 Genius Meanings
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Bruce Springsteen – Bobby Jean
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A classic gem from Bruce and The E-Street Band, it is seen as a farewell to guitarist and long time band member, Steve Van Zandt. Bruce and Steve have known each other since their
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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 – 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 – 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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Bruce Springsteen – Two Hearts (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY - 07/01/00)
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I went out walking the other day / Seen a little girl crying along the way / She'd been hurt so bad said she'd never love again / Someday your crying, girl will end / And you'll
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Bruce Springsteen – Blood Brothers (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY - 07/01/00)
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We played king of the mountain out on the end / The world come chargin’ up the hill, and we were women and men / Now there’s so much that time, time and memory fade away / We got
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Bruce Springsteen – Dancing In the Dark (Live at the Brendan Byrne Arena, East Rutherford, NJ - 08/05/84)
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[Verse 1] / I get up in the evening / And I ain't got nothing to say / I come home in the morning / I go to bed feeling the same way / I ain't nothing but tired / Man, I'm just
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Bruce Springsteen – Paradise by the ‘C’
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[Instrumental]
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Bruce Springsteen – Darlington County (Live at Olympiastadion, Helsinki, Finland - 07/31/12)
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[Verse 1] / Driving in to Darlington County / Me and Wayne on the Fourth of July / Driving in to Darlington County / Looking for some work on the county line / We drove down from
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Bruce Springsteen – I’m on Fire
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“I’m On Fire” was the fourth of seven singles from Born In The USA that reached the top 10 in the US. Overseas it reached the top 20 in eight countries including a #5 peak in the
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Bruce Springsteen – My Hometown
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“My Hometown” was the seventh and final single from Springsteen’s blockbuster 1984 album, Born in the USA. It reached the top 10 in the US (along with all other six singles from
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Bruce Springsteen – Spare Parts
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“This is a song about a woman struggling to understand the value of her own independent existence. The value of the life of her child. To put down her old dreams and parts of her
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Tom Kitt, Amanda Green & David Lindsay-Abaire (Ft. Caren Lyn Manuel & Will Chase) – Goodbye and Good Luck
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While Rob laments that he could never be as cool or successful as Bruce Springsteen – “the Boss” – the rock icon comes to him in a vision and inspires him to call up all of his top
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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 – Downbound Train
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Perhaps the most depressing song on the album Born in the USA, “Downbound Train” tells the story of a man whose life is mired in decline after he gets laid off.
This song has an
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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 – I'm On Fire [Live 1975/85]
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Hey little girl is your daddy home / Did he go away and leave you all alone / I got a bad desire / I'm on fire / Tell me now baby is he good to you / Can he do to you the things
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Bruce Springsteen – Working on the Highway
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In this deceptively upbeat rockabilly number, the Boss plays a guy who starts out laying blacktop as a highway worker and winds up doing the same job on a prison chain gang. His
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Justin Townes Earle – Glory Days
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[Intro] / Yeah / Uh / Wooh / Huh / [Verse 1] / I had a friend was a baseball player / Back in high school / He could throw that speedball by you / Make you look like a fool / Saw
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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 – With Every Wish
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[Verse 1] / Ol' catfish in the lake, we called him Big Jim / When I was a kid my only wish was to get my line in him / Skipped church one Sunday, rowed out and throwed in my line
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Bruce Springsteen – 4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy) [Live 1975/85]
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Sandy the fireworks are hailin' over Little Eden tonight / Forcin' a light into all those stoned-out faces left stranded on this Fourth of July / Down in town the circuit's full
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Bruce Springsteen – Darlington County [Live 1975/85]
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Driving in to Darlington County / Me and Wayne on the Fourth of July / Driving in to Darlington County / Looking for some work on the county line / We drove down from New York City
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Bruce Springsteen – A Night with the Jersey Devil
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[Verse] / Hear me now! / I was born 13th child, neath the 13th moon / Spit out all hungry and born anew / Daddy drag me to the river tie me in rocks / Throw me in where its deep
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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 – Fire [Live at the Winterland, San Francisco, CA - December 1978]
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[Verse 1] / I'm driving in my car / I turn on the radio / I'm pulling you close / You just say no / You say you don't like it / But girl I know you're a liar / 'Cause when we kiss
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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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Bruce Springsteen – Tenth Avenue Freeze Out [Live 1975/85]
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Tear drops on the city / Bad Scooter searching for his groove / Seem like the whole world walking pretty / And you can't find the room to move / Well everybody better move over
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Bruce Springsteen – Born in the U.S.A. [Live 1975/85]
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1,2 / 1,2,3,4 / Born down in a dead man's town / The first kick I took was when I hit the ground / You end up like a dog that's been beat too much / Till you spend half your life
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Bruce Springsteen – Hungry Heart [Live 1975/85]
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Got a wife and kids in Baltimore Jack / I went out for a ride and I never went back / Like a river that don't know where it's flowing / I took a wrong turn and I just kept going
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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 – Cover Me
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The second of seven top 10 singles from Springsteen’s massively-successful Born In The USA, “Cover Me” was originally written by Bruce for Donna Summer, but after recording the
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Bruce Springsteen – Badlands [Live 1975/85]
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Lights out tonight trouble in the heartland / Got a head-on collision smashin' in my guts man / I'm caught in a crossfire that I don't understand / But there's one thing I know for
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Bruce Springsteen – Darlington County
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[Verse 1] / Driving in to Darlington County / Me and Wayne on the Fourth of July / Driving in to Darlington County / Looking for some work on the county line / We drove down from
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