Genius Lyrics
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Bruce Springsteen – Working on a Dream
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[Verse 1] / Out here the nights are long, the days are lonely / I think of you and I'm working on a dream / I'm working on a dream / Now the cards I've drawn's a rough hand
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Bruce Springsteen – Queen of the Supermarket
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The fourth track from Working on a Dream, “Queen Of The Supermarket” was written after Bruce and his wife, Patti, went to a newly opened supermarket.
This sweeping ode to a
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Bruce Springsteen – Good Eye
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[Verse] / I was standing by the river / Where the cold black water runs / I was standing by the river / Where the cold black water runs / I had my good eye to the dark / And my
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Bruce Springsteen – Tomorrow Never Knows
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[Verse] / Where the cold wind blows / Tomorrow never knows / Where your sweet smile goes / Tomorrow never knows / You and me we've been standing here, my dear / Waiting for that
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Bruce Springsteen – My Lucky Day
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[Verse 1] / In the room where fortune falls / On a day when chance is all / In the dark of fierce exile / I felt the grace of your smile / [Chorus] / Honey, you're my lucky day
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Bruce Springsteen – Surprise, Surprise
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[Chorus] / Well surprise, surprise, surprise / Yeah surprise, surprise, surprise / Well surprise, surprise, come on open your eyes / And let your love shine down / Well surprise
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Bruce Springsteen – This Life
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[Verse 1] / A bang then stardust in your eyes / A billion years for just this night / In a way it will be alright / A blackness then the light of a million stars / As you slip into
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Bruce Springsteen – Kingdom of Days
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[Verse 1] / With you I don't hear the minutes ticking by / I don't feel the hours as they fly / I don't see the summer as it wanes / Just a subtle change of light upon your face
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Bruce Springsteen – Life Itself
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[Verse 1] / We met down in the valley, where the wine of love and destruction flows / There in that curve of darkness where the flowers of temptation grow / I left the rest for the
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Bruce Springsteen – What Love Can Do
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[Verse 1] / There's a pillar in the temple / Where I carved your name / There's a soul sitting sad and blue / Now the remedies you've taken / Are all in vain / [Chorus 1] / Let me
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Bruce Springsteen – The Last Carnival
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[Chorus] / Sundown, sundown / They're taking all the tents down / Where have you gone my handsome Billy? / [Bridge] / Sundown, sundown / The carnival train's leaving town / Where
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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 – 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 – The Promise
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The promise is a song by Bruce Springsteen, on his album The Promise. The song reflect’s Springsteen’s opinion on the “American Dream.” Springsteen, who grew up in near-poverty
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Bruce Springsteen – The Wrestler
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“The Wrestler” was written for the Darren Aronofsky film of the same title and is written from the perspective of the main character, played in the film by Mickey Rourke. The song
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Bruce Springsteen – Prove It All Night
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Springsteen has said the message he was trying to convey in this song is: “Success requires sacrifice.” It is one of the songs on Darkness On The Edge Of Town that implies you have
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