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Born To Run
(Bruce Springsteen)

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 wheeled, fuel injected and steppin' out over the line
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

Wendy let me in I wanna be your friend
I want to guard your dreams and visions
Just wrap your legs 'round these velvet rims
And strap your hands across my engines
Together we could break this trap
We'll run till we drop, baby we'll never go back
Will you walk with me out on the wire
`Cause baby I'm just a scared and lonely rider
But I gotta find out how it feels
I want to know if love is wild girl I want to know if love is real

Beyond the Palace hemi-powered drones scream down the boulevard
The 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 a mist
I wanna die with you Wendy on the streets tonight
In an everlasting kiss

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'll live with the sadness
I'll love you with all the madness in my soul
Someday girl I don't know when we're gonna get to that place
Where we really want to go and we'll walk in the sun
But till then tramps like us baby we were born to run

from Born To Run (1975)

Hungry Heart
(Bruce Springsteen)

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

Everybody's got a hungry heart
Everybody's got a hungry heart
Lay down your money and you play your part
Everybody's got a hungry heart

I met her in a Kingstown bar
We fell in love I knew it had to end
We took what we had and we ripped it apart
Now here I am down in Kingstown again

Everybody's got a hungry heart
Everybody's got a hungry heart
Lay down your money and you play your part
Everybody's got a hungry heart

Everybody needs a place to rest
Everybody wants to have a home
Don't make no difference what nobody says
Ain't nobody like to be alone

Everybody's got a hungry heart
Everybody's got a hungry heart
Lay down your money and you play your part
Everybody's got a hungry heart

from The River (1980)

The River
(Bruce Springsteen)

I come from down in the valley
Where mister when you're young
They bring you up to do like you daddy done
Me and Mary we met in high school
When she was just seventeen
We'd drive out of this valley down to where the fields were green

We'd go down to the river
And into the river we'd dive
Oh down the river we'd ride

Then I got Mary pregnant
And man that was all she wrote
And for my nineteenth birthday I got a union card and a wedding coat
When we went down to the courthouse
And the judge put it all to rest
No wedding day smiles, no walk down the aisle
No flowers, no wedding dress

That night we went down to the river
And into the river we'd dive
Oh down to the river we did ride

I got a kob working construction for the Johnstown Company
But lately there ain't been much work on account of the economy
Now all them things that seemed so important
Well mister they vanished right into the air
Now I just act like I don't remember
Mary acts like she don't care

But I remember us riding in my brother's car
Her body tan and wet down at the reservoir
At night on them banks I'd lie awake
And pull her close just to feel each breath she'd take
Now those memories come back to haunt me
They haunt me like a curse
Is a dream a lie if it don't come true
Or is it something worse
That sends me down to the river
Though I know the river is dry
That sends me down to the river tonight
Down to the river
My baby and I
Oh down to the river we ride

from The River (1980)

Dancing In The Dark
(Bruce Springsteen)

I get up in the evening and I ain't got nothin' to say
I come home in the morning, I go to bed feeling the same way
I ain't nothin' but fired. Man, I'm just tired and bored with myself
Hey there, baby, I could use just a little help

You can't start a fire, you can't start a fire
Without a spark, this gun's for hire
Even if we're just dancin' in the dark

Messages keep gettin' clearer, radio's on and I'm movin' round the place
I check my look in the mirror, I wanna change my clothes, my hair, my face
Man, I ain't gettin' nowhere, I'm just livin' in a dump like this
There's somethin' happenin' somewhere, baby, I just know that there is

You can't start a fire, you can't start a fire
Without a spark, this gun's for hire
Even if we're just dancin' in the dark

You sit around gettin' older, there's a joke here somewhere and it's on me
I'll shake this world off my shoulders, come on, baby, the laugh's on me

Stay on the streets of this town and they'll be carvin' you up alright
They say you gotta stay hungry, hey baby, I'm just about starvin' tonight
I'm dying for some action
I'm sick of sittin' around here trying to write this book
I need a love reaction, come on, baby, give me just one look

You can't start a fire, you can't start a fire
Without a spark, this gun's for hire
Even if we're just dancin' in the dark

You can't start a fire, worrying about your little world fallin' apart
This gun's for hire even if we're just dancin' in the dark
Even if we're just dancin' in the dark
Even if we're just dancing in the dark, hey baby

from Born In The U.S.A. (1984)

Cover Me
(Bruce Springsteen)

The times are tough now, just getting tougher
This old world is rough, it's just getting rougher
Cover me, come on baby, cover me
Well I'm looking for a lover who will come on in and cover me
Promise me baby you won't let them find us
Hold me in your arms, let's let our love blind us
Cover me, shut the door and cover me
Well I'm looking for a lover who will come on in and cover me

Outside's the rain, the driving snow
I can hear the wild wind blowing
Turn out the light, bolt the door
I ain't going out there no more

This whole world is out there just trying to score
I've seen enough I don't want to see any more

Cover me, come on and cover me
I'm looking for a lover who will come on in and cover me
Looking for a lover who will come on in and cover me

from Born In The U.S.A. (1984)

Born In The U.S.A
(Bruce Springsteen)

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
Till you spend half your life just covering up

