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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 – Meeting Across the River
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A sad, spare tale of a wanna-be criminal on the verge of a big score – but first, he needs to find someone with a car
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Bruce Springsteen – Trouble River
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[Verse 1] / There's a river runs through this valley / Cold and deep and black / Comin' like a tombstone shadow across my back / [Chorus] / Trouble river, six foot high and risin
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Bruce Springsteen – The River (Live)
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[Verse 1] / I come from down in the valley / Where, mister, when you're young / They bring you up to do / Like your daddy done / Me and Mary we met in high school / When she was
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Garth Brooks – The River
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“The River” is a song about life. It uses a river as an analogy in which you are a vessel floating along it. It’s saying that life’s a constant battle but it’s worth living until
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Bruce Springsteen – The River (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY - 09/22/79)
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I come from down in the valley / Where, mister, when you're young / They bring you up to do like your daddy done / Me and Mary we met in high school / When she was just seventeen
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Bruce Springsteen – The River [Live 1975/85]
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I come from down in the valley where mister, when you're young / They bring you up to do like your daddy done / Me and Mary we met in high school when she was just seventeen / We'd
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Marissa Nadler – The River
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[Verse] / I come from down in the valley where, Mister, when you're young / They bring you up to do like your daddy done / Me and Mary met in high school when she was just
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The Clarks – The River
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I come from down in the valley / Where, mister, when you're young / They bring you up to do like your daddy done / Well, Mary, we met in high school / She was just seventeen / We'd
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Bruce Springsteen – Hungry Heart
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“Hungry Heart” is the sixth song on The River and its lead single. It was also Springsteen’s first big hit on the Hot 100, peaking at #5 in December 1980. It also did well in
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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 – Independence Day
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Independence Day is the fifth track on Springsteen’s 1980 album,“The River”.
The title does not refer to the fourth of July by any means. This song is an internal struggle for the
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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 – 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 – Seeds
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[Intro] / One two three four / [Verse 1] / Well, a great black river a man had found / So he put all his money in a hole in the ground / And sent a big steel arm drivin' down, down
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Angie McMahon – The River (Piano)
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I come from down in the valley / Where, mister, when you are young / They bring you up to do it / Just like your dad had done / Well, me and Mary we met in high school / And she
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Bruce Springsteen – Stolen Car
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One of the first songs Bruce wrote about men and women.
“I asked that if you lose the connection between each other, do you lose yourself?”
The song serves as a prelude to the
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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 – Paradise
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One of the most celebrated tracks on the album is “Paradise” (track 14). Segal (2002) called the track “the album’s most shattering, challenging moment” (p. A17). Springsteen sings
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Bruce Springsteen – Matamoros Banks
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[Verse 1] / For two days the river keeps you down / Then you rise to the light without a sound / Past the playgrounds and empty switching yards / The turtles eat the skin from your
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