right off his feet
And some kid comes blastin round the corner but a cop puts him right away
He lays on the street holding his leg screaming something in Spanish
Still breathing when I walked away
And somebody said Hey man did you see that? His body hit the street with such a beautiful thud
I wonder what the dude was sayin or was he just lost in the flood?
Hey man, did you see that, those poor cats are sure messed up
I wonder what they were gettin into, or were they just lost in the flood? |
There is a rose in Spanish Harlem
A rose that grows in Spanish Harlem
Its never seen the sun
It only comes up when the moon is on the run
And all the stars are leaving
Well, it grows right in the street
Up between the concrete
But soft and sweet, and
There is a rose in Spanish Harlem
A rose that grows in Spanish Harlem
Oh, with eyes as black as coal
That reach down in my soul
And start a fire I cant control
I beg your pardon
Well, I want to pick that rose
And watch her as she grows
In my garden
There is a rose in Spanish Harlem
There is a rose in Spanish Harlem |
Seen a man standin over a dead dog lyin by the highway in a ditch
Hes lookin down kinda puzzled pokin that dog with a stick
Got his car door flung open hes standin out on Highway 31
Like if he stood there long enough that dogd get up and run
Struck me kinda funny seem kinda funny sir to me
At the end of every hard earned day people find some reason to believe
Now Mary Lou loved Johnny with a love mean and true
She said Baby Ill work for you every day and bring my money home to you
One day he up and left her and ever since that
She waits down at the end of that dirt road for young Johnny to come back
Struck me kinda funny seemed kind of funny sir to me
How at the end of every hard earned day people find some reason to believe
Take a baby to the river Kyle William they called him
Wash the baby in the water take away little Kyles sin
In a whitewash shotgun shack an old man passes away
Take his body to the graveyard and over him they pray
Lord wont you tell us tell us what does it mean
Still at the end of every hard earned day people find some reason to believe
Congregation gathers down by the riverside
Preacher stands with his Bible groom stands waitin for his bride
Congregation gone and the sun sets behind a weepin willow tree
Groom stands alone and watches the river rush on so effortlessly
Lord and hes wonderin where can his baby be
Still at the end of every hard earned day people find some reason to believe |
I get up in the evening
And I aint got nothing to say
I come home in the morning
I go to bed feeling the same way
I aint nothing but tired
Oh, Im just tired and bored with myself
Hey there baby, I could use just a little help
You cant start a fire
You cant start a fire without a spark
This guns for hire
Even if were just dancing in the dark
Message keeps getting clearer
Radios on and Im moving round the place
I check my look in the mirror
I wanna change my clothes, my hair, my face
Man, I aint getting nowhere
Im just living in a dump like this
Theres something happening somewhere
Baby, I just know that there is
You cant start a fire
You cant start a fire without a spark
This guns for hire
Even if were just dancing in the dark
You sit around getting older
Theres a joke here somewhere and its on me
Ill shake this world off my shoulders
Come on, baby, the laughs on me
Stay on the streets of this town
And theyll be carving you up all right
They say you gotta stay hungry
Hey, baby, Im just about starving tonight
Im dying for some action
Im sick of sitting round here trying to write this book
I need a love reaction
Come on now, baby, gimme just one look
You cant start a fire
Sitting round crying over a broken heart
This guns for hire
Even if were just dancing in the dark
You cant start a fire
Worrying about your little world falling apart
This guns for hire
Even if were just dancing in the dark
Even if were just dancing in the dark
Even if were just dancing in the dark
Even if were just dancing in the dark
Hey, baby |
Sick at heart and lonely
Deep in dark despair
Thinking one thought only
Where is she, tell me where
And if she says to you
She dont love me
Just give here my message
Tell her of my plea
And I know, if she had me back again
I would never make her sad
I got a heart......full of soul
And I know....
Shes been gone such a long time
Longer than I can bear
But if she says she wants me
Tell her that Ill be there
And if she says to you
She dont love me
Just give her my message
Tell her my plea
And I know...... |
Are you ready horns? Im gonna call on you right now! A one, two, three
We are climbing Jacobs ladder
We are climbing Jacobs ladder
We are climbing Jacobs ladder
We are brothers and sisters, all
Come on!
Every new rung just, just makes us stronger
Every new rung just, just makes us stronger
Every new rung just, just makes us stronger
We are brothers and sisters, all
Every rung goes higher and higher
Every rung goes higher and higher
Every rung goes higher and higher
We are brothers and sisters, all
Sister Soozie!
We are climbing Jacobs ladder
We are climbing Jacobs ladder
We are climbing Jacobs ladder
We are brothers and sisters, and all
Bring it up!
We are climbing higher and higher
Yeah, we are climbing higher and higher
We are climbing higher and higher
We are brothers and sisters, all
Stay high!
come on!
