 Genius Meanings
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Bruce Springsteen – Brilliant Disguise
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After achieving record breaking success with his album Born in the U.S.A., Springsteen released a more somber, and arguably more personal album in Tunnel of Love. Brilliant
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Bruce Springsteen – Brilliant Disguise (Introduction) [Springsteen on Broadway]
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[Spoken] / Trust uh, trust in a relationship's a fragile thing. Uh, always been a little complicated for me 'cause trust requires allowing others to see as much of our real selves
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Bruce Springsteen – The Ghost of Tom Joad (Springsteen on Broadway)
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[Verse 1] / Men walkin' along the railroad tracks / Goin' some place, there's no goin' back / Highway patrol choppers comin' up over the ridge / Hot soup on a campfire under the
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Bruce Springsteen – My Hometown (Springsteen on Broadway)
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[Verse 1] / I was eight years old and running with a dime in my hand / Into the bus stop to pick up a paper for my old man / I'd sit on his lap in that big old Buick / And steer as
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Bruce Springsteen – Born to Run (Introduction, Pt. 1) [Springsteen on Broadway]
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[Spoken] / It was a beautiful fall November evening, it was going to writing in my book, and I drove back to my neighborhood where I grew up, looking for uh - I still don't have a
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Bruce Springsteen – Tougher Than the Rest
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“Tougher Than the Rest” is a song by Bruce Springsteen from his 1987 Tunnel of Love album. It was released as a single in some countries, following “Brilliant Disguise” and the
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Bruce Springsteen – One Step Up
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Written by Bruce Springsteen from his 1987 Tunnel Of Love album, “One Step Up” was released as the third single from the album, following “Brilliant Disguise” and the title track.
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Bruce Springsteen – Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out (Springsteen on Broadway)
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[Spoken Intro: Bruce Springsteen and Crowd] / Now one plus one equals two, that happens every day, that is not magic. That's the grind. That's when you get up, one. Go to work, one
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Bruce Springsteen – My Father's House (Springsteen on Broadway)
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[Verse 1] / Last night I dreamed that I was a child / Out where the pines grow wild and tall / I was trying to make it home through the forest / Before the darkness, darkness falls
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Bruce Springsteen – Tougher Than the Rest (Introduction) [Springsteen on Broadway]
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[Spoken] / Alright, alright, she is the queen of my heart. She is my flaming beauty. My Jersey girl. She is a great songwriter, she's one of the loveliest voices I've ever heard
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Bruce Springsteen – Dancing in the Dark (Introduction) [Springsteen on Broadway]
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[Spoken] / I always, I always thought I was a typical American, so I fought my whole life and I studied and I played and I worked, 'cause I wanted to hear and I wanted to know the
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Bruce Springsteen – Land of Hope and Dreams (Springsteen on Broadway)
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[Verse 1] / Grab your ticket and your suitcase / Thunder’s rollin' down this track / Well, you don’t know where you’re going now / But you know you won’t be back / Well, darling if
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Bruce Springsteen – Tougher Than the Rest (Springsteen on Broadway)
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[Verse 1: Bruce Springsteen] / Well, it's Saturday night / You're all dressed up in blue / I been watching you awhile / Maybe you been watching me too / So somebody ran out / Left
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Bruce Springsteen – Growin' Up (Springsteen on Broadway)
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[Verse 1] / I stood stone-like at midnight / Suspended in my masquerade / I combed my hair 'til it was just right / And commanded the night brigade / I was open to pain and crossed
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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 – 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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Bruce Springsteen – The Wish (Springsteen on Broadway)
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[Verse 1] / Dirty old street all slushed up in the rain and snow / Little boy and his ma shivering outside a rundown music store window / That night on top of a Christmas tree
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Bruce Springsteen – Dancing in the Dark (Springsteen on Broadway)
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[Verse 1] / I get up in the evenin' / And I ain't got nothin' to say / I come home in the mornin' / I go to bed feelin' the same way / I ain't nothin' but tired / Man, I'm just
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Bruce Springsteen – Thunder Road (Springsteen on Broadway)
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[Verse 1] / The screen door slams / Mary's dress waves / Like a vision, she dances across the porch as the radio plays / It's Roy Orbison singing for the lonely / Hey that's me and
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Bruce Springsteen – Born to Run (Introduction, Pt. 2) [Springsteen on Broadway]
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[Spoken] / ...soul, soul is a stubborn thing. Doesn't dissipate so quickly. Souls remain. They remain here in the air, in empty space, in dusty roots, in sidewalks that I knew
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Bruce Springsteen – My Hometown (Introduction, Pt. 1) [Springsteen on Broadway]
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[Spoken] / Now everybody, everybody has a love-hate relationship with their hometown. It's just built into the equation of growing up. If you take me, I'm Mr. Born to Run. I'm Mr
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Bruce Springsteen – Growin' Up (Introduction) [Springsteen on Broadway]
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[Spoken] / DNA, your natural ability, the study of your craft, a development of and devotion to an aesthetic philosophy, balls, naked desire for fame, love, adoration, attention
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Bruce Springsteen – Long Time Comin' (Introduction) [Springsteen on Broadway]
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[Spoken] / I'm gonna add this song to our set tonight. Alright, this is the final days of Patti's first pregnancy. And I receive a surprise visit from my father at my home in LA
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Bruce Springsteen – The Wish (Introduction) [Springsteen on Broadway]
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[Spoken] / My mom was a different story altogether. I wanna release you from suicide watch right now. Snap out of it, come on. Because my mother was bright, happy, she'd merrily
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Bruce Springsteen – Thunder Road (Introduction) [Springsteen on Broadway]
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[Spoken] / There's nothing like being young and leaving someplace. That was a feeling that, oh, I loved. Maybe that's why I became a musician. Um, sleep late, stay up late, and you
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Bruce Springsteen – My Father's House (Introduction) [Springsteen on Broadway]
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[Spoken] / My father worked as a 16 year old floor boy in that rug mill, and then he went off to war, and when he came home, got married, they shut the rug mill down, so he went to
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