Bruce Springsteen Lyrics: April 2026

Tracks II: The Lost Albums (2025)

Follow That Dream lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

If your heart is restless from waiting so long

If you're tired and weary and you can't go on

If a distant dream is calling you

Then there's just one thing you can do

Follow that dream

Wherever it may lead

Come on follow that dream

To find the love you need

Come on follow that dream

Now I've been searching for a heart that's free

Searching for someone to search with me

I need a love

A love I can trust

Together we'll search for the things that come to us

In dreams

Wherever they may lead

Come on follow that dream

To find the love you need

Come on follow that dream

Now every man has the right to live

The right to a chance

To give what he has to give

The right to fight for the things he believes

For the things that come to him in dreams

Yeah, follow that dream

Wherever it may lead

Come on follow that dream

To find the love you need

Come on now follow that dream

Wherever it may lead

Come on now follow that dream

To find the love you need

Come on follow that dream

Yeah, follow that dream

Yeah, come on and follow that dream

Come on and follow that dream

Come on and follow that dream

To find the love you need

Don't Back Down On Our Love lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

When the night winds rustle the far away leaves

Rolling down the Kayona Valley through the cottonwood trees

And the wild river rises with last season's rains

I awake in the darkness and I call your name

Don't back down on our love

Don't back down on our love

Don't back down on our love

Don't back down

Baby, don't back down on our love

Don't back down on our love

Don't back down on our love

Don't back down

I awake and I know that sleep won't come soon

So I watch the headlights crawl up and down the wall of the lonesome room

Think of that club by the river where we danced on and on

Swore our love would last forever, and you laughed on and on

Don't back down on our love

Don't back down on our love

Don't back down on our love

Don't back down

Yeah, I wanna weep

But I'm broke inside and my tears won't run

I wanna sleep

But there ain't no dream, and the sleep won't come

Last night I stood on Black Mountain

And looked out to the sea

Where the waters of Mystery River

Go rushing endlessly

And the love we swore would last as long

As those waters roared on

I awoke in the darkness

It was gone, gone, gone

Don't back down on our love

Don't back down on our love

Don't back down on our love

Don't back down

Baby, don't back down on our love

Don't back down on our love

Don't back down on our love

Don't back down

Honey, don't back down on our love

Don't back down on our love

Don't back down on our love

Don't back down

Little Girl Like You lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

I want a little house on a little hill

I wanna settle down, yeah, I think I will

Settle down and find a little love that's true

Settle down with a girl like you

I've seen a lot of girls, had a lot of fun

Ran around a lot, now my running's done

Honey, all I wanna, wanna be running to

Is the arms of a girl like you

You start livin' life like you just don't care

You done everything, you been everywhere

But what I done ain't nothin' to what I wanna do

When I find a little girl like you

We'll get married in a church down a winding path

Tell a lot of jokes, have a lot of laughs

Do whatever it is that we wanna do

As long as I do it with a girl like you

Hey, little stranger who walkin' down the street

You're the only one who can make my life complete

I got a plan but it's made for two

So I need a little girl like you

Yeah, hey, I need a little girl like you

Oh honey, I need a little girl like you

Oh baby, I need a little girl like you

Johnny Bye Bye lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

Well, she drew out all her money

From the Southern Trust

And put her little boy

On a Greyhound bus

Leaving Memphis with a guitar in his hand

On a one-way ticket to the promised land

Hey now, little girlie with the red dress on

There's a party tonight down in Memphis town

I'll be going down there if you need a ride

A man on the radio says Elvis Presley died

As we drove down into Memphis

The sky turned hard and black

Up over the hill came a white Cadillac

They'd drawn out all his money

And laid him in the back

A woman cried from the roadside

"Johnny, Johnny, please come back!"

Well, they found him slumped back

Against the drain

With a whole lotta trouble

Running through his veins

Bye bye, Johnny

Oh, Johnny, bye bye

You didn't have to die

You didn't have to die

Sugarland lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

Grains in the field covered with tarp

Can't get a price to see my way clear

I'm sitting down at the Sugarland bar

You might as well bury my body right here

Tractor and combines out in the cold

Sheds piled high with the wheat we ain't sold

Silos filled with last year's crop

If something don't break, hey, we're all gonna drop

My wife's got another comin' in July

She's just layin' up in bed

All she does is cry, cry, cry

Tommy, oh, Tommy, I'm so alone

Tommy, oh, Tommy, oh, won't you stay home?

Pa don't say nothing except when it rains

He sits by the window listening to the sound of passing trains

Roarin' out of the night carryin' an empty load

We got a whole lot of grain

That ain't got nowhere to go

Well if them prices don't get no higher

I'll fill this duster with gas and set these fields on fire

Sit up on the ridge where the bluebirds fly

And watch the flames rise up against the Sugarland sky

Seven Tears lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

I had a wife, I had a child

I had a home upon a hill

Had a good life for seven years

Now all I've got is seven tears

Went down to see my gypsy man

He said, "Now, son, I understand."

When I said, "I want one for every year."

He tattooed on my face these seven tears

Oh, seven tears, oh, seven tears

I want one for every happy year

My baby's gone, she's gone, gone, gone

And I'll cry forever, ever on

When I walk out into the lights of town

People see me comin', and they gather 'round

They wanna know how I ended up here

With this tattoo on my face of seven tears

Oh, seven tears, oh, seven tears

I want one for every happy year

My baby's gone, she's gone, gone, gone

And I'll cry forever, ever on

Fugitives Dream lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

Sir, I am a pilgrim and a stranger in this land

Once, I had a home here, my salvation was at hand

I lived in a fine home on a far hillside

I had two beautiful children and a kind and loving wife

One day, a man came to town with nothing and nowhere to go

He came to me and he mentioned something I'd done a long time ago

I allowed him into my home on his vow our secret'd never see the light

At night, I'd lay awake in my wife's arms, she sighed, "Joe, are you alright?"

I thought I could hold on, my vows, I tried to keep

Day after day, I felt myself grow weak

One night, I dressed by moonlight and kissed my wife on the cheek

And I fled into the darkness of Union Street

And night after night, the same dream keeps coming 'round

I'm standing high in the green hills on the outskirts of town

The night air fills my lungs and rustles my shirt

In the distance, I can see the building where I used to work

I break through the open fields and out onto Old Town Road

I run faster and faster 'til I feel like my chest'll explode

As I draw near, the town's lit by a red summer moon

I feel your arms around me, I wake up in this room

Black Mountain Ballad lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

When the night wind rustles the faraway eaves

Rolling down the long valley through the cottonwood trees

And the wild river rises with last season's rains

I awake in the darkness and call your name

I lie awake, and I know that sleep won't come soon

I watch the headlights crawl up and down the wall of my lonely room

I think of that club by the river where we danced on and on

I swore our love could last forever, and you laughed on and on

There's a highway over yonder, lit by a moon pale and cold

Where together we would wander before our love grew old

There were roadside stands and a hundred faces we would never know

But we held tight to each other, and you said, "John, I love you so"

I wanna weep, but the tears won't run

I wanna sleep, but the sleep don't come

Last night, I stood on Black Mountain and looked out to the sea

Where the waters of the Mystery River go rushing endlessly

All she said was, "I'm sorry, Joe, but I gotta go"

We had it once, but we ain't got it anymore

Jim Deer lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

My name's James Lucas Deer, I was born in Remington

Now my home is Richfield prison, where I pay for the wrongs I done

Once, I was free and on the streets of Indiana when I was twenty-two

Yeah, just a kid lookin' for some fun, no better or worse than you

Sir

Me and Pat, we married in the spring, moved in with her ma and pa

On our wedding night, she sighed, "Jimmy, we can have anything we want"

Well, it was for those things we wanted, I did all the stealing that I could do

I stole from the law, I stole from her pa, I probably stole from you

Sir

Well, Pat, she had a brother, a brother name of Sil

He made a living stealing farm equipment down in Luthersville

He'd sit at my kitchen table, and that roll of dough he'd flash

He said, "Jimmy, you need little extra work? All you gotta do is ask."