Yes, we are climbing Jacobs ladder
We are climbing Jacobs ladder
We are brothers, sisters, and all
We are climbing higher and higher
We are climbing higher and higher
We are climbing higher and higher
We are brothers and sisters, all
A one, two three |
Shes a broken winged angel
Refugee from things her mama knew
And shes done everything the Bible say not to do
Well I dont know if she believes in jesus
The good book, or even satan you see
Im just trying to get her to believe in me
Oh, cause when I see her face
No matter where I am Im in the right place
And the girls I left behind
Oh, they never satisfied me, its so true
But baby, baby, you do
Shes the belle of eighth street
High societys midnight vamp
Oh, shes my queen and Im her tramp
Yes shes a free falling flyer
And she flows whichever way that the wind blows
And shes the only woman I never knew
Who could teach me more about me, bind me in chains
And still let me be free
My heart swells up inside
Starts beating like Im gonna die
And my body breaks in pain
As she falls down on me like the rain
Its only her and my songs that keep me from going insane
And I guess Im one of those people
Who measures love in pain
You see, I never had too much personal success
And to me theres nothing sweeter
Than a teardrop of rain
I just love that feeling of sadness
Oh and it worries me so ...
Shes my west side angel
She looks so funky in her hollywood wing
And she knows how I stumble when I talk
So she says: dont talk, babe, just sing
And I have seen her body in candle glow
In the deep heart of the night
When you finally let loose of everything
Oh, and she loves me like such a good woman
And still, oh, shes just a sweet young thing
And I know this might sound crazy
Or just the words of a young fool
But I swear Id be on the floor
And she ever walked out the door
I swear Id wish that she would shoot me first
And I know that sounds insane but sometimes I believe its true
And thats what scares me worst
cause I dance for her
Take any chance for her
And I play for her
Lord God knows I play for her
And I need for her
And I bleed for her |
Last night I was out driving
Coming home at the end of a working day
Driving alone in the drizzling rain
On a deserted stretch of a county two-lane
I came upon a wreck on the highway
Well there was blood and glass all over
And there was nobody there but me
And as the rain came down so hard and cold
I seen a young man lying by the side of the road
He said, Mister, wont you help me please?
An ambulance finally came and took him to Riverside
I watched as they drove him away
And I thought of a girlfriend or a young wife
And a state trooper knocking in the middle of the night
To say your baby died in a wreck on the highway
Sometimes I sit up in the darkness
And I watch my baby as she sleeps
Then I climb in bed and I hold her tight
I just lie there awake in the middle of the night
And I think about a wreck on the highway
Id like to thank Bruce Springsteen |
Well Papa go to bed now its getting late
Nothing we can say is gonna change anything now
Ill be leaving in the morning from St. Marys Gate
We wouldnt change this thing even if we could somehow
`Cause the darkness of this house has got the best of us
Theres a darkness in this town thats got us too
But they cant touch me now and you cant touch me now
They aint gonna do to me what I watched them do to you
So say goodbye its Independence Day
Its Independence Day all down the line
Just say goodbye its Independence Day
Its Independence Day this time
Now I dont know what it always was with us
We chose the words and yeah we drew the lines
There was just no way this house could hold the two of us
I guess that we were just too much of the same kind
Well say goodbye its Independence Day
All boys must run away come Independence Day
So say goodbye its Independence Day
All men must make their way come Independence Day
Now the rooms are all empty down at Frankies joint
And the highway shes deserted down to Breakers Point
Theres a lot of people leaving town now
Leaving their friends their homes
At night they walk that dark and dusty highway all alone
Well Papa go to bed now its getting late
Nothing we can say can change anything now
Because theres just different people coming down here now
And they see things in different ways
And soon everything weve known will just be swept away
So say goodbye its Independence Day
Papa now I know the things you wanted that you could not say
But wont you just say goodbye its Independence Day
I swear I never meant to take those things away |
Paul and Silas bound in jail
Had no money to go their bail
Keep your eyes on the prize, hold on
Paul and Silas thought they were lost
Dungeon shook and the chains come off
Keep your eyes on the prize, hold on
Freedoms name is mighty sweet
And soon were gonna meet
Keep your eyes on the prize, hold on
I got my hand on the gospel plow
Wont take nothing for my journey now
Keep your eyes on the prize, hold on
Hold on, hold on
Keep your eyes on the prize, hold on
The only chain that a man can stand
Is the chain of hand in hand
Keep your eyes on the prize, hold on
Im gonna board that big greyhound
Carry my love from town to town
Keep your eyes on the prize, hold on
Hold on, hold on
Keep your eyes on the prize, hold on
The only thing I did was wrong
Was staying in the wilderness too long
Keep your eyes on the prize, hold on
The one thing we did was right
Was the day we started to fight
Keep your eyes on the prize, hold on
Hold on, hold on
Keep your eyes on the prize, hold on
Hold on , hold on
Keep your eyes on the prize, hold on
Hold on , hold on
Keep your eyes on the prize, hold on
Hold on, hold on
Keep your eyes on the prize, hold on)
Aint been to heaven but I been told
Streets up there are paved with gold
Mr. Marc Anthony Thompson on the vocals, and the guitar! |
When I get home from my job I turn on my T.V
But I cant keep my mind on the show
When I lay down at night, oh I cant get no sleep
So I turn on my radio
But the only sound I hear is you whisperin in my ear
The words that you used to say
Now my days grow longer
Cause my love grows stronger
And the fever gets worse
And Ive got the fever for this girl
Got the fever, oh Ive got the fever
Nothing that a po boy can do
When hes got the fever for this girl