Born in the U.S.A - I was born in the U.S.A
I was born in the U.S.A - Born in the U.S.A

Got in a little hometown jam
So they put a rifle in my hand
Sent me off to a foreign land
To go and kill the yellow man

Born in the U.S.A - I was born in the U.S.A
I was born in the U.S.A - Born in the U.S.A

Come back home to the refinery
Hiring man says, "Son if it was up to me"
Went down to see my V.A. man
He said, "Son, don't you understand now"
Had a brother at Khe Sahn
Fighting off the Viet Cong
They're still there he's all gone
He had a woman he loved in Saigon
I got a picture of him in her arms now
Down in the shadow of the penitentiary
Out by the gas fires of the refinery
I'm ten years burning down the road
Now here to run ain't got nowhere to go

Born in the U.S.A - I was born in the U.S.A
I was born in the U.S.A - Born in the U.S.A

I'm a long gone Daddy in the U.S.A
Born in the U.S.A - born in the U.S.A
Born in the U.S.A
I'm a cool rocking Daddy in the U.S.A

from Born In The U.S.A. (1984)

I'm On Fire
(Bruce Springsteen)

Hey, little girl, is your daddy home
Did he go and leave you all alone?
I got a bad desire, oh, I'm on fire

Tell me now, baby, is he good to you
Can he do to you the things I don't do?
Oh no, I can take you higher, oh, I'm on fire

Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby, edgy and dull
I've got a six inch valley through the middle of my soul
At night I wake up with the sheets soaking wet
And a freight train running through the middle of my head
Only you can cool my desire
Oh, I'm on fire, oh, I'm on fire, oh, I'm on fire

from Born In The U.S.A. (1984)

Glory Days
(Bruce Springsteen)

I had a friend was a big baseball player back in high school
He could throw that speedball by you make you look like a fool, boy
Saw him the other night at this roadside bar
I was walking in, he was walking out, we went back inside, sat down
Had a few drinks, but all he kept talking about was

Glory days - well, they'll pass you by - glory days
In the wink of a young girl's eye - glory days, glory days

There's a girl that lives up the block
Back in school she could turn all the boys heads
Sometimes on a Friday I'll stop by and have a few drinks
After she puts her kids to bed
Her and her husband Bobby, well, they split up
I guess it's two years gone by now
We just sit around talking about the old times
She says when she feels like crying she starts laughing thinking about

Glory days - well, they'll pass you by - glory days
In the wink of a young girl's eye - glory days, glory days

Think I'm going down to the well tonight
And I'm gonna drink until I get my fill, and I hope when I get old
I don't sit around thinking about it but I probably will
Yeah, just sitting back trying to recapture a little of the glory of
But the time slips away and leaves you with nothing, mister
But boring stories of

Glory days - well, they'll pass you by - glory days
In the wink of a young girl's eye - glory days, glory days
Well, they'll pass you by - glory days
Alright, oh yeah, alright, come on now
Alright, oh yeah, alright, come on now
Alright boys, keep on rocking now, we want to go
We're going to home now, really home, really home, alright alright ....

from Born In The U.S.A. (1984)

My Hometown
(Bruce Springsteen)

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 we drove through the town
He'd tousle my hair and say: son, take a good look around
This is your hometown - this is your hometown
This is your hometown - this is your hometown

In '65, tension was running high at my high school
There was a lot of fights between the black and white
There was nothing you could do
Two cars at a light on a Saturday night
In the backseat there was a gun
Words were passed in a shotgun blast
Troubled times had come to my hometown
To my hometown - to my hometown - to my hometown

Now Main Street's whitewashed windows and vacant stores
Seems like there ain't nobody wants to come down here no more
They 're closing down the textile mill across the railroad tracks
Foreman says: these jobs are going, boys
And they ain't coming back to your hometown
To your hometown - to your hometown - to your hometown

Last night me and Kate we laid in bed talking 'bout 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 behind the wheel and said
Son, take a good look around, this is your hometown

from Born In The U.S.A. (1984)

War *
(Barret Strong/Norman Whitfield/Edwin Star)

War - what is it good for?
Absolutely nothing
War - what is it good for?
Absolutely nothing

War is something that I despise
For it means destruction of innocent lives
For it means tears in thousands of mothers' eyes
When their sons go out to fight to give their lives

War - what is it good for?
Absolutely nothing - say it again
War - what is it good for?
Absolutely nothing

War - it's nothing but a heartbreaker
War - friend only to the undertaker

War is the enemy of all mankind
The thought of war blows my mind
Handed down from generation to generation
Induction destruction - who wants to die?

War - what is it good for?
Absolutely nothing - say it again
War - what is it good for?
Absolutely nothing

War has shattered many young men's dreams
Made them disabled bitter and mean
Life is too precious to be fighting wars each day
War can't give life it can only take it away

War - it's nothing but a heartbreaker
War - friend only to the undertaker

Peace love and understanding
There must be some place for these things today
They say we must fight to keep our freedom
But Lord there's gotta be a better way
That's better than war

War - what is it good for?
Absolutely nothing - say it again
War - what is it good for?
Absolutely nothing

from Live 1975-1985 (1986)
originally performed by Edwin Starr (1970)