Lyrics
In the day we sweat it out on the streets
Of a runaway American dream
At night we ride through the mansions of glory
In suicide machines
Sprung from cages on Highway 9
Chrome wheeled, fuel injected, and steppin' out over the line
Oh, baby this town rips the bones from your back
It's a death trap, it's a suicide rap
We gotta get out while we're young
'Cause tramps like us, baby, we were born to run
Yes, girl, we were
Wendy, let me in, I wanna be your friend
I wanna guard your dreams and visions
Just wrap your legs 'round these velvet rims
And strap your hands 'cross my engines
Together we could break this trap
We'll run 'til we drop, baby, we'll never go back
Oh, will you walk with me out on the wire?
'Cause, baby, I'm just a scared and lonely rider
But I gotta know how it feels
I want to know if love is wild
Babe, I want to know if love is real
Oh, can you show me
Beyond the Palace, hemi-powered drones
Scream down the boulevard
Girls comb their hair in rearview mirrors
And the boys try to look so hard
The amusement park rises bold and stark
Kids are huddled on the beach in the mist
I wanna die with you, Wendy, on the street tonight
In an everlasting kiss
(One, two, three, four)
The highway's jammed with broken heroes
On a last chance power drive
Everybody's out on the run tonight
But there's no place left to hide
Together, Wendy, we can live with the sadness
I'll love you with all the madness in my soul
Oh, someday, girl, I don't know when
We're gonna get to that place
Where we really wanna go and we'll walk in the sun
But 'til then, tramps like us
Baby, we were born to run
Oh honey, tramps like us
Baby, we were born to run
Come on with me, tramps like us
Baby, we were born to run
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Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run Lyrics
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This is indeed a true love song people, but it's also much more. Bruce once described it as a song about two people trying to find their way home. So yes, it's ...
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Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Born to Run (Bruce Springsteen cover) Lyrics
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Log in now to tell us what you think this song means. Don't have an account? Create an account with SongMeanings to post comments, submit lyrics, and more. It's ...
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Bruce Springsteen - Born in the U.S.A. Lyrics
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Bruce Springsteen - Meeting Across the River Lyrics
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Bruce Springsteen - Gypsy Biker Lyrics
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... Born to Run." That song is almost certainly about a "gypsy biker" of sorts who wanted to get away from what he knew. Interestingly, "Magic" (the album) ...
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Bruce Springsteen - My Hometown Lyrics
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Bruce Springsteen - The Promise Lyrics
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Bruce Springsteen - Mansion On the Hill Lyrics
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Bruce Springsteen - Lost In The Flood Lyrics
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Bruce Springsteen - She's the One Lyrics
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Bruce Springsteen - Something in the Night Lyrics
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Born To Run by Bruce Springsteen - Songfacts
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Born To Run by Bruce Springsteen song meaning, lyric interpretation, video and chart position
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Thunder Road by Bruce Springsteen - Songfacts
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Jungleland by Bruce Springsteen - Songfacts
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Dancing In The Dark by Bruce Springsteen - Songfacts
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Born In The U.S.A. by Bruce Springsteen - Songfacts
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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 – Born to Run (Springsteen on Broadway)
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[Verse 1] / In the day we sweat it out on the streets of a runaway American dream / At night we ride through mansions of glory in suicide machines / We're sprung from cages out on
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OnlyEverArabella (Ft. Bruce Springsteen) – Transcendentalism and Its Parallels to Bruce Springsteen’s “Born To Run” Album
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This is an essay comparing the ideals of Transcendentalism with the escapist impulses of Bruce Springsteen’s “Born To Run” album. It analyzes the songs “Thunder Road” and “Born to
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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 – Born to Run (Live at Brendan Byrne Arena, E. Rutherford, NJ - 7/9/1981)
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[Intro] / One, two / [Verse 1] / In the day, we sweat it out on the streets / Of a runaway American dream / At night, we ride through mansions of glory / In suicide machines
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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 to Run [Live 1975/85]
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In the day we sweat it out in the streets of a runaway American dream / At night we ride through mansions of glory in suicide machines / Sprung from cages out on highway 9 / Chrome
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Melissa Etheridge – Born to Run
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Etheridge performed this Springsteen classic in 2009 at a Kennedy Center event honoring Bruce Springsteen.
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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 – Thunder Road
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Bruce’s ode to rock and roll’s dual eternal promises of escape – fast cars and pretty girls
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Suzi Quatro – Born to Run
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In the day we sweat it out in the streets of a runaway American dream / At night we ride through the mansions of glory in suicide machines / Sprung from cages out on highway 9
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Frankie Goes to Hollywood – Born to Run
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“Born To Run” is one of FGTH’s several cover songs included on their debut album Welcome To The Pleasuredome. The song was originally written and released by Bruce Springsteen and
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Big Daddy – Born to Run
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In the day we sweat it out on the streets of a runaway American dream / At night we ride through mansions of glory in suicide machines / Sprung from cages on Highway 9 / Chrome-
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Bruce Springsteen – Born in the U.S.A. (Springsteen on Broadway)
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[Instrumental Intro] / [Verse 1] / 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 / 'Til you
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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 – My Hometown (Introduction, Pt. 1) [Springsteen on Broadway]
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Neil Cicierega – Born to Cat
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Neil mixes “Born to Run” by Bruce Springsteen and the 1962 instrumental piece “Alley Cat” by Bent Fabric – which sounded old-timey even in 1962 – to create a much older-sounding
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Jimmy Fallon (Ft. Bruce Springsteen) – Born to Run Bridgegate Parody
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The hottest (US) political story of early 2014 is the revenge driven closure of two out of three lanes to the George Washington Bridge in Fort Lee, NJ, in August 2013, instigated
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Sesame Street (Ft. Bruce Stringbean) – Born To Add
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When we're roamin' the streets and we see one car / We always add one and make it two / It don't matter why we like to add one and one / Out here it's the thing to do / Now some
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Eric Church – Springsteen
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Bruce Springsteen – Born in the U.S.A. (Introduction, Pt. 1) [Springsteen on Broadway]
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[Spoken] / So it's, it's 1980, I'm 30 years old, I'm on another cross country trip with a buddy of mine, and we stop outside of Phoenix to gas up, go into a small town drugstore, I
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Bruce Springsteen – Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
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Genius Albums
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Chapter and Verse by Bruce Springsteen
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Chapter and Verse is a studio album by Bruce Springsteen that was released on September 23, 2016.
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