Was on a job down in Oxford, we woke that farm boy from his bed

We took off runnin', Sil dropped his rifle and shot himself in the leg

Well, they caught up with us out on Highway 61

Yeah, when we seen them coming, we didn't even run

Well, the trial was short and sweet, me and Sil got our stories crossed

The judge said, "Boys, first you played, and now you pay the cost

I'm gonna give you some time to get straight your facts

Yeah, two years dead and even in the Richfield County rack."

Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah

County Fair lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

Every year when summer comes around

They stretch a banner 'cross the main street in town

You can feel somethin's happenin' in the air

Well, from Carol's house up on Telegraph Hill

You can see the lights going up out in Soldiers Field

Getting ready, for the county fair

County fair, county fair

Everybody in town'll be there

So come on, hey we're goin' down there

(Hey) Little girl with the long blond hair

Come win your daddy one of them stuffed bears

Baby, down at the county fair

Now you'll be hangin' tight when we hit the top

And that roller-coaster's ready to drop

And you're braggin', how you wasn't even scared

Well, baby, you know I just love the sound

Of the pipe organ on the merry-go-round

Baby, down at the county fair

County fair, county fair

Everybody in town'll be there

So come on, we're goin', goin' down there

(Hey) Little girl with the long blond hair

Come win your daddy one of them stuffed bears

Baby, down at the county fair

At the north end of the field, well, they set up a stand

And they got a little rock and roll band

People dancin', yeah, out in the open air

Well, it's James Young and the Immortal Ones

Just two guitars, (baby) bass and drums

Just rockin', down at the county fair

(Well) County fair, county fair

Everybody in town'll be there

So come on, we're goin' down there

Hey, little girl, with the long blond hair

Come win your daddy one of them stuffed bears

Baby, down at the county fair

Now it's getting late before we head back to town

We let the fortune wheel spin around

Come on, mister, tell me what's waiting out there

On my way out I steal a kiss in the dark

I hope I can remember where our car's parked

Baby, down at the county fair

Now off down the highway there's a last stream of cars

As we sit a while in my front yard

With the radio playin' soft and low

I pull Carol close to my heart

And I lean back and stare up at the stars

Oh I wish, I never have to let this moment go

My Hometown lyrics - 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

In that big old Buick, I'd sit on his lap

And steer as we drove through town

He'd tousle my hair and say, "Son, take a good look around

This is your hometown

This is your hometown

Your hometown

This is your hometown."

In '65

tension was running high

at my high school

There was a lot of fights

'tween the black and white

There was nothing you could do

Two cars at a light on a Saturday night

In the back seat there was a gun

Words were passed, in a shotgun blast

Troubled times had come to my hometown

To my hometown

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 closed down the textile mill 'cross the little Texas tracks

Foreman said, "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 Mary, we laid in bed

Talked about getting out

Packing up our bags. Maybe, heading south

I'm thirty-five, we got a boy of our own now

Last night we drove him downtown and said

"Son, take a good look around

This is your hometown

This is your hometown

This is your hometown

This is your hometown

And though the world you may travel all around

This is your hometown."

One Love lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

One girl, one love

One dream in our hearts

Two hearts as one

One hope never to be torn apart

Yeah, come on, baby

Rock me way down low

Shake me, darling

Shake me, don't let me go

You're the one

Yeah, you're the one for me

One dream, one dream

Is all, is all I need

One reason to believe

In you, I've found the thing I need

Yeah, come on, baby

Rock me way down low

Shake me, darling

Come on, don't let me go

You're the one

Yeah, you're the one for me

Once, I was alone

So alone, so all alone

Then you came along

With a love you said I could call on

Yeah, come on, baby

Rock me way down low

Shake me, darling

Come on, don't let me go

You're the one

Yeah, you're the one for me

Come on, baby

Rock me all night long

I've been searching for you for so long

You're the one

Yeah, you're the one for me

Don't Back Down lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

If you're out on your own, and you ain't got a home

And it feels like the whole world's just gonna fall on you

You're just running scared

Look around, there's nothing there

And you ain't got the strength, and your friends all just stall on you

A roar comes up loud

And you're lost in the crowd

Once you thought you might make it, but babe, these days you doubt it

If you need a hand

Honey, I understand

Just stand on up, yeah, stand up and shout it

Girl

Don't back down, don't back down

Don't back down, don't back down

Don't back down, don't back down

Don't back down, don't back down

Now you see all the ones, worn out and tired

There's a fool, all broken down by the wayside

With two hearts, call out for hire

Filled with hurt, defeated by their foolish pride

Girl, you hear the sound of a one comin' down

And you don't think that, these days, you can make it, babe

Just step on up, I'll give a hand

And if you ain't got a problem

Well, maybe we can share it, baby

Don't back down, don't back down

Don't back down, don't back down, baby

Don't back down, don't back down

Don't back down, don't back down, baby

Don't back down, don't

Baby, don't back down, don't

Baby, don't back down, don't

If you're out on your own, and you ain't got a home

And it feels like the whole world's just gonna fall on you

You're just running scared

Look around, there's nothing there

And you ain't got the strength, and your friends all just stall on you

Well, a roar comes up loud

And you're lost in the crowd

Once you thought you might make it, babe, but these days you doubt it

I understand

If you need a helping hand

Baby, don't be afraid, just stand up and shout it, girl

Don't back down, don't back down

Don't back down, don't back down

Don't back down, don't back down

Don't back down, don't back down

Don't back down, don't back down

Don't back down, don't back down, baby

Don't back down, don't back down

Don't back down, don't back down, baby

Don't back down, don't back down

Don't back down, don't back down, baby

Don't back down, don't back down

Don't back down, don't back down

Don't back down, don't back down

Richfield Whistle lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

My name is James Lucas

I was born in Remington

And paroled from Richfield Prison

In the winter of '81

I was free and on the streets of Indiana

I'd just turned 32

Just a man with nowhere left to run

No different, sir, than you

Me and Pat, we married in the spring

Moved in with her Ma and Pa

On our wedding night she sighed, "Jimmy

We can have anything we want"

It was for those things we wanted

We worked as hard as two people could

But somehow in the end, mister

This didn't do no good

The prison got me drivin' delivery

For Mr. Wills over in Ridgeside

Well, I started loadin' a little extra

And I'd sell it on the side

I didn't like what I was doin'

I didn't lose no sleep at night

Mr. Wills, he was a rich man

He'd been a rich man all his life

I was on the loadin' dock one evening

When I heard the warehouse phone

The dispatcher said, "Jim, they wanna see you

In the front office 'fore you go home"

All Mr. Wills said was, "I don't understand

I could send you back to Richfield fast

If you needed some extra money, Jim

All you had to do was ask"

Well, that night me and Pat, we had a fight

I was out drivin' 'round in the rain

With a fifth of gin and a half tank of gas

And ten dollars to my name

I passed a deserted liquor store

Way out on Highway 1

I turned and pulled into that parking lot

Got out but I let my motor run

Well, I stood lookin' in the window

For a long, long while

When I walked in the man behind the register

He looked at me and smiled

"That's some weather we're havin' out there

Can I help you find somethin', friend?"

