Thundercrack lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

Her brains they rattle and her bones they shake

Whoa, she's an angel from the Innerlake

Thundercrack, baby's back

This time she'll tell me how she really feels

Bring me down to her lightning shack

You can watch my partner reelin'

She moves up, she moves back

Out on the floor there just is no one cleaner

She does this thing she calls the "Jump back Jack"

She's got the heart of a ballerina

She's straight from the Bronx

Hung off the line

She slips, she slides, she slops, she bops, she bumps, she grinds

Even them dance hall hacks

From the west side of the tracks

Move in close to catch her timin'

She moves up, she moves back

Out on the floor there just is no one cleaner

She does this thing she calls the "Jump back Jack"

She's got the heart of a ballerina

She ain't no little girl, she ain't got no curls

Her hair ain't brown, and her eyes ain't either

Round and round and round and round

My heart's wood, she's a carpenter

She's an angel in the night, what she does is alright

Dance with me, partner, dance with me, partner

Dance with me, partner, 'til the dawn

Thundercrack, baby's back

This time she'll tell me how she really feels

Bring me down to her lightning shack

You can watch my partner reelin'

She moves up, she moves back

Out on the floor there just is no one cleaner

She does this thing she calls the "Jump back Jack"

She's got the heart of a ballerina

She ain't no little girl, she ain't got no curls

Her hair ain't brown, and her eyes ain't either

Round and round and round and round

My heart's wood, she's a carpenter

She's an angel in the night, what she does is alright

Dance with me, partner, dance with me, partner

Dance with me, partner, all night

Trapped lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

Seems like I'm caught up in your trap again

Seems like I'll be wearing the same old chains

Good will conquer evil and the truth will set me free

And I know someday I will find the key

I know somewhere I will find the key

Seems like I've been playing your game way too long

Seems the game I've played has made you strong

When the game is over I won't walk out the loser

I know I'll walk out of here again

I know someday I'll walk out of here again

Well now I'm trapped

Ooh yeah

Seems like I've been sleeping in your bed too long

Seems like you've been meaning to do me harm

But I'll teach my eyes to see beyond these walls in front of me

Someday I'll walk out of here again

Someday I'll walk out of here again

Well now I'm trapped

Ooh yeah

Seems like I've been playing your game way too long

Seems the game I've played has made you strong

Well now I'm trapped

Ooh yeah

Trouble In Paradise lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

You do the drying, I'll do the dishes

Who'll do the crying

When all the wishes don't come true

You do the washing, I'll do the folding

Whose heart is breaking

When whose arms are holding someone new

Sittin' on a peaceful lake sunnin'

Didn't hear the roar of the waterfall coming

When it's all a storybook story

When it's all so easy and nice

Here comes trouble in paradise

You did the dusting, I did the sweeping

You did the driving oh and I did the sleeping a little too long

On a picnic 'neath the sky so blue

We didn't see the rain and heartache coming through

When it's all an old black and white movie

And you're sure you've seen the ending twice

Here comes trouble in paradise

You said everything was fine

I'm sorry, baby, I didn't see the signs

Oh so beautifully you read your lines

But in a play where the hero has no vice

And love comes without a price

So does trouble in paradise

Don't matter who did the dusting or who did the sweeping

Who did the trusting or who did the cheating when it's all gone

Laying in a field on a summer's day

Waitin' for those gray skies to clear away

Knowing all love's glory and beauty

Can vanish before you think twice

Leaving trouble in paradise

Now we share the laughing, we share the joking

We do the sleeping with one eye open

TV Movie lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

I woke up last night shaking from a dream

For in that dream I died

My wife rolled over and told me

That my life would be immortalized

Not in some major motion picture

Or great American novel, you see

No, they're gonna make a TV movie out of me

Well now, it's one two three you take the money

Yeah it's as easy as A B C

Yeah they're gonna make a TV movie out of me

Well they can change my name or they can leave it

They can change my story too

Or they can make me black or Chinese

And do things that I never do

They're gonna give my life a whole new ending

And put me in prime time first-run

And when it's over, what I did there will be what I done

Now I don't want my name in a history book

Nobody's ever gonna see

No, they're gonna make a TV movie out of me

Well now, it's one two three you take the money

Yeah it's as easy as A B C

Yeah they're gonna make a TV movie out of me

Well I'm a shoe-in for sponsor

Goodyear blimp and radial wheels

Somebody had a meeting somewhere

Somehow somebody made a deal

Well I was one of them kinds of stories

That everybody liked to see

Yeah they're gonna make a TV movie out of me

Now I don't want no inscription on my gravestone

No long soliloquy

No they're gonna make a TV movie out of me

Well now, it's one two three you take the money

Yeah it's as easy as A B C

Yeah they're gonna make a TV movie out of me

Two For The Road lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

It's one for the money and one for the show

I got one kiss for you honey so come on let's go

I didn't see it coming but girl now I know

It takes one for the running but two for the road

One thousand dreams whispered in the dark

But a dream's just a dream in one empty heart

It takes more than one to rev it up and go

So let's get it running, we're two for the road

Two one-way tickets and a diamond ring

Hell it don't matter what the rain might bring

When this world treats you hard and cold

I'll stand beside you, we're two for the road

When you're alone my love'll shine the light

Through the dark and starless night

I'll hold you close and never let you go

C'mon now girl 'cause we're two for the road

Well it's two to get ready, babe, c'mon let's go

Me and you, girl, we're two for the road

Viva Las Vegas lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

(originally by Elvis Presley)

