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Bruce Springsteen – Cover Me
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The second of seven top 10 singles from Springsteen’s massively-successful Born In The USA, “Cover Me” was originally written by Bruce for Donna Summer, but after recording the
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Bruce Springsteen – Drop On Down And Cover Me
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Times are tough there baby there / It's getting tougher now / This world is rough honey it's / Just getting rougher now / Their on top there baby / Just tryin' to score-well / Seen
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Thea Gilmore – Cover Me
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The times are tough now, just getting tougher / The old world is rough and it's getting rougher / Cover me, come on baby, cover me / Well, I'm looking for a love, come on in and
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Bruce Springsteen – Cover Me [Live 1975/85]
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There's nowhere to run to baby / There's nowhere to hide / There's nowhere to run to baby / There's nowhere to hide / Cover me... / Cover Me! / Cover Me / Cover Me now / The times
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The Apache Relay – Cover Me
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[Verse 1] / The times are tough now, just getting tougher / This old world is rough, it's just getting rougher / Cover me / Come baby, cover me / Well I'm looking for a lover who
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Bruce Springsteen – When You Need Me
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[Verse 1] / When you need me, call my name / 'Cause without you my life just wouldn't be the same / If you want me come sunny skies or rain / When you need me, just call my name
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Cannons – Dancing In The Dark (Bruce Springsteen Cover)
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I get up in the evening / And I ain't got nothing to say / I come home in the morning / I go to bed feeling the same way / I ain't nothing but tired / Man, I'm just tired and bored
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Bruce Springsteen – Dancing in the Dark
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The first single off of Springsteen’s seminal album Born In The U.S.A., this track was written two years after most of the other songs on the album.
Producer Jon Landau thought
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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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POP ETC – I’m on Fire (Bruce Springsteen Cover)
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[Verse 1] / Hey, little girl, is your daddy home? / Did he go away and leave you all alone? / I got a bad desire / [Chorus] / Oh, oh, oh / I'm on fire / [Verse 2] / Tell me now
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Bruce Springsteen – Talk to Me
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[Verse 1] / Well, every night I see a light shine in your window / And every night you don't answer when I come knockin' at your door / Your daddy won't ever let me in / And I see
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Bootstraps – Tougher Than The Rest (Bruce Springsteen Cover)
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[Verse 1] / 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 someone's heart in
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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 – I’m on Fire
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“I’m On Fire” was the fourth of seven singles from Born In The USA that reached the top 10 in the US. Overseas it reached the top 20 in eight countries including a #5 peak in the
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Bruce Springsteen – Don't Do It To Me
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Your scrapbook's filled with pictures / Of all your leading men / Oh baby don't put my picture / In there with them / Oh don't make us some little girl's dream / That can not ever
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Bruce Springsteen – Independence Day [Live 1975/85]
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Well Papa go to bed now it's getting late / Nothing we can say is gonna change anything now / I'll be leaving in the morning from St. Mary's Gate / We wouldn't change this thing
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Bruce Springsteen – Johnny 99 [Live 1975/85]
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Well they closed down the auto plant in Mahwah late that month / Ralph went out lookin' for a job but he couldn't find none / He came home too drunk from mixin' Tanqueray and wine
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Bruce Springsteen – For You
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[Verse 1] / Princess cards she sends me with her regards / Oh, barroom eyes shine vacancy, to see her you gotta look hard / Wounded deep in battle, I stand stuffed like some
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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 – Pay Me My Money Down (Live in Dublin)
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[Audience in bold] / Well I thought I heard the captain say / Pay me my money down / Tomorrow is our sailing day / Pay me my money down / Pay me, pay me / Pay me my money down
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Bruce Springsteen – Darlington County
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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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Bruce Springsteen – Bobby Jean
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A classic gem from Bruce and The E-Street Band, it is seen as a farewell to guitarist and long time band member, Steve Van Zandt. Bruce and Steve have known each other since their
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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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Crooked Fingers – Mansion On The Hill (Springsteen Cover)
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There's 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
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Bruce Springsteen – Darlington County [Live 1975/85]
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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 New York City
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Bruce Springsteen – I'm Goin' Down
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“I’m Goin' Down” was the sixth of seven singles released from Born in the USA. All seven reached the top 10 in the US. In the UK, it did not chart despite all six of the album’s
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Bruce Springsteen – Bobby Jean [Live 1975/85]
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Well I came by your house the other day, your mother said you went away / She said there was nothing that I could have done / There was nothing nobody could say / Me and you we've
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Bruce Springsteen – Thunder Road
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Perhaps the quintessential Bruce number, this anthemic 1975 song contains many of the lyrical and musical hallmarks that make the band from E Street so justly famous. It is the
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Niall Horan – Flicker World Tour 2018
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Following the success of the Flicker Sessions in the year before, singer-songwriter Niall embarked in a world tour to promote his debut album, Flicker. The tour began on March 10
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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 – Racing in the Street [Live 1975/85]
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I got a sixty-nine Chevy with a 396 / Fuelie heads and a Hurst on the floor / She's waiting tonight down in the parking lot / Outside the Seven-Eleven store / Me and my partner
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Bruce Springsteen – Nebraska [Live 1975/85]
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I saw her standin' on her front lawn just twirlin' her baton / Me and her went for a ride sir and ten innocent people died / From the town of Lincoln Nebraska with a sawed-off .410
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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 – The River
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The title track to his fifth studio album, Springsteen’s “The River” invokes his sister’s early life with her husband, Mickey. Even if the instrumental (i.e. the use of the
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Bruce Springsteen – Downbound Train
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Perhaps the most depressing song on the album Born in the USA, “Downbound Train” tells the story of a man whose life is mired in decline after he gets laid off.
This song has an
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