Copyright: Copyright © 1998 by Filewalker, GER


30 Days Out

30 DAYS OUT

We fell in love and I made you the world

I spent all my time tryin' to satisfy you, girl

Just one thing that I can't be around   [?]

Closer I get, farther behind I am       [?]

30 days, 30 days out

Well I'm six days runnin' but I'm 30 days out

30 days, 30 days out

With every kiss you leave a little shadow of doubt

The roof was leakin' honey where we live

And I'm wonderin' what's that something that you won't give

I started loving you but I gotta stop

You got me mostly waitin' for that other shoe to drop

30 days, 30 days out

You keep me six days runnin' but I'm 30 days out

30 days, 30 days out

With every kiss you leave a little shadow of doubt

Tried to talk about what's goin' on

You just smile and tell me "Baby there ain't nothin' wrong"

In your smile there's a sign in red

It said "Thousand miles of hard road dead ahead"

30 days, 30 days out

Yeah I'm six days runnin' but I'm 30 days out

30 days, 30 days out

With every kiss you leave a little shadow of doubt

30 days, 30 days out

Well I'm six days runnin' but I'm 30 days out

30 days, 30 days out

With every kiss you leave a little shadow of doubt


4th Of July Asbury Park (Sandy)

Sandy the fireworks are hailin' over Little Eden tonight

Forcin' a light into all those stoned-out faces left stranded on this Fourth of July

Down in town the circuit's full with switchblade lovers so fast so shiny so sharp

And the wizards play down on Pinball Way on the boardwalk way past dark

And the boys from the casino dance with their shirts open like Latin lovers

along the shore

Chasin' all them silly New York girls

Sandy the aurora is risin' behind us, the pier lights our carnival life forever

Love me tonight for I may never see you again, hey Sandy girl

Now the greasers they tramp the streets or get busted for trying to sleep on the

beach all night

Them boys in their spiked high heels ah Sandy their skins are so white

And me I just got tired of hangin' in them dusty arcades bangin' them

pleasure machines

Chasin' the factory girls underneath the boardwalk where they promise to

unsnap their jeans

And you know that tilt-a-whirl down on the south beach drag

I got on it last night and my shirt got caught

And that Joey kept me spinnin' I didn't think I'd ever get off

Oh Sandy the aurora is risin' behind us

The pier lights our carnival life on the water

Runnin' down the beach at night with my boss's daughter

Well he ain't my boss no more Sandy

Sandy the angels have lost their desire for us

I spoke to `em just last night and they said they won't set themselves on

fire for us anymore

Every summer when the weather gets hot they ride that road down from heaven

on their Harleys they come and they go

And you can see `em dressed like stars in all the cheap little seashore bars

parked making love with their babies out on the Kokomo

Well the cops finally busted Madame Marie for tellin' fortunes better than they do

This boardwalk life for me is through

You know you ought to quit this scene too

Sandy the aurora's rising behind us, the pier lights our carnival life forever

Oh love me tonight and I promise I'll love you forever

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Released on:

The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle 1973

Live 1975 - 1985   Live-Box 1986 (Nassau Coliseum, 12/31/1980)


57 Channels And Noting On
57 Channels And Nothin` On

I bought a bourgeois house in the Hollywood hills

With a truckload of hundred thousand dollar bills

Man came by to hook up my cable TV

We settled in for the night my baby and me

We switched 'round and 'round 'til half-past dawn

There was fifty-seven channels and nothin' on

Well now home entertainment was my baby's wish

So I hopped into town for a satellite dish

I tied it to the top of my Japanese car

I came home and I pointed it out into the stars

A message came back from the great beyond

There's fifty-seven channels and nothin' on

Well we might'a made some friends with some billionaires

We might'a got all nice and friendly if we'd made it upstairs

All I got was a note that said "Bye-bye John

Our love is fifty-seven channels and nothin' on"

So I bought a .44 magnum it was solid steel cast

And in the blessed name of Elvis well I just let it blast

'Til my TV lay in pieces there at my feet

And they busted me for disturbing the almighty peace

Judge said "What you got in your defense son?"

"Fifty-seven channels and nothin' on"

I can see by your eyes friend you're just about gone

Fifty-seven channels and nothin' on...

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Released on:

Human Touch1992

57 Channels (And nothin on) - Part Man Part Monkey   Single 1992

57 Channels - The Miami Steve Mixes (Maxi-CD) 1992


A Love So Fine
A Love so Fine (Paradise by the Sea)

Well there's sparklin' angels on your fire-escape tonight

They line them up for you trying to keep you safe

But with them fire alley burglars on a midnight vamp

You lost your heart on Main Street to a beautiful tramp

That's all right, I don't mind

`Cause I got (you got) a love so fine

A love so fine, me and my baby

A love so fine, me and my baby

A love so fine

The rat's traps are filled with soul crusaders

Everybody's popping and hopping and jumping

At Little Melvin and The Invaders

You're out on the floor and you can't get up

Your baby's out there dancing and struttin' that Continental Strut

She looks so good, she looks so fine (she blows your mind)

Oh we (you) got a love so fine

A love so fine

A love so fine

A love so fine

Everybody's reeling when the band hits the ceiling

Don't you know you just wanna go

The boys start (joint gets) rockin', your knees start knockin'

Everybody party, go

Let's go

The bar's closed down (It's 3 o'clock and the bar's closed)

You walk to the shady side of town all alone (Well you walk along with your)

Papa's screaming at you, he wants some cash  (baby to the dirty side of town)

Mama's chewing you (me) off about hanging out with (alley) trash

That's all right, oh you don't mind

'Cause you've got a love so fine, oh me and my baby

A love so fine

A love so fine

A love so fine

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Born to Run outtake 1974


A good man is hard to find

It's cloudy out in Pittsburgh

It's rainin' 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 no time now for Casanovas

Yeah those days are gone

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

Just somebody to hold her

As the night gets 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

Well it's cloudy out in Pittsburgh

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Released on:

Tracks 1998 Recorded at The Power Station, 5/5/82


About
About Reason To Believe  V1.4

About Reason to Believe

Reason to Believe is made for all Springsteen Fans around

this world. I want to make this greart Lyrics aviable for everyone

out there.  That's why this Programm is Freeware. But there was

a lot of hard work in it, so please don't publish it without my

permission. For me this are  not only printed words, it's more.

Many of this Songs helped me by finding my own way, so I hope

they do the same to you.

How to use Reason to Believe:

On the Status screen you can see a list of available lyrics.

This is the complete list. If you are searching for a song

please don't use the search funktion from the Editor.

Cause many songs have two or more names witch are

only in the huge list at the main screen.

Under the lyrics you can find some additional Informations and

a list of available releases. The main release in underlined.

Sources for Reason to Believe:

The nearly complete Boss           	From Staxowax

Compilation of all Springsteen Lyrics      	From Louis Puccio

Sony Homepage	www.sonymusic.com

Songs to Orphans lyric book

The Great Rock Discographie

The Rolling Stone Files	German Edition

Born to Run, by Dave Marsh	German Edition

Thanks to:

Stefan, Frank Rohwe, Thomas Gentzow, Rüdiger Hanke, Staxowax

Louis Puccio, Sony Music, Sat1 Television, Yahoo.de, WEB.DE and

Xoom.com

Special Thanks to:

Robert Steinseufzer for all the help, friendship + german translations

Bruce Springsteen for his music and a kind of "friendship"

Made by:

Filewalker, 18 April 1999

Filewalker@ob.kamp.net

Filewalker@empire.wmb.de

To download the newest version contact to:

http://members.xoom.com/springsteen/rtb

At least:

"We learned more from a three minute record than we ever

learned in school" Well, this programm contains the lyrics

from about 320 three minute records.


About Translations
List of all available translations

In German:

Atlantic City

Backstreets

Badlands

Better Days

Blood Brothers

Bobby Jean

Book of Dreams

Born in the USA

Born to Run

Brilliant Disguise

Cover Me

Cross my Heart

Dancing in the Dark

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Downbound Train

Factory

Fade away

Glory Days

Highway Patrolman

Human Touch

I'm on Fire

Incident on 57th Street

Johnny99

Jungleland

Lucky Man

Lucky Town

Man's Job

Mansion on the Hill

Murder Incorporated

My beautiful Reward

My Fathers House

Nebraska

Night

No Surrender

Open all Night

Point Blank

Prove it all Night

Racing in the Street

Reason to believe

Roll of the Dice

Roulette

Secret Garden

Soul  Driver

Souls of the Departed

Spare Parts

Stand on it

Stolen Car

Straight Time

Sreets of Philadelphia

Sugarland

The big Muddy

The Ghost of Tom Joad

The new Timer

The Price you pay

The promised Land

The River

This Hard Land

Thunder Road

Trapped

Tunnel of Love

Two Faces

Two Hearts

Walk like a Man

Wreck on the Highway

Youngstown

In Italien

Backstreets

Blindet by the Light

Born to Run

Dead man Walking

Follow that Dream

For You

It's hard to be a Saint in the City

Lost in the Flood

One Step up

Seeds

The Angle

The Ghost of Tom Joad

Thunder Road

In Spain

Gypsy Woman

The Ghost of Tom Joad

In France

Thunder Road

In Danish

Thunder Road


Across The Border

Tonight my bag is packed

Tommorrow I'll walk these tracks

That will lead me across the border

Tommorrow my love and I

Will sleep 'neath auburn skies

Somewhere across the border

We'll leave behind my dear

The pain and sadness we found here

And we'll drink from the Bravo's muddy waters

Where the sky grows grey and white

We'll meet on the other side

There across the border

For you I'll build a house

High up on a grassy hill

Somewhere across the border

Where pain and memory

Pain and memory have been stilled

There across the border

And sweet blossoms fills the air

Pastures of gold and green

Roll down into cool clear waters

And in your arms 'neath the open skies

I'll kiss the sorrow from your eyes

There across the border

Tonight we'll sing the songs

I'll dream of you my corrazone

And tommorrow my heart will be strong

And may the saints blessing and grace

Carry me safely into your arms

There across the border

For what are we

Without hope in our hearts

That someday we'll drink from God's blessed waters

And eat the fruit from the vine

I know love and fortune will be mine

Somewhere across the border

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Released on:

The Ghost Of Tom Joad 1995


Across The Borderline

(Ry Cooder/John Hiatt/Jim Dickinson)

There's a place, so I've been told,

Every street is paved with gold

And it's just across the borderline

And when it's time to take your turn

There's a lesson that you must learn

You may lose more than you'll ever hope to find.

(chorus)

And when you reach that broken promised land

And all your dreams slip though your hand

You have learned it's too late to change your mind

Cause you pay the price to come so far

Just to wind up where you are

And you're still just across the borderline.

Up and down The Rio Grande

A thousand foot prints in the sand

Reveal a secret no one can define

The river rolls on like a breath

In between our life and death

Tell me who is next to cross that borderline.

(chorus)

And when you reach that broken promised land

And all your dreams slip though your hand

You'll know it's too late to change your mind

Cause you pay the price to come so far

Just to wind up where you are

And you're still just across the borderline.


Action In The Streets

Well  don't move

Why don't you listen to what I'm saying

And hey you

You better get up if you plan to be staying

Get loose

You got to listen to what the band is playing

Oh tonight

There's action in the street all night

We're bopping to the big beat, go

Get up off your seat and roll

At school

The girls you know their dancing, mister 's just my speed

And hey cool

If action is the thing you need

Well don't fool

The kid's satisfaction guaranteed

Oh tonight

There's action in the street all night

We're bopping to the big beat, go

Get up off your seat and roll

Well hey man

Yeah don't let the little girl sigh

Understand

If you just move your body side to side

Raise your hand

Shout until you're satisfied

Oh tonight

There's action in the street all night

We're bopping to the big beat, go

Get up off your seat and roll

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This Song was played during the 1976 tours

Fans gave this Song the name

never Released


Adam Raised A Chain

n the summer that I was baptized my father held me to his side

As they put me to the water he said how on that day I cried

We were prisoners of love a love in chains

He was standin' in the door I was standin' in the rain

With the same hot blood burning in our veins

Adam raised a Cain

All of the old faces ask you why you're back

They fit you with position and the keys to your daddy's Cadillac

In the darkness of your room your mother calls you by your true name

You remember the faces the places the names

You know it's never over it's relentless as the rain

Adam raised a Cain

In the Bible Cain slew Abel and East of Eden he was cast

You're born into this life paying for the sins of somebody else's past

Daddy worked his whole life for nothing but the pain

Now he walks these empty rooms looking for something to blame

You inherit the sins you inherit the flames

Adam raised a Cain

Lost but not forgotten from the dark heart of a dream

Adam raised a Cain

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Released on:

Darkness On The Edge Of Town1978

Live 1975 - 1985   Live-Box 1986 (Roxy 7/7/1978)


After The Thunder

An echo fades of sounds once heard

By thousands brought together for

His ringing voice, a soul that stirred

The faithful to a mighty roar.

For twenty years upon the stage

For twenty years upon the stage

The passion deep within his soul

Brought forth the anger and the rage

His vision locked upon one goal.

The promises of rock and roll could

Break the chains upon his life,

Guitar in hand he vowed he would

Be free from pain and inner strife.

He shook the rafters in the halls

And brought the faithful to their feet,

His river coursed through mighty walls

Across this land, down every street.

With flag unfurled he took the word

Across the seas to hungry youth

Who raised their hands when e'er they heard

His cries for faith, and hope, and truth.

Today he stands with inner peace

A man content with home and health,

Upon his brow a jagged crease

A symbol of success and wealth.

The thunder of his younger days

Has passed, and now his words reveal

A calmer soul in many ways

Fulfilled with satisfactions real.

His arms upraised against the light

He stands alone, his eyes look toward

The ground below, a bird in flight

Still searching for his true reward.

His mission done, he finds retreat

With children and a loving wife,

His body tired from the heat

The price he pays for touring life.

But deep within the longings stir

The music runs within him still,

His passions for the times that were

Are stronger than his iron will.

And all of us who know the man

Will come together when he cries

The message we all understand

The thunder in us never dies.


Ain't Got You

I got a fortune of heaven in diamonds and gold

I got all the bonds baby that the bank could hold

I got houses 'cross the country honey end to end

And everybody buddy wants to be my friend

Well I got all the riches honey any man every knew

But the only thing I ain't got honey I ain't got you

I got a house full of Rembrandt and priceless art

And all the little girls they wanna tear me apart

When I walk down the street people stop and stare

Well you think I might be thrilled but baby I don't care

Cause I got more good luck honey than old King Farouk

But the only thing I ain't got baby I ain't got you

I got a big diamond watch sittin' on my wrist

I try to tempt you baby but you just resist

I made a deal with the devil babe I won't deny

Until I got you in my arms I can't be satisfied

I got a pound of caviar sitting home on ice

I got a fancy foreign car that rides like paradise

I got a hundred pretty women knockin' down my door

And folks wanna kiss me I ain't even seen before

I been around the world and all across the seven seas

Been paid a king's ransom for doin' what comes naturally

But I'm still the biggest fool honey this world ever knew

'Cause the only thing I ain't got baby I ain't got you

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Released on:

Tunnel Of Love 1987


All I Need

(Covered by: Gary U.S. Bonds)

Some men need riches and lots of money to spend

Some men need power to hold over other men

But not me baby, girl you can believe

I'm telling you my darling

You're, you're all I need

You're, you're all I need

You're, you're all I need

In this world, girl

Some men need fine clothes, big diamond rings

To feel like somebody some men need expensive things

But I feel like somebody, girl, every time you look at me

I don't need nothing to remind me that

You're, you're all I need

You're, you're all I need

You're, you're all I need

In this world, girl

Some men need a fine home on a far hillside

Some men need a big car to show off as they ride

Some men need a pretty woman just to walk by their side

And some men need to see the fear in another man's eyes

But all I need baby, is all I can see

When you wrap your loving arms around me

You're, you're all I need

You're, you're all I need

You're, you're all I need

You're, you're all I need

In this world, girl


All Night Long

I was born saved in heaven

It was nothing like the promised land

Raised in a good Christian house

Underneath a good Christian hand

I was schooled down and dirty

Signed a note back to town

It was there that the workers slaved all week

Waiting for payday to come around

Break out, come on if you're coming

Cause baby I just can't stay

I want to take out the walls of this joint

I want to blow this town away

Now I ain't into fast livin'

I ain't into dying young

And I ain't looking to be forgiven

For any of the stupid things that I've done

For the ones who once had a notion

A notion it was good to be alive

Feel the spark, the rush of emotion

I want to break out baby tonight

I want to dream, that I got a place

I want to scream in somebody's face

Make it seem, get out of this muddy race

All night long

Well all little kings lose their thrones tonight

All you little pretty things better learn to sleep alone tonight

It was down in the cool dirty living

With the man with the master plan

Some girl who can beg forgiveness

And a ticket to the promised land

Down where they'll tear your guts out

Making out what you're all about

making while we were blasting like a ??

I want out I want out I want out

Want out to the outside

Well I'm a small fool

I want to shout I'm bound for nothing

I want to shout about something too

For the ones who once had a notion

It ain't no sin to be glad you're alive

I feel the heat, the rush of devotion

I want to tear out baby tonight

I wanna do what ain't ever been done

I wanna win what ain't ever been won

I wanna lose blow it all away

I wanna lose what I've always won

Prove it all night long

I wanna know that I got a place

I wanna go where I can see your face

I wanna rock the roof off this place

I want you to know

I wanna live


All Or Nothin' At All

Said you'd give me just a little kiss

And you'd rock me for a little while

Well you'd slip me just a piece of it

Listen up little child

I want it all or nothin' at all

I want it all or nothin' at all

Said you'd take me for a little dance

If you had a little time on your hands

Well all I do is push and shove

Just to get a little piece of your love

I want it all or nothin' at all

I want it all or nothin' at all

Well now I don't wanna be greedy

But when it comes to love there ain't no doubt

You just ain't gonna get what you want

With one foot in and one foot out

You got to give it all or nothin' at all

All or nothin' at all

Now I only got a little time

So if you're gonna change your mind

Then shout out what you're thinking of

If what you're thinkin' of is love

I want it all or nothin' at all

I want it all or nothin' at all


All That Heaven Will Allow

I got a dollar in my pocket there ain't a cloud up above

I got a picture in a locket that says baby I love you

Well if you didn't look then boys then fellas don't go lookin' now

Well here she comes a-walkin' all that heaven will allow

Say hey there mister bouncer now all I wanna dance

But I swear I left my wallet back home in my workin' pants

C'mon Slim slip me in man I'll make it up to you somehow

I can't be late I got a date with all that heaven will allow

Rain and storm and dark skies well now they don't mean a thing

If you got a girl that loves you and who wants to wear your ring

So c'mon mister trouble we'll make it through you somehow

We'll fill this house with all the love all that heaven will allow

Now some may wanna die young man young and gloriously

Get it straight now mister hey buddy that ain't me

'Cause I got something on my mind that sets me straight and walking proud

And I want all the time all that heaven will allow

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Released on:

Tunnel Of Love 1987


Angelyne

He was a bouncer in a joint called Tony's Body Shop

She was a night cashier down at the Stop 'n' Shop

He was kinda good-lookin'

And she was kinda fun

They met 'neath that big oak tree

Out where the river runs

Little Angelyne, little Angelyne

As the sun goes down and the moonlight shines

Back of a greyhound bus sit two lovers entwined

Just Big Bill and little Angelyne

She was just in from Texas, didn't know her way around

So he took her to a roadhouse on the edge of town

In the beerhall light she looked so fine

And so he popped the question that was on his mind

It was a simple affair, only a friend or two

Preacher asked if they did, they said they do

She bought two tickets with her Dady's American Express

And hopped a greyhound bus in her wedding dress

Little Angelyne, little Angelyne

As the sun goes down and the moonlight shines

Back of a greyhound bus sit two lovers entwined

Just Big Bill and little Angelyne

In a six dollar motel with the honey bun

With seven glorious days in the Nevada sun

He played the tables, she pumped the slots full of dimes

They came back broke but they had a good time

Now many fell aprt in the years come and gone

But Big Bill and little Angel they'd last on and on

They held together when the times grew thin

A little boy that looked like her, and a girl that looked like him

So mister don't you pay it no mind

Let the sun go down and the moonlight shine

Back of a greyhound bus sit two lovers entwined

Just Big Bill and little Angelyne

Little Angelyne, little Angelyne

As the sun goes down and the moonlight shines

Back of a greyhound bus sit two lovers entwined

Just Big Bill and little Angelyne

Little Angelyne, little Angelyne

As the sun goes down and the moonlight shines

Back of a greyhound bus sit two lovers entwined

Just Big Bill and little Angelyne


Arabian Nights

Shrieks of Sheikhs as they run across the movie screen

A thousand sand-dune soldiers led by an Arabian Queen

And the harem girls move like fancy (Clancy's) dancers

In my dirty dreams

And I wake up on the floor clutching the bed-lamp

And Mama comes in, she screams

"Hey you been out with that tramp again last night

You know that silver-sequined Arab black bitch

The one that Mama don't like ?"

But Mama she sings me moontime melodies

With this great Top 40 hook

She shrugs her shoulders, she don't care

Papa just stares and says "Mary, look the girl's alright

The girl's alright"

And there's a tenseness in the air       He turns and says

Don't you know, can't you feel it        "Tell me son, what's the word ?"

Because there's something hanging there  'Cos you know he can't hear it

Pull back the mist and reveal it         But don't go near it

And even if you fear waht you near       It's criticised as too absurd

Don't conceal it                         Even the animals fear it

'Cos if what Mama feels is too real      Papa says "Fetch me my flashlight, son"

She just claims she don't feel it        And she stumbles out the front door

So come out from behind your bunkers

'Cos the lift-off's been a bust

Oh Papa's Gone and Mama's dead

And buried in my rocket dust

You're alone now for the first time

Don't worry, 'cos that's all right

All fear will complete;y disappear

Come the Arabian Night

Well the soundman smiles and turns the dials

To set the meter readin' rising

He pulls the singer's voice from out of his pocket

To see if the audience likes it

Oh and in the very first row sits sweet Jenny Rue

With a bell on her shoe and she wants him to make it

He flicks a switch but Jenny moves too fast

And the audience sways to the sound of her shotgun blast

The manager comes running out from behind stage and says

Check the band's arms for bullet holes

Make that man roll up his sleeves"

The drummer shoots himself with cyanide

And then asks to be relieved

And me, I say "Well, it's too crazy in here

Which is the stage door out, I gotta get up tomorrow morning for work"

And the promotor says "Man, once you're in they all lead out

What's the matter man, ain't you heard ?

There's a war going on on the outside

And I'm paying you to sing like a bird

So get in and get tough or get up and get out

Because things aren't too tight"

I said "Don't worry, man, everything's gonna loosen up

Come the Arabian Night"

Come the Arabian Night

So I get back in my bed

But outside my window I hear another gang fight

It's Duke and the boys against the Devil's best man

And both sides have drawn their knives

And Duke he's a well-known knife-fighter

And with one quick jab he brings the Devil down

He smiles 'cos he knows there's a high bounty on Devils

In any God-fearin' town

Well they say Duke sold the Devil to some priest in Pennsylvania

To exhibit on his altar Christmas Night

But the Devil's eyes they still burn red with fire

As long as Duke walks upright

And he swears there's a going to be a showdown

Come sundown on the Arabian Night

Oh on the Arabian Night

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Recorded at May 1973 for the John Hammond Demo tapes.

Never released.


Atlantic City

German Translation

Well, they blew up the chicken man in Philly last night

Now, they blew up his house, too

Down on the boardwalk they're gettin' ready for a fight

Gonna see what them racket boys can do

Now, there's trouble bustin' in from outta state

And the D.A. can't get no relief

Gonna be a rumble out on the promenade

And the gamblin' commission's hangin' on by the skin of his teeth

Well now, ev'rything dies, baby, that's a fact

But maybe ev'rything that dies someday comes back

Put your makeup on, fix your hair up pretty

And meet me tonight in Atlantic City

Well, I got a job and tried to put my money away

But I got debts that no honest man can pay

So I drew what I had from the Central Trust

And I bought us two tickets on that Coast City bus

Now, baby, ev'rything dies, honey, that's a fact...

Now our luck may have died and our love may be cold

But with you forever I'll stay

We're goin' out where the sand's turnin' to gold

Put on your stockin's baby, `cause the night's getting cold

And maybe ev'rything dies, baby, that's a fact

But maybe ev'rything that dies someday comes back

Now, I been lookin' for a job, but it's hard to find

Down here it's just winners and losers and don't

get caught on the wrong side of that line

Well, I'm tired of comin' out on the losin' end

So, honey, last night I met this guy and I'm gonna

do a little favor for him

Well, I guess everything dies, baby, that's a fact...

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Released on:

Nebraska1982

Atlantic City Single 1983 (UK only)


Atlantic City GER
Atlantic City

(German Translation)

Heut'nacht haben sie den Chicken Man in Philly hochgejagt, sein Haus

noch dazu

Unten am Pier machen sie sich fuer den Kampf fertig

Mal sehen, was die schweren Jungs drauf haben

Gleich gibt es Aerger von ausserhalb, der Staatsanwalt findet keine

Ruhe mehr

Auf der Promenade wird's boese hergehen, die Casino-Behoerden haengen

nur noch am seidenen Faden Refrain ,

Alles stirbt, Baby, das ist mal klar, aber vielleicht kommt alles

irgendwann wieder

Mach Dich schoen, steck'die Haare hoch, und Du siehst mich heute abend

in Atlantic City.

Ich fand einen Job, versuchte, Geld beiseite zu legen,

Aber dann steckte ich zu tief drin und konnte nicht zahlen

Da nahm ich alles, was ich hatte, aus dem Central Trust

Und kaufte uns zwei Tickets fuer den A.C. Bus.

Mag sein, dass unser Glueck hin ist und unsere Liebe kalt, aber

ich bleibe immer bei Dir, wir gehen raus, wo Sand zu Gold wird

Zieh' Dir Struempfe an, denn die Naechte werden kalt,

Und vielleicht stirbt alles, das ist mal klar, aber vielleicht kommt

alles irgendwann wieder.

Ich hab'einen Job gesucht, aber es ist schwer

Hier unten gibt's nur Sieger und Verlierer und

lass' Dich bloss nicht auf der falschen Seite erwischen.

Ich hab's satt, immer der Verlierer zu sein, also Kleines,

Gestern Abend traf ich diesen Typ und ich werde ihm einen

kleinen Gefallen tun...

Refrain

Alles stirbt, Baby, das ist mal klar, aber vielleicht kommt alles

irgendwann wieder.

Mach Dich schoen, steck'die Haare hoch, und Du siehst mich heute Abend

in Atlantic City.


Back In Your Arms Again

(From the video "Blood Brothers")

You said once I was your treasure, and I saw your face in every store

The promises we make at night, oh that's all they are

Unless we fill them with faith and love they're emty as a howlin' wind.

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.

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 the shadow and darkness and a dark sky unfurls.

And all the love I've thrown away and lost, honey I'm longing for again.

Now there's nothing that I wouldn't do if I could 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

(Alternative firstverse)

In my dream my love was lost, I lived by luck and faith.

I carried you inside of me, and praied it wouldn't be to late.

Now I'm standin' on this empty road, where nothin' moves but the wind...

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Released on:

the Video "Blood Brothers" in 1995

Tracks 1998 - Recorded in the Hit Factory 1 / 12 / 90


Backstreets

German Translation

Italian translation

One soft infested summer me and Terry became friends

Trying in vain to breathe the fire we was born in

Catching rides to the outskirts tying faith between our teeth

Sleeping in that old abandoned beach house getting wasted in the heat

And hiding on the backstreets, hiding on the backstreets

With a love so hard and filled with defeat

Running for our lives at night on them backstreets

Slow dancing in the dark on the beach at Stockton's Wing

Where desperate lovers park we sat with the last of the Duke Street Kings

Huddled in our cars waiting for the bells that ring

In the deep heart of the night to set us loose from everything

to go running on the backstreets, running on the backstreets

We swore we'd live forever on the backstreets we take it together

Endless juke joints and Valentino drag where dancers scraped the tears

Up off the street dressed down in rags running into the darkness

Some hurt bad some really dying at night sometimes it seemed

You could hear the whole damn city crying blame it on the lies that killed us

Blame it on the truth that ran us down you can blame it all on me Terry

It don't matter to me now when the breakdown hit at midnight

There was nothing left to say but I hated him and I hated you when you went away

Laying here in the dark you're like an angel on my chest

Just another tramp of hearts crying tears of faithlessness

Remember all the movies, Terry, we'd go see

Trying to learn how to walk like heroes we thought we had to be

And after all this time to find we're just like all the rest

Stranded in the park and forced to confess

To hiding on the backstreets, hiding on the backstreets

We swore forever friends on the backstreets until the end

Hiding on the backstreets, hiding on the backstreets

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Released on:

Born to Run 1975

Live 1975 - 1985   Live-Box 1986 (Roxy, 7/7/78)


Backstreets GER
Backstreets

German Translation

In einem leicht verseuchten Sommer wurden Terry und ich Freunde

Versuchten vergeblich das Feuer einzuatmen

In dem wir geboren wurden

Machten Fahrten in die Umgebung

Versuchten Treue zwischen unseren Zähnen

Schliefen in diesem alten verlassenen Strandhaus

Gingen verloren in der Hitze

Und versteckten uns in den Seitenstraáen

Mit einer Liebe so hart und gefüllt mit Niederlagen

Rannten um unser Leben nachts in den Seitenstraßen

Tanzten langsam im Dunkeln am Strand bei Stocktons Bucht

Wo verzweifelte Paare parken

Wir saáen mit dem letzten der Duke Street Kings

Kuschelten in unserem Auto

Warteten daá die Glocken leuteten

Im dunklen Herzen der Nacht schüttelten wir alles ab

Um zu laufen in den Seitenstraßen

Terry du schworst wir leben für immer

Packen es in den Seitenstraáen zusammen

Endlose Musikbox-Treffen und Valentino-Langweile

Wo tolle Tänzer Tränen abwischen

Oben neben der Straáe Kleidung in Fetzen

Laufen in die Dunkelheit

Manchen wird sehr wehgetan, manche werden wirklich sterben

Nachts scheint es manchmal,

als h”rtest du die ganze verdammte Stadt weinen

Gib die Schuld den Lügen die uns umbringen

Gib die Schuld der Wahrheit die uns niedermacht

Du kannst mir die Schuld geben Terry, es ist mir jetzt egal

Wenn der Zusammenbruch kommt zur Mitternacht

Ist da nichts mehr zu sagen

Aber ich haßte ihn

Und ich haßte dich als du fortgingst

Liege hier im Dunkeln du bist wie ein Engel an meiner Brust

Nur ein anderer Vagabund der Herzen

Weint Tr„nen der Treulosigkeit

Erinnere dich an die Filme, Terry, die wir sahen

Versuchten zu lernen wie Helden zu gehen

Wir dachten wir m�áten das

Nun nach all der Zeit merkten wir, daá wir genauso sind wie die Anderen

Strandeten im Park und zwangen uns zu beichten

Zum Verstecken in den Seitenstraßen

Wo wir schworen f�r immer Freunde zu bleiben

In den Seitenstraáen bis zum Ende

Verstecken in den Seitenstraßen

Translation by: Frank Rohwer


Backstreets ITA
Backstreets

(Italian Translation)

In una dolce estate maledetta

Io e Terry siamo diventati amici

Cercando invano di respirare

Il fuoco in cui eravamo nati

Correvamo verso i sobborghi

Stringendo la fiducia tra i denti

Dormivamo in quella vecchia casa abbandonata sulla spiaggia

Distrutti dal caldo

Nascondendoci nelle strade secondarie

Nascondendoci nelle strade secondarie

Con un amore cosi resistente e carico di sconfitte

Correndo nella notte per le nostre vite nelle strade secondarie

Ballando lentamente nell'oscurita

Sulla spiaggia di Stockton's Wing

Dove vanno gli amanti disperati

Restavamo seduti in compagnia dell'ultimo disco dei Duke Street Kings

Abbracciatti stretti nelle nostre macchine

Aspettando il rintocco delle campane

Nel cuore della notte

Dimenticavamo tutto

Per correre nelle strade secondarie

Per correre nelle strade secondarie

Terry hai giurato che saremmo vissuti per sempre

Tenendo duro nelle strade secondarie

Locali da due soldi dappertutto addobbati pretenziosamente

Dove ballerini famosi raschiano le lacrime

Dalle strade vestiti di stracci

Correndo nell'oscurita

Qualcuno si e ferito gravemente, qualcuno e in punto di morte

Di notte a volte ti sembra

Di sentir piangere l'intera citta

Incolpa le menzogne che ci hanno ucciso

Incolpa la verita che ci ha buttato a terra

Oppure dai tutte le colpe a me Terry

Non mi importa piu niente adesso

Quando a mezzanotte ci fu l'addio

Non era rimasto piu niente da dire

Ma io l'odiai

E odiai te quando ve ne andaste via

Sdraiata nell'oscurita

Sembri un angelo sul mio petto

E solo un altra immagine

Che piange lacrime di infedelta

Ricordi tutti i film, Terry

Che siamo andati a vedere

Cercando di imparare a camminare come gli eroi

Che pensavamo di poter diventare

E dopo tutto questo tempo

Ci siamo resi contro che siamo come tutti gli altri

Prigionieri in un parcheggio

E costretti a confessare

Di nasconderci nelle strade secondarie

Nasconderci nelle strade secondarie

Dove abbiamo giurato un patto eterno

Nelle strade secondarie per sempre

Nascosti in strade secondarie

Nascosti in strade secondarie...


Badlands

German Translation

Lights out tonight trouble in the heartland

Got a head-on collision smashin' in my guts man

I'm caught in a crossfire that I don't understand

But there's one thing I know for sure I don't give a damn

For the same old played out scenes I don't give a damn

For just the in-betweens honey I want the heart I want the soul

I want control right now talk about a dream

Try to make it real you wake up in the night

With a fear so real spend your life waiting

For a moment that just don't come

Well don't waste your time waiting

Badlands you gotta live it every day

Let the broken hearts stand

As the price you've gotta pay

We'll keep pushin' till it's understood

And these badlands start treating us good

Workin' in the field till you get your back burned

Workin' `neath the wheels till you get your facts learned

Baby I got my facts learned real good right now

You better get it straight darling

Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king

And a king ain't satisfied till he rules everything

I wanna go out tonight, I wanna find out what I got

Now I believe in the love that you gave me

I believe in the faith that could save me

I believe in the hope and I pray that some day

It will raise me above these

Badlands...

For the ones who had a notion, a notion deep inside

That it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive

I wanna find one face that ain't looking through me

I wanna find one place, I wanna spit in the face of these

Badlands...

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Released on:

Darkness on the Edge of Town 1978

Badlands / Streets of Fire   Single - Jul 1978

Badlands / Something in the Night   Single - Jul 1978

Live 1975 - 1985   Live-Box 1986 (Arizona State University, 15/5/80)

Greatest Hits 1995


Badlands GER
Badlands

German Translation

Lichter aus heute nacht

Ärger im Herzland

Habe einen Kopf auf Kollisionskurs

Schlägt in mein Innerstes, Mann

Ich bin gefangen in einem Kreuzfeuer das ich nicht verstehe

Aber da ist eine Sache die ich sicher weiß, Mädchen

Ich scheiáe auf die alten ausgespielten Szenen

Ich scheiáe darauf nur dazwischen zu stehen

Schatz ich will das Herz, ich will die Seele, ich will Kontrolle, sofort

Besser du h”rst mir zu Baby

Rede über einen Traum

Versuche ihn zu verwirklichen

Du erwachst in der Nacht

Mit einer Angst so realistisch

Verbringst dein Leben wartest auf einen Moment der einfach nicht kommt

Verschwende nicht deine Zeit mit warten

Ödes Land, du muát es jeden Tag leben

Laß die gebrochenen Herzen dort als Preis den du zahlen muát

Wir werden weiter k„mpfen bis uns alles klar wird

Und diese ™de beginnt uns gut zu behandeln

Arbeite in den Feldern bis dein Nacken brennt

Arbeite neben den Rädern bis du deine Fakten gelernt hast

Baby ich habe meine Fakten wirklich sehr gut gelernt

Besser du begreifst, Baby

Armer Mann will Reich sein

Reicher Mann will König sein

Und ein König ist nicht zufrieden bis er alles kontrolliert

Ich will rausgehen heute nacht

Ich will herausfinden was ich habe

Ich glaube an die Liebe die du mir gibst

Ich glaube an das Vertrauen das mich schützen kann

Ich glaube an die Hoffnung

Und ich bete daá sie mich eines Tages erhebt über diese Öde

Für den einen der eine Idee hat, eine Idee tief in sich

Daß es keine Sünde ist darauf Stolz zu sein daá du lebst

Ich will ein Gesicht finden das nicht durch mich hindurch sieht

Ich will einen Platz finden

Ich will spucken in das Gesicht dieser Öde

Translation by:


Balboa Park

He lay his blanket underneath the freeway

As the evening sky grew dark

Took a sniff of toncho from his cocaine

Headed through Balboa Park

Where the men in Mercedes

Come nightly to employ

In the cool San Diego evening

The services of the border boys

He grew up near the zona norte

With the hustlers and smugglers he hung out with

He swallowed their balloons of cocaine

Brought 'em across the 12th street strip

Sleeping in the shelter

If the night got too cold

Runnin' from the migra

Of the border patrol

Past the Salvage yard 'cross the train tracks

And in through the storm drain

They stretched the their blankets out neath the freeway

And each one took a name

There was x-man and cochese

Little spider his sneakers covered in river mud

They come north to California

End up with the poison in their blood

He did what he had to do for money

Sometimes he sent home what he could spare

The rest went to hi-top sneakers and toncho

And jeans like the gavatchos swear

One night the border patroI swept 12th street

A big car come fast down the boulevard

Spider stood caught in it's headlights

Got hit and went down hard

As the car sped away spider held his stomach

Limped to his blanket 'neath the underpass

Lie there tasting his own blood on his tongue

Closed his eyes and listened to the cars

Rushin by so fast

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Released on:

The Ghost Of Tom Joad 1995


Ballad Of The Self Loading Pistol

Father, I have come.

To tell you about somethin' I done.

Well as the night reared its light head

Into a baby's sun,

We rolled down into the town

From where the Black Throats come.

And you know there was a robb'ry.

There was a holdup.

Ooh, there was a shootout.

And there was a killin'.

And there's blood on my hands.

Today I killed a man.

Well now, sister, you know me well.

And you ask me well, how it was I felt.

Well, she had an appetite for lovin'

Only a fadin' beauty could posses.

She knew just what she wanted

And she wouldn't take less.

I figured it was a small town.

It was at sundown.

It was just a small crowd of people around.

Oh!  But he wouldn't put his guns down.

No, he wouldn't put his guns down.

Oh, he wouldn't put his guns down.

Now his blood's on my hands.

Today I killed a man.

And, papa, you showed me the beauty of buckshot.

Well, that song a bullet sings as she whistles.

And showed me the story of the self-loading pistol.

Well now, father.  I have come.

To tell you about somethin' I done.

He had a widow, runnin' through town screamin'.

He had a brother, and his tears were streamin'.

Now I'm movin' on the border

With a rifle on my shoulder.

'Cuz, daddy, you showed me the beauty of buckshot.

The love song a bullet sings as she whistles.

And showed me the glory of the self-loading pistol.

And I just come to tell ya,

That it don't hurt no more.

No, it don't hurt no more,

'Cuz your son, he's an outlaw.

Oh, your son, he's an outlaw.

Yes, your son, he's an outlaw.

Oh, your son, he's an outlaw.

Now, your son, he's an outlaw.

Oh, your son, he's an outlaw.

And this blood feels good on my hands.

Today I killed a man.

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Only the Text of this Song is available at Laurel Canyon Files.

1974 / 75 no releases known


Be True
Be True (To Be True)

See also Mary Lou

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 girls dream that can't ever come true

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

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

You've seen all the romantic movies you dream you take the boys home

But when the action fades your left all alone

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

Do you need somebody to prove it to you?

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

Now every night you go out looking for true lust satisfaction

But in the morning you end up with second thoughts that came from your

actions

And another cameo roll with some big player your befriending

Your gonna go broken hearted looking for that happy ending

Well girl your gonna end up just another lonely ticket sold

Crying alone in the theater as the credits roll

You see I won't be like those other guys

Who filled your head with pretty lies

And dreams that can never come true

Well listen

Baby you be true to me and I'll be true to you

So how about it?

Is it a deal?

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Released on:

Fade Away / Be True  Single 1981

Chimes of Freedom 1988

Tracks 1998 - Recorded at the Power Station 7 / 21 / 79


Because The Night

Take me now baby here as I am

Pull me close try an understand

I work all day out in the hot sun

Stay with me now till the mornin' comes

Come on now try and understand

The way I feel when I'm in your hands

Take me now as the sun descends

They can't hurt you now

They can't hurt you now

They can't hurt you now

Because the night belongs to lovers

Because the night belongs to us

Because the night belongs to lovers

Because the night belongs to us

What I got I have earned

What I'm not I have learned

Desire and hunger is the fire I breathe

Just stay in my bed till the morning comes

Come on now try and understand

The way I feel when I'm in your hands

Take me now as the sun descends

They can't hurt you now

They can't hurt you now

Tey can't hurt you now

Because the night...

Your love is here and now

The vicious circle turns and burns without

Though I cannot live forgive me now

The time has come to take this moment and

They can't hurt you now

Because the night...

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Released on:

Live 1975 - 1985   Live-Box 1986 (Nassau Coliseum, 12/28/80)

Written by Springsteen but Published by:

Patti Smith 1978

CO.RO 1992 (Mix)


Better Days

German Translation

Well my soul checked out missing as I sat listening

To the hours and minutes tickin' away

Yeah, just sittin' around waitin' for my life to begin

While it was all just slippin' away.

I'm tired of waitin' for tomorrow to come

Or that train to come roarin' 'round the bend.

I got a new suit of clothes a pretty red rose

And a woman I can call my friend

These are better days baby

Yeah there's better days shining through

These are better days baby

Better days with a girl like you

Well I took a piss at fortune's sweet kiss

It's like eatin' caviar and dirt

It's a sad funny ending to find yourself pretending

A rich man in a poor man's shirt

Now my ass was draggin' when from a passin' gypsy wagon

Your heart like a diamond shone

Tonight I'm layin' in your arms carvin' lucky charms

Out of these heard luck bones

These are better days baby

These are better days it's true

These are better days

There's better days shining through

Now a life of leisure and a pirate's treasure

Don't make much for tragedy

But it's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin

And can't stand the company

Every fool's got a reason to feelin' sorry for himself

And turn his heart to stone

Tonight this fool's halfway to heaven and just a mile outta hell

And I feel like I'm comin' home

These are better days baby

There's better days shining through

These are better days

Better days with a girl like you

These are better days baby

These are better days it's true

These are better days

Better days are shining through

Randy Jackson, bass

Lisa Lowell, backing vocals

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Released on:

Lucky Town 1992

Human Touch / Better Days  Single 1992

MTV Unplugged 1992

Greatest Hits 1995


Better Days GER
Better Days

German Translation

Nun, meine Seele überlegte was ich vermiáte

Während ich rumsaß und zuhörte

Wie die Stunden und Minuten vorbeitickten

Ja, nur herumsitzen und darauf warten daß mein Leben beginnt

Während es grade vorbeizieht

Ich bin müde darauf zu warten daß das Morgen kommt

Oder daá der Zug durch die Kurve donnert

Ich habe neue Klamotten und eine hübsche rote Rose

Eine Frau die ich meinen Freund nennen kann

Dieses sind bessere Tage Baby

Ja, die besseren Tage scheinen durch

Dieses sind bessere Tage Baby

Bessere Tage mit einen Mädchen wie dir

Ich hielt die Verarschung für den süßen Kuß des Glücks

Es ist wie Kaviar und Dreck zu essen

Es ist ein trauriges seltsames Ende

Wenn du merkst daá du dir selbst was vormachst

Ein reicher Mann im Hemd eines armen Mannes

Mein Hintern schleifte als von einem vorbeifahrenden Zigeunerwagen

Dein Herz leuchtete wie ein Diamant

Heute nacht liege ich in deinen Arme

Schnitze Glücksbringer

Aus diesen Pech-Knochen

Dieses sind bessere Tage Baby

Dieses sind bessere Tage, es ist wahr

Dieses sind bessere Tage Baby

Bessere Tage scheinen durch

Heute ein Leben voller Freizeit

Und ein Piratenschatz

Nichts für eine Tragödie

Aber ich habe einen traurigen Mann zum Freund

Lebt in seiner eigenen Haut

Und hält es nicht aus

Jeder Idiot hat einen Grund sich selbst leid zu tun

Und verwandelt sein Herz in Stein

Heute nacht ist dieser Idiot auf dem halben Weg in den Himmel

Und grade eine Meile aus der Hülle

Und ich fühle mich als käme ich heim

Translation by: Frank Rohwer


Bishop Dance

Bishop danced with a thumbscrew woman

Did a double-quick backflip 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 bough breaks, Mama might fall

Little sad and only, baby don't be lonely

Mama knows 'rithmetic, knows how to take a fall

Mama knows 'rithmetic, knows how to take a fall

And the kids are crying

"Flapjacks, make 'em fat" early in the morning

Little Jack, grab your hat, hear the breakfast call

Mukrat, bad old cat, kick him in the fire-place

There's someone in the kitchen blowin' Dinah on their horn

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

Well Maverick Daddy got a one-night bride

She glides like a monkey-mule kickin' on the backslide

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

Papa's got a switch-stick, he's pumpin' little Bill

Papa's got a switch-stick, he's pumpin' little Bill

And Billy he's crying:

"Tomahwak, Tomahwak, Daddy'd better duck out

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

Minotak, Okenak, running through my dreams now

With fire on the fingertips and indian's screams

Fire on the fingertips and feathers made of moonbeams"

Well early in the morning the cannonneer cries

I seen the sailor's warning in the western skies

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

With branches full of candlesticks for baby and me

And my darling cries, she said

"Honey, the weather vane, lately, it's been pointin' the way to heaven"

Scatterbrains, Scatterbrains, watch out where you fall

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

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

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

And like kids they're crying

"Flapjacks, make 'em fat" early in the morning

Little Jack, grab your hat, hear the breakfast call

Mukrat, bad old cat, kick him in the fire-place

There's someone in the kitchen blowin' Dinah on their horn

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

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Released on:

Tracks 1998 - Recorded live at Max's Kansas City 2 / 19 / 73


Blinded By The Light

Italian Translation

Madman drummers bummers and Indians in the summer with a teenage diplomat

In the dumps with the mumps as the adolescent pumps his way into his hat

With a boulder on my shoulder feelin' kinda older I tripped the merry-go-round

With this very unpleasing sneezing and wheezing the calliope crashed to the ground

Some all-hot half-shot was headin' for the hot spot snappin' his fingers

clappin' his hands

And some fleshpot mascot was tied into a lover's knot with a whatnot in her hand

And now young Scott with a slingshot finally found a tender spot and throws

his lover in the sand

And some bloodshot forget-menot whispers daddy's within earshot save the

buckshot turn up the band

And she was blinded by the light. Cut loose like a deuce

Another runner in the night. Blinded by the light

She got down but she never got tight, but she'll make it alright

Some brimstone baritone anticyclone rolling stone preacher from the east

He says: "Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in its funny bone, that's where they

expect it least"

And some new-mown chaperone was standin' in the corner all alone watchin' the

young girls dance

And some fresh-sown moonstone was messin' with his frozen zone to remind him of

the feeling of romance

Yeah he was blinded by the light. Cut loose like a deuce

Another runner in the night. Blinded by the light

He got down but she never got tight, but he's gonna make it tonight

Some silicone sister with her manager's mister told me I got what it takes

She said I'll turn you on sonny to something strong if you play that

song with the funky break

And go-cart Mozart was checkin' out the weather chart to see if it was safe

to go outside

And little Early-Pearly came in by her curly-wurly and asked me if I

needed aride

Oh, some hazard from Harvard was skunked on beer playin' backyard bombardier

Yes and Scotland Yard was trying hard, they sent a dude with a calling card,he

said, do what you like, but don't do it here

Well I jumped up, spit in the air, fell on the ground, asked wich was the way

back home

He said take a right at the light, keep going straight until right, and then

boy you're on your own

And now in zanzibar a shootin' star was ridin' in a side car hummin' a lunar tune

Yes, and the avatar said blow the bar but first remove the cookie jar, we're

gonna teach those boys to laugh too soon

And some kidnapped handicap was complaining that he caught the clap from some

mousetrap he bought last night

Well I unsnapped his skull cap and between his ears I saw a gap but he'd

figured he'd be all right

He was just blinded by the light. Cut loose like a deuce

Another runner in the night. Blinded by the light

Mama always told me not to look into the sights of the sun

Oh but mama that's where the fun is

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Released on:

Blindet by the Light / The Angel  Single - Feb 1973

Greetings from Asbury Park - N.J. 1973


Blinded By The Light ITA
Blinded By The Light

Italian translation

D'estate pazzi e vagabondi e indiani,

assieme a un diplomatico minorenne

giu' di morale con gli orecchioni

mentre l'adolescente da sfogo ai suoi

piu' intimi desideri.