Got the fever, oh Ive got the fever
Left this little boy blue
I can remember comin home
See you standin at the stove
With the dishes on the table
Dinner ready to go
Well maybe go out to a movie show
Something that you like to see
Well now you are my sun in the morning
And my moon at night
I think about you baby
I feel alright
Now my days grow longer
Cause my love grows stronger
And the fever gets worse
And Ive got the fever for this girl
Got the fever, oh Ive got the fever
Nothing that a po boy can do
When hes got the fever for this girl
Got the fever, oh Ive got the fever
Left this little boy blue |
BORDER GUARD
Bless on the border guard so cold and alone
Bless on the child so far from his home
Pity the border guard who feels like a woman to cry
Pity the border guard whose life guards the line
A light is a funny thing
A border sometime
A light is a hurting thing
Use only to divine
I pity the refugee whose home lies behind
I pity the border guard and his border line
He keeps his machine gun nose pointed to the sky
The night time is his master
And you know the dawn light brings his captor
And I pity the border guard as he walks, well as he walks his own
The echo of his foot steps is all a friend would know
A home is a funny thing
You get tied to the earth
Like a love is a crazy thing
In the eye of a child
I Pity the border guard whose soul taken captive at birth
May the sweet brace of his grief and show him how to be so wild
Yes a light is a funny thing
A border sometimes
A light is a hurting thing
Used only to divine
He who made the open plains and the world one and all
Could not have conceived with a barbed wire brain
For the building of the wall and at night I keep my fire bright
So that I may be safe when I sleep
Till I wake on that wonderful morning with no more light well ooh |
The screen door slams, Marys dress waves
Like a vision she dances across the porch as the radio plays
Roy Orbison singing for the lonely
Hey, thats me and I want you only
Dont turn me home again, I just cant face myself alone again
Dont run back inside, darling, you know just what Im here for
So youre scared and youre thinking that maybe we aint that young anymore
Show a little faith, theres magic in the night
You aint a beauty but, hey, youre alright
Oh, and thats alright with me
You can hide neath your covers and study your pain
Make crosses from your lovers, throw roses in the rain
Waste your summer praying in vain
For a savior to rise from these streets
Well now, I aint no hero, thats 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 nights 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, heavens waiting on down the tracks
Oh oh, come take my hand
Were riding out tonight to case the promised land
Oh oh oh oh, Thunder Road
Oh, Thunder Road, oh, Thunder Road
Lying out there like a killer in the sun
Hey, I know its late, we can make it if we run
Oh oh oh oh, Thunder Road
Sit tight, take hold, Thunder Road
Well, I got this guitar and I learned how to make it talk
And my cars out back if youre ready to take that long walk
From your front porch to my front seat
The doors open but the ride aint free
And I know youre lonely for words that I aint spoken
But tonight well be free, all the promisesll 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 rolling on
But when you get to the porch, theyre gone on the wind
So Mary, climb in
Its a town full of losers, Im pulling out of here to win |
In my dream, my love was lost
I lived by luck and faith
I carried you inside of me
Prayed it wouldnt be too late
Now Im standing on this empty road
Where nothing moves but the wind
Honey, I just want to be
Back in your arms
Back in your arms again
Back in your arms
Back in your arms again
You said once I was your treasure
And I saw your face in every star
The promises we make at night
Oh, thats all they are
Unless we fill them with faith and love
Theyre as empty as the howling wind
Now, darling, I just want to be
Back in your arms
Back in your arms again
Back in your arms
Back in your arms again
You came to me with love and kindness
But all my life, Ive been a prisoner of my own blindness
I met you with indifference
And I dont know why
Now I wake from my dream
I wake from my dream to this world
Where all this shadow and darkness is
And a dark sky unfurls
And all the love Ive thrown away and lost
Honey, Im longing for again
Now theres nothing I wouldnt do if I could be
Back in your arms
Back in your arms again, yeah
Back in your arms, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Back in your arms, oh-oh-oh |
Well you flash your tongue like diamonds
You tied me to your wildcat schemes
And you forced me into a power dive
And left your mark on my jeans
And I hear the word on your soldiers
And I hear the word on jesus too
I heard the word on the country
But I never heard the word on you
Your love was like a machine gun
I wore your bugle in my belt
And I was your kid glove lover
All the cards were yours
You always dealt
And I stood before your soapbox
Noiseless and shoeless
Playing my pantry boys games
You had your hands raised up to the sky
Shouting oh sunday deity
Oh big daddy longlegs
Come down and bless your sister please
You were shoutin orders about the construction
Going on down the highway
You were namin names, blamin blames
And you blamed me
You wore your heart like a challenge
Far and apart for anyone who came
Open and wide like the river
With rocks on both sides to keep the water tame
But I heard the word on your high tides
And I felt the pain when I tried
To rip your flood gates wide
And pull your body on over to my side
Where we both could hide
But you heard about the freedom ride
And you heard about the highway crew
Who could cut the light a little bit faster than you
So you left me just your shoes
And I hear the word on jesus
And I hear the word on his marching troop
And I hear the word on the country
But I never heard the word on you |
Your scrapbooks filled with pictures
Of all your leading men
Oh baby dont put my picture
In there with them
Oh dont make us some little girls dream
That can not ever really ever come true
Baby dont do it to me
I wont do it to you
You see all the romantic movies
You dream and take the boys home
But when the action fades girl
Youre left there all alone
----------?
