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A Good Man Is Hard To Find (Pittsburgh) lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

It's cloudy out in Pittsburgh

It's raining in Saigon

Snow's fallin' all across the Michigan line

Well she sits by the light of her Christmas tree

With the radio softly on

Thinkin' how a good man is so hard to find

Well once she had a fella

Once she was somebody's girl

And she gave all she had that one last time

Now there's a little girl asleep in the back room

She's gonna have to tell about the meanness in this world

And how a good man is so hard to find

Well there's pictures on the table by her bed

Him in his dress greens and her in her wedding white

She remembers how the world was the day he left

And now how that world is dead

And a good man is so hard to find

She got time now for Casanovas

Yeah those days are gone

She don't want that anymore, she's made up her mind

Just somebody told her

As the nights get on

When a good man is so hard to find

Well she shuts off the TV

And without a word

Into bed she climbs

Well she thinks how it was all so wasted

And how expendable their dreams all were

When a good man was so hard to find

Addicted To Romance lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

(from "She Came To Me" soundtrack)

There's whiskey and it's water

And it's one last dance

Stranger, pump that jukebox with your quarters

We all deserve a second chance

Darling, let me tell you your future

Slip your palm into my hands

You got me addicted to romance

Neon lights on the corner

The rumble of a tired rock and roll band

You're this neighborhood's broken daughter

With all the blessings that it grants

I'll tell you 'bout this dream I had

If you tell me of your plans

You got me addicted to romance

Now the night is sweet and long, my dear

Though the end's always at hand

My muse, the music you whispered in my ear

Reminds me of who I am

Reminds me of who I am

Reminds me of who I am

Love's a cold beer, you near and a kiss

Your sweet and tender hands

Tonight, I get all the love that I've missed

From you in just one glance

And if this isn't love, my dear

It's more than what we planned

It's more than just chance

You've got me addicted to romance

You've got me addicted to romance

You've got me addicted to romance

Nicely, baby

Oh, that's right

Let's come a little closer

Back In Your Arms lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

In my dream, our love was lost

I lived by luck and fate

I carried you inside of me

Prayed it wouldn't be too late

Now I'm standin' on this empty road

Where nothin' moves but the wind

And, honey, I just wanna be

Back in your arms

Back in your arms again

Back in your arms

Back in your arms again

Oh, once I was your treasure

And I saw your face in every star

But these promises we make at night

Oh, that's all they are

Unless we fill them with faith and love they're

Empty as the howlin' wind

And, honey, I just wanna be

Back in your arms

Back in your arms again

Back in your arms

Back in your arms again

Back in your arms

Back in your arms again

You came to me with love and kindness

But all my life I've been a prisoner of my own blindness

I met you with indifference

And I don't know why

Now I wake from my dream

I wake from my dream to this world

Where all is shadow and darkness

And above me, a dark sky unfurls

And all the love I've thrown away and lost

I'm longin' for again

Now, darlin', I just wanna be

Back in your arms

Back in your arms again

Back in your arms

Back in your arms again

Back in your arms

Back in your arms again

Back in your arms

Back in your arms again

Be True lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

Your scrapbook's filled with pictures of all your leading men

Well baby don't put my picture in there with them

Don't make us some little girl's dream that can't ever come true

That only serves to hurt and make you cry like you do

Well baby don't do it to me and I won't do it to you

You see all the romantic movies, you dream and take the boys home

But when the action fades you're left all alone

You deserve better than this, little girl, can't you see that you do

Do you need somebody to prove it to you?

Well you prove it to me and I'll prove it to you

Now every night you go out looking for true love's satisfaction

But in the morning you end up settling for just lights, camera, action

And another cameo role with some bit player you're befriending

You're gonna go broken-hearted looking for that happy ending

Well girl you're gonna end up just another lonely ticket sold

Cryin' alone in the theater as the credits roll

You say I'll be like those other guys

Who filled your head with pretty lies

And dreams that can never come true

Well baby you be true to me

And I'll be true to you

Bishop Danced lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

Bishop danced with a thumbscrew woman

Did a double-quick back flip and slid across the floor

The Catholic traffic flowed freely 'cross the river

And fiddlestick fiddled quick out the front door

Oh baby dumpling, mama's in the back tree

If the bow breaks mama might fall

Little sad and only, baby don't be lonely

Mama knows 'rithmatic, knows how to take a fall

Mama knows 'rithmatic, knows how to take a fall

And the kids are crying "Flapjacks, make'em fat, early in the mornin'

