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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 – 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 – 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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Jerry Lee Lewis (Ft. Bruce Springsteen) – Pink Cadillac
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You may think I'm foolish for the foolish things I do / You may wonder how come I love you when you get on my nerves like you do / Well, baby, you know you bug me, ain't no secret
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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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Traveling Wilburys – Tweeter and the Monkey Man
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A playful homage to Bruce Springsteen, this song was written by Bob Dylan. It bears a strong resemblance to Lily, Rosemary And The Jack Of Hearts, except for the constant
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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 – 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 – 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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Bruce Springsteen – Nebraska
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“Nebraska” is sung as a first person narrative of Charles Starkweather, who along with his teenage girlfriend Caril Ann Fugate murdered 11 people over an eight-day period in 1958
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Bruce Springsteen – Atlantic City
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Atlantic City is perhaps one of Springsteen’s most dour songs. It depicts a young couple’s romantic escape to the New Jersey seaside resort of Atlantic City, where the man in the
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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 – The Man Who Got Away
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Last night, I went to the Coronado / I bought my ticket and I found my seat / It was a new adventure straight from Hollywood / Lights went down as I felt the heat / They went
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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 – Johnny 99
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The harrowing tale of a down and out man who can’t find a job. Without any work, he turns to sticking up a cashier for money. When it doesn’t turn out as planned, he shoots him.
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Bruce Springsteen – The Promised Land
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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 – 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 – Open All Night
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The eighth track on Springsteen’s 1982 album ‘Nebraska’ ‘Open All Night’ is another song that takes on the American ideal of having the self attached to vehicle. A trend across the
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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 – 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 – 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 – Part Man, Part Monkey
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“Part Man, Part Monkey” was recorded in 1990 and first released as the B-side to “57 Channels (And Nothin' On).” The song takes its premise from the Scopes Trial, a highly
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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 – Point Blank
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Written by Bruce Springsteen from his 1980 album The River.
It was the first song Springsteen wrote after completing the Darkness On The Edge Of Town album in 1978, premiering on
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Bruce Springsteen – Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
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Released in 1973 on The Wild, The Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle, “Rosalita” tells the story of forbidden love between a wild adolescent and an over-protected young girl.
The
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Bruce Springsteen – A Good Man Is Hard to Find (Pittsburgh)
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[Verse 1] / It's cloudy out in Pittsburgh / It's raining in Saigon / Snow's fallin' all across the Michigan line / Well, she sits by the light of her Christmas tree / With the
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Bruce Springsteen – Jungleland (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY - 09/21/79)
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[Intro] / [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 / Barefoot girl sitting on the
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Bruce Springsteen – Hearts of Stone
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[Verse 1] / You stare in the mirror at the lines in your face / And you try to see, girl / The way things were when we were at your place / In the days it was just you and me, girl
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Bruce Springsteen – Two Faces
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[Verse 1] / I met a girl and we ran away / I swore I'd make her happy every day / And how I made her cry / Two faces have I / [Verse 2] / Sometimes, mister, I feel sunny and wild
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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 – 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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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 – Rockaway the Days
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[Verse 1] / Billy got out of prison but he wasn't right / Some like to drink or gamble, Billy liked to fight / He tracked back to his home state of Maryland / Went to his mom's
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Bruce Springsteen – Over the Rise
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[Verse 1] / I walk along the levee to see the gypsy man / The dirt 'neath my feet baby's turnin' to quicksand / He looked into my palm, then looked me in the eye / Told me you were
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Bruce Springsteen – Meeting Across the River (Live at Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ - 9/19/1978)
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[Verse 1] / Hey, Eddie, can you lend me a few bucks? / Tonight can you get us a ride? / Gotta make it through the tunnel / Got a meetin' with a man on the other side / Eddie, this
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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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Kimya Dawson – Being Cool
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Is New York City really like a graveyard they all ask me / And I say well it was last week but man that was in the past / See I stopped going to the places where the people act so
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