Bruce Springsteen lyrics appreciation

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Just watching BBC2 program about Bruce.

He has such talent at writing lyrics.

From Badlands,

You spend your life waiting
For a moment that just don't come

Well, don't waste your time waiting

Add your favourite!

Oooh I didn't know that was on. I absolutely love him.

I'm On Fire.

You get used to anything sooner or later it just becomes your life

You aint a beauty but hey your alright

But everything the boss writes is genuis

I love the whole lyric of Glory Days. I do hope Bruce comes over again soon.

There's a sadness hidden in her pretty face.. Candy's Room (from memory)

I ain't nobody's bargain but hey, a little touch up and a little paint...

“Though I know the river is dry….”

Gets me every time

I do like to listen to “Working on a dream” on my way to work though

From “Darkness on the edge of town” - “Tonight I’ll be on that hill ‘cause I can’t stop, I’ll be on that hill with everything I’ve got” .
I can feel it in my bones

“Hey, that’s me, and I want you ONLY”
“Don’t run back inside, darling, you know what I’m here for” ❤️
(Both from Thunder Road)

My all time favourite, probably “Honey, I’m tougher than the rest”

I was bruised and battered and I couldn't tell what I felt,
I was unrecognisable to myself.
Philadelphia

Got a wife and kid in Baltimore Jack
I went out for a ride and I never came back.

*You know just what I’m here for

Basically all of Thunder Road...

The screen door slams, Mary's dress sways
Like a vision she dances across the porch as the radio plays
Roy Orbison singing for the lonely
Hey that's me and I want you only
Don't turn me home again
I just can't face myself alone again
Don't run back inside, darling you know just what I'm here for
So you're scared and you're thinking that maybe we ain't that young anymore
Show a little faith, there's magic in the night
You ain't a beauty, but hey you're alright
Oh and that's alright with me

You can hide 'neath your covers and study your pain
Make crosses from your lovers, throw roses in the rain
Waste your summer praying in vain for a savior to rise from these streets
Well now I'm no hero, that's understood
All the redemption I can offer, girl, is beneath this dirty hood
With a chance to make it good somehow
Hey what else can we do now
Except roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair
Well the night's busting open, these two lanes will take us anywhere
We got one last chance to make it real
To trade in these wings on some wheels
Climb in back, heaven's waiting down on the tracks

Oh oh come take my hand
Riding out tonight to case the promised land
Oh oh oh oh Thunder Road, oh Thunder Road, oh Thunder Road
Lying out there like a killer in the sun
Hey I know it's late, we can make it if we run
Oh oh oh oh Thunder Road, sit tight, take hold, Thunder Road

Well I got this guitar and I learned how to make it talk
And my car's out back if you're ready to take that long walk
From your front porch to my front seat
The door's open but the ride it ain't free
And I know you're lonely for words that I ain't spoken
Tonight we'll be free, all the promises will be broken
There were ghosts in the eyes of all the boys you sent away
They haunt this dusty beach road in the skeleton frames of burned-out Chevrolets
They scream your name at night in the street
Your graduation gown lies in rags at their feet
And in the lonely cool before dawn
You hear their engines roaring on
But when you get to the porch they're gone on the wind, so Mary climb in
It's a town full of losers, I'm pulling out of here to win

I'm watching him too. Even listening to him talk is so mesmerising.

@Yirk

I was bruised and battered and I couldn't tell what I felt, I was unrecognisable to myself. Philadelphia

Philadelphia is just heartbreaking

They are showing the film 'Blinded by the light' now!

I find the chorus for Atlantic City so poignant

Everything dies baby that's a fact
But maybe everything that dies some day comes back
Put your makeup on fix your hair up pretty
And meet me tonight in Atlantic City

I'll drive that dusty road from Monroe to Angeline. To buy you a gold ring and a pretty dress of blue, girl just one kiss will get these things for you. Prove it all night
But really there aren't any bad songs in his catalogue. Love, life, death and generally all the songs are about ordinary people and the trials they face.

Should also say certain songs like Mansion on the Hill, Atlantic City or Darkness on the Edge of Town bring a tear to my eye and I've listened to them for 40 years

The River ….Now I just act like I don't remember
Mary acts like she don't care…
The song makes me cry when I hear it - he’s an absolute genius

We just watched this too

Love him so much

I grew up in luton in the 70s and 80s and love bruce springsteen i hated blinded by the light i turned it off. So disappointed

The whole of If I Should Fall Behind.

Yes definite talent for making you cry, there is a sadness at the heart of so many songs.

There's a darkness on the edge of town

We read ‘if I should fall behind’ at our wedding.

The River just breaks my heart every time.

My Hometown makes me cry every time I hear it....

Last night me and Kate we laid in bed
Talking about getting out
Packing up our bags, maybe heading south
I'm thirty-five, we got a boy of our own now
Last night I sat him up behind the wheel
And said, "son, take a good look around
This is your hometown"

Said son take a good look around, this is your hometown.

Love tougher than the rest