I didn't answer, I just stood there

Then I turned around and went

I don't know how long I sat in my driveway

My shirt was covered in sweat

The house was dark when I went in

Pat was lyin' awake in bed

She hit the light, I was standin' in the doorway

She said, "I was worried, where'd you been so long?"

I felt her arms around me

She said, "Jimmy, I'm so glad you're home"

Richfield Prison stands on a high hill

Where the county line runs out

And there's a whistle that blows every time a man comes in

Or a man gets out

That night we lay wrapped in each other's arms

Listenin' to the rain

I heard that Richfield whistle blowin'

Just blowin' in my dreams

The Klansman lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

Word of the trouble spread around

One day, a man came through my town

I was in the kitchen when my pa let him in

Shook my hand, said, "Son, the Klan's your friend"

Was a meeting at Lyle Stanton's house

On the Jefferson Highway

Some they did not listen, some

Did not turn away

Said, "When the holy rain of fire comes

Tumbling from above

It'll be a Klansman who stands for the land he loves"

Look away, look away now

I was ten years old when my pa said, "Son

Some day you will see

When you grow to wear the robes

Like your brother and me"

"When the war between the races lives

As in a fiery dream

It'll be a Klansman who will wipe this country clean

This, son, is my dream"

Unsatisfied Heart lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

Sir, I am a pilgrim and a stranger in this land

Once I had a home here and my salvation was at hand

I lived in a house of gold, yeah, on a far hillside

I had two beautiful children and a kind and loving wife

Can you live with an unsatisfied heart?

Can you live with an unsatisfied heart?

Can you live with an unsatisfied heart?

Can you live with an unsatisfied heart?

One day a man came to town with nothing and nowhere to go

He came to me and he mentioned something I'd done a long time ago

I allowed him into my home on his vow our secret would never see the light

At night I'd lay awake in my wife's arms, she'd sigh, "Joe, you alright?"

Can you live with an unsatisfied heart?

Can you live with an unsatisfied heart?

Can you live with an unsatisfied heart?

Can you live with an unsatisfied heart?

The life I had built so carefully

It fell before my sin

My home became my prison

My truth hidden deep within

One night I woke up and as my wife did sleep

I got dressed in the darkness and I fled into the street

Can you live with an unsatisfied heart?

Can you live with an unsatisfied heart?

Can you live with an unsatisfied heart?

Can you live with an unsatisfied heart?

Well, night after night the same dream keeps coming 'round

I'm standing high in the green hills on the outskirts of town

The night air fills my lungs, the wind rustles my shirt

I can see the house where we lived, the building where I used to work

As I draw near the town's on fire, lit by a red summer moon

Still feel your arms around me, I wake up in this room

Can you live with an unsatisfied heart?

Can you live with an unsatisfied heart?

Can you live with an unsatisfied heart?

Can you live with an unsatisfied heart?

Can you live with an unsatisfied heart?

Can you live with an unsatisfied heart?

Can you live with an unsatisfied heart?

Can you live with an unsatisfied heart?

Can you live with an unsatisfied heart?

Can you live with an unsatisfied heart?

Can you live with an unsatisfied heart?

Can you live with an unsatisfied heart?

Shut Out The Light lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

The runway rushed up at him as he felt the wheels touch down

He stood out on the blacktop and took a taxi into town

He got out down on Main Street and went into a local bar

He bought a drink and found a seat in a corner in the dark

Well, she called up her mama to make sure the kids were out of the house

She checked herself out in the dining room mirror

And undid an extra button on her blouse

He felt her lying next to him, when the clock said 4 AM

He was staring at the ceiling

He couldn't move his hands

Oh mama mama mama come quick

I've got the shakes and I'm gonna be sick

Throw your arms around me in the cold dark night

Hey now mama don't shut out the light

Don't you shut out the light

Don't you shut out the light

Don't you shut out the light

Don't you shut out the light

Well, on his porch, they stretched a banner that said "Johnny Welcome Home"

Bobby pulled his Ford out of the garage and they polished up the chrome

His mama said, "Johnny, oh, Johnny. I'm so glad to have you back with me."

His pa said he was sure they'd give him his job back down at the factory

Now every evening, well, just after supper time

He'd go into the back bedroom and he'd lock the door behind

He'd lie awake til the morning light stretched out across the chair

Just him and a few bad habits he'd brought back from over there

Oh mama mama mama come quick

I've got the shakes and I'm gonna be sick

Throw your arms around me in the cold dark night

Hey now mama don't shut out the light

Don't you shut out the light

Don't you shut out the light

Don't you shut out the light

Don't you shut out the light

Well deep in the dark forest, a forest filled with rain

Beyond a stretch of Maryland pines there's a river without a name

In the cold black water now, Johnson Leneire stands

He stares across the lights of the city and dreams of where he's been

A gray moon disappears beyond that town hillside

Stars rise, grow brighter, then gone, gone, gone in a black and endless sky

Like the others before him, he'd gone and done his best

Now, he watches the water of that nameless river rise above his chest

Oh, mama, mama, mama, come quick

I've got the shakes and I'm gonna be sick

Throw your arms around me in the cold dark night

Hey now, mama, don't shut out the light

Don't you shut out the light, don't you shut out the light

Don't you shut out the light, don't you shut out the light

Don't you shut out the light, don't you shut out the light

Fugitive's Dream (Ballad) lyrics - Fugitive's Dream (Ballad)

Sir, I am a pilgrim and a stranger in this land

Once I had a home here, my salvation was at hand

I lived in a fine home, I was respected and satisfied

I had two beautiful children and a kind and loving wife

Then one day a man came to town

A man with nothing and nowhere to go

He came to my door and mentioned

Something I'd done a long time ago

I allowed him into my home

On his vow that nothing would be said

One night I rose from a dreamless sleep

And I went to his bed

I watched as he lay sleeping

I reached down and touched his cheek

I felt a chill running through my bones

And I fled into the street

I woke up in a motel room with the light rushing in

Like someone had thrust open a door and closed it tightly again

I tried to understand the life I've lived and these things that I've felt

While I walk these streets at night, a stranger to myself

Last night the same dream keeps coming 'round

I'm standing high in the Green Hills

Looking 'cross the outskirts of town

The night air fills my lungs

The wind sweeps around me so strong

The stars rise in a black endless sky

Grow brighter and brighter

Then gone, gone, gone

Blind Spot lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

We inhabited each other

Like it was some kind of disease

I thought that I was flyin'

But I was crawlin' on my knees

Everybody's got a blind spot that brings 'em down

Everybody's got a blind spot they can't get around

We mixed our blood together

Down on the muddy shore

I was looking for some lost part of myself

Prayed you might restore

Everybody's got a blind spot that brings 'em down

Everybody's got a blind spot they can't get around

So long, I dreamt my love was lost

And I lived, lived by luck and fate

I burned each bridge I crossed

Until I, I stood at your gate

Everybody's got a blind spot that brings 'em down

Everybody's got a blind spot they can't get around

Everybody's got a blind spot, baby, that brings 'em down

Everybody's got a blind spot they can't get around

Maybe I Don't Know You lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

What's that dress you're wearing, baby?

I never seen that dress before

And tell me, what'd you do with your hair?

Is it somethin' new

Somethin' you were gonna surprise me with?

Maybe I don't know you like I thought I did

Maybe I don't know you like I thought I did

What's that music you're listening to?

I never heard you listen to that before

I never heard you playin' that song before

Is it somethin' new

Or just somethin' you always hid?

