 Genius Lyrics
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Bruce Springsteen – Burnin' Train
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[Verse 1] / Zero’s my number / Time is my hunter / I wanted you to heal me / But instead you set me on fire / We were out over the borders / I washed you in holy water / We
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Bruce Springsteen – Born in the U.S.A.
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One of Springsteen’s most iconic songs, “Born in the U.S.A.” is about the troubled return home of a Vietnam veteran. It’s original working title was “Vietnam Blues”.
On January 3
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Bruce Springsteen – Rainmaker
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In “Rainmaker”, a conman profits off the desperation of drought-stricken farmers by promising to bring them rain. Much like “Magic”, however, this is not just a tale of one
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Dire Straits – Tunnel of Love
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At just over 8 minutes, “Tunnel of Love” seems like an odd choice for a single. Until you hear it that is. It’s quintessential Dire Straits, with Knopfler’s incredible, Bruce
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Johnny Cash – Ring of Fire
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Johnny Cash’s soon-to-be-second-wife June Carter wrote “Ring of Fire” in 1963 with Merle Kilgore to express the experience of falling in love with the married Man in Black. Cash
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Bruce Springsteen – One Minute You're Here
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[Verse 1] / Big black train comin' down the track / Blow your whistle long and long / One minute you're here / Next minute you're gone / [Verse 2] / I lay my penny down on the
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The Broken Circle Breakdown Bluegrass Band – Further On Up The Road
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Where the road is dark and the seed is sowed / Where the gun is cocked and the bullet's cold / Where the miles are marked in the blood and gold / I'll meet you further on up the
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Bruce Springsteen – Letter to You
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[Verse 1] / 'Neath a crowd of mongrel trees I pulled that bothersome thread / Got down on my knees, grabbed my pen and bowed my head / Tried to summon all that my heart finds true
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Johnny Cash – Further On (Up the Road)
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Track #5 of American V: A Hundred Highways (2006).
The song is a Johnny Cash’s version of Bruce Springsteen’s “Further On (Up the Road)” from the critical acclaimed album The
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Bruce Springsteen – Don't Look Back
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[Verse 1] / Cold rain running down the front of my shirt / I'm flat on my back, the wheels in the dirt / Angel makes her face up out on Baker Street / She's straddling the shifter
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Bruce Springsteen – Ghosts
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[Verse 1] / I hear the sound of your guitar / Comin' in from the mystic far / Stone and the gravel in your voice / Come in my dreams and I rejoice / [Pre-Chorus] / It's your ghost
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Bruce Springsteen – I’ll See You in My Dreams
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[Verse 1] / The road is long and seeming without end / The days go on, I remember you my friend / And though you're gone and my heart's been emptied it seems / I'll see you in my
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Bruce Springsteen – Last Man Standing
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Second song on the album, along with Ghosts dedicated to the beginning of Bruce’s musical career in his first professional band: The Castiles.
And it was the 2018 death of the
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Bruce Springsteen – If I Was the Priest
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[Verse 1] / There's a light on yonder mountain / And it's calling me to shine / There's a girl over by the water fountain / And she's asking to be mine / And Jesus is standing in
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Bruce Springsteen – House of a Thousand Guitars
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‘House of a Thousand Guitars’ is the seventh track of ‘Letter to You’, the twentieth studio album by Bruce Springsteen. It marks the transition to the part of the record in which
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Bruce Springsteen – Song for Orphans
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[Verse 1] / Well the multitude assembled and tried to make the noise / Them black blind poet generals and restless loud white boys / But time's grew thin and the axis grew somehow
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Bruce Springsteen – The Power of Prayer
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[Verse 1] / In the afternoon 'neath the summer sun / We'd lie by the lake till the evening comes / I run my fingers through your sun-streaked hair / Baby, that's the power of
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Bruce Springsteen – Janey Needs a Shooter
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[Verse 1] / Well Janey's got a doctor who tears apart her insides / He investigates her and silently baits her sighs / He probes with his fingers but knows her heart only through
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