 Genius Lyrics
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Bruce Springsteen – Brilliant Disguise
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After achieving record breaking success with his album Born in the U.S.A., Springsteen released a more somber, and arguably more personal album in Tunnel of Love. Brilliant
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Bruce Springsteen – Brilliant Disguise (Introduction) [Springsteen on Broadway]
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[Spoken] / Trust uh, trust in a relationship's a fragile thing. Uh, always been a little complicated for me 'cause trust requires allowing others to see as much of our real selves
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Bruce Springsteen – Brilliant Disguise (Springsteen on Broadway)
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[Verse 1: Bruce Springsteen] / I hold you in my arms / As the band plays / What are those words whispered, baby / As you turn away? / I saw you last night / Out on the edge of town
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Elvis Costello – Brilliant Disguise
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[Verse 1] / I hold you in my arms / There's a band playing / What are those words whispered, baby / Just as you turn away? / Well I saw you last night / Out on the edge of town / I
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Bruce Springsteen – Land of Hope and Dreams (Springsteen on Broadway)
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[Verse 1] / Grab your ticket and your suitcase / Thunder’s rollin' down this track / Well, you don’t know where you’re going now / But you know you won’t be back / Well, darling if
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Bruce Springsteen – Tougher Than the Rest (Introduction) [Springsteen on Broadway]
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[Spoken] / Alright, alright, she is the queen of my heart. She is my flaming beauty. My Jersey girl. She is a great songwriter, she's one of the loveliest voices I've ever heard
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Bruce Springsteen – Tougher Than the Rest
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“Tougher Than the Rest” is a song by Bruce Springsteen from his 1987 Tunnel of Love album. It was released as a single in some countries, following “Brilliant Disguise” and the
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Bruce Springsteen – Long Time Comin' (Springsteen on Broadway)
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[Verse 1] / Out where the creek turn shallow and sandy / And the moon comes skimming away the stars / When the mesquite comes rushing over the hilltops / Straight into my arms
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Bruce Springsteen – Born to Run (Introduction, Pt. 1) [Springsteen on Broadway]
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[Spoken] / It was a beautiful fall November evening, it was going to writing in my book, and I drove back to my neighborhood where I grew up, looking for uh - I still don't have a
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Bruce Springsteen – One Step Up
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Written by Bruce Springsteen from his 1987 Tunnel Of Love album, “One Step Up” was released as the third single from the album, following “Brilliant Disguise” and the title track.
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Bruce Springsteen – The Promised Land (Introduction, Pt. 1) [Springsteen on Broadway]
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[Spoken] / So - so I'm 20 years old, and I'm livin' and playin' on the Jersey shore and I'm waitin' to be discovered. Now, I have some confidence. I've been around a bit, and
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Bruce Springsteen – The Wish (Springsteen on Broadway)
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[Verse 1] / Dirty old street all slushed up in the rain and snow / Little boy and his ma shivering outside a rundown music store window / That night on top of a Christmas tree
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Bruce Springsteen – One Step Up
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Written by Bruce Springsteen from his 1987 Tunnel Of Love album, “One Step Up” was released as the third single from the album, following “Brilliant Disguise” and the title track.