Little Jack, grab your hat, hear the breakfast call

Muskrat, bat a cat, kick him in the fireplace

There's someone in the kitchen blowing "Dinah" on their horn

There's someone in the kitchen blowing "Dinah" like they're born

Well maverick daddy got one-eyed bridge

She glides like a monkey-mule kicking on the back slide

Over hill, over hill, daddy don't you spill now

Papa got a switch stick, he's pumping little Bill

Papa got a switch stick, he's pumping little Bill

And Billy, he's crying "Tomahawk, tomahawk, daddy better duck now"

The Mohawks, the Mohawks, they're still out there in the woods

Monatuk, Ocanuk, runnin' through my dreams now

With fire on their fingertips and Indian screams

With fire on their fingertips and feathers made of moonbeams

Well early in the morning the cannoneer cried

"I seen the sailor's warning in the western sky"

Well mountain man, if you can, cut me down a fir tree

Branches full of candlesticks for baby and me

And my darling cried, she said "Honey, the weathervane

Lately it's been pointing the way to heaven

Scatterbrains, scatterbrains, watch out where you fall

Champagne, champagne, a round for all the old choir boys

They're busting off the altar chasing Dinah through the hall

They're bustin' off the altar chasing Dinah through the hall

And the kids are crying "Flapjacks, make'em fat, early in the mornin'

Little Jack, grab your hat, hear the breakfast call

Muskrat, bat a cat, kick him in the fireplace

There's someone in the kitchen blowing "Dinah" on their horn

There's someone in the kitchen blowing "Dinah" like they're born

Blood Brothers lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

We played king of the mountain out on the end

The world come chargin' up the hill, and we were women and men

Now there's so much that time, time and memory fade away

We got our own roads to ride and chances we gotta take

We stood side by side each one fightin' for the other

We said until we died we'd always be blood brothers

Now the hardness of this world slowly grinds your dreams away

Makin' a fool's joke out of the promises we make

And what once seemed black and white turns to so many shades of gray

We lose ourselves in work to do and bills to pay

And it's a ride, ride, ride, and there ain't much cover

With no one runnin' by your side my blood brother

On through the houses of the dead past those fallen in their tracks

Always movin' ahead and never lookin' back

Now I don't know how I feel, I don't know how I feel tonight

If I've fallen 'neath the wheel, if I've lost or I've gained sight

I don't even know why, I don't know why I made this call

Or if any of this matters anymore after all

But the stars are burnin' bright like some mystery uncovered

I'll keep movin' through the dark with you in my heart

My blood brother

[Alternate last verse as performed July 1, 2000, at Madison Square Garden, New York:]