Con un macigno sulle spalle

sentendomi piu' vecchio salii sulla giostra

Con questo spiacevole starnutire e ansimare

la calliope si schianta al suolo

Un tipo basso, sballato

si dirigeva verso il bar

schioccando le dita e battendo le mani

E la mascotte di un casino

era coinvolta in una tale situazione

che si ritrova con qualcosa tra le mani

E ora il giovane Scott con la sua fionda

ha finalmente trovato un posto tenero

e lancia il suo amore sulla sabbia

E uno che si era iniettato il non-ti-scordar-di-me

sussurra: 'il babbo Š a portata di orecchio

risparmiate i pallettoni, sparpagliatevi e non fate casino'

E fu accecata dalla luce

Libera come il diavolo un altro messaggero nella notte

Accecata dalla luce

Si impegna, ma mai si innamora

Ma prima o poi ce la fara

Un penitente infernale predicatore baritonale

ed anticiclonico dell'est

Dice: 'detronizzate il dittafono

colpitegli l'osso cubitale

E la che meno se lo aspettano'

E un gigolo fresco di zecca

ra in piedi nell'angolo

sservando tutto solo le

giovani ragazze che ballavano

E un giovane, adolescente da poco

si stava occupando di una sua parte fredda da

tempo per evocare romantiche sensazioni

Si, fu accecato dalla luce

Libero come il diavolo

un altro messaggero nella notte

Accecato dalla luce

Si impegna, ma mai si innamora

Ma prima o poi ce la faro

Una pupa al silicone assieme al gorilla del suo manager

mi ha detto che avevo quello che serve

Disse: 'ti accendera ragazzo mio con qualcosa di forte

se mi suoni quella canzone dal ritmo funky'

E Mozart in go-kart scrutava la carta meteorologica

per sapere se fosse sicuro andar fuori

E la piccola Early-Pearly arriva nella sua auto ammaccata

e mi chiese se mi servisse un passaggio

Oh, un giocatore di Harvard e stato fregato nel giocare con la birra

nel cortile posteriore di un bombardiere

Si, e Scotland Yard si impegnava duramente,

madarono un damerino con un biglietto da visita,

disse: 'fate quello che volete ma non fatelo qua'

Beh, saltai, girai in tondo

sputai per aria caddi per terra

Gli domanfai quale fosse la strada del ritorno a casa

Disse: 'Prendi la destra al lampione

vai dritto finche e notte e poi, ragazzo, sei solo

E ora a Zanzibar una stella cadente viaggiava in motocarrozzetta

mormorando una melodia lunare

Si, e poi un'apparizione disse: 'Colpisci la sbarra, ma prima

sposta il barattolo dei biscotti insegneremo a quei ragazzi a

non ridere troppo presto'

E un handicappato rapito si lamentava

perche si era beccato lo scolo da una trappola per topi

che aveva comprato ieri sera

Gli ho tolto la papalina e ho visto uno squarcio tra le orecchie

ma ho pensato che stava bene

Era solo accecato dalla luce

Libero come il diavolo

un altro messaggero nella notte

Accecato dalla luce

Mamma mi diceva sempre di non guardare direttamente il sole

Pero, mamma, e la che sta il divertimento


Blood Brothers

German Translation

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

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Released on:

Greatest Hits 1995


Blood Brothers GER
Blood Brothers

German Translation

Zum Schluss spielten wir Koenig der Berge

Die Welt erklomm unseren Huegel und wir waren Maenner und Frauen

Es gibt heutzutage so viele Dinge, die Zeit und Erinnerung

dahin schwinden lassen

Wir haben unsere eigenen Wege, die wir begehen muessen, und Chancen,

die wir nutzen muessen

Wir standen Seite an Seite, jeder kaempfte fuer den anderen

Wir schworen uns, dass wir bis zu unserem Tod Blutsbrueder bleiben

wuerden

Die Unbarmherzigkeit dieser Welt zermahlt langsam deine Traeume

Macht aus den Versprechen, die wir uns gaben, einen naerrischen Witz

Und was einst schwarz und weiss schien verschwimmt in unzaehligen grauen

Schleiern

Wir verlieren uns selbst in Arbeit und den Rechungen, die wir zahlen

muessen

Es ist ein endloser Ritt ohne grossen Schutz

Wenn niemand dich auf deinem Weg begleitet, mein Blutsbruder

Durch die Gemaecher des Todes, vorbei an denen, die in ihren eigenen

Spuren fielen

Immer weiter vorwaerts ohne einen Blick zurueck

Nun, ich weiss nicht, wie ich mich fuehle, ich weiss nicht, wie ich

mich heute

Nacht fuehle

Ob ich selbst auf der Strecke geblieben bin, ob ich verloren oder Land

gewonnen habe

Ich weiss auch nicht, warum ich diesen Anruf gemacht habe

Oder ob irgendetwas hiervon nach allem ueberhaupt noch etwas ausmacht

Aber die Sterne strahlen hell wie ein enthuelltes Geheimnis

Ich werde weiter durch die Dunkelheit gehen, mit dir in meinem Herzen

Mein Blutsbruder


Blowing In The Wind

(Written by Bob Dylan)

How many roads must a man walk down

Before you can call him a man

Yes 'n how many seas must a white dove sail

Before she sleeps in the sand

Yes and how many times must the cannonballs fly

Before they're forever banned

The answer my friend is blowing in the wind

The answer is blowing in the wind

Yes and how many years can a mountain exist

Before it is washed to the sea

Yes and how many years can some people exist

Before they're allowed to be free

Yes and how many times can a man turn his head

And pretend that he just doesn't see

The answer my friend is blowing in the wind

The answer is blowing in the wind

Yes and how many times must a man look up

Before he can see the sky

Yes and how many ears must one man have

Before he can hear people cry

Yes and how many deaths will it take 'till he knows

That too many people have died

The answer my friend is blowing in the wind

The answer is blowing in the wind


Bobby Jean

German Translation

Well I came by your house the other day, your mother said you went away

She said there was nothing that I could have done

There was nothing nobody could say

Me and you we've known each other ever since we were sixsteen

I wished I would have known I wished I could have called you

Just to say goodbye Bobby Jean

Now you hung with me when all the others turned away turned up their noise

We liked the same music we liked the same bands we liked the same clothes

We told each other that we were the wildest, the wildest things we'd ever seen

Now I wished you would have told me I wished I could have talked to you

Just to say goodbye Bobby Jean

Now we went walking in the rain talking about the pain from the world we hid

Now there ain't nobody nowherer nohow gonna ever understand me the way you did

Maybe you'll be out there on that road somewhere

In some bus or train traveling along

In some motel room there'll be a radio playing

And you'll hear me sing this song

Well if you do you'll know I'm thinking of you and all the miles in between

And I'm just calling one last time not to change your mind

But just to say I miss you baby, good luck goodbye, Bobby Jean

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Released on:

Born In The USA 1984

Live 1975 - 1985   Live-Box 1986 (Giants Stadium, 8/21/85)


Bobby Jean GER
Bobby Jean

German Translation

Ich kam neulich bei dir vorbei,

und deine Mutter sagte, du warst fort.

Sie sagte, ich brauche mir keine Vorwurfe zu machen.

Da war was, das kann keiner erklaren.

Du und ich, wir kannten uns,

seitdem wir 16 waren.

Hatte ich was geahnt,

hatte ich doch angerufen,

nur um zu sagen: Tschus, Bobby Jean.

Du warst bei mir, als all die anderen sich

zu fein dafur waren.

Wir standen auf dieselbe Musik, dieselben

Bands, dieselben Klamotten auch.

Wir bestatigten uns, wir waren das Scharfste,

das Scharfste, was wir je gesehen haben.

Mensch, hattest du doch was gesagt,

hatte ich doch mit dir gesprochen,

nur um zu sagen: Tschus, Bobby Jean.

Wir liefen durch den Regen und sprachen

uber das, was uns krank macht an der Welt,

vor der wir uns versteckten. Jetzt gibt es

wirklich niemand, nirgendwo, nirgendwie,

der mich so versteht, wie du damals.

Vielleicht bist du gerade unterwegs, irgendwo

mit Bus oder Bahn. Fahrst herum, machst

Station in einem Motel-Zimmer. Da lauft ein

Radio und du horst mich diesen Song singen.

Und wenn das so ist, dann solltest du wissen:

Ich denke an dich uber all die Meilen hinweg

und rufe dich noch einmal.

Ich will dir ja nicht ins Gewissen reden,

sondern nur sagen: "Du fehlst mir, Baby,

viel Gluck und Tschus, Bobby Jean.

Text & Ubersetzung: neues leben, 1987


Book Of Dreams

German Translation

I'm standing in the backyard

Listening to the party Inside

Tonight I'm drinkin' in the forgiveness

This life provides

The scars we carry remain but the pain slips away it seems

Oh won't you baby be in my book of dreams

I'm watchin' you through the window

With your girlfriends from back home

You 're showin' off your dress

There's laughter and a toast

From your daddy to the prettiest bride he's ever seen

Oh won't you baby be in my book of dreams

In the darkness my fingers slip across your skin

I feel your sweet reply

The room fades away and suddenly I'm way up high

Just holdin' you to me

As through the window the moonlight streams

Oh won't you baby be in my book of dreams

Now the ritual begins

'Neath the wedding garland we meet as strangers

The dance floor is alive with beauty

Mystery and danger

We dance out 'neath the stars' ancient light into the darkening trees

Oh won't you baby be in my book of dreams

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Released on:

Lucky Town 1992


Book Of Dreams GER
Book Of Dreams

German Translation

Ich stehe im Hinterhof, horche nach der Party drinnen

Heute abend trinke ich mich in die Vergessenheit

Die dieses Leben gibt

Die Narben die wir tragen bleiben

Aber die Schmerzen vergehen wie es scheint

Oh willst du, Baby, in meinem Buch der Träume sein?

Ich beobachte dich durch das Fenster

Mit deinen Freundinnen von zuhaus

Du präsentierst dein Kleid

Da ist Gelächter und ein Toast

Von deinem Vater, auf die schönste Braut die er jemals sah

Oh willst du...

In der Dunkelheit streichen meine Finger über deine Haut

Ich f�hle deine säße Erwiederung

Das Zimmer verschwindet und plötzlich werde ich high

Drücke dich nur an mich

Als durch das Fenster das Mondlicht scheint

Oh willst du...

Nun beginnt das Ritual

Unter den Hochzeitsgirlanden treffen wir uns wie Fremde

Der Tanzboden ist lebendig mit Schönheit, Geheimnissen und Gefahr

Wir tanzten unter dem uralten Licht der Sterne

In die Dunkelheit der Bäume

Oh willst du, Baby, in meinem Buch der Träume sein?

Translation by: Frank Rohwer


Boom Boom Boom

( Written by: John Lee Hooker/John Lee Hooker )

Boom boom boom boom

I wanna shoot you right down

Take you in my arms

I'm in love with you

a love that is true

Boom boom boom boom

I need you right now

I mean right now

I don't mean tomorrow

I mean right now

come on come on

I wanna give it up babe

Shake it up babe

Come on and shake

Shake it up babe

Come on come on shake it up babe

I like the way you walk

I like the way you talk

when you walk that walk

and you talk that talk

you knock me out

right over my feet

Shake it up babe

Come on and shake

Shake it up babe

Come on come on shake it up babe

Boom boom boom boom

I wanna shoot you right down

Take you in my arms

I'm in love with you

a love that is true

Boom boom boom boom


Born In The USA
Born In The U.S.A

German Translation

Born down in a dead man's town

The first kick I took was when I hit the ground

You end up like a dog that's been beat too much

Till you spend half your life just covering up

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

I was born in the U.S.A., born in the U.S.A.

Got in a little hometown jam

So they put a rifle in my hand

Sent me off to a foreign land

To go and kill the yellow man

Born in the U.S.A....

Come back home to the refinery

Hiring man said "Son if it was up to me"

Went down to see my V.A. man

He said "Son, don't you understand"

I had a brother at Khe Sahn

Fighting off the Viet Cong

They're still there, he's all gone

He had a woman he loved in Saigon

I got a picture of him in her arms now

Down in the shadow of the penitentiary

Out by the gas fires of the refinery

I'm ten years burning down the road

Nowhere to run ain't got nowhere to go

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

Born in the U.S.A., I'm a long gone Daddy in the U.S.A.

Born in the U.S.A., Born in the U.S.A.

Born in the U.S.A., I'm a cool rocking Daddy in the U.S.A.

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Released on:

Born In The USA 1984

Born In The USA / Shut Out The Light  Single 1984

Born In The USA - The Mixes (Maxi LP) 1985

Live 75-85 1986

Greatest Hits 1995

Missing Maxi-CD 1996 (Live in Berlin 1996)

Tracks 1998 - Recorded at Thrill Hill Recording 1 / 82 (Early Version)


Born In The USA GER
Born In The USA

German Translation

Geboren in einem kleinen verlassenen Nest

Den ersten Tritt bekam ich bereits als ich geboren wurde

Du endest wie ein Hund der zu viel geschlagen wurde

Wenn du dein halbes Leben zurueckgezogen vor dich hin lebst

Geboren in den U.S.A.

Ich wurde in den U.S.A. geboren

Ich wurde in den U.S.A. geboren

Geboren in den U.S.A.

Weil ich in diesem kleinen Nest wohnte

Drueckten sie mir ein Gewehr in die Hand

Schickten mich in ein fernes Land

Um den Gelben Mann zu toeten

Geboren in den U.S.A.

Ich wurde in den U.S.A. geboren

Ich wurde in den U.S.A. geboren

Geboren in den U.S.A.

Ich kam zurueck zu der Raffinerie

Ein Angestellter sagte zu mir "Sohn, wenn es an mir liegen wuerde..."

Ich ging zur Veteranen Hilfe

Sie sagten "Sohn, verstehst du's nun"

Ich hatte einen Bruder der bei Khe Sahn gegen den Viet Cong kaempfte

Sie sind noch da aber er ist gefallen

Er hatte eine Geliebte in Saigon

Ich habe ein Foto von ihm in ihren Armen

Unten in dem Schatten der Strafanstalt

Draussen bei den Gas Feuern der Raffinerie

Ich geh' nun zehn Jahre auf der Strasse langsam zugrunde

Ich weiss nicht, wo ich hin gehen soll; Ich habe kein Zuhause

Geboren in den U.S.A.

Ich wurde in den U.S.A. geboren

Geboren in den U.S.A.

Ich bin ein schon lange toter Daddy in den U.S.A.

Geboren in den U.S.A.

Geboren in den U.S.A.

Geboren in den U.S.A.

Ich bin ein cool rockender Daddy in den U.S.A.


Born To Run

German Translation

Italian Translation

In the day we sweat it out in the streets of a runaway American dream

At night we ride through mansions of glory in suicide machines

Sprung from cages out on highway 9,

Chrome wheeled, fuel injected and steppin' out over the line

Baby this town rips the bones from your back

It's a death trap, it's a suicide rap

We gotta get out while we're young

`Cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run

Wendy let me in I wanna be your friend

I want to guard your dreams and visions

Just wrap your legs round these velvet rims

and strap your hands across my engines

Together we could break this trap

We'll run till we drop, baby we'll never go back

Will you walk with me out on the wire

`Cause baby I'm just a scared and lonely rider

But I gotta find out how it feels

I want to know if love is wild, girl I want to know if love is real

Beyond the Palace hemi-powered drones scream down the boulevard

The girls comb their hair in rearview mirrors

And the boys try to look so hard

The amusement park rises bold and stark

Kids are huddled on the beach in a mist

I wanna die with you Wendy on the streets tonight

In an everlasting kiss

The highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive

Everybody's out on the run tonight but there's no place left to hide

Together Wendy we'll live with the sadness

I'll love you with all the madness in my soul

Someday girl I don't know when we're gonna get to that place

Where we really want to go and we'll walk in the sun

But till then tramps like us baby we were born to run

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Released on:

Born To Run - Oct. 1975 / UK: 17  US: 3

Born To Run / Meeting Across The River   Single - Oct. 1975

Live 1975 - 1985   Live-Box 1986 (Giants Stadium, 8/19/85)

Chimes Of Freedom 1988 (Acoustic Version)


Born To Run GER
Born To Run

German Translation

Am Tage schwitzen wir es aus auf den Strassen eines verlorenen

amerikanischen Traums

Nachts fahren wir vorbei an glorreichen Villen in Selbstmordmaschinen

Entflohen aus Kaefigen draussen am Highway 9

Mit Chrome Felgen, Benzin Einspritzung

Und uebertreten die Grenze

Baby, diese Stadt reisst dir die Knochen aus dem Ruecken

Sie ist eine Todesfalle, es ist Selbstmordgerede

Wir muessen hier raus, solange wir noch jung sind

Vagabunden wie wir, Baby, wir wurden zum Laufen geboren

Wendy, lass' mich herein, ich moechte dein Freund sein

Ich will deine Traeume und Visionen behueten

Schlinge einfach deine Beine um diesen samtbezogenen Radkranz

Leg' deine Haende ueber meinen Motor

Zusammen koennen wir aus dieser Falle ausbrechen

Wir rennen bis wir umfallen, Baby wir werden niemals zurueck gehen

Wirst du mit mir auf dem Drahtseil spazieren gehen

Baby, ich bin nur ein verzweifelter und einsamer Fahrer

Aber ich muss wissen, wie es sich anfuehlt

Ich will wissen, ob deine Liebe wild ist

Maedchen, ich will wissen, ob Liebe wahr ist

Hinter der Spielhalle rasen schnelle Wagen den Boulevard herunter

Die Maedchen kaemmen ihre Haare in Rueckspiegeln

Und die Jung's versuchen so hart auszusehen

Der Vergnuegungspark erhebt sich weit und rein

Kinder kauern am Strand in der Gischt

Ich moechte sterben mit dir draussen auf der Strasse

In einem niemals endenden Kuss

Der Highway ist verstopft mit gebrochenen Helden

in einer letzten schnellen Fahrt

Jeder ist unterwegs heute Nacht

Aber da ist kein Platz zum Verstecken

Zusammen, Wendy, koennen wir mit der Traurigkeit leben

Ich liebe dich mit aller Verruecktheit in meinem Herzen

Eines Tages, Maedchen, ich weiss nicht wann, werden wir zu der Stelle

gelangen  Zu der wir wirklich hingelangen wollen

Und wir werden in der Sonne spazieren

Aber bis dann sind Vagabunden wie wir

Baby, geboren um zu Laufen


Born To Run ITA
Born To Run

Italian Translation

Di giorno ci sfoghiamo lungo le strade di un effimero sogno americano

Di notte attraversiamo manieri di gloria in macchine da suicidio

Usciti dalle bare di cemento verso l'autostrada n. 9

Su ruote di cromo, motori a iniezione

Correndo sulla linea bianca

Piccola, questa citta ti strappa le ossa dalla schiena

E una trappola mortale, un invito al suicidio

Dobbiamo uscirne fuori finche siamo giovani

Perche vagabondi come noi, tesoro, sono nati per correre

Wendy, fammi entrare, voglio esserti amico

Voglio proteggere i tuoi sogni e le tue visioni

Allaccia le gambe intorno a questi orli di velluto

E afferra con le tue mani il mio motore

Insieme potremo forzare questa trappola

Correremo fino a quando saremo esausti e non torneremo mai indietro

Cammina con me sul filo sospeso

Perche io sono soltanto un corridore spaventato e malinconico

Ma voglio sapere come ci si senti

Voglio sapere se il tuo amore e selvaggio

Ragazza voglio sapere se il tuo amore e vero

Oltre il Palace i motori rombano a meta giri lungo il boulevard

Le ragazze si aggiustano i capelli negli specchietti retrovisori

E i ragazzi provano il loro sguardo da duri

Il luna-park si staglia alto e solenne

I ragazzi si rannicchiano sulla spiaggia nella foschia

Voglio morire per strada con te stanotte

In un bacio senza fine

Le autostrade sono intasate da eroi distrutti

Alla guida della loro ultima possibilita

Sono tutti in fuga stanotte

Ma non e rimasto piu nessun posto per nascondersi

Insieme, Wendy, possiamo sopportare anche la tristezza

Ti amero con tutta la pazzia della mia anima raggiungeremo quel posto

Dove davvero vogliamo andare

E finalmente cammineremo nel sole

Ma fino ad allora i vagabondi come noi

Sono nati per correre


Brilliant Disguise

German Translation

I hold you in my arms as the band plays

What are those words whispered baby just as you turn away

I saw you last night out on the edge of town

I wanna read your mind and know just what I've got in this new thing

I've found

So tell me what I see when I look in your eyes

Is that you baby or just a brilliant disguise

I heard somebody call your name from underneath our willow

I saw something tucked in shame underneath your pillow

Well I've tried so hard baby but I just can't see

What a woman like you is doing with me

So tell me what I see when I look in your eyes

Is that you baby or just a brilliant disguise

Now look at me baby struggling to do everything right

And then it all falls apart when out go the lights

I'm just a lonely pilgrim I walk this world in wealth

I want to know if it's you I don't trust 'cause I damn sure don't trust

myself

Now you play the loving woman I'll play the faithful man

But just don't look too close into the palm of my hand

We stood at the alter the gypsy swore our future was right

But come the wee wee hours maybe baby the gypsy lied

So when you look at me you better look hard and look twice

Is that me baby or just a brilliant disguise

Tonight our bed is cold

I'm lost in the darkness of our love

God have mercy on the man

Who doubts what he's sure of

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Released on:

Tunnel Of Love 1987

Brilliant Disguise / Lucky Man   Single 1987


Brilliant Disguise GER
Brilliant Disguise

German Translation

Ich hielt dich in meinen Armen

Als die Band spielte

Was waren das für Worte die geflüstert wurden Baby

Grade als du fortgingst

Ich sah dich letzte Nacht

Draußen am Rand der Stadt

Ich möchte deine Gedanken lesen um zu wissen was ich habe

In diesem neuen Ding das ich fand

Also sag mir was ich sehe

Wenn ich in deine Augen schaue

Bist das du Baby, oder nur eine brilliante Verkleidung

Ich hörte wie jemand deinen Namen rief

Unter unseren Weiden

Ich sah etwas heimlich versteckt

Unter deinen Kopfkissen

Mann, ich versuche es so sehr Baby

Aber ich kann nicht sehen

Was eine Frau wie du

Macht mit mir

Also sag mir wen ich sehe...

Nun schau mich an Baby

Versuche alles richtig zu machen

Und dann f„llt alles zusammen

Wenn das Licht erl”scht

Ich bin nur ein einsamer Pilger

Ich gehe durch diese Welt des Reichtums

Ich will wissen ob du es bist, ich bin nicht sicher

Denn ich traue mir selbst nicht

Nun spielst du die liebende Frau

Ich spiele den treuen Mann

Aber sehe bloá nicht so genau

In meine Handflächen

Wir standen vor dem Altar

Die Zigeunerin schwor unsere Zukunft wird gut

Aber wenn die späten Stunden kommen

Nun, vielleicht Baby, hat die Zigeunerin gelogen

Also wenn du mich ansiehst

Ist es besser du schaust genau und siehst zweimal hin

Bin das ich Baby, oder nur eine brilliante Verkleidung

Heute nacht ist unser Bett kalt

Ich bin verloren in der Dunkelheit unserer Liebe

Gott habe Mitleid mit einem Mann

Der nicht weiá wem er trauen soll

Translation by: Frank Rohwer


Bring on the Night

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

Come home darlin', bring on the night

Oh now darlin' bring on the night

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Released on:

Tracks 1998 - Recorded at The Power Station, 6 / 13 / 79


Brothers under the Bridges
Brothers under the Bridge

See also Brothers under the Bridges 83

Saigon, it was all gone

The same Coke machines as the streets I grew on

Down in a mesquite canyon, come walking along the ridge

Me and the brothers under the bridge

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

There's too much brush in camp for the CHP choppers to touch down

Ain't lookin' for nothin , I just want to live

Me and the brothers under the bridge

Come the Santa Anas and man that dry brush would light

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

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

Me and the brothers under the bridge

I had enough of the town oh and the straight life

Ain't careful you end up on the wrong end of someone's knife

Now I want no trouble and I ain't got none to give

Me and the brothers under the bridge

Well I shipped home back in '72

And you know you were just a beautiul light in your mom's dark eyes of blue

I stepped out on the tarmac, we were just kids

Me and the brothers under the bridge

Come Veterans' Day I sat on the stand in my dress blues

I held your mother's hand, and they passed with the red, white and blue

One minute you're right there, and somethin' slips.............

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The Ghost Of Tom Joad outtake, 1995


Brothers under the Bridges `83

See also Brother under the Bridge

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 trestles drinkin' the beer and the wine

Now some came to 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 trestles 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 sittin down here by this highway figuring, figuring just where I belong

Tonight up here 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 sends a chill

Through the brothers under the bridges

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Released on:

Tracks 1998 - Recorded at the Hit Factory, 9/4/83

Recorded by Toby Scott

Mixed by Ed Thacker


Bye Bye Johnny

(Written by Chuck Berry)

She drew out all her money out of the Southern Trust

And put her little boy aboard a Greyhound Bus

Leaving Louisiana for the Golden West

Down came the tears from her happiness

Her own little son name 'o Johnny B. Goode

Was gonna make some motion pictures out in Hollywood

Bye, bye, bye, bye

Bye, bye, bye, bye

Bye bye Johnny

Good bye Johnny B. Goode

She remembered taking money out from gathering crop

And buying Johnny's guitar at a broker shop

As long as he would play it by the railroad side

And wouldn't get in trouble he was satisfied

But never thought that there would come a day like this

When she would have to give her son a goodby kiss

Going

Bye, bye, bye, bye

Bye, bye, bye, bye

Bye bye Johnny

Good bye Johnny B. Goode

She finally got the letter she was dreaming of

Johnny wrote and told her he had fell in love

As soon as he was married he would bring her back

And build a mansion for 'em by the railroad track

So every time they heard the locomotive roar

They'd be a' standin', a' wavin' by the kitchen door

Howling

Bye, bye, bye, bye

Bye, bye, bye, bye

Bye bye Johnny

Good bye Johnny B. Goode


Cadillac Ranch

Well there she sits buddy just a-gleaming in the sun

There to greet a working man when his day is done

I'm gonna pack my pa and I'm gonna pack my aunt

I'm gonna take them down to the Cadillac Ranch

Eldorado fins, whitewalls and skirts

Rides just like a little bit of heaven here on earth

Well buddy when I die throw my body in the back

And drive me to the junkyard in my Cadillac

Cadillac, Cadillac

Long and dark shiny and black

Open up your engines let `em roar

Tearing up the highway like a big old dinosaur

James Dean in that Mercury `49

Junior Johnson runnin' through the woods of Caroline

Even Burt Reynolds in that black Trans Am

All gonna meet down at the Cadillac Ranch

Cadillac, Cadillac...

Hey little girlie in the blue jeans so tight

Drivin' alone through the Wisconsin night

You're my last love you're my last chance

Don't let `em take me to the Cadillac Ranch

Cadillac, Cadillac...

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Released on:

The River 1980

Live 1975 - 1985   Live-Box 1986 (Meadowlands Arena 7/6/81)


Camilla Horne

Camilla Horne, she was born a long, long time ago.

She Came From Germany to the U.S.A.

and was acclaimed as the next Garbo.

They came to her on their knees, to bless them, caress them and

  tell them what they need.

But oh, oh, she did not know.

and so she took her place at the bar.

Just another fallen star.


Candy's Room
Candy's Room (Candy's Boy)

See also The Fast Song

In Candy's room there are pictures of her heroes on the wall

But to get to Candy's room you gotta walk the darkness of Candy's hall

Strangers from the city call my baby's number and they bring her toys

When I come knocking she smiles pretty she knows I wanna be Candy's boy

There's a sadness hidden in that pretty face

A sadness all her own from which no man can keep Candy safe

We kiss my heart's pumpin' to my brain

The blood rushes in my veins fire rushes towards the sky

We go driving driving deep into the night

I go driving deep into the light in Candy's eyes

She says baby if you wanna be wild you got a lot to learn, close your eyes

Let them melt let them fire let them burn

`Cause in the darkness there'll be hidden worlds that shine

When I hold Candy close she makes these hidden worlds mine

She has fancy clothes and diamond rings

She has men who'll give her anything she wants but they don't see

That what she wants is me, oh and I want her so

I'll never let her go no no no

She knows that I'd give all that I got to live

All that I want all that I live to make Candy mine

Tonight

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Released on:

Darkness on the Edge of Town 1978

Live 1975 - 1985   Live-Box 1986 (Meadowlands Arena, 7/8/81)

Early Versions Known as "The Fast Song"


Car Wash

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

CHORUS:

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

(CHORUS)

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"

(CHORUS)

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Released on:

Tracks 1998 - Recorded at the Hit Factory, 5/31/83


Cautious Man

Bill Horton was a cautious man of the road

He walked lookin' over his shoulder and remained faithful to its code

When something caught his eye he'd measure his need

And then very carefully he'd proceed

Billy met a yound girl in the early days of May

It was there in her arms he let his cautiousness slip away

In their lovers twilight as the evening sky grew dim

He'd lay back in her arms and laugh what had happened to him

On his right hand Billy tatooed the word love and on his left hand was the

word fear

And in which hand he held his fate was never clear

Come Indian summer he took his young lover for his bride

And with own hands built a great house down by the riverside

Now Billy was an honest man he wanted to do what was right

He worked hard to fill their lives with happy days and loving nights

Alone on his knees in the darkness for steadiness he'd pray

For he knew in a restless heart the seed of betrayal lay

One night Billy awoke froma terrible dream callin' his wife's name

She lay breathing beside him in a peaceful sleep a thousand miles away

He got dressed in the moonlight and down to the highway he strode

When he got there he didn't find nothing but road

Billy felt a coldness rise up inside him that he couldn't name

Just as the words tattooed 'cross his knuckles he knew would always remain

At their bedside he brushed the hair from his wife's face as the moon shone

on her skin so white

Filling their room with the beauty of God's fallen light

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Released on:

Tunnel Of Love 1987


Chevrolet Deluxe

 I had a wife and kid, and I tried to settle down

I just wanted to live an honest life on the edge of an honest town.

But in the end they left me danglin' danglin (in the night?)

and I went crazy tryin', tryin' to walk that thin line.

Oh Chevrolet Deluxe, I bought you with all your accessories,

Oh Chevrolet Deluxe, I bought you with all your accessories,

but mister, I can't keep my payments up

I lie awake at night and wonder if I'm tough enough

to win back the hand of Chevrolet Deluxe.

......

They shut the power off down at the mill (the count the third time?)

and these days when you ride down Main Street

it's just whitewashed windows and vacancy signs

Did you ever think til the end your kids you would never believe

that if you would leave this old town, that it would leave me.

My brother's down in Ft Bragg, been there for half a year

man he just got into too much trouble around here.

Chevrolet Deluxe, I bought her with all the accessories,

but mister, I can't keep those payments up

Chevrolet Deluxe, I lost my heart, I lost my guts....

......

She was sittin' down at Highway Chevrolet out on Route 3

She was lookin'g like she was waitin' just for me

I worked all summer long and I saved my money up

And I went down and I put that money down

In the fall, Billy, (...?)

I drove him down rode down together down to Fort Bragg

In the years that he was gone (...?)

(...?) in the refinery (...?) go along

Chevrolet Deluxe, I bought her with all the accessories,

(...?)

Another year end gone, and Billy he came home

(...?)

But it was like all of a sudden there was a curse

Things got band and things got worse

Hmmm... went the power there down at the mill

Hmmm... the thrill when they shut the power down at the mill

(...?)

Chevrolet Deluxe, I bought her with all the accessories,

But I can't keep those payments up

Chevrolet Deluxe

(...?) you were so clear to see

Now when I wake in the mornging I don't know what's happening to me

Chevrolet Deluxe, I bought her with all the accessories,

Mister I can't keep those payments up

Chevrolet Deluxe you let me down took the heart right out of me

I saw her when I was 17 down at Hansen's Chevrolet

I made up my mind to get her any how, any way.

That whole summer I worked until I had enough

Then I went and put my money down on that Chevrolet Deluxe.

Chevrolet Deluxe, I bought her with all the accessories,

but mister, I can't keep those payments up

Chevrolet Deluxe, I lost my heart, she took my gut...

It don't matter what you want, it don't matter what you say,

Are you tough enough not to play the way they play.


Chicken Lips And Lizard Hips

From "For Our Children" by Walt Disney

When I was a little kid

I never liked to eat

Mom would put things on my plate

And I'd dump 'em on her feet

But then one day she made this soup

I ate it all in bed

I asked her what she put in it

And this is what she said:

CHORUS

"Oh chicken lips and lizard hips

And alligator eyes

Monkey legs and buzzard eggs

And salamander thighs

Rabbit ears and camel rears

And tasty toenail pies

Stir 'em all together

And it's mama's soup surprise"

I went into the bathroom

And I stood beside the sink

I said, "I'm feeling slightly ill

And I think I'd like a drink"

Mama said, "I've just the thing

I'll get in a wink

It's full of lots of protein

And vitamins, I think"

CHORUS


Child Bride

"Well, sometimes I dream of gettin' outta here,

Headin' down towards them old tracks

I swore I'd come and get her

But I know I ain't never goin' back

"There's nights I can't sleep

No matter how hard I try

So from my window I watch the moonlight

Fall on the far hillside

"I imagine I put on my jacket,

Go down to this little roadside bar

Pick a stranger and spin around the dance floor

To a Mexican guitar"


Chimes Of Freedom
Chimes Of Freedom (Written By Bob Dylan)

Well, far between sundown's finish and midnight's broken toll

We ducked inside the doorway, thunder crashin'

As majestic bells of boats struck shadows in the sun;

Sayin', it may be the chimes of freedom flashin'

Flashin' for the warriors whose strength is not to fight;

Flashin' for the refugees on their unarmed road of flight.

And for each and every underdog soldier in the night

We gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashin'

Well, in the city's melted furnace unexpectedly we watched

With faces hidden here while the walls were tightenin'

As the echo of the wedding bells before the blowing rain;

Dissolved into the wild bales of lightnin'

Yeah, tollin' for the rebel, yeah, tollin' for the raked

Tollin' for the luckless, the abandoned and forsaked.

Yeah, tollin' for the outcasts burnin' constantly at stakes

And we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashin'

Oh yeah!(instrumental solo)

And then through a cloud-like curtain in a far off corner flashed

There's a hypnotic, splattered mist was slowly liftin'

Well, electric light still struck like arrows

Fired but for the ones condemned to drift or else be kept from driftin'

Well, tollin' for the searching ones on this speechless, secret trail

For the lonesome haunted lovers with too personal a tale.

And for each young heart for each channeled soul misplaced inside a jail

Yeah, we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashin'

Well, starry eyed and laughin' I recall when we were caught,

Trapped by an old track of vows for the hands suspended

As we listened one last time, and we watched with one last look

Spellbound and swallowed "Has the tollin'  ended?"

Yeah, tollin' for the achin' ones whose wounds cannot be nursed

For the countless, confused, accused, misused strung out ones at worst.

And for every hung out person in the whole wide universe

We gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashin'

Uh uh uh... (to end)

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Released on:

Chimes Of Freedom EP 1988.- Recorded live July 3, 1988, Stocholm, Sweden


Cindy

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 presenceWould 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

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The River outtake 1979/80


Club Soul City

Pack up your bags

Don't look back

There's a little place

Out 'cross the the railroad tracks

If you're broken-hearted

And you don't know what to do

But they got a place down there that's just for you

Club Soul, Club Soul City, yeah yeah yeah

Club Soul, Club Soul City, oh yeah

There's a waitress at the back bar

Goes with the the guy that runs the place

She's got hair like a weeping willow

And tears running down her face

She's seen a lot of guys like you coming around

Looking for something that they've lost

Or trying to lose something that they've found

Down at

Club Soul, Club Soul City, yeah yeah yeah

Club Soul, Club Soul City, oh yeah

So if you're down on your spirit

And there ain't no-one who cares

If you're lost and you're lonely

You won't be lonely down there

You can't miss it, it's just up the highway

On the front door there's a sign that says

Restricted to the losing kind

Club Soul, Club Soul City, yeah yeah yeah

Club Soul, Club Soul City, oh yeah

Club Soul, Club Soul City, yeah yeah yeah

Club Soul, Club Soul City, oh yeah


Contents
Reason To Believe

The Nearly Complete Bruce Springsteen Lyrics

List of all available translations

About Reason To Believe

4th of july Asbury Park (Sandy)

30 Days Out

57 Channels And Nothin`On

A good man is hard to find

A Love So Fine

Across The Border

Across The BorderlineAction In The Streets

Adam Raised A Chain

After The Thunder

Ain't Got You

All I Need

All Night Long

All Or Nothing At All

All That Heaven Will Allow

And The Band Played

Angelyne

Arabian Nights

Atlantic City

Back In Your Arms Again

Backstreets

Badlands

Balboa Park

Ballad Of The Self Loading Pistol

Be True

Because The Night

Better Days

Bishop Dance

Blinded By The Light

Blood Brothers

Blowing In The Wind

Bobby Jean

Book Of Dreams

Boom Boom Boom

Born In The U.S.A.

Born To Run

Brilliant Disguise

Bring On The Night

Brothers Under The Bridges

Brothers Under The Bridges 83

Bye Bye Johnny

Cadillac Ranch

Camilla Horne

Candy's Room

Car Wash

Cautious Man

Chevrolet Deluxe

Chicken Lips And Lizard Hips

Child Bride

Chimes Of Freedom

Cindy

City At Night

Club Soul Music

Contessa

Cover Me

Cowboys Of The Sea

Cross My Heart

Crush On You

Cynthia

Dancing In The Dark

Darkness On The Edge Of Town

Darlington County

Dead Man Walking

Dedication

Deportee

Does This Bus Stop At 82nd Street?

Dollhouse

Don't Look Back

Downbound Train

Down By The River

Drive All Night

Drop On Down (And Cover Me)

Dry Lightning

Eloise

Endless Nights

English Sons

Evacuation Of The West

Factory

Fade Away

Fever

Fire

For You

Frankie

Freehold

From Small Things Big Things Come

Galveston Bay

Gave It A Name

Get That Feeling

Give The Girl A Kiss

Gloria's Eyes

Glory Days

Goin' Cali

Good Bye Juan

Good Rocking Tonight

Growin' Up

Grypsy Woman

Happy

Heartbrake Hotel

Hearts Of Stone

Held Up Without A Gun

Henry Boy

Hey Santa Ana

Highway 29

Highway 61 Revisited

Highway Patrolman

Hold On

Human Touch

Hungry Heart

I Ain't Got No Home

I Am A Coward

I Can't Help Falling In Love

I Wanna Be With You

I Wanna Marry You

I Wish I Were Blind

Iceman

If I Should Fall Behind

If I Was The Priest

I'm A Rocker

I'm Goin' Down

I'm On Fire

In Michigan

Incident On 57th Street

Independence Day

It's Hard To Be A Saint In The City

Jackson Cage

Jany Don't You Loose Heart

Jany Needs A Shooter

Jazz Musican

Jearsey Girl

Jesse

Johnny 99

Johnny Bye Bye

Jungleland

Kitty's Back

Lady And The Doctor

Land of Hope And Dreams

Leap Of Faith

Leavin' Train

Let's go

Let's Go Tonight

Light Of Day

Like A Rolling Stone

Linda Let Me Be The One

Lions Den

Little Girl So Fine

Little Things That Count

Living On The Edge Of The World

Living Proof

Local Hero

Long Time Coming

Looking Out For No.1

Loose Change

Loose Ends

Lost In The Flood

Lucky Man

Lucky Town

Man At The Top

Man's Job

Mansion On The Hill

Many Rivers To Cross

Marie

Marry Christmas Baby

Mary Lou

Mary Queen Of Arkansas

Meeting Across The River

Mr Outside

Missing

Murder Incorporated

My Beautiful Reward

My Best Was Never Good Enough

My Father's House

My Hometown

My Love Will Not Let You Down

My Lover Man

Nebraska

New Jersey Is My Home

New York City Serenade

Night

No More Kings In Texas

No Need

No Surrender

None But The Brave

One Step Up

On The Prowl

Open All Night

Out Of Work

Out In The Street

Outside Looking In

Over The Rise

Pilgrim In The Temple Of Love (Santa Gets A Blowjob)

Plane Wreck At Los Catos Canyon

Point Blank

Pony Boy

Preachers Daughter

Prodigal Son

Prove It All Night

Racing In The Street

Raise Your Hand

Ramrod

Randolph Street

Real Man

Real World

Reason To Believe

Rendezvous

Restless Nights

Rickie

Ricky Wants A Man Of Her Own

Rockaway the Days

Rocking All Over the World

Roll Of The Dice

Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)

Roulette

Sad Eyes

Santa Ana

Santa Clause Is Coming To Town

Seaside Bar Song

Secret Garden

Seeds

Seven Angles

Sherry Darling

Shut out the Light

Sell It And They Will Come

She's Leaving

She's The One

Sinaloa Cowboysh

So young and in Love

Something In The Night

Song To The Orphans

Soul Driver

Souls Of The Departed

Southern Sun

Spanish Eyes

Spare Parts

Spirit In The Night

Stand On It

State Trooper

Stolen Car

Straight Time

Street Queen

Streets Of Fire

Streets Of Philadephia

Sugarland

Sweet Soul Music

Take Them As they Come

Talk To Me

Taxi Cab

Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out

That's What You Got

The Angel

The Ballade Of The Architect Angle

The Big Payback

The Big Muddy

The E Street Shuffle

The Fast Song

The Ghost Of Tom Joad

The Guns Of Kid Cole

The Hitter

The Honey Mooners

The Iceman

The Line

The Long Goodbye

The New Timer

The Price You Pay

The Promise

The Promised Land

The River

The Ties That Bind

The Way

The Wish

The Word

There Will Never Be Aynone For Me But You

This Hard Land

Thundercrack

Thunder Road

To Be True

Tokyo

Tonight

Tougher Than The Rest

Trapped

Trouble In Paradise

Trouble River

Tunnel Of Love

TV Movie

Tweeter And The Monkey Man

Twist And Shout

Two Faces

Two For The Road

Two Hearts

Two Hearts In True Walz Time

Used Cars

Valentine's Day

Vibes Man

Visitiation At Fort Horn

Viva Las Vegas

Wages of Sin

Walk Like A Man

Walking Trough Midnight

War

War Nurse

When The Lights Go Out

When You Need Me

When You're Alone

Where the Bands are

White Town

Who'll Stop The Rain?

Wild Billy's Circus Story

Wild Kisses

Wings For Wheels

Winter Song

With Every Wish

Working On The Highway

Wreck On The Highway

You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch)

Youngstown

Your Love

Zero And Blind Terry


Cover Me

German Translation

See also Drop On Down

The times are tough now, just getting tougher

This old world is rough, it's just getting rougher

Cover me, come on baby, cover me

Well I'm looking for a lover who will come on in and cover me

Promise me baby you won't let them find us

Hold me in your arms, let's let our love blind us

Cover me, shut the door and cover me

Well I'm looking for a lover who will come on in and cover me

Outside's the rain, the driving snow

I can hear the wild wind blowing

Turn out the light, bolt the door

I ain't going out there no more

This whole world is out there just trying to score

I've seen enough I don't want to see any more,

Cover me, come on and cover me

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

Looking for a lover who will come on in and cover me

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Early Versions known as Drop on down

Released on:

Born in the U.S.A 1984

Cover Me / Jersey Girl   Single 1984

Cover Me - The Mixes (Maxi LP) 1984

Live 1975 - 1985   Live-Box 1986 (Los Angeles Coliseum, 9/30/85)


Cover Me GER
Cover Me

German Translation

Die Zeiten sind hart

Sie werden härter

Diese alte Welt ist rauh

Sie wird immer rauher

Beschütze mich

Komm schon, Baby, beschütze mich

Ich suche nach einer Liebsten, die hereinkommt und mich beschützt

Versprich mir, Baby, Du lässt sie uns nicht finden

Halte mich in Deinen Armen

Lass uns von unserer Liebe blenden

Beschütze mich

Schliess die Tür und beschütze mich

Ich suche nach einer Liebsten, die hereinkommt und mich beschützt

Draussen ist der Regen, der treibende Schnee

Ich kann den wilden Wind wehen hören

Dreh’ das Licht aus

Verriegel die Tür

Ich werde nicht mehr da raus gehen, nie mehr

Diese ganze Welt da draussen will dich nur fertigmachen

Ich habe genug gesehen, ich möchte nichts mehr sehen

Beschütze mich

Komm und beschütze mich

Ich suche nach einer Liebsten, die hereinkommt und mich beschützt

Suche eine Liebste, die hereinkommt und mich beschützt

Translation by Robert Steinseufzer / RoSteins@aol.com


Cowboys Of The Sea

They ride beneath the waves at 20,000 leagues

On stallions stitched to seaweed strands

So smiling, so smiling

They herd the fishes of the deep

They ride for you and me

They ranch the rich and the sunken soil

At the bottom of the sea

In the dead of night, alive in sleep

I hear them calling me

Them deep sea desperadoes

Them midnight maelstrom freaks

The cowboy of the sea

So on wings of sleep I pierce the deep

And ride like a hurricane

At midnight still I paid my bill

And turned my back on the land

With the help of Old Paint, that seaweed nag

It's just Jesse James and me

We ride the depths and rob the banks

At the bottom of the sea

With a seaman's grip on navigation

And some fired, hired hands

We set forth to confront the nation

And lend a cowboy's hand

We do the Dolphins' Dance duet

My mermaid babe and me

Then I ride of into the blue sunset

At the bottom of the sea

And with the seaman's grip on submarining

And some aqualung outlaws

Our guns are made of solid dreamin'

And bullets from a broken cause

And with hand held high to touch the sky

A good Texas Ranger I'll beBut sometimes I feel like a lone stranger

'Midst the cowboys of the sea

Oh and men above he cannot make love

He's got to rape his mother the sea

And because of his greed

We're a vanishing breed

We cowboys of the sea


Cross My Heart

German Translation

First time I crossed my heart I was beggin' baby, please

At your bedside, down on my knees

When I crossed my heart

When I crossed my heart

I crossed my heart, pretty baby over you

Second time I crossed my heart rain came in from the south

I was lyin' there with something sweet and salty in my mouth

When I crossed my heart

When I crossed my heart

When I crossed my heart, pretty darlin' over you

Well, you may think the world's black and white

And you're dirty or you're clean

You better watch out you don't slip

Through them spaces in between

Where the night gets sticky and the sky gets black

I grabbed you, baby, and you grabbed me back

And we crossed our hearts

We crossed our hearts

Yeah, I crossed my heart...

Little boys, little girls

They know their wrongs from their rights

Once you cross your heart

You ain't ever supposed to lie

Well, life ain't nothin' but a cold hard ride

I ain't leavin' 'til I'm satisfied

I cross my heart

Yeah, I cross my heart

Well, I cross my heart, pretty darlin' over you

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Released on:

Human Touch1992


Cross My Heart GER
Cross My Heart

German Translation

Als ich zum ersten Mal mein Ehrenwort gab

Flehte ich dich an Baby, bitte

An deinem Bett auf den Knien

Als ich mein Ehrenwort gab, gab ich es dir

Als ich zum zweitenmal mein Ehrenwort gab

Kam der Regen von Süden

Ich lag dort mit irgendetwas süßem und salzigem in meinem Mund

Als ich mein Ehrenwort gab, schöner Liebling, gab ich es dir

Du denkst vielleicht die Welt ist schwarz und weiß

Und du bist schmutzig oder sauber

Achte lieber darauf daá du nicht rutschst

In den Raum dazwischen

Wo die Nacht stickig wird und der Himmel schwarz

Ich griff dich Baby und du hast nach mir zurückgegriffen

Und wir gaben uns ein Ehrenwort

Kleine Jungs, kleine M„dchen

Sie kennen ihr Unrecht und ihre Rechte

Einmal gabst du dein Ehrenwort

Du h„ttest nie gedacht daá es gelogen war

Nun, das Leben ist nicht nur eine kalte harte Fahrt

Ich will es nicht verlassen bis ich zufrieden bin

Ich verspreche es

Ich verspreche es dir Darling

Translation by: Frank Rohwer


Crush On You

My feets were flyin' down the street just the other night

When a Hong Kong special pulled up at  the light

What was inside, man, was just c'est magnifique

I wanted to hold the bumper and let her

drag me down the street

(Chorus)

Ooh, ooh, I gotta crush on you

Ooh, ooh, I gotta crush on you

Ooh, ooh, I gotta crush on you tonight

Sometimes I spot a little stranger

standing 'cross the room

My brain takes a vacation just to give my

heart more room

For one kiss, darling I swear everything I

would give

Cause you're a walking, talking reason to live

(Chorus)

Well now she might be the talk of high

society

She's probably got a lousy personality

She might be a heiress to Rockefeller

She might be a waitress or a bank teller

She makes the Venus de Milo look like

 she's got no style

She make Sheena of the Jungle look

 meek and mild

I need a quick shot, Doc, knock me off my  feet

Cause I'll be minding my own business

 walking down the street... watchout!

(Chorus)

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Released on:

The River 1980


Cynthia

Cynthia, when you come walkin' by

you're an inspirin' 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 at all

in a world like this

Cynthia, when you pass it seems

like this whole town drops

Cynthia, maybe it's just me babe

Some fool stuck here watchin' the clock

Well, you give us a reason to start whisper "why"

To stop singin', baby, and salute your style

Yeah Cynthia

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

And when you go the hurt you leave

Well, baby, it ain't so bad

No it ain't Cynthia

Yeah there ain't a man in this whole town

Who'll say you ain't fine

D'you hear them guys talkin'

tell me, baby, do you mind

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

To see sump'n'so good, in a world gone bad

There's still cynthia, oh yeah

Cynthia, no one knows your number

No one knows where you live

Cynthia, I wonder do you understand

This strange thing you give

Yeah, well baby, is it your style

The mistery in your smile

Or just how cool you walk

in a world gone wild

Ah tell me if you will, Cynthia

Well I gotta be pretty naive to believe in you

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

That's alright, I gotta dream

That's as good as you, Cynthia

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

It's a walk on, walk on

Oh that's right, oh yeah

Mmmm, you make me holier

yeah, yeah, alright

I said yeah, yeah, alright

Well she's a yeah, yeah, alright

I said yeah, yeah, alright

Well it's a yeah, yeah, alright

Well she's a yeah, yeah, alright

I said yeah, yeah, alright

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Born in the USA Outtake

Released on:

Tracks 1998 - Recorded at the Hit Factory 4 / 20 / 83


Dancing In The Dark

German Translation

I get up in the evening, and I ain't got nothing to say

I come home in the moring, I go to bed feeling the same way

I ain't nothing but tired, man I'm just tired and bored with myself

Hey there baby, I could use just a little help

You can't start a fire, you can't start a fire without a spark

This gun's for hire even if we're just dancing in the dark

Message keeps getting clearer, radio's on and I'm moving round the place

I check myself out in the mirror I wanna change my clothes my hair my face

Man I ain't getting nowhere just sitting in a dump like this

There's something happening somewhere baby I just know that there is

You can't start a fire...

You sit around getting older there's a joke here somewhere and it's on me

I'll shake this world off my shoulders come baby this laughs on me

Stay on the streets of this town and they'll be carving you up alright

They say you got to stay hungry hey baby I'm just about starving tonight

I'm dying for some action I'm sick of sitting 'round here trying to write

this book

I need a love reaction come on now baby give me just one look

You can't start a fire..

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Released on:

Born In The USA 1984

Dancing In The Dark / Pink Cadillac   Single 1984

Dancing In The Dark - Undercover Mix (Maxi LP) 1984


Dancing In The Dark GER
Dancing In The Dark

German Translation

Ich stehe auf am Abend und ich habe nichts zu sagen

Ich komme heim am Morgen, ich gehe ins Bett, fühle mich wieder so

Ich bin nichts, nur m�de

Mann, ich bin müde und langweile mich über mich selbst

Hey Baby, ich könnte etwas Hilfe gebrauchen

Du kannst kein Feuer entfachen

Du kannst kein Feuer entfachen ohne einen Funken

Diese Kanone ist zu mieten

Selbst wenn wir nur im Dunkeln tanzen

Nachrichten werden deutlicher

Radios an und ich gehe herum

Ich pr�fe mein Aussehen im Siegel

Will meine Kleidung „ndern; mein Haar, mein Gesicht

Mann ich war noch nirgendwo, lebe nur in einem Misthaufen wie diesem

Da passiert etwas, irgendwo Baby, ich weiá nur daá da etwas ist

Du sitzt herum, wirst „lter

Da ist ein Witz hier irgendwie und er ist �ber mich

Ich sch�ttele diese Welt von meinen Schultern

Komm schon Baby, das Lachen ist bei mir

Stehe auf den Straáen dieser Stadt

Und sie wollen dir ein Denkmal setzen

Sie sagen du mußt hungrig bleiben

Hey Baby, ich habe Kohldampf heute nacht

Ich sterbe für etwas Action

Ich bin krank davon herumzusitzen und dieses Buch zu schreiben

Ich brauche eine Liebesreaktion

Komm schon Baby, gib mir nur einen Blick

Du kannst kein Feuer entfachen

Durch herumsitzen und weinen über ein zerbrochenes Herz

Diese Kanone ist zu mieten

Selbst wenn wir nur im Dunkeln tanzen

Du kannst kein Feuer entfachen

Wenn du Angst hast daß deine kleine Welt auseinanderf„llt

Diese Kanone ist zu mieten

Selbst wenn wir nur im Dunkeln tanzen

Translation by: Frank Rohwer


Darkness On The Edge OF Town GER
Darkness On The Edge Of Town

German Translation

Sie rasen noch immer runter von den Podesten

Aber das Blut, es brennt nie mehr in ihren Adern

Nun höre ich, sie hat ein Haus oben in Fairview

Und sie versucht ihren Stil aufrecht zu erhalten

Mann, wenn sie mich sehen will

Kannst du ihr sagen, ich bin leicht zu finden

Sag ihr da ist eine Laterne draußen bei der Abrams-Brücke

Und sag ihr, da ist eine Dunkelheit am Rand der Stadt

Jede hat ein Geheimnis Sonny

Irgend etwas, das sie einfach nicht schaffen

Manche versuchen ihr ganzes Leben lang es zu erreichen

Sie tragen es mit sich bei jedem Schritt, den sie machen

Bis sie es eines Tages einfach abschneiden

Abschneiden oder es zieht sie runter

Dahin wo niemand irgendwelche Fragen stellt

Oder zu lange in dein Gesicht schaut

In der Dunkelheit am Rand der Stadt

Manche Leute werden geboren in ein gutes Leben

Andere schaffen es irgendwie, trotz allem

Ich verlor mein Geld und ich verlor meine Frau

Diese Dinge scheinen mir nicht mehr viel zu bedeuten

Heute Nacht werde ich auf dem Hügel sein, denn ich kann nicht anhalten

Ich werde auf dem Hügel sein mit allem, was ich habe

Leben in die Richtung, wo Träume gefunden und verloren sind

Ich werde pünktlich sein und ich werde bezahlen

Dafür, daß ich Dinge wollte, die man nur findet

Inder Dunkelheit am Rand der Stadt

Translation by: Frank Rohwer


Darkness On The Edge Of Town

German Translation

They're still racing out at the Trestles

But that blood it never burned in her veins

Now I hear she's got a house up in Fairview

And a style she's trying to maintain

Well if she wants to see me

You can tell her that I'm easily found

Tell her there's a spot out `neath Abram's Bridge

And tell her there's a darkness on the edge of town

Everybody's got a secret Sonny

Something that they just can't face

Some folks spend their whole lives trying to keep it

They carry it with them every step that they take

Till some day they just cut it loose

Cut it loose or let it drag `em down

Where no one asks any questions

Or looks too long in your face

In the darkness on the edge of town

Some folks are born into a good life

Other folks get it anyway anyhow

I lost my money and I lost my wife

Them things don't seem to matter much to me now

Tonight I'll be on that hill `cause I can't stop

I'll be on that hill with everything I got

Lives on the line where dreams are found and lost

I'll be there on time and I'll pay the cost

For wanting things that can only be found

In the darkness on the edge of town

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Released on:

Darkness on the Edge of Town 1978

Live 1975 - 1985   Live-Box 1986 (Nassau Coliseum 12/29/80)

MTV - Unplugged 1995

The Ghost Of Tom Joad Maxi-CD 1995 (Live at the Tower Theatre)

Missing Maxi-CD 1996 (Live in Berlin 1996)


Darlington County

Driving in to Darlington County

Me and Wayne on the Fourth of July

Driving in to Darlington County

Looking for some work on the county line

We drove down from New York City

Where the girls are pretty but they just want to know your name

Driving in to Darlington City

Got a union connection with an uncle of Wayne's

We drove eight hundred miles without seeing a cop

We got rock and roll music blasting off the T-top singing

Sha la la la la la la la la, Sha la la la la la la

Hey little girl standing on the corner

Today's your lucky day for sure all right

Me and my buddy we're from New York City

We got two hundred dollars we want to rock all night

Girl you're looking at two big spenders

Why the world don't know what me and Wayne might do

Our pa's each own one of the World Trade Centers

For a kiss and a smile I'll give mine all to you

Come on baby take a seat on my fender

It's a long night and tell me what else were you gonna do

Just me and you we could

Sha la la...

