Tracks II: The Lost Albums (2025)

• Follow That Dream
• Don't Back Down On Our Love
• Little Girl Like You
• Johnny Bye Bye
• Sugarland
• Seven Tears
• Fugitives Dream
• Black Mountain Ballad
• Jim Deer
• County Fair (from "The Essential Bruce Springsteen" compilation)
• My Hometown
• One Love
• Don't Back Down
• Richfield Whistle
• The Klansman
• Unsatisfied Heart
• Shut Out The Light
• Fugitive's Dream (Ballad)
• Blind Spot
• Maybe I Don't Know You
• Something In The Well
• Waiting On The End Of The World
• The Little Things
• We Fell Down
• One Beautiful Morning
• Between Heaven And Earth
• Secret Garden
• Farewell Party
• The Desert (Instrumental)
• Where You Going, Where You From
• Faithless
• All God's Children
• A Prayer By The River (Instrumental)
• God Sent You
• Goin' To California
• The Western Sea (Instrumental)
• My Master's Hand
• Let Me Ride
• My Master's Hand (Theme) (Instrumental)
• Repo Man
• Tiger Rose
• Poor Side Of Town
• Delivery Man
• Under A Big Sky
• Detail Man
• Silver Mountain
• Janey Don't You Lose Heart
• You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone
• Stand On It
• Blue Highway
• Somewhere North Of Nashville
• Inyo
• Indian Town
• Adelita
• The Aztec Dance
• The Lost Charro
• Our Lady Of Monroe
• El Jardinero (Upon The Death Of Ramona)
• One False Move
• Ciudad Juarez
• When I Build My Beautiful House
• Sunday Love
• Late In The Evening
• Two Of Us
• Lonely Town
• September Kisses
• Twilight Hours
• I'll Stand By You
• High Sierra
• Sunliner
• Another You
• Dinner At Eight
• Follow The Sun
• I'm Not Sleeping
• Idiot's Delight
• Another Thin Line
• The Great Depression
• Blind Man
• Rain In The River
• If I Could Only Be Your Lover
• Cutting Knife
• You Lifted Me Up
• Perfect World

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