Now on out here on this road

Out on this road tonight

I close my eyes and feel so many friends around me

In the early evening light

And the miles we have come

And the battles won and lost

Are just so many roads travelled

So many rivers crossed

And I ask God for the strength

And faith in one another

'Cause it's a good night for a ride

Cross this river to the other side

My blood brothers

Bring On The Night lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

I lie in bed but baby I can't sleep no matter how hard I try

There's something bad, baby, wrong with me whenever I close my eyes

The dreams of Mary keep me awake with every little curve in place

When I walk home in the daybreak I pray come back home, baby, won't you give me

Darlin' bring on the night, oh yeah darlin', bring on the night

Oh now darlin', bring on the night

I walk the street, I'm lookin' for romance

I end up stumblin' in some stupid half-trance

As I watch the lovers mix with circumstance

We watch the disco dancers dance

I look for connection in some new eyes

But for protection they're tranquilized

Forbidding close inspection of who's tellin' who

Forbidding close inspection of who's tellin' who lies

Bring on the night, oh yeah darlin', bring on the night

Oh now darlin', bring on the night

Is it as simple as it seems

I don't know what I'm doin' here, is it as simple as it seems

Is it as simple as I fear, well if I'm right

I look for connection in some new eyes

But for protection they're tranquilized

Forbidding close inspection of who's tellin' who

Forbidding close inspection of who's tellin' who

Baby of who's tellin' who lies

Bring on the night, oh yeah darlin', bring on the night

Oh now darlin', bring on the night, oh now darlin', bring on the night

Come on darlin', bring on the night

Brothers Under The Bridge lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

Saigon, it was all gone

The same Coke machines

As the streets I grew on

Down in a mesquite canyon

We come walking along the ridge

Me and the brothers under the bridge

Campsite's an hour's walk from the nearest road to town

Up here there's too much brush and canyon

For the CHP choppers to touch down

Ain't lookin' for nothin', just wanna live

Me and the brothers under the bridge

Come the Santa Ana's, man, that dry brush'll light

Billy Devon got burned up in his own campfire one winter night

We buried his body in the white stone high up along the ridge

Me and the brothers under the bridge

Had enough of town and the street life

Over nothing you end up on the wrong end of someone's knife

Now I don't want no trouble

And I ain't got none to give

Me and the brothers under the bridge

I come home in '72

You were just a beautiful light

In your mama's dark eyes of blue

I stood down on the tarmac, I was just a kid

Me and the brothers under the bridge

Come Veterans' Day I sat in the stands in my dress blues

I held your mother's hand

When they passed with the red, white and blue

One minute you're right there... and something slips...

Brothers Under The Bridges ('83) lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

Every spring when the weather gets warm

They come pourin' into town straight off of them farms

Driving 455s running hard and strong

They'd scratch built in them tool sheds all winter long

'Neath the trestless drinkin' the beer and the wine

Now some came on run, some just to pass the time

With the brothers under the bridges

Me and Tommy we was just fourteen, didn't have our licenses yet

Our walls were covered with pictures of cars we'd get

We'd listen and wait for that highway to rumble and quake

As they drove in through town when the weekend'd break

Bringin' girls with that distant look in their eyes

Now together 'neath the trestless they'd be laughing in the night

With the brothers under the bridges

Well me and my brother'd hitched a ride in Joey's pickup to the edge of town

And we watched from the tall grass as the challenges were made and the duels went down

We'd hitchhike back home, sneak in, get in bed before our mom'd come

And we'd lay there in the night talkin' about how we might someday be one

Yeah someday run with the brothers under the bridges

Well now I hear a cry in the distance and the sound of marching feet come and gone

Well I'm stittin' down here by this highway figuring, figuring just where I belong

Tonight up on Signal Hill

I watch a young man in a red shirt walking through a night so still

Put his jacket 'round his girl as the autumn wind send a chill

Car Wash lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

Well my name is Catherine LeFevre

I work at the Astrowash on Sunset and Vine

I drop my kids at school in the morning

And I pick them up at Mary's just 'fore suppertime

Well I work down at the car wash

For a dollar and a dime

And mister, I hate my boss

It's at the car wash I'm doing my time

Pick up my water bottle and my towel, sir

And I take 'em one by one

From Mercedes to VWs

I do 'em all and I don't favor none

Well I work down at the car wash

For a dollar and a dime

And mister, I hate my boss

It's at the car wash I'm doing my time

Pick up my water bottle and my towel, sir

And I take 'em one by one

From Mercedes to VWs

I do 'em all and I don't favor none

Well someday I'll sing in a night club

I'll get a million-dollar break

A handsome man will come here with a contract in his hand

And say "Catherine, this has all been some mistake"