Maybe I don't know you like I thought I did

Maybe I don't know you like I thought I did

You came to me for understanding and tenderness

But instead I met you with indifference

And I can't explain

Last night we took a drive

Past the house where we used to live

You started crying, oh, you were crying

There was somethin', baby

That I just couldn't give

Something In The Well lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

Woke last night to that same sound

First, I thought it was you breathin'

Got out of bed and went to the window

Just as a cloud rushed 'cross the moon

Baby, baby, there's something in the well

There's something in the well

Lately I've been watchin' that corner of the field

Out where the old black willow fell

Things can seem so safe and sure

But you can never really tell

Baby, baby, there's something in the well

Something waiting in the well

Now, I boarded it up myself back a lot of years

It's too long a story to tell

But there was no more sadness, no more tears

And since, I've guarded it well

Oh, there's some secrets that should never be told

There's some words that should never be said

Now I know there's things in this world, baby

That should stay locked up forever, inside our heads

Baby, baby, there's something in the well

There's something in the well

Folks in town forgot, now they don't much care

See, quiet years passed, but I could still feel it there

Snow melted off the fields, summer crops came through

Still, it stayed silent, then I met you

Well, last night, darling, I did sleep

Naked on the dark spring ground

The leaves in the trees came alive and spoke to me

And I could feel the dirt 'neath me movin' 'round

Hey, the well was torn open and I stared down

Into the muddy darkness, my black tears fell

Stars spread their false light on the earth

Moon slipped from the sky and fell

And my love for you came rushin' forward

And my fear and hatred as well

Hell, things can seem so safe and sure

But you can never really tell

There's something in the well

Waiting On The End Of The World lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

We loved each other like a disease

I came to you crawlin' on my knees

Your eyes were filled with rain

I could feel the poison runnin' through my veins

I'm waitin', I'm waitin', I'm waitin', waitin' on the end of the world

I'm waitin', I'm waitin'

For one deadly kiss, what would we give?

Your skin tremblin' 'neath my fingertips

All I know is someday, for love, baby, everybody pays

I'm waitin', I'm waitin', I'm waitin', waitin' on the end of the world

I'm waitin', I'm waitin'

We hide from the truth in our hearts

One look and everything would fall apart

Here, in your arms a soft decay

I can feel myself wastin' away

Will you meet me in the halls

Where light scatters and darkness falls

Here in this feast of friends

A breath and we begin again

I'm waitin', I'm waitin', I'm waitin', waitin' on the end of the world

I'm waitin', I'm waitin', I'm waitin', waitin' on the end of the world

I'm waitin', I'm waitin', I'm waitin', waitin' on the end of the world

I'm waitin', I'm waitin', I'm waitin', waitin' on the end of the world

I'm waitin', I'm waitin'

The Little Things lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

She said, "We could just sleep together"

There'd be nothing wrong

Yeah, we could just hold each other with our clothes on

I went to answer

"I don't think we should"

Then I heard a voice say, "Yeah, I guess we could"

She kissed me lightly

Said, "You know sometimes when you're down

It's the little things that count

It's the little things that count

It's the little things."

She smiled and said something stupid

But I didn't hear a sound

She put on her lipstick, and I watched her mouth

She said it was too late

And I shouldn't try to drive

She unbuttoned my shirt and whispered, "Just close your eyes

Let me take your boots off

You know, sometimes, when your luck's run out

It's the little things that count

It's the little things that count

It's the little things"

Her dress rode lightly as she walked

Then she pulled the covers down

I was so dry

She held the water glass to my lips

The polish on her nails was chipped

She said she had a boyfriend I reminded her of

His hair was the same muddy brown

She stuck her tongue in my mouth

We Fell Down lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

In the dream, everything had come undone

I sat in the kitchen and listened to the refrigerator hum

3 a.m. had come and gone

You walked in, I knew by that dress you had on

That we fell down, we fell down

I shoulda known when I asked where you'd been and I heard you lie

That we fell down, we fell down

That was just, just your way of saying "goodbye"

We got a book with pretty pictures all in a row

There's only one missin', baby, that I know

That's the one of you and I

The one where we're lookin' each other in the eye

Yeah, we fell down, we fell down

You said things get lost no matter how hard you try

Yeah, we fell down, we fell down

Well, that was just your way of saying "goodbye"

I woke in the mornin' cold and gaspin' for air

Everything seemed broken beyond repair

The party ribbons and balloons had fallen to the floor

Along with the beautiful costumes we wore

I get up in the mornin', get dressed for work

Yeah, I comb my hair and button my shirt

And I walk home 'neath a sky hard and blue

Well, these are the things that I've gotta do

Since we fell down, we fell down

And I asked if you loved me, you said course you did and sighed

Yeah, we fell down, we fell down

But I knew that was just your little way of sayin' "goodbye"

Yeah, we fell down

One Beautiful Morning lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

Her eyes were black with disease

There was no release

Her hands folded on the sheets

But there was no peace

We give our hearts to mystery

We raise our heads to mystery, and I'll kiss your eyes

Come one beautiful morning

Come one beautiful morning

Come one beautiful morning when we rise

Nobody really knows

What happens when someone dies

We look for the answers here

There are no words, there are no prayers

We give our hearts to mystery

We give our souls to mystery, spirit flies

Come one beautiful morning

Come one beautiful morning

Come one beautiful morning when we rise

Your spirit lifts me on high

I watch myself in a troubled sleep

Your steps fall at my side

We wake in the morning with promises to keep

We give our souls to mystery

We give our hearts to mystery, and the river sighs

Come one beautiful morning

Come one beautiful morning

Come one beautiful morning when we rise

Come one beautiful morning

Come one beautiful morning

Come one beautiful morning when we rise

Between Heaven And Earth lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

That's me, layin' there, staring at the ceiling

I've gotten so good at concealing from you

All my troublesome emotions

I'm a lost ship out on the ocean, a kiss

I drift between heaven and earth

Between heaven and earth

That's you, a little-girl smile on your face

Calling me through the window of your grace

A thief, I stumble about half blind

Just to wake in the morning, and I'm in your arms

I slip between heaven and earth

Between heaven and earth

That's us holding on each other's wings

Midst all these beautiful things

That's us. We reach for each other's hearts

And slowly fall apart

That's us. Sunlight drifting through the house

Your hand as you smooth your blouse

That's us. The kids in the kitchen eating

Midst all the noisy clatter of the evening

We fall in each other's arms between heaven and earth

Between heaven and earth

Between heaven and earth

Between heaven and earth

Between heaven and earth

Secret Garden lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

She'll let you in her house

If you come knocking late at night

She'll let you in her mouth

If the words you say are right

If you pay the price

She'll let you deep inside

But there's a secret garden she hides

She'll let you in her car

To go driving 'round

She'll let you into the parts of herself

That'll bring you down

She'll let you in her heart

If you got a hammer and a vise

But into her secret garden, don't think twice

You've gone a million miles

How far d'you get?

To that place where you can't remember

And you can't forget

She'll lead you down a path

There'll be tenderness in the air

She'll let you come just far enough

So, you know she's really there

She'll look at you and smile

And her eyes'll say

She's got a secret garden

Where everything you want

Where everything you need

Will always stay

A million miles away

Farewell Party lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

She rode a '48 Panhead hardtail

First time I seen her she was skidding over a bed of nails

On the skin 'neath her left sleeve bloomed three roses

We held a farewell party at the station

There in the hour of her transfiguration

It was a fifth of tequila and a bouquet of azaleas

Don't we all dream of a life somewhere

Untouched by our failures?