----------?
----------?
---------to see the late late show
----------?
--------do it?
--------to him to her?
---make you cry like you do girl
Now every night you go out looking
For true loves satisfaction
But in the morning you always end up
Settling for just lights, camera, action
In another cameo role
With some bit play youre befriending
Youre gonna go broken hearted
Looking for that happy ending
Well girl youre gonna youre gonna end up
Just another lonely ticket sold
Crying alone in the theater
At the end of the show
Dont make us some little girls dream
That can not ever really ever come true
Baby dont do it to me
I wont do it to you
Yeah, i wont do it to you |
Take me now, baby, here as I am
Hold me close, try and understand
Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe
Love is a banquet on which we feed
Come on now, try and understand
The way I feel when Im in your hands
Take my hand, come under cover
They cant hurt you now, cant hurt you now, cant hurt you now
Because the night belongs to lovers
Because the night belongs to lust
Because the night belongs to lovers
Because the night belongs to us
Because the night belongs to lovers
Because the night belongs to lust
Because the night belongs to lovers
Because the night belongs to us
Because the night
Because the night belongs to us
Have a doubt, baby, when Im alone
Love is a ring; a telephone
Love is an angel, disguised as lust
Here in our beds til the morning comes
Come on now, try and understand
The way I feel, under your command
Take my hand, as the sun descends
They cant touch you now, cant touch you now, cant touch you now
Because the night belongs to lovers
Because the night belongs to lust
Because the night belongs to lovers
Because the night belongs to us
Because the night belongs to lovers
Because the night belongs to lust
Because the night belongs to lovers
Because the night belongs to us
Because the night belongs to us |
Every day I cant believe I wanna be around you
Gotta gotta gotta gotta be, I wanna be with you
What I want ... baby, ...
But god, I just cant stop and let you go
And I cant leave you
Tonight!
All I wanna do is kiss your lips
Tonight!
All I ...fingertips
Tonight!
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Tonight tonight tonight tonight tonight
Woah, tonight
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Come on come on come on come back, baby, ...
And Ive got ...
Well I ...
When I ...
And I...
Tonight!
Tonight!
All I wanna do is kiss your lips
Tonight!
Tonight!
Tonight tonight tonight tonight tonight
Woah, tonight
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Tonight!
Tonight!
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Tonight tonight tonight tonight tonight
Tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight |
Well, they blew up the Chicken Man in Philly last night
Now they blew up his house, too
Down on the boardwalk theyre getting ready for a fight
Gonna see what them racket boys can do
Now theres trouble busting in from out of state
And the D.A. cant get no relief
Gonna be a rumble out on the promenade
And the gambling commissioners hanging by the skin of his teeth
Now, baby, everything dies, thats a fact
Baby, everything that dies someday comes back
Put your makeup on, fix your hair up pretty
Meet me tonight in Atlantic City
Well, I got a job and tried to put money away
But I got debts no honest man can pay
So I drew what I had from the Central Trust
Bought us two tickets on that Coast City bus
Now, baby, everything dies, honey, thats a fact
Maybe everything that dies someday comes back
Put your makeup on, fix your hair up pretty
Meet me tonight in Atlantic City
Oh, meet me tonight in Atlantic City
Well, our luck might have died and our love may be cold
But with you forever Ill stay
Were going out where the sands turning to gold
Put your stockings on, baby, cause the nights getting cold
Maybe everything dies, baby, thats a fact
Maybe everything that dies someday comes back
Now I been looking for a job but its hard to find
Down here, its just winners and losers, dont get caught on the wrong side of the line
Well, Im tired of coming out on the losing end
So, honey, last night I met this guy, Im gonna do a little favor for him
Now, baby, everything dies, thats a fact
Maybe everything that dies someday comes back
Put your makeup on, fix your hair up pretty
Meet me tonight in Atlantic City
Meet me tonight in Atlantic City
Everything that dies someday comes back
Maybe, maybe, maybe
Maybe, maybe, maybe
Everything that dies someday comes back
Maybe, maybe, maybe
Everything that dies someday comes back
Meet me tonight
Oh, meet me tonight in Atlantic City
Someday, well come back
Meet me tonight
Oh, meet me tonight in Atlantic City
Oh, meet me tonight in Atlantic City
... |
Well, mister, you see that girl walking down the street
That little girl, she used to turn em on
Wild kisses and a heart thats oh-so-sweet
In the middle of the night
And now, wild kisses wouldnt seem to settle down
Afraid to get my feet back on the ground
...
Im gonna meet her tonight
And now my wild worlds tumblin and dancin? ? ?
...true romancin
...
Listen to me, baby
I wanna celebrate my dream, girl
I don wan no lonely dream, babe
I wanna give everything to my little baby tonight
I gotta... on the track
What she gives me -my god- she break my back
...