Bright light city gonna set my soul

Gonna set my soul on fire

I've got a whole lot a money just ready to burn

So get those stakes up higher

There's a thousand pretty women just a-waitin' out there

They're all livin Devil may care

And I'm just the Devil with love to spare

Viva Las Vegas

Viva Las Vegas

How I wish that there were more

Than 24 hours in a day

But even if there were 40 more

I wouldn't sleep a minute away

There's Blackjack, Poker and the Roulette Wheel

A fortune won and lost on every deal

All you need is money and nerves of steel

Viva Las Vegas

Viva Las Vegas

Well, Viva Las Vegas with your neon flashing and

Your one-armed bandits crashing

All your hopes down the drain

Well, Viva Las Vegas turning day into night time

Turnin 'night into day time

If you've seen it once you'll never be the same again

I'm gonna keep on the run

I'm gonna have me some fun

If it costs me my very last dime

If I wind up broke, well, I'll always remember

That I had me a swinging time

I'm gonna give it every thing I got

Lady Luck won't you let the dice stay hot

Let me shoot a seven with every shot

Viva Las Vegas

Viva Las Vegas

Viva Las Vegas

Viva Viva

Las Vegas

Busted

Wages Of Sin lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

When we fight and I wanna talk it out

You won't say nothing, nothing at all

You just sit there, you won't open that pretty mouth

I think you like keeping my back up against the wall

Wages of sin, you keep me paying

Wages of sin for wrongs that I've done

Wages of sin, you keep me paying

Wages of sin, one by one

I walk in the apartment, there's clothes thrown all over the place

You're crouched in the corner with makeup running down your face

I don't wanna believe what my heart keeps saying

You keep me on the line so you can keep me paying

Wages of sin, we keep paying

Wages of sin for the wrongs that we've done

Wages of sin, we keep paying

Wages of sin, that's how we have our fun

I remember when I was a little boy out where the cottonwoods grow tall

Trying to make it home through the forest before the darkness falls

Baby all the sounds I heard, even if they weren't real

I was running down that broken path with the devil snapping at my heels

I tried so hard, so hard in every way

Swore someday I'd grow up, just throw it all away

Cried all the tears, baby, that I could cry

Stomached all my fears 'til they came rushin' up inside

Darlin' I'm losin' and it's a mean game

Still I play on just the same

Wages of sin, I keep paying

Wages of sin for some wrong that I've done

Wages of sin, well I keep paying

Wages of sin, one by one

When The Lights Go Out lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

Now you say you have a friend, you trust him with your life

You trust him with your money, you trust him with your kids

You'd even trust him with your wife

You better watch what's goin' on when the lights are out

When the night is dark, when there ain't nobody lookin' around

Yeah when the lights are out, down in this dirty little town

Well now the world is dark and funny, better listen up to what I say

You ain't gonna know what's going on by what you see in the light of day

You gotta watch what's goin' on when the lights are out

When the night is dark, when there ain't nobody lookin' around

Yeah when the lights are out in this dirty little town

Now you swear that she trusted you

Within reason I understand

But you kept slippin' in late at night

And in the mornin' you had that smell on your hands

Well now the world is turning, Rome is burning

Me, I'm watching and I'm learning

They say sure as God's hand and the tickin' of the clock

The lord's light'll shine under every slimy rock

Well last night I slept the sleep of fear

And I heard God's voice whisper in my ear

He said you better watch what's going on when the lights are out

When the night is dark, when there ain't nobody lookin' around

Yeah when the lights are out, down in this dirty little town

When You Need Me lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

When you need me call my name

'Cause without you my life just wouldn't be the same

If you want me come sunny skies or rain

When you need me just call my name

If you miss me, I'll be there

To brush the sunlight from your hair

I'll be there to guide you when trouble walks beside you

If you need me I'll be there

And when this dirty world has been cold to you

I got two strong arms waitin' to hold you

And when those mean days come along

We'll stand together and we'll take 'em on

So if you need me just call my name

When you need me call my name

'Cause without you my life just isn't the same

'Cause when this world kicked me around

You picked me up off the ground

So if you need me I'll be there

When you need me call my name

'Cause without you my life just wouldn't be the same

If you want me come sunny skies or rain

When you need me just call my name

Where The Bands Are lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

I hear the guitars ringin' out

Ringin' out down Union Street

I hear the lead singer shoutin' out girl

I wanna be a slave to the beat

Yeah tonight I wanna break my chains