We mixed our blood together in the sand

Found a little house down off the Calle Grande

Slept on a bed of scarred spirits and twisted bones

I loved her like it was a disease

I came crawlin' on my knees

'Til you had me waist-deep and sinking in your river of doubt

You change your name and your face

But here your fears find you out

They come like old ghosts in the night

To lead us away from our own blessed light

To strip away the love our darkness veils

And leave us with nothin' but blood and skin beneath our nails

Tonight I got your '48 up, two kicks and she starts

I'm rushing out 'neath a canopy of empty stars

All I'm thinkin' of is you, babe

Well, those three roses come back to me again

Like you, me, and what might've been

I'm pushin' out past the desert bars and lettuce farms

Wind in the mesquite comes rushing over the hilltops

Straight into my arms

Where You Going, Where You From lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

Where you going? Where you from?

Where you going? Where you from?

Where you going? Where you from?

I'm just wandering on the road to kingdom come

Early in the morning

Where you going? Where you from?

Where you going? Where you from?

Where you going? Where you from?

Where you going? Where you from?

Just building my mansion in the evening sun

Glory Hallelujah

I've got scotch in a whiskey bottle

I've got a round in my Hawken gun

I've got a smile that ain't a smile

Black powder on my thumb

Black powder on my thumb

Blacktail rabbit, gonna watch him run

Blacktail rabbit, gonna watch him run

Blacktail rabbit, gonna watch him run

I've gotta quarrel in my crossbow, this breath in my lungs

Early in the morning

Blacktail rabbit, gonna watch him run

Devil's in my head, devil's in my head

Devil's in my head, devil's in my head

Devil's in my head, devil's in my head

He ain't leaving 'til we're both dead

Glory Hallelujah

Devil's in my head, devil's in my head

Little boy blue, come blow your horn

Little boy blue, come blow your horn

I've got me a home on the other side of this storm

But I'll spend my days busy dying and being born

Glory Hallelujah

Where you going? Where you from?

Where you going? Where you from?

Where you going? Where you from?

Where you going? Where you from?