Chain Lightning lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

There's a rumble in the park

There's a thunder in the dark

The night's so quiet, it's

Chain lightning

Beneath a street light

Two boys boppin' in the night

They had something in 'em called

Chain lightning

Though you never hear a sound

There's a fire underground

Rumbling through the town

You can't keep it from comin' down

Lovers walking through the mist

Romeo he steal a kiss

Caught up in the moment of

Chain lightning

Now I don't know about romance

But baby it's the latest dance

Everybody's getting up, doin' it

Chain lightning

All along the strand baby

Down in jungleland

Everybody's caught up in

Chain lightning

Ever hear the sound

Of a fire underground

Rumblin' through the town

The big cold is comin' down

Sittin' at the light

I'm a rider in the night

Streaking light to light for

Chain lightning

I ain't into style, baby

I ain't into fashion

I just got a passion for

Chain lightning

Sittin' at the light

I'm a rider in the night

Streaking light to light for

Chain lightning

Cindy lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

I pick you up with flowers

When you get off from work

It's like you don't even care

It's like I'm some kind of jerk

I take you out on a date

And then you won't even kiss me

Boy when I ain't around

I'll bet you don't even miss me

I don't know why

I love you like I do

I try and try

You treat me like a fool

It makes me want to cry

It makes me feel so blue

But I just do, baby, I just do

I call you up

Just to pass the time

Soon as you hear my voice

You disconnect the line

And when I call you back

Your mother says you ain't home

Cindy I know that's you on the other end of this phone

Oh in this world

There ain't another like you

My little candy girl

So hard-hearted and cruel

I think that's what

Keeps me coming back

I'm a fool for you Cindy and I like it like that

I came to get you last night

Cindy, at quarter to six

Your daddy came to the door

He said Cindy got sick

She got sent home from work

With a note from the nurse

And my very presence would make your condition worse

But it ain't your health

'Cause well you sure look fine

Little girl it's something else

That's on my mind

Well you can give it to me

'Cause if it's good enough for you

It's good enough for me

I don't know why

I love you like I do

You make me cry

And feel like such a fool

I guess I like it

When you hurt me this way

You dish it out and I just put it away

Code Of Silence lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

There's a code of silence that we don't dare speak

There's a wall between us and the river's deep

We keep pretending that there's nothing wrong

But there's a code of silence and it can't go on

Is the truth so elusive, so elusive you see

That it ain't enough baby

To bridge the distance between you and me

There's a list of grievance 100 miles long

There's a code of silence and it can't go on

Well you walk with your eyes open

But your lips they remain sealed

While the promises we made are broken

Beneath the truth we fear to reveal

Now I need to know now darlin'

I need to know what's goin' on so c'mon

Well you walk with your eyes open

But your lips they remain sealed

While the promises we made are broken

Beneath the truth we fear to reveal

Now I need to know now darlin'

I need to know what's goin' on so c'mon

There's a code of silence that we don't dare speak

There's a wall between us and the river's deep

We keep pretending that there's nothing wrong

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 country fair

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

And that rollercoaster's ready to drop

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

Well baby you know I just love the sound

Of that 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, 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 country fair

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

And they got a little rock and roll band

People dancin' out in the open air

It's James Young and the Immortal Ones

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

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 that 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

Hope I can remember where our car's parked

Baby, out at the county fair

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

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'd never have to let this moment go

Cynthia lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

Cynthia, when you come walkin' by you're an inspiring sight

Cynthia, you don't smile or say hi but baby that's alright

'Cause I don't need to hold you or taste your kiss

I just like knowin', Cynthia, you exist

In a world like this

Cynthia, when you pass it seems like this whole town drops

Cynthia, or maybe it's just me, baby, and these fools stuck here punchin' this clock

Well you give us a reason to stop just for a while

Stop, stand and salute your style

Well now you ain't the finest thing I'll never have

And when you go the hurt you leave, baby, it ain't so bad

There ain't a man in this whole town who'd say you ain't fine

You hear them guys talkin', tell me baby do you mind

Well you make us happy, honey, when we feel sad

To see something so good in a world gone bad

There's still Cynthia

Cynthia, no one knows your number, no one knows where you live

Cynthia, I wonder do you understand this strange thing you give

Well baby is it your style, the mystery in your smile

Or just how cool you walk in a world gone wild

Tell me if you will, Cynthia

Well I gotta be pretty naïve to believe in you

I know you ain't ever gonna be my dream come true

That's alright, I got other dreams as good as you, Cynthia

Yeah now baby, now this ain't no come-on

Just walk on, Cynthia, walk on

You make me holler, yeah, yeah, alright

I said yeah, yeah, alright

Well she's a yeah, yeah, alright

Dead Man Walkin' lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

(from "Dead Man Walking" soundtrack)

There's a pale horse comin'

I'm gonna ride it

I'll rise in the morning

My fate decided

I'm a dead man walkin'

I'm a dead man walkin'

In St. James Parish

I was born and christened

Now I've got my story

Mister no need for you to listen

It's just a dead man talkin'

