 Genius Meanings
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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 – 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 – Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out (Introduction) [Springsteen on Broadway]
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[Spoken] / Now, real rock 'n' roll band evolves out of a common place and time, fans come out of towns, out of city, out of neighborhood, and they come along in a particular moment
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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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Lifter Puller – 11th Ave Freezeout
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Juanita thinks she's a roller rink / We're on the brink of financial disaster / Wants to feel just a little faster / Smashed her hand on the mirror in the bathroom / I get high
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Bruce Springsteen – Wrecking Ball (Live at MetLife Stadium, E. Rutherford, NJ - 9/22/2012)
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Sep 22, 2012 ... Q&A. Find answers to frequently asked questions about the song and explore its deeper meaning ... 7. Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out (Live at Brendan ...
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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 – Paradise by the ‘C’
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[Instrumental]
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Bruce Springsteen – Thunder Road [Hammersmith Odeon, London ’75]
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[Verse 1] / The screen door slams, Mary's dress sways / Like a vision she dances across the porch as the radio plays / Roy Orbison's singing for the lonely / Hey, that's me and I
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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 – The Promised Land (Springsteen on Broadway)
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[Verse 1] / On a rattlesnake speedway in the Utah desert / I pick up my money and head back into town / Driving 'cross the Waynesboro county line / I got the radio on and I'm just
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – The Promised Land (Introduction, Pt. 2) [Springsteen on Broadway]
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[Spoken] / I had one shot, my girlfriend at the time did me a great favor, brought a guy who had a successful recording band down to the Student Prince, our club, Asbury Park, to
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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 – 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 – 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 – Used Cars (Live at St. Rose of Lima School, Freehold, NJ - 11/08/96)
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My little sister's in the front seat with an ice cream cone / My ma's in the back seat sitting all alone / As my pa steers her slow out of the lot / For a test drive down Michigan
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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 – 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 – Born in the U.S.A. (Introduction, Pt. 2) [Springsteen on Broadway]
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[Spoken] / And then there was Bart Hanes. Bart Hanes was the drummer from my first band, The Castilles. He was the first real drummer I ever played with. He was absurdly funny kid
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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 – 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 – Quarter to Three
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[Chorus 1] / Don't you know that I danced, I danced 'til a quarter to three / With the help last night of Daddy G / He was swingin on the sax like a nobody could / And I was dancin
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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 – Racing in the Street [Live 1975/85]
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I got a sixty-nine Chevy with a 396 / Fuelie heads and a Hurst on the floor / She's waiting tonight down in the parking lot / Outside the Seven-Eleven store / Me and my partner
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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 – 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 – Johnny 99 [Live 1975/85]
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Well they closed down the auto plant in Mahwah late that month / Ralph went out lookin' for a job but he couldn't find none / He came home too drunk from mixin' Tanqueray and wine
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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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