 Genius Lyrics
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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 – The Ghost of Tom Joad
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Originally written as the title track of Springsteen’s 1995 solo album, this song deals with the complications of American capitalism. The song uses the character of Tom Joad
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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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Bruce Springsteen – I’ll Stand by You
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Bruce originally wrote this song for the 2001 film Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, but was ultimately rejected for its soundtrack.
The song leaked in 2017 but was
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Rage Against the Machine – The Ghost of Tom Joad
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Originally written by Bruce Springsteen, this song tells a tale of modern-day poverty while referencing John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath.
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The Gaslight Anthem (Ft. Bruce Springsteen) – History Books
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[Verse 1] / What's that you say, I knew you when? / You don't look too much like my friend / Those history books, filled up with crooks / Stories I don't want to read again / [Pre-
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Ghost Hounds (Ft. Sasha Allen) – Thunder Road
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The screen door slams / Mary's dress waves / 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
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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 – 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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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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Bruce Springsteen – Thunder Road (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY - 09/21/79)
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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 – Thunder Road (Live at Warner Hollywood Studios, Los Angeles, CA - September 1992)
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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 / That's me and I want you only / Don
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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 – 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 – Thunder Road [Hammersmith Odeon, London ’75]
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[Verse 1] / The screen door slams, Mary's dress sways / Like a vision she dances across the porch as the radio plays / Roy Orbison's singing for the lonely / Hey, that's me and I
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Bruce Springsteen – Nightshift
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[Verse 1] / Marvin, he was a friend of mine / And he could sing his song, his heart in every line / Marvin sang of the joy and pain / He opened up our minds, I still can hear him
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Bruce Springsteen – The Rising
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This song, “The Rising” is off of Bruce Springsteen’s 2002 album also titled The Rising. It’s one of the two songs from the record (the other being “Into The Fire”) dedicated to
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Bruce Springsteen – Glory Days
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The first verse actually happened. The second verse mostly happened, and the third verse, of course, is happening now.
– Bruce Springsteen, Greatest Hits liner notes
The song
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Lucinda Williams – Factory
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A cover of Bruce Springsteen’s song from his 1978 Darkness on the Edge of Town. Though Williams' first album was a collection of blues classics, she built the rest of her career on
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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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Renato Russo – Thunder Road
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[Letra de Thunder Road com Renato Russo] / [Verso 1] / The screen door slams, Mary's dress sways / Like a vision, she dances across the porch as the radio plays / Roy Orbison
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Bruce Springsteen – No Surrender
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[Verse 1] / 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 – 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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Dan Bern – Thunder Road
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The screen door slams, Mary's dress waves / Like a vision she dances across the porch as the radio plays / Roy Orbison's singing for the lonely / Hey, that's me and I want you only
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Counting Crows – Thunder Road
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Well the screen door slams, Mary's dress waves / And like a vision she dances across the porch / While the radio plays / Roy Orbison singing for the lonely / Hey that's me and I
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John Mellencamp (Ft. Bruce Springsteen) – A Life Full of Rain
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A life full of rain / Coming down on my shoulders / A life full of rain / Here in a room where no one cares / I'm not wanted here / I got no place to go / I've found all is empty
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Mary Lou Lord – Thunder Road
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The screen door slams, Mary's dress waves / Like a vision she dances across the porch as the radio plays / Roy Orbison's singing for the lonely / Hey, that's me and I want you only
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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 – The E Street Shuffle
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Bruce kicks off his second album with this groovy party music, partly to thwart labels that he’s merely another musician trying to follow in Bob Dylan’s footsteps. Unlike his first
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Tor Miller – Stampede
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With your hair tied back / And my T-shirt on / And we're bathed in red / Drowning in neon / Well I know how this story goes / Well I know / We got love to spill / Full of blood to
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