Faithless lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

Well, I woke by the rocks of the river

Faithless, faithless, faithless

Then I met you

I walked 'neath the eaves of the garden

Faithless, faithless, faithless

Then I saw you

I stood in the fields of the mountainside

Looked out across the open lands

I walked in the valley 'neath an endless sky

Faithless, faithless, faithless

Then I found you

I reached for the hem of his garment

I stood in the light of the doorway

I saw my face in the waters at the riverside

Faithless, faithless, faithless

I woke by the rocks of the river

Faithless, faithless, faithless

Then I found you

Faithless, faithless, faithless

Then I found you

All God's Children lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

Well, all God's children got a place on Earth

Yeah, all God's children got a place on Earth

Yeah, all God's children got a place on Earth

Glory in the morning

Glory in the morning

Glory in the morning

I ain't been to heaven but I've been to hell

I ain't been to heaven but I've been to hell

Yeah, I think I know that place darn well

Glory Hallelujah

Glory Hallelujah

Glory Hallelujah

I'm rolling with the moon and rising with the sun

I'm rolling with the moon, I'm rising with the sun

I'll be ready when the rapture comes

Glory Hallelujah

Glory Hallelujah

Glory Hallelujah

Some get raised up and some fall down

Some get raised up and some fall down

Lost in the rags and the bones and the blood of the ground

There's glory in the morning

There's glory in the morning

There's glory in the morning

I scratched me a grave with my own hands

I scratched me a grave with my own hands

And you can bury me deep in the blood of the land

Glory Hallelujah

Glory Hallelujah

Glory Hallelujah

I've been crawling with the snakes and crying, flying with the birds

I've been crawling with the snakes and flying, crying with the birds

I've been crawling with the snakes and flying with the birds

I'd sing you more but I'd run out of words

There's glory in the morning

There's glory in the morning

There's glory in the morning

Well, all God's children got a place on Earth

Yeah, well, all God's children got a place on Earth

Well, all God's children got a place on Earth

Glory Hallelujah

Glory Hallelujah

Glory Hallelujah

Glory Hallelujah

Glory Hallelujah

Glory Hallelujah

Glory Hallelujah

Glory Hallelujah

Glory Hallelujah

God Sent You lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

I was lost on the road I traveled

Between the high mountains and the sea

I prayed for you this morning

And God sent you to me

Now, though, darkness lingers all around us

And darkness is all I see

Though the wine in my glass has turned to dust

God sent you to me

God sent you to me

A prayer of safety and salvation

God sent you to me

When faith was so hard to see

God sent you to me

Through His inner light, for sate temptation

God sent you to me

Now, I lie still in the evening

Listen as God's breath drifts through the trees

I can feel the darkness receding

God sent you to me

So if you're weary on that road you travel

Of the hardships handed to thee

I walk forever thankful

That God sent you to me

God sent you to me

A prayer of safety and salvation

God sent you to me

When faith is hard to see

God sent you to me

Through His inner light, for sate temptation

God sent you to me

Yeah, God sent you to me

Well, God sent you to me

Goin' To California lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

I'm goin' to California

Where the sweet fruit falls off the trees

The honeysuckle bloom and the blossom perfume

The cool of the evening breeze

The cool of the evening breeze

I'm goin' to California

I'm goin' to California

I'm goin' to California

Goin' to California

I'm goin' to California

Where the women are as pretty as pearls

Where the rivers brim with whiskey and gin

And the Spanish señoritas twirl

The Spanish señoritas twirl

I'm goin' to California

I'm goin' to California

I'm goin' to California

Well, I'm goin' to California

Where the sun spits into the deep blue sea

At the end of the day, with mother moon on its way

You can feel what it's like to be free

You can almost feel what it's like to be free

I'm goin' to California

I'm goin' to California

I'm goin' to California

I'm goin' to California

I'm goin' to California

Where the redwoods grow so tall

They reach from this dirty Earth

Into Heaven's halls, into Heaven's halls

I'm goin' to California

I'm goin' to California

I'm goin' to California

I'm goin' to California

So come on, hop on with me

Come on, go with me

I'm goin' to California

Goin' to California

I'm goin' to California

Goin' to California

I'm goin' to California

I'm goin' to California

My Master's Hand lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

I will pray to understand

I will walk these barren lands

I will follow His command

I'll be the hammer in my master's hand

I'll clear the stone from the dell

I'll raise the walls of the citadel

I'll wash them in the blood of the land

I'll be the hammer in my master's hand

And when the devil's wheel spins 'round

With sword and shield, I'll lay him down

His tongue and horn to ashes and sand

I'll be the hammer my master's hand

On the day our souls rise higher

I'll wear the robes of flame and fire

When I reach those blessed lands

I'll live in the shelter of my master's hand

I'll live in the love of my master's hand

Let Me Ride lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

I've been a stranger

I've been a thief

I've been a gambler

I've been a cheat

Give me my ticket, Lord, and let me ride

Give me my ticket, Lord, and let me ride

I've been a soldier

I remember you

An assassin

My shot was true

Give me my ticket, Lord, and let me ride

Give me my ticket, Lord, and let me ride

Drove them from their homes

Coatless into the winter street

In a mountain clearing they grew so hungry

They ate the bark from the trees

They saw my face, Lord

I wore no mask

It's not for forgiveness

Or mercy I ask

Give me my ticket, Lord, and let me ride

Give me my ticket, Lord, and let me ride

Give me my ticket, Lord, and let me ride

Give me my ticket, Lord, and let me ride

Give me my ticket, Lord, and let me ride

Repo Man lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

There's a man who leads a life of danger

With everyone he meets, he stays a stranger

He's a repo man

Oh baby, that's a repo man

Well, hey big daddy cruisin' down the line

You don't make your monthly that Mercedes is mine, I'm a repo man

Hey buddy, I'm a repo man

Well, dead beats, tax cheats, you on welfare

Had a little dry spell, repo man don't care

A repo man lives by a code

You don't pay and I own your little piece of the road

Hide it in the city, hide it in the 'burbs

You wake up and it's gone 'fore you can say the words

Repo man

Quick baby, it's the repo man

Grifters, bums, hard cases, and slobs

A real repo man, he loves his job

Couldn't tell you how many times I could've got killed or laid

You shouldn't a bought it if you couldn't a paid

Gran Torino way up in the Bronx

Guy with a pistol in his briefs and socks

Shoutin' repo man

I'll kill you, repo man

Well, a little pink nighty cryin' by the road

Sorry Miss, a repo man's got his code

I'm a repo man

Yea baby, I'm a repo man

Porch light flickering, I'm under the hood

A shot, I'm burning rubber, ahhh life is good

I'm a repo man

Yea baby, that's a repo man

Honey, I'm a repo man

Oh, that's a real repo man

Yea sugar, I'm a repo man

Good God, baby, I'm a repo man

Tiger Rose lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

Tiger rose, let me read some prose to you

Just as long as it shows my love, any verse will do

Honey, I could make you happy if you'd only let me heaven knows

My, my, tiger rose

Well, I went to work as usual on the local commuter train

I snuck back home early and I tiptoed to the window pane

There was a man eating from my refrigerator

He was dressed up in my clothes

Why, why, tiger rose?

I told you, you weren't any better

Than all those other dirty so-and-sos

You said I wasn't any different than a thousand other Joe Blows

Well, love disappears so quickly and when it goes it goes

Why, why, tiger rose?

My, my, tiger rose

Poor Side Of Town lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

How can you tell me that you miss me

When the last time I saw you, you wouldn't even kiss me?

That rich guy you've been seeing

Well, he must have put you down

So, welcome back, baby

To the poor side of town

To him, you were nothing but a plaything

Nothing more than an overnight fling

To me, you were the greatest

The greatest thing I had ever found

And it's hard to find nice things

On the poor side of town

I can't blame you for trying

I'm trying to make it too

I got one little problem

I can't make it without you

So tell me, baby

Will you think you'll stay now?

You know I'd stand by you all the way now

Side-by-side, darlin'

No one could ever keep us down

Together we could make it, baby

From the poor side of town

Together we can make it

From the poor side of town

Delivery Man lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

Well, I'm rumblin' outta town 'cross the west-side tracks

Drivin' my Pa's flatbed with a load of chickens in the back

I'm a little illegal, but I ain't on fire

I got them hens tied down with rope and chicken wire

Up in the cab, me and Wilson, we gotta shout

Between the noise from the engine and them chickens squawkin' all about

There's a low bridge comin' up on 1-0-5

And if we don't make it, man, them feathers' gonna fly

Yeah

I took a hard turn just south of the Kokomo

That rope gave out, my load shifted, we was all over the road

Hens busted on the blacktop, chickens scattered all about

Runnin' hell-bent 'cross the highway, gettin' turned inside-out

By some local commuters at sixty miles per hour

In five minutes it was all over, except for the flowers

Yeah

Well, that flatbed was sideways in a drainage ditch

There was no way she was movin' without a crane and a hitch

When the highway patrol come in and set up a roadblock

We were chasin' some survivors 'cross the parking lot

Well, I stood up and checked my situation at hand

Lord, don't let me spend my life as a delivery man

Under A Big Sky lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

Left my home, left my friends

I can't go back again

I don't know why

And I don't know why

Baby, now here I am

Yeah, just another hired hand

Watchin' the seasons fly by

Watchin' 'em fly on by

Summer comes around and I miss you

Without you I'm just another guy

Under a big sky

Well, come the spring we ride the line

Mend the fence where it's been torn

Spent the day tearin' out that oak

That fell in the winter storm

Work's in and the day's gone down

Hop in a pickup, head into town

Just to end up dead drunk

And thrown back in your bunk

Winter comes around and I want to kiss you

Kiss you and feel you by my side

Under a big sky

Well, that morning I had to go

I packed my bags kinda slow

You said, "John, why must you always leave

The ones who love you so?"

But I had it set in my head

Believed every word the newspaper said

Now it's plain to see

Yeah, the joke's on me

Tonight I'm chasin' strays down in the canyon

I shout your name and listen as the echo dies

Under a big sky

Detail Man lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

Well, I'm a hundred-percent guaranteed

Honey, I'm the finisher that you need

I'm your detail man

Baby, I'm your detail man

You want the job done right

Any time of day or night

Call your detail man

Well, I'll dot all the I's and I'll cross all your "t"s

From your pretty red lips down to your knees

I'm a detail man

Baby, I'm a detail man

Well, I understand if you need a good hand

Call a detail man

Well, a detail man will never leave you in doubt

I'll kiss you in places other men ain't even heard about

I'm a detail man

Baby, I'm a detail man

You want the job done right any time of day or night

Call your detail man

Well, a detail man he always gets it right

He's still working when other men have rolled over and called it a night

I'm a detail man

Baby, I'm a detail man

I know you understand if you need a good hand

Call your detail man

It don't matter if you're custom

It don't matter, you're stock

I'll have you purring like a kitty and running like a clock

You want a little of the spit-and-shine

Call the detail man and you're mine

Well, now it's as simple as a singing bird

Come to where professionalism ain't a dirty word

Call your detail man

Call your detail man

You want the job done right any time of day or night

Call your detail man

Well, call your detail man

Yeah, your detail man

Sugar, I'm a detail man

Let me be your detail man

Wanna be your detail man

Let me be your detail man

Wanna be your detail man

Silver Mountain lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

Up there on Silver Mountain

That's where I'll wait for you

Up there on Silver Mountain

Up where the sky is blue

Your books I used to carry

When we were back at school

Now you're the girl I want to marry

I won't rest until I do

Will you meet me by the river?

Where the current runs dark and strong

I know your daddy's waiting

So I'm coming with my guns on

Up there on Silver Mountain

Where the folks are easy to laugh

Up there on Silver Mountain

As long as you don't cross their path

Will you meet me at the river?

I'll take you for my bride

Tell your daddy that I'm comin'

I ain't leaving 'til I'm satisfied

Up where the silver river rushes over the roots of that big ol' tree

On the banks at the end of the river, we stood there, your dad and me

Hello John, I plan on leaving here with her

It's a good day as any to die

My blood mixed with the clay of the river

I saw your face against the sky

Goodbye, my sweet love, goodbye

Janey Don't You Lose Heart lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

You got your book, baby, with all your fears

Let me, honey, and I'll catch your tears

I'll take your sorrow if you want me to

Then come tomorrow that's what I'll do

Listen to me

Janey, don't you lose heart

Janey, don't you lose heart

Janey, don't you lose heart

Janey, don't you lose heart

Well, you say you got no new dreams to touch

You feel like a stranger, baby, who knows too much

Well, you come home late and get undressed

Lie in bed and you feel this emptiness

Listen to me

Janey, don't you lose heart

Janey, don't you lose heart

Janey, don't you lose heart

Janey, don't you lose heart

Well, 'til every river, baby, it runs dry

Until the sun honey's torn from the sky

'Til every fear that you've felt burst free

And gone tumblin' down into the sea

Listen to me

Janey, don't you lose heart

Janey, don't you lose heart

Janey, don't you lose heart

Janey, don't you lose heart

Janey, don't you lose heart

Janey, don't you lose heart

Janey, don't you lose heart

Janey, don't you lose heart

Janey, don't you lose heart

You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

The lights are out all over town

The evening sun is sinking down

I know you're good, babe, at moving on

But you're gonna miss me when I'm gone

Bartender's ringing last call

Does anyone hear angels when they fall?

