 Genius Meanings
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Bruce Springsteen – Burnin' Train
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[Verse 1] / Zero’s my number / Time is my hunter / I wanted you to heal me / But instead you set me on fire / We were out over the borders / I washed you in holy water / We
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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 – 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 – Rainmaker
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In “Rainmaker”, a conman profits off the desperation of drought-stricken farmers by promising to bring them rain. Much like “Magic”, however, this is not just a tale of one
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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 – 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 – One Minute You're Here
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[Verse 1] / Big black train comin' down the track / Blow your whistle long and long / One minute you're here / Next minute you're gone / [Verse 2] / I lay my penny down on 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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Johnny Cash – Ring of Fire
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Johnny Cash’s soon-to-be-second-wife June Carter wrote “Ring of Fire” in 1963 with Merle Kilgore to express the experience of falling in love with the married Man in Black. Cash
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Dire Straits – Tunnel of Love
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At just over 8 minutes, “Tunnel of Love” seems like an odd choice for a single. Until you hear it that is. It’s quintessential Dire Straits, with Knopfler’s incredible, Bruce
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Bruce Springsteen – Ghosts
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[Verse 1] / I hear the sound of your guitar / Comin' in from the mystic far / Stone and the gravel in your voice / Come in my dreams and I rejoice / [Pre-Chorus] / It's your ghost
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Bruce Springsteen – I’ll See You in My Dreams
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[Verse 1] / The road is long and seeming without end / The days go on, I remember you my friend / And though you're gone and my heart's been emptied it seems / I'll see you in my
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Johnny Cash – Further On (Up the Road)
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Track #5 of American V: A Hundred Highways (2006).
The song is a Johnny Cash’s version of Bruce Springsteen’s “Further On (Up the Road)” from the critical acclaimed album 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 – 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 – Death to My Hometown
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“Death To My Hometown” is the third single and fifth track on Bruce Springsteen’s Wrecking Ball album, which was released in May of 2012.
This song is undeniably angry and
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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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The Broken Circle Breakdown Bluegrass Band – Further On Up The Road
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Where the road is dark and the seed is sowed / Where the gun is cocked and the bullet's cold / Where the miles are marked in the blood and gold / I'll meet you further on up the
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Bruce Springsteen – Last Man Standing
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Second song on the album, along with Ghosts dedicated to the beginning of Bruce’s musical career in his first professional band: The Castiles.
And it was the 2018 death of the
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Bruce Springsteen – Letter to You
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[Verse 1] / 'Neath a crowd of mongrel trees I pulled that bothersome thread / Got down on my knees, grabbed my pen and bowed my head / Tried to summon all that my heart finds true
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Bruce Springsteen – Don't Look Back
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[Verse 1] / Cold rain running down the front of my shirt / I'm flat on my back, the wheels in the dirt / Angel makes her face up out on Baker Street / She's straddling the shifter
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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 – House of a Thousand Guitars
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‘House of a Thousand Guitars’ is the seventh track of ‘Letter to You’, the twentieth studio album by Bruce Springsteen. It marks the transition to the part of the record in which
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Bruce Springsteen – Song for Orphans
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[Verse 1] / Well the multitude assembled and tried to make the noise / Them black blind poet generals and restless loud white boys / But time's grew thin and the axis grew somehow
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Bruce Springsteen – The Power of Prayer
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[Verse 1] / In the afternoon 'neath the summer sun / We'd lie by the lake till the evening comes / I run my fingers through your sun-streaked hair / Baby, that's the power of
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