...
Wild kisses in the morning
Wendy gives me a ... to go on?
...
And now... like dancin
...true romancin
Why wont you... heart.. to try?
Listen to me, baby
I want to ..., girl
I want to...
I want to...
I dont want...
...
Listen to my heart, girl
I know...
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Mister, see that girl walkin down the street
Well that girl, she used to drive me wild
Wild kisses...
...meet her tonight
Wild kisses and yaddas |
Theres a place out on the edge of town, sir
Risin above the factories and the fields
Now, ever since I was a child, I can remember
That mansion on the hill
In the day you can see the children playing
On the road that leads to those gates of hardened steel
Steel gates that completely surround, sir
The mansion on the hill
At night my daddyd take me and wed ride
Through the streets of a town so silent and still
Park on a back road along the highway side
Look up at that mansion on the hill
In the summer all the lights would shine
Thered be music playin, people laughin all the time
Me and my sister, wed hide out in the tall cornfields
Sit and listen to the mansion on the hill
Tonight down here in Linden Town
I watch the cars rushin by, home from the mill
Theres a beautiful full moon rising
Above the mansion on the hill |
40 years ago, I was hustling with the E Street Band to Providence, Rhode Island for the first show of the Born To Run tour. That morning, we’d just completed the last of the mixes in New York, and exhausted but thankful to be out of the studio, we headed north, ready — we thought — for whatever this music was going to bring us. It brought us you and a conversation that continues to this day. I want to thank all the fans for making this music theirs and for celebrating this very special day with us! Oh… and happy birthday Born To Run!
Bruce |
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 out on Highway 9
Chrome wheeled, fuel injected and steppin out over the line
Oh, baby this town rips the bones from your back
Its a death trap, its a suicide rap
We gotta get out while were young
`Cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run
Baby 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 can break this trap
Well run till we drop, baby well never go back
Oh, will you walk with me out on the wire?
`Cause baby Im just a scared and lonely rider
But I gotta find out how it feels
I want to know if love is wild, I want to know if love is real
Oh can you show me?
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, baby, on the streets tonight
In an everlasting kiss
The highways jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive
Everybodys out on the run tonight but theres no place left to hide
Together, baby, we can live with the sadness
Ill love you with all the madness in my soul
Oh, someday boy, I dont know when, were gonna get to that place
Where we really want to go and well walk out in the sun
But till then tramps like us - baby we were born to run
Tramps like us, baby we were born to run
Baby we were born to run
Baby we were born to run
Baby we were born to run
Baby we were born to run |
I got lumps in my throat
When I saw her comin down the aisle
I got the wiggles in my knees
When she looked at me and sweetly smiled
Well there she is again
Standin over by the record machine
Well she looks like a model
On the cover of a magazine
But shes too cute
To be a minute over seventeen
Meanwhile I was thinkin
Well if shes in the mood
No need to break it
I got the chance and I oughta take it
If she can dance we can make it
Cmon queenie lets shake it
I said go, go, go, little queenie
I said go, go, go, little queenie
I said go, go, go, little queenie
Wont someone tell me
Whos the queen standin over by the record machine
Well she looks like a model
On the cover of a magazine
But shes too cute
To be a minute over seventeen
I said go, go, go, little queenie
I said go, go, go, little queenie
I said go, go, go, little queenie
Meanwhile, I was still thinkin, hmmmm
Well if its a slow one
Well omit it
If its a rocker, then well get it
If its a good one, shell admit it
Cmon queenie, lets get with it
I said go, go, go, little queenie
I said go, go, go, little queenie
I said go, go, go, little queenie
I said go, go, go, little queenie
I said go, go, go, little queenie
I said go, go, go, little queenie... |
I cant get no satisfaction
I cant get no satisfaction
Cause I try and I try and I try and I try
I cant get no, I cant get no
When Im driving in my car
And that man comes on the radio
And hes telling me more and more
About some useless information
Supposed to fire my imagination
I cant get no - oh no, no, no!
Hey hey hey! Thats what I say!