Here's one last drink, dear, and we'll dance to our song

But you're gonna miss me when I'm gone

You're gonna miss me when I'm gone

When the nights get lonely and long

I know you're good, babe, at traveling on

But you're gonna miss me when I'm gone

You're gonna miss me when I'm gone

When the nights get lonely and long

Yeah, I know you're good, babe, at moving on

But you're gonna miss me when I'm gone

Stand On It lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

Well, Jimmy Lee was hookin' around the far turn

Of a funky southern Florida dirt track

He had mud caked on his goggles

And a screamin' 350 stacked up on his back

Well, as he passed the stands, he was feelin' all tuckered out

When through the roar of his engine he heard somebody shout

"Stand on it, come on man, stand on it!"

Mary Beth started to drift

She hit the shift but she just couldn't get a hand on it

Racin' some red hills boys

She had the deed to the ranch and a grand on it

With eight grand blowin' hot on the red line

She blew past a hitch-hiker out on route 39, he hollered

"Stand on it, go ahead baby, stand on it!"

Well, when in doubt and you can't figure it out

Just stand on it

Well, if your mind's confused

You don't know what you want to do

Then buddy, stand on it

Well, if you've lost control of the situation at hand

Grab a girl, go see a rock'n'roll band

Stand on it, come on man, stand on it

Well, Columbus he discovered America

Even though he hadn't planned on it

He got lost, woke up one morning

When he was about to land on it

He wouldn't a got outta Italy that's for sure

Without Queen Isabella standing on the shore shoutin'

"Stand on it, come on boy, stand on it!"

Well, when in doubt and you can't figure it out

Just stand on it

Well, if your mind's confused

You don't know what you gonna do

Then buddy, stand on it

Well, if you've lost control of the situation at hand

Grab a girl, go see a rock'n'roll band

Stand on it, come on man, stand on it

Blue Highway lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

Well, this blue, blue highway

Is on my mind

This blue, blue highway

That I can't leave behind

Someday I'm gonna build me a fine house

Yeah, high up on a hill

Where pain and memory

Pain and memory have been stilled

And this blue, blue highway

Stretches on and on

This blue, blue highway

And my blue, blue song

Well, down here below, sir

They say nothing lasts

Great mansions and true love

Well, they fall in dust and ash

And this blue, blue highway

Stretches on and on

This blue, blue highway

And this blue, blue song

I'm gonna find me a woman

And figure it all out

I'm gonna build me a mansion

Above all this shadow and doubt

And this blue, blue highway

Just winds and winds

I got this blue, blue highway

And you on my mind

Somewhere North Of Nashville lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

Came into town with a pocketful of songs

I made the rounds but I didn't last long

Now I'm out on this highway with a bone-cold chill

Somewhere north of Nashville

I lie awake in the middle of the night

Makin' a list of things that I didn't do right

With you at the top of a long page filled

Here, somewhere north of Nashville

For the deal I made, the price was strong

I traded you for this song

We woke each morning with hearts filled

Bluebird of love on the windowsill

Now the heart's unsteady, and the night is still

All I've got's this melody, and time to kill

Here, somewhere north of Nashville

Here, somewhere north of Nashville

Here, somewhere north of Nashville

Inyo lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

Over the washes of the Big and Little Tujunga

Above the Mojave in a two-horse buckboard

Bill Mulholland, Fred Eaton set out for the Owens River Valley

In the fall of 1904

Through the Tehachapi, up along the Sierra Nevada

Through the Green Valley towards the Owens River mouth

They come to bring that Owens River water

Two hundred miles to the desert city south

Ain't you feelin' dry? Ain't you feelin' dry now?

My brother, ain't you feelin' dry?

I was a blaster in the black hole of Elizabeth

Hardrock tunneled five miles of the coast range

In the black mud, we drilled and set the charges

Blew through that mountain in just a thousand days

Owens River water for the Queen of Angels

From the heavens of the High Sierra packed snow

Owens River water for the children of the Queen of Angels

Make rich the land syndicate of the San Fernando

Ain't you feelin' dry? Ain't you feelin' dry now?

My brother, ain't you feelin' dry?

An uncle pushed the Paiute from their valley

Cut out his homestead in blood and pulled crops out the desert sand

Then the south, they come to share our water

'Cause the south was thirsty, my friend

Come the drought of '19, they started pumpin'

Water from the Owens table underground

Our big cottonwoods died, our ranches, they went dry

The green fields, they blew dusty and brown

I set the first charges for the ranchers in '24

Fired the fuse on two hundred pounds of dynamite

Blew a hole in that aqueduct I'd helped build

Sent thunder rollin' out across the desert night

Ain't you feelin' dry? Ain't you feelin' dry now?

My brother, ain't you feelin' dry?

Sacramento, the Kern, the Colorado

The King, the San Joaquin, my friend

For the power, for the water, for the prosperity

And for the men with the money in the end

Tonight the Santa Ana's drawin' west across the Mojave

Blowin' fire and dust onto L.A. County windowsills

Bill Mulholland, Fred Eaton's dead in their graves

The Queen of Angels, she remains thirsty still

Ain't you feelin' dry? Ain't you feelin' dry now?

My brother, ain't you feelin' dry?

Ain't you feelin' dry? Ain't you feelin' dry now?

My good brother, ain't you feelin' dry?

Indian Town lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

'Cross the desert, the rain came hard and black

Two shovelheads rumblin' 'cross the railroad tracks

Sheriff steps out of his car, takes off his hat

And slowly looks around

Ostrich boots and a diamond ring

Scar on his cheek too deep to think

He steps up to the bar, orders a drink

I watch him as he shoots it down

I was just eighteen down in Indian Town

Billy was workin' as a hired hand

He was a Hopi in off the First Mesa

Weekends, we'd head into town for a drink and a dance

A little trouble and a look around

A woman with hair black as coal and eyes of blue

Stood in the street over a young kid with his leg shot through

Sheriff pushes his way through

Shakes his head as he looks down

In the spring, we'd ride the high desert

Through Seligman and Kingman on old 66

Make the poker run through Bullhead City

Into Laughlin and back around

Well, I welded it outta cast iron, just like his ride

Stuck it into the ground, where he died

Marked on it his name and the day he was born

And the day he went down

On that white stretch of road outside of Indian Town

It was closing time, I was drunk

And she was somebody's wife

I was drunk, too drunk to see the knife

I felt a push, and I was on my back

Ceiling black and comin' down

Adelita lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

In the High Sierras, camped were the soldiers

And a young soldada who valiantly fought

Side by side with Francisco Villa, Adelita

I'm far from my home now, a Texacan soldier

It's not for fortune or risk to the battlefield I fight

I fell in love with Adelita with my very soul

We'll stand in arms this night

She said, "Johnny, if I should die in battle

And my body be left in the Sierranea

My love, my love, in God's name

Fight on, and remember me

That my blood will not have been spilled in vain"