Little girl sitting in the window

Ain't seen my buddy in seven days

County man tells me the same thing

He don't work and he don't get paid

Little girl you're so young and pretty

Walk with me and you can have your way

And we'll leave this Darlington City

For a ride down that Dixie Highway

Driving out of Darlington County

My eyes seen the glory of the coming of the Lord

Driving out of Darlington County

Seen Wayne handcuffed to the bumper of a state trooper's Ford

Sha la la...

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Released on:

Born in the U.S.A. 1984

Live 1975 - 1985   Live-Box 1986 (Los Angeles Coliseum, 9/30/85)


Dead Man Walking

Italian Translation

There's a pale horse comin'

And I'm gonna ride it

I'll rise in the morning

With my fate beside it

I'm a dead man walkin'

I'm a dead man walkin'

In Saint James Parish

I was born and Christened

How I've got my story

Well Mister, there ain't 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 action lie this world

Well, 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 me

Like a dead man talkin'

Beneath the summer sky

my eyes went black

Sister, I won't ask for forgiveness,

my sins are all I have

Tonight the clouds above my prison

Move slowly 'cross the sky

There is a new day comin'

And my dreams are full tonight.

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Soundtrack of the Movie "Dead Man Walking"

Released:

Music From And Inspired By the Motion Picture Dead Man Walking  CBS/Columbia 483534

Dead Man Walking  Maxi-CD 1996


Dead Man Walking ITA
Dead Man Walking

Italian Translation

Sta arrivando un cavallo chiaro

ed io lo cavalchero'

mi alzero' al mattino

con il destino gia' deciso

sono un morto che cammina

In Saint James Parish

nacqui e fui battezzato

come e' andata la mia storia

signore,non c'e' bisogno che tu ascolti

e' solo un morto che parla

Avevo un lavoro, avevo una ragazza

ma il mondo sta proprio in mezzo ai nostri sogni e alle nostre azioni

Nella foresta profonda

le loro lacrime e il loro sangue mi scorsero addosso

tutto quello che potevo sentire erano le droghe e il fucile

e la paura che mi cresceva dentro

come un morto che parla

Sotto il cielo d'estate vidi tutto nero

sorella,non chiedero' il perdono, i miei peccati sono tutto cio' che ho

Ora le nubi sulla mia prigione

vagano lentamente per il cielo

sta arrivando un nuovo giorno

ma stanotte i miei sogni sono pieni


Dedication

Well way back in the Bible time

A cat named Noah built an ocean liner

Everybody laughed whent hey told him why

But when the rain came, Noah was high and dry

'Cause he had

Dedication baby through and through

Dedication like I give to you

Dedication girl every way

Dedication girl every day

Well Admiral Byrd and some eskimos

They took a little trip to the old North Pole

When they said it was a miracle they made it back

Well they said that wasn't any miracle, Jack

Dedication baby through and through

Dedication like I give to you

Dedication girl every way

Dedication girl every day

Well now there was a movie star out in Hollywood

He met a little girl, they got along real good

He tried to split but the chick said "Buddy, not so fast

Ain't gonna wrap me on your arms, then wrap me in some cash"

Now it was on TV every word they said

If you didn't see it man, you must have been late

She got on the witness pedestal without care

She turned to the judge and this is what she said

Dedication judge every way

Dedication judge in every way

I need some

Dedication judge that can't be spent

A little dedication judge to pay the rent

Dedication baby through and through

Dedication like I give to you

Dedication girl every way

Dedication girl every day

D-E-D-I-C-A-T-I-O-N

D-E-D-I-C-A-T-I-O-N

D-E-D-I-C-A-T-I-O-N


Deportee

(Aka "Plane Wreck at Los Gatos Canyon," and "Good-bye Juan")

The crops are all in, the peaches are rotting

The oranges are piled in their creosote dumps

They're flying you back to the Mexico border

To pay all your money to wade back again

My father's own father, he waded that river

They took all the money he made in his life

My brothers and sisters they work in the fruit trees

They rode the truck till they took down and died

Good-bye to my Juan, Good-bye Rosalita

Adios mes amigos, Jesus e Maria

You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane

And all they will call you will be "deportee"

Some of us are illegal, and some are not wanted

Our work contract's out and we have to move on

Six hundred miles to the Mexican border

They chase us like rustlers, like outlaws, like thieves.

We died in your hills. We died on your deserts.

We've died in your mountains, and died on your plains.

We've died 'neath your trees, and we've died in your bushes.

Both sides of the river, we've died just the same.

Good-bye to my Juan, Good-bye Rosalita

Adios mes amigos, Jesus e Maria

You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane

And all they will call you will be "deportee"

The skyplane caught fire over Los Gatos Canyon

A fireball of lightning that shook all our hills

Who were all these dear friends all scattered like dry leaves?

The radio says they were just deportees.

Is this the best way we can grow our big orchards?

And is this the best way we can grow our good fruit?

To fall like dry leaves and rot on the top soil,

And be known by no name except "deportee".

Good-bye to my Juan, Good-bye Rosalita

Adios mes amigos, Jesus e Maria

You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane

And all they will call you will be "deportee"

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Performed on GOTJ tour


Does This Bus Stop At 82nd Street?

Hey bus driver keep the change, bless your children, give them names,

Don't trust men who walk with canes,

drink this and you'll grow wings on your feet

Broadway Mary, Joan Fontaine, advertiser on a downtown train

Christmas crier bustin' cane, He's in love again.

Where dock worker's dreams mix with panther's schemes to someday own the

rodeo

Tainted women in Vistavision perform for out-of-state kids at the late

show.

Wizard imps and sweat sock pimps, interstellar mongrel nymphs

Rex said that lady left him limp. Love's like that (sure it is).

Queen of diamonds, ace of spades newly discovered lovers of the everglades

They take out a full page ad in the trades to announce their arrival

And Mary Lou she found out how to cope, she rides to heaven on a gyrosco+pe

The Daily News asks her for the dope

She says "Man, the dope's that there's still hope"

Senorita, Spanish rose, wipes her eyes and blows her nose

Uptown in Harlem she throw a rose to some lucky, young matador.

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Released on:

Greetings from Asbury Park - N.J. 1973

Dead Man Walking Maxi-CD 1996 (Live at the Tower Theatre)

Tracks 1998 - Recorded at CBS Studios (NY) 5 / 3 / 72


Dollhouse

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 do

(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

We may feel safe and sound

But our 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 a 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

Yeah we're living in a dollhouse

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Released on:

Tracks 1998 - Recorded at The Power Station, 8/21/79


Don't Look Back

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 straddlin; the shifter in my front seat

There's nothing to lose

It's a set-up (heartbreak)

The deck's stacked

So put your foot to the floor

And darling don't look back

Well making night tracks through the blazing rain

Blow them pistons, work (move) in the fast lane

White line burning, pockets full of cash

Angel writes her name in lipstick on my dash

There's nothing to lose

It's a set-up (except a heartbreak) (just a bad break)

The deck's stacked (baby we're back)

Tonight we'll blow off the doors (Put your foot to the floor)

And honey we won't look back (And darling don't look back)

We held it in our hearts in the pouring rain

We made it through the heart of a hurricane

We tore it apart and put it together again

We'll wash out sins, girl down in the sea

Angel won't you believe in love for me

(Come on meet me tonight darlin' 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 set-up (just a heartache)

The deck's stacked

So put your foot to the floor (and) darling

Tonight we'll blow out (off) the doors darling (baby)

Put your foot to the floor (we're gonna even the score)

And darling don't look back (honey we won't look back)

Don't look back

Ah, baby, don't look back

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Darkness On The Edge Of Town outtake 1977/78

Released on:

Tracks 1998 -


Down By The River

Well, I got a little girl down by the river

Now she keeps ???  tight

I got a little girl, she       every night

She says "I'm feeling like a wild, hands on ???

then she keeps me all night.

So come on, down by the river

come on, come on now.

Just come on, down by the river

It's alright.

Well baby, let me protect you little darling

If you let me   ???

I  know, if you'll just let me in.

Well, every day just brings in the same

but every night...???

Yes, come on, down by the river

oh, come on, girl, it's alright.

Well, come on, down by the river

Hold tight.


Downbound Train

German Translation

I had a job, I had a girl

I had something going mister in this world

I got laid off down at the lumber yard

Our love went bad, times got hard

Now I work down at the carwash

Where all it ever does is rain

Don't you feel like you're a rider on a downbound train

She just said "Joe I gotta go

We had it once we ain't got it any more"

She packed her bags left me behind

She bought a ticket on the Central Line

Nights as I sleep, I hear that whistle whining

I feel her kiss in the misty rain

And I feel like I'm a rider on a downbound train

Last night I heard your voice

You were crying, crying, you were so alone

You said your love had never died

You were waiting for me at home

Put on my jacket, I ran through the woods

I ran till I thought my chest would explode

There in the clearing, beyond the highway

In the moonlight, our wedding house shone

I rushed through the yard, I burst through the front door

My head pounding hard, up the stairs I climbed

The room was dark, our bed was empty

Then I heard that long whistle whine

And I dropped to my knees, hung my head and cried

Now I swing a sledge hammer on a railroad gang

Knocking down them cross ties, working in the rain

Now don't it feel like you're a rider on a downbound train

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Released on:

Born in the U.S.A. 1984


Downbound Train GER
Downbound Train

German Translation

Ich hatte einen Job, ich hatte ein Mädchen

Ich war drauf und dran, was zu erreichen in dieser Welt

Ich musste aufhören unten am Holzlager

Unsere Liebe wurde schlecht, die Zeiten wurden hart

Nun arbeite ich unten bei der Autowaschanlage, wo es immer nur regnet

Fühlst du dich da nicht, als wärst du ein Passagier in einem Downbound Train

Sie sagte nur »Joe, ich sollte gehen. Wir hatten es einst, aber es klappt

nicht mehr«

Sie packte ihre Taschen, liess mich zurück

Sie kaufte ein Ticket bei der Central Line

Wenn ich nachts schlafe höre ich diese Pfeife heulen

Ich spüre ihren Kuss im nebligen Regen

Und ich fühle mich wie ein Passagier in einem Downbound Train

Letzte Nacht hörte ich deine Stimme

Du riefst, riefst du wärst so allein

Du sagtest, Deine Liebe sei nie gestorben

Du würdest zuhause auf mich warten

Zog meine Jacke an, ich rannte durch die Wälder

Ich rannte, bis ich dachte mein Brustkorb würde explodieren

Dort im hellen Mondlicht, jenseits des Highways, scheinte unser Ehehaus

Ich hetzte durch den Garten

Ich krachte durch die Haustür

Mein Kopf hämmerte hart

Ich stieg die Treppen hoch, der Raum war dunkel, unser Bett war leer

Dann hörte ich dieses langezogene Pfeifen und ich fiel auf die Knie

Liess meinen Kopf hängen und weinte

Nun schwinge ich einen Schmiedehammer bei einem Eisenbahn-Trupp

Nehme diese Querschwellen auseinander, arbeite im Regen

Nun, fühlst du dich da nicht wie ein Passagier in einem Downbound Train

Translation by Robert Steinseufzer / RoSteins@aol.com


Drive All Night

When I lost you honey

sometimes I think I lost my guts too

And I wish God would send me a word

send me something I'm afraid to lose

Lying in the heat of the night like

prisoners all our lives

I get shivers down my spine and all

I wanna do is hold you tight

(Chorus)

I swear I'll drive all night just to buy you

some shoes

And to taste your tender charms

And I just wanna sleep tonight again in

your arms

Tonight there's fallen angels and they're

 waiting for us down in the street

Tonight there's calling strangers, hear

them crying in defeat.

Let them go, let them go, let them go, do

their dances of the dead (let'em go right ahead)

You just dry your eyes girl, and c'mon

c'mon c'mon let's go to bed, baby, baby, baby

(Chorus)

There's machines and there's fire waiting

on the edge of town

They're out there for hire but baby they

can't hurt us now

Cause you've got, you've got, you've got,

you've got my love, you've got my love

Through the wind, through the rain, the

snow, the wind, the rain

You've got, you've got my, my love

heart and soul

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Released on:

The River1980


Drop On Down (And Cover Me)

Times are tough there baby there

It's getting tougher now

This world is rough honey it's

Just getting rougher now

Their on top there baby

Just tryin' to score-well

Seen enough, honey I don't

Wanna see no more

Drop on down and cover me

On down and cover me

Sometimes girl I just wanna

Leave it all behind us, yeah

Hold me in your arms tonight let's

Let our love blind us, yeah

Inside I feel the pain that

The hatred and the sorrow

I wanna shut the light, baby

C'mon and shut the door

Drop on down and cover me

On down and cover

I just wanna close my eyes and

Let your love surround me

I wanna close my heart to

To this world around me

The anger and the heartlessness

All the good things guilty

Come closer baby

Now-closer still now

Drop on down and cover me

On down and cover me

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Born In The U.S.A. Outtake 1983/84

Seems to be an early version of Cover Me


Dry Lightning

I threw my robe on in the morning

Watched the ring on the stove turn to red,

Stared hypnotized into a cup of coffee

Pulled on my boots and made my bed

screen door hangin' off its hinges

kept bangin' me awake all night

As I look out the window

The only thing in sight

Is dry lightning on the horizon line

Just dry lightning

And you on my mind

I chased the heat of her blood

Like it was the holy grail

Descend beautiful spirit

Into the evening pale

Her appaloosa's

Kickin' in the corral smelling rain

There's a low thunder rolling

cross the mesquite plain

But it's just dry lightning on the horizon line

Just dry lightning

And you on my mind

I'd drive down to Alvarado street

Where she danced to make ends meet

I'd spend the night over my gin

As she'd talk to her men

Well the piss yellow sun

Comes bringing up the day

She said ain't nobody gonna give nobody

What they really need anyway

You get so sick of the fighting

You lose your fear of the end

But you can't lose your memory

And the sweet smell of your skin

And it's just dry lightning on the horizon line

Just dry lightning

And you on my mind

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Released on:

The Ghost Of Tom Joad 1995


Eloise

(To the Tune of Growin' Up)

Well, what power of God does a nun use to hold up parish priests

And what makes a good cop let go a beautiful theif

Oh, and how does the queen know she got hold that manna honey

Oh and what makes an old woman give a young man all her money

Well late in the night 'neath that pale moonlight

the power comes over me

And its all Elouise yeah

I'm Turning Into Elvis (and There's Nothing I Can Do)

kissed the babysitter.  She screamed and I told her it

was just the beast in me.

And on my way out of the house I shot out my TV

I went down to the corner luncheonette and said Sally "fried peanut

butter and banana will do(?)"

I'm turning into Elvis and there's nothing I can do

I threw out my wife and family I took off my wedding ring

I told my friends and neighbors to refer to me now as "King"

I put a chainlink fence around my ranch house and on the gate

a sign that reads "Graceland II"

I'm turning into Elvis and there's nothing I can do

I visited my mama's grave and I headed out to Hollywood and I signed a

picture with MGM

I play a rebellious beachboy racecar driver who fucks a nun in the end

In the last scene I whip out my big guitar and show her a little

Memphis-style kung-fu

I'm turning into Elvis and there's nothing I can do

But I drove on straight to Vegas and I stopped in the first old

stripper bar.

Found me a little hooker that looked just like Ann-Margaret and we

rumba'd in my sports car.

Well me and my drinking buddies turned my lovin' home

into a frikkin' zoo.

I'm turning into Elvis and there's nothing I can do

Well he came to me last night in a dream looking just like

he did in '57.

He said "Son that guitar is a wonderful thing but it can be the living

devils' friend.

On the other hand there's sex-starved women, millions of dollars, and

anything you want to do."

I'm turning into Elvis and there's nothing I can do


English Sons
English Sons (Endless Nights)

One, Two, Three, Four

Girl, on the edge flippin' off the lamp

There'll be an end darling to your endless night

On the other side of the street.

Yea, the light on your portrait and the light in your face

And you'll be looking for another pretty place

Baby, this side of the street.

Well, keep dreaming baby that your desire brings and girl

I know the sadness that you find in things, it's true

Well, baby if you can't take the heat, what can I do?

Well, you and your poetry and your boku (?!) world

Behind the face you hide the face of a modern girl

On the other side of the street.

Yea, you've got the look as if you owe the world

Therefore, you go out there and say what you can earn

On the wrong side of the street.

Well, you tire of every day bringing the same and so you

Go out looking for some strange new games

Well, pretty soon you don't know the score anymore.

All right now........... (Guitar Break)

I know the danger that your desire brings

And I know the strangeness that you'll find

Wait and it will seem straighter for you and for me.

Well, turn on the end and baby turn off the lamps

There'll be an end darling to this endless night

On the other side of the street.

Yea, and everyday - well- it just brings the same

You started looking for some very strange new games

On the wrong side of the street.

Well, you and your desires lead to confusion

Well, walk away as I don't follow your illusions

And see, open your eyes and see, girl.

All right..........


Evacuation Of The West
Evacuation Of The West (No More Kings In Texas)

It was on the day the cowboys were abandoned from the ranch

Middle touch world as a master

They rode their ponies down in the cities of gold

To leave them for ever after

Now the sun was swollen red and old

The earth it was windy, dark and cold

Were the highway ends the desert takes its toll

Sodusty, red and angry

It was a time when men died out on the praire

From not having a decent friend

At nights the ghosts to the more of riders

Was a howl in the candid winds

You can here them crying

Good God, I think they're dying

When them rangers down in Dallas

Had all, but given it up and left

And those that hang on hoping

Was trying their best to, to forget

The way those outlaws and desperadoes

Right from the cheapest to the best

Rode in on ponies made of skin and bones

Keep up their rusty guns and went back home

And the governor was sent down from Population Control

And marshall all was past

Riverboat gamblers put their money on faith

For the time for hope they passed

In the cold blue light of the desert night

There was a thousand starry ships

And men came down from still I don't now where

With death on their fingertips

Now there's no more kings in Texas

I swear they rounded up each and everyone

And old Atlanta Canastoga

Reached from the Rocky Mountains into the old dead sun

Now Anna Maria walks the blames alone

The last of a struggling people

She thinks of all those outlaws who wanted to reach for the skies

And got stuck up on a steamboat

Oh, you can hear them crying

Good God, I think they're dying

In the wind you can hear them sighing


Factory

German Translation

Early in the morning factory whistle blows,

Man rises from bed and puts on his clothes,

Man takes his lunch, walks out in the morning light,

It's the working, the working, just the working life.

Through the mansions of fear, through the mansions of pain,

I see my daddy walking through them factory gates in the rain,

Factory takes his hearing, factory gives him life,

The working, the working, just the working life.

End of the day, factory whistle cries,

Men walk through these gates with death in their eyes.

And you just better believe, boy,

somebody's gonna get hurt tonight,

It's the working, the working, just the working life.

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Released on:

Darkness On The Edge of Town 1978

Prove It All Night / Factory   Single - Jun 78


Factory GER
Factory

German Translation

Früh am Morgen, die Fabriksirene heult

Mann steigt aus dem Bett und zieht seine Sachen an

Mann nimmt sein Essen, geht raus ins Morgenlicht

Es ist die Arbeit, die Arbeit, nur das Arbeitsleben

Durch die Hallen der Angst, durch die Hallen der Qualen

Sehe ich meinen Vater durch die Fabriktore gehen im Regen

Fabrik nimmt sein Gehör, Fabrik gibt ihm Leben

Die Arbeit, die Arbeit, nur das Arbeitsleben

Ende des Tages, Fabriksirene schreit

Männer gehen durch diese Tore mit Tod in ihren Augen

Und du solltest besser glauben, Junge

Einige werden Schmerzen haben heute abend

Es ist die Arbeit, die Arbeit, nur das Arbeitsleben

Translation by: Frank Rohwer


Fade Away

German Translation

Well now you say you've found another

man who does things to you that I can't

And that no matter what I do it's all over

now between me and you girl

But I can't believe what you say

No I can't believe what you say

'cause baby

(Chorus)

I don't wanna fade away

Oh I don't wanna fade away

Tell me what can I do what can I say

Cause darlin' I don't wanna fade away

Well now you say that you've made up

your mind it's been such a long, long

time since it's been good with us

And that somewhere back along the line

you lost your love and I lost your trust

Now rooms that once were so bright are

filled with the coming night, darlin'

(Chorus)

You say it's not easy for you

And that you've been so lonely

While other girls go out doing what they

want to do

You say that you miss the nights when

we'd go out dancing

The days when you and I walked as two

Well girl I miss them too

Oh I swear that I do

Oh girl

Now baby I don't wanna be just another

useless memory holding you tight

Or just some other ghost out on the street

to whom you stop and politely speak

when you pass on by vanashing into the

night

left to vanish into the night

No baby

(Chorus)

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Released on:

The River 1980

Fade Away / Be True   Single 1981


Fade Away GER
Fade Away

German Translation

Gut, jetzt sagst Du, Du hast einen anderen Mann gefunden, der Dir was anderes

geben kann als ich

Und, dass es, egal was ich mache, aus ist zwischen mir und Dir, Mädchen

Doch ich kann nicht glauben, was Du sagst

Nein, ich kann nicht glauben, was Du sagst

Denn, Baby

Ich möchte nicht dahinschwinden

Oh, ich möchte nicht dahinschwinden

Sag mir was ich tun kann, was ich sagen kann

Denn, Liebling, ich möchte nicht dahinschwinden

Gut, nun sagst Du, dass Dir klar geworden ist, dass es lange her ist, wo alles

gut zwischen uns war

Und dass Du irgendwann Deine Liebe zu mir verloren hast und Dein Vertrauen zu

mir

Nun sind die Räume, die einst so hell waren, gefüllt mit der kommenden Nacht

Ich möchte nicht dahinschwinden

Oh, ich möchte nicht dahinschwinden

Sag mir was ich tun kann, was ich sagen kann

Denn, Liebling, ich möchte nicht dahinschwinden

Du sagst es sei nicht leicht für Dich

Und du wärst so einsam

Während andere Mädchen ausgehen und das tun, worauf sie Lust haben

Du sagst, Du vermisst die Nächte, in denen wir zum Tanzen gingen

Die Tage, in denen wir ein Paar waren

Ja, Mädchen, ich vermisse sie auch

Oh, ich schwöre, dass ich das tue

Oh Mädchen

Nun, Baby, ich möchte nicht eine weitere nutzlose Erinnerung sein, die Dich

festhält

Oder irgendein anderer Geist draussen in der Strasse mit dem Du im Vorbeigehen

freundliche Worte sprichst, während Du in der Nacht verschwindest

Gehst um in der Nacht zu verschwinden

Nein Baby

Ich möchte nicht dahinschwinden

Oh, ich möchte nicht dahinschwinden

Sag mir was ich tun kann, was ich sagen kann

Denn, Liebling, ich möchte nicht dahinschwinden

Translation by Robert Steinseufzer / RoSteins@aol.com


Fever

When I get home from my job

I turn on my T.V.

But I can't keep my mind on the show

When I lay down at night

I don't get no sleep

So I turn on the radio

But, Lord, the only thing I hear

Is you whisperin' in my ear

The words that you used to say

Well, now the days grow longer

My love grows stronger

And the fever gets worse every day

I got a fever for a girl

He's got the fever

Oh, he's got the fever

Nothing that a boy can do

When he's got the fever for a girl

He's got the fever

Oh, he's got the fever

Left this little boy blue

I can remember comin' home

See you standin' at the stove

With the dishes on the table

Dinner ready to go

Or maybe out to a movie show

Something that you'd like to see

Oh, you were my sun in the morning

And my moon at night

When you put your arms around me

Made me fell alright

Well, now the days grow longer

And my love just grows stronger

And the fever gets so bad at night

I got a fever for a girl

He's got the fever

Oh, he's got the feverNothing that a boy can do

When he's got the fever for a girl

He's got the fever

Oh, he's got the fever

Left this little boy blue

It's gonna be alright, now

If I can make it to the morning

I'm gonna be alright, now

If I can just make it to the morning

It's just this long and lonely nights

Everytime I close my eyes

All I see is her face

Everytime I shut my eyes

All I see is her face

But I'm gonna be alright, now

I'll be alright, now

When I shut down all the lights

When I turn off all the lights

When I turn down all the lights

And when I lay my head on the pillow

I can't stop myself in thinking

"Baby, where are you tonight?"

"Where is she tonight?"

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Released to radio stations only in tape form 1974


Fire

I'm driving in my car, I turn on the radio

I'm pulling you close, you just say no

You say you don't like it, but girl I know you're a liar

`Cause when we kiss, Fire

Late at night I'm takin' you home

I say I wanna stay, you say you wanna be alone

You say you don't love me, girl you can't hide your desire

`Cause when we kiss, Fire

You had a hold on me, right from the start

A grip so tight I couldn't tear it apart

My nerves all jumpin' actin' like a fool

Well your kisses they burn but your heart stays cool

Romeo and Juliet, Samson and Delilah

Baby you can bet their love they didn't deny

Your words say split but your words they lie

`Cause when we kiss, Fire

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Released on:

Live 1975 - 1985   Live-Box 1986 (Winterland 12/16/78)

Fire / Incident on 57th Street   Single 1987


Follow That Dream

Italian Translation

If your heart is restless and you can't go on

When you're tired and weary, but you can't go on

Well a distant dream is a callin' you

Then there's just one thing that you can do

Yeah, you gotta follow that dream wherever that dream may lead you

You gotta follow that dream wherever that dream may lead

Now if I walk in dreams

And if I talk in dreams

I need someone with a love I can trust

And together we'll search for the things that come to us

Baby in dreams, in dreams

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

Baby in dreams, I walk in dreams

I talk in dreams

I live in dreams


Follow That Dream ITA
Follow That Dream

Italian Translation

Se il tuo cuore  inquieto per avere aspettato cos a lungo

Sei stanco ed affaticato e non ce la fai pi a continuare

Se un sogno lontano ti chiama

Allora c' solo una cosa che puoi fare

Insegui quel sogno, ovunque esso conduca

Dai, insegui quel sogno, per trovare l'amore di cui hai bisogno

Dai, insegui quel sogno

Ho cercato un cuore che fosse libero

Ho cercato qualcono che cercasse con me

Perch ho bisogno di un amore, un amore di cui mi possa fidare

Insieme cercheremo le cose che sogneremo

Nei sogni, ovunque esse possano essere

Dai, insegui quel sogno, per trovare l'amore di cui hai bisogno

Dai, insegui quel sogno

Ogni uomo ha diritto a vivere

Ha diritto ad una possibilit di dare quello che ha da dare

Il diritto di combattere per le cose in cui crede

Per le cose che gli vengono in sogno

Insegui quel sogno, ovunque esso conduca

Dai, insegui quel sogno, per trovare l'amore di cui hai bisogno

Insegui quel sogno, ovunque esso conduca

Dai, insegui quel sogno, per trovare l'amore di cui hai bisogno

Dai, insegui quel sogno

Segui il sogno

Dai insegui quel sogno

Dai, insegui quel sogno, per trovare l'amore di cui hai bisogno


For You

Italian Translation

Princess cards she sends me with her regards

Barroom eyes shine vacancy, to see her you gotta look hard

Wounded deep in battle, I stand stuffed like some soldier undaunted

To her Cheshire smile. I'll stand on file, she's all I ever wanted

But you let your blue walls get in the way of these facts

Honey, get your carpetbaggers off my back

You wouldn't even give me time to cover my tracks

You said "Here's your mirror and your ball and jacks"

But they're not what I came for, and I'm sure you see that too

I came for you, for you, I came for you, but you did not need my urgency

I came for you, for you, I came for you, but your life was one long

emergency

And your cloud line urges me, and my electric surges free

Crawl into my ambulance, your pulse is getting weak

Reveal yourself all now to me girl while you've got the strength to speak

`Cause they're waiting for you at Bellevue with their oxygen masks

But I could give it all to you now if only you could ask

And don't call for your surgeon even he says it's too late

It's not your lungs this time, it's your heart that holds your fate

Don't give me money, honey, I don't want it back

You and your pony face and your union jack

Well take your local joker and teach him how to act

I swear I was never that way even when I really cracked

Didn't you think I knew that you were born with the power of a locomotive

Able tomleap tall buildings in a single bound?

And your Chelsea suicide with no apparent motive

You could laugh and cry in a single sound

And your strength is devastating in the face of all these odds

Remember how I kept you waiting when it was my turn to be the god?

You were not quite half so proud when I found you broken on the beach

Remember how I poured salt on your tongue and hung just out of reach

And the band they played the homecoming theme as I caressed your cheek

They ragged, jagged melody she still clings to me like a leach

But that medal you wore on your chest always got in the way

Like a little girl with a traphy so soft to buy her way

We were both hitchhikers but you had your ear tuned to the roar

Of some metal-tempered engine on an alien, distant shore

So you, left to find a better reason than the one we were living for

And it's not that nursery mouth I came back for

It's not the way you're stretched out on the floor

`Cause I've broken all your windows and I've rammed through all your doors

And who am I to ask you to lick my sores? And you should know that's true

I came for you, for you, I came for you, but you did not need my urgency

I came for you, for you, I came for you, but your life was one long

emergency

And your cloud line urges me, and my electric surges free

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Released on:

Spirit in The Night / For You   Single - May 1973

Greetings from Asbury Park - N.J. 1973


For You ITA
For You

Italian Translation

Cartoline da principessa, mi spedisce, con i suoi saluti

Gli occhi del bar luccicano posti a sedere, per vederla

 devi guardare attentamente

Ferito gravemente in battaglia, resto impavido come un soldato,

 senza paura

Davanti alla sua smorfia sorniona

Lei e tutto ci che ho sempre voluto, aspettero il mio turno

Ma tu fai tutto perche questo non si avveri

Tesoro, dai, liberami dai tuoi scalzacani

Non hai voluto nemmeno darmi il tempo di fare la mia strada

Hai detto: 'Prendi il tuo specchio e tutto il resto'

Ma non e per queste cose che sono venuto

E sono sicuro che lo vedi anche tu

Sono venuto per te, per te

Sono venuto per te

Ma non avevi bisogno della mia fretta

Sono venuto per te, per te

Sono venuto per te

Ma la tua vita e stata tutta una lunga emergenza

E la tua linea oscura preme contro di me

E le mie onde elettriche si liberano

Entri nella mia ambulanza, i tuoi battiti si fanno sempre piu fiochi

Rivelami tutta te stessa ora, ragazza, mentre hai ancora la forza

 di farlo

Perche ti aspettano giu al Bellevue, con le loro maschere a ossigeno

Ma io potrei darti tutto, adesso, se solo tu potessi chiederlo

E non chiamare il medico, anche lui dice che Š troppo tardi

Non sono i tuoi polmoni, questa volta,

 e il cuore che ha in mano il tuo destino

Non ridarmi i soldi, tesoro, non li rivoglio

Tu e la tua faccia da pony e la tua Union Jack

Prendi quel tipo delle tue parti e insegnagli come si sta al mondo

Giuro che non sono mai stato conciato cosi male

 nemmeno quando ero davvero a pezzi

Non pensavi che io sapessi che eri nata con la forza di una locomotiva

In grado di spianare con un solo colpo gli edifici piu alti ?

E il tuo suicidio di Chelsea senza nessuna ragione apparente

Sapevi ridere e piangere allo stesso tempo

E la tua resistenza di fronte a queste stranezze e devastante

Ricordi come ti ho fatto sospirare

 quando il coltello dalla parte del manico l'avevo io ?

Non eri poi tanto orgogliosa quando ti ho trovata a pezzi sulla spiaggia

Ricordi ? Ho versato sale sulla tua lingua e mi sono tirato giusto fuori

E la banda suonava il bentornato mentre ti accarezzavo la guancia

Quel motivetto frivolo mi e rimasto attaccato come una sanguisuga

Sembravi, con quella medaglia sul petto,

 una ragazzina che deve aprirsi una strada, con un cos� tenero trofeo

Eravamo entrambi autostoppisti, ma tu avevi orecchio solo per i motori

Di buona lega, su qualche lontana spiaggia straniera

Cosa sei partita per cercare una migliore ragione di vita

E non e per quella bocca infantile che sono tornato

Non e per per quel tuo modo di stenderti sul pavimento

E' perche ho forzato tutte le finestre e attraversato tutte le porte

E chi sono io per chiederti di leccare le mie ferite ?

E dovresti saperlo anche tu che o vero...

Sono venuto per te, per te

Sono venuto per te

Ma non avevi bisogno della mia fretta

Sono venuto per te, per te

Sono venuto per te

Ma la tua vita e stata tutta una lunga emergenza

E la tua linea oscura preme contro di me

E le mie onde elettriche si liberano


Frankie

Dark weekends in the sun, out on Chelsea Row

Descending the stairs, Frankie my love

Check your make-up in the mirror

Come on, baby, let's go

We'll dance round this dirty town

'Till the night is all done

Then all the finer things sleep alone tonight

Then all the minor kings lose their thrones tonight

Don't worry about me baby, I'll be alright

There's machines and there's fire

On the outside of town

Young boys for hire

Waiting to blow us all down

There are strange flashes in the sky up above

I'll spend the night at the movies

With my secret love

At dusk the stars all appear on the screen

Just like they do each night in my dreams

But tonight's no dream, Frankie

I can feel myself move

Living and dying

Like I was born to do

Walk softly tonight little angel

I wanna be alone with you

Talk softly to me tonight angel

Make all my dream-world come true

I remember standing in the freezing rain

Reading them "Want" ads out on Chelsea Row

Winging down the street in search of new games

Hustling through the night packs where the actors go

Frankie they are crazy, let's run and hide

In the darkness there'll be hidden worlds that shine

When all of the glory in this disperate land

Will rise like raindrops in the palm of our hands

Rise like the rain

Let your sadness rise

Walk softly tonight little angel

Into the shadows where the lovers go

Talk softly tonight angel

Whisper your secrets so soft and low

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Released on:

Tracks 1998 - Recorded at the Power Station 5 / 14 / 82

Born In The USA outtake, 1983


Freehold

I was born right here on Randolph Street in Freehold

Here right behind that big red maple in Freehold

Well, I went to school right here

Got laid and had my first beer

In Freehold

Well, my folks always lived and worked right here in Freehold

I remember running up the street, past the condo to the church here in

Freehold

Chase my daddy down in these bars

First fell in love with this guitar

Here in Frehold

Well, I had my first kiss at the YMCA canteen on a Friday night

Maria Espenoza tell me where are you tonight?

You were 13 but way ahead of your time

I walked home with a limb but I felt fine

That night in Freehold

Well, the girls at Freehold Regional they looked pretty fine

And my heart broke at least half a dozen times

I wonder if they miss me, they still get the itch

Would they have dumped me if they knew I'd strike a bridge?

Straight out of Freehold

Well, Tex, rest in peace, and Marion gave us kids a hand in Freehold

George and me started up a little rock and roll band in Freehold

Well, we learned pretty quick how to rock

I'll never forget the feeling of that first 5 bucks in my pocket

That I earned in Freehold

Well, I got outta here really hard and fast in Freehold

Everybody wanted to kick my ass back there in Freehold

Well, if you were different, black or brown

It was a bit of a redneck town

Back then in Freehold

Well, something broke my daddy's back in Freehold

In '69 he left and he never come back to Freehold

'Cept once he drove from California, 3000 miles in three days

Called my relatives some dirty names

And pulled straight out of Freehold

My sister had her first little baby at 17 in Freehold

Well people they can be pretty mean

Honey, you had a rough road to go, but you ain't made of nothin' but soul

I love you more than you'll ever know

We both survived Freehold

Well, my buddy Mike, well, he's the mayor now in Freehold

I remember when we used to have a lot more hair in Freehold

Well, I left and swore I'd never walk these streets again, Jack

Tonight all I can say is "Holy shit, I'm back!"

Back in Freehold

Well, this summer everything was green in Freehold

Rode my kids on the fire engine through the streets of Freehold

I showed 'em where their dad was born and raised

And first felt the sun on his face

There in Freehold

Well, I still got a lot of good friends right here in town

I can usually find me a free beer somewhere

With offers of free meals I am blessed

Should I go crazy, blow all my money and ruin my life, well, at least I'll

never go hungry I guess

Here in Freehold

Well, I got a good Catholic education here in Freehold

Led to an awful lot of masturbation here in Freehold

Father, it was just something I did for a smile

Hell, I still get a good one off once in a while

And dedicate it to Freehold

Don't get me wrong, I ain't puttin' anybody down

Hell, in the end it all just goes and comes around

It's one hell of a town, Freehold!

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Preformed live during the 1995/96 USA Tour


From Small Things Big Things Come

Dave Edmunds  (D.E. 7th)  written by Bruce

At sixteen she quit high school

To make a fortune in the Promised Land

She got a job behind the counter

In an all-night hamburger stand

She rode faithfully home to Mama

Now, Mama don't you worry none

From small things, Mama, big things one day come

It was late one Friday

He pulled in out of the dark

He was tall and handsome

First she took his order, then she took his heart

They bought a house up on the hillside

Where little feet soon would run

From small things, Mama, big things one day come

Oh, but love is bleeding

It's sad but it's true

When your heart is beating

You don't want to hear the news

She packed her bags

And with a Wyoming County Interstate map

She drove down to Tampa

In an Eldorado Grand

She wrote back, Dear Mama

Life is just heaven in the sun

From small things, Mama, big things one day come

Well, she shot him dead on a sunny Florida road

When they caught her all she said

Was she couldn't stand the way he drove

Back home lonesome Johnny waits for his baby's parole

He waits high on the hillside

Where the Wyoming rivers roll

And his seed have almost grown now

To a daughter and a handsome son

From small things, Mama, big things one day come


Galveston Bay

Fifteen years Le Bing Son

Fought side by side with the Americans

In the mountains and deltas of Vietnam

In '75 Saigon fell and he left his command

And brought his family to the promised land

Seabrook Texas and the small towns in the Gulf of Mexico

It was delta country and reminded him of home

He worked as a machinist, put his money away

And bought a shrimp boat with his cousin

And together they harvested Galveston Bay

In the mornin' 'fore the sun come up

He'd kiss his sleepin' daughter

Steer out through the channel

And casts his nets into the water

Billy Sutter fought with Charlie Company

In the highlands of Quang Tri

He was wounded in the battle of Chu Lai

And shipped home in '68

There he married and worked the gulf fishing grounds

In a boat that'd been his father's

In the morning he'd kiss his sleeping son

And cast his nets into the water

Billy sat in front of his TV as the south fell

And the Communists rolled into Saigon

He and his friends watched as the refugees came

Settle on the same streets and worked the coast they grew up on

Soon in the bars around the harbor was talk

Of America for Americans

Someone said, "You want 'em out, you got to burn 'em out"

And brought in the Texas klan

One humid Texas night there were three shadows in the harbor

Come to burn the Vietnamese boats into the sea

In the fire's light shots rang out

Two Texans lay dead on the ground

Le stood with a pistol in his hand

A jury acquitted him in self defense

As before the judge he did stand

But as he walked down the courthouse steps

Billy said "My friend, you're a dead man"

One late summer night Le stood watch along the waterside

Billy stood in the shadows

His K-bar knife in his hand

And the moon slipped behind the clouds

Le lit a ciagerette, the bay was as still as glass

As he walked by Billy stuck his knife into his pocket

Took a breath and let him pass

In the early darkness Billy rose up

Went into the kitchen for a drink of water

Kissed his sleeping wife

Headed into the channel

And casts his nets into the water

Of Galveston Bay

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Released on:

The Ghost Of Tom Joad 1995


Gave it a Name

In the fields of the lord

Stood Abel and Cain

Cain slew Abel 'neath the black rain

At night he couldn't stand the guilt or the blame

So he gave it a name

So he gave it a name

So he gave it a name

Billy got drunk, angry at his wife

He hit her once, he hit her twice

At night he'd lie in bed, he couldn't stand the shame

So he gave it a name

So he gave it a name

So he gave it a name

Pa told me "Son, one thing I know is true

Poison snake bites you, you're poison too"*

At night I can feel that poison runnin' 'round my veins

*Pete Dexter, Paris Trout

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Released on:

Tracks 1998 - Recorded at Thrill Hill Recording, 8/24/98


Get That Feeling

Yeah girl

Now won't you come on out tonight

Girl, where the stars will shine real bright

Well I gotta get that feeling

Yeah I wanna get that feeling

Woargh* back again

Yeah, back again tonight

There's something in the air

Tonight

Ain't got money but I don't care

I gotta get that feeling

I wanna get that feeling

And before the night is through

You're gonna get that feeling too

Hold me in your arms and baby take everything

Let the light shine, and if we (DARE TO ???)...

yeah,yeah,yeah Tonight

Well there's something in the air,

And tonight, yeah, we ain't got money but I don't care

We gotta get that feeling

Yeah, we gotta get that feeling

Woargh* back again

Wooooaaaaarrrrggghh

(di-di-di-di-da-woooahs to fade)


Give the Girl a Kiss

0I ain't lookin' for just excitement

Baby that's just a fact

If you want to get to her heart

You better let her know just where you're at

CHORUS:

It ain't written in the sky above

No fortune-teller told me this

You gotta tell her that you love her

Tell her that you need her

And give the girl a great big kiss

Give the girl a great big kiss

Now if you're such a fool you think

It don't matter, baby, what you say

Maybe you better tell her how you're feelin'

It ain't gonna happen any other way

(CHORUS)

Now baby all I wanna do

Is darlin' make sweet love to you

Now I don't know what the meanin' is

Why you wanna hide the things you feel and say

But baby it's just a natural fact

Love was never meant to be that way

(CHORUS)

Now baby all I wanna do

Is darlin' make sweet love to you

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Released on:

Tracks 1998 - Recorded at The Record Plant (NY), 11/10/77


Gloria's Eyes

I was your big man I was your prince charming

King on a white horse hey now look how far I've fallen

I tried to trick you yeah but baby you got wise

You cut me cut me right down to size

Now I'm just a fool in Gloria's eyes

Swore I'd get you back I was so sure

I'd get you back like I done so many times before

A little sweet talk to cover over all of the lies

You came runnin' back but to my surprise

Well there was somethin' gone in Gloria's eyes

Well in the dark when it was just me and you

I asked the question that I knew the answer to

Is that a smile my little dolly on the shelf

Tell me is that a smile

Of is it something else?

Now I work hard to prove my love is true

Now I work hard and I bring it on home to you

At night I pray as silently you lie

Some day my love again will rise

Like a shining torch in Gloria's eyes

I was your big man your prince charming

King on a white horse now look how far I've fallen

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Released on:

Human Touch 1992


Glory Days

German Translation

I had a friend was a big baseball player back in highschool

He could throw that speedball by ya, make you look like a fool

Saw him the other night at this roadside bar I was walking in he was

walking out

We went back inside, sat down, had a few drinks, but all we kept talking

about

Glory Days, yeah they'll pass you by

Glory Days, in the wink of a young girl's eye

Glory Days, glory days

There's this girl that lives up the block, back in school she could turn

all the boys heads

Sometimes on Friday I'll stop by and have a few drinks after she put her kids to bed

Her and her husband Bobby, well they split up, I guess it's two years gone by

We just sit around talking about the old times, she says when she feels

like crying she starts laughing thinking about

(EXTRA VERSE)

My old man worked 20 years on the line and they let him go

Now everywhere he goes out looking for work

They just tell him that he's too old

I was 9 years old and he was working at the Metuchen Ford Plant

assembly line

Now he just sits on a stool down at the Legion hall

But I can tell what's on his mind

Glory Days yeah they're gone bad

Glory Days ah, he ain't never had

Think I'm going down to the well tonight and I'm gonna drink till I get my fill

I hope when I get older I don't sit around thinking about it, but I probably will

Yeah just sitting back trying to recapture a little of the glory of

Well the time slips away and leaves you with nothing, mister, but boring

stories of Glory Days...

All right boys keep it rocking now

We gonna go home now

Let's go!

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Released on:

Born In The USA 1984

Glory Days / Stand On It   Single 1985


Glory Days GER
Glory Days

German Translation

Ich hatte einen Freund, er war ein groáer Baseballspieler

Damals auf der Highschool

Er konnte den Speedball an dir vorbeiwerfen

Daß du aussahst wie ein Idiot, Junge

Ich sah ihn letzte Nacht in dieser Bar an der Straße

Ich wollte rein, er wollte raus

Wir gingen zusammen rein, setzten uns, hatten ein paar Drings

Aber alles worüber er sprach war über.

Glorreiche Tage, sie ziehen an dir vorbei

Glorreiche Tage, so schnell wie das Augenzwinkern eines jungen Mädchens

Glorreiche Tage

Da ist ein Mädchen, sie lebt im nächsten Block

Damals in der Schule konnte sie allen Jungs den Kopf verdrehen

Manchmal Freitags halte ich an und trinke mit ihr ein wenig

Nachdem sie ihre Kinder ins Bett gebracht hat

Sie und ihr Mann Bobby, sie haben sich getrennt

Ich schätze das ist jetzt zwei Jahre her

Wir sitzen nur da, reden über die alten Zeiten

Sie sagt wenn ihr zum Heulen ist, fängt sie an zu lachen und denkt an...

Glorreiche Tage...

Ich denke ich gehe heute Abend runter zum Brunnen

Und ich werde trinken bis ich voll bin

Und ich hoffe wenn ich alt bin sitze ich nicht herum und denke zurück

Aber wahrscheinlich wird es so sein

Ja, nur zurücklehnen

Und versuchen etwas von dem Ruhm zurückzuholen

Aber die Zeit verrinnt und läßt dich mit nichts zurück Mister

Außer mit langweiligen Geschichten aus glorreichen Tagen

Translation by: Frank Rohwer


Goin' Cali

Well he'd been hearing too many voices and feelin' a little off-track

Like there was something big pressing down on his back

So he called up his friends and they said come on out west

It's a place where a man can really feel his success

So he pulled his heart and soul down off the shelf

Packed them next to the faith that he'd lost in himself

Said his good-byes and when the dirty work was done

He turned his wheels into the fading sun

For seven days and nights like a black-top bird he sped

Maintained radio silence 'cept for in his head

And just like his folks did back in '69

He crossed the border at Needles and heard the promised land on the line

Now where the Transcontinental dumps into the sea

There's a bar made up to look like 1963

Girl in the corner eyed him like a hungry dog a bone

As he brushed the desert dust off that Mercedes chrome

Bartender said "Hey, how's it hangin', tiger?"

He had a shot of tequila, smiled and whispered "lighter"

He went down to the desert city where the rattlesnakes play

And left his dead skin by the roadside in the noon of day

Sun got so hot it almost felt like friend

It could burn out every trace of where you been

There was a woman he'd met in a desert song

A little while later a son come along

Looked at that boy's smile and called it home

And that night as he lay in bed the only voice he heard was his own

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Released on:

Tracks 1998 - Recorded at A&M Studios (LA), 1/29/91


Good Rocking Tonight

(Written By: Roy Brown/Elvis Presley)

I heard the news, there's good rockin' tonight

Gonna hold my baby as tight as I can

Tonight she'll know I'm a mighty man

I heard the news, there's good rockin' tonight

Oh, lead me in the alley behind the barn

Don't be afraid, I'll do you no harm

Baby, bring my rockin' shoes

'Cause tonight I'm gonna rock away all my blues

Have you heard the news, there's good rockin' tonight

Well, Elder Brown, Deacon Jones,

They've left their happy home

They'll be there, just you wait and see

A-jumpin' and a-stompin' at the jubilee

Hey man, there's good rockin' tonight

Sweet Lorraine, Sioux City Sue,

Sweet Georgia Brown, Caledonia, too

They'll be there jumpin' like mad

Hey, sister, ain't you glad

We got the news there's good rockin' tonight


Growin` Up

I stood stonelike at midnight suspended in my masquerade

I combed my hair till it was just right and commanded the night brigade

I was open to pain and crossed by the rain and I walked on a crooked crutch

I strolled all alone through a fallout zone and came out with my soul

untouched

I hid in the clouded wrath of the crowd but when they said`Sit down'I stood up

Ooh-ooh growin' up

The flag of piracy flew from my mast my sails were set wing to wing

I had a jukebox graduate for first mate she couldn't sail but she sure could sing

I pushed B-52 and bombed `em with the blues with my gear set stubborn on

standing

I broke all the rules strafed my old high school never once gave thought to landing

I hid in the clouded wrath of the crowd but when they said`Come down'I threw up

Ooh-ooh growin' up

I took month-long vacations in the stratosphere and you know it's really hard

to hold your breath

I swear I lost everything I ever loved or feared I was the cosmic kid

Well my feet they finally took root in the earth but I got me a nice little

place in the stars

I swear I found the key to the universe in the engine of an old parked car

I hid in the clouded wrath of the crowd but when they said`Sit down'I stood up

Ooh-ooh growin' up

Ooh-ooh growin' up

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Released on:

Greetings from Asbury Park - N.J. 1973

Live 1975 - 1985   Live-Box 1986 (Roxy, 7/7/78)

Tracks 1998 - Recorded at CBS Studios (NY) 5 / 3 / 72


Gypsy Woman

Spanish Translation

From nowhere through the caravan

Round the campfire light

Lovely woman in motion

With hair as dark as night

Her eyes were like that of a cat in the dark

that hypnotized me with love

She was a gypsy woman

She was a gypsy woman

She was a gypsy woman

She was a gypsy woman

She was a gypsy woman

She danced around and round

Guitar's melody

From the fire her face was aglow

How she enchanted me

I'd like to hold her near

And kiss her hair and whisper in her ear

I love you gypsy woman

I love you gypsy woman

I love you gypsy woman

I love you gypsy woman

All through the caravan

She was dancing with all the men

Waiting for the rising sun

Everyone was having fun

Hated to see her go

Knowing that she'll never know

that I love her

that I love her

I love you gypsy woman

I love you gypsy woman

I love you gypsy woman

I love you gypsy woman

Whoever compared it to Part Monkey Part Man hit the nail on the head.

It has that same kind of dark, mysterious sound.  The vocals are soft

and understated, somewhat reminiscent to those on If I should fall behind

or Pony Boy.  The song is sung with that nasally twang Bruce has grown

so fond of lately.


Gypsy Woman ESP
Gypsy Woman

Spanish Translation

Desde un sitio cualquiera de la caravana

Alrededor del fuego del campamento

Una mujer preciosa de pelo oscuro como la noche

Se movia

Sus ojos eran como los de un gato en la oscuridad

Que me hipnotizaron de amor

Era una mujer gitana

Era una mujer gitana

Era una mujer gitana

Bailaba dando vueltas y vueltas

A la melodia de la guitarra

Su cara resplandecia con el fuego

De que manera me encanto

Me gustaria abrazarla

Besar su pelo y susurrarle al oido

Te quiero, mujer gitana

Te quiero, mujer gitana

Te quiero, mujer gitana

Te quiero, mujer gitana

Bailaba con todos los hombres

De la caravana

Esperando al sol naciente

Todo el mundo se divertia

Odie verla marchar

Sabiendo que nunca sabria

Que la quiero

Que la quiero

Te quiero, mujer gitana

Te quiero, mujer gitana

Te quiero, mujer gitana

Te quiero, mujer gitana


Happy

Some need gold and some need diamond rings

Or a drug to take away the pain that living brings

A promise of a better world to come

When whatever here is done

I don't need that sky of blue

All I know's since I found you, I'm happy when I'm in your arms

Happy, darling, come the dark

Happy when I taste your kiss

I'm happy in a love like this

There's a house upon a distant hill

Where you can hear the laughter of children ring

Guardian angels, they watch from above

Watching over the love that they bring

But at night I feel the darkness near, I awake and I find you near

I'm happy with you in my arms

I'm happy with you in my heart

Happy when I taste your kiss

I'm happy in love like this

In a world of doubt and fear

I wake at night and reach to find you near

Lost in a dream, you caught me as I fell

I want more than just a dream to tell

We're born in this world, darling, with few days

and trouble never far behind

Man and woman circle each other in a cage

A cage that's been handed down the line

Lost and running 'neath a million dead stars

Tonight let's shed our skins and slip these bars

Happy in each other's arms

Happy baby, come the dark

Happy in each other's kiss

I m happy in a love like this

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Released on:

Tracks 1998 - Recorded at A&M Studios (LA), 1/18/92


Heartbrake Hotel

(Mae Boren Axton, Tommy Durden, Elvis Presley/E. Presley)

Since my baby left me

I found a new place to dwell

Down at the end of Lonely street at Heartbreak Hotel

I get so lonely baby

I get so lonely

I get so lonely I could die

Although it's always crowded

I still can find some room

Where those broken hearted lovers

Cry away their gloom, oh!