I cant get no satisfaction
I cant get no satisfaction
Cause I try and I try and I try and I try
I cant get no, I cant get no
When Im watching my TV
And that man comes on to tell me
How white my shirts can be
Well he cant be a man cause he doesnt smoke
The same cigarettes as me
I cant get no, oh no no no
Hey hey hey, thats what I say
I cant get no satisfaction
I cant get no girl reaction
Cause I try and I try and I try and I try
I cant get no, I cant get no
When Im riding round the world
And Im doing this and Im signing that
And Im trying to make some girl
Who tells me baby, better come back, maybe next week
Cause you see, Im on a losing streak
I cant get no, oh no no no
Hey hey hey! Thats what I say! |
In the day we sweat it out in the streets of a runaway American dream
At night we ride through mansions of glory in suicide machines
Sprung from cages out on highway 9
Chrome wheeled, fuel injected and steppin out over the line
Baby this town rips the bones from your back
Its a death trap, its a suicide rap
We gotta get out while were 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
Well run till we drop, baby well never go back
Will you walk with me out on the wire
`Cause baby Im just a scared and lonely rider
But I gotta find out how it feels
I want to know if love is wild, girl I want to know if love is real
Beyond the Palace hemi-powered drones scream down the boulevard
The girls comb their hair in rearview mirrors
And the boys try to look so hard
The amusement park rises bold and stark
Kids are huddled on the beach in a mist
I wanna die with you Wendy on the streets tonight
In an everlasting kiss
The highways jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive
Everybodys out on the run tonight but theres no place left to hide
Together Wendy well live with the sadness
Ill love you with all the madness in my soul
Someday girl I dont know when were gonna get to that place
Where we really want to go and well walk in the sun
But till then tramps like us baby we were born to run |
I was bruised and battered, couldnt tell what I felt
I was unrecognizable even to myself
Saw my reflection in a window, I didnt know my own face
Oh, brother, youre gonna leave me wasting away
On the streets of Philadelphia
I walked the avenue til my legs felt like stone
I heard the voices of my friends vanished and gone
At night I hear the blood coursing through my veins
Just as black and whispering as a cold, cold rain
On the streets of Philadelphia
Oh, my, my, my, my
Aint no angel gonna greet me
Its just you and I, my friend
Oh, my clothes dont even fit me no more
I walked a thousand miles just trying to slip this skin, woh-woh
Take it the night has fallen, Im still lying here awake
And I can feel myself slowly slipping away
Oh, receive me, my brother, with your faithless kiss
Or else were gonna leave each other all alone right here like this
On the streets of Philadelphia
Ooh, my, my, my, my
On the streets of Philadelphia
In the City of Brotherly Love
Ooh, my, my, my, my
On the streets of Philadelphia
Ooh, my, my, my
Ooh, my, my, my |
Theres a place out on the edge of town, sir
Rising above the factories and the fields
Now, ever since I was a child I can remember
That mansion on the hill
In the day, you can see the children playing
On the road that leads to those gates of hardened steel
Steel gates that completely surround, sir
The mansion on the hill
At night, my daddyd take me and wed ride
Through the streets of a town so silent and still
Park on a back road along the highway side
Look up at that mansion on the hill
In the summer, all the lights would shine
Thered be music playing, people laughing all the time
Me and my sister wed hide out in the tall corn fields
Sit and listen to the mansion on the hill
Tonight, down here in Linden town
I watch the cars rushing by home from the mill
Theres a beautiful full moon rising
Above the mansion on the hill |
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 Im just killing time
Working all day in my daddy’s garage
Driving all night chasing some mirage
Pretty soon little girl Im gonna take charge
The dogs on Main Street howl `cause they understand
If I could take one moment into my hands
Mister I aint a boy no I’m a man
And I believe in a promised land
Ive done my best to live the right way
I get up every morning and go to work each day
But your eyes go blind and your blood runs cold
Sometimes I feel so weak I just want to explode
Explode and tear this town apart
Take a knife and cut this pain from my heart
Find somebody itching for something to star
Theres a dark cloud rising from the desert floor
I packed my bags and Im heading straight into the storm
Gonna be a twister to blow everything down
That aint 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 |
You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain
Too much love drives a man insane
You broke my will, oh what a thrill
Goodness gracious great balls of fire
I learned to love all of Hollywood money
You came along and you moved me honey
I changed my mind, looking fine
Goodness gracious great balls of fire
You kissed me baby, woo, it feels good
Hold me baby, learn to let me love you like a lover should
Youre fine, so kind
Im a nervous world that your mine mine mine mine
I cut my nails and I twiddle my thumbs
Im really nervous but it sure is fun
Come on baby, you drive me crazy
Goodness gracious great balls of fire
Well kiss me baby, woo-oooooo, it feels good
Hold me baby
I want to love you like a lover should
Youre fine, so kind
I got this world that your mine mine mine mine
I cut my nails and I twiddle my thumbs
Im real nervous cause it sure is fun
Come on baby, you drive me crazy
Goodness gracious great balls of fire |
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 its gone gone gone
Well theres 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 dont know where Im gonna sleep tonight
Parked in the lumberyard freezin our asses off
My kids in the back seat got a graveyard cough
Well Im 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 dont look ahead you dont look back
How many times can you get up after youve been hit?