On horseback, a carbine full and at her side

Over her blouse, cartridges filled her bandoleras

Side by side, into battle we rode, Villistas, my Adelita

We met the enemy in the Zamoran mountains

From their bullets, many of our soldiers died

And wounded, I lay fallen with my comrades

As Adelita stood above us

Firing her rifle till the gunpowder turned her hand black

The sky was blue, 'neath the cannon, the earth trembled

I watched as a bullet pierced my love's side

She fell amidst the brothers and sisters

Smoke and empty sky in her eyes

Adelita, my love

Adelita, my wife

Adelita, my comrade

My life

They'll remember your name when freedom fills the Sierranea

I'll remember the warmth of your skin against mine

Tonight, I lay in the mountains with the campesinos

My mind at peace from the vows I've made

I know I'll never see Texas again

Your portrait I carry deep in my breast pocket

My rifle firing into the campaña

I ride with you 'round my heart

Protected from this death by beauty

The Aztec Dance lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

The boys, they hold their machetes high

The girls in their satin dresses, they go twirling by

From the San Juan River 'cross the desert sand

Teresa moves in the Aztec dance

From the foothills of the Sierra Madre

To the high-school gym in San Jose

She stomps her feet as her ma watches from the stands

Teresa twirls in the Aztec dance

Past the Pizza Hut, past the mall rats, she says

"Ma, they call us 'greaser', they call us 'wetback'

Here in this land that once was ours."

Teresa's mother bobby pins her hair in a crown of flowers

Her mother says, "Teresa, there were roses, fruit trees and azure skies

Tenochtitlan with great temples of stone

Indian women with your skin and your eyes

Gardens richer than those of Babylon."

"'Cross the causeway of Lake Texcoco

Montezuma met Cortez in sandals with soles of gold

One in steel, one in the plumes of the quetzal bird

They came wearing the masks of the gods they served."

"From castles that rend the waters and scarred the skies

Cortez came with the curse of fortune and faith in his eyes

They marched 'cross savannas of maize and high desert plains

Quetzalcoatl come to put the lord of our world in chains."

"With their cannon and horses 'cross the causeways, their cavalry charged

Like fields of locust feasting on a thousand brave warriors' hearts

Our blood turned red, the waters of Texcoco cold

The Spanish soldiers drowned 'neath the weight of the gold they stole."

"Montezuma and Cuauhtémoc are in their graves

And our people of the valley of Mexico: well, they were enslaved

Our city gone and left in ruins, they cry bitter tears in another world

But here in this world, my daughter, they have you."

The boys, they hold their machetes high

As the girls in their satin dresses, they go twirling by

The Lost Charro lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

Godmother, when I die, make of my clay a jar

And when you are thirsty, drink from it

And if you feel a shadow, a shadow touching your lips

It's the kisses of your charro

Pull the leather strip from your hair

And your black tresses fall upon the dark skin of your shoulders

Your dress embroidered with gold

Moves like a choir of young girls, scarcely touching the ground

My rope winds as the smoke rises

Burning the horn of my saddle

My rope winds as the evening sun sets

And we bring in the cattle

The traditions of the Charro are the same eternally

No matter how much the horse changes

No matter how much the horseman may want

The cola is always the cola, the terna, the terna, the pial, the pial

My rope winds as the smoke rises

Burning the horn of my saddle

My rope winds as the evening sun sets

And we bring in the cattle

For two seasons, I've picked the lettuce in Salinas

The prunes in Santa Clara

The oranges from the Ontario trees

I've traded in my leather for the denim of my campesinos

Godmother, I'll return home soon, you'll see

And tonight in my dreams

My rope winds as smoke rises

Burning the horn of my saddle

My rope winds as the evening sun sets

And we bring in the cattle

Godmother, when I die, make of my clay a jar

And when you are thirsty, drink from it

Our Lady Of Monroe lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

He's out of Newark, a retired detective

Tryna lose some of what he'd seen

He had twenty-five years on the streets

Where the Lord does not intervene

Packed his shaving kit into a small suitcase

Slipped the rosary off the night shelf

Just the cross remains of his faith

Was all that he had left

And the pale sun of the evening

Cut through the windshield as he drove

Head south on the Jersey Turnpike

To the Lady of Monroe

He and his wife, they'd raised a daughter

But his job was all he'd ever really known

Now she was in southern Indiana

With a family her own

As the refinery fields went rushing by

Thought of his little brown-eyed girl

Shooting cans in the river with his old .22

As the summer trees unfurled

And the pale sun of the evening

Slipped down, velvet and low

Heard murmured prayers softly rising

To the Lady of Monroe

His rosary hung from the rear-view mirror

A map 'neath the Burger King bag in the front seat

His gun's tucked deep in the glove box

Another useless tool of his trade he'll never need

From his desk in the South precinct

He'd walked that dirty mile

Well, that was all over now

He was gonna learn to live, just to live for a while

Virgin Mother, give me peace

Peace I've never known

In the sunlight, lifted hands softly swaying

To our Lady of Monroe

El Jardinero (Upon The Death Of Ramona) lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

I wake and take your picture from my night table

With a kiss, I place it on the shelf

Give you my mornin' prayer

It's a weakness I allow myself

In the kitchen, I make the coffee

As the sun's first light through the window streams

I wake your brother Roberto from his dreams

I throw my tools in the truck bed

From the San Fernando into the hills

As the gray morning clouds

Over the hilltop stream

I follow them down

Into the cool rich canyons of grain

And my mind drifts to you

From the northern mountains

The water comes and the city blooms

The Santa Anna's breathe so dry and dusty

Through the villa rooms

Bougainvillea blossom

Red and white 'round the entry door

And the roses rise so perfectly out of the desert floor

Your memory is my desire

My daughter, if my sorrow is my sin

With my work here in this garden, we'll both live again

I trim the eucalyptus

That her branches may be free, my love

That the wind may find a way

Through to the dark sky above

That day your mother

On the porch waiting

Now I watch the branches drifting

And my heart fills with you

At night I feel your spirit

As the day's weariness I embrace

I visit you in the brave beauty of your mother's sleeping face

Now, Ramona, when the dark comes drifting in

And these rooms lie sweetened by the dry desert wind

Tell me how

How will my heart ever mend

If I can never touch you or feel you breathe again

In my dreams, the earth to which I have given you

Opens below me where I stand

I slip beneath the moist soil

Through the cool dust and desert sand

I hold your face

I hold your face in my hands

I wake early in the morning

Today, I'll cut the roses from their stems

One False Move lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

I was bringin' in their cocaine 'cross the Texas-Mexico line

They don't like what I was doin', but I lose no sleep at night

I was just runnin' off an old debt, then I'd take some time

And find someplace far away

Heaven to Hell, my friends

Just a short jump in the stakes

And one false move's all it takes

On the streets of south Texas, I made my straight time

Workin' nights and pissin' in a cup

For my man down on State

Now I roll down the window and let in the cool, clear desert night

And that cold feelin' of my luck runnin' out

You get just so much dry ground

'Fore the water rushes over the breaks

One false move's all it takes

Got a son in El Paso, I couldn't find the steady ground

You run outta room and answers

And your old mistakes start comin' 'round

Five years in Tamaulipas makes you sick inside

The way you get used to anything

Sooner or later it just becomes your life

Headlights flashin' cross my face

The sound of a pilgrim's horn fadin' south

I reach 'neath the seat in the dark

Then comes that dry taste in my mouth

Above the black stars wheelin'

Inside's that sick, warm, sinkin' feeling

Taillights movin' through the high desert pine

Someone waitin' in the hills 'neath the shadow line

You get your measure of daylight

'Fore the evening that waits

Just one false move away

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