Genius Lyrics
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Bruce Springsteen – Backstreets
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Bruce and his ambiguously-gendered friend Terry experience what happens to the best-intentioned childhood promises to stay “forever friends”.
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Bruce Springsteen – Backstreets [Live 1975/85]
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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
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Bruce Springsteen – Backstreets [Hammersmith Odeon, London ’75]
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[Verse 1] / One soft infested summer, me and Terry became friends / Trying in vain to breathe the fire we was born in / Catching rides from the outskirts, tying faith between our
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Bruce Springsteen – Get That Feeling
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(woargh = aend-of-Backstreets type full throated growl) / Yeah girl / Now won't you come on out tonight / Girl, where the stars will shine real bright / Well I gotta get that
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Bruce Springsteen – Born to Run
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Written at 7½ West End Court in Long Branch, New Jersey in early 1974, the song was Bruce Springsteen’s last-ditch effort to make it big. The prior year, Springsteen had released
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Bruce Springsteen – Jungleland
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The closing song on Springsteen’s 1975 album Born to Run, “Jungleland” is an epic 10-minute anthem about the unsung beauty of unseen, everyday occurrences in blue-collar 1970s New
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Bruce Springsteen – Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
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One of Bruce’s most popular live songs, this number tells a mythologized version of the formation of the E Street Band
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Bruce Springsteen – It’s Hard to Be a Saint in the City [Hammersmith Odeon, London ’75]
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[Verse 1] / I had skin like leather and the diamond-hard look of a cobra / I was born blue and weathered but I burst just like a supernova / I could walk like Brando right into the
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Bruce Springsteen – No Surrender (Live at the Wachovia Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA - 10/20/09)
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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
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Bruce Springsteen – Two Hearts (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY - 07/01/00)
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I went out walking the other day / Seen a little girl crying along the way / She'd been hurt so bad said she'd never love again / Someday your crying, girl will end / And you'll
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Bruce Springsteen – The Ties That Bind (Live at the Summit, Houston, TX - 12/08/78)
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You been hurt and you're all cried out you say / You walk down the street pushin' people outta your way / You packed your bags and all alone you want to ride / You don't want
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Bruce Springsteen – Baby I
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Baby I - Don't need you loving no more / Baby I - Don't need your kisses no more / Baby I - Don't need your tender touch / Baby I / Baby I - Don't need your tender kiss / Baby I
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Bruce Springsteen – Jersey Girl
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A Springsteen cover that was originally written and performed by Tom Waits, “Jersey Girl” is the final song off of Live/1975-85.
It would become one of Springsteen’s favorite
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Bruce Springsteen – She’s the One [Hammersmith Odeon, London ’75]
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[Verse 1] / With her killer graces and her secret places / That no boy can fill / With her hands on her hips, oh and that smile on her lips / Because she knows that it kills me / [
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Bruce Springsteen – It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City [Live 1975/85]
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I had skin like leather and the diamond-hard look of a cobra / I was born blue and weathered but I burst just like a supernova / I could walk like Brando right into the sun / Then
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Genius Lists – List of Road Trip Songs
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It’s hard to say which is more fun, making a new road trip playlist or listening to it on your ride. Road Trip playlists are as unique as the person who made them, so consider this
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Bruce Springsteen – Thunder Road (Live at the Palace Theatre, Albany, NY - 02/07/77)
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The screen door slams, Mary's dress sways / Like a vision, she dances across the porch as the radio plays / Roy Orbison singing for the lonely / Hey, that's me, and I want you only
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Bruce Springsteen – Growin' Up (Live at the Brendan Byrne Arena, East Rutherford, NJ - 08/20/84)
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[Verse 1] / Well I stood stone-like at midnight / Suspended in my masquerade / I combed my hair 'til it was just right / And commanded the night brigade / I was open to pain and
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Bruce Springsteen – Badlands
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As with other Springsteen songs around this time (1975-1980), “Badlands” is about an angst-ridden young man who wants to change and take control of his life.
The Carter years were
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Bruce Springsteen – Spirit in the Night (Live at Tower Theater, Upper Darby, PA - 12/31/75)
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Crazy Janey and her mission man were back in the alley trading hands / 'Long came Wild Billy with his friend G-Man all duded up for Saturday night / Well, Billy slammed on his
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Bruce Springsteen – My Hometown [Live 1975/85]
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I was eight years old and running with a dime in my hand / Into the bus stop to pick up a paper for my old man / I'd sit on his lap in that big old Buick and steer as we drove
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Bruce Springsteen – Better Days (Live at the Brendan Byrne Arena, East Rutherford, NJ - 06/24/93)
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Well my soul checked out missing as I sat listening to the hours and minutes ticking away / Yeah just sitting around waiting for my life to begin while it was all just slipping
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Bruce Springsteen – Reason to Believe [Live 1975/85]
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Seen a man standin' over a dead dog lyin' by the highway in a ditch / He's lookin' down kinda puzzled pokin' that dog with a stick / Got his car door flung open he's standin' out
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Bruce Springsteen – Working on the Highway [Live 1975/85]
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Friday night's pay night guys fresh out of work / Talking about the weekend scrubbing off the dirt / Some heading home to their families some looking to get hurt / Some going down
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Bruce Springsteen – Jungleland [Hammersmith Odeon, London ’75]
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[Verse 1] / The rangers had a homecoming / In Harlem late last night / And the Magic Rat drove his sleek machine / Over the Jersey state line / [Verse 2] / Barefoot girl sitting on
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Bruce Springsteen – Two Hearts [Live 1975/85]
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I went out walking the other day / Seen a little girl crying along the way / She'd been hurt so bad said she'd never love again / Someday your crying girl will end / And you'll
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Bruce Springsteen – Adam Raised A Cain [Live 1975/85]
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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
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Bruce Springsteen – If I Should Fall Behind (Live at Mohegan Sun Arena, Uncasville, CT - 05/17/14)
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We said we'd walk together, baby, come what may / That come the twilight should we lose our way / If as we're walking a hand should slip free / I'll wait for you, should I fall
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Bruce Springsteen – Cadillac Ranch [Live 1975/85]
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Well there she sits buddy just a-gleaming in the sun / There to greet a working man when his day is done / I'm gonna pack my pa and I'm gonna pack my aunt / I'm gonna take them
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Bruce Springsteen – Spirit in the Night [Hammersmith Odeon, London ’75]
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[Intro] / The night was dark / The moon was yellow / And the leaves came tumbling down / [Verse 1] / Crazy Janey and her mission man / Were back in the alley tradin' hands / 'Long
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Bruce Springsteen – Hungry Heart [Live 1975/85]
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Got a wife and kids in Baltimore Jack / I went out for a ride and I never went back / Like a river that don't know where it's flowing / I took a wrong turn and I just kept going
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Bruce Springsteen – Fire [Live at the Winterland, San Francisco, CA - December 1978]
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[Verse 1] / I'm driving in my car / I turn on the radio / I'm pulling you close / You just say no / You say you don't like it / But girl I know you're a liar / 'Cause when we kiss
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Bruce Springsteen – Darlington County (Live at Olympiastadion, Helsinki, Finland - 07/31/12)
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[Verse 1] / Driving in to Darlington County / Me and Wayne on the Fourth of July / Driving in to Darlington County / Looking for some work on the county line / We drove down from
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