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Bruce Springsteen – The Ghost of Tom Joad (Introduction) [Springsteen on Broadway]
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[Spoken] / Alright. I never believed that people came to my shows, or rock shows in general, to be told anything. But I do believe that they come to be reminded of things, to be
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Bruce Springsteen – The Promised Land (Introduction, Pt. 2) [Springsteen on Broadway]
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[Spoken] / I had one shot, my girlfriend at the time did me a great favor, brought a guy who had a successful recording band down to the Student Prince, our club, Asbury Park, to
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Bruce Springsteen – The Promised Land (Introduction, Pt. 1) [Springsteen on Broadway]
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[Spoken] / So - so I'm 20 years old, and I'm livin' and playin' on the Jersey shore and I'm waitin' to be discovered. Now, I have some confidence. I've been around a bit, and
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Bruce Springsteen – Born in the U.S.A. (Springsteen on Broadway)
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[Instrumental Intro] / [Verse 1] / Born down in a dead man's town / The first kick I took was when I hit the ground / You end up like a dog that's been beat too much / 'Til you
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Bruce Springsteen – Born to Run (Springsteen on Broadway)
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[Verse 1] / 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 / We're sprung from cages out on
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Bruce Springsteen – Born in the U.S.A. (Introduction, Pt. 1) [Springsteen on Broadway]
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[Spoken] / So it's, it's 1980, I'm 30 years old, I'm on another cross country trip with a buddy of mine, and we stop outside of Phoenix to gas up, go into a small town drugstore, I
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Bruce Springsteen – My Father's House (Springsteen on Broadway)
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[Verse 1] / 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, darkness falls
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Bruce Springsteen – Born to Run (Introduction, Pt. 2) [Springsteen on Broadway]
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[Spoken] / ...soul, soul is a stubborn thing. Doesn't dissipate so quickly. Souls remain. They remain here in the air, in empty space, in dusty roots, in sidewalks that I knew
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Bruce Springsteen – Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out (Introduction) [Springsteen on Broadway]
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[Spoken] / Now, real rock 'n' roll band evolves out of a common place and time, fans come out of towns, out of city, out of neighborhood, and they come along in a particular moment
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Bruce Springsteen – My Hometown (Introduction, Pt. 1) [Springsteen on Broadway]
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[Spoken] / Now everybody, everybody has a love-hate relationship with their hometown. It's just built into the equation of growing up. If you take me, I'm Mr. Born to Run. I'm Mr
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Bruce Springsteen – The Ghost of Tom Joad (Springsteen on Broadway)
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[Verse 1] / Men walkin' along the railroad tracks / Goin' some place, there's no goin' back / Highway patrol choppers comin' up over the ridge / Hot soup on a campfire under the
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Bruce Springsteen – Born in the U.S.A. (Introduction, Pt. 2) [Springsteen on Broadway]
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[Spoken] / And then there was Bart Hanes. Bart Hanes was the drummer from my first band, The Castilles. He was the first real drummer I ever played with. He was absurdly funny kid
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Bruce Springsteen – My Hometown (Springsteen on Broadway)
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[Verse 1] / 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
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Bruce Springsteen – The Rising (Springsteen on Broadway)
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[Verse 1] / Can't see nothin' in front of me / Can't see nothin' coming up behind / I make my way through this darkness / I can't feel nothin' but this chain that binds me / Lost
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Bruce Springsteen – My Hometown (Introduction, Pt. 2) [Springsteen on Broadway]
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[Spoken] / My sister and I, we'd pick up the thrown rice from the weddings, pack it away in small brown paper bags and take it home and save it. Then run up the street and throw it
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Bruce Springsteen – Tougher Than the Rest (Springsteen on Broadway)
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[Verse 1: Bruce Springsteen] / Well, it's Saturday night / You're all dressed up in blue / I been watching you awhile / Maybe you been watching me too / So somebody ran out / Left
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Bruce Springsteen – Dancing in the Dark (Springsteen on Broadway)
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[Verse 1] / I get up in the evenin' / And I ain't got nothin' to say / I come home in the mornin' / I go to bed feelin' the same way / I ain't nothin' but tired / Man, I'm just
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Bruce Springsteen – Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out (Springsteen on Broadway)
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[Spoken Intro: Bruce Springsteen and Crowd] / Now one plus one equals two, that happens every day, that is not magic. That's the grind. That's when you get up, one. Go to work, one
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Bruce Springsteen – The Wish (Introduction) [Springsteen on Broadway]
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[Spoken] / My mom was a different story altogether. I wanna release you from suicide watch right now. Snap out of it, come on. Because my mother was bright, happy, she'd merrily
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Bruce Springsteen – The Promised Land (Springsteen on Broadway)
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[Verse 1] / On a rattlesnake speedway in the Utah desert / I pick up my money and head back into town / Driving 'cross the Waynesboro county line / I got the radio on and I'm just
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Bruce Springsteen – Long Time Comin' (Introduction) [Springsteen on Broadway]
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[Spoken] / I'm gonna add this song to our set tonight. Alright, this is the final days of Patti's first pregnancy. And I receive a surprise visit from my father at my home in LA
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Bruce Springsteen – Thunder Road (Introduction) [Springsteen on Broadway]
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[Spoken] / There's nothing like being young and leaving someplace. That was a feeling that, oh, I loved. Maybe that's why I became a musician. Um, sleep late, stay up late, and you
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Bruce Springsteen – Thunder Road (Springsteen on Broadway)
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[Verse 1] / The screen door slams / Mary's dress waves / Like a vision, she dances across the porch as the radio plays / It's Roy Orbison singing for the lonely / Hey that's me and
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