Genius Meanings
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Bruce Springsteen – Backstreets
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Bruce and his ambiguously-gendered friend Terry experience what happens to the best-intentioned childhood promises to stay “forever friends”.
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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 – 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
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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 – Loose Change
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[Verse 1] / Met her at a friendly little bar down along the coast / She said it was her birthday so we had us a nice little toast / Drove around for a while, smoked a few
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Bruce Springsteen – Sad Eyes
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[Verse 1] / Every day here you come walking / I hold my tongue, I don't do much talking / You say you're happy and you're doing fine / Well, go ahead, baby, I got plenty of time
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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 – 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 – Streets of Philadelphia
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“Streets of Philadelphia” was written and performed by American rock musician Bruce Springsteen for the film Philadelphia (1993), an early mainstream film dealing with HIV/AIDS.
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Bruce Springsteen – Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
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One of Bruce’s most popular live songs, this number tells a mythologized version of the formation of the E Street Band
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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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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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Bruce Springsteen – Paradise by the ‘C’
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[Instrumental]
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Lou Reed (Ft. Bruce Springsteen) – Street Hassle
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The title song from 1978’s Street Hassle is a three-part description of the nuanced lifestyles found in the backstreets of New York.
The song is included in the soundtrack of the
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Bruce Springsteen – Spirit in the Night [Hammersmith Odeon, London ’75]
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[Intro] / The night was dark / The moon was yellow / And the leaves came tumbling down / [Verse 1] / Crazy Janey and her mission man / Were back in the alley tradin' hands / 'Long
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Bruce Springsteen – Baby I
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Baby I - Don't need you loving no more / Baby I - Don't need your kisses no more / Baby I - Don't need your tender touch / Baby I / Baby I - Don't need your tender kiss / Baby I
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Bruce Springsteen – She's the One
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Springsteen mixes a Bo Diddley beat with a Dylan-esque pronoun shift to create one of his most-beloved songs
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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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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 – Spirit in the Night [Live 1975/85]
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Crazy Janey and her mission man were back in the alley tradin' hands / `Long came Wild Billy with his friend G-man all duded up for Saturday night / Billy slammed on his coaster
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Bruce Springsteen – Candy's Room [Live 1975/85]
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In Candy's room there are pictures of her heroes on the wall / But to get to Candy's room you gotta walk the darkness of Candy's hall / Strangers from the city call my baby's
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Bruce Springsteen – War
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[Intro] / If you grew up in the sixties / You grew up with war on TV every night / The war that your friends were involved in / And uh, I wanna do this song tonight for all the
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