Well I swear if I could spare the spit
Id lay one on your shiny chrome
And send you on your way back home
So if youre 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
Youre better off buyin a shotgun dead off the rack
You aint gonna find nothin down here friend
Except seeds blowin up the highway in the south wind
Movin on movin on its gone gone its all gone |
Crazy Janey and her mission man were back in the alley tradin hands
`Long came Wild Billy with his friend G-man all duded up for Saturday night
Billy slammed on his coaster brakes and said anybody wanna go on up to Greasy Lake
Its about a mile down on the dark side of Route 88
I got a bottle of rose so lets try it
Well pick up Hazy Davy and Killer Joe and Ill take you all out to where the gypsy angels go
Theyre built like light
And they dance like spirits in the night in the night
Oh you dont know what they can do to you
Spirits in the night, in the night
Stand up now and let it shoot through you
Well now Wild Billy was a crazy cat and he shook some dust out of his coonskin cap
He said Trust some of this itll show you where youre at or at least itll
Help you really feel it
By the time we made it up to Greasy Lake I had my head out the window and Janeys fingers in the cake
I think I really dug her `cause I was too loose to fake
I said Im hurt she said Honey let me heal it
And we danced all night to a soul fairy band
And she kissed me just right like only a lonely angel can
She felt just right just like as sweet as a spirit in the night
In the night baby dont know what she do to you
Spirits in the night, in the night
Stand up now and let her shoot right through you
Now the night grew bright and the stars threw light in Billy and Davy
Dancin in the moonlight
We were down near the water in a stone mud fight
Killer Joed passed out on the lawn
Well Hazy Davy got really hurt he crawled into the lake in just his socks and a shirt
Me and Crazy Janey were makin love in the dirt singin our birthday songs
Janey said Hey little brother dont you think its time now we go
So we closed our eyes and said goodbye to gypsy angel row felt just right
Together we moved like spirits in the night, all night
Baby dont know what it do to you
Spirits in the night, all night
Stand up now and let it shoot right through you |
Oh Jesse, you better start thinkin about saving your neck
Oh Jesse, you put on that leather jacket like you put on respect
You got cleats on your boots and a woman who shoots everytime you shuffle out the stage door
And darling Jesse, do you know what its all for?
Ah Jesse, your manager brought by them eight by ten glossies of your band
Oh Jesse, he says you wear cross around your neck and come on with nails in your hands
With your insides showing and your New York band blowin them old Chicago blues
Ah Jesse, cant you see youre the one Jesse
Ah Sonny, this time its you
Well Jesse, your child is slobbering all over your pants
And Jesse, your wife has fallen into a trance
Shes got eyes that tell no lies
Shes seen so many wars
Ah be a good boy Jesse, tell her she dont have to look no more
Well Jesse, he knows all the tricks to get the crowd reeling
Oh and Jesse, ya he rocks em with that old soul feeling
And he walks off the stage in a self-adoring haze
And gets shoved right out the door
Whoa Jesse, cant you see now boy that thats what its all about Jesse
Not even time to do that old played out encore
Whoa Jesse |
Well, you may think Im foolish
For the foolish things I do
You may wonder how come I love you
When you get on my nerves like you do
Well, baby, you know you bug me
There aint no secret bout that
Come on over here and hug me
Baby, Ill spill the facts
Well, honey, it aint your money
Cause, baby, I got plenty of that
I love you for your Pink Cadillac
Crushed velvet seats
Riding in the back
Oozing down the street
Waving to the girls
Feeling out of sight
Spending all my money on a Saturday night
Honey, I just wonder what you do there in the back of your pink Cadillac
Pink Cadillac
Well now, way back in the Bible
Temptation always comes along
Theres always somebody tempting somebody into
Doing something they know is wrong
Well, they tempt you with their silver
And they tempt you with their gold
And they tempt you with the pleasure
That the flesh do surely hold
They say Eve tempted Adam with an apple
But, man, I aint buying that
She got him with her Pink Cadillac
Crushed velvet seats
Riding in the back
Oozing down the street
Waving to the girls
Feeling out of sight
Spending all my money on a Saturday night
Honey, I just wonder what it feels like in the back of your pink Cadillac
Pink Cadillac
Well now, some folks say its too big
And uses too much gas
Some folks say its too old
And that it goes too fast
But my love, shes bigger than a Honda
Bigger than a Subaru
And, man, theres only one thing
One car that will do
And, we dont have to drive it
We can park it way out back
Honey, have a party in your Pink Cadillac
Crushed velvet seats
Riding in the back
Oozing down the street
Waving to the girls
Feeling out of sight
Spending all my money on a Saturday night
Honey, I just wonder what you do there in the back of your Pink Cadillac
Pink Cadillac
Honey, I just wonder what what you do there in the back of your Pink Cadillac
Pink Cadillac |
Got a wife and kids in Baltimore, Jack
I went out for a ride and I never came back
Like a river that dont know where its flowing
I took a wrong turn and I just kept going
Everybodys got a hungry heart
Everybodys got a hungry heart
Lay down your money and you play your part
Everybodys 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, we ripped it apart
And here I am down in Kingstown again
Everybodys got a hungry heart
Everybodys got a hungry heart
Lay down your money and you play your part
Everybodys got a hungry heart
Everybody needs a place to rest
Everybody wants to have a home
Makes no difference what nobody says
Aint nobody like to be alone
Everybodys got a hungry heart
Everybodys got a hungry heart
Lay down your money and you play your part