Once, I had a job, I had a girl

But between our dreams and actions

Lies this world

In the deep forest

Their blood and tears rushed over me

All I could feel was the drugs and the shotgun

And my fear up inside of me

Like a dead man talkin'

'Neath a summer sky my eyes went black

Sister, I won't ask for forgiveness

My sins are all I have

Now the clouds above my prison

Move slowly across the sky

There's a new day dawnin'

And my dreams are full tonight

Dollhouse lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

Well ever since you were a little girl

You set the rules in your little world

But girls grow up and throw their toys away

You're a big girl now but you still wanna play

(Girl we're living)

You dress them up the way you want to

(Girl we're living)

You make them do just what you want them to

(Girl we're living)

Once I thought we had a love that was true

But I'm just another doll in your dollhouse to you

We're living in a dollhouse

We're living in a dollhouse

Girl we're living in a dollhouse

You may feel safe and sound

But your dollhouse, girl, is falling down

It's all been neatly arranged in your mind

Every detail fits your own design

Every room is perfectly in place

But I can see the sadness, baby, on your face

You had a plan and darling like a child

You thought it's down to fashion, down to style

But your little dreamhouse is runnin' wild

Before your very eyes we're shrinking down to size

We're living in a dollhouse

We're living in a dollhouse

Girl we're living in a dollhouse

You may feel safe and sound

But your dollhouse, girl, is falling down

Everything's as you dreamed it would be

But there's something wrong that you can't see

Room by room you keep looking for some little flaw

A crack somewhere in your dollhouse wall

Something, girl, that will explain away

The hurt you feel, darling, when we play

Your little dolls they got grip on you

Until you're just another doll in your dollhouse too

We're living in a dollhouse

Girl, we're living in a dollhouse

Oh we're living in a dollhouse

We may feel safe and sound

But our dollhouse, girl, is falling down

Oh we're living in a dollhouse

Girl, we're living in a dollhouse

Don't Look Back lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

Cold rain running down the front of my shirt

I'm flat on my back wheels in the dirt

Angel makes her face up out on Baker Street

She's straddling the shifter in my front seat

There's nothing to lose, it's a heartbreak

The deck's stacked

So put your foot to the floor and darling don't look back

We're making night tracks through the blazing rain

Blowin' pistons, workin' the fast lane

Red line burnin', pocket's full of cash

Angel writes her name in lipstick on my dash

There's nothing to lose

It's a bad break but baby we're backed

Tonight we'll blow off the doors and honey we won't look back

We held it in our hearts in the pourin' rain

We made it through the heart of a hurricane

We tore it apart and put it together again

Well angel, won't you believe in love for me

C'mon and meet me tonight, darling, out in the street

We'll move with the city in the dark

You got to walk, it talk, it in your heart

There's nothin' to lose it's a heartache

The deck's stacked

So put your foot to the floor, darling

Tonight we'll blow off the doors, baby

We're gonna even the score

Frankie lyrics - Bruce Springsteen

Dark weekends in the sun out on Chelsea Road

Descending the stairs, Frankie, my one

Check your makeup in the mirror c'mon babe let's go

We'll dance 'round this dirty town 'til the night is all done

Let all the finer things sleep alone tonight

Let all the minor kings lose their thrones tonight

Don't worry about us, baby, we'll be alright

Well everybody's dying, this town's closing down

They're all sittin' down at the courthouse waiting for 'em to take the flag down

I see strange flashes in the sky up above

Gonna spend the night at the drive-in with the one that I love

At dusk the stars all appear on the screen

Yeah, just like they do each night in my dreams

But tonight's no dream, Frankie, I can feel myself too

Well now and forever my love is for you

Walk softly tonight little stranger

Yeah into these shadows we're passing through

Talk softly tonight, little angel

You make all my dream worlds come true

Well lately I've been standing out in the freezing rain

Readin' them want ads out on Chelsea Road

I'm winging down the street in search of new games

Hustling through these nightlights' diamond glow

Well Frankie I don't know what I'm gonna find

Maybe nothing at all, maybe a world I can call mine

Shining like these streetlights down here on the strand

Bright as the rain in the palm of your hand

Walk softly tonight, little stranger

Into the shadows where lovers go

Talk softly to me, little angel

Whisper your secrets, so soft and low