I get so lonely

I get so lonely

Get so lonely I could die

Bellhop's tears keep flowing

Desk clerk dressed in black

They been so long on lonely street

They ain't never comin' back

I get so lonely

I get so lonely

Get so lonely I could die

If your baby leaves you

And you have a tale to tell

Just take a walk

Down Lonely street to Heartbreak Hotel

I get so lonely  baby

I get so lonely

I get so lonely I could die


Hearts Of Stone

You stare in the mirror at the lines in your face

And you try to see, girl

The way things were when we were at your place

In the days it was just you and me, girl

And you cry because things ain't like before

Well don't you know they can't be that way anymore

But don't worry baby

CHORUS:

I can't talk now, I'm not alone

So put your ear close to the phone

'Cause this is the last dance

This is the last chance for hearts of stone

If there was something, baby, that I could do

Something that would last, honey, I would

But we all know, girl, especially you do

How you can't return to your past, no

So girl close your eyes and I'll be there

Hold me once more and we can go anywhere Ah, we could . . .

(CHORUS)

And you cry because things ain't like before

Well don't you know they can't be like that anymore

Well I know it, baby

(CHORUS)

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Released on:

Tracks 1998 - Recorded at the Record Plant (NY) 10/14/77


Held Up Without A Gun

I was out riding, just takin' it slow

Looked at my tank, it was reading low

Pulled in an Exxon station out on Highway One

Held Up Without a Gun, Held Up Without a Gun

Some damm fool with a guitar walks in from the street

Ain't got no where to go, ain't got nothing to eat

Man with a cigar says "sign here son" Look Out!

Held Up without a Gun, Held Up Without a Gun

Now it's a sin and it oughta be a crime

You know it happens buddy all the time

Tryin' make a livin' trying to have a little fun

Held Up Without a Gun, Held Up Without a Gun

Held Up Without a Gun...

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Released on Early Versions of "The River" LP's but leftout later

Released on:

Hungry Heart / Held Up Without A Gun   Single 1980


Henry Boy

They broke your toys this morning, Henry

Rode your board right into dust

Surrounded you with strangers who you could not trust

And then they had the gall

To write your name up on the girl's room wall

And send you out to Maria

Who spoke of babies and all

And wanted to shoot your joy

It's hard world when you're the new kid in town

Ain't it, Henry Boy

Well the North Side is for diamond-studded women

Subtly selling their wares

And the West Side is for debutantes

And would-be millionaires

Oh the East Side is for lost boys

Who know their moves too well

The South Side is for gamblers, Henry

The train stops once for Hell

It's a hard world when they're forcing you

To live your life out on Broadway

But Henry I'm sure you're gonna like it well

The constellation she points out to Gate Eleven

That's where you got your connection

Let me take a look inside my magic book

I don't think you're beyond inventions

Oh these doctor's appendages I'm giving you for wings

I'm sure it'll meet the occasion

I'm gonna mix you some magic, you'll be spittin" sparks

Oh and the Milky Way's a trip for dippers

They saw ya coming a mile away

In the amusement park you'll get clipped by rippers

Hiding behind candy 'cades

In the alleyway you'll get ripped by strippers

All who know your name

In the stalls sit the soldier-boy kissers

Oh leave for just one day

And Henry couldn't take it

He's gonna be a submariner

Riding underground for the Pope

Gonna stand on the corner of Broadway

And scream "Up 'scope !"


Hey Santa Ana
Santa Ana

(Aka. Contessa or The guns of kid Cole or Hey Santa Ana)

From a tin rooftop the little boy did watch

The procession down through town

Through the museum where Daniel walked the Devil

With them boys from the underground

Where the giants of science fight for tight control

Over the wild kids in North Mexico

Sam Houston's still in Texas fighting for his soul

And the towns rest so uneasy under the strains of revolt

Crying, Hey Santa Ana, you could romance the dumb into talking

Take a chance with me, Contessa

If it don't work ouLord, there's only secret thieves

Only a fool would try to save

What the desert chose to leave

And I said, Hey, hey lady

With your negroes in their Spanish bandanas

French cream ain't gonna soften her boots

And French kisses ain't gonna break her heart

Now painted night set free with light

Glows outside the Rainbow Saloon

I match embraces with a Spanish lady 'neath a graduation moon

No more colleges no more coronations

Some punk's idea of a teenage nation

Has forced Santa Ana to change his station from soldier to cartoon

And the giants of science spend their days and nights

Not with wives, not with lovers, but searching for the lights

That they spotted in the desert on their helicopter flights

But they were lost in the dust and the night

They cried, Hey Santa Ana

In his juke joint rides he always brings candy for the kids

Waltz with me tonight senorita

'Cos only fools are alone in a night like this

t, I ain't lame, I'm good at walking

Now some folks they can't can't just take it

To the streets of this dusty little town

But Sam easy can and he lays the money down

Then the cats come in from the Canyon and strut their stuff in town

But there's only secret sinners here


Highway 29

I slipped on her shoe, she was a perfect size seven

I said there's no smokin' in the store ma'am

She crossed her legs and then

We made some small talk, that's where it should have stopped

She slipped me a number, I put it in my pocket

My hand slipped up her skirt, everything slipped my mind

In that little roadhouse

On highway 29

It was a small town bank, it was a mess

Well I had a gun, you know the rest

Money on the floorboards, shirt was covered in blood

And she was cryin', her and me we headed south

On highway 29

In a little desert motel, the air it was hot and clean

l slept the sleep of the dead, I didn't dream

I woke in the morning washed my face in the sink

We headed into the Sierra Madres 'cross the borderline

The winter sun, shot through the black trees

I told myself it was all something in her

But as we drove I knew it was something in me

Something had been comin' for a long long time

And something that was here with me now

On highway 29

The road was filled with broken glass and gasoline

She wasn't sayin' nothin'', it was just a dream

The wind come silent through the windshield

All I could see was snow and sky and pines

I closed my eyes and I was runnin',

I was runnin' then I was flyin'.....

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Released on:

The Ghost Of Tom Joad 1995


Highway 61 Revisited

(Bob Dylan 1965)

Oh God said to Abraham, "Kill me a son"

Abe says, "Man, you must be putting me on"

God say, "No". Abe say, "What?"

God say, "You can do what you want Abe, but

The next time you see me comin' you better run"

Well Abe says, "Where do you want this killing done?"

God says, "Out on Highway 61".

Well Georgia Sam he had a bloody nose

Welfare Department they wouldn't give him no clothes

He asked poor Howard where can I go

Howard said there's only one place I know

Sam said tell me quick man I got to run

Ol' Howard just pointed with his gun

And said that way down on Highway 61.

Well Mack the Finger said to Louie the King

I got forty red white and blue shoe strings

And a thousand telephones that don't ring

Do you know where I can get rid of these things

And Louie the King said let me think for a minute son

And he said yes I think it can be easily done

Just take everything down to Highway 61.

Now the fifth daughter on the twelfth night

Told the first father that things weren't right

My complexion she said is much too white

He said come here and step into the light he says hmm you're right

Let me tell the second mother this has been done

But the second mother was with the seventh son

And they were both out on Highway 61.

Now the rovin' gambler he was very bored

He was tryin' to create a next world war

He found a promoter who nearly fell off the floor

He said I never engaged in this kind of thing before

But yes I think it can be very easily done

We'll just put some bleachers out in the sun

And have it on Highway 61.


Highway Patrolman

German Translation

My name is Joe Roberts I work for the state

I'm a sergeant out of Perrineville barracks number 8

I always done an honest job as honest as I could

I got a brother named Frankie and Frankie ain't no good

Now ever since we was young kids it's been the same come down

I get a call over the radio Frankie's in trouble downtown

Well if it was any other man, I'd put him straight away

But when it's your brother sometimes you look the other way

Yeah me and Frankie laughin' and drinkin'

Nothin' feels better than blood on blood

Takin' turns dancin' with Maria as the band

Played "Night of the Johnstown Flood"

I catch him when he's strayin' like any brother would

Man turns his back on his family well he just ain't no good

Well Frankie went in the army back in 1965

I got a farm deferment, settled down, took Maria for my wife

But them wheat prices kept on droppin' till it was like we were gettin'

robbed

Frankie came home in `68, and me, I took this job

Yeah we're laughin' and drinkin'

Nothin' feels better than blood on blood

Takin' turns dancin' with Maria as the band

Played "Night of the Johnstown Flood"

I catch him when he's strayin' teach him how to walk that line

Man turns his back on his family he ain't no friend of mine

Well the night was like any other, I got a call `bout quarter to nine

There was trouble in a roadhouse out on the Michigan line

There was a kid lyin' on the floor lookin' bad bleedin' hard from his head

There was a girl cry'n' at a table and it was Frank, they said

Well I went out and I jumped in my car and I hi
t the lights

Well I musta done one hundred and ten through Michigan county that night

It was out at the crossroads, down `round Willow bank

Seen a Buick with Ohio plates. Behind the wheel was Frank

Well I chased him through them county roads

Till a sign said "Canadian border five miles from here"

I pulled over the side of the highway and watched his tail-lights disappear

Me and Frankie laughin' and drinkin'

Nothin' feels better than blood on blood

Takin' turns dancin' with Maria as the band

Played "Night of the Johnstown Flood"

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Released on:

Nebraska 1982


Highway Patrolman GER
Highway Patrolman

German Translation

Ich heisse John Roberts und ich arbeite beim Staat

Bin Sergeant in Perronville Kaserne Nr. 8

Habe immer saubere Arbeit gemacht, so sauber wie ich konnte

Habe einen Bruder, er heisst Franky, er taugt zu nichts.

Seit wir klein waren ist's immer das gleiche Spiel

Ich kriege einen Funkspruch, dass Franky aerger hat in der Stadt

Wenn's jemand anders waere, wuerde ich ihn glatt einsperren

Aber wenn's Dein Bruder ist, drueckst Du manchmal ein Auge zu.

Refrain

Ich und Franky trinkend, lachend, nichts ist besser als Blut auf Blut,

Mal er, mal ich mit Maria tanzend und die Band spielte "Night of the

 Johnstown Flood"

Kommt er vom Weg ab, fang' ich ihn auf, wie das jeder Bruder tun wuerde

Wenn Du Deiner Familie den Ruecken kehrst, taugst Du nichts.

1965 ging Franky zur Armee, ich bekam eine Landschenkung,

 liess mich nieder und nahm Maria zur Frau

Aber die Weizenpreise fielen und fielen, bis sie uns beinahe

 bestohlen haben

1968 kam Franky zurueck und ich nahm diesen Job an.

Refrain

Ja, wir - trinkend, lachend, nichts ist besser als Blut auf Blut,

Mal er, mal ich mit Maria tanzend und die Band spielte "Night of the

Johnstown Flood"

Geraet er auf die schiefe Bahn, dann hol' ich ihn zurueck

Wenn Du Deiner Familie den Ruecken kehrst, taugst Du nichts.

Es war eine ganz normale Nacht, dann ein Funkruf so um Viertel vor neun

Aerger im Rasthaus draussen Richtung Michigan

Einer lag um Boden, sah schlimm aus, blutete schweram Kopf,

 ein Maedchen weinte am Tisch, Frank war's, sagten sie

Da bin ich raus, sprang ins Auto, schmiss die Lampen an und raste mit

180 Sachen durch Michigan County in der Nacht.

Draussen an der Kreuzung bei Willow Bank sah ich dann den Buick

Ohio Nummernschilder und Frank am Steuer

Ich jagte ihn ueber die Landstrassen, bis ein Schild kam

"Kanadische Grenze: 5 Meilen"

Dann hielt ich am Strassenrand und Schaute zu, wie seine Ruecklichter

 verschwand

Refrain

Ich und Franky trinkend, lachend, nichts ist besser als Blut auf Blut,

Mal er, mal ich mit Maria tanzend und die Band spielte  "Night of the

 Johnstown Flood"

Kommt er vom Weg ab, fang' ich ihn auf, wie das jeder Bruder tun wuerde

Wenn Du Deiner Familie den Ruecken kehrst, taugst Du nichts.


Hold On
Hold On (To What You Got)

Verse 1:

I worked hard, baby, night and day

The things I had somebody took away

They took away everything I earned

But there's one lesson that'a I have learned

Chorus:

You got to hold on, little girl, to what you've got (4X)

Verse 2:

I been pushed and I been knocked down

But I picked myself right back up off the ground

And baby there's one thing that I have found

Fighting's the only way's to stand your ground

Chorus:

You got to hold on, little girl, to what you've got (4X)

Bridge:

I've been used, I've been abused

I've had, baby, my regrets

I've been lost, I paid the cost

But there's one thing I ain't gonna forget

Verse 3:

I've heard some hard lines, I've seen some cryin' times

Bad luck and trouble they been friends of mine

Got to stand straight and stare right at your face (fate?)

And play it hard before it's too late

Chorus:

You got to hold on, little girl, to what you've got (8X)


Human Touch

German Translation

You and me we were the pretenders

We let it all slip away

In the end what you don't surrender

Well the world just strips away

Girl, ain't no kindness in the face of strangers

Ain't gonna find no miracles here

Well you can wait on your blesses my darling

I got a deal for you right here

I ain't looking for praise or pity

I ain't coming 'round searching for a crutch

I just want someone to talk to

And a little of that Human Touch

Just a little of that Human Touch

Ain't no mercy on the streets of this town

Ain't no bread from Heavenly skies

Ain't nobody drawing wine from this blood

It's just you and me tonight

Tell me, in a world without pity

Do you think what I'm askin's too much

I just want something to hold on to

And a little of that Human Touch

Just a little of that Human Touch

Oh girl that feeling of safety that you prize

Well it comes at a hard hard price

You can't shut off the risk and the pain

Without losing the love that remains

We're all riders on this train

So you've been broken and you've been hurt

Show me somebody who ain't

Yeah, I know I ain't nobody's bargain

But, hell, a little touch up and a little paint...

You might need something to hold on to

When all the answers, they don't amount to much

Somebody that you could just to talk to

And a little of that Human Touch

Baby, in a world without pity

Do you think what I'm askin's too much

I just want to feel you in my arms

Share a little of that Human Touch

Feel a little of that Human Touch

Give me a little of that Human Touch

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Released on:

Human Touch 1992

Human Touch / Better Days   Single 1992


Human Touch GER
Human Touch

German Translation

Du und ich, wir waren wie Schauspieler

Wir ließen alles vergehen

Am Ende wird, was du nicht aufgibst, die Welt dir einfach nehmen

Mädchen, es ist keine Freundlichkeit in den Gesichtern von Fremden

Es sind hier keine Wunder zu finden

Nun, du kannst auf deine Erlösung warten mein Liebling

Aber ich habe ein Angebot für dich

Ich suche nicht nach Gebeten oder Erbarmen

Ich komme nicht und suche nach einer Stütze

Ich will nur jemanden mit dem ich reden kann

Und ein bißchen menschliche Wärme

Nur ein biáchen menschliche Wärme

Es ist kein Erbarmen in den Straßen dieser Stadt

Da fällt kein Brot vom Himmel

Da ist niemand, der Wein macht, aus diesem Blut

Da sind nur du und ich heute nacht

Sag mir, in einer Welt ohne Mitleid

Meinst du, worum ich bitte, ist zuviel

Ich will nur etwas zum Festhalten

Und ein bißchen menschliche Wärme

Nur ein bißchen menschliche Wärme

Oh Mädchen das Gefühl der Sicherheit, von dem du so schwärmst

Oh, es kommt für einen hohen, hohen Preis

Du kannst das Risiko und die Schmerzen nicht ausschalten

Ohne die Liebe zu verlieren, die übrig bleibt

Wir sind alle (zusammen) Reisende in dieser Zug

Schließlich bist du zerbrochen und es wurde dir weh getan

Zeig mir jemanden, dem es nicht so geht

Ja, ich weiß, ich bin für niemanden ein Sonderangebot

Aber die Hülle ein bißchen verschönern, und ein wenig Farbe...

Du könntest etwas gebrauchen zum Festhalten

Wenn all die Antworten nicht zusammenpassen

Jemanden, mit dem du einfach reden kannst

Und ein wenig menschliche Wärme

Baby, in einer Welt ohne Mitleid

Denkst du, worum ich bitte, ist zuviel

Ich will nur dich in meinen Armen spüren

Und ein wenig menschliche Wärme teilen

Ein wenig menschliche Wärme teilen

Ein wenig menschliche Wärme fühlen

Und du fühlst ein wenig menschliche W„rme

Ein wenig menschliche Wärme teilen

Ich will ein wenig menschliche Wärme fühlen

Ein wenig menschliche Wärme geben

Und du gibst mir ein wenig menschliche Wärme

Translation by: Frank Rohwer


Hungry Heart

Got a wife and kids in Baltimore Jack

I went out for a ride and I never went back

Like a river that don't know where it's flowing

I took a wrong turn and I just kept going

Everybody's got a hungry heart

Everybody's got a hungry heart

Lay down your money and you play your part

Everybody's got a hungry heart

I met her in a Kingstown bar

We fell in love I knew it had to end

We took what we had and we ripped it apart

Now here I am down in Kingstone again

Everybody's got a hungry heart...

Everybody needs a place to rest

Everybody wants to have a home

Don't make no difference what nobody says

Ain't nobody like to be alone

Everybody's got a hungry heart...

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Released on:

The River 1980

Hungry Heart / Held Up Without A Gun   Single 1980

Live 1975 - 1985   Live-Box 1986 (Nassau Coliseum, 12/28/80)

Hungry Heart Maxi-CD 1995


I Ain't Got No Home

(Woody Guthrie/Woody Guthrie)

I ain't got no home, I'm just a ramblin' around

A hard working ramblin' man, I go from town to town

The police make it hard wherever I may go

And I ain't got no home in this world anymore

I was farmin' on the shares and always I was poor

My crops I laid into the banker's door

And my wife took down and died upon the cabin floor

And I ain't got no home in this world anymore

I ain't got no home, I'm just a ramblin' around

A hard working ramblin' man, I go from town to town

The police make it hard wherever I may go

And I Ain't Got No Home in this world anymore

Now as I look around it's mighty plain to see

This wide wicked world is a funny place to be

The gamblin' man is rich and the workin' man is poor

And I ain't got no home in this world anymore

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Words & music by Woody Guthrie

Performed by Bruce Springsteen on the Folkways:

A Vision Shared, A Tribute To Woody Guthrie & Leadbelly


I Am A Coward
I'm A Coward (When It Comes To Love)

 (G.Washington, B.Springsteen/B. Springsteen)

I ain't afraid of no lions

I ain't afraid of no grizzly bear

I got in a wrestlin' match with old King Kong

He didn't even muss my hair

There's just one thing in the whole wide world

That make me doubt my stuff

I'm a coward when it comes to love

Now bring down old Hulk Hogan

King Kong Bundy too

Bring down old Big Mike Tyson

I'll show them what a real man can do

They say the tougher' get goin'

Now baby that's when the goin' get tough

But I'm a coward when it comes to love

I'm a coward when it comes to love

I'm a coward when it comes to love

You can bring on a different sexy girl

At every night of the week

Buddy that's okay

But I start tremblin', my knees get weak

Whenever I hear her say

"Do you love me baby?"

"Do you love me baby?"

"Do you love me baby?"

I got a muscle of iron

I got another muscle made of steel

But when we start kissin' 'n' huggin'

You may be the bravest man in the whole wide world

But Buddy, that ain't enough

I'm a coward when it comes to love

I'm a coward when it comes to love

I'm a coward when it comes to love


I Can't Help Falling In Love

(Peretti, Creators, Weis/Elvis Presley)

Wise men say only fools rush in

but I can't help falling in love with you

Shall I say would it be a sin

'cause I can't help falling in love with you

Like the river flows

flowing to the sea

darling so it goes

some things were meant to be

Take my hand, take my whole life too

'cause I can't help falling in love with you

No, I can't help falling in love with you


I Wanna Be With You

So let the frozen sands crumble, crumble and fall

Yeah that's all right, I don't mind at all

Well let it all tumble right into the sea

Yeah that's all right, that's fine with me

Since you came down the line

I don't sleep at night

I got one thing on my mind

And so every day, every night

I wanna be with you

I wanna be with you

That's what I wanna do

'Cause you're so out of sight

I wanna be with you

I wanna be with you

That's what I wanna do

Well I lost my job at the Texaco station

Instead of pumpin' gas I dreamed of you

I got thrown out of my house

I got such a bad reputation

'Cause all I wanna do is be seen with you

They gave me my pay and said walk

I don't care what they say

Go ahead and let 'em all talk

Until the world falls apart

I wanna be with you

I wanna be with you

That's what I wanna do

Until they rip out my heart

I wanna be with you

I wanna be with you

That's what I wanna do

Bedtime, hold tight, love me just a little bit

All night, a little bit more

Tonight, tonight ...

Oh I don't know, I don't know

I don't understand itYou ain't pretty at all

But I come when you whisper

I run when you call

And baby I can't stand it

And baby that's all

Ridin' by your side in my car

Oh, oh I wanna be with you

I wanna be with you

Darlin' don't you know

Oh, oh I wanna be with you

I wanna be with you

Because I love you so

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Released on:

Tracks 1998 - Recorded the Power Station 5 / 31 / 79


I Wanna Marry You

I see you walking, baby, down the street

Pushing that baby carriage at your feet

I see the lonely ribbon in your hair

Tell me I am the man for whom you put it there

You never smile girl, you never speak

You just walk on by, darlin' week after week

Raising two kids alone in this mixed up world

Must be a lonely life for a working girl

(Chorus)

Little girl, I wanna marry you

Oh yeah, little girl, I wanna marry you

Yes I do

Little girl, I wanna marry you

Now honey, I don't wanna clip your

 wings

But a time comes when two people

 should think of these things

Having a home and a family

Facing up to their responsibilities

They say in the end true love prevails

But in the end true love can't be no fairytale

To say I'll make your dreams come true would be wrong

But maybe, darlin', I could help them along

(Chorus)

My daddy said right before he died

That true, true love was just a lie

He went to his grave a broken heart

An unfulfilled life, makes a man hard

Oh, darlin'

There's something happy and there's  something sad

'Bout wanting somebody, oh so bad,

I wear my love darlin', without shame

I'd be proud if you would wear my name

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Released on:

The River 1980


I Wish I Were Blind

Bobby Hatfield - harmony vocals

I love to see the cottonwood blossom in the early spring

I love to see the message of love that the bluebird brings

But when I see you walking with him down along the strand

I wish I were blind when I see you with your man

I love to see your hair shining in the long summer's light

I love to watch the stars fill the sky on a summer night

The music plays, you take his hand

I watch how you touch him as you start to dance

And I wish I were blind when I see you with your man

We struggle here but all our love's in vain

And these eyes that once filled me with your beauty now fill me with pain

And the light that once entered here is banished from me

And this darkness is all, baby, that my heart sees

And though the world is filled with the grace and beauty of God's hand

Oh I wish I were blind when I see you with your man

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Released on:

Human Touch 1992


I'm A Rocker

I got a 007 watch and it's a one and only

It's got a I-Spy beeper that tells me when you're lonely

I got a Batmobile so I can reach ya' in a fast shake

When your world's in crisis of an impendin' heartbreak

Now don't you call James Bond or Secret Agent Man

Cause they can't do it, like I can

I'm a rocker, baby, I'm a rocker - every day

I'm a rocker, baby, I'm a rocker

If you're hanging from a cliff or you're tied to the tracks, girl

Columbo split and you can't find Kojak

True love is broken and your tears are fallin' faster

You're sufferin' from a pain in your heart or some other natural disaster

Now I don't care what kind of shape you're in

If they put up a roadblock, I'll parachute in

I'm a rocker, baby, I'm a rocker - I'm in love

I'm a rocker, baby, I'm a rocker - every day

I'm a rocker, baby, I'm a rocker - with you

So you fell for some jerk who was tall,  dark and handsome

Then he kidnapped your heart and now  he's holdin' it for ransom

Well, like a mission impossible I'm gonna go and get it back

You know I would'a taken better care of it,  baby, than that

Sometimes I get so hot girl, well, I can't talk

But when I'm with you I cool off , and I walk

I'm a rocker, baby, I'm a rocker, and I talk

I'm a rocker, baby, I'm a rocker, every day

I'm a rocker, baby, I'm a rocker, every day

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Released on:

The River 1980


I'm Going Down

We sit in the car outside your house

I can feel the heat coming 'round

I go to put my arm around you

and you give me a look like I'm way out of bounds

well you let out one of your bored sighs

Well lately when I look into your eyes

I'm goin down

We get dressed up and we go out, baby, for the night

We come home early burning, burning in some fire fight

I'm sick and tired of you setting me up

Setting me up just to knock-a knock-a knock-a me down

I pull you close but when we kiss I can feel a doubt

I remember back when we started

My kisses used to turn you inside out

I used to drive you to work in the morning

Friday night I'd drive you all around

You used to love to drive me wild

But lately girl you get your kicks from just driving me down

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Released on:

Born In The USA 1984

I'm Going Down / Jany, Don't You loose Heart   Single 1985


I'm On Fire

German Translation

Hey little girl is your daddy home

Did he go away and leave you all alone

I got a bad desire

I'm on fire

Tell me now baby is he good to you

Can he do to you the things that I do

I can take you higher

I'm on fire

Sometimes it's like someone tooh a knife baby

edgy and dull and cut a six-inch valley

through the middle of my soul

At night I wake up with the sheets soaking wet

and a freight train running through the

middle of my head

Only you can cool my desire

I'm on fire

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Released on:

Born In The USA 1984

I'm On Fire / Johnny Bye Bye   Single 1985

Live 1975 - 1985   Live-Box 1986 (Giants Stadium, 8/19/85)


I'm On Fire GER
I'm On Fire

German Translation

Hey, kleines Mädchen, ist Dein Vater daheim

Ging er weg und liess Dich ganz allein

Ich habe ein schlechtes Verlangen

Ich stehe in Flammen

Sag mir, Baby, ist er gut zu Dir

Kann er Dir diese Dinge geben, die ich Dir gebe

Ich kann Dich höher bringen

Ich stehe in Flammen

Manchmal ist es, als würde jemand ein Messer nehmen, Baby

Stumpf und kantig und eine 15-cm-Furche mitten durch meine Seele schneiden

Nachts wache ich in durchnässten Bettüchern auf

Und ein Güterzug rast mitten durch meinen Kopf

Nur Du kannst mein Verlangen stillen

Oh, oh, oh, ich stehe in Flammen

Translation by Robert Steinseufzer / RoSteins@aol.com


Iceman

Sleepy town ain't got the guts to budge

Baby, this emptiness has already been judged

I wanna go out tonight, I wanna find out what I got

You're a strange part of me, you're a preacher's girl

And I don't want no piece of this mechanical world

Got my arms open wide and my blood is runnin' hot

We'll take the midnight road right to the devil's door

And even the white angels of Eden with their flamin' swords

Won't be able to stop us from hittin' town in this dirty old Ford

Well it don't take no nerve when you got nothin to guard

I got tombstones in my eyes and I'm runnin' real hard

My baby was a lover and the world just blew her away

Once they tried to steal my heart, beat it right outta my head

But baby they didn't know that I was born dead

I am the Iceman, fightin' for the right to live

I say better than the glory roads of heaven, better off ridin'

Hellbound in the dirt, better than the bright lines of the freeway

Better than the shadows of your daddy's church

Better than the waiting, baby better off is the search

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Released on:

Tracks 1998 - Recorded at the Record Plant (NY) 10 / 27 / 77


If I Should Fall Behind

We said we'd walk together baby come what may

That come the twilight should we lose our way

If as we're walkin a hand should slip free

I'll wait for you

And should I fall behind

Wait for me

We swore we'd travel darlin' side by side

We'd help each other stay in stride

But each lover's steps fall so differently

But I'll wait for you

And if I should fall behind

Wait for me

Now everyone dreams of a love lasting and true

But you and I know what this world can do

So let's make our steps clear that the other may see

And I'll wait for you

If I should fall behind

Wait for me

Now there's a beautiful river in the valley ahead

There 'neath the oak's bough soon we will be wed

Should we lose each other in the shadow of the evening trees

I'll wait for you

And should I fall behind

Wait for me

Darlin' I'll wait for you

Should I fall behind

Wait for me

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Released on:

Lucky Town 1992


If I Was The Priest

(Recorded by Allan Clarke on solo album in 1975) written by Bruce

Well there's a light on yonder mountain

And it's calling me to shine

There's a girl over by the water fountain

And she's asking to be mine

And ain't that Jesus, he's standing in the doorway

With a buckskin jacket, boots and spurs, so really fine

He says "We need you up in Dodge City, son

'Cause there's oh so many bad boys (just too many outlaw)

Tryin' to work the same line"

Well now if Jesus was the sheriff and I were the priest

If my lady was an heiress and my mama was a thief

Oh and Papa rode shotgun for the Fargo line

There's still too many outlaws

Tryin' to work the same line

Now old sweet Virgin Mary

She runs the Holy Grail saloon

Where for a nickel they'll give you whisky

And the personally blessed balloon

And the Holy Ghost, he's the host with the most

He runs the burlesque show

Where they let you in for free

But oh hit you for your soul when you go

And Mary serves Mass on Sunday

And then she sells her body on Monday

To the bootlegger who will pay the highest price

But he don't know he got stuck with a loser

Mary's a stone junkie, what's more she's a boozer

And she's only been made once or twice

By some kind of magic

Well things ain't been the same in Heaven

Ever since big bad Bobby came to town

He's been known to down eleven

And then ask for another round

And me I got scabs on my knees

From kneeling way too long

I gotta take a stand, be the man, up where you belong

And forget about the old friends and the old times

Because there's just too many new boys

Tryin' to work the same line

Well now if Jesus was the sheriff and I were the priest

If my lady was an heiress and my mama was a thief

Oh and Papa rode shotgun for the Fargo line

There's still too many bad boys

Tryin' to work the same line

Now there's a light on yonder mountain

And it's calling me to shine

There's a girl by the water fountain

And she's asking to be mine

And Jesus, he's standing in the doorway

With his six-guns drawn, and ready to fan

He says "We need you son, up in Dodge City"

But I'm already overdue in Cheyenne

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Part of the Hammond demos.


In Michigan

Well my mother rolled over and died in Michigan

My dog got hit by a truck and I cried in Michigan

I got drunk and puked up my guts in Michigan

But I'm alright, I'm alright, I'm alright, I'm alright

And man I'm riding here tonight in Michigan

I ran a race and came in dead last in Michigan

Yeah, I shot myself in the ass in Michigan

I was lookin' for someplace to feel free But they busted my for just

being me In Michigan

But alright, it's alright, it's alright, it's alright

And baby I'm riding high tonight in Michigan

I ran into a little bad luck in Michigan

I met a woman ???

Baby I'm running late but you got here one hell of a state

In Michigan

Oh Michigan


Incident On 57th Street

German Translation

Spanish Johnny drove in from the underworld last night with bruised arms and

broken rhythm and a beat-up old Buick but dressed just like dynamite,

He tried sellin' his heart to the hard girls over on Easy Street,

But they said, "Johnny, it falls apart so easy and you know hearts these days

are cheap."

And the pimps swung their axes and said, "Johnny, you're a cheater."

Well, the pimps swung their axes and said, "Johnny, you're a liar."

And from out of the shadows cam e a young girl's voice, said: "Johnny don't

cry."

Puerto Rican Jane, oh won't you tell me what's your name.

I want to drive you down to the other side of town where paradise ain't so

crowded and there'll be action goin' down on Shanty Lane tonight

All the golden heeled fairies in a real bitch-fight pull thirty-eights and

kiss their girls goodnight.

Goodnight, it's alright, Jane

Now let them black boys in to light the soul flame,

We may find it out on the street tonight, baby,

Or we may walk until the daylight, maybe.

Well, like a cool Romeo he made his moves, oh she looked so fine

Like a late Juliet she knew she'd never be true but then she really didn't

mind,

Upstairs a band was playin' and the singer was singin' something about going

home,

She whispered, "Spanish Johnny, you can leave me tonight, but just don't

leave me alone."

And Johnny cried, "Puerto Rican Jane, word is down the cops have found the

vein."

Them bare foot boys left their homes for the woods

Them little barefoot street boys, they said their homes ain't no good,

They left the corners, threw away their switchblade knives and kissed each

other goodbye.

Johnny was sittin' on the fire escape watchin' the kids playin' down the

street,

He called down, "Hey little heroes, summer's long but I guess it ain't very

sweet around here anymore,

Janey sleeps in sheets damp with sweat, Johnny sits up alone and watches her

dream on, dream on,

And the sister prays for lost souls then breaks down in the chapel after

everyone's gone.

Jane moves over to share her pillow but opens her eyes to see Johnny up and

putting his clothes on,

She says, "Those romantic young boys, all they ever want to do is fight,

Those romantic young boys, they're callin' through the window:

Hey, Spanish Johnny, you want to make a little easy money tonight?"

And Johnny whispered, "Goodnight, it's all tight Jane,

I'll meet you tomorrow night on Lover's Lane

We may find it out on the street tonight now baby

Or we may walk until the daylight, baby."

Goodnight, it's alright Jane, I'm gonna meet you tomorrow night on Lover's

Lane,

We can find it out on the street tonight, baby,

Or we may walk until it's daylight, maybe.

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Released on:

The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle 1973

Fire / Incident on 57th Street   Single 1987


Incident On 57th Street GER
Incident On 57th Street

German Translation

Spanish - Johnny kam letzte Nacht aus der Unterwelt zuruck

Mit zerquetschten Armen und gebrochenem Gang und einem verbeulten

 alten Buick,

doch angezogen wie Dynamit versuchte er sein Herz den harten Madchen auf der

Leichten Strase zu verkaufen.

Doch diese seufzten: "Johnny, es zerbricht so leicht, und Du weist, Herzen

sind heutzutage billig."

Und die Zuhalter schwangen die Axt und sagten: "Johnny, du bist

 ein Schwindler."

Und die Zuhalter schwangen die Axt und sagten: "Johnny, du bist ein Lugner."

Und aus den Schatten kam die Stimme eines jungen Madchens die sagte:

"Johnny, weine nicht."

Puerto - Rico Jane, willst du mir nicht deinen Namen verraten?

Ich mochte dich zur anderen Seite der Stadt fahren,

 wo das Paradies nicht so uberfullt ist, und da wird was los sein, heut'

Nacht auf der Shanty Lane.

All die goldbehangenen Schonen, in einem richtigen Hurenkampf ziehen sie

 ihre 38er und geben ihren Madchen einen Gute Nacht - Kus

Gute Nacht, es ist alles in Ordnung, Jane las jetzt die schwarzen

 Jungs rein, damit sie die Flamme deiner Seele anzunden

Vielleicht finden wir es heut nacht auf der Strase, oder

 vielleicht sind wir unterwegs bis zum Morgengrauen, vielleicht.

Nun wie ein cooler Romeo bewegte er sich

Oh, und die sah so toll aus

Wie eine verspatete Julia wuste sie, das er nie treu sein wurde,

 aber das machte ihr nicht wirklich etwas aus.

Oben spielte die Band, der Sanger sang etwas uber nach Hause gehen.

Sie flusterte: "Spanish - Johnny, du kannst mich heut nacht verlassen,

 doch las mich nicht allein"

Und Johnny schrie: "Puerto - Rico - Jane! Es wird gesagt, die Bullen

 hatten die Spur gefunden."

Die barfusigen Jungs haben ihr Haus verlassen und sind in den Wald.

Diese kleinen barfusigen Jungs, sie sagten, zu Hause ist es nicht gut.

Sie haben ihre Strasenecke verlassen, haben ihre Springmesser weggeschmissen,

 und sich zum Abschied gekust

Johnny sas auf der Feuerleiter und schaute den Kindern zu, die auf der

 Strase spielten.

Er rief herunter: "Hey, ihr kleinen Helden, der Sommer ist lang, aber ich

 glaube, hier ist es nicht mehr so nett"

Jane schlaft in schweisdurchtrankten Laken, Johnny setzt sich alleine auf,

 und beobachtet wie sie traumt.

Und ihre Schwester betet fur die verlorenen Seelen, dann bricht sie in der

Kapelle zusammen, nachdem alle weg sind.

Jane dreht sich zur Seite um ihm Platz zu machen, doch dann offnet sie ihre

Augen und sieht, das Johnny auf ist, und sich anzieht.

Sie sagt: "Diese romantischen Jungs, sie wollen immer nur kampfen"

Diese romantischen Jungs, sie rufen zum Fenster durch:

"Hey, Spanish - Johnny willst du heute nacht etwas leichtes Geld verdienen?"

Und Johnny flusterte:

"Gute Nacht, es ist alles in Ordnung, Jane. Ich treffe dich morgen Nacht

 auf der Strase der Liebenden.

Vielleicht finden wir es heut nacht auf der Strase, oder vielleicht sind wir

 unterwegs bis zum Morgengrauen, vielleicht.

"Gute Nacht, es ist alles in Ordnung, Jane. Ich treffe dich morgen Nacht auf

 der Strase der Liebenden.

Wir konnen es heut nacht auf der Strase finden, oder vielleicht sind wir

 unterwegs bis zum Morgengrauen, vielleicht.


Independence Day

Well Papa go to bed now it's getting late

Nothing we can say is gonna change anything now

I'll be leaving in the morning from St. Mary's Gate

We wouldn't change this thing even if we could somehow

`Cause the darkness of this house has got the best of us

There's a darkness in this town that's got us too

But they can't touch me now and you can't touch me now

They ain't gonna do to me what I watched them do to you

So say goodbye it's Independence Day

It's Independence Day all down the line

Just say goodbye it's Independence Day

It's Independence Day this time

Now I don't know what it always was with us

We chose the words and yeah we drew the lines

There was just no way this house could hold the two of us

I guess that we were just too much of the same kind

Well say goodbye it's Independence Day

All boys must run away come Independence Day

So say goodbye it's Independence Day

All men must make their way come Independence Day

Now the rooms are all empty down at Frankie's joint

And the highway she's deserted down to Breaker's Point

There's a lot of people leaving town now

Leaving their friends their homes

At night they walk that dark and dusty highway all alone

Well Papa go to bed now it's getting late

Nothing we can say can change anything now

Because there's just different people coming down here now

And they see things in different ways

And soon everything we've known will just be swept away

So say goodbye it's Independence Day

Papa now I know the things you wanted that you could not say

But won't you just say goodbye it's Independence Day

I swear I never meant to take those things away

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Released on:

The River 1980

Live 1975 - 1985   Live-Box 1986 (Meadowlands Arena 7/6/81)


It's Hard To Be A Saint In The City

Italian Translation

I had skin like leather and the diamond-hard look of a cobra

I was born blue and weathered but I burst just like a supernova

I could walk like Brando right into the sun

Then dance just like a Casanova

With my blackjack and jacket and hair slicked sweet

Silver star studs on my duds like a Harley in heat

When I strut down the street I could feel its heartbeat

The sisters fell back and said "Don't that man look pretty"

The cripple on the corner cried out "Nickels for your pity"

Them downtown boys sure talk gritty

It's so hard to be a saint in the city

I was the king of the alley I could talk some trash

I was the prince of the paupers crowned downtown at the beggar's bash

I was the pimp's main prophet I kept everything cool

A backstreet gambler with the luck to lose

And when the heat came down it was left on the ground

The devil appeared like Jesus through the steam in the street

Showin' me a hand I knew even the cops couldn't beat

I felt his hot breath on my neck as I dove into the heat

It's so hard to be a saint when you're just a boy

And the sages of the subway sit just like the living dead

As the tracks clack out the rhythm their eyes fixed straight ahead

They ride the line of balance and hold on by just a thread

But it's too hot in these tunnels you can get hit up by the heat

You get up to get out at your next stop but they push you back down in

your seat

Your heart starts beatin' faster as you struggle to your feet

Then you're outa that hole and back up on the street

And them South Side sisters sure look pretty

The cripple on the corner cries out "Nickels for your pity"

And them downtown boys sure talk gritty

It's so hard to be a saint in the city

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Released on:

Greetings from Asbury Park - N.J. 1973

Live 1975 - 1985   Live-Box 1986 (Roxy, 7/7/78)

Tracks 1998 - Recorded at CBS Studios (NY) 5 / 3 / 72


It's Hard To Be A Saint In The City ITA
It's Hard To Be A Saint In The City

Italian Translation

La mia pelle era come cuoio e il mio sguardo di diamante era

 quello di un cobra

Sono nato triste e consunto, ma ho bruciato le tappe proprio come

 una supernova

Sapevo camminare dritto verso il sole proprio come Brando

Per poi ballare come un Casanova

Col manganello e la giacca e i capelli lisci impomatati

Una borchia d'argento ornava i miei stracci,

 proprio come una Harley in calore

Quando mi pavoneggiavo giu per la strada potevo sentire il battito

 del loro cuore

Le sorelle si scostavano e dicevano: 'Quest'uomo e veramente carino'

Lo storpio all'angolo gridava: 'Un nichelino per carit…'

I ragazzi del distributore la in centro non parlano proprio fine

E' cosi difficile essere un santo in citta

Ero il re dei vicoli, potevo parlare un po' sboccato

Ero il principe dei poveri, incoronato la fra i mendicanti

Ero il vero profeta dei magnaccia, tenevo tutto sotto controllo

Un giocatore da bassifondi, che poteva perdere solo la fortuna

E quando il caldo venne meno la fortuna se ne anda

Il diavolo apparve sotto forma di Gesu attraverso il vapore nella strada

Mostrandomi una mano e io seppi che neanche loro, i poliziotti,

 potevano colpirmi

Ho sentito il calore del suo fiato sul mio collo, immergendomi nel caldo

E' difficile essere un santo, quando sei solo un ragazzo fuori

 sulla strada

E i saggi della metropolitana siedono come morti viventi

Mentre i binari solfeggiano il ritmo, gli occhi fissi in avanti

Percorrono la linea di equilibrio e restano sospesi per un filo

Ma fa troppo caldo in questi tunnel, puoi restare stordito

Ti alzi per uscire alla prossima fermata, ma gli altri ti

 ributtano a sedere

Il tuo cuore batte forte mentre cerchi di rimetterti in piedi

Poi sei fuori da quel buco e di nuovo per la strada

E quelle sorelle del Southside sembrano molto carine

Lo storpio all'angolo grida: 'Un nichelino per pieta'

E quei ragazzi giu in citta parlano proprio sporco

E' difficile essere un santo in citta


Jackson Cage

Driving home she grabs something to eat

Turns a corner and drives down her street

Into a row of houses she just melts away

Like the scenery in another man's play

Into a house where the blinds are closed

To keep from seeing things she don't wanna know

She pulls the blinds and looks out on the street

The cool of the night takes the edge off the heat

In the Jackson Cage

Down in Jackson Cage

You can try with all your might

But you're reminded every night

That you been judged and handed life

Down in Jackson Cage

Every day ends in wasted motion

Just crossed swords on the killing floor

To settle back is to settle without knowing

The hard edge that you're settling for

Because there's always just one more day

And it's always gonna be that way

Little girl you've been down here so long

I can tell by the way that you move you belong to

The Jackson Cage

Down in Jackson Cage

And it don't matter just what you say

Are you tough enough to play the game they play

Or will you just do your time and fade away

Down into the Jackson Cage

Baby there's nights when I dream of a better world

But I wake up so downhearted girl

I see you feeling so tired and confused

I wonder what it's worth to me or you

Just waiting to see some sun

Never knowing if that day will ever come

Left alone standing out on the street

Till you become the hand that turns the key down in

Jackson Cage

Down in Jackson Cage

Well darlin' can you understand

The way that they will turn a man

Into a stranger to waste away

Down in the Jackson Cage

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Released on:

The River1980


Jany Don't You Loose Heart

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

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 babe who knows too much

You come home late and get undressed

You lie in bed and feel this emptiness

Well 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

Till every river it runs dry

Until the sun's torn from the sky

Till every feel you've felt burst free

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

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Released on:

I'm Going Down / Jany, Don't You loose Heart   Single 1985

Tracks 1998 - Recorded at the Hit Factory 6 / 16 / 83

Born In The U.S.A. outtake 1983/84


Jany Needs A Shooter

Well Janey's got a doctor who tears apart her insides.

He investigates her and he silently bates her sighs

He probes with his fingers but he knows her heart only through his

stethoscope.

Hands are cold and his body's so old

Janey turns him down like dope.

Janey needs a shooter Jack

A shooter like me on her side

Janey needs a shooter Jack

A shooter man who knows her style

The way that I know her style

Well Janey's got a priest from his marble pulpit he smiles

He provides concilation and confessions at anytime

Through the pages of his bible he holds from what Janey hides

With her doors open wide she begs come inside

But he's frozen in the clear on the outside

Janey needs a shooter Jack

A shooter like me on her side

Janey needs a shooter Jack

A shooter man who knows her style,

The way that I know her style

Well Janey's got a cop who lives round the block

      and checks on her everynight

From at through the jail outside her house his siren roars

      when he knows that I'm inside

Well Janey's small and sometimes he scares her

So I held her real close she flowed like a ghost

And i told her bye, so long, I can't play that dope.

Well Janey needs a shooter Jack

A shooter like me on her side

Janey needs a shooter Jack

A shooter man who knows her style,

Janey needs a shooter Jack

A shooter man on her side

Janey needs a shooter man

A shooter man who knows her style

The way that I know her style

A man who knows her style

The way that I know her style

A man who knows her style

The way that I know her style

A man who knows her style

The way that I know her style

A man who knows her style

The way that I know her style

A man who knows her style

The way I know your style

You need a man who knows your style

The way that I know your style

A man who knows her style

The way I know your style

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(Darkness outtake, written around 1974/5.)


Jazz Musican

Well it's Saturday night in New Jersey

And you're feeling kinda wet

Now the summer heat is getting you worried

So you try to look as innocent as you can as you sweat

And you've got a woman on the other side of the law

But is ain't cool to see her yet

Because her ex-old man's city cop

Who thinks he's auditioning for Dragnet

So you stand on the corner looking kinda torn

And in the Blue Light Lounge

Where death was born

The Jazz Musician blows his horn

You pop a letter to your baby in Richmond

'Cause you're feeling kinda down

She's kinda small but at least she's a rich one

Oh, and she needs you real bad

And sometimes that's all that counts

You had a teenage band and flying hands

And oh, you was pretty big, you were pretty big in the South

But you passed out on stage and flew into a rage

And someone tried to revive you mouth to mouth

You felt a pain in your chest

As you passed the crown

And in the Blue Light Lounge

The lights went down

And the audience slipped silently out of town

Well now the atheist he burns you for laughing out loud

Because he can't understand what you're saying

And the word's out when they pushed him in the hole

Everybody knows that he went out praying

Oh, now the park is dark and the sidewalks bright

And alive with the light of the living

Oh and mama can I walk you home tonight

'Cause it's a big, bad city

I'm stranded in the jungle

First stage witness at a company killing

I'm clutching my high school diploma, shuffling my feet

Promised sixty bucks a week

And guaranteed top billing

Well you can live a life of love in New York

Only if you don't, if you don't love living

And I met this taxi driver who drives me around town

Telling tales of his back seat women

And on the corner there's no room to move

'Cause everybody's trying so hard to groove

And in the Blue Light Lounge

The Jazz Musician plays his blues


Jearsey Girl

I got no time for the corner boys

Down in the streets making all that noise

Or the girls out on the avenue

´Cause tonight I want to be with you

Tonight I´m gonna take that ride

Across the river to the Jersey side

Take my baby to the carnival

And I´ll take her on all the rides

`Cause down the shore everything´s alright

You and your baby on a Saturday night

You know all my dreams come true

When I´m walking down the streets with you

Sha la la la la la la

Sha la la la la la la la la

Sha la la la la la la la

Sha la la la I`m in Love with a Jersey girl

Sha la la la la la la

Sha la la la la la la la la

Sha la la la la la la la

Sha la la la la la

You know she thrills me with all her charms

When I´m wrapped up in my baby´s arms

My little girl gives me everything

I know that some day she´ll wear my ring

So don´t bother me man I ain´t got no time

I´m on my way to see that girl of mine

`Cause nothing matters in this whole wide world

When you´re in love with a Jersey girl

Sha la la la la la la

Sha la la la la la la la la

Sha la la la la la la la

Sha la la la I`m in Love with a Jersey girl

Sha la la la la la la

Sha la la la la la la la la

Sha la la la la la la la

Sha la la la la la

I see you on the streets and you look so tires

I know that job you got leaves you uninspired

When I come by to take you out to eat

You´re lying all dressed up on the bed baby fast asleep

Go in the bedroom and put your makeup on

We´re gonna take that little brat of yours and drop her off at you mom´s

I know a place where the dancing´s free

Now baby won´t you come with me

`Cause down the shore everything´s alright

You and your baby on a Saturday night

Nothing matters in this whole wide world

When you´re in love with a Jersey girl

Sha la la la la la la

Sha la la la la la la la la

Sha la la la la la la la

Sha la la la I`m in Love with a Jersey girl

Sha la la la la la la

Sha la la la la la la la la

Sha la la la la la la la

Sha la la la la la

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Released on:

Cover Me / Jersey Girl   Single 1984

Live 1975 - 1985   Live-Box 1986 (Meadowlands Arena, 7/9/81)


Jesse

Oh Jesse, you better start thinkin' about saving your neck

Oh Jesse, you put on that leather jacket like you put on respect

you got cleats on your boots and a woman who shoots everytime you shuffle

  out the stage door

And darling Jesse, do you know what its all for?

Ah Jesse, your manager brought by them eight by ten glossies of your band

Oh Jesse, he says you wear cross around your neck and come on

  with nails in your hands

With your insides showing and your New York band blowin' them

  old Chicago blues

Ah Jesse, can't you see you're the one Jesse

Ah Sonny, this time its you

Well Jesse, your child is slobbering all over your pants

And Jesse, your wife has fallen into a trance

She's got eyes that tell no lies

She's seen so many wars

Ah be a good boy Jesse, tell her she don't have to look no more.

Well Jesse, he knows all the tricks to get the crowd reeling

Oh and Jesse, ya he rocks 'em with that old soul feeling

And he walks off the stage in a self-adoring haze

and gets shoved right out the door

Whoa Jesse, can't you see now boy that that's what its all about Jesse

Not even time to do that old played out encore

Whoa Jesse


Johnny 99

German Translation

Well they closed down the auto plant in Mahwah late that month

Ralph went out lookin' for a job but he couldn't find none

He came home too drunk from mixin' Tanqueray and wine

He got a gun shot a night clerk now they call'm Johnny 99

Down in the part of town where when you hit a red light you don't stop

Johnny's wavin' his gun around and threatenin' to blow his top

When an off-duty cop snuck up on him from behind

Out in front of the Club Tip Top they slapped the cuffs on Johnny 99

Well the city supplied a public defender but the judge was Mean John Brown

He came into the courtroom and stared young Johnny down

Well the evidence is clear gonna let the sentence son fit the crime

Prison for 98 and a year and we'll call it even Johnny 99

A fist fight broke out in the courtroom they had to drag Johnny's girl away

His mama stood up and shouted "Judge don't take my boy this way"

Well son you got a statement you'd like to make

Before the bailiff comes to forever take you away

Now judge I had debts no honest man could pay

The bank was holdin' my mortgage and they were gonna take my house away

Now I ain't sayin' that makes me an innocent man

But it was more `n all this that put that gun in my hand

Well your honor I do believe I'd be better off dead

So if you can take a man's life for the thoughts that's in his head

Then sit back in that chair and think it over judge one more time

And let `em shave off my hair and put me on that killin' line

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Released on:

Nebraska 1982

Live 1975 - 1985   Live-Box 1986 (Giants Stadium, 8/19/84)


Johnny 99 GER
Johnny 99

German Translation

Spaet im Monat machten sie die Ford Fabrik in Mahwah dicht

Ralph ging auf Jobsuche, aber er konnte nichts finden

Kam zu besoffen nach Hause, hatte Tangueray und Wein gemixt

Nahm eine Knarre, erschoss einen Nachtportier, jetzt heisst er

Johnny 99.