Everybodys got a hungry heart |
Monday, I go to work
Tuesday, cant find my shirt
Wednesday, Im feeling blue
Im helpless, darling
Without you
Without you
Without you
Thursday, everythings fine
Friday, Im out of my mind
Saturday, Sunday too
Its hopeless, darling
Without you
Without you
Without you
Each and every night of the week
I toss and turn in my sleep
Worrying if youre all right
Wondering where you are tonight
Monday, I go to work
Tuesday, cant find my shirt
Wednesday, Im feeling blue
Im helpless, darling
Without you
Without you
Without you
Each and every night of the week
I toss and turn in my sleep
Worrying if youre all right
Wondering where you are tonight
Monday, I go to work
Tuesday, I cant find my shirt
Wednesday, Im feeling blue
Im helpless, darling
Without you
Without you
Without you
Thursday, everythings fine
Friday, Im out of my mind
Saturday, Sunday too
Im without you
Without you
Without you
Without you |
Oh Baby Doll
They tried to tell me you were deaf and dumb
But I knew they were wrong
Youre just a silent one
Oh Baby Doll
They tried to tell me you could not feel
But I found out they tried to conceal
From you, that you were a woman
Well they brought you into their laboratory
And tried to get you to show and tell
They wanted to hear you say that you were sorry
And then they told you that you were conceived in hell
But Baby Doll, you knew
You knew that wasnt true
You knew that it was them
It wasnt you
Oh baby doll
It was so hard to know you
I could not tell, I couldnt show you
But I didnt have to, cause you already knew
Oh baby doll
They had to see by touching hands
We had to dance to a silent band
And you surprised me, being so graceful
I know you cant hear these songs I sing
But then theyre more for me than they are for you
Because you dont need these songs, babe, like I do
Yeah, you knew the first time that I held you babe
You didnt have to hear how I love
Oh baby doll
They tried to tell me you were deaf and dumb
But I knew that they were wrong
And you were just the lonely one |
Its ninety-three degrees
And the radio says a storm fronts movin in
Sure is hot
Theres a double feature down at the Fox
But everybodys seen it twice
And, besides, the air conditioners broke
The old lady who runs the ice cream store
Got robbed last week
She put a lock on the door
And a bell on the lock
Now she dont answer the door
cause she takes that good long look at you
And you look too tough
The air is hot and heavy and wet
And you just cant get high
Thats when sparks fly on E Street
And the little girls walking lookin so hot
And the little boys souls grow weak
When the girls give them a double shot
School boy pops pull out the stops on a Friday night
And those teenage tramps in skin-tight pants
Do the E Street dance
But in their heart and soul they know its all right
Just like those kids down there
Ooh, hooked up in a scuffle
Dressed in snake skin suits;
Packed with Detroit muscle;
Doin the E Street shuffle
Ooh, the shuffle
Doin the E Street shuffle
Ooh, the shuffle
It was a hot afternoon
The last day of June
And the sun was a demon
The clouds were afraid
One ten in the shade
And the pavement was steamin
I told Billy Ray
In his red chevrolet
I needed time for some thinkin
He was just passing by
When I caught that boys eye
And I swore it was winkin
I was thirty-one
He was seventeen
He knew nothing about love
I knew everything
But he sat right down
On the front porch swing
And I wondered what the
Coming night would bring
Sun closed my eyes
Climbed to the skies
It was starting to swelter
The sweat trickled down
The front of my gown
I thought it would melt me
I threw back my hair
Like he wasnt there
And I sipped, oooh, something coolin
My shoulders bare
He tried not to stare
Whoa, but I knew I wasnt foolin
I looked deep into those eyes of blue
I said, Boy, I know youre young
Dont know what to say or do
But stay with me til the sun goes away
And I will chase the boy in you away!
Guess you know why
That kid caught my eyes
Oooh, and why the memory still lingers
Go back in my mind to the very first time
Ooh-ooh-ooh, I felt the touch of somebodys fingers
I go back in my mind to the very first time
Oh, I felt the touch of somebodys fingers
And go, I go back in my mind
To the very first time I felt...
I go back in my mind to the very first time
I felt the touch of somebodys fingers
The first time
The first time |
I was bruised and battered, couldnt tell what I felt
I was unrecognizable to myself
I saw my reflection in a window, didnt know my own face
Oh, brother, are you gonna leave me wasting away
On the streets of Philadelphia, oh-oh
On the streets of Philadelphia
I walked the avenue til my legs felt like stone
I heard voices of friends vanished and gone
At night I could hear the blood rushing through my vein
Just as black and whispering as the rain
On the streets of Philadelphia, oh-oh
On the streets of Philadelphia
Aint no angel gonna greet me
Its just you and I, my friend
And my clothes, they dont fit me no more
I walked a thousand miles just to slip this skin
The night has fallen and Im lying awake
I can feel myself fading away
So receive me, brother, with your faithless kiss
Or will we leave each other alone like this
On the streets of Philadelphia |
Theres a place out on the edge of town, sir
Risin above the factories and the fields
Now ever since I was a child
I can remember that mansion on the hill
In the day you can see the children playing
On the road that leads to those gates of hardened steel
Steel gates that completely surround, sir
The mansion on the hill
At night my daddyd take me and wed ride
Through the streets of a town, so silent and still
Park on a back road along the highway side
Look up at that mansion on the hill
In the summer all the lights would shine
Thered be music playin, people laughin all the time
Me and my sister wed hide out in the tall corn fields
Sit and listen to the mansion on the hill
Tonight down here in Linden Town
I watch the cars rushin by home from the mill
Theres a beautiful full moon rising above
The mansion on the hill |