Somebody break my heart

Somebody shake my brains

Downtown there's something that I wanna hear

There's a sound little girl keeps ringin' in my ear

I wanna be where the bands are

I wanna be where the bands are

Where the bands are

I wanna be where the bands are

I get off from work and I grab something to eat

I turn the corner and I drive down your street

Little gray houses, darling, looks like nowhere

But hey I know you're hidin' in there

Come on out for just a little while

You know that heart of stone girl it just ain't your style

Tonight I wanna feel the beat of the crowd

And when I tell you that I love you

I wanna have to shout it out loud

Shout it out loud

I wanna be where the bands are

I wanna be where the bands are

Where the bands are

I wanna be where the bands are

I hear the guitars ringin' out again

Ringin' on down Union Street

I hear the lead singer shoutin' out and girl

I wanna be a slave to the beat

And I want something that'll break my chains

Something to break my heart

Something to break my chains

There's a rocker's special on tonight

So meet me on down

'Neath the neon lights

I wanna be where the bands are

I wanna be where the bands are

Where the bands are

I wanna be where the bands are

Whitetown lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

Mary Ann on the avenue

Girl all dressed up in Kensington blue

Down where the hammer falls

She's born and bred within Whitetown walls

Each and every day slowly passes away

From a passing car she hears the music play

Beneath the "El" she starts to sway

Down in Whitetown

Down in Whitetown

Down in Whitetown

Johnny's trying to make his way

He's got a job, mister it don't pay

He sits and counts the scars

On a stool down the end of a Whitetown bar

And the old men here piss their lives away

Drinking and joking about their cop-fighting days

Ain't no answers here, just the past and fear

Of spending the rest of your days

Down in Whitetown

Down in Whitetown

Down in Whitetown

In a dream salvation comes with a beat

Or the sound of breaking glass and running feet

The beat that echoes down through the streets

Mary Ann dances on

Down in Whitetown

Down in Whitetown

Whitetown

Down in Whitetown

Down in Whitetown

Down in Whitetown

Without You lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

Monday, I go to work

Tuesday, can't find my shirt

Wednesday, I'm feeling blue

I'm helpless, darling

Without you

Without you

Without you

Thursday, everything's fine

Friday, I'm out of my mind

Saturday, Sunday too

It's hopeless, darling

Without you

Without you

Without you

Each and every night of the week

I toss and turn in my sleep

Worrying if you're all right

Wondering where you are tonight

Monday, I go to work

Tuesday, can't find my shirt

Wednesday, I'm feeling blue

I'm helpless, darling

Without you

Without you

Without you

Each and every night of the week

I toss and turn in my sleep

Worrying if you're all right

Wondering where you are tonight

Monday, I go to work

Tuesday, I can't find my shirt

Wednesday, I'm feeling blue

I'm helpless, darling

Without you

Without you

Without you

Thursday, everything's fine

Friday, I'm out of my mind

Saturday, Sunday too

I'm without you

Without you

Without you

Without you

Zero And Blind Terry lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

The Skulls met the Pythons

Down at the First Street station

Alliances have been made in alleyways

All across the nation

These boys live off the milk of a silver jet

And the love of sweet young women

Now the Pythons are down from old English town

And they're looking to do some livin'

Well the leader of the Pythons

Is a kid they just call Zero

Now Terry's pop says these kids are some kind of monsters

But Terry says "No, pop, they're just plain heroes"

Zero and Terry they found a love that burns like wildfire

Now Terry's daddy understood that this Zero was no good

A child, a thief and a liar

Well from out of the darkness that breaks the dawn

Zero rode like twilight

He said "Tonight's the night, Blind Terry, come on"

Terry come on, tonight is the night

Pack your bags, baby

And together they ran like reindeer through the street

Like tomorrow the earth was gonna catch on fire

Now Terry's dad hired some troopers to kill Zero and bring Terry back home

They crawled up in the night

Like firelight

Now snow-white troopers from the council of crime

Rode silver foxes through Terry's field

Oh they met the Pythons down on Route 9 but they refused to yield

The Pythons fought with buzz guns

And the troopers with swords like light

And Zero and Terry they ran away

And the gang fought all through the night

Well now some folks say Zero and Terry got away

Other said they were caught and brought back

But still young pilgrims to this day

Go to that spot way down by the railroad track

Where the Troopers met the Pythons

Old timers cry on a hot August night

If you look hard enough, if you try

You'll catch Zero and Terry and all the Pythons

Oh just hiking them streets of the sky

Just walkin', hiking the streets of the sky

Just hiking the streets of the sky

Hey Zero