Da unten im Stadtteil, wo Du trotz roter Ampel nicht anhaeltst

Schwenkt Johnny die Knarre und droht durchzudrehen .

Da kam ein Bulle ausser Dienst von hinten angeschlichen

Draussen vor dem Tip Top Club schnappten die Schellen zu um

Johnny 99.

Die Stadt stellte einen Pflichtverteidiger, aber der Richter war ..

Mean John Brown, '

Er kam in den Gerichtssaal und starrte den armen Johnny nieder

Der Fall steht klar, mein Sohn, wir wollen das Urteil dem

Verbrechen anpassen

Gefaengnis fuer 98 und ein Jahr und wir sind quitt Johnny 99

Im Saal gab's einen Faustkampf, sie mussten Johnny's Maedchen wegzerren,

Seine Mutter stand auf und schrie.Herr Richter, nehmen Sie mir meinen

Jungen nicht weg !"

Also, mein Sohn, hast Du noch etwas zu sagen, bevor Du fuer immer

 abgefuehrt wirst?

Herr Richter, ich hab'Schulden, die kann kein ehrlicher Mann abzahlen,

Die Bank hatte meine Hypothek, wollte mir mein Haus nehmen,

Ich sag' nicht, dass mich das unschuldig macht

Aber das alles und noch mehr gab mir die Knarre in die Hand.

Herr Richter, ich glaube, ich waere besser tot

Und wenn Sie einem wegen seiner Gedanken das Leben nehmen koennen

Dann lehnen Sie sich zurueck und ueberlegen Sie sich's nochmal,

Dann lassen Sie mir den Kopf scheren und schicken Sie mich

in die Todeszelle.


Johnny Bye Bye
Johnny Bye Bye (Let's go Tonight)

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 little girl 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

The man on the radio says Elvis Presley's died

We drove down into Memphis, the sky was hard and black

Up over the ridge came a white Cadillac

They'd drawn out all his money and they laid him in the back

A woman cried from the roadside "Ah he's gone, he's gone"

They found him slumped up against the drain

With a whole lot of trouble running through his veins

Bye-bye Johnny

Johnny bye-bye

You didn't have to die

You didn't have to die

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Released on:

Tracks 1998 - Recorded at Thrill Hill Recording, 1/83

From BBC interview:

"Oh yeah, yeah. To me that is one of the greatest records of all time.

If I had to pick one, I'd pick that one I think. That was for me as a kid, it

was just so tremendously, tremendously powerful. It was this sort of big "You

Are Not Alone" (laughs) that came shouting through the radio. When I was 16

and living in a little town in New Jersey that was really just profoundly

influential for me, for my music. It made me want to, it made me want to

reach for at least the kind of territory he was covering in that music. I

thought that was revolutionary at the time and it was really, really

inspirational."


Jungleland

German Translation

Alternative Version

The rangers had a homecoming in Harlem late last night

And the Magic Rat drove his sleek machine over the Jersey state line

Barefoot girl sitting on the hood of a Dodge

Drinking warm beer in the soft summer rain

The Rat pulls into town rolls up his pants

Together they take a stab at romance and disappear down Flamingo Lane

Well the Maximum Lawman run down Flamingo chasing the Rat and the barefoot girl

And the kids round here look just like shadows always quiet, holding hands

>From the churches to the jails tonight all is silence in the world

As we take our stand down in Jungleland

The midnight gang's assembled and picked a rendezvous for the night

They'll meet `neath that giant Exxon sign that brings this fair city light

Man there's an opera out on the Turnpike

There's a ballet being fought out in the alley

Until the local cops, Cherry Tops, rips this holy night

The street's alive as secret debts are paid

Contacts made, they vanished unseen

Kids flash guitars just like switch-blades hustling for the record machine

The hungry and the hunted explode into rock'n'roll bands

That face off against each other out in the street down in Jungleland

In the parking lot the visionaries dress in the latest rage

Inside the backstreet girls are dancing to the records that the D.J. plays

Lonely-hearted lovers struggle in dark corners

Desperate as the night moves on, just a look and a whisper, and they're gone

Beneath the city two hearts beat

Soul engines running through a night so tender in a bedroom locked

In whispers of soft refusal and then surrender in the tunnels uptown

The Rat's own dream guns him down as shots echo down them hallways in the night

No one watches when the ambulance pulls away

Or as the girl shuts out the bedroom light

Outside the street's on fire in a real death waltz

Between flesh and what's fantasy and the poets down here

Don't write nothing at all, they just stand back and let it all be

And in the quick of the night they reach for their moment

And try to make an honest stand but they wind up wounded, not even dead

Tonight in Jungleland

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Released on:

Born to Run 1975


Jungleland ALT1
Jungleland

(Early version)

Well the Rangers had a home-coming in Harlem late last night

And the Magic Rat piloted his sleek machine across the Jersey State Line

Barefoot girl sits drinking warm beer on the hood of an old Dodge

In the soft summer rain

Rat rolls up his pants, together they'd make a stab at romance

And move down Flamingo Lane

Well now the maximum lawmen they run down the Flamingo chasing the Rat

And the barefoot girl

But the kids they live like shadows in empty doorways

(But they live like shadows in the vacant doorways)

Always silent, holding hands

The Rat pulls her close (The Rat pulls Mary close)

And from the churches to the jails there is silence in the world

                                  (all is silent in the world)

For tonight they'd take their chance

Down here in Jungleland

Well ther's a crazy kind of light tonight

Brighter than the one that sparkles for prophets

Brighter than the Giant Exxon sign that brings this fair city light

There's an opera out on the Turnpike, there's a ballet being fought outside the

alley

Well the cops they let their faces show and rips this holy night

The streets alive with tough-kid Jets in Nova-light machines

Boys flash guitars like bayonets and rip holes in their jeans

Then the hungry and the haunted explode into rock 'n' roll bands

They face off against each other when they meet

Down here in Jungleland

The streets's on fire in a classic death waltz

Between the masters of flesh and fantasy

The poets down here don't write nothin' at all, they just stand and and let it a

ll be

And in the quick of the night they reach for their moment to make an honest stan

d

But they wind up wounded, not rightly dead, down here in Jungleland - yes they d

o

Oh beneath the city their hearts beat, soul cool engines tired and brave

Oh as the young (jungle) girls stand by fire angels fallen in the city

In the tunnels of machines they'll hear the screams

Drowned out by the roarin' trains

Them rats above, oh locked in love

The Rat saves her from the edge of an on-coming train

That Angel rides a...

Down here in Jungleland - oh yes they do

They hear the animals sing - oh oh oh


Jungleland GER
Jungleland

German Translation

Die Polizisten kamen nach hause in Harlem spät letzte Nacht

Und die "Magische Ratte" fuhr ihre elegante Maschine

Über die Jersey Bundesgrenze

Barfüßiges Mädchen sitzt auf der Haube eines Dodge

Trinkt warmes Bier im weichen Sommerregen

Die Ratte fuhr in die Stadt, rollt die Hosen hoch

Zusammen versuchten sie die Romantik

Und verschwanden unten in der Flamingo Gasse

Nun, die "Maximum Gesetzeshüter" liefen die Flamingo runter

Jagten die Ratte und das barfüßige Mädchen

Und die Kids hier sahen aus wie Schatten

Immer still, halten Hündchen

Von den Kirchen zu den Gefängnissen

Heute nacht ist alles still in der Welt

Als wir in Position gehen

Unten im Dschungelland

Die Mitternachts-Gang versammelt sich

Und macht ein Rendezvous aus für die Nacht

Sie treffen sich neben dem riesigen EXXON-Schild

Welches das schöne Großstadtlicht bringt

Mann, da ist eine Oper unten am Wendeplatz

Da ist ein Ballett kämpfend draußen in den Gassen

Bis die Örtlichen Bullen, Kirsch-Oberteile (?)

Diese heilige Nacht zerreißen

Die Straße wird lebendig als die geheime Schuld bezahlt ist

Kontakt hergestellt, sie verschwinden ungesehen

Kids protzen mit Gitarren wie mit Springmessern

Drängeln zum Tonbandgerät

Die Hungrigen und die Gejagten explodieren in Rock'n'Roll Bands

Sie      ?    gegen alle anderen draußen in der Straße

Unten im Dschungelland

Auf dem Parkplatz die Wahrsager bekleidet mit der letzten Wut

Drinnen tanzen Seitenstraáen-Mädchen zu den Platten die der DJ spielt

Einsame-Herzen-Liebhaber quälen sich in dunklen Ecken

Verzweifelt als die Nacht sich fortbewegt

Nur ein Blick und ein Flüstern und sie sind gegangen

Unter der Stadt schlagen zwei Herzen

Seelenmotoren laufen durch die Nacht so zärtlich

In ein Schlafzimmer verschlossen im Flüstern der sanften Verweigerung

Und dann geben sie auf

In den Tunneln im Villenviertel

Der Ratte eigene Tr„ume schieáen ihn nieder

Als das Echo der Schüsse durch die Korridore in die Nacht hallt

Niemand sieht wie die Ambulanz ihn fortbringt

Oder wie das Mädchen das Schlafzimmerlicht ausschaltet

Drauáen steht die Straße in Flammen in einem wahren Todeswalzer

Zwischen dem was Fleisch ist und was Phantasie

Und die Dichter hier unten schreiben nichts

Sie stehen nur da und lassen alles geschehen

Und in der Flüchtigkeit der Nacht greifen sie nach einem Augenblick

Und versuchen einen ehrlichen Stand zu bekommen

Aber sie verschwinden verletzt

Nicht mal richtig tot

Heute nacht im Dschungelland

Translation by: Frank Rohwer


Kitty's Back

Catlong sighs holdin' Kitty's black tooth,

She left to marry some top cat, ain't it the cold truth,

And there hasn't been a tally since Sally left the alley,

Since Kitty left with Big Pretty things have got pretty thin,

It's tight on this fence since them young dudes are musclin' in.

Jack Knife cries cause Baby's in a bundle,

She goes runnin' nightly, lightly through the jungle,

And them tin cans are explodin' out of the ninety degree heat,

Cat somehow lost his baby down on Bleeker Street,

It's sad but it sure is true

Cat shrugs his shoulders, sits back and sighs.

Catlong lies back bent on a trash can,

Flashin' lights cut the night, dude in the white says he's the man,

Well you better move fast when you're young or you're not long around,

Cat somehow lost his Kitty in the city pound,

So get right, get tight, get down.

Who's that down at the end of the alley, she's been gone so long,

Here she comes, here she comes, here she comes, here she comes,

Kitty's back in town, here she comes now, Kitty's back in town,

Cat knows Kitty's been untrue and that she left him for a city dude,

Well she's so soft, she's so blue,

When he looks into her eyes he just sits back and sighs,

OOh what can I do, ooh what can I do?

OOh what can I do, ohh what can I do? Alright.

OOh alright, ooh alright, ooh alright, ooh alright.

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Released on:

The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle 1973


Lady And The Doctor

The lady keeps the doctor in a place inside her pocket

The circle made her circle like a wheel

The doctor gives a strange love, but the lady she don't knock it

She's glad to get a piece of anything

Because the lady needs the medicine ????????????

Doctor needs the lady to see

The doctor keeps the lady in a page in a book

on the history of communicable diseases

The lady's been to school, she lets the doctor play it cool.

He writes the script, she follows his lead.

'Cause the doctor writes love story so fine

The lady's learned to read between the lines

Sometime

The doctor, he takes housecalls where he visits the animals

in their stalls, shoots them full of juice and then goes home.

The lady hits the supermarket where she rides the aisles in a shopping cart

'till she feels she's played enough of the part to set by ooh,

The lady feels its enough to just be good.

But the doctor has his need to be understood.

The doctor feels he's so abused and the lady feels she's so unused

and demands the doctor tends her daily parts.

Ooh, but the doctor just can't do it because so long ago the lady

blew it, they're too old now to make another start.

The lady feels the doctor's made of stone.

The doctor' heart, it just ain't fond of ?home?


Land Of Hope And Dreams

Grab your ticket and your suitcase

Thunder's rolling down the tracks

Don't know where you're goin'

Sky is turnin' black

Well darlin' if you're weary

Lay your head upon my chest

We'll take what we can carry

And we'll leave behind the rest

Big Wheels rolling through fields

Where sunlight streams

Meet me in a land of hope and dreams

Well, I will provide for you

Yeah, and I will stand by your side

You'll need a good companion, darlin'

For this part of the ride

You leave behind your sorrows

Yeah, this day at last

Tomorrow they'll be sunny skies

And all this darkness past

Big Wheels rolling through fields

Where sunlight streams

Meet me in a land of hope and dreams

This train

Carries saints and sinners

This train

Carries losers and winners

This Train

Carries whores and gamblers

This Train

Carries midnight ramblers

This Train

Carries broken-hearted

This Train

Carries souls departed

This Train

Dreams will not be thwarted

This Train

Faith will be rewarded

This Train

Carries fools and kings

This Train

Hear the big wheels singing

This Train

Bells of freedom ringing

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New Songs written for the 1999 World Tour

This songs was available on the World Wide

Web as soon as it was played first at the

rehearsal  Shows in March 1999.


Leap of Faith

All over the world the rain was pourin'

I was scratchin' where it itched

Oh heartbreak and despair got nothing but boring

So I grapped you baby like a wild pitch

It takes a leap of faith to get things going

It takes a leap of faith you gotta show some guts

It takes a leap of faith to get things going

In your heart you must trust

Now your legs were heaven your breasts were the altar

Your body was the holy land

You shouted "jump" but my heart faltered

You laughed and said "Baby don't you understand?"

It takes a leap of faith to get things going

It takes a leap of faith you gotta show some guts

It takes a leap of faith to get things going

In your heart you must trust

Now you were the Red Sea I was Moses

I kissed you and slipped into a bed of roses

The waters parted and love rushed inside

I was Jesus' son sanctified

Tonight the moon's looking young but I'm feelin' younger

'Neath a veil of dreams sweet blessings rain

Honey I can feel the first breeze of summer

And in your love I'm born again

It takes a leap of faith to get things going

It takes a leap of faith you gotta show some guts

It takes a leap of faith to get things going

In your heart you must trust

Roy Bittan, keyboards

Lisa Lowell, backing vocals

Patti Scialfa, backing vocals

Soozie Tyrell, backing vocals

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Released on:

Lucky Town 1992


Leavin' Train

When I ask you if everything is alright

You whisper "Don't worry" and you shut out the light

Now black is black in this bed we're laying

And I wanna believe the words that you're saying

CHORUS:

But your eyes look like a leavin' train

They keep on dragging me down

Your eyes look like a leavin' train

They keep on draggin'

They keep on draggin'

They keep on draggin' me down

Well I did anything just to try to get close to you

I took it step by step like a man's supposed to

Tell me now, is this my

Is this my contrition

To have the love that I longed for fill me with suspicion

(CHORUS)

Now it's tellin' time, oh my little sister

Now can I believe the words, the words of love you whisper

Is my train in vain, has my soul gone to waste

Am I just a victim of, a victim of my lost faith

(CHORUS)

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Released on:

Tracks 1998 - Recorded at Oceanway Studios (LA), 2/27/90


Light Of Day

Well I've been out of the woods for six days and nights now

I'm a little hot wired and I'm feeling alright nowReleased on:

I got some money in my pocket and I won't need a ride now

I got a big cherry car and my baby by my side now

(chorus)

Well I'm a little hot-wired but I'm feeling ok

And I got a little lost along the way

And I'm just around the corner from the light of day

Just around the corner from the light of day

Well driving 500 miles got 100 to go, yeah

I've got rock and roll music on the radio

I've got a brother on the rig who's from the Gulf Coast

He said the girls down there are really the most, yeah

(chorus)

Well I got thrown out of work on the Kokomo

Don't ask me what I'm doing cause I don't know

He wasn't joking when he wrote me that letter

Things can't get worse so they got to get better

(chorus)

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Released on:

MTV - Unplugged 1993

First performed 4/12/87 at the Stone Pony by Bruce and a few

E-Streeters, in the first of the pre-Tunnel of Love tour club

appearances down the Shore):


Like A Rolling Stone

(Bob Dylan/Bob Dylan)

Once upon a time you dressed so fine

You threw the bums a dime in your prime

Didn't you

People called say beware doll

You're bound to fall

You thought they were all

Kidding you

You used to laugh about

Everybody that was hanging it out

Now you don't talk so loud

Now you don't seem so proud

About having to be scrounging

For your next meal

How does it feel

How does it feel

To be without a home

Like a complete unknown

Like a rolling stone

You've gone to the finest school

Allright miss lonely

But you know you only used to get

Juiced in it

Nobody's ever taught you

How to live in the street

And now you're gonna have to get

Used to it

You say you never compromise

With the mystery tramp

But now you realize

He's not selling any alibis

As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes

And say do you want to do

Make a deal

How does it feel

How does it feel

To be on your homeWith no direction home

A complete unknown

Like a rolling stone

You never turned around to see the frowns

On the jugglers and the clowns

When they all did tricks for you

You never understood that it ain't no good

You shouldn't let other people

Get your kicks for you

You used to ride on the chrome horse

With your diplomat

Who carried on his shoulder a siamese cat

Ain't it hard when you discover that

He really wasn't where it's at

After he took from you everything

He could steal

How does it feel

How does it feel

To hang on your home

With no direction home

Like a complete unknown

Like a rolling stone

Princess on the steeple

And all the pretty people

They're drinking thinking

That they got it made

Exchanging all precious gifts

But you'd better

Take a diamond ring

You'd better pawn it babe

You used to be so amused

At Napoleon in rags

And the language that he used

Go to him now he calls you

You can't refuse

When you ain't got nothing

You got nothing to lose

You are invisible nowYou got no secrets to conceal

How does it feel

How does it feel

To be on your home

With no direction home

Like a complete unknown

Like a rolling stone


Linda Let Me Be The One

Midnight boys are outside

Scrapin' tears up off the street

Standing guard over the window

Where the lonely Linda sleeps

There's a kid named Eddie

Walks like an angel in defeat

The ashes of a romance come

Traces Linda's name in a seat

Calls

Linda will you let me be the one

Linda will you, hey let me be the one

Linda will you let me be the one

Linda will you let me be the one

In a room full of contenders

Shadow boxin', Eddie's strong

Till he drops through a feigned surrender

To the canvas draped in scarves

Stole from Linda's bedroom

The night he laid at her feet

And the midnight boys were wasted

Down on King Street

He calls out

Linda will you let me be the one

Linda will you, hey let me be the one

Linda will you let me be the one

Linda will you let me be the one

Midnight's base is St Mary's

Midnight boys hide from the rain

Stay with the stolen sisters

Till the streets are dry again

Talking fast cars and chrome parts

Different worlds and strange girls

Empty homes, busted hearts

And kneeling with Linda in the dark

Linda will you let me be the one

Linda will you, hey let me be the one

Linda will you let me be the one

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Released on:

Tracks 1998 - Recorded at the Record Plant (NY) 6 / 28 / 75

Born To Run outtake 1974/75


Lion's Den

You broke my heart, tore it apart

Thought it was cute, thought it was smart

But now I'm back and I've got the strength of ten

So I got a message for you my friend

CHORUS:

I'm Daniel waitin' in the lion's den

Daniel waitin' for that lion to come

Daniel waitin' in the lion's den

Dum dum dee dum dum dee dee dum dum

That old lion's mean and long in the tooth

And like you, baby, he's out on the loose

Messin' hearts up time and time again

Well it's time for that messin' to end

(CHORUS)

At night I hear you out prowling around

Tearing guys up, scaring 'em down

Now all that growling's gonna come to no end

'Cause I m just biding my time, my little friend

(CHORUS)

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Released on:

Tracks 1998 - Recorded at the Power Station, 1/25/82


Little Girl So Fine

(Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes)

After the music had stopped

I still heard it playing

I moved a little closer to hear

The words she was saying

She said I'll never break your heart

I'll never try to fake it

My love is here for you

All you have to do is take it

Kisses sweeter than wine

My little girl so fine

The night seemed to say it was right

But could I believe her

My heart said, it's time to go

But my eyes wouldn't leave her

There's always somebody trying to break your heart

Somebody trying to take it

My little girl tried so hard

To help me make it

Kisses sweeter than wine

My little girl so fine

Oh, oh, oh, oh, sha la la

Oh, oh, sha la la

So fine

Oh, oh, oh, oh, sha la la

Oh, oh, sha la la

So fine

When we danced

I forgot everything and whispered

Hold me tight

Take a chance

On what tomorrown brings

Won't you be mine, be mine

Be mine tonight

We walked away laughing together

Into the night for ever and ever and ever

Now I know

I'll never break me baby's heart

I'll never try to fake it

I'll give her all my love

All she has to do is take it

Kisses sweeter than wine

My little girl so fine

Kisses sweeter than wine

My little girl so fine

Oh, oh, oh, oh

Kisses sweeter than wine

My little girl so fine

Oh, oh, oh, oh, sha la la

Oh, oh, sha la la

So fine


Little Things That Count

She said we could just sleep together

There'd be nothing wrong

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 slightly and 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 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 slightly as she walked

Then she pulled the covers down

I was so dry, she held a water glass to my lips

Well the polsih on her nail 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


Living Proof

Well now on a summer night in a dusky room

Come a little piece of the Lord's undying light

Crying like he swallowed the fiery moon

In his mother's arms it was all the beauty I could take

Like the missing words to some prayer that I could never make

In a world so hard and dirty so fouled and confused

Searching for a little bit of God's mercy

I found living proof

I put my heart and soul I put 'em high upon a shelf

Right next to the faith the faith that I'd lost in myself

I went down into the desert city

Just tryin' so hard to shed my skin

I crawled deep into some kind of darkness

Lookin' to burn out every trace of who I'd been

You do some sad sad things baby

When it's your you 're tryin' to lose

You do some sad and hurtfull things

I've seen living proof

You shot through my anger and rage

To show me my prison was just an open cage

There were no keys no guards

Just one frightened man and some old shadows for bars

Well now all that's sure on the boulevard

Is that life is just a house of cards

As fragile as each and every breath

Of this boy sleepin' in our bed

Tonight let's lie beneath the eaves

Just a close band of happy thieves

And when that train comes we'll get on board

And steal what we can from the treasures of the Lord

It's been along long drought baby

Tonight the rain's pourin' down on our roof

Looking for a little bit of God's mercy

I found living proof

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Released on:

Lucky Town 1992


Living on the Edge of the World

Early North Jersey industrial skyline

I'm an all-set cobra jet creepin' through the night time

Gotta find a gas station, gotta find a pay phone

This turnpike sure is spooky at night when you're all alone

I'm living on the edge of the world

Tryin' to get my girl on the line

Livin' on the edge of the world

But I think it's just a waste of my time

Some jerk keeps breaking my connection, girl

'Cause I'm living on the edge of the world

Living on the edge of the world

Radio, radio, hear my tale of heartbreak

New Jersey in the morning like a lunar landscape

Got a counter girl at the Exit 24 HoJo

Down past the refinery towers where the great black river flows

I'm living on the edge of the world

Tryin' to get back to you, girl

Living on the edge of the world

Tryin' to get a message through

I gotta make a connection, girl

Because I'm living on the edge of the world

Living on the edge of the world

Radio's jammed with gospel stations

Lost souls callin' long distance salvation

Hey mister deejay gotta hear my last prayer

It's a hey ho rock and roll, deliver me from nowhere

I'm living on the edge of the world

Tryin' to get back to you, girl

Living on the edge of the world

Tryin' to get a message through

I gotta make some connection, girl

Because I'm living on the edge of the world

Living on the edge of the world

Now my boss don't dig me 'cause he put me on the night shift

It takes me two hours to get back to where my baby lives

In the wee wee hours my mind gets hazy

Relay towers, won't you lead me to my baby

'Neath the overpass the trooper hits his party lights switch

Good night, good luck, one, two powershift

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Released on:

Tracks 1998 - Recorded at The Power Station, 12/7/79


Local Hero

I was driving through my hometown

I was just kinda killin' time

When I seen a face staring out of a black velvet painting

From the window of the five and dime

I couldn't quite recall the name

But the pose looked familiar to me

So I asked the salesgirl "Who was that man

Between the doberman and Bruce Lee?"

She said "Just a local hero"

"Local hero" she said with a smile

"Yeah a local hero he used to live here for a while"

I met a stranger dressed in black

At the train station

He said "Son your soul can be saved"

There's a beautiful women nights of low livin'

And some dangerous money to be made

There's a big town 'cross the whiskey line

And if we turn the right card up

They make us boss the devil pays off

And them folks that are real hard up

They get their local hero

Somebody with the right style

They get their local hero

Somebody with just the right smile

Well I learned my job I learned it well

Fit myself with religion and a story to tell

First they made me the king then they made me pope

Then they brought the rope

I woke to a gypsy girl sayin' "Drink this"

Well my hands had lost all sensation

These days I'm feeling all right

'Cept I can't tell my courage from my desperation

From the tainted chalice

Well I drunk some heady wine

Tonight I'm layin' here

But there's something in my ear

Sayin' there's a little town just beneath the floodline

Needs a local hero

Somebody with the right style

Lookin' for a local hero

Someone with the right smile

Local hero local hero she said with a smile

Local hero he used to live here for a while

Lisa Lowell, backing vocals

Patti Scialfa, backing vocals

Soozie Tyrell, backing vocals

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Released on:

Lucky Town 1992


Long Time Coming

(Denver version).

Where the creek runs shallow and sandy

the moon swoops over the stars

?????  straight into my arms

I'm going to get birth naked and bury my old soul

and dance on it's grave

dance on his grave

It's a long time coming

a long time coming my dear

But now it's here

my daddy was a stranger

lived in a hotel downtown

when I was a kid

he was just somebody I'd see around

somebody I'd see around

It's a long time coming

a long time coming my dear

But now it's here

down below and pulling on my shirt

I got some kids of my own

but if I had one wish kids

that your mistakes would be your own

your sins would be your own

It's a long time coming

a long time coming my dear

But now it's here

I am laying under the arms of Cassiopeia

the sword of Orion sweeps

it's me and you Rosie

crackling like crossed wires

I listen to you breathing in your sleep

the sparks of the fire are left burning

lie 2 kids in sleeping bags

I reach under your shirt and feel your belly

there's another one kicking inside

I promise I ain't going to fuck it up this time


Looking Out For No.1
Looking Out For No.1 (Mr Outside)

They call him Mr. Outside

Cause he don't care

Mr. Outside

He's just havin' his fun

Mr. Outside

He's just looking out for No. 1

Well Mr. Outside

All your money and your power

Won't help you come the dark hour

Well kingdoms crumble

Unto your feet

You're lest another thief out on the street

Mr. Outside

Yeah he don't care

Mr. Outside

He's just having his fun

Mr. Outside

Oh looking out for No. 1

Dark glasses and money for hire

He got (?) and hight tension wire (?)

He got dark,dark cadillac

He got pretty little little girl in back

Mr. Outside

Oh yeah he don't care

Mr. Outside

He's just having his fun

Mr. Outside

Just looking out for No. 1

Oh little baby got no diamond ring

You cry cause you ain't got no pretty things

Them pretty things babe just look dumb

You gotta take 'em when they come

Mr. Outside

Oh lord he don't care

Mr. Outside

Oh has his fun

Mr. Outside

He's just looking out for No. 1

Mr. Outside

Oh yeah he don't care

Mr. Outside

He's just having his fun

Mr. Outside

He's just looking out for No. 1


Loose Change

Met her at a friendly little bar down along the coast

She said it was her birthday so we had us a nice little toast

Drove around for a while, smoked a few cigarettes

Took her back to my place, she slipped off her party dress

She sat for a while on the edge of the bed just talkin'

Loose change in my pocket

Loose change in my pocket

Pint of gin in my boot cuff, I'm drivin' for a drink and a dance

Sittin' on the next stool, miss a little time on her hands

Yeah I knew she was trouble, but trouble sure was lookin' fine

And when I pulled her close what I knew kinda slipped my mind

We lay in bed and watched the moon come up crawling

Loose change in my pocket

Loose change in my pocket

I pour another drink, wait for the night to get through

Stars are burning in that black void so far away and blue

Now I'm sittin' at a red light I feel somethin' tickin' way down

The night's moving like a slow train crawling through this shithole town

Got my bags packed in the back and I'm tryin' to get going again

But red just goes to green and green goes red and then

Then all I hear's the clock on the dash tick-tocking

Loose change in my pocket

Loose change in my pocket

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Released on:

Tracks 1998 - Recorded at The Record Plant (LA), 1/31/91


Loose Ends

We met out on open streets

When we had no place to go

I remember how my heart beat

When you said "I love you so"

Then little by little

We choked out all the life that out love could hold

No, no

It was like we held a noose

And baby without check

We pulled it a little tighter around our necks

Each one waiting for the other

Darling to say when

Now baby you can leave me tonight on the loose end

We didn't count tomorrows

We took what we had and baby we ran

There was no place for sorrow

Every place we went I held your hand

And when the night closed in

I was sure your kisses told me all I had to know

But oh no

It was like we held a noose

and baby without check

we pulled 'til it grew tighter around our necks

each one waiting for the other

darling to say when

oh baby you can leave me tonight on the loose end

Our love has fallen around us

Like we said it never would

We saw it happen to all the others

But to us it never would

Well how could something so bad, darling

Come from something that was so good

I don't know

But it was like we held a noose

And baby without check

we pulled 'til it grew tighter around our necks

each one waiting for the other

darling to say when

oh baby you can leave me tonight on the loose end

On a loose end

Released on:

Tracks 1998 - Recorded at the Power Station 7 / 18 / 79

Darkness On the Edge Of Town outtake, 1977


Lost In The Flood

Italian Translation

The ragamuffin gunner is returnin' home like a hungry runaway

He walks through town all alone

He must be from the fort he hears the high school girls say

His countryside's burnin' with wolfman fairies dressed in drag for homicide

The hit and run, plead sanctuary, `neath a holy stone they hide

They're breakin' beams and crosses with a spastic's reelin' perfection

Nuns run bald through Vatican halls pregnant, pleadin' immaculate conception

And everybody's wrecked on Main Street from drinking unholy blood

Sticker smiles sweet as gunner breathes deep, his ankles caked in mud

And I said "Hey gunner man that's quicksand, that's quicksand that ain't mud

Have you thrown your senses to the war or did you lose them in the flood?"

That pure American brother, dull-eyed and empty-faced

Races Sundays in Jersey in a Chevy stock super eight

He rides `er low on the hip, on the side he's got Bound For Glory in red,

white and blue flash paint

He leans on the hood telling racing stories, the kids call him Jimmy The

Saint

Well the blaze and noise boy, he's gunnin' that bitch loaded to blastin'

point

He rides head first into a hurricane and disappears into a point

And there's nothin' left but some blood where the body fell

That is, nothin' left that you could sell

Just junk all across the horizon, a real highwayman's farewell

And he said "Hey kid, you think that's oil? Man, that ain't oil that's blood"

I wonder what he was thinking when he hit that storm

Or was he just lost in the flood?

Eighth Avenue sailors in satin shirts whisper in the air

Some storefront incarnation of Maria, she's puttin' on me the stare

And Bronx's best apostle stands with his hand on his own hard ware

Everything stops, you hear five, quick shots, the cops come up for air

And now the whiz-bang gang from uptown, they're shootin' up the street

And that cat from the Bronx starts lettin' loose but he gets blown right off his feet

And some kid comes blastin' round the corner but a cop puts him right away

He lays on the street holding his leg screaming something in Spanish

Still breathing when I walked away

And somebody said "Hey man did you see that? His body hit the street with such

a beautiful thud"

I wonder what the dude was sayin' or was he just lost in the flood?

Hey man, did you see that, those poor cats are sure messed up

I wonder what they were gettin' into, or were they just lost in the flood?

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Released on:

Greetings from Asbury Park - N.J. 1973


Lost In The Flood ITA
Lost In The Flood

Italian Translation

L'artigliere straccione sta tornando a casa come un disertore affamato

Cammina tutto solo per la citta

'Dev'essere del forte' sente dire dalle ragazze della scuola serale

La sua patria brulica di uomini-lupo travestiti e pronti ad uccidere

Hanno colpito e sono fuggiti, supplicando rifugio, si nascondono

 sotto una pietra sacra

Stanno spaccando travi e croci con la perfezione di uno

 spastico barcollante

Suore incinte corrono calve per i corridoi del Vaticano

Supplicando i'Immacolata Concezione

E tutti sono distrutti a Main Street, per aver bevuto sangue

 non consacrato

Sticker sorride dolcemente mentre l'artigliere ride forte

Le caviglie sono incrostate di fango

E dissi: 'Ehi, soldatino, quelle sono sabbie mobili, non e fango

Hai gettato i tuoi sensi alla guerra o li hai persi nel diluvio ?'

Quel puro ragazzo americano, dagli occhi spenti e il viso

 senza espressione

Corre la domenica nel Jersey su una Chevrolet super 8

La cavalca piegato di lato, sulla fiancata, a colori scintillanti,

 rosso bianco e blu, sta scritto: 'destinato alla gloria'

Si appoggia al cofano raccontando storie di corse, i ragazzi

 lo chiamano Jimmy il santo

Quel ragazzo tutto fuoco e fiamme sta sparando a quella cagna

 carica fino al punto di scoppiare

Si dirige a capofitto in un uragano e scompare in un punto lontano

E non rimane altro che del sangue dove il corpo e caduto, cio e niente

 che si possa vendere

Solo cianfrusaglie all'orizzonte, un vero addio da uomo della strada

E dissi: 'Ehi ragazzo, pensi che sia olio ? amico, non e olio,

 e sangue'

Mi chiedo a cosa pensasse quando e incappato in quella tempesta

O era solo perso nel diluvio ?

Marinai dell'ottava strada con camicie di raso mormorano nell'aria

Un manichino da vetrina, reincarnazione di Maria, mi sta fissando

E il miglior apostolo del Bronx tiene una mano sulla pistola

Tutto si ferma, si sentono cinque colpi rapidi,

 i piedipiati escono a prendere un po' d'aria

E ora la Whiz-Bang Gang dai quartieri alti fa fuoco a volonta

E quel tizio del Bronx rinuncia a sparare e viene messo a gambe all'aria

E un bambino spunta da dietro l'angolo, ma un piedipiatti lo

 stende subito

Sdraiato sulla strada, tenendosi la gamba, grida qualcosa in spagnolo

Respirava ancora quando me ne sono andato

E qualcuno disse: 'Hey amico, l'hai visto ? Il suo corpo si e

 schiantato al suolo con un bellissimo tonfo sordo'.

Mi chiedo cosa avesse da dire quel bellimbusto,

 o era solo perso nel diluvio ?

Hey, amico, hai visto, quei poveri burattini sono davvero messi male

Mi chiedo cosa stessero combinando, o erano solo persi nel diluvio ?


Lucky Man

German Translation

Runnin' down the highway half-past eleven

Waitin' for my odometer to roll straight sevens

I'm a lucky man

I went to see the gypsy the other night

She looked in my palm, looked me in the eye

And said "You're a lucky man"

"Some folks got fortune, some got eyes of blue

What you got will always see you through

You're a lucky man"

Pa went from the army to the factory to the killin' yard

I make my living with my hands 'hind the wheel of this car

I'm a lucky man

Messin' with me, man, it wouldn't be wise

Roll them dice, son . . . snake eyes

I'm a lucky man

Had a girl in Calgary, I gave her up

Man, that love thing was messin' with my luck

And I'm a lucky man

I'll wake up tomorrow morning in another state

Kiss me now, baby, before it's too late

If you wanna kiss a lucky man

I don't miss no girl, I don't miss no home

He travels fastest who travels alone

He's a lucky man

A man with the world in the palm of his hands

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Released on:

Tracks 1998 - Recorded at Thrill Hill Recording, 4/4/87


Lucky Man GER
Lucky Man

German Translation

Fahre den Highway runter, 11.30

Warte darauf daá mein Kilometerzähler genau auf die 7 rollt

Ich bin ein glücklicher Mann

Ich ging zur Zigeunerin neulich nacht

Sie sah in meine Handflächen, sie sah mir in die Augen

Sagte ich sei ein glücklicher Mann

Manche haben Glück, manche haben traurige Augen

Was du hast wird immer zu sehen sein

Du bist ein glücklicher Mann

Vater ging von der Armee zur Fabrik zum Friedhof

Ich mache mein Leben mit meinen Händen am Steuer meines Autos

Ich bin ein glücklicher Mann

Žrger mit mir, Mann, wäre nicht klug

Rolle die Würfel Junge - Ah Schlangenaugen!

Ich bin ein glücklicher Mann

Hatte ein Mädchen in Calgary, ich ließ sie sausen

Mann, diese Liebe brachte mein Glück durcheinander

Ich bin ein glücklicher Mann

Ich werde morgen früh in einem anderen Bundesstaat aufwachen

K�á mich Baby bevor es zu spät ist

Wenn du einen glücklichen Mann küssen willst

Ich vermisse kein Mädchen, ich vermisse kein Zuhause

Es reist am schnellsten wer allein reist

Er ist ein glücklicher Mann

Ein Mann mit der Welt in seinen Händen

Translation by: Frank Rohwer


Lucky Town

German Translation

House got too crowded clothes got too tight

And I don't know just where I'm going tonight

Out where the sky's been cleared by a good hard rain

There's somebody callin' my secret name

I'm going down to Lucky Town

Going down to Lucky Town

I wanna lose these blues I've found

Down in Lucky Town

Down in Lucky Town

Had a coat of fine leather and snakeskin boots

But that coat always had a tread hangin' loose

Well I pulled it one night and to my surprise

It led me right past your house and on over the rise

I'm going down to Lucky Town

Down to Lucky Town

I'm gonna lose these blues I've found

Down in Lucky Town

Down in Lucky Town

I had some victory that was just failure in deceit

Now the joke's comin' up through the soles of my feet

I been a long time walking on fortune's cane

Tonight I'm steppin' lightly and feelin' no pain

Well here's to your good looks baby now here's to my health

Here's to the loaded places that we take ourselves

When it comes to luck you make your own

Tonight I got dirt on my hands but I'm building me a new home

Down in Lucky Town

Down in Lucky Town

I'm gonna lose these blues I've found

Down in Lucky Town

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Released on:

Lucky Town 1992

MTV - Unplugged 1992


Lucky Town GER
Lucky Town

German Translation

Haus wurde zu voll, Klamotten wurden zu eng

Und ich weiß nicht wohin ich heute abend gehen soll

Draußen wo der Himmel gereinigt wurde von einem guten starken Regen

Ist jemand der meinen geheimen Namen ruft

Ich gehe runter nach Lucky Town

Runter nach Lucky Town

Ich will die Traurigkeit verlieren die ich fand

Unten in Lucky Town

Habe einen Mantel aus feinem Leder und Schlangenhaut-Stiefel

Aber dieser Mantel hatte immer einen losen Faden

Ich zog an ihm eines Nachts und zu meiner Überaschung

Führte er mich direkt an deinem Haus vorbei und auf den Weg

ich werde die Traurigkeit verlieren die ich fand

Unten in Lucky Town

Ich hatte einige Siege, es waren nur verschleierte Niederlagen

Nun kommen die Scherze durch meine Fußsohlen

Ich gehe seit langem auf dem Zweig des Glücks

Heute nacht gehe ich lässig und fühle keinen Schmerz

Nun, (trinken wir) auf deine Schönheit Baby

Auf mein Wohl

Auf die überfüllten Orte an die wir uns bringen

Wenn du Glück willst, mußt du es selbst machen

Heute nacht habe ich Dreck an meinen Händen

Aber ich baue mir ein neues Heim

Unten in Lucky Town

ich werde die Traurigkeit verlieren die ich fand

Unten in der glücklichen Stadt

Translation by: Frank Rohwer


Man At The Top

Here comes a lawyer,here comes a cop.

Here comes a rich, here comes a car-hop.

Goin' on forever, ain't ever gonna stop.

Everybody wants to be the man at the top.

Everybody wants to be the man at the top.

Everybody wants to be the man at the top.

Well, name your gun, son, shoot your shot.

Everybody wants to be the man at the top.

Now rich man,  poor man, beggar man, thief.

Doctor, lawyer, indian chief.

Don't ever start to ask them why.

Everybody wants to be the man at the top.

Everybody wants to be the man at the top.

Everybody wants to be the man at the top.

Well, name your gun, son, shoot your shot.

Everybody wants to be the man at the top.

All right (All right). Oh yeah (Oh yeah)

All right now (All right). Oh yeah (Oh yeah)

Man at the top says it's lonely up there.

If it is man, I don't care. Build a big white house.

Build a parking lot. Everybody wants to be the man at the

top.

Here comes a banker, here comes a businessman.

Here comes a kid with a guitar in his hand.

Dreamin' of his record in number one spot.

Everybody wants to be the man at the top.

Everybody wants to be the man at the top.

Everybody wants to be the man at the top.

Well, name your gun son, shoot your shot.

Everybody wants to be the man at the top.

Say right now (All right). Say yeah now (Oh yeah)

Say right...Who's the man at the top?

Who's the man at the top, now?

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Released on:

Tracks 1998 - Recorded at the Hit Factory 1 / 12 / 84


Man's Job

Germam Translation

Well you can go out with him

Play with all of his toys

But takin' care of you darlin'

Ain't for one of the boys

Oh there's somethin' in your soul

That he's gonna rob

And lovin' you baby lovin' you darlin'

Lovin' you woman is a man's man's job

Lovin' you's a man's job baby

Lovin' you's a man's job

Lovin' you's a man's job baby

Lovin' you's a man's job

Well now his kisses may thrill

Those other girls that he likes

But when it comes to treatin'

A real woman right

Well of all of his tricks

No they won't be enough

'Cause lovin' you baby lovin' you woman

Lovin' you darlin' is a man's man's job

Lovin' you's a man's job baby

Lovin' you's a man's job

Lovin' you's a man's job baby

Lovin' you's a man's job

You're dancin' with him he's holding you tight

I'm standing here waitin' to catch your eye

Your hand's on his neck as the music sways

All my illusions slip away

REPEAT RIFF FROM INTRO TWICE

Now if you're lookin' for a hero

Someone to save the day

Well darlin' my feet

They're made of clay

But I've got something in my soul

And I wanna give it up

But gettin' up the nerve

Gettin' up the nerve

Gettin' up the nerve is a man's man's job

Lovin' you's a man's job baby

Lovin' you's a man's job

Lovin' you's a man's job woman

Lovin' you's a man's job

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Released on:

Human Touch 1992

MTV - Unplugged 1992


Man's Job GER
Man's Job

German Translation

Nun du kannst mit ihm ausgehen

Spiel mit seinen Spielsachen

Aber paß auf dich auf Darling

Bist nicht für einen von den Jungs

Oh da ist etwas in deiner Seele

Das er stiehlt

Und dich zu lieben Baby, dich zu lieben Darling

Dich zu lieben Frau ist ein Männerjob

Nun, seine Küsse erregen vielleicht

Diese anderen Mädchen die er mag

Translation by: Frank Rohwer


Mansion On The Hill

German Translation

There's a place out on the edge of town, sir,

Risin' above the factories and the fields

Now, ever since I was a child, I can remember

That mansion on the hill

In the day you can see the children playing

On the road that leads to those gates of hardened steel

Steel gates that completely surround, sir,

The mansion on the hill

At night my daddy'd take me and we'd ride

Through the streets of a town so silent and still

Park on a back road along the highway side

Look up at that mansion on the hill

In the summer all the lights would shine

There'd be music playin', people laughin' all the time

Me and my sister, we'd hide out in the tall cornfields

Sit and listen to the mansion on the hill

Tonight down here in Linden Town

I watch the cars rushin' by, home from the mill

There's a beautiful full moon rising

Above the mansion on the hill

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Released on:

Nebraska 1982


Mansion On The Hill GER
Mansion On The Hill

German Translation

Es gibt eine Stelle am Stadtrand, Sir

Sie hebt sich ueber Fabrik und Feld empor

Seit ich ein Kind war erinnere ich mich

An diese Villa auf dem Berg.

Tagsueber siehst Du Kinder spielen

Auf der Strasse zu den Toren aus hartem Stahl

Stahltore, die umschliessen

Die Villa auf dem Berg.

Nachts nahm mein Vater mich mit, wir fuhren

Durch die Strassen einer Stadt so lautlos und still

Wir parkten entlang der Schnellstrasse

Schauten auf zur Villa auf dem Berg.

Im Sommer brannten alle Lichter

Musik spielte, Menschen lachten immer

Meine Schwester und ich versteckten uns im hohen Weizen

Und lauschten der Villa auf dem Berg.

Heute Nacht hier unten in Linden Town sehe ich

Die Autos von der Muehle heim rasen

Und ein schoener Vollmond geht auf

ueber der Villa auf dem Berg.


Many Rivers To Cross

There's so many rivers to cross

But I can't seem to find my way over

Wandering, I'm lost

As I travel along the white cliffs of Dover

Many rivers to cross

And it's only my will that keeps me alive.

I've been hurt, washed up for years

But I mearly survive because of my pride

And this loneliness won't leave me alone,

It's such a drag to be on your own

My baby left, and she wouldn't say why,

Now all I do is cry...

I've got many rivers to cross

And it's only my will that keeps me alive

I've got so many rivers to cross,

Oh, so many rivers to cross...


Marie

Marie, she comes to me in the twillight

When the cold wind blows down across the river

So cold, the fishermen cry

She rapes me in a rage of rainbow violence

Till my bare nerves they sing

Like the strings of a violin

And the room seeps into a savage silence

Soaked in colours, red as blood, blue as night

And Marie, she skins me alive

Carves her initials in my side

Lures me with her purrs

And cuts me with her knife

And the horses pound like thunder

They bolt like lightning on her range

She feels she's going under

And zeros in the rein

She's so strange

Well, Marie, you know, she's the queen of all the stallions

And I'm her prince of mules

And one of her principal fools

Marie, she's got the claws of a falcon

And she's perched on my shoulder

And slowly digging in

But she, oh she can be so strange sometimes

Like at night [....]

Or when the neighbours come to dine

Marie, she skins me alive

Burns her initials in my hide

And then leaves me all alone

Branded to the bone

And my heart pounds like her horses

Oh, stampeding on the ranch

Marie knows all the sources

And she shoots me with her pain

And for her, I take it, Lord, down in my veins

And I watch her dance like some berserk fairy

All across the concrete prairies of Bleeker Street

Marie she can be so strange

But she's the only lonely cowgirl on my range (ranch ?)


Marry Christmas Baby

I just came here tonight to say

I just wanna say

I just wanna say

Merry Christmas baby

Be sure to treat me nice

Chorus:

Merry Christmas baby

Be sure to treat me nice

Now I feel just like a new man

Living in paradise

Now listen

Now you see

I feel real good tonight

And I got music on the radio

I feel real good tonight

And I got music on the radio

And the boys in the band are playing pretty good

Now I feel just like I wanna kiss you underneath my mistletoe

But now listen

Santa came down the chimney

At a half past three

With lots of nice little presents for my

Baby and me

Chorus

Repeat

Chorus

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Released on:

War / Merry Chrristmas Baby   Single 1986


Mary Lou

See also Be True

Your scrapbook's filled with pictures

of all your leading men

Well baby don't me picture in there with them

Don't make me some little girl's dream

that can never come true

Oh baby, don't do it to me

I won't do it to you

Mary Lou, I'm not like all those other guys

Mary Lou, I won't fill pretty head with their pretty lies

Mary Lou, and dreams that never, never, never ever will

come true

Mary Lou, I don't deserve to hurt and make you cry like

you do

You seen all the romantic movies

You dream to take the boys home

But when the action fades you're left all alone

You deserve more than this, oh your love that can grow

And not playing outtakes, girl, from some late-late show,

no no

Mary Lou, you're not like all those others girls

Mary Lou, so afraid to shake up that real world

Every night you go out lookin' for

true love's satisfaction

But you'll end up setting for just lights, camera, action

In another cameo role with some bit-player you befriended

You're gonna go broken-hearted

lookin' for that happy ending

Mary Lou, I know all those movies too

Mary Lou, now one wants the dreams, baby, more than I do

But Mary Lou, you're gonna end up

baby just another ticket stub

Mary Lou, cryin' alone in the theatre

as the credits roll

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Released on:

Tracks 1998 - Recorded the Power Station 5 / 30 / 79


Mary Queen Of Arkansas

Mary queen of Arkansas, it's not too early for dreamin'

The sky is grown with cloud seed sown and a bastard's love can be redeeming

Mary, my queen, your soft hulk is reviving

No, you're not too late to desecrate, the servants are just rising

Well I'm just a lonely acrobat, the live wire is my trade

I've been a shine boy for your acid brat and a wharf rat of your state

Mary, my queen, your blows for freedom are missing

You're not man enough for me to hate or woman enough for kissing+

The big top is for dreamers, we can take the circus all the way to the border

And the gallows wait for martyrs whose papers are in order

But I was not born to live to die and you were not born for queenin'

It's not too late to infiltrate, the servants are just leavin'

Mary queen of Arkansas, your white skin is deceivin'

You wake and wait to lie in bait and you almost got me believin'

But on your bed Mary I can see the shadow of a noose

I don't understand how you can hold ma so tight and love me so damn loose

But I know a place where we can go, Mary

Where I can get a good job and start all over again clean

I got contacts deep in Mexico where the servants have been seen

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Released on:

Greetings from Asbury Park - N.J. 1973

Tracks 1998 - Recorded at CBS Studios (NY) 5 / 3 / 72


Meeting Across The River

Hey, Eddie, can you lend me a few bucks

And tonight can you get us a ride

Gotta make it through the tunnel

Got a meeting with a man on the other side

Hey Eddie, this guy, he's the real thing

So if you want to come along

You gotta promise you won't say anything

`Cause this guy don't dance

And the word's been passed this is our last chance

We gotta stay cool tonight, Eddie

`Cause man, we got ourselves out on that line

And if we blow this one

They ain't gonna be looking for just me this time

And all we gotta do is hold up our end

Here stuff this in your pocket

It'll look like you're carrying a friend

And remember, just don't smile

Change your shirt, `cause tonight we got style

Well Cherry says she's gonna walk

`Cause she found out I took her radio and hocked it

But Eddie, man, she don't understand

That two grand's practically sitting here in my pocket

And tonight's gonna be everything that I said

And when I walk through that door

I'm just gonna throw that money on the bed

She'll see this time I wasn't just talking

Then I'm gonna go out walking

Hey Eddie, can you catch us a ride?

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Released on:

Born to Run 1975

Born To Run / Meeting Across The River   Singlel - Oct. 1975


Missing

Woke up this morning, there was a chill in the air

Went to the kitchen, my cigarettes were lying there

Jacket hung on the chair, the way I left it last night

Everything was in place, everything seemed alright

But you were missing, missing

Last night I dreamed the sky went black

You were drifting down, couldn't get back

Lost in trouble, so far from home

I reached for you, my arms were like stone

Oh, but you were missing, missing... missing

Searched for something to explain

In the whispering rain and the trembling leaves

Tell me baby, where did you go

You were here just a moment ago

At nights I still hear your footsteps fall

I can hear your voice moving down the hall

Drifting through the bedroom

I lie awake but I don't move

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Released on:

Missing - Maxi CD 1995


Murder Incorporated

German Translation

Bobby's got a gun that he keeps beneath his pillow (oh yeah)

Out on the streets your chances are zero (oh yeah)

Take a look around you (come on down)

It ain't too complicated

You're messin' with Murder Incorporated

Now you check over your shoulder everywhere that you go (oh yeah)

Walkin down the streets, there's eyes in every shadow (oh yeah)

You better take a look around you (come on down)

That equipment you got's so outdated

You can't compete with Murder Incorporated

Everywhere you look now there's Murder Incorporated

So you keep a little secret down deep inside your dresser drawer

From dealing with the heat you're feelin' down on the killin' floor

No matter where you step you feel you're never out of danger

So complicated you keep complaining some bones hurtin'

I hear that you, you got dogged downtown, man it leaves your head cold (oh yea)

And everywhere you look life ain't got no soul (oh yeah)

That apartment you live in feels like it's just a place to hide

When your walkin' down the streets you won't need nowhere there to hide

Now the cops reported you as just another homicide

I could tell that you was just frustrated from livin' with Murder

Incorporated

Incorporated

Everywhere you look now

Murder Incorporated

Down on your knees

Murder

Everywhere that you turn it's murder

Murder

Everywhere you look there's murder.

Aaaah, mmmmm, yeah, I said aaah, mmmmm, yeah

I said aaah, wooo, yeah

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Released on:

Greatest Hits 1995

Murder Incorporated Maxi-CD 1995

Secret Garden Maxi-CD 1995 (Live at Tramps, NYC)

Written for Born In The USA 1984. Perhaps during the Electric Nebraska session in 1983.


Murder Incorporated GER
Murder Incorporated

German Translation

Bobby hat eine Waffe, die er unter seinem Kopfkissen aufbewahrt

Unten auf der Strasse sind deine Chancen gleich Null

Schau dich um (los mach schon)

Es ist nicht allzu kompliziert

Du laesst dich ein mit dem organisierten Mord

Du schaust nun pruefend ueber deine Schultern, ueberall, wo du hingehst

Wenn du die Strasse entlanggehst, siehst du Augen in jedem Schatten

Du schaust dich besser um, deine Ausruestung ist so veraltet

Du kannst nicht konkurrieren mit dem organisierten Mord

Ueberall wo du hinschaust, organisierter Mord

Dein kleines Geheimnis behaelst du also tief unten in der Schublade deiner

  Kommode

Aber mit der Hitze zu verhandeln laesst dich fuehlen wie auf dem Boden des

  Schlachtfeldes

Egal, wo du hintrittst, du bist immer in Gefahr

Der einzige Luxus, den du dir leistest ist eine goldbeschichtete

  abgesaegte Zweiunddreissiger

Ich hoere, dass du...

Du hast einen Job in der Innenstadt, Mann, damit du einen kuehlen Kopf

bewahrst

Und ueberall, wo du hinsiehst, ist das Leben seelenlos

Die Wohnung, in der du lebst, scheint fuer dich bloss ein Versteck zu sein

Wenn du die Strasse hinuntergehst, wirst du keinem in die Augen sehen

Die Bullen meldeten dich einfach nur als einen weiteren Moerder

Aber ich kann ihnen sagen, du warst einfach nur frustriert

Vom Leben mit dem organisierten Mord

Ueberall, wo du hinschaust - organisierter Mord

Organisierter Mord


My Beautiful Reward

Germal Translation

Well I sought gold and diamond rings

My own drug to ease the pain that living brings

Walked from the mountain to the valley floor

Searching for my beautiful reward

Searching for my beautiful reward

>From a house on a hill a sacred light shines

I walk through these rooms but none of them are mine

Down empty hallways I went from door to door

Searching for my beautiful reward

Searching for my beautiful reward

Well your hair shone in the sun

I was so high I was the lucky one

Then I came crashing down like a drunk on a barroom floor

Searching for my beautiful reward

Searching for my beautiful reward

Tonight I can feel the cold wind at my back

I'm flyin' high over gray fields my feathers long and black

Down along the river's silent edge I soar

Searching for my beautiful reward

Searching for my beautiful reward

Ian McLagen, Hammond organ

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Released on:

Lucky Town 1992


My Beautiful Reward GER
My Beautiful Reward

German Translation

Nun, ich suchte Gold und Diamantringe

Meine eigene Droge um mir die Qualen zu erleichtern die das Leben bringt

Ging vom Berg

Zum Grund des Tals

Suchte nach meiner wunderbaren Belohnung

Von einem Haus auf dem Berg scheint heiliges Licht

Ich ging durch diese Räume aber keiner davon ist meiner

Unten leere Korridore

Ich ging von Tür zu Tür

Suchte nach meiner wunderbaren Belohnung

Dein Haar leuchtete in der Sonne

Ich war so high, ich war der Glückliche

Dann knallte ich runter wie ein Drink auf den Boden einer Bar

Suchte nach meiner wunderbaren Belohnung

Heute nacht kann ich den kalten Wind im Nacken spüren

Ich fliege hoch über graue Felder

Meine Federn sind lang und schwarz

Unten entlang der stillen Ufer des Flusses steige ich auf

Suche nach meiner wunderbaren Belohnung

Translation by: Frank Rohwer


My Best Was Never Good Enough

Every cloud has a silver lining

Every dog has his day

She said, now don't say nothin'

If you don't have nothing nice to say

And the tough now they get goin'

When the goin' gets tough

But for you my best was never good enough

Now, don't try for a home run babe

If you can get the job done with a hit

Remember, a quitter never wins

And a winner never quits

The sun don't shine on a sleepin dog's ass

And all the rest of that stuff

But for you my best was never good enough

If God gives you nothin' but lemons

Better make some lemonade

The early bird catches the fuckin' worm

Rome wasn't built in a day

Now life's like a box of chocolates

You never know what you're gonna get

Stupid is as stupid does

And all the rest of that shit

Come on pretty baby call my bluff

Cause for you my best was never good enough

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Released on:

The Ghost Of Tom Joad 1995


My Father's House

German Translation

Last night I dreamed that I was a child

Out where the pines grow wild and tall

I was trying to make it home through the forest

Before the darkness falls

I heard the wind rustling through the trees

And ghostly voices rose from the fields

I ran with my heart pounding down that broken path

With the devil snappin' at my heels

I broke through the trees, and there in the night

My father's house stood shining hard and bright

The branches and brambles tore my clothes and scratched my arms

But I ran till I fell, shaking in his arms

I awoke and I imagined the hard things that pulled us apart

Will never again, sir, tear us from each other's hearts

I got dressed, and to that house I did ride

From out on the road, I could see its windows shining in light

I walked up the steps and stood on the porch

A woman I didn't recognize came and spoke to me through a chained door

I told her my story, and who I'd come for

She said "I'm sorry, son, but no one by that name lives here anymore"

My father's house shines hard and bright

It stands like a beacon calling me in the night

Calling and calling, so cold and alone

Shining `cross this dark highway where our sins lie unatoned

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Released on:

Nebraska 1982


My Fathers House GER
My Fathers House

German Translation

Heute nacht traeumte ich, ich waer ein Kind da draussen

Wo die Tannen wild und hoch wachsen.

Ich versuchte durch den Wald nach Hause zu kommen bevor es dunkel wurde

Ich hoerte den Wind durch die Baeume rascheln und Geisterstimmen aus

Den Feldern, ich rannte mit pochendem Herzen den verfallenen Weg hinunter

Und der Teufel schnappte nach meinen Fersen.

Ich brach durch die Baeume, da strahlte das Haus meines Vaters

Hell und hart in der Nacht, die aeste und Domenbuesche zerrissen

Meine Kleider, zerkratzten meine Arme, aber ich lief bis ich

Zitternd in seine Arme fiel.

Ich wachte auf und stellte mir vor, die schweren Sachen

Die uns trennten, wuerden uns nie wieder auseinanderreissen

Ich zog mich an und fuhr dahin.

Von der Strasse aus konnte ich sehen, wie die Fenster

Im Licht erstrahlten.

Ich ging die Treppe hoch und stand im Eingang.

Da kam eine Frau, die ich nicht erkannte, und sprach mich durch

Die angekettete Tuer an. Ich erzaehlte meine Geschichte und wen ich

Sehen wollte, sie sagte "Es tut mir leid, aber hier wohnt keiner mehr

Der so heisst".

Das Haus meines Vaters strahlt hart und hell wie ein Leuchtturm

In der Nacht, es ruft mich, ruft so kalt und einsam, es strahlt

ueber diese dunkle Strasse, wo unsere Suenden ungesuehnt ruhen.


My Hometown

I was eight years old and running with a dime in my hand

Into the bus stop to pick up a paper for my old man

I'd sit on his lap in that big old Buick and steer as we drove through town

He'd tousle my hair and say son take a good look around

This is your hometown, this is your hometown

This is your hometown, this is your hometown

In `65 tension was running high at my high school

There was a lot of fights between the black and white

There was nothing you could do

Two cars at a light on a Saturday night in the back seat there was a gun

Words were passed in a shotgun blast

Troubled times had come to my hometown

My hometown, my hometown, my hometown

Now Main Street's whitewashed windows and vacant stores

Seems like there ain't nobody wants to come down here no more

They're closing down the textile mill across the railroad tracks

Foreman says these jobs are going boys and they ain't coming back to

Your hometown, your hometown, your hometown, your hometown

Last night me and Kate we laid in bed talking about getting out

Packing up our bags maybe heading south

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

Last night I sat him up behind the wheel and said son take a good look around

This is your hometown

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Released on:

Born In The U.S.A.1984

My Hometown / Santa Clause Is Coming To Town   Single 1985

Live 1975 - 1985   Live-Box 1986 (Los Angeles Coliseum, 9/30/85)


My Love Will Not Let You Down

At night I go to bed

But I just can't sleep

I got something runnin' around my head

Ooh that just won't keep

In the silence I hear my heart beatin'

Time slippin' away

I got a time bomb tickin' deep inside of me

Girl all I wan't to say

I keep searchin' for you darlin'

Searchin everywhere I go

And when I find you there's gonna be just one thing that you gotta know

One thing you gotta know

My love, love, love, love, love, love, will not let you down

My love, love, love, love, love, love, will not let you down

At night I walk the streets lookin' for romance

But I always end up stumblin' in a half transe

I search for a connection in some new eyes

That hardly protect you from too many dreams passed by

I see you standin, across the room watchin' me without a sound

I'm gonna push my way through that crowd

I'm gonna tear your holy walls down

Tear all your walls down

My love, love, love, love, love, love, will not let you down

My love, love, love, love, love, love, will not let you down

My love, love, love, love, love, love, will not let you down

My love, love, love, love, love, love, will not let you down

Well hold still now darlin'

Hold still for God's sake

Cause I got me a promise

I ain't afraid to make (I ain't afraid to make)

My love, love, love, love, love, love, will not let you down

My love, love, love, love, love, love, will not let you down

My love, love, love, love, love, love, will not let you down

My love, love, love, love, love, love, will not let you down

My love, love, love, love, love, love, will not let you down

My love, love, love, love, love, love, will not let you down

My love, love, love, love, love, love, will not let you down

My love, love, love, love, love, love, will not let you down

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Released on:

Tracks 1998 - Recorded at the Hit Factory 5 / 5 / 82

Born In The U.S.A. ottake 1983/84


My Lover Man

You treated me hard and made my heart ache

I know you're only human, and men they make mistakes

Your life with her turned to black

And now you want our love back

Well come into my arms and fall, my lover man

Was it a gypsy's curse or a hex sign

Or was it just that simple thing that led you from these arms of mine

Oh yes, I've had the days

To grow used to your foolish ways

And what is it really, after all, my lover man

I can see the change in your eyes

There's no need to apologize

We stood at the wishing well

Our dreams like coins into the water fell

The water so cold and black

There was no going back

I don't mean to cause you hurt or cause you pain

Life is short and love's a dirty game

Now there's no need for our game to end

Come close and we'll begin

To find our beautiful selves again, my loverman

My loverman

My loverman

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Released on:

Tracks 1998 - Recorded at Soundworks West (LA), 12/4/90


Nebraska

German Translation

I saw her standin' on her front lawn just twirlin' her baton

Me and her went for a ride sir and ten innocent people died

From the town of Lincoln Nebraska with a sawed-off .410 on my lap

Through to the badlands of Wyoming I killed everything in my path

I can't say that I'm sorry for the things that we done

At least for a little while sir me and her we had us some fun

The jury brought in a guilty verdict and the judge he sentenced me to death

Midnight in a prison storeroom with leather straps across my chest

Sheriff when the man pulls that switch sir and snaps my poor neck back

You make sure my pretty baby is sittin' right there on my lap

They declared me unfit to live said into that great void my soul'd be hurled

They wanted to know why I did what I did

Well sir I guess there's just a meanness in this world

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Released on:

Nebrask 1982

Live 1975 - 1985   Live-Box 1986 (Meadowlands Arena, 8/6/84)


Nebraska GER
Nebraska

German Translation

Ich sah sie im Vorgarten stehen und ihren Tambourstab wirbeln

Sie und ich fuhren los, Sir, und 10 unschuldige Leute starben

Von Lincoln in Nebraska aus, eine abgesaegte Flinte auf dem Schoss

Bis ins Wuestenland Wyoming legte ich alles um was mir

ueber den Weg lief

Kann nicht sagen, dass es mir leid tut, was wir getan haben

Sie und ich, Sir, hatten wenigstens eine Zeitlang unseren Spass

Die Geschworenen sprechen mich schuldig, der Richter sprach des

Todesurteil aus

Mitternacht im Gefaengnis-Lagerraum, Lederriemen um meine Brust

Sheriff, wenn der Mann diesen Hebel zieht und mir den armen Kopf

zurueckzerrt

Sehen Sie zu, dass mein schoenes Baby auf meinen Schoss liegt

Sie erklaerten mich fuer lebensuntauglich, meine Seele wird ins grosse

Nichts geschleudert

Sie wollten wissen, warum ich tat was ich tat

Nur, Sir, ich glaube, es ist halt was Gemeines auf der Welt.


New Jersey Is My Home

I'm proud New Jersey is my home

Yeah said I'm proud now New Jersey is my home

Well they're breaking out the tractors to build more interstates

They're moving out my neighbors all across the Garden State

I'm proud New Jersey is my home

Yeah said I'm proud now New Jersey is my home

They're closing all the factories making people lose their jobs

While the fat cats get rich living high upon the hog

I'm proud New Jersey is my home

Yeah said I'm proud now New Jersey is my home

Yeah they're grooving down at Freehold this bird's left in line (?)

? ain't what the people had in mind

I'm proud New Jersey is my home

Yeah said I'm proud now New Jersey is my home

I'm proud New Jersey is my home

Yeah so proud that New Jersey is my home

Yes we're not gonna take it gonna make that final stand

'Cuz you know we ain't ever gonna let them destroy the promised land

Yeah, yeah, yeah

New Jersey is my home

New Jersey is my home

New Jersey is my home and I like it

Yeah I'm going down the Garden State Parkway I'm passing my hometowns

I'm going here to get my friends gonna mess around this town

Yeah, yeah


New York City Serenade

Billy, he's down by the railroad tracks, sittin' low in the back seat of his Cadillac,

Diamond Jackie, she's so intact, she falls so softly beneath him,

Jackie's heels are stacked, Billy's got cleats on his boots,

Together they're gonna boogaloo down Broadway and come back home with the loot,

It's midnight in Manhattan, this is no time to get cute, it's a mad dog's

promenade,

So walk tall, or baby don't walk at all.

Fish lady, fish lady, fish lady she baits them tenement walls,

She won't take cornerboys, ain't got no money, and they're so easy,

I said, "Hey baby won't you take my hand, walk me down Broadway,

I'm a young man and I talk real loud, yeah, baby walk real proud for you.

So shake it away, so shake away your street life, shake away your city life,

And hook up to the train, hook up to the night train, hook it up hook up to the,

hook up to the train,

But I know that she won't take the train, no she won't take the train,

No she won't take the train, no she won't take the train

She's afraid them tracks are gonna slow her down,

And when she turns this boy'll be gone

So long, sometimes you just gotta walk on.

Hey vibes man, hey jazz man play me your serenade

Any deeper blue and you're playin' in your grave

Save your notes, don't spend 'em on the blues boy,

Save your notes, don't spend 'em on the darlin' yearlin' sharp boy,

Straight for the church note ringin', vibes man sting a trash can

Listen to your junk man, listen to your junk man,

Listen to your junk man, listen to your junk man,

He's singin', singin', singin', singin'.

All dressed up in satin, walkin' past the alley.

Watch out for you junk man, watch out for your junk man,

Watch out for your junk man.

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Released on:

The Wild, The Innocent And The E Street Shuffle1973


Night

German Translation

Alternative Version 1

You get up every morning at the sound of the bell

You get to work late and the boss man's giving you hell

Till you're out on a midnight run

Losing your heart to a beautiful one

And it feels right as you lock up the house

Turn out the lights and step out into the night

And the world is busting at its seams

And you're just a prisoner of your dreams

Holding on for your life `cause you work all day

To blow `em away in the night

The rat traps filled with soul crusaders

The circuits lined and jammed with chromed invaders

And she's so pretty that you're lost in the stars

As you jockey your way through the cars

And sit at the light, as it changes to green

With your faith in your machine off you scream into the night

And you're in love with all the wonder it brings

And every muscle in your body sings as the highway ignites

You work nine to five and somehow you survive till the night

Hell all day they're busting you up on the outside

But tonight you're gonna break on through to the inside

And it'll be right, it'll be right, and it'll be tonight

And you know she will be waiting there

And you'll find her somehow you swear

Somewhere tonight you run sad and free

Until all you can see is the night

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Released on:

Born to Run 1975


Night ALT1
Night

Get up every morning at the sound of the bell

Get to work late and the boss man give you hell

And you're out on a midnight run

you're not taking any heat from anyone.

And it feels right,

as you lock up the house,

turn out the light

and step out into the night.

And the world is bustin' out it seems

and you're just a prisoner of your dreams

holdin' on for your life.

You work all day to prove it in the night

The rat trap's filled with soul crusaders

Circus line and jammed with

you're checking with your buddies on the boulevard

as you jockey your way through the cars

and sit at the light,

as it changes to green,

you  ???   the machine

and off you scream into the night.

And you're in love with all the wonder it brings

And every muscle in your body sings

As the highway ignites

You work nine to five trying to stay alive in the night.

You're out all day bustin your rump on the outside,

But tonight you're going to break on through to the inside,

tonight tonight tonight tonight tonight.

And you know she will be waiting there

And you'll find her somehow you swear, somewhere, tonight

You'll run wild and free and all you will see

Is the night, the night, the night.


Night GER
Night

German Translation

Du stehst jeden Morgen auf beim Läuten der Glocke

Du kommst zur Arbeit zu spät und der Chef gibt dir die Hülle

Bis du draußen bist zu einer Mitternachts-Tour

Verlierst dein Herz an eine Schöne

Und es fühlt sich gut an

Wenn du das Haus abschließt

Das Licht ausschaltest

Und rausspringst in die Nacht

Und die Welt ist kaputt wie es scheint

Und du bist nur ein Gefangener deiner Träume

Halte sie fest für dein Leben

Denn du arbeitest jeden Tag um sie wegzublasen in die Nacht

Die Rattenfallen sind voller Seelen-Kreuzritter

Die Rennstrecken sind kaputt und verstopft mit Chrom-Eindringlingern

Und sie ist so sch”n daá du verlorengehst in den Sternen

Als du dich durch die Autos dr„ngelst

Und bei der Ampel sitzt

Als sie auf gr�n springt

Mit deinem Vertrauen in deine Maschine

Schreist du raus in die Nacht

Und du bist verliebt mit all den Wundern die es bringt

Und jeder Muskel in deinem Körper singt

Als der Highway entflammt

Du arbeitest von 9.00 - 5.00 und irgendwie überlebst du bis zur Nacht

Hülle jeden Tag, sie machen dich kaputt an der Aussenseite

Aber heute nacht brichst du durch nach innen

Und es wird gut sein, und es wird gut sein

Und es wird heute nacht sein

Und du weißt sie wird dort warten

Und du wirst sie irgendwie finden schwörst du

Irgendwie heute nacht

Du rennst traurig und frei bis alles was du siehst die Nacht ist

Translation by: Frank Rohwer


No Need

She's a broken-winged angel

Refugee from things her mama knew

And she's done everything the Bible said not to do

Well I don't know if she believes in Jesus

The good book, or even Satan you see

I'm just trying to get her to believe in me

Oh 'cause when I see her face

No matter where I am I'm in the right place

And the girls I left behind

Oh they never satisfied me, it's so true

But baby, baby, you do

She's the bells of Eight Street

High society's midnight vamp

Oh she's my queen and I'm her tramp

Yes she's a free falling flyer

And she flows whichever way that the wind blows

And she's the only woman I ever knew

Who could teach me more about me, bind me in chains

And still let me be free

My heart swells up inside

Starts beating like I'm gonna die

And my body breakes in pain

As she falls down on me like the rain

It's only her and my songs that keep me from going insane

And I guess I'm one of those people

Who measure love in pain

You see, I've never had too much personal succes

And to me there's nothing sweeter

Than a teardrop of rain

I just love that feeling of sadness

Oh it worries me so [...]

She's my West Side angel

She looks so funky in her Hollywood wing

And she knows how I stumble when I talk

So she says: "Don't talk, babe, just sing"

And I have seen her body in candle glow

In the deep heart of the night

When you finally let loose of everything

Oh and she loves me like such a good woman

And still, oh, she's a sweet young thing

And I know this might sound crazy or just the words of a young fool

But I swear I'd be on the floor

If she ever walked out the door

I swear I'd wish that she would shoot me first

And I know that sounds insane but sometimes I believe it's true

And that's what scares me the worst

'Cause I dance for her

Take any chance for her

And I play for her

Lord God knows I play for her

And I need for her

And I bleed for her


No Surrender

German Translation

We busted out of class had to get away from those fools

We learned more from a three-minute record than we ever learned in school

Tonight I heart the neighborhood drummer sound

I can feel my heart begin to pound

You say you're tired and you just want to close your eyes and follow your

dreams down

We made a promise we swore we'd always remember

No retreat, believe me, no surrender

Like soldiers in the winter's night with a vow to defend

No retreat, believe me, no surrender

Now young faces grow sad and old and hearts of fire grow cold

We swore blood brothers against the wind

I'm ready to grow young again

And hear your sister's voice calling us home across the open yards

Believin' we could cut someplace of our own

With these drums and these guitars

We made a promise we swore we'd always remember

No retreat, believe me, no surrender

Blood brothers in the stormy night with a vow to defend

No retreat, believe me, no surrender

Now on the street tonight the lights grow dim

The walls of my room are closing in

But it's good to see your smiling face and to hear your voice again

We could sleep in the twilight by the river side

With a wide open country in our hearts

And these romanics dreams in our heads

We made a promise...

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Released on:

Born In The USA1984

Live 1975 - 1985   Live-Box 1986 (Meadowlands Arena, 8/6/84)


No Surrender GER
No Surrender

German Translation

Wir verließen die Klasse, gingen fort von diesen Idioten

Wir lernten mehr von einer 3-Minuten-Schallplatte Baby

Als wir jemals in der Schule lernten

Nachts hörte ich das Schlagzeug meines Nachbarn

Und konnte fühlen, wie mein Herz zu schlagen begann

Du sagst, Du bist müde und willst nur die Augen schlieáen

Und Deinen Träumen folgen

Wir machten ein Versprechen

Wir schworen, wir werden uns immer daran erinnern

Kein Zurück Baby, keine Kapitulation

Wie Soldaten in einer Winternacht mit dem Befehl sich zu verteidigen

Kein Zurück Baby, keine Kapitulation

Nun werden die jungen Gesichter traurig und alt

Und die feurigen Herzen werden kalt

Wir schworen Blutsbrüder gegen den Wind

Nun bin ich bereit wieder jung zu werden

Und h”ren wie Deine Schwester uns nach Hause ruft

Über die offenen Felder

Mann, vielleicht können wir etwas von damals zurückholen

Mit diesem Schlagzeug und diesen Gitarren

Blutsbrüder in einer Sommernacht mit dem Befehl sich zu verteidigen...

In den Straáen werden heute Nacht die Lichter dunkler

Die Wände in meinem Zimmer schließen mich ein

Aber es ist schön Dein lächelndes Gesicht zu sehen

Und Deine Stimme wieder zu hören

Wir können in der Dämmerung schlafen

Bei dem Flußbett

Mit einer weiten, offenen Landschaft in unseren Herzen

Und diesen romantischen Träumen im Kopf

Album-Version 3. Strophe:

draußen wütet ein Krieg

Du sagst, wir können nichts mehr gewinnen

Ich will unter einem friedlichen Himmel schlafen

Im Bett von meinem Schatz ...

Translation by: Frank Rohwer


None But The Brave

Tonight down on Union Street

I'm thinkin' back, baby, to you and me

To the way you used to be

And your words come back to me

From passing cars

Their voices sing out

In empy bars where guitars ring out

We'd be the lucky one to get out

You said, None baby but the brave

No one baby but the brave

Oh strong enough to save something

From what they gave

None baby but the brave

No one baby but the brave

Now in dreams these nights I see you my friend

The way you were back then

Ah, on a night like this

I know that girl no longer exists

Except for a moment in some stranger's eyes

Or in a nameless girl

In cars rushin' by

That's where I find you tonight

And in my heart it still survives

To none, baby, but the brave

No one baby but the brave

Oh strong enough to save

Something from the love they gave

Yeah, none baby but the brave

No one baby but the brave

Now tonight once more I search

Every face on that crowded floor

Looking for I don't know what for

Something that ain't there no more

There's a girl standin' by the band

She reminds me of you

And I asked her to danceAs the drummer counts his play

I take her hand and we move away

And tonight, now I'll see old friends

caught in things they got no chance to win

Just gettin' beaten, and then playin' again

'Till their strength gives out

Or their hearts give in

Who's that man who thinks

he can decide whose dreams will live

And who(se) shall be pushed aside

Did he ever walk down this streets at night

And looked into the eyes

Baby, of none, baby, but the brave

No one baby but the brave

No, none baby but the brave

No one baby but the brave

No one baby,no one but the brave

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Born in the U.S.A. Outtake 1983/84


On The Prowl

(Cover: Cats On A Smooth Surface. Written by Springsteen)

Well night after lonely night

My head don't touch the bed

I'm on a two-lane black-top

Cruisin' in my rocket sled

I'm on the prowl

Yeah I'm on the prowl

Well I'm looking for a gal, gal, gal

Hey, hey, hey, I'm on the prowl

There's only one thing that I'm certain

Every mile, mile, mile

Keep a-searchin', serachin', serachin'

For a wild, wild, child

I'm on the prowl

I'm on the prowl

I'm looking for a gal, gal, gal

Hey, hey, hey, I'm on the prowl

They got a name for Dracula

And Frankenstein's son

They ain't got no name now (Mister)

For this monster (thing that) I've become

I'm on the prowl

I'm on the prowl

I'm looking for a gal, gal, gal

Hey, hey, hey, I'm on the prowl

I keep lookin'

I keep searchin'

I keep searchin'

I keep searchin'

Only one thing that I'm certain

Every mile, mile, mile

I keep searchin', searchin', searchin', searchin', searchin'

In the morning I check my mirror

And I hang my head and cry

But at night I get a burning, burning, burning deep inside

I'm on the prowl

I'm on the prowl

I'm looking for a gal, gal, gal

Hey, hey, hey, I'm on the prowl

In the morning I check my mirror

And I hang my head and cry

But at night I get a burning, burning, burning, burning, burning. burning

There's only one thing that I'm certain

Every while, while, while

While my heart is hurtin', hurtin'

Every mile, mile, mile

I gotta keep searchin', searchin', searchin', searchin', searchin'


One Step Up

Italian Translation

Woke up this morning my house was cold

Checked out the furnace she wasn't burnin'

Went out and hoped in my old Ford

Hit the engine but she ain't turnin'

We've given each other some hard lessons lately

But we ain't learnin'

We're the same sad story that's a fact

One step up and two steps back

Bird on a wire outside my motel room

But he ain't singin'

Girl in white outside a church in June

But the church bells they ain't ringing

I'm sitting here in this bar tonight

But all I'm thinkin' is

I'm the same old story same old act

One step up and two steps back

It's the same thing night on night

Who's wrong baby who's right

Another fight and I slam the door on

Another battle in our dirty little war

When I look at myself I don't see

The man I wanted to be

Somewhere along the line I slipped off track

I'm caught movin' one step up and two steps back

There's a girl across the bar

I get the message she's sending

Mmm she ain't lookin' to married

And me well honey I'm pretending

Last night I dreamed I held you in my arms

The music was never-ending

We danced as the evening sky faded to black

One step up and two steps back

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Released on:

Tunnel Of Love 1978

One Step Up / Roulette   Single 1988


One Step Up ITA
One Step Up

Italian Translation

Mi sono svegliato stamattina la casa era fredda

Ho controllato il riscaldamento non funzionava

Sono uscito e sono salito sulla mia vecchia Ford

Ho girato la chiavetta ma il motore non si metteva in moto

Piu tardi ci siamo inflitti vicendevolmente delle dure lezioni

Man non abbiamo imparato nulla

Siamo la stessa vecchia storia questo e un dato di fatto

Un passo avanti e due indietro

Un uccello sul filo fuori dalla mia stanza d'albergo

Ma non sta cantando

Un aragazza vestita di bianco davanti a una chiesa in giugno

Ma le campane non suonano

Sono seduto in questo bar stasera

Ma tutto quello a cui penso e

Che siamo la stessa vecchia storia la stessa vecchia scena

Un passo avanti e due indietro

E la stessa stroria notte dopo notte

Chi ha torto e chi ha ragione

Un  altro combattimento e io sbatto la porta

Un'altra battaglia nella nostra sporca piccola guerra

Quando mi guardo non vedo

L'uomo che avrei voluto essere

Da qualche parte lungo la strada ho perso il sentiero

Mentre muovevo un passo avanti e due indietro

C'e una ragazza dietro il banco

Ho afferrato il messaggio che mi sta mandando

Mmm non sembra troppo sposata

E io, beb, non faccio sul serio

Ieri notte ho sognato che ti stringevo tra le braccia

La musica non finiva mai

Ballavamo fino a quando il cielo del pomeriggio si tingeva di nero

Un passo avanti e due indietro


Open All Night

German Translation

Well, I had the carburator, baby, cleaned and checked

With her line blown out she's hummin' like a turbojet

Propped her up in the backyard on concrete blocks

For a new clutch plate and a new set of shocks

Took her down to the carwash, check the plugs and point

Well, I'm goin' out tonight. I'm gonna rock that joint

Early north Jersey industrial skyline

I'm a all-set cobra jet creepin' through the nighttime

Gotta find a gas station, gotta find a pay phone

This turnpike sure is spooky at night when you're all alone

Gotta hit the gas, baby. I'm running late

This New Jersey in the mornin' like a lunar landscape

Now, the boss don't dig me, so he put me on the night shift

It's an all-night run to get back to where my baby lives

In the wee, wee hours your mind gets hazy

Radio relays towers, won't you lead me to my baby?

Underneath the overpass, trooper hits his party light switch

Good night, good luck. One, two power shift

I met Wanda when she was employed

Behind the counter at Route Sixty Bob's Big Boy Fried Chicken

On the front seat, she's sittin' in my lap

We're wipin' our fingers on a Texaco road map

I remember Wanda up on scrap metal hill

With them big brown eyes that make your heart stand still

Well, at five a.m., oil pressure's sinkin' fast

I make a pit stop, wipe the windshield, check the gas

Gotta call my baby on the telephone

Let her know that her daddy's comin' on home

Sit tight, little mama, I'm comin' `round

I got three more hours, but I'm coverin' ground

Your eyes get itchy in the wee, wee hours

Sun's just a red ball risin' over them refinery towers

Radio's jammed up with gospel stations

Lost souls callin' long distance salvation

Hey, mister deejay, won'tcha hear my last prayer?

Hey, ho, rock'n'roll, deliver me from nowhere

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Released on:

Nebraska 1982

Open All Nigh / The Bif Payback   Single 1982


Open All Night GER
Open All Night

German Translation

Vergaser ist ueberholt die Leitung durchgeblasen jetzt summt er

 wie ein Turbo

Hab' ihn auf Betonplatten im Hinterhof aufgebockt fuer die neue Kupplungs-

 scheibe und Daempfer dann ab in die Waschstrasse

Kerzen und Kontakte nachgeschaut

Heut' abend fahre ich los und mach' einen drauf

Nord Jersey frueh am Morgen Industrieskyline bin gut drauf

Die Spitzenkobra, schleiche durch die Nacht.

Muss Tankstelle und Telefon finden die Zollschranke wirkt unheimlich

Wenn Du nachts so ganz allein bist,

Muss voll drauftreten weil ich spaet dran bin

Morgens sieht New Jersey wie eine Mondlandschaft aus.

Der Chef kann mich nicht ab, schickte mich auf Nachtschicht ist eine

Ganznachtfahrt dahin wo mein Maedchen wohnt

So frueh am Morgen kannst Du nicht klar denken

Radioantennentuerme, bringt mich zu meinem Baby

Unter der Bruecke schmeisst ein Beamter sein Partylicht an, na dann

Gute Nacht, viel Glueck, eins zwo kickdown...!

lch lernte Wanda kennen als sie hinter der Theke in Bob's Big Boy

Auf Route 60 arbeitete.

Brathaehnchen auf dem Vordersitz sie auf meinem Schoss wir wischen uns

Die Finger on einer Texaco Landkarte ab.

lch sehe sie noch auf dem Haufen Metallschrott stehen

Wenn Du diese grossen braunen Augen siehst bleibt Dein Herz stehen.

5.00 h, oeldruck sinkt schnell Boxenstop Scheibe putzen nach Sprit schauen

Muss mein Baby unbedingt anrufen ihr sagen dass ihr Alter kommt

Halt' Dich fest ich komme, noch 3 Stunden aber ich komme voran.

So frueh am Morgen brennen Dir die Augen

Die Sonne steigt, ein roter Ball ueber der Raffinerie

Radio ist verstopft mit Gospel Sendern verlorene Seelen rufen an

Rettung kommt per Ferngespraech

Hey Mr. DJ hoer doch mein letztes Gebet!

Hy ho Rock'n' Roll erloese mich von dem Nichts!


Out In The Street

Put on your best dress baby

And darlin', fix your hair up right

Cause there's a party, honey

Way down beneath the neon lights

All day you've been working that hard line

Now tonight you're gonna have a good time

I work five days a week girl

Loading crates down on the dock

I take my hard earned money

And meet my girl down on the block

And Monday when the foreman calls time

I've already got Friday on my mind

When that whistle blows

Girl, I'm down the street

I'm home, I'm out of my work clothes

When I'm out in the street

I walk the way I wanna walk

When I'm out in the street

I talk the way I wanna talk

When I'm out in the street

When I'm out in the street

When I'm out in the street, girl

Well, I never feel alone

When I'm out in the street, girl

In the crowd I feel at home

The black and whites they cruise by

And they watch us from the corner of their eye

But there ain't no doubt girl, down here

We ain't gonna take what they're handing out

When I'm out in the street

I walk the way I wanna walk

When I'm out in the street

I talk the way I wanna talk

Baby, out in the street I don't feel sad or blue

Baby, out in the street I'll be waiting for you

When the whistle blows

Girl, I'm down the street

I'm home, I'm out of my work clothes

When I'm out in the street

I walk the way I wanna walk

When I'm out in the street

I talk the way I wanna talk

When I'm out in the street

Pretty girls, they're all passing by

When I'm out in the street

From the corner, we give them the eye

Baby, out in the street I just feel all right

Meet me out in the street, little girl, tonight

Meet me out in the street

Meet me out in the street

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Released on:

The River 1980


Out Of Work

(Cover: Gary U.S.Bonds. Written by Springsteen)

8 a.m. I'm up and my feet beating on the sidewalk

Down at the unemployment agency, all I get is talk

I check the want ads but there just ain't nobody hiring

What's a man supposed to do when he's down and he's

Out of work

I need a job, I'm out of work

I'm unemployed, I'm out of work

I need a job, I'm out of work

I go to pick my girl up

Her name is Linda Brown

Her dad invites me in

He tells me to sit down

The small talk that we're making

Is going pretty smooth

But then he drops a bomb

"Son, what d'ya do ?"

I'm out of work

I need a job, I'm out of work

I'm unemployed, I'm out of work

I need a job, I'm out of work

Hey Mr President I know you got your plans

You're doing all you can now to aid the little man

We got to do our best to whip that inflation down

Maybe you got a job for me just driving you around

I'm out of work

These hard times, they're enough

To make a man lose his mind

I'm out of work

Up there you got a job but down here below

I'm out of work

I need a job, I'm out of work

I'm unemployed, I'm out of work

I need a job, I'm out of work

I'm out of work

I'm out of work

I'm out of work

I'm out of work

I'm out of work

I'm out of work

I'm out of work


Outside Looking In

It's over now, the thing we had

I ain't sorry, babe, I just feel mad

You walk real pretty and you talk real fine

Night after night you wrote the lines

My life's the same story

Again and again

I' m on the outside looking in

On the outside looking in

Hey, make-believe ain't real

I don't doubt the way I feel

You walk real pretty and you talk real sweet

Well babe I was born in the driving seat

My life's the same story

Again and again

I' m on the outside looking in

On the outside looking in

Yes I' m on the outside looking in

It's over now, the thing we had

I ain't sorry, babe, I just feel mad

You walk real pretty and you talk real fine

Night after night you wrote the lines

My life's the same story

Beginning to end

Beginning to end

I' m on the outside looking in

On the outside looking in

Yes I' m on the outside looking in

Yes I am

Yes I guess I am

Baby I' m on the outside looking in

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Darkness On The Edge Of Town outtake 1977/78


Over the Rise

I walk along the levee to see the gypsy man

The dirt 'neath my feet baby's turnin' to quicksand

He looked into my palm, then looked me in the eye

And told me you were gone, gone over the rise

Once we stood together at the wishing well

Our wishes like dreams, baby, into the water fell

Oh then I kissed your lips but when I looked into your eyes

They were gone, gone over the rise

Tonight the blackbirds fly low on the water's edge

Oh we walked this path not knowing where it led

Now at the bottom of the river deep lies something shiny and golden

Is a promise that love couldn't keep same as a promise broken*

Well I woke last night to the sound of rain

The wind rustling branches against the window pane

I searched the pillow beside me for the tears we cried

Baby they were gone, gone over the rise

*Pauline Kael, I lost it at the movies

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Released on:

Tracks 1998 - Recorded at at Soundworks West (LA),12/7/90


Pilgrim In The Temple Of Love

(Santa Get's A Blowjob)

It was Christmas Eve, I was standin' in the parking lot

of "Fabulous Girls, Nude - Nude - Nude"

In the car next to me there was a young lady givin' a blow-job

to a man in a Santa Claus suit

His beard was crooked, his hat askew

Embarrassed, I turned to go

When from the back seat of that Mazda I heard somebody shout "Oh Baby, don't

stop"

And a merry "Ho-ho-ho"

When I walked inside, I ordered a beer and a double shot of whisk

And in three minutes I had fallen in love

The DJ announced "Ladies and gentlemen, from Forth Worth, Texas: Lady Godiva"

And I sat and worshipped 'neath the angel above

At the end of her set she brushed her hair

Came and sat on the stool to my right

And said "Will you buy me a drink?"

My heart beats fast, my trousers grew tight

And wittily I replied "Uhhh...."

She showed me a picture of her kid

Said during the day she's an art student

She dances six nights a week for slobs and idiots like this

Of course, present company excluded.

On Donner, on Dancer, on Comet, on Blitzen

I'm lost in the valley of the supervixens

Worshippin'  at the feet of the goddess above

I'm a pilgrim in the temple of love, ma, just a pilgrim in the temple

of love

Well then Santa came stumblin' in, and somebody shouted

"Hey Santa, where's your elves?"

He sat down on the stool to my left

And the bartender took a vodka bottle of the shelf

He asked if Mrs. Claus had called

To tell her he worked on the late shift at the mall

And he was sorry, but he just got through

I turned and  I asked him:

"How's the kid this year, Santa?"

Beneath his breath he whispered "A merry fuck you"

Well then the owner come over and he was a short gfat ugly guy

With a funny kind of pushed-in face

He shook my hand and said it was the first time

They'd ever had a real superstar in this place

Lady Godiva bought me a few drinks

And words came out of my mouth

What they were, I couldn't guess

But it was something about showgirls, lapdancing, motley crue

You can guess the rest

Well I walked outside, snow was falling

I had some toys to put together - it was Christmas time

Santa followed me into the parking lot

And threw up on the hood of the car next to mine

I gave him my handkerchief, pulled out onto the highway

And as I sat at the light

I swear I saw a sleigh with a dozen of reindeers

Pull up out of the parking lot and cut across the mall

And a voice shouted "Merry Christmas to all you assholes

and to all a good fucking night!"

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Preformed live during the 1995/96 USA Tour


Pink Cadillac

You may think I'm fooling

For the foolish things I do

You may wonder how come I love you

When you get on my nerves like you do

Well baby, you know you bug me

There ain't no secret about that

Well come on over here and hug me

And, baby, I'll spill the facts

Well, honey it ain't your money

Cause baby I got plenty of that

I love you for your pink Cadillac

Crushed velvet seats

Riding in the back, oozing down the street

Waving to the girls

Feeling out of sight

Spending all my money on a Saturday night

Honey, I just wonder what you do there in back of your pink Cadillac

Pink Cadillac

Well now way back in the Bible, temptations always come along

There's always somebody tempting you

Somebody into doing something they know is wrong

Well they tempt you man with silver and they tempt you sir with gold

And they tempt you with the pleasures that the flesh does surely hold

They say Eve tempted Adam with an apple

Man I ain't going for that

I know it was her pink Cadillac

Crushed velvet seats

Riding in the back, oozing down the street

Waving to the girls

Feeling out of sight

Spending all my money on a Saturday night

Honey, I just wonder what you do there in back of your pink Cadillac

Now some folks say it's too big and uses too much gas

Some folks say it's too old and that it goes too fast

But my love is bigger than a Honda, it's bigger than a Subaru

Hey man there's only one thing and one car that will do

Anyway we don't have to drive it honey, we can park it out in back

And have a party in your pink Cadillac

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Released on:

Dancing In The Dark / Pink Cadillac   Single 1984

Tracks 1998 - Recorded at the Hit Factory 5 / 31 / 83


Point Blank

German Translation

Alternative Version

Do you still say your prayers little darlin'

do you go to bed at night

Prayin' that tommorow, everything will be alright

But tommorow's fall in number in number

one by one

You wake up and you're dying you don't

even know what from

Well they shot you point blank you been

shot in the back

Baby point blank you been fooled this

time little girl that's a fact

Right between the eyes baby, point blank

right between the pretty lies that they tell

Little girl you fell

You grew up where young girls they grow up fast

You took what you were handed and left

behind what was asked

but what they asked baby wasn't right

you didn't have to live that life,

I was gonna be your Romeo you were

 gonna be my Juliet

These days you don't wait on Romeo's

you wait on that welfare check

and on all the pretty things that you can't

ever have and on all the promises

That always end up point blank, shot

between the eyes

Point blank like little white lies you tell to

ease the pain

You're walkin' in the sights, girl of point blank

and it's one false move and baby the

lights go out

Once I dreamed we were together again

baby you and me

Back home in those old clubs the way we used to be

We were standin' at the bar it was hard to hear

The band was playin' loud and you were

shoutin' somethin' in my ear

You pulled my jacket off and as the

drummer counted four

You grabbed my hand and pulled me out on the floor

You just stood there and held me, then

you started dancin' slow

And as I pulled you tighter I swore I'd

never let you go

Well I saw you last night down on the avenue

Your face was in the shadows but I knew

that it was you

You were standin' in the doorway out of the rain

You didn't answer when I called out your name

You just turned, and then you looked

away like just another stranger waitin' to get blown away

Point blank, right between the eyes

Point blank, right between the pretty lies you fell

Point blank, shot right through the  heart

Yea point blank, you've been twisted up

till you've become just another part of it

Point blank, you're walkin' in the sights

Point blank, livin' one false move just one false move away

Point blank, they caught you in their sights

Point blank, did you forget how to love, girl, did you forget how to fight.

Point blank they must have shot you in the head

Cause point blank, bang bang baby you're dead.

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Released on:

The River 1980


Point Blank ALT1
Point Blank

Alternative Version

Well say your prayers little darling and go to sleep tonight

Pray that come tomorrow everything will be alright

But tomorrow falls in number, you're numbered one by one

Look up girl you're dying, and you don;t even know what from

Well baby, point blank, right between the eyes, they got you

Point blank, right between them pretty lies that they sell

Point blank, right between the eyes, baby

Point blank, right between them pretty lies that they sell

They fed you and they raised you and then one day you learned

All the things that baby wants, baby has to earn

So you work all day until you broke apart

And then all them pretty things you like

Well you will never have, 'cause darling

Point Blank, they shot you from behind, baby

Point Blank, the joke's on you, they got you girl this time

They've got you in their sights, baby

Point Blank, one false move and baby the lights go out

Day turns to night time

And night turns to day

There's no time, no time for living

All things just fade away, but you go on

And you run, you keep your place, your number

You run for your life

But baby no-one survives untouched

No-one survives untouvhed, no-one survives

Hearts full of anger eyes filled with hate

You see them on the street, you try to turn your eyes away

But little girl, this time it's too late

You hear their voices at night as you lock the door

There'll be no sleep tonight for baby

She don't believe them lies anymore

And she stumbles into the morning

Tryin' for her usual fix

But baby them old distractions

They just ain;t got the kicks no more

And so you pack your pistol

And you go out lookin' for someone

But you're stuck in the middle girl

You don't know where to aim the gun

They got yhou caught, they got you in their sights, baby

Point blank, they got you in their sights, baby

Point blank, one false move and baby the lights go out

Well right between the eyes, baby

Point blank, right between them pretty lies that they tell

Point blank, they got you in their sights, baby

Point blank, one false move and baby the lights go out

Point blank, right between the eyes, oh oh oh oh

Point blank, right between them pretty lies that they sell

Point blank, point blank

Point blank, right between them pretty lies that they sell

Point blank, they've got you in their sights, baby

Point blank, one false move

Baby the lights go out


Point Blank GER
Point Blank

German Translation

Sprichst Du immer noch Deine Gebete, Liebling

Gehst Du nachts ins Bett

Betend darum, dass morgen alles in Ordnung sein wird

Doch auch Morgen wird nur ein Tag

Ein Tag, wie jeder andere

Du wachts auf und Du stirbst

Du weisst nichtmal warum

Ja, sie gaben Dir den Fangschuss

Dir wurde in den Rücken geschossen

Baby, du fühlst Dich erschossen zur Zeit

Mädchen, das ist eine Tatsache

Genau zwischen die Augen, Fangschuss

Genau zwischen die netten Lügen, die sie erzählen

Mädchen, Du fällst

Du bist dort aufgewachsen, wo junge Mädchen schnell erwachsen werden

Du nahmst, was du hattest, und liesst zurück, was verlangt wurde

Denn was sie verlangten, Baby, war nicht richtig

Du hattest nicht dieses Leben zu leben

Ich war Dein Romeo, Du warst meine Julia

Heutzutage wartest Du nicht mehr auf Romeos

Du wartest auf den Wohlfahrtsscheck

Und auf all die netten Dinge, die Du niemals haben kannst

Und auf all die Versprechungen

Das endet immer mit dem Fangschuss, zwischen die Augen geschossen

Fangschuss, wie kleine Notlügen, die Du erzählst, um den Schmerz zu lindern

Und Du läufst in den Visieren, Mädchen, des Fangschusses

Und es genügt eine falsche Bewegung und die Lichter gehen aus

Irgendwann träumte ich, wir wären wieder zusammen

Baby, Du und ich

Wieder daheim in den alten Clubs

So wie wir es sein sollten

Wir standen an der Bar

Es war schwer sich zu verstehen

Die Band spielte laut, und Du riefst etwas in mein Ohr

Du zogst mir die Jacke aus

Und als der Drummer auf 4 zählte

Nahmst Du meine Hand und zogst mich auf den Gang

Du standest nur da und hieltest mich fest, dann begannst Du langsam zu tanzen

Und als ich Dich näher zog schwor ich, dass ich Dich niemals gehen lassen

würde

Nun sah ich Dich letzte Nacht unten in der Strasse

Dein Gesicht war im Schatten, aber ich wusste, dass Du es warst

Du standest im Türeingang, ausserhalb des Regens

Du antwortetest nicht, als ich Deinen Namen rief

Du drehtest Dich um und schautest weg

Wie irgendein Fremder

Der darauf wartet, weggeweht zu werden

Fangschuss, genau zwischen die Augen

Fangschuss, genau zwischen die netten Lügen, die Dich zu Boden stiessen

Fangschuss, geradewegs durchs Herz geschossen

Ja, Fangschuss, Du windest Dich

Fangschuss, Du läufst in den Visieren

Fangschuss, lebst einen falschen Schritt, nur einen falschen Schritt daneben

Fangschuss, gefangen in ihren Visieren

Fangschuss, Du hast vergessen, wie es ist zu lieben

Mädchen, Du hast vergessen, wie es ist zu kämpfen

Fangschuss, sie müssen Dir in den Kopf geschossen haben

Fangschuss

Peng, peng, Baby, Du bist tot

Translation by Robert Steinseufzer / RoSteins@aol.com


Pony Boy

Pony boy pony boy

Won't you be my pony boy

Giddy-up giddy-up giddy-up whoo

My pony boy

Ride with me ride with me

Won't you take a ride with me

Underneath the starry sky

My pony boy

O'er the hills and through the trees

We'll go ridin' you and me

Giddy-up giddy-up giddy-away

My pony boy

Down into the valley deep

'Neath the eaves we will sleep

Sky of dreams up above

My pony boy

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Released on:

Human Touch 1992

Bruces Mother singed this song for the young Bruce when he must go to bed.


Preachers Daughter

[opens very soft and slow, to the tune of Mona/She's the One]

I got a date with the preacher's daughter

She give me life she bring me water.

Every Sunday I watch her work

Pretty little (siff?) in a pretty little church

Daddy gives her nod she takes collection

Daddy gives her nod she kneels by her side.

Well I'd sell my soul for just one touch

The Lord would too if he loved her half as much.

Well I got a date with the preacher's daughter.

Her Daddy say that the boy's no good

Just want to raise some (coons?) out through the back woods

Well baby better believe what your Daddy say

Just wanna ramrod baby my life away.

It's a long walk to heaven and a road filled with sin

And they better open up the freeway to let me in.

'Cuz I got a date with the preacher's daughter

Well now I don't care what the preacher say

Haaaaayyyy

[IDENTICAL to "Haaaaayyyy, Mona"]

Well now I don't care what the preacher do

Haaaaayyyy

I don't care what the preacher like

Haaaaayyyy

I don't care what the preacher think

Haaaaayyyy

Leads me to water but won't let me drink.

He leads me to water but won't let me drink.

(Big Man)

[maracas start, music picks up, Bruce starts yelling]

And now it's (whole little world?) on Saturday night

Two boys fighting in a halo of light

Car door flung open and a radio loud

And everybody shouting and running around.

Two guys bloody and one I don't know

And all little girls shouting "Go Billy go"

Go Billy go.

Well just as I got the preacher's daughter ready for a light

And (missed a VH fire?) and something ain't right.

And like a she-devil howlin' from the gates of hell

Goddam here come the preacher in his Coupe DeVille

Burnin' up the backroad kicking in the dirt

And oh baby preacher thinks he is church

Well now your lips they shine in the willow mist

And I swear I'd take you down (young croft?) for just one kiss

I got a date with the preacher's daughter

I got a date with the preacher's daughter

And it's haaaaayyyyoooo

I got a date with the preacher's daughter

hmmmmm...


Prodigal Son

In a place where outlaws abound from the range

???on a day mountains has fallen to falls???

In a land where boys are forbiden to grow

And Mell is the only master

Were the higway ends and the desert breakes

and buildings are bendt from great earthquackes

And statesmen crawl on their bellys like snakes

And feed of the public hunger

In a land were sky-scrapers scratch the sky

And delinquent daughters to their mothers still lie

Papa stands on the corner he ???waitin' to beat the drum???

Welcome Home My Prodigal Son

When Rivers run raging through city streets

And great eagels have fallen from their loofty peaks

And policemen moonlight the sideshow freeks

for the final crime is commited

When Presidents ride in Ford Mustangs

And the Black man releases his Caddilac ???fangs???

And your chech died in bed as the landlord thanks the young girl next door

   for the rent

Where telegraph wires are atached to your mind

Delinquent daughters to their mothers still lie

Papa stands on the corner ???waitin to beat the drum???

Welcome Home My Prodigal Son

When the telephone rings and falls of the hook

And your legs have been stolen by some defense department crook

And you startin' to think about writing a book

But now you won't pledge allingence to anything

And the maid comes in with coffee and cake

In a low-cut dress she wore just for your sake

You explain your not dead and she takes it as a compliment

and sticks out her tounge and asks for requests

In a land were skyscrapers scrapes the sky

and delinquent daughters to their mothers still lie

Papa stands on the corner ???waitin' to beat the drum???

Welcome Home My Prodigal Son


Prove It All Night

German Translation

I've been working real hard, trying to get

my hands clean,

Tonight we'll drive that dusty road from

Monroe to Angeline,

To buy you a gold ring and pretty dress of blue,

Baby just one kiss will get these things for you,

A kiss to seal our fate tonight,

A kiss to prove it all night.

(Chorus)

Prove it all night,

Girl there's nothing else that we can do,

Sp prove it all night, prove it all night,

And girl I'll prove it all night for you.

Everybody's got a hunger, a hunger they can't resist,

There's so much that you want, you

deserve much more than this,

But if dreams came true, oh, wouldn't that be nice,

But this ain't no dream we're living

through tonight,

Girl, you want it, you take it, you pay the price.

(Chorus)

Prove it all night, prove it all night girl and

call the bluff,

prove it all night, prove it all night and girl,

I prove it all night for your love.

Baby, tie your hair back in a long white bow,

Meet me in the fields out behind the dynamo,

You hear the voices telling you not to go,

They made their choices and they'll never know,

What it means to steal, to cheat, to lie,

What it's like to live and die.

(Chorus)

To prove it all night...

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Released on:

Darkness On The Edge Of Town 1978

Prove It All Night / Factory   Single - Jun 78


Prove It All Night GER
Prove It All Night

German Translation

Ich habe wirklich sehr hart gearbeitet

Versuchte meine Hände sauber zu halten

Heute nacht fahren wir diese staubige Straße von Monroe nach Angeline

Um dir einen goldenen Ring zu kaufen und ein schönes blaues Kleid

Baby nur ein Kuß wird dir diese Dinge bringen

Ein Kuá um unser Schicksal zu besiegeln heute nacht

Ein Kuá um es jede Nacht zu beweisen

Beweise es jede Nacht

Mädchen da ist nichts was wir sonst tun könnten

Also beweise es jede Nacht

Und Mädchen ich werde es dir jede Nacht beweisen

Alle haben einen Hunger

Einen Hunger gegen den sie sich nicht wehren können

Da ist soviel was du willst, du verdienst viel mehr als dies

Aber wenn Tr„ume wahr würden, oh w„re das nicht schön

Aber dies ist kein Traum wir leben während dieser Nacht

Mädchen du willst es, du kriegst es

Du bezahlst den Preis

Beweise es jede Nacht

Beweise es jede Nacht Mädchen und laß es drauf ankommen

Beweise es jede Nacht

Ich beweise es jede Nacht für deine Liebe

Baby binde dein Haar zurück mit einem langen weißen Band

Treffe mich in den Feldern hinter dem Kraftwerk

Du h”rst die Stimmen die sagen du sollst nicht gehen

Sie treffen ihre Wahl und sie werden nie erfahren

Wie es ist zu stehlen, zu betrügen, zu lügen

Wie es ist zu leben und zu sterben

Um es jede Nacht zu beweisen

Translation by Frank Rohwer


Racing In The Street

German Translation

I got a sixty-nine Chevy with a 396

Fuelie heads and a Hurst on the floor

She's waiting tonight down in the parking lot

Outside the Seven-Eleven store

Me and my partner Sonny built her straight out of scratch

And he rides with me from town to town

We only run for the money got no strings attached

We shut `em up and then we shut `em down

Tonight tonight the strip's just right

I wanna blow `em off in my first heat

Summer's here and the time is right

We're goin' racin' in the street

We take all the action we can meet

And we cover all the northeast state

When the strip shuts down we run `em in the street

From the fire roads to the interstate

Some guys they just give up living

And start dying little by little piece by piece

Some guys come home from work and wash up

Then go racin' in the street

Tonight tonight the strip's just right

I wanna blow `em all out of their seats

Calling out around the world

We're going racin' in the street

I met her on the strip three years ago

In a Camaro with this dude from L.A.

I blew that Camaro off my back and drove that little girl away

But now there's wrinkles around my baby's eyes

And she cries herself to sleep at night

When I come home the house is dark

She sighs "Baby did you make it all right"

She sits on the porch of her daddy's house

But all her pretty dreams are torn

She stares off alone into the night

With the eyes of one who hates for just being born

For all the shut-down strangers and hot rod angels

Rumbling through this promised land

Tonight my baby and me we're gonna ride to the sea

And wash these sins off our hands

Tonight tonight the highway's bright

Out of our way mister you best keep

`Cause summer's here and the time is right

We're goin' racin' in the street

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Released on:

Darkness On The Edge Of Town 1978

Live 1975 - 1985   Live-Box 1986 (Meadowlands Arena, 7/6/81)


Racing In The Street GER
Racing In The Street

German Translation

Ich habe einen 69er Chevy mit einer 6-Liter-Maschine

Getunte Köpfe und ein "Hurst(?)" auf dem Boden

Sie wartet heute nacht unten auf dem Parkplatz

Neben dem 7-11-Laden

Ich und mein Partner Sonny bauten sie auf aus Schrott

Und er fuhr mit mir von Stadt zu Stadt

Wir fuhren nur für das Geld, banden uns nie

Wir forderten sie heraus, und dann machten wir sie fertig

Heute nacht, heute nacht ist die Bahn genau richtig

Ich will sie wegblasen in meiner ersten Hitze

Der Sommer ist gekommen und die Zeit ist reif

Wir werden durch die Straßen rasen

Wir griffen nach all der Action die wir trafen

Und wir erforschten all die Nordost-Staaten

Als die Rennbahnen schlossen, fuhren wir Rennen auf der Straáe

Von den Feuerstraßen zur Autobahn

Manche Typen, sie hören auf zu leben

und beginnen zu sterben, langsam, Stück für Stück

Manche Typen kommen nach haus von der Arbeit und waschen sich

und rasen dann durch die Straßen

Heute nacht, heute nacht ist die Bahn genau richtig

Ich will sie alle aus ihren Sitzen blasen

Rufe es raus in die Welt

Wir werden durch die Straáen rasen

Ich traf sie an der Rennbahn vor drei Jahren

In einem Camaro mit diesem Spinner aus L.A.

Ich hängte den Camaro ab, und fuhr mit dem Mädchen davon

Aber nun sind da Falten um meines Babys Augen

Und sie weint sich nachts in den Schlaf

Als ich nach haus kam war das Haus dunkel

Sie schrieb "Baby, machst Du alles richtig?"

Sie sitzt nur auf der Veranda des Hauses ihres Vaters

Aber all ihre hübschen Tr„ume sind zerrissen

Sie starrt allein in die Nacht

Mit den Augen von jemandem, der es haát geboren zu sein

Für all die niedergeschossenen Fremden und Tuning-Engel

die durch dieses Paradies donnern

werden mein Baby und ich heute nacht runter zum See fahren

und uns die Sünden von den Händen waschen

Heute nacht, heute nacht strahlt der Highway

Mister, du kommst besser nicht in unseren Weg

Denn der Sommer ist hier und die Zeit ist reif

Ich werde durch die Straßen rasen

Translation by Frank Rohwer


Raise Your Hand

(Cropper-Floyd-Isbell 1966)

If there's something you need

That you just don't have

Well just don't sit there

Feeling bad

Come on now get up

Try and understand

Just raise your hand

Baby here I am

You know I'm standing in line

I wanna give you my love

Please let me try

Come on now get up

Try and understand

Just raise your hand

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Released on:

Live 1975 - 1985   Live-Box 1986 (Roxy, 7/7/78)


Ramrod

Hey, little dolly with the blue jeans on

I wanna ramrod with you honey, till half- past dawn

Let your hair down sugar and pick up this beat

Come on and meet me tonight down on

Bluebird Street

I've been working all week, I'm up to my

neck in hock

Come Saturday night I let my ramrod rock

She's a hot stepping hemi with a four on the floor

She's a roadrunner engine in a '32 Ford

Late at night when I'm dead on the line

I swear I think of your pretty face when I

let her unwind

Well look over yonder see them city lights

Come on little dolly 'n' go ramroddin' tonight

Come on, come on, come on little baby

Come on, come on let's shake it tonight

Come on, come, come on little sugar

Dance with your daddy and we'll go

ramroddin' tonight

Hey, little dolly won't you say you will

Meet me tonight up on top of the hill

Well just a few miles cross the county line

There's a cute little chapel nestled down

in the pines

Say you'll be mine little girl I'll put my foot

to the floor

Give me the word now sugar, we'll go

ramroddin' forever more

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Released on:

The River 1980


Randolph Street
Randolph Street (Master Of Electricity)

I remember yesterday and I'd sit and watch the hound dogs play

Howlin' at the China moon

??Now yesterday is the busted blues

Life was young, things were easy,

Days were short, nights were warm

Time were good. Hate was shallow

??The horse crazy behind the ????

I swear that I've seen your face somewhere back in that time

and I'm in theat place. Do you remember?

The old house stood like World War Two with just rooms

and a hall to be used.

The lady was mean.

Just slightly unclean with a heart of cold silver and gold.

Kitchen smelled of kerosene.

Celing hung down on ?veil? and rotted beams

and the man, they said, his work could of hung in the room

Now he sits around all day because his left arm won't move

He was a master of the art of electricity

He lectured on tours and circuitry.

He was self-employed, but he could never see his way into the light

He had a room full of switches and dials and lights and

a head full of clouds and eyes full of sight.

And when it got dark,

I could hear his heartbeat like a mother in the night.

She stood like a guardian ready to give everything up.

If I had asked for a sword and her blood in a cup.

but there was just time when I asked for too much.

She sighed because she could not give it.

We used to sit beneath the tree just the lady, the radio man and me.

And I think it was the winter of '63 the man went away and let us be

It was early on an August day that the lady decided she must go away.

Her heart it seems could not pay the price for what her body was buying

I came home from school and I found the note went into the kitcken

and lit the old stone with songs set on overload.

I turned on the TV, spent the rest of the sfternoon watching

all my cartoons thru the hall

and across the porch was the sun surrendered like a crying torch.


Real Man

Took my baby to a picture show

Found a seat in the back row

Sound came up lights went down

Rambo he was blowin' 'em down

I don't need no gun in my fist baby

All I need is your sweet kiss

To get me feelin' like a real man

Feelin' like a real man

Well you can beat on your chest

Hell any monkey can

But you got me feelin' like a real man

Oh feelin' like a real man

Me and my girl Saturday night

Late movie on channel five

The girls were droppin' they're droppin' like flies

To some smooth talkin' cool walkin' private eye

I ain't got no nerves of steel

But all I got to know is if your love is real

To get me feelin' like a real man

Oh feelin' like a real man

Well you can beat...

I ain't no fighter that's easy to see

And as a lover I ain't goin' down in history

But when the lights go down and you pull me close

Well I look in your eyes and there's one thing I know

Baby I'll be tough enough

If I can find the guts to give you all my love

Then I'll be feelin' like a real man

Oh feelin' like a real man

Well you can beat...

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Released on:

Human Touch 1992


Real World

Mr. Trouble come walkin' this way

Year gone by feels like one long day but I'm alive

And I'm feelin' all right

Well I run that hard road outta heartbreak city

Built a roadside carnival out of hurt and self-pity, it was all wrong

Well now I'm moving on

Ain't no church bells ringing

Ain't no flags unfurled

It's just me and you and the love we're bringing

Into the real world

Into the real world

I built a shrine in my heart, iasn't pretty to see

Made out of fool's gold memory and tears cried

Now I'm headin' over the rise

I'm searchin' for one clear moment of love and truth

I still got a little faith but what I need is some proof tonight

I'm lookin' for it in your eyes

Ain't no church bells ringing

Ain't no flags unfurled

Just me and you and the faith we're bringing into the real world

Into the real world

Well tonight I just wanna shout

I feel my soul waist deep and sinking into this black river of doubt

I just wanna rise and walk along the riverside

And when the morning comes baby I don't wanna hide

I'll stand right at your side with my arms open wide

(killer guitar solo here)

Well tonight I just wanna shout

I feel my soul waist deep and sinking into this black river of doubt

I just wanna rise and walk along the riverside

'Til the morning comes

I'll stand right by your side

I wanna find some answers I wanna ask for some help

I'm tired of running scared baby let's get our bags packed

We'll take it here to hell and heaven and back

And if love is hopeless, hopeless at best

Come on put on your party dress, it's ours tonight

And we're goin' with the tumblin' dice

Ain't no church bells ringing

Ain't no flags unfurled

It's just me and you and the hope we're bringing into the real world

Well into the real world

Oh into the real world

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Released on:

Human Touch 1992


Reason To Belive

German Translation

Seen a man standin' over a dead dog lyin' by the highway in a ditch

He's lookin' down kinda puzzled pokin' that dog with a stick

Got his car door flung open he's standin' out on Highway 31

Like if he stood there long enough that dog'd get up and run

Struck me kinda funny seem kinda funny sir to me

At the end of every hard earned day people find some reason to believe

Now Mary Lou loved Johnny with a love mean and true

She said "Baby I'll work for you every day and bring my money home to you"

One day he up and left her and ever since that

She waits down at the end of that dirt road for young Johnny to come back

Struck me kinda funny seemed kind of funny sir to me

How at the end of every hard earned day people find some reason to believe

Take a baby to the river Kyle William they called him

Wash the baby in the water take away little Kyle's sin

In a whitewash shotgun shack an old man passes away

Take his body to the graveyard and over him they pray

Lord won't you tell us tell us what does it mean

Still at the end of every hard earned day people find some reason to

believe

Congregation gathers down by the riverside

Preacher stands with his Bible groom stands waitin' for his bride

Congregation gone and the sun sets behind a weepin' willow tree

Groom stands alone and watches the river rush on so effortlessly

Lord and he's wonderin' where can his baby be

Still at the end of every hard earned day people find some reason to

believe

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Released on:

Nebraska 1982

Live 1975 - 1985   Live-Box 1986 (Meadowlands Arena, 8/19/84)


Reason To Belive GER
Reason To Belive

German Translation

Ich sah einen Mann ueber einen toten Hund im Graben am Strassenrand stehen

Er blickte herunter, ziemlich verdutzt, stoesst den Hund mit einem Stock an

Autotuer ist weit offen, da steht der nun auf der Schnellstrasse

Als ob der Hund wieder aufstehen und laufen wuerde

Wenn er nur lange genug da steht

Ich fand das ziemlich seltsam, kommt mir seltsam vor

Nach jedem harten Tag finden Leute immer noch einen Grund, zu hoffen.

Mary Lou liebte Johnny ungeheuer fest, sie sagte Baby, ich schaffe jeden Tag

Und bringe Dir das Geld nach Hause

Irgendwann ist er auf und davon und seitdem

Wartet sie auf ihn da unten wo die Strasse aufhoert

Ich fand das ziemlich seltsam, es ist seltsam

Aber nach jedem harten Tag finden Leute immer noch einen Grund, zu hoffen.

Sie brachten ein Baby zum Fluss, tauften es Kyle William

Wuschen es im Wasser und befreiten es von Suende

In einer weissgetuenchten Holzbude stirbt ein alter Mann,

Der Leichnam kommt auf den Friedhof, am offenen Grab beten sie

"0 Herr, sag' uns bitte, sag'uns, was das bedeutet"

Nach jedem harten Tag finden Leute immer noch einen Grund, zu hoffen.

Die Gemeinde kommt am Ufer zusammen, der Pfarrer steht mit seiner Bibel,

Der Braeutigam wartet auf seine Braut.

Die Gemeinde geht, hinter einer Trauerweide geht die Sonne unter,

Er steht immer noch alleine da. Er sieht den Fluss muehelos vorbeirauschen

Und fragt sich, wo sein Schatz sein koennte und doch

Nach jedem harten Tag finden Leute immer noch einen Grund, zu hoffen.


Rendezvous

I had a dream

My love would last forever

I had a dream

Tonight my dream come true

And if you'll hold me tight

We'll be riders on the night

Oohh, rendez-vous, I want a rendez-vous

And when I told you, girl,

How much I liked you

I got a feeling that you liked me, too

And if you'll hold me tight

We'll be riders on the night

Oohh, rendez-vous, I want a rendez-vous

I got a feeling that we should stay together

'Cause I think our love could be forever

Because I had a dream

My love would last forever

I had a dream

Tonight my dream come true

And if you'll hold me tight

We'll be riders on the night

Oohh, rendez-vous, I want a rendez-vous

You deserve so much more than this, girl

'Cause I'm running on the power

And living on the promise

In your last kiss

Because I had a dream

My love would last forever

I had a dream

Tonight my dream come true

And if you'll hold me tight

We'll be riders on the night

Oohh, rendez-vous, I want a rendez-vous

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Released on:

Tracks 1998 - Recorded live at the Record Plant (La Remote)

Recorded by Greg Kihn Band (album - With the Naked Eye

written by Bruce in 1976. Originally recorded for Darkness album.


Restless Nights

Mystery riding left us once

In another world, my little one

Where strange trees and dark rivers run

And I told a dream to you

Now outside the streets are gray

And the childhood games we played

Have faded away

But my baby, she has restless nights

She has restless nights

My baby, she has restless nights

On late night movie screens

Young lovers look so assured

Lost in wide awake dreams

That they can't afford

Once I held you in my arms

On a bed of storms

Now we have grown a little taller, baby

My baby, she has restless nights

She has restless nights

My baby, she has restless nights

Mystery riding left us once

In another world, my little one

Where strange trees and dark rivers run

And I told a dream to you

Now outside the streets are grey

But here inside my heart

It all falls apart

My baby, she has restless nights

She has restless nights

My baby, she has restless nights

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Released on:

Tracks 1998 - Recorded at the Power Station 4 / 11 / 80


Rickie
Ricky wants a man of her own (Rickie)

Well look out Mama your little girl she has changed

She cut her baby curls

and she's got her act rearranged

Look out Daddy what she needs now

she can't find at home

Oh Rickie wants a man of her

She wants a man of her

Rickie wants a man of her own

Mama says her little girl won't talk to her anymore

She just goes in her room, turns on the radio and shuts

the door

She's got her own bathroom, TV, stereo, extension phone

Oh, but Mama, Rickie wants a man of her

She wants a man of her

Rickie wants a man of her own

Well Daddy says when he drop her off Friday night at the

gym

She slides way down in the front seat

So the kids won't see her with him

She don't do no work

She won't tell nobody when she's coming home

And she makes poor Daddy wait down on the corner

At midnight all alone

Well Daddy's pullin' out his hair

He says that girl ain't got no direction

She don't care to bring her boyfriends home

to pass Daddy's inspection

Now we're left peeking through the curtains

Everytime that we hear a horn blow

Well I guess Rickie wants a man of her own

Mama says: "Son, talk to her, she'll listen to you"

Yeah, she listens real nice and she does what she wants

to do

Well Daddy says: "She wears her jeans so tight

Well, you change 'em or you're staying home

"Ah, but daddy, Rickie wants a man of her

She wants a man of her

Rickie wants a man of her own

She's almost grown

Rickie wants a man of her

She wants a man of her

Rickie wants a man of her own

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Released  on:

Tracks 1998 - Recorded at the Power Station 7 / 16 / 77


Rockaway the Days

Billy got out of prison but he wasn't right

Some like to drink or gamble, Billy liked to fight

He tracked back to his home state of Maryland

Went to his mom's mobile home where she took him in, alright

CHORUS:

Rockaway the days, rockaway the nights

Gimme something to last me, baby, till the morning light

I ain't lookin' for trouble, I ain't looking for a fight

Honey rockaway these days, rockaway these nights

Well at a picnic one Sunday Billy met Mary Dove

Mary looked at Billy, Billy fell in love

Billy swore to Mary he'd always love her so

They were married in the valley where the river flows, alright

(CHORUS)

At a roadside bar Billy argued with a young man

And he settled that argument with a razor in his hand

With blood on his shirt back to Mary he did run

She sighed "Billy, oh Billy, what have you done?"

He ran to his ma's trailer but the lights were dim

He pounded on the door, she wouldn't let him in

Up the road to a neighbor's house he drew near

They said "Billy go away, we don't want no trouble 'round here"

Billy stole a car and headed out on the road

Pocketful of pills and his brain on overload

Seen some lights in his rearview mirror, panicked and gave her the gun

Wrapped himself 'round a telephone pole way out on 101

Well Billy got cut out by the highway patrol

Just lay there with the cars passing on slow

Sheriff told Billy's ma that Billy died

She buried his body by the riverside, alright

(CHORUS)

Well rich man want the power and the seat on the top

Poor man want the money that the rich man got

Honey tonight I'm feeling so tired and unsure

Come on in Mary, shut the light, close the door

(CHORUS)

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Released on:

Tracks 1998 - Recorded at the Hit Factory, 2/3/84


Rocking All Over The World

(John Fogerty/Creedence Clearwater Revival)

Well, hurry up hurry up, here we go

c'mon let's hit the road

Here we go

Rockin' all over the world

Well, giddy up giddy up and get away

we're goin' crazy and we're goin' today

Here we go

Rockin' all over the world

And I like it, I like it, I like it

Here we go

Rockin' all over the world

Well, I'm gonna tell your mama what you're gonna do

Hey come tonight, we got dancin' shoes

Here we go

Rockin' all over the world

And I like it, I like it...


Roll Of The Dice

German Translation

Well I've been a losin' gambler

Just throwin' snake eyes

Love ain't got me downhearted

I know up around the corner lies

My fool's paradise

In just another roll of the dice

All my elevens and sevens been comin' up

Sixes and nines

But since I fell for you baby

Been comin' on changin' times

They're just waitin' over the rise

Just another roll of the dice

I've stumbled and I know I made my mistakes

But tonight I'm gonna be playin' for all of the stakes

Well it's never too late so come on girl

The tables are waiting

You and me and lady luck well tonight

We'll be celebrating

Drinkin' champagne on ice

In just another roll of the dice

High-rollers lay down your bets and I'll raise 'em

Well I know the odds ain't in my favor

Maybe I'm just a clown throwin' down

Looking' to come up busted

I'm a thief in the house of love

And I can't be trusted

Well  I'll be making my heist

In just another roll of the dice

Move on up

Come on seven

Roll me baby

In this fool's heaven

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Released on:

Human Touch 1992


Roll Of The Dice GER
Roll Of The Dice

German Translation

ch bin ein verlierender Spieler

Ich werfe nur Schlangenaugen

Oh Liebe hat mich nicht entmutigt

Ich weiá um die Ecke liegt

Mein Narren-Paradies

In nur einem neuen Rollen der Würfel

All meine 11 und 7 wurden zu 6 und 9

Aber seit ich zu dir gefallen bin Baby

Kommen andere Zeiten

Sie warten hinter der Bewegung

Einfach eines neuen Rollens der Würfel

Ich stolperte und ich weiá ich mache meine Fehler

Aber heute nacht gehe ich und spiele um alle Gewinne

Es ist niemals zu sp„t also komm schon Mädchen, die Tische warten

Du und ich und Lady Glück Mann, heute nacht werden wir feiern

Trinken Champagner auf Eis

Bei einfach einem neuen Rollen der Würfel

"High-Rollers" setzten deine Wetten fest und ich will sie gewinnen

Nun, ich weiß die Quoten stehen nicht zu meinen Gunsten

Vielleicht bin ich nur ein Clown, runtergestoáen

Scheint kaputt zu gehen

Ich bin ein Dieb im Haus der Liebe

Und man kann mir nicht trauen

Ich will meinen šberfall machen

Einfach mit einem neuen Rollen der Würfel

Bewege dich

Rolle mich Baby, in diesen Himmel der Narren

Komm schon 7

Translation by Frank Rohwer


Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)

Spread out now Rosie doctor come cut loose her mama's reins

You know playin' blind man's bluff is a little baby's game

You pick up Little Dynamite I'm gonna pick up Little Gun

And together we're gonna go out tonight and make that highway run

You don't have to call me lieutenant Rosie and I don't want to be your son

The only lover I'm ever gonna need's your soft sweet little girl's tongue and

Rosie you're the one

Dynamite's in the belfry playin' with the bats

Little Gun's downtown in front of Woolworth's tryin' out his attitude on all

the cats

Papa's on the corner waitin' for the bus

Mama she's home in the window waitin' up for us

She'll be there in that chair when they wrestle her upstairs `cause

you know we ain't gonna come

I ain't here for business, I'm only here for fun

Rosalita jump a little lighter, senorita come sit by my fire

I just want to be your lover ain't no liar, Rosalita you're my stone desire

Jack the Rabbit and Weak Knees Willie you know they're gonna be there

Ah sloppy Sue and Big Bones Billie they'll be comin' up for air

We're gonna play some pool skip some school act real cool

Stay out all night it's gonna feel alright

Rosie come out tonight, Rosie come out tonight

Windows are for cheaters chimneys for the poor

Closets are for hangers winners use the door

Rosalita jump a little...

Now I know your mama she don't like me `cause I play in a rock and roll band

And I know your daddy he don't dig me but he never did understand

Papa lowered the boom he locked you in your room

I'm comin' to lend a hand

I'm comin' to liberate you confiscate you I want to be your man

Someday we'll look back on this and it will all seem funny

But now you're sad your mama's mad

And your papa says he knows that I don't have any money

Tell him this is last chance to get his daughter in a fine romance

Because a record company Rosie just gave me big bucks

My tires were slashed and I almost crashed but the Lord had mercy

My machine she's a dud out stuck in the mud somewhere in the swamps of Jersey

Hold on tight stay up all night `cause Rosie I'm comin' on strong

By the time we meet the morning light I will hold you in my arms

I know a pretty little place in Southern California down San Diego way

There's a little cafe where they play guitars all night and day

You can hear them in the back room strummin'

So hold tight baby `cause don't you know daddy's comin'

Rosalita jump a little...

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Released on:

The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle 1973

Live 1975 - 1985   Live-Box 1986 (Roxy, 7/7/78)


Roulette

German Translation

We left the toys out in the yard

I took my wife and kids and left my home unguarded

We packed what we could into the car

No one here knows how it started

But suddenly everything was just so out of control

Now I want some answers, mister, I need to know

I hear all the talk but I don't know what you're sayin'

But I think I got a good idea of the game that you're playin'

Roulette, that's the name now

Roulette, that's the game now

Roulette, I don't believe what they're sayin'

Roulette, and everybody's playin'

I grew up here on this street where nothin' moves, just a strange breeze

In a town full of worthless memories there's a shadow in my backyard

I've got a house full of things that I can't touch

Well all those things they won't do me much good now

I was a fireman out at Riker's, I did my job

Mister, I've been cheated, I feel like I've been robbed

I'm the big expendable, my life's just canceled, null and void

But what are you gonna do about your new boy

Roulette, you're playin' with my life

Roulette, with my kids and my wife

Roulette, every day the stakes get bigger

Roulette, a different finger on the trigger

Down by the river that talks the night speaks in searchlights

And shortwave radio squawk, the police patrol the streets

But I've left behind the man I used to be, everything he believed in

  and all that belonged to me

I tried to find my way out to somewhere where I thought it'd be safe

They stopped me at the roadblock they put up on the interstate

They put me in detention but I broke loose and then I ran

They said they want to ask me a few questions but I think they had

  other plans

Now I don't know who to trust and I don't know what I can believe

They say they want to help me but with the stuff they keep on sayin'

I think those guys just wanna keep on playin'

Roulette, with my life

Roulette, with my kids and my wife

Roulette, the bullet's in the chamber

Roulette, who's the unlucky stranger

Roulette, surprise, you're dead

Roulette, the gun's to your head

Roulette, the bullet's spinning in the chamber

Roulette, pull the trigger, feel the click

No further danger

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Released on:

One Step Up / Roulette   Single 1988

Tracks 1998 - Recordet at the Power Station 4 / 3 / 79


Roulette GER
Roulette

German Translation

Wir ließen die Spielsachen draußen im Hof

Ich nahm meine Frau und Kinder und wir ließen das Haus unbewacht

Wir packten was wir konnten ins Auto, niemand hier weiß wie es begann

Plötzlich war alles außer Kontrolle

Jetzt will ich ein paar Antworten Mister ich muß es wissen

Ich höre all die reden aber ich weiß nicht was ihr sagt

Aber ich glaube ich habe eine gute Vorstellung von dem Spiel das ihr spielt

Roulette, das ist der Name

Roulette, das ist das Spiel hier

Roulette, ich glaube nicht, was sie sagen

Roulette, und alle spielen

Ich wuchs auf in diesen Straßen, in denen sich nichts verändert

Nur ein seltsamer Wind in einer Stadt voll wertloser Erinnerungen

Da ist ein Schatten in meinem Hof

Ich habe ein Haus voller Dinge die ich nicht berühren kann

All diese Dinge, sie nützen mir nun nichts mehr

Ich war Feuerwehrmann bei Riker ich tat meinen Job

Mister ich wurde betrogen, ich wurde beraubt

Ich bin überflüssig, mein Leben ist einfach abgesagt, ungültig und leer

Aber was willst du tun mit deinem neuen Jungen

Roulette, ihr spielt mit meinem Leben

Roulette, mit meinen Kindern und meiner Frau

Roulette, jeden Tag werden die Scheiterhaufen größer

Roulette, ein fremder Finger am Abzug

Unten am Fluß redet die Nacht, spricht in Suchscheinwerfern und Funkgeräte kreischen

Die Polizei patrouilliert in der Straßen

Aber ich verließ den Mann, der ich zu sein versuchte

Alles was er glaubte und alles was zu mir gehörte

Ich versuchte meinen Weg zu finden dahin wo ich es für sicher hielt

Sie stoppten mich an der Straßensperre die sie auf der Autobahn errichtet hatten

Sie verhafteten mich aber ich brach aus und rannte

Sie sagen sie wollen mir ein paar Fragen stellen aber ich glaube sie haben andere Pläne

Nun weiß ich nicht wem ich vertrauen soll, und ich weiß nicht was ich glauben kann

Sie sagen sie wollen mir helfen aber bei dem Zeug das sie weiterhin erzählen

Denke ich diese Typen wollen nur weiterhin spielen

Roulette, mit meinem Leben

Roulette, mit meinen Kindern und meiner Frau

Roulette, die Kugel ist in der Kammer

Roulette, wer ist der unglückliche Fremde

Roulette, Überraschung du bist tot

Roulette, die Knarre ist an deinem Kopf

Roulette, die Kugel rotiert in der Trommel

Roulette, zieh den Abzug, fühle das Klicken, keine Gefahr mehr

Translation by Frank Rohwer


Sad Eyes


Santa Clause Is Coming To Town

You better watch out, you better not cry,

Better not pout, I'm telling you why

Santa Claus is comin' to town

He's making a list, he's checking it twice

Gonna find out who's naughty and nice

Santa Claus is comin' to town

He sees you when you're sleeping

He knows if you're awake

He knows if you've been bad or good

So be good for goodness sake

Oh! You better watch out, you better not cry

Better not pout, I'm telling you why

Santa Claus is comin' to town

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Released on:

My Hometown / Santa Clause Is Coming To Town   Single 1985


Seaside Bar Song

Well Billy bought a Chevy '40 Coupe Deluxe

Chrome wheels, stick shift

Give her gas, pop the clutch

Little girls on the corner

Like a diamond they shine

Someday Billy I'm gonna make 'em all mine

Hey girl you wanna ride in Daddy's Cadilac

'Cause I love the way your long hair falls down your back

Bo Diddley, Bo Diddley's at the seaside bar

We'll run barefoot in the sand, listen to his guitar

You say your mama's gonna meet you when the morning comes

And your papa's gonna beat you 'cause he knows you're out on the run

I'm gonna live a life of love and tonight you're the one

The highway is alive tonight

So baby do not be frightened

There's something 'bout a pretty girl on a sweet summer night

That gets this boy excited

The radio man finally understands and plays you something you can move to

You lay back easy [...]

Your girls leans over and says

"Daddy, can you turn that radio up any louder ?"

Ah, the juke joint's hummin'

Everybody came down

Little Willy and his Soul Boom

Puttin' all that stuff down

Well don't let that daylight steal your soul

Get in your wheels and roll, roll, roll, roll, roll, roll

Mama's gonna meet you when the morning comes

And your daddy's gonna beat you 'cause he knows you're out on the run

But I don't care

I'm gonna live and laugh and love while the night's still young

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Released on:

Tracks 1998 - Recorded at 914 Sound Recording, 6 / 28 / 73


Secret Garden

German Translation

She'll let you in her house

If you come knockin' 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 drivin' 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 will say

She's got a secret garden

Where everything you want

Where everything you need

Will always stay

A million miles away

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Released on:

Greatest Hits 1995

Secret Garden Maxi-CD 1995 (Including Alternative StringVersion)


Secret Garden GER
Secret Garden

German Translation

Sie wird dich in ihr Haus lassen

Wenn Du spaet nachts an ihre Tuer klopfst

Sie wird dich in ihre Seele lassen

Wenn du die richtigen Worte findest

Wenn du den Preis bezahlst

Wird sie dich tief in ihr innerstes lassen

Aber da ist ein geheimnisvoller Garten, den sie verbirgt

Sie wird dich in ihr Auto lassen

Um herumzufahren

Sie wird dich in ihre eigenen Regionen lassen

Die dich fertigmachen

Sie laesst dich in ihr Herz

Wenn du Hammer und Meissel hast

Aber in ihrem geheimnisvollen Garten wirst du auf keinen Fall gelangen

Du bist eine Millionen Meilen gegangen

Wie weit wirst du dich dem Ort naehern

Bei dem du dich an nichts erinnern

Und den du trotzdem nicht vergessen kannst

Sie wird dich einen Pfad herunter fuehren

Die Luft wird von Zaertlichkeit erfuellt sein

Sie wird dich nur so nahe herankommen lassen

bis du merkst, dass sie wirklich da ist

Sie wird dich anschauen und dir zulaecheln

Und ihre Augen werden dir verraten

Dass sie einen geheimnisvollen Garten besitzt

In dem alles, was du dir wuenscht

Alles, was du brauchst

Immer eine Millionen Meilen entfernt bleiben wird


Seeds

Italian Translation

Well a great black river a man had found

So he put all his money in a hole in the ground

And sent a big steel arm drivin' down down down

Man now I live on the streets of Houston town

Packed up my wife and kids when winter came along

And we headed down south with just spit and a song

But they said "Sorry son it's gone gone gone"

Well there's men hunkered down by the railroad tracks

The Elkhorn Special blowin' my hair back

Tents pitched on the highway in the dirty moonlight

And I don't know where I'm gonna sleep tonight

Parked in the lumberyard freezin' our asses off

My kids in the back seat got a graveyard cough

Well I'm sleepin' up in front with my wife

Billy club tappin' on the windshield in the middle of the night

Says "Move along man move along"

Well big limousine long shiny and black

You don't look ahead you don't look back

How many times can you get up after you've been hit?

Well I swear if I could spare the spit

I'd lay one on your shiny chrome

And send you on your way back home

So if you're gonna leave your town where the north wind blow

To go on down where that sweet soda river flow

Well you better think twice on it Jack

You're better off buyin' a shotgun dead off the rack

You ain't gonna find nothin' down here friend

Except seeds blowin' up the highway in the south wind

Movin' on movin' on it's gone gone it's all gone

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Released on:

Live 1975 - 1985   Live-Box 1986 (Los Angeles Coliseum, 9/30/85)


Seeds ITA
Seeds

Italian Translation

Un grande fiume nero un uomo aveva trovato

Cosi seppelli tutti i suoi soldi in un buco nel terreno

E spinse un robusto braccio d'acciaio in profondita

Amico adesso vivo nell strade della citta di Houston

Ho fatto i bagagli con mia moglie e i bambani quando arrivo l'inverno

E ci spingemmo verso sud con niente in tasca, uno sputo e una canzone

Ma loro dicevano: "Ci dispiace figlio mio ma e tutto finito"

Bene ci sono degli uomini accovacciati vicino ai binari della ferrovia

L'Elkhorn Special mi soffia indietro i capelli

Ci sono tende piantate sull'autostrada in questo sporco chiaro di luna

E io non so dove dormiamo stanotte

Fermi nel deposito di legname quasi congelati dal freddo

I miei bambini sul sedile posteriore con un raffreddore infernale

Sto dormendo sul sedile davanti insieme a mia moglie

Il manganello di Billy picchietta sul parabrezza nel cuore della notte

Dice: "Muoviti amico, non puoi fermarti qui"

Una grossa limousine lunga splendente e nera

Non puoi guardare avanti non puoi guardare indietro

Quante volte ti puoi rialzare dopo essere stati colpito?

Giuro che se potessi sputare

Lo farei sulle tue cromature lucenti

E ti rispedirei a casa

Percio se hai intenzione di lasciare la tua citta quando soffiera il vento

del nord

Per raggiungere quel dolce fiume

E meglio che ci pensi due volte Jack

E meglio che compri un fucile perche non c'e via d'uscita

Non troverai niente quaggiu amico

Soltanto semi sprsi sull'autostrada del vento del sud

Muoversi, continuare a muoversi, e tutto finito, tutto finito


Sell It And They Will Come

I fell asleep on the couch last night, woke up with the TV on.

There was a woman in tight cotton exercise shorts

And a big plastic machine she was climbing on.

She said "The Abacycle guarantees ten inches off your waist,

And 50 pounds in just 3 minutes a day."

I went to bed knowing the revolution had been postponed

And everything was OK.

You can buy it, you can try it, go right ahead.

But don't be fooled folks, there's only one.

I forget the guy's name but I know somebody must have said

Sell it and they will come boys, sell it and they will come.

I switched the channels and there was Evel Knievel, I thought that he was

dead.

I found myself sitting there quietly, hanging on every word he said.

"Now folks, the Stimulator removes all pain from your life.

And the best day of your life will be when you try this little thing out."

The camera moved in as he said, "Now let me tell you ladies and gentlemen,

Pain is something old Evel knows a little about"

You can buy it, you can try it, that's what I said.

But don't be fooled folks, there's only one.

I forget that guy's name but I know somebody must have said

Sell it and they will come boys, sell it and they will come.

And a fellow comes on shouting "Free haircuts for life!",

somehow you cut your hair with a vacuum cleaner.

And then I switched the channels and there was Dionne Warwick, communing

with her psychic friends.

I watched for hours, taking warmth, comfort,

and pleasure in the things that I despise.

Touched by how much they needed me, and that gleeful desperation in their

eyes.

You can buy it, you can try it, it'll help you in bed.

But don't be fooled folks, there's only one.

I forget that guy's name but I know somebody said

Sell it and they will come boys, sell it and they will come.

So Dionne, Cher, and all my late-night friends, I drink to your health.

And Tony Little, America's personal trainer, please kill yourself.

Now I've sold a few things myself in my time, and by the way folks,

there's some t-shirts on your way outside.

Well last night I dreamed of lipstick and tight little cotton shorts

"Harder, faster", she breathed.

"One, two, three, four, five"

Ride, Sally ride, girl, ride Sally ride.

You can buy it, you can try it, it'll help you in bed.

But don't be fooled folks, there's only one.

I forget that guy's name but somebody said

Sell it and they will come boys, sell it and they will come.

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Preformed live during the 1996 European tour


Seven Angels

Seven angels got my number

Since I fell in love with you

Seven angels got my number

They're all telling me what to do

First angel says "Go on and love her"

Second angel says "Ain't you tired of being alone?"

Third angel says "Do the right thing, meat"

Fourth angel says "Check that other little angel walkin' on down the street"

Seven angels got my number

Since I fell in love with you

Seven angels got my number

They're all telling me what to do

Fifth angel says, "Don't worry

Love's waitin' 'round the corner for you, son"

Sixth angel says "You better hurry

It don't take long for the good to get gone"

Walkin' on wings all sexy and blue

Seventh angel says I'm a fool

I got seven angels calling on my pride

Seven devils crawling around inside

Seven angels tellin' me which way to turn

One kiss and my soul wanna burn

Seven angels got my number

Since I fell in love with you

Seven angels got my number

They're all telling me what to do

The earth's so lonely, sad and blue

And without love, your soul's dyin'

Sixth angel says to believe you

When you say you'll never leave me cryin'

Seventh angel says you're lyin'

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Released on:

Tracks 1998 - Recorded at Oceanway Studios (LA), 6/29/90


She's Leaving

She's leaving, she's leaving

Everybody knows

She's leaving, she's leaving

And I feel like such a fool

She left me standing here just two feet tall

I just don't know how she could do it

In front of our friends and all

She had better things to do and bigger plans

I thought we could make it with just us two

But I guess we can't

'Cause she can't

And I'm only one man

But I love her

It's winter

Suddenly it's winter

And I feel so cold inside

It's different

It could've been so different

If only she didn't feel that need to lie

What's the matter girl

Didn't you think I was that strong

That you couldn't tell me

What was going on


She`s The One

With her killer graces

and her secret places

That no boy can fill with her hands on her hips

Oh and that smile on her lips

Because she knows that it kills me

With her soft french cream

Standing in that doorway like a dream

I wish she'd just leave me alone

Because french cream won't soften them boots

And french kisses will not break that heart of stone

With her long hair falling

And her eyes that shine like a midnight sun

Oh-o she's the one, she's the one

That Thunder in your heart

At night when you're kneeling in the dark

It says you're never gonna leave her

But there's this angel in her eyes

That tells such desperate lies

And all you want to do is believe her

And tonight you'll try just one more time

To leave it all behind and to break on through

Oh she can take you, but if she wants to break you

She's gonna find out that ain't so easy to do

And no matter where you sleep tonight or how far you run

Oh-o she's the one, she's the one

Oh-o and just one kiss

She'd fill them long summer nights

With her tenderness that secret pact you made

Back when her love could save you from the bitterness

Oh she's the one, oh she's the one

Oh she's the one, oh she's the one

Oh she's the one, oh she's the one

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Released on:

Born To Run 1975

Tenth Avenue Freeze Out / She's The One   Single - Feb.1976


Sherry Darling

Your mamma's yappin' in the back seat

Tell her to push over and move them big feet

Every Monday morning I gotta drive her down to the unemployment agency

Well this morning I aint fighting tell her I give up

Tell her she wins if she'll just shut up

But it's the last time that she's gonna be ridin' with me

(Chorus)

You can tell her there's a hot sun beatin' on the blacktop

She keeps talkin' she'll be walkin' that last block

She can take a subway back to the ghetto tonight

Well I got some beer and the highway's free

And I got you, and baby you've got me.

Hey, hey, hey whataya say Sherry Darlin'

Now there's girls melting on the beach

And they're so fine but so far out of reach

Cause I'm stuck in traffic down here on 53rd street

Now Sherry my love for you is real

But I didn't count on this package deal

And baby this car just aint big enough for her and me

(Chorus)

So you can tell her there's a hot sun beatin' on the blacktop

She keeps talkin' she'll be walkin' that last block

She can take a subway back to the ghetto tonight

Well I got some beer and the highway's free

And I got you, and baby you've got me.

Hey, hey, hey whataya say Sherry Darlin'

Well let there be sunlight, let there be rain

Let the brokenheart love again

Sherry we can run with our arms open before the tide

To all the girls down at Sacred Heart

And all you operators back in the Park

Say hey, hey, hey whataya say Sherry Darlin'

Hey, hey, hey, whataya say Sherry Darlin'

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Released on:

The River 1980


Shut out the Light

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 he 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, the clock said 4:00 a.m.

He was staring at the ceiling

He couldn't move his hands

CHORUS:

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

(CHORUS)

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 Leneir stands

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

(CHORUS)

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Released on:

Tracks 1998 - Recorded at Thrill Hill Recording, 1/83


Sinola Cowboys

Miguel came from a small town in northern Mexico

He came north with his brother Louis to California three years ago

They crossed at the river levee, when Louis was just sixteen

And found work together in the fields of the San Joaquin

They left their homes and families

Their father said, "My sons one thing you will learn,

for everything the north gives, it exacts a price in return."

They worked side by side in the orchards

From morning till the day was through

Doing the work the hueros wouldn't do.

Word was out some men in from Sinaloa were Iooking for some hands

Well, deep in Fresno county there was a deserted chicken ranch

And there in a small tin shack on the edge of a ravine

Miguel and Louis stood cooking methamphetamine

You should spend a year in the orchards

Or make half as much in one ten hour shift

Working for the men from Sinaloa

But if you slipped, the hydriodic acid

Could burn right through your skin

They'd leave you spittin' up blood in the desert

If you breathed those fumes in

It was early one winter evening as Miguel stood watch outside

When the shack exploded, lighting up the valley night

Miguel carried Louis' body over his shoulder down a swale

To the creekside and there in the tall grass, Louis Rosales died

Miguel lifted Louis' body into his truck and then he drove

To where the morning sunlight fell on a eucalyptus grove

There in the dirt he dug up ten-thousand dollars. all that they'd saved

Kissed his brothers lips and placed him in his grave

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Released on:

The Ghost Of Tom Joad 1995

The Ghost Of Tom Joad Maxi-CD 1999 (Live at the Tower Theatre)


So young and in Love

There's flying angels on your fire escape

They lie to your mama for you, try to keep you safe

You're with them fire alley virgins on a midnight vamp

Lost your heart on Main Street to a beautiful tramp

You lost your mind

She's sent from above

You're so young and in love

So young and in love

So young and in love

So young and in love

So young and in love

Rat traps filled with soul crusaders

They're soppin' 'n' boppin' 'n' moppin' with Little Melvin and the Invaders

Missy's on the dance floor doin' her stuff

Leroy's dancin' doin' the continental strut

Sent from above

So young and in love

So young and in love

So young and in love

So young and in love

Everybody's reelin' when the band hits the ceilin'

Don't you know you wanna go

The kids start rockin' when the boys start knockin'

And everybody wants to go

Let's go!

Joint's shut down but you don't wanna go home

You're in the shady side of town and you're all alone

Papa's chewin' your ear off, you ain't got no cash

Mama's chewin' your ear off 'bout hangin' out with trash

So fine, sent from above

So young and in love

So young and in love

So young and in love

So young and in love

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Released on:

Tracks 1998 - Recorded at The Record Plant (NY), 1/6/74


Something In The Night

I'm riding down Kingsley,

figuring I'll get a drink

Turn the radio up loud,

so I don't have to think,

I take her to the floor,

looking for a moment when the world

seems right,

And I tear into the guts,

of something in the night.

You're born with nothing,

and better off that way,

Soon as you've got something the send

someone to try and take it away,

You can ride this road 'till dawn,

without another human being in sight,

Just kids wasted on

something in the night.

Nothing is forgotten or forgiven,

when it's your last time around,

I got stuff running around 'round my head

That I just can't live down

When we found the things we loved,

They were crushed and dying in the dirt.

We tried to pick up the pieces,

And get away without getting hurt,

But they caught us at the state line,

And burned our cars in one last fight,

And left us running burned and blind,

Chasing something in the night.

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Released on:

Darkness On The Edge Of Town 1978

Badlands / Something in the Night   Single - Jul 1978


Song To The Orphans

The moltitude assembled and tried to make the noise

The black blind poet generals

and restless loud white boys

But time grew thin and the axis

Was left somehow incomplete

Where instead of child lions

We found aging junkie sheep

How many wasted have I seen signed "Hollywood or bust"

Left to ride them ever ghostly Arizona gusts

Oh, cheerleader tramps and kids with big amps

Sounding in the void

High society vamps and ex-heavyweight champs

Mistaking soot for soil

So break me now Big Mama

As Old Faithful breaks the day

Believe me, my good Linda,

The aurora will shine your way

The Confederacy, she's in my name now

And the hounds are held at bay

The axis needs a stronger arm

Do you feel your muscles play?

The doorstep blanket weaver

Madonna she's  pushing bells

From house to house to house to house

Giving last kisses and wishing well

To every gypsy, mystic and all star hero

That the kids might find the place

Who've been lost forever to papa and mama

On their weekends out in space

Now the sons they search for fathers

But their fathers have all gone

The lost souls search for saviors

But saviours don't last long

Those aimless, questionless renegade brats

Who live their lives in songs

They run the length of a candle

In a goodnight whisper and a puff they're gone

So break me now Big Mama

As Old Faithful breaks the day

Believe me, my good Linda,

The aurora will shine your way

The Confederacy, she's in my name now

And the hounds are held at bay

The axis needs a stronger arm

Do you feel your muscles play?

The missions are filled with hermits looking for a friend

The terraces are filled with cat-men looking for a way in

There are orphans junked on silver mountains

Lost in celestial alleyways

They wait for that old tramp Dog Man Moses

He takes in all the strays

"Now, don't grow on empty legends

or lonely cradle songs

'Cause Billy The Kid was just a bowery boy

Who made his living twirling his guns"

The night she's long, she's lanky

She speaks in her mother tongue

And lullabies the refugees

With an amplifier's hum

So break us now Big Mama

As Old Faithful breaks the day

Believe me, my sweet Linda,

Oh, help is sure on the way

The Confederacy, she's in my name now

And the hounds are held at bay

The axis needs a stronger arm

Do you feel your muscles play?

The Confederacy, she's in my name now

And the hounds are held at bay

The axis needs a stronger arm

Do you feel your muscles play?


Soul Driver

German Translation

I rode through forty nights of the Gospels rain

'neath black sky pouring snakes, frogs, and a love in vain

You were down where the river runs wide

Baby, let me be your soul driver

Well if something in the air feels a little unkind

Don't worry darling, oh it'll slip your mind

I'll be your gypsy joker your shotgun rider

Baby let me be your soul driver

Well now no one knows which way love's wheel turns

We may get rich or crash and burn

This fortune weight or just the black hand of fate

This love rushes over us and its ghostly voice

If the angels are unkind or if the seasons are dark

Or if in the air love just falls apart

Well then here's to our destruction

Baby let me be your soul driver

Yea here's to our destruction

Baby let me be your soul driver

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Released on:

Human Touch 1992


Soul Driver GER
Soul Driver

German Translation

Fuhr durch 40 Nächte des Evangelien-Regens

Aus dem schwarzen Himmel fallen

Schlangen, Frösche und vergebliche Liebe

Du warst unten wo der Fluß breiter wird

Baby, laß mich dein Seelenfahrer sein

Nun, wenn irgendwas in der Luft sich merkwürdig anfühlt

Ärgere dich nicht Darling

Es wird aus deinem Kopf gehen

Ich will dein Zigeuner, Spaßvogel, dein Leibwächter sein

Baby, laß mich dein Seelenfahrer sein

Nun, niemand weiß

Wohin das Liebeskarussell dreht

Werden wir es reich treffen

Oder kaputt und abgebrannt

Wartet das Glück

Oder nur die schwarze Hand des Schicksals

Dieser Liebestrank ist alles was wir haben

Ein Trinkspruch bevor es zu spät ist

Wenn die Engel unfreundlich sind

Und die Zeit dunkel ist

Oder wenn am Ende Liebe auseinander füllt

Dann laá uns trinken auf unsere Zerst”rung

Baby, laß mich dein Seelenfahrer sein

Translation by Frank Rohwer


Souls Of The Departed

German Translation

On the road to Basra stood young Lieutenant Jimmy Bly

Detailed to go through the clothes of the soldiers who died

At night in dreams he sees their souls rise

Like dark geese into the Oklahoma skies

Well this is a prayer for the souls of the departed

Those who've gone and left their babies brokenhearted

This is a prayer for the souls of the departed

Now Raphael Rodriguez was just seven years old

Shot down in a schoolyard by some East Compton Cholos

His mamma cried "My beautiful boy is dead"

In the hills the self-made men just sighed and shook their heads

This is a prayer for the souls of the departed

Those who've gone and left their babies brokenhearted

Young lives over before they got started

This is a prayer for the souls of the departed

Tonight as I tuck my own son in bed

All I can think of is what if it would've been him instead

I want to build me a wall so high nothing can burn it down

Right here on my own piece of dirty ground

Now I ply my trade in the land of king dollar

Where you get paid and your silence passes as honor

And all the hatred and dirty little lies

Been written off the books and into decent men's eyes

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Released on:

Lucky Town 1992


Souls Of The Departed GER
Souls Of The Departed

German Translation

Auf der Straße nach Basra stand der junge Leutnant Jimmy Bly

Geht genau die Kleider der getöteten Soldaten durch

Nachts im Traum sieht er ihre Seelen aufsteigen

Wie dunkle Gänse in den Himmel von Oklahoma

Nun, dies ist ein Gebet für die Seelen der Verstorbenen

Die gegangen sind und ihre Babys zurückließen mit zerbrochenem Herzen

Dies ist ein Gebet für die Seelen der Verstorbenen

Nun, Raphael Rodrigues war grade 7 Jahre alt

Wurde niedergeschossen im Schulhof von einigen "East Compton Cholos"

Seine Mama weint "Mein hübscher Junge ist tot"

In den Bergen seufzen die selbsternannten Männer und schütteln den Kopf

Dies ist ein Gebet für die Seelen der Verstorbenen

Die gegangen sind und ihre Babys zurückließen mit zerbrochenem Herzen

Junge Leben sind zuende bevor sie richtig beginnen

Dies ist ein Gebet für die Seelen der Verstorbenen

Heute abend als ich meinen Sohn ins Bett brachte

Mußte ich daran denken wie es wäre ohne ihn

Ich würde mir eine Mauer bauen

So hoch daß nichts sie niederreißen kann

Direkt hier auf meinem eigenen Stück dreckigen Bodens

Nun führe ich mein Geschäft im Land von König Dollar

Wo du bezahlt wirst und deine Ruhe Ehrensache ist

Und all diese gehaßten und schmutzigen kleinen Lügen

Sind raus aus den Büchern und hinein in die Augen der anständigen Männer

Translation by Frank Rohwer


Southern Sun

Born on the Hudson, twenty-two years gone

Bred and raised in the City

From my daddy's knee I learned the Union songs

But Grandma sang lullabies of Dixie

And though the Northern winter fill my heart with joy

It's a Southern sun that shines down

On this Yankee boy

Mama dreamed of Paris nights

And boatin' on the Seine

She said, we're gonna make it there too

Soon as Papa comes home again

And she'd speak to me in broken French

Dressed like a painting of Lautrec's

In the night she'd clutch me to her breast

And say, we'll make it out of here yet

And though the Parisienne women

Strut so fine down the Eiffel mall

It's a Southern one I sing my songs for

Well with a local bunch of do-good boys

And an old man from the West

We crossed the land in a caravan

Yes we travelled with the best

With circus acts and vaudeville hacks

And a Mississippi Delta Queen

She told me the news and sold me her blues

In an alley in New Orleans

And though the Western plains are still stained

With the blood of great cowboys

It's a Southern sun

That shines down on this Yankee boy


Spanish Eyes

Little Christine

We're takin' one more run

Secret heart, when the time has begun

Come to part

And hey, you're the one

And now we know

My heart is sold

And though we tried

You took me with your spanish eyes

Hey badlands

Realize

That someone else is yearning

Special sunday night

And baby there's time

Time enough to cry

With all our sad stories

And all the bad that we've done

And all the times

we've rode on for glory

And ...

And you took me with your spanish eyes

Stretch out baby

And call your daddy home

'Cause I'm runnin' tonight

Couldn't be all alone

Yes I know how something died

But baby it was just for kicks

It was just for fun

Even with all the bad that we done

They can't say we didn't try

And I fell for your Spanish eyes

Saturday night special

Waitin' in the sheets

Oh come on

Talk to me, my sweet

And I'll try to make it complete this timeCome close and let me dry your eyes

Let me try to turn the lies

And let me kiss your spanish eyes

Let me kiss your spanish eyes

Let me kiss your spanish eyes

Let me kiss your spanish eyes

Come here, baby


Spare Parts

German Translation

Booby said he'd pull out Bobby stayed in

Janey had a baby wasn't any sin

They were set to marry on a summer day

Bobby got scared and he ran away

Jane moved in with here ma out on Shawnee Lake

She sighed ma sometimes my whole life feels like one big mistake

She settled in in a back room time passed on

Later that winter a son came along

Spare parts and broken hearts

Keep the world turnin' around

Now Janey walked that baby across the floor night after night

But she was a young girl and she missed the party lights

Meanwhile in South Texas in a dirty oil patch

Bobby heard about his son bein' born and swore he wasn't ever goin' back

Spare parts and broken hearts

Keep the world turnin' around

Janey heard about a woman over in Calverton

Put her baby in the river let the river roll on

She looked at her boy in the crib where he lay

Got down on her knees cried till she prayed

Mist was on the water low run the tide

Janey held her son down at the riverside

Waist deep in water how bright the sun shone

She lifted him in her arms and carried him home

As he lay sleeping in her bed Janey took a look around at everything

Went to a drawer in her bureau and got out her old engagement ring

Took out her wedding dress tied that ring up in its sash

Went straight down to the pawn shop man and walked out with

some good cold cash

Spare parts and broken hearts

Keep the world turnin' around

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Released on:

Tunnel Of Love 1987


Spare Parts GER
Spare Parts

German Translation

Bobby sagte, er würde rausziehn’, Bobby blieb drin

Janey wurde schwanger, was ja keine Sünde war

Die Hochzeit sollte an einem Sommer-Tag stattfinden

Bobby bekam Angst und haute ab

Jane zog mit ihrer Mutter raus nach Shawnee Lake

Sie seufzte: Mutter, manchmal fühlt sich mein ganzes Leben wie ein einziger

grosser Fehler an

Sie sass in einem Hinterzimmer, die Zeit ging vorbei

Spät in diesem Winter kam ein Sohn zur Welt

Ersatzteile

Und gebrochene Herzen

Halten diese Welt in Gang

Nun trug Janey das Baby durch den Flur, Nacht für Nacht

Aber sie war ein junges Mädchen und vermisste die Party-Lichter

Währenddessen in Süd-Texas, in einem schmutzigen Öl-Kaff

Hörte Bobby, sein Sohn sei geboren und er schwor sich, dass er niemals mehr

zurückgehen würde

Ersatzteile

Und gebrochene Herzen

Halten diese Welt in Gang

Janey hörte von einer Frau aus Calverton

Die legte ihr Baby in den Fluss und liess ihn fliessen

Sie schaute auf ihren Jungen, wie er im Kinderbett lag

Fiel auf die Knie und weinte und betete

Nebel war auf dem Wasser, langsam floss der Strom

Janey hielt ihren Sohn runter ans Flussufer

Bis über die Hüften ins Wasser, wie hell die Sonne schien

Sie hob ihn hoch in ihre Arme und trug ihn nach Hause

Als er schlafend in ihrem Bett lag, schaute sich Janey genau um

Ging zu einer Schublade an ihrer Kommode und nahm ihren alten Verlobungsring

heraus

Nahm ihr Hochzeitskleid, band den Ring an die Schärpe

Ging geradewegs runter zum Leihhaus und kam mit etwas gutem, kaltem Geld

heraus

Ersatzteile

Und gebrochene Herzen

Halten diese Welt in Gang

Translation by Robert Steinseufzer / RoSteins@aol.com


Spirit In The Night

Crazy Janey and her mission man were back in the alley tradin' hands

`Long came Wild Billy with his friend G-man all duded up for Saturday night

Billy slammed on his coaster brakes and said anybody

 wanna go on up to Greasy Lake

It's about a mile down on the dark side of Route 88

I got a bottle of rose so let's try it

We'll pick up Hazy Davy and Killer Joe and I'll take you all

out to where the gypsy angels go They're built like light

And they dance like spirits in the night (all night) in the night (all night)

Oh you don't know what they can do to you

Spirits in the night, in the night

Stand up now and let it shoot through you

Well now Wild Billy was a crazy cat and he shook some

dust out of his coonskin cap

He said "Trust some of this it'll show you where you're

at or at least it'll help you really feel it"

By the time we made it up to Greasy Lake I had my head

out the window and Janey's fingers in the cake

I think I really dug her `cause I was too loose to fake

I said "I'm hurt" she said "Honey let me heal it"

And we danced all night to a soul fairy band

And she kissed me just right like only a lonely angel can

She felt just right just like as sweet as a spirit in the night

In the night baby don't know what she do to you

Spirits in the night, in the night

Stand up now and let her shoot right through you

Now the night grew bright and the stars threw light in Billy and Davy

Dancin' in the moonlight

We were down near the water in a stone mud fight

Killer Joe'd passed out on the lawn

Well Hazy Davy got really hurt he crawled into the lake in

just his socks and a shirt

Me and Crazy Janey were makin' love in the dirt singin' our birthday songs

Janey said "Hey little brother don't you think it's time now we go"

So we closed our eyes and said goodbye to gypsy angel row felt just right

Together we moved like spirits in the night, all night

Baby don't know what it do to you

Spirits in the night, all night

Stand up now and let it shoot right through you

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Released on:

Spirit in The Night / For You - Single May 1973

Greetings from Asbury Park - N.J. 1973

Live 1975 - 1985   Live-Box 1986 (7/7/1978)


Stand On It

German Translation

Well, Jimmy Lee was hookin' 'round the fan turn

of a funky Southern Florida dirt track.

He had mud caked on his goggles and a screamin' three fifty

stacked up on his back.

Well, as he passed the stands, he feeling all tuckered out,

when through the roar of his engine he heard somebody shout.

"Stand on it. Come on, boy, stand on it."

Mary Beth started to shift, she hit the shift,

but she just couldn't get a hand on it.

She was racin' some red hill 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 hitchhiker out on Route 39.  He hollered,

"Stand on it.  Come on, baby, stand on it."

(Chorus)

Well, now 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're gonna do,

Well buddy, stand on it!

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

Go grab a girl; go see a rock 'n roll band,

and stand on it.

Come on, man, stand on it!

Well now, Columbus, he discovered America

even though he hadn't planned on it.

He got lost and woke up one morning

when he's about to land on it.

He wouldn't have got out of Italy, man, that's for sure,

without Queen Isabella standing on the shore shouting,

"Stand on it!  Go ahead, man, stand on it."

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Released on:

Glory Days / Stand On It   Single 1985

Tracks 1998 - Recorded at the Hit Factory 6 / 16 / 83


Stand On It GER
Stand On It

German Translation

Nun, Jimmy Lee hing in der Kurve

Von einer irren südlichen Florida Speedwaybahn

Seine Schutzbrille ist dreckverschmiert

Und eine schreiende 350er Horde hinter sich

Nun, als er an der Tribüne vorbeifuhr

Merkte er daá er sie alle ausgetrickst hatte

Als er durch den Lärm seines Motors h”rte wie jemand rief

Bleib dran Junge, bleib dran

Nun, Mary Beth kam vom rechten Weg ab

Half sich selbst, aber es glitt ihr aus der Hand

Sie fuhr Rennen mit einigen Red Hill Boys

Sie hat die Besitzurkunde für die Ranch und einen Tausender noch dazu

Mit acht groáen Scheinen bließ sie heiß über die Ziellinie

Sie bließ an einem Anhalter vorbei drauáen auf der Straße 39

Er schrie bleib dran, hau ab Baby und bleib dran

Nun ja, wenn du Zweifel hast und nichts dagegen tun kannst

Stehe einfach drüber

Wenn du verwirrt bist und nicht weißt was du tun sollst

Dann Kumpel, stehe drüber

Wenn du die Kontrolle über die Situation verlierst

Greif dir ein Mädchen, schaue dir eine Rock'n Roll Band an

Und stehe drüber, komm schon Mann, stehe drüber

Bleibt dran Jungs...

Nun Kolumbus, er entdeckte Amerika auch wenn er es nicht geplant hatte

Er ging verloren und erwachte eines Morgens als er dort landete

Er wollte nicht raus aus Italien, Mann das ist sicher

Ohne daß Königin Isabella an der Küste stand und rief

Bleib dran, gehe voran Mann und bleib dran

Translation by Frank Rohwer


State Trooper

New Jersey Turnpike, ridin' on a wet night `neath the refin'ry's glow

Out where the great black rivers flow

License, registration: I ain't got none

But I got a clear conscience `bout the things that I done

Mister state trooper, please don't stop me

Please don't stop me, please don't stop me

Maybe you got a kid, maybe you got a pretty wife

The only thing that I got's been both'rin' me my whole life

Mister state trooper, please don't stop me

Please don't stop me, please don't stop me

In the wee, wee hours your mind get hazy

Radio relay towers lead me to my baby

The radio's jammed up with talk show stations

It's just talk, talk, talk, talk, till you lose your patience

Mister state trooper, please don't stop me

Hey, somebody out there, listen to my last prayer

Hiho silver-o, deliver me from nowhere

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Released on:

Nebraska 1982


Stolen Car

German Translation

I met a little girl and I settled down

In a little house out on the edge of town

We got married, and swore we'd never part

Then little by little we drifted from each other's heart

At first I thought it was just restlessness

That would fade as time went by and our

love grew deep

In the end it was something more I guess

That tore us apart and made us weep

And I'm driving a stolen car

Down on Eldridge Avenue

Each night I wait to get caught

But I never do

She asked if I remembered the letters I wrote

When our love was young and bold

She said last night she read those letters

And they made her feel one hundred years old

And I'm driving a stolen car

On a pitch black night

And I'm telling myself I'm gonna be alright

But I ride by night and I travel in fear

That in this darkness I will disappear

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Released on:

The River 1980

Tracks 1998 - Recorded at the Power Station 7 / 26 / 79


Stolen Car GER
Stolen Car

German Translation

Ich lernte ein junges Mädchen kennen und liess mich nieder

In einem kleinen Haus, draussen am Stadtrand

Wir heirateten und schworen, uns nie zu trennen

Dann wurden wir Stück für Stück vom Herzen des anderen abgetrieben

Zuerst dachte ich, es wäre nur Ruhelosigkeit

Die im Laufe der Zeit verschwinden würde wenn unsere Liebe tiefer würde

Am Ende war es etwas mehr als ich vermutete

Das uns auseinander riss und uns zum weinen brachte

Ich fahre mit einem gestohlenen Wagen

Die Eldrigde Avenue hinunter

Jede Nacht warte ich darauf, geschnappt zu werden

Doch das passiert nie

Sie fragte, ob ich mich an die Briefe erinnern würde, die ich schrieb

Als unsere Liebe jung und kühn war

Sie sagte, letzte Nacht hätte sie diese Briefe gelesen

Und sie gaben ihr das Gefühl hundert Jahre alt zu sein

Ich fahre einen gestohlenen Wagen

In einer pechschwarzen Nacht

Und ich rede mir selbst ein, dass ich in Ordnung bin

Doch ich fahre bei Nacht und ich reise in Furcht darüber

Dass ich in dieser Dunkelheit verschwinden könnte

Translation by Robert Steinseufzer / RoSteins@aol.com


Straight Time

German Translation

Got out of prison back in '86 and I found me a wife

Walked the clean and narrow

just tryin' to stay out and stay alive

Got a job at the rendering factory,  it ain't gonna make me rich

In the darkness before dinner comes

Sometimes I can feel the itch

I got a cold mind to go tripping across that thin line

I'm sick of doin straight time

My uncles at the evenin' table makes his living runnin' hot cars

Slips me a hundred dollar bill, says

"Charlie, you best remember who your friend are."

I got a cold mind to go tripping across that thin line

I ain't makin' straight time

Eight years in, it feels Iike your gonna die

But you get used to anything

Sooner or later it becomes your life

Kitchen floor in the evening, tossin' my little babies high

Mary's smilin', but she watches me out of the corner of her eye

Seems you can't get any more than half free

I step out onto the front porch, and suck the cold air deep inside of me

Got a cold mind to go tripping cross that thin line

I'm sick of doin' straight time

In the basement, huntin' gun and a hacksaw

Sip a beer, and thirteen inches of barrel drop to the floor

Come home in the evening, can't get the smell from my hands

Lay my head down on the pillow

And, go driftin' off into foreign lands

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Released on:

The Ghost Of Tom Joad 1995

The Ghost Of Tom Joad Maxi-CD 1999 (Live at the Tower Theatre)


Straight Time GER
Straight Time

German Translation

Kam aus dem Gefängnis damals ´86 und ich fand eine Frau

Ging sauber und paßte auf

Und versuchte draußen und am Leben zu bleiben

Bekam einen Job bei der Rendering-Plantage, der mich nicht reich macht

In der Dunkelheit vor dem Abendessen fühle ich manchmal, wie es mich juckt

Ich habe ein kaltes Gefühl, das mich über die Grenze schickt

Ich bin krank davon ehrlich zu sein

Translation by Frank Rohwer


Street Queen

She got high class

She rides around in a cut down Chevy machine

With eyes of (certified) plate glass

And legs like a limousine

She comes stocked with sass

And to ride her you'd better be mean

She's the baddest thing this town's ever seen

Street Queen

Well she got a turbine angine mama, with maximum thrust

Cadillac hips, she's the best on the strip

She knows how to use a clutch

She comes on shiny and black

And, boys, to hit her you'd better be tough

Oh she's the slickest thing that (this town's) I've ever seen

Street Queen

And you can always tell, ah mama, when she's (in town) around

You can hear that engine roarin'

She says "Come on, get in

Hey baby you wanna go for a ride ?"

And oh she sets your mind soarin'

And the boys they jump back

As that engine unwinds

And I'm glued to my seat, mama

As I watch that speedometer climb

Oh, she moves so fast she's almost obscene

Street Queen

Well if you're gonna come streakin' down my street, baby

Like an angel with them Chevy wings

If you're gonna come streakin' down my street, baby

Like an angel with them Chevy wings

Well you better watch out, Street Queen

'Cause you're messin' with the King


Streets Of Fire

When the nigth's quiet and you don't care anymore,

And your eyes are tired and there's someone at your door

And you realize you wanna let go

And the weak lies and the cold walls you embrace

Eat at your insides and leave you face to face with

Streets of fire

I'm wandering, a loser down these tracks

I'm dying, but girl I can't go back

'Cause in the darkness I hear somebody call my name

And when you realize how they tricked you this time

And it's all lies but I'm strung out on the wire

In these streets of fire

I live now, only with strangers

I talk to only strangers

I walk with angels that have no place

Streets of fire

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Released On:

Darkness On The Edge Of Town 1978

Badlands / Streets of Fire   SIngle - Jul 1978

The Promised Land / Streets of Fire   SIngle - Oct 1978


Streets Of Philadelphia

German Translation

I was bruised and battered

I couldn't tell what I felt

I was unrecognizable to myself

Saw my reflection in a window

Didn't know my own face

So brother don't leave me

On the streets of Philadelphia

I walk the avenue 'til my legs feel like stone

I heard voices of friend vanished and gone

At night I hear the blood in my veins

Just as black and whispering as the rain

On the streets of Philadelphia

Ain't no angel gonna greet me

It's just you and I my friend

And my clothes don't fit me no more

Thousand miles just to slip this skin (?)

Night has fallen, I'm flying away

I can feel myself fading away

So receive me brother with your fateless kiss

or will we leave each other alone like this?

On the streets of Philadelphia

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Released on:

Streets of Philadelphia Maxi-CD 1993 (Epic Records)

Greatest Hits 1995

Soundtrack of the movie "Philadelphia"


Streets Of Philadelphia GER
Streets Of Philadelphia

German Translation

Ich war niedergeschlagen und kaputt

Ich konnte nicht mehr sagen, was ich fuehlte

Ich konnte mich selbst nicht mehr erkennen

Ich sah mein Spiegelbild in einem Fenster

Ich erkannte mein eigenes Gesicht nicht

Oh Bruder, wirst Du mich dahinsiechen lassen

Auf den Strassen von Philadelphia

Ich bin die Avenue entlanggegangen

Bis sich meine Beine wie Stein anfuehlten

Ich hoerte die Stimmen von Freunden

Die verschwunden und gegangen waren.

Nachts konnte ich das Blut in meinen Adern hoeren

Schwarz und fluesternd, wie der Regen

Auf den Strassen von Philadelphia

Kein Engel gruesst mich mehr

Es bleiben nur Du und ich, mein Freund

Meine Kleidung passt mir nicht mehr

Ich bin tausend Meilen gelaufen

Nur um diese Haut abzustreifen

Die Nacht ist angebrochen

Ich liege wach

Ich kann fuehlen, wie ich dahinschwinde

So empfange mich Bruder mit Deinem unglaeubigen Kuss

Oder werden wir uns aus dem Weg gehen

Wie wir es jetzt schon tun

Auf den Strassen von Philadelphia


Sugarland

German Translation

They're grazin' the field

Covered with tar

Can't get a price

To see my way clear

I'm sitting down

At the Sugarland Bar

It might as well bury

My body right here

Tractors and combines

Out in the cold

Sheds piled high

With the wheat we ain't sold

silos filled with

Last year's crops

If something don't break me

We'll gonna drop

Well my wife got another

Coming in july

She's just laid up in bed

All she does is cries, cries, cries

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

Roaring out of the night

Carrying an empty load

We got a whole lot of grain

That ain't got nowhere to go

Well, if prices

Don't get no higher

I'll fill this dustbin with gasAnd set these fields on fire

Sit out on a ridge

Where the bluebirds fly

And watch the flame rise up

Against this sugarland sky

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Born In The U.S.A. Outtake 1983/84


Sugraland GER
Sugraland

German Translation

Das Getreide draussen auf dem Feld ist bedeckt mit Teer

Ich kann dafuer keinen Preis bekommen, um meinen weiteren Weg zu sichern

Ich sitze unten an der Zuckerland Bar

Sie koennten mich genausogut gleich hier begraben

Traktoren und Maehdrescher stehen draussen in der Kaelte

Die Scheunen sind voll mit dem Weizen, den wir nicht verkaufen konnten

Die Silos sind mit der Ernte des letzten Jahres gefuellt

Wenn nicht bald etwas geschieht

Werden wir alle untergehen

Meine Frau erwartet im Juli ein weiteres Kind

Sie liegt im Bett und weint, weint, weint

Tommy, oh Tommy, ich bin so allein'

Tommy, oh Tommy, willst du nicht zu Hause bleiben ?

Pa sagt nichts, ausser wenn es regnet

Er sitzt da am Fenster und lauscht dem Klang der vorbeifahrenden Zuege

Sie brechen aus der Nacht heraus und transportieren eine leere Ladung

Wir haben eine Menge Weizen, der nirgends hinkommen wird

Nun, wenn die Preise nicht steigen

Werde ich diesen Staublappen in Benzin tauschen

Und diese Felder in Brand setzen

Ich werde dort oben auf dem Grat sitzen, wo die Blauvoegel fliegen

Und den Flammen zuschauen

Wie sie in den Zuckerland Himmel emporsteigen


Sweet Soul Music

(O.Redding, A.Conley/Otis Redding)

Do you like good music ?

Sweet soul music ?

how must I strike her

sometime

Oh yeah

Spotlight out on this ring

sing and laugh-laugh-laugh

sing and laugh-laugh-laugh

tonight

Oh yeah

Spotlight on the Big Man

don't he look great ?

He lost a lot of weight

Oh yeah, oh yeah

Spotlight on you now

you sure look fine

moving down the line

come on

yeah yeah

Spotlight on me now

I sure look good

feeling so fine now

that's right

Oh yeah

Spotlight on the band now

sure rocking fine you

working on that line you

come on come on

yeah yeah


TV Movie

I woke up last night shaking from a dream

For in that dream I died

My wife rolled over and told me

That my life would be immortalized

Not in some major motion picture

Or great American novel, you see

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

CHORUS:

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

Yeah it's as easy as A B C

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

Well they can change my name or they can leave it

They can change my story too

Or they can make me black or Chinese

And do things that I never did do

They're gonna give my life a whole new ending

And put me in prime time first-run

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

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

Nobody's ever gonna see

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

(CHORUS)

Well I'm a shoe-in for a sponsor

Goodyear blimp and radial wheels

Somebody had a meeting somewhere

Somehow somebody made a deal

Well I was one of them kinds of stories

That everybody liked to see

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

Now I don't want no inscription on my gravestone

No long soliloquy

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

(CHORUS)

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Released on:

Tracks 1998 - Recorded at the Hit Factory 6/13/83


Take Em As They Come

Last night I dreamed he was runnin' through the avalanche

Tears streamed your pretty face all burned red

Once your dead its done and not much remains

Down the highway another stranger comes

You gotta take em baby when they come

Little girl put on your red dress

Cause we're goin' out on the town tonight

And when I hold this switchblade

Lets be sure some fools gonna want to fight

You gotta take em baby as they come

You gotta take em

Take em as they come girl

Take em as they come girl

Take em as they come girl

Take em baby as they come

God save the rider in the black night

Save the man who taught that it was right

To do what they have dreamt of

So we come what we have become

You gotta take em baby when they come

Little girl gone are birthdays

Faded away into the clear blue night

And all the promises we made

Lie shattered and broken in the morning light

You gotta take em baby when they come

You gotta take em

Take em as they come girl

Take em as they come girl

Take em as they come girl

Take em baby as they come

I know your heart is breakin'

I can feel it too girl

Though my finger on the trigger is shakin'

There's just one thing you could do girl

There's winners and losers

All the same from the other side

But we could choose here girl

We could try, couldn't we hon

To take em baby when they come

Take em as they come girl

Take em as they come girl

Take em as they come girl

Take em baby as they come

Take em as they come girl

Take em as they come girl

Take em as they come girl

Take em baby as they come

Take em baby as they come

Take em baby as they come

Take em baby as they come

Take em baby as they come

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Released on:

Tracks 1998 - Recorded at the Power Station 4 / 10 / 80

The River outtake, 1980


Talk To Me

(Covered by Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes)

Well every night I see a light up in your window

But every night you won't answer your door

But although you won't ever let me in

From the street I can see your silhouette sittin' close to him

What must I do

What does it take

To get you to

Talk to me

Until the night is over

Talk to me

Well until the night is over, yeah yeah yeah

I got a full week's pay

And baby I've been working hard each day

I'm not asking for the world you see

I'm just asking girl

Talk to me

Well late at night I hear the music that you're playing soft and low

Yes and late at night I see the two of you swayin', so close

I don't understand darling what was my sin

Why am I down here below while you're up there with him

What did I do

What did I say

What must I pay

To get you to

Talk to me

Until the night is over

Talk to me

Well until the night is over, yeah yeah yeah

I got a full week's pay

And baby I've been working hard each day

I'm not asking for the world you see

I'm just asking girl

Talk to me

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

I don't understand darling what was my sin

Why am I down here below while you're up there with him

What did I do

What did I say

What must I pay

To get you to

Talk to me

Until the night is over

Talk to me

Well until the night is over, yeah yeah yeah

I got a full week's pay

And baby I've been working hard each day

I'm not asking for the world you see

I'm down on my bended knees

I'm just asking darling please won't you

Talk to me


Taxi Cab
Taxi Cab (City At Night)

Taxicab, taxicab at the light

Won't you take me on a ride

Through this city at night

I got some money and I'm feelin' fine

I ain't no hurry so just take your time

Some people wanna die young and gloriously

Well taxicab driver, hey that ain't me

I got a cute little baby

down at 12th and Vine

And she opens for business just about closin' time

Ah hey hey, ah hey hey

City at night, city at night

I don't believe what I see in this street

I don't know how they can take the heat

Well baby I'm a liar, I'm a cheat

And I don't care

I got my money, I can't take my fare

I'm ridin' tonight, I'm on my way

C'mon baby...

I can take it or live it, when it comes

Got my baby by the light of the sun

You know she brings it with her and then she comes

Hey, hey, city at night

Hey, hey, city at night

Ride on

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Darkness On The Edge Of Town outtake 1977/78


Tenth Avenue Freeze Out

Tear drops on the city

Bad Scooter searching for his groove

Seem like the whole world walking pretty

And you can't find the room to move

Well everybody better move over, that's all

I'm running on the bad side

And I got my back to the wall

Tenth Avenue freeze-out, Tenth Avenue freeze-out

I'm stranded in the jungle

Taking all the heat they was giving

The night is dark but the sidewalk's bright

And lined with the light of the living

From a tenement window a transistor blasts

Turn around the corner things got real quiet real fast

She hit me with a Tenth Avenue freeze-out

Tenth Avenue freeze-out

And I'm all alone, I'm all alone

And kid you better get the picture

And I'm on my own, I'm on my own

And I can't go home

When the change was made uptown

And the Big Man joined the band

From the coastline to the city

All the little pretties raise their hands

I'm gonna sit back right easy and laugh

When Scooter and the Big Man bust this city in half

With a Tenth Avenue freeze-out, Tenth Avenue freeze-out

Tenth Avenue freeze-out...

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Released on:

Born to Run 1975

Tenth Avenue Freeze Out / She's The One   Single - Feb.1976

Live 1975 - 1985   Live-Box 1986 (Meadowlands Arena, 8/20/84)


That's What You Got

The moonlight dances on her face

I got my lips ????

I'm living the life of a lie

It was for me, for me that she died

That's What you get for loving me (repeated 4 times)

????  [whole line unintelligible]

True Love, unhappiness

I fall down on my knees and I cry

It's my way of saying goodbye

That's what you get for loving me (repeated 5 times)

The moonlight is ?? on the ???

As I ??? (into my?) head

And I, I'm gonna cry

It's my way of saying goodbye

That's what you get for loving me  (repeat to fade)


The Angel

Italian Translation

The angel rides with hunch-backed children, poison oozing from his engine

Wieldin' love as a lethal weapon, on his way to hubcap heaven

Baseball cards poked in his spokes, his boots in oil he's patiently soaked

The roadside attendant nervously jokes as the angel's tires strokes his

precious pavement

The interstate's choked with nomadic hordes in Volkswagen vans with full

running boards dragging great anchors

Followin' dead-end signs into the sores

The angel rides by humpin' his hunk metal whore

Madison Avenue's claim to fame in a trainer bra with eyes like rain

She rubs against the weather-beaten frame and asks the angel for his name

Off in the distance the marble dome reflects across the flatlands with a

naked feel off into parts unknown

The woman strokes his polished chrome and lies beside the angel's bones

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Released:

Blindet by the Light / The Angel  SIngle - Feb 1973

Greeting from Asbury Park - N.J. 1973


The Angel ITA
The Angel

Italian Translation

L'angelo corre con bambini storpi mentre il motore perde veleno

Tratta l'amore come se fosse un'arma micidiale,

 sulla via verso un paradiso di cerchioni

Figurine di baseball ficcate nei raggi delle ruote,

 con gli stivali sta pazientemente nell'olio

E il guardiano della strada scherza nervosamente mentre le gomme

 dell'angelo carezzano il suo prezioso fondo stradale

L'interstatale e intasata da orde di nomadi in Volkswagen vans,

 che trascinano grossi pesi a tutta velocita

Seguendo insegne senza fine, fino ad averne male

L'angelo corre forzando la sua schiava di metallo massiccio

Madison Avenue aspira alla fama con occhi umidi e reggiseno

 con le stecche

Si strofina contro gli infissi rovinati dalle intemperie e chiama

 l'angelo per nome

Da lontano la cupola di marmo rimanda luce attraverso le pianure,

 con nuda sensazione in parti sconosciute

La donna carezza la lucida cromatura dell'angelo e giace accanto

 alle sue ossa


The Ballade Of The Architect Angle

The architect angel held <?> Juda ranch.

Just a dirty mile down on the borderline.

Where he mastered blastin' and hustled young cattle for

     slaughter

And dated Juda's daughter.

From the cellar aways to the attics and all across the

     plains

Broke electric static of religious strain,

And though he was never an addict, he wore scars on his veins.

Like a young girl holds her first pimp, he held his Bible in.

From desert bars and church bazaars, the hunger slowly came

With vulgar faces from vulgar places lookin' for a game.

Well, ivory gun handles and chamber grease

And souped-up hydroplanes.

The bullets burn from TV silver, bearin' great cowboys' names.

Now with 14 inches of gun barrel, smokin' from the lid,

Spurs on straight black bootheels, he said "They call me the

     Brooklyn Kid."

And in his lonely Zenith nightmares, well that's just what they

     did.

Oh, how he played out his scenes, loaded on <?> dreams.

Well, his holster slung low like a hot kid-sister

Tied back to his leg like he gonna do.

He was stompin' the step he called the Quickman Twister.

His six-guns were pumpin' through.

His tongue hung low like sawdust scrapin' across the

     plains.

He crawled up outside the Juda Ranch.

And started callin' the angel names.

And now the architect angel stood, in one hand a staff, the other

     a gun.

He held the staff high in the wind.  The gun was like a piece in

     the sun.

He started howlin' like a monsoon wind. Drew fast. The job was

     done.

At night the moon stretched tight light 'cross the plains,

As real cowboys sat around real campfire flames,

And the county wolf called as if to explain to his son

The way the West was won.

The West was finally won.

The way the West was won.


The Big Muddy

German Translation

Billy had a mistress down on 'A' and 12th

She was that little somethin' that he did for himself

His own little secret didn't hurt nobody

Come the afternoon he'd take her wadin'

Waist deep in the big muddy

Waist deep in the big muddy

You start out standing but end up crawlin'

Got in some trouble and needed a hand from a friend of mine

This old friend he had a figure in mind

It was nothing illegal just a little bit funny

He said "C'mon don't tell me that the rich don't know

Sooner or later it all comes down to money"

And you're waist deep in the big muddy

Waist deep in the big muddy

You start on higher ground but end up crawlin'

Well I had a friend said "You watch what you do

Poison snake bites you and you're poison too"*

How beautiful the river flows and the birds they sing

But you and I we're messier things

There ain't no one leavin' this world buddy

Without their shirttail dirty

Or their hands bloody

Waist deep in the big muddy

Waist deep in the big muddy

You start on higher ground but end up somehow crawlin'

Waist deep in the big muddy

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Released on:

Lucky Town 1992


The Big Muddy GER
The Big Muddy

German Translation

Billy hatte eine Geliebte unten an der "A" und 12. Straße

Sie war das kleine Etwas das er für sich selbst tat

Sein eigenes kleines Geheimnis, tat niemandem weh

Am Nachmittag nahm er sie sich

Bis zur Häfte im großen Dreck

Bis zur Häfte im großen Dreck

Du beginnst im stehen aber du endest kriechend

Bekam Schwierigkeiten und brauchte die Hand eines Freundes

Dieser alte Freund hatte eine Summe im Kopf

Es war nicht illegal, nur ein biáchen komisch

Er sagte "Komm schon, erzähl mir nicht daß die Reichen nicht wissen:

Früher oder später dreht sich alles nur ums Geld"

Und du bist bis zur Häfte im großen Ärger

Du beginnst hoch oben, aber du endest kriechend

Ich hatte einen Freund, er sagte "Achte darauf was du tust

Giftschlangen beißen dich und du bist auch vergiftet"

Wie wunderschön der Fluß fließt und die Vögel singen

Aber du und ich, wir bringen diese Dinge durcheinander

Da ist niemand der diese Welt verlßäßt, mein Freund

Ohne Dreck an seinem Hemd oder die Hände ein wenig blutig

Bis zur Häfte im großen Dreck

Du beginnst hoch oben, aber du endest irgendwie kriechend

Bis zur Häfte im großen Dreck

Translation by: Frank Rohwer


The Big Payback

I bought a scooter and I rented a shack

Out in the sun, by the railroad track

I got a job and I'm a-breakin' my back

Workin' and workin' for the big payback

I keep a puttin' and a puttin' out

I keep a sweatin' like a' all get out

I work so long that I'm a losin' track

Waitin', waitin' on the big payback

Well, it's a wham, bam, thank you ma'am,

god damn, look out Sam

It's a gone-dead train rumblin' down this track

They got your neck in the noose, you're draggin' long in back

Chasin' and chasin' the big payback

Oh what my foreman does well I don't know

He just throws me a shovel and yells "Go, Bobby, Go"

Oh well-a all day long he's just a busy wise crack

While I'm sweatin' and sweatin' for the big payback

Well, it's a wham, bam, thank you ma'am,

god damn, look out Sam

It's a gone-dead train rumblin' down this track

They got your neck in the noose, your hands are tied up in back

And you're a-workin' and workin' for the big payback

I quit that job, and Mister I ain't goin' back

Got me a knife and she's a long and black

I'll tell you how I make the peace at night, Mack

Down in the alley of the big payback

I go a wham, bam, thank you ma'am, god damn, c'mon man

You're a gone-dead train rumblin' down this track

I got your neck in the noose and I don't give a damn, Jack

I'm on that long lost highway of the big payback

I'm on that long lost highway of the big payback

I'm on that long lost highway of the big payback

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Released on:

Open All Nigh / The Big Payback   Single 1982


The E-Street Shuffle

Sparks fly on E Street when the boy prophets walk it handsome and hot,

All the little girls' souls grow weak when the manchild gives them a double shot,

The schoolboy pops pull out all the stops on a Friday night,

The teenage tramps in skin-tight pants do the E Street dance and

everything's alright,

Little kids down there either dancin' or hooked up in a scuffle,

Dressed in snake-skin suits packed with Detroit muscle

They're doin' the E Street Shuffle.

Now those E Street brats in twilight duel flashlight phantoms

in full star stream,

Down fire trails on silver nights with blonde girls pledged sweet sixteen,

The newsboys say the heat's been bad since Power Thirteen gave a

trooper all he had in a summer scuffle,

And Power's girl, Little Angel, been on the corner keepin' those crazy boys

out of trouble,

Little Angel steps the shuffle like she ain't got no brains,

She's deaf in combat down on Lover's Lane

She drives all them local boys insane.

Little Angel says, "Oh, everybody form a line.

Oh, everybody form a line."

Sparks fly on E Street when the boy-prophets walk it handsome and hot,

All them little girls' souls grow weak when the manchild gives

them a double shot,

Little Angel hangs out at Easy Joe's. it's a club where all the riot squad

goes when they're cashin' in for a cheap hustle,

But them boys are still on the corner loose and doin' that

lazy E Street Shuffle,

As them sweet summer nights turn into summer dreams Little Angel picks up

Power and he slips on his jeans as they move on out down to the scene

All the kids are dancin'.

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Released on:

The Wild, The Innocent and the E Street Shuffle 1973


The Fast Song

(Early Candy's Room)

The night rushes in through the door

Kids running across the floor

Those guys aim it'll tear this town down

And blow it into the sea

Man that's alright with me

'Cause I don't care anymore

She, she who is everything

The fever that she brings

She's got everything

And I've got caught

Wasting my life so bad

Just looking for the facts

Sometimes I

Feel like I'm walking dazed

The blood rushes in my veins

I can hear it flow

She lives in a world of dreams come true

But she don't know like I do

Not like I do

'Cause I was nothing

Over and over again

Alone when the nights roll in, without her

She's a miracle in diamond rings

She has men who bring her anything she wants

But they don't see

That what she wants is me

Oh and I want her so

I'll never let her go

Me, walking ikn the room

Alone when the nights roll in

Without her, without her, without her


The Ghost Of Tom Joad

German Translation

Spanish Translation

Italian translation

Men walkin' 'long the railroad tracks

Goin' some place, there's no goin' back

Highway Patrol choppers comin' up over the ridge

Hot soup on a campfire under the bridge

Shelter line stretchin' round the corner

Welcome to the new world order

Families sIeepin' in their cars in the southwest

No home, no Job, no peace, no rest

The highway is alive tonight

But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes

I'm sitting down here in the campfire light

Searchin' for the ghost of Tom Joad

He pulls prayer book out of his sleepin' bag

Preacher lights up a butt and takes a drag

Waitin' for when the last shall be first and the first shall be last

In a cardboard box 'neath the underpass

Got a one way ticket to the promised land

You got a hole in your belly and a gun in your hand

sleeping on a pillow of solid rock

Bathing in the city aqueduct

The highway is alive tonight

But where It's headed everybody knows

I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light

Waitin' on the ghost of Tom Joad

Now Tom Said; "Mom, wherever there's a cop beatin' a guy"

Wherever a hungry new born baby cries

Where there's a fight 'gainst the blood and hatred in the air

Look for me mom I'll be there

Wherever there's somebody fightin' for a pIace to stand

Or decent job or a helpin' hand

Wherever somebody's strugglin' to be free

Look in their eyes mom you'll see me.

The highway is alive tonight

But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes

I'm sitting down here in the campfire light

Searchin' for the ghost of Tom Joad

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Released on:

The Ghost Of Tom Joad 1995

The Ghost Of Tom Joad MaxiCD 1995

Full Band version was played during 1999 World Tour


The Ghost Of Tom Joad ESP
The Ghost Of Tom Joad

Spanish Translation

Hombres caminando por las vias del tren

Van hacia algun sitio, sin vuelta atras

Los helicopteros de la policia estatal aparecen sobre la sierra

Comida caliente en una fogata bajo el puente

La cola de desamparados ante el refugio da la vuelta a la esquina

Bienvenidos al nuevo orden mundial

Familias en el suroeste durmiendo en sus coches

Sin hogar, sin trabajo, sin paz, sin descanso

La autopista rebosa de vida esta noche

Pero nadie se engana sobre el lugar al que se dirige

Estoy sentado aqui a la luz de la fogata

Buscando el fantasma de Tom Joad

El predicador saca un misal de su saco de dormir

Enciende una colilla y le da una calada

Esperando el momento en que el ultimo sea el primero y el primero

   sea el ultimo

En una caja de carton bajo el paso inferior

Tienes un billete de ida a la tierra prometida

Un agujero en la tripa y una pistola en la mano

Durmiendo sobre una almohada de roca dura

Banandote en el acueducto de la ciudad.

La autopista rebosa de vida esta noche

Pero todo el mundo sabe el lugar al que se dirige

Estoy sentado aqui a la luz de la fogata

Esperando el fantasma de Tom Joad

Bueno, Tom dijo "Mama, dondequiera que haya un poli

   pegando a un tio

Dondequiera que llore un nino recien nacido y hambriento

Donde se luche contra la sangre y el odio que hay

   en el aire

Buscame mama, estare alli

Dondequiera que haya alguien luchando por tener un sitio

   donde establecerse

O por un trabajo digno o una mano que le ayude

Dondequiera que alguien este luchando por ser libre

Mirales a sus ojos mama, me veras a mi"

Bueno, la autopista rebosa de vida esta noche

Pero nadie se engana sobre el lugar al que se dirige

Estoy sentado aqui a la luz de la fogata

Con el fantasma del viejo Tom Joad


The Ghost Of Tom Joad GER
The Ghost Of Tom Joad

German Translation

Manner gehen an den Bahngleisen entlang

sie gehen irgendwo hin, es gibt kein zuruck

Polizeihubschrauber tauchen uber den Gipfeln auf

Eine heise Suppe am Lagerfeuer unter der Brucke

Fur eine Unterkunft steht man Schlange bis um die Ecke

Willkommen in der neuen Weltordnung

Im Sudwesten schlafen Familien in ihren Autos

Kein Zuhause, keine Arbeit, keinen Frieden, keine Ruh

Der Highway ist heut Nacht lebendig,

aber niemand scherzt daruber, wohin er fuhrt

Ich sitze hier im Schein des Lagerfeuers

und suche den Geist von Tom Joad

Er holt ein Gebetsbuch aus seinem Schlafsack hervor

Der Prediger zundet sich einen Stummel an und nimmt einen Zug

Und wartet darauf, das die Letzten die Ersten sein wurden,

und die Ersten die Letzten

In einem Pappkarton unter der Unterfuhrung,

er hat ein Ticket fur eine Fahrt ins Gelobte Land, ohne Wiederkehr

Du hast ein Loch im Bauch und 'ne Knare in der Hand

Du schlafst auf einem Kissen aus hartem Fels,

und badest im stadtischen Aquaeduct

Der Highway ist heut nacht lebendig,

aber niemand scherzt daruber, wohin er fuhrt

Ich sitze hier im Schein des Lagerfeuers

und warte auf den Geist von Tom Joad

Nun sagt Tom: " Mom, wo auch immer ein Bulle jemand zusammenschlagt,

wo auch immer ein Neugeborenes hungrig schreit

Wo gegen das Blutvergiesen und den Has, der in der Luft liegt, gekampft wird

Such nach mir, Mom, ich werde da sein

Wo auch immer jemand um seinen 'Platz kampft,

oder um einen anstandigen Job, oder eine hilfreiche Hand

Wo auch immer sich jemand abmuht, um frei zu sein

Schau in ihre Augen, Mom, und du wirst mich sehen

Der Highway ist heut nacht lebendig,

aber niemand scherzt daruber, wohin er fuhrt

Ich sitze hier im Schein des Lagerfeuers

mit dem Geist des alten Tom Joad


The Ghost Of Tom Joad ITA
The Ghost Of Tom Joad

Italian translation

Uomini a piedi lungo i binari

Diretti verso un posto da cui non c'e ritorno;

Elicotteri della stradale che spuntano dalla collina,

Minestra a scaldare sul fuoco sotto il ponte,

La fila per il ricovero che fa il giro dell'isolato

Benvenuti al nuovo ordine mondiale.

Famiglie che dormono in macchina nel Sudovest,

Ne casa, ne lavoro, ne sicurezza, ne pace.

La strada e viva stasera

Ma nessuno si illude su dove vada a finire

Sto qui seduto alla luce del falo,

E cerco il fantasma di Tom Joad

Il Predicatore tira fuori un libro dal sacco a pelo

Accende un mozzicone e fa una tirata

In attesa del giorno in cui gli ultimi saranno i primi,

E i primi saranno gli ultimi.

In uno scatolone di cartone, nel sottopassaggio,

Trovo un biglietto di sola andata per la terra promessa.

Hai un buco in pancia e una pistola in mano

Si dorme su un cuscino di sasso

Ci si lava nell'acquedotto municipale

La strada e viva stanotte

Ma nessuno si illude su dove vada a finire

Sto qui seduto alla luce dei falo

E cerco il fantasma di Tom Joad

Diceva Tom: "..Mamma. dovunque un poliziotto picchia una persona

Dovunque un bambino nasce gridando per la fame

Dovunque c'e una lotta contro il sangue e l'odio nell'aria

cercami, e ci saro.

Dovunque si combatte per uno spazio di dignit…,

Un lavoro decente, una mano d'aiuto,

Dovunque qualcuno lotta per essere libero

Guardalo negli occhi, e vedrai me.."

La strada e viva stanotte

Ma dove va a finire lo sappiamo tutti

Sto qui seduto alla luce dei falo

Assieme al fantasma del vecchio Tom Joad


The Hitter

Come to the door ma and unlock the chain.

Well I was just passin' through and got caught in the rain.

There's nothing that I want, nothin' that you need say.

Just let me lie down a while and I'll be on my way.

I was no more than a kid when you put me on the Southern Queen.

With the police on my back I fled to New Orleans.

Well I fought in the dockyards for the the money that I made.

And the fight was my home and any blood was my trade.

Baton Rouge, ______, and Lafayette town.

They payed me the moon, ma, to knock the man down.

Well I did what I did, yeah it come easily.

For as know ma, restraint and mercy were always strangers to me.

I fought champion Jack Thompson in a field full of mud.

Rain poured through the tent canvas and mixed with our blood.

In the twelfth, slipped my tounge over my broken jaw.

And I pounded his body into the floor.

Well the bell rang and rang and still I kept on.

'Til I felt my glove leather slip 'tween his skin and bone.

And the women and the money came fast and the days I lost track.

The women red, the money green, but the numbers were black.

I fought for the men in their silk suits to lay down their bets.

Well I took my good share, ma, I have no regrets.

I took the fixed staid hombre with Big Diamond Don. (???)

Well from high in the rafters I watched myself fall.

He raised his arms, stomach twisted, and the sky it went black. (???)

I stuffed my bag with their good money, ma, and never looked back.

Understand me and my, every man plays the game.

Well if you know anyone different then speak out his name.

My life, my face, now you don't recognize.

Well just open the door and look into your dark eyes.

I ask of you nothin', not a kiss not a smile.

Just open the door and let me lie down for a while.

Now the gray rain is fallin' and my ring fightin's done.

So in the work fields and alleys, I take them who'll come.

If you're a better man than me then just step to the line.

Show me your money and speak out your crime.

There's nothin' I want, ma, nuthin' that you need say.

Just let me lie for a while and I'll be on my way.

Well tonight in Stockyard, a man draws a circle in the dirt.

I move to the center and take off my shirt.

I study him for the cuts, the scars, the pain, no time can erase.

I move hard to the left and I strike to the face.


The Honey Mooners

Two kids get married, same old thing

Folks congratulate you, church bells ring

Who's got the ring, who's gonna pay the priest

Get your name in the paper, picture or two at least

And at the reception all the old records play

"Where you gonna live, are you gonna take her away?"

In a corner my new nephew's showin' me his knife

You swore that you'd love her for the rest of your life

Went to kiss you at the altar we bumped heads

Honeymoon night we figured we best shake on it instead

Dressed kinda funny, laughin' we hop in bed

You can wear it on your feet, you can wear it on your head

Come mornin' my new family's sitting on the front porch swing

Smilin' kinda funny, nobody says a thing

My new brother-in-law's throwin' a football, he tosses me a pass

We all sit down on the front stoop, everybody happy at last

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Released on:

Tracks 1998 - Recorded at Thrill Hill Recording, 2/22/87


The Iceman

Sleepy town ain't got the guts to budge

Baby this emptyness has already been judged

I wanna go out tonight, I wanna find out what I got

You're a strange part of me you're a preacher's girl

And I don't want no piece of this mechanical world

Got my arms open wide and my blood is running hot

We'll take the midnight road right to the devil's door

And even the white angels of Eden with their flaming swords

Won't be able to stop us from hitting town in this dirty old Ford

Well it don't take no nerve when you got nothing to guard

I got tombstone in my eyes and I'm running real hard

My baby was a lover and the world just blew her away

Once they tried to steal my heart, beat it right out of my head

Well baby they didn't know that I was born dead

I am the iceman, fighting for the right to live

I say better than the glory roads of heaven

Better off riding hell-bound in the dirt

Better than bright line of the freeway

Better than the shadows of your daddy's church

Better than the hands of waiting (?)

Baby better off is the search

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Released on:

Tracks 1998 - Recorded at the Record Plant (NY) 10 / 27 / 77

Darkness On The Edge Of Town outtake 1977/78


The Line

I got my discharge from Fort Irwin

Took a place on the San Diego county line

Felt funny bein' a civilian again

It'd been some time

My wife had died a year ago

I was still tryin' to find my way back whole

Went to work for the INS on the line

With the California Border Patol

Bobby Ramirez was a ten year veteran

We became friends

His family was from Guanajuato

So the job it was different for him

He said' "They risk death in the deserts and mountains"

Pay all they got to the smugglers rings,

We send 'em home and they come right back again

Carl, hunger is a powerful thing."

Well I was good at doin' what I was told

Kept my uniform pressed and clean

At night I chased their shadows

Through the arroyos and ravines

Drug runners, farmers with their families,

Young women with little children by their sides

Come night we'd wait out in the canyons

And try to keep 'em from crossin' the line

Well the first time that I saw her

She was in the holdin' pen

Our eyes met and she looked away

Then she looked back again

Her hair was black as coal

Her eyes reminded me of what I'd lost

She had a young child cryin' in her arms

And I asked, "Senora, is there anything I can do"

There's a bar in Tijuana

Where me and Bobby drink alongside

The same people we'd sent back the day before

We met there she said her name was Louisa

She was from sonora and had just come north

We danced and I held her in my arms

And I knew what I would do

She said she had some family in Madera county

If she, her child and her younger brother could just get through

At night they come across the Ievy

In the searchlights dusty glow

We'd rush 'm in our Broncos

And force 'em back down into the river below

She climbed into my truck

She leaned towards me and we kissed

As We drove her brothers shirt slipped open

And I saw the tape across his chest

We were just about on the highway

When Bobbys jeep come up in the dust on my right

I pulled over and let my engine run

And stepped out into his lights

I felt myself movin'

Felt my gun restin' 'neath my hand

We stood there starin' at each other

As off through the arroyo she ran

Bobby Ramirez he never said nothin'

6 months later I left the line

I drifted to the central valley

And took what work I could find

At night I searched the local bars

And the migrant towns

Lookin' for my Louisa

With the black hair fallin' down

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Released on:

The Ghost Of Tom Joad 1995


The Long Goodbye

My soul went walkin' but I stayed here

Feel like I been workin' for a thousand years

Chippin' away at this chain of my own lies

Climbin' a wall a hundred thousand miles high

Well I woke up this morning on the other side

Yeah yeah this is the long goodbye

Hey yeah this is the long goodbye

Same old faces it's the same old town

What once was laughs is draggin' me now

Waliin' on rain hangin' on for love

Words of forgiveness from some God above

Ain't no words of mercy comin' from on high

Oh no just a long goodbye

Yeah yeah just one long goodbye

Well I went to leave twenty years ago

Since then I guess I been packin' kinda slow

Sure did like that admirin' touch

Guess I like'd it a little too much

The moon is high and here I am

Sittin' here with this hammer in hand

One more drink oughta ease the pain

Starin' at that last link in the chain

Well let's raise our glass and let this hammer fly

Hey yeah this is the long goodbye

Hey yeah this is the long goodbye

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Released on:

Human Touch 1992


The New Timer

German Translation

He rode the rails since the great depression

Fifty years out on the skids

He said you don't cross nobody

You'll be all right out here kid

Left my family in Pennsylvania

Searchin' for work I hit the road

I met Frank in east Texas

In a freight yard blown through with snow

From New Mexico to Colorado

California to the sea

Frank he showed me the ropes sir

Just till I could get back on my feet

I hoed sugar beets outside of Firebaugh

I picked the peaches from the Marysville tree

They bunked us in a barn just like animals

Me and a hundred others just like me

We split up come the spring time

I never seen Frank again

'Cept one rainy night he blew by me on grainer

Shouted my name and disappeared in the rain and the wind

they found him shot dead outside Stockton

His body lyin' on a muddy hill

Nothin' taken, nothin' stolen

Somebody killed him just to kill

Late that summer I was rollin' through the plains of Texas

A vision passed before my eyes

A small house sittin' trackside

With the glow of the saviours beautiful light

A woman stood cookin' in the kitchen

Kid sat at the table with his old man

Now I wonder does my son miss me

Does he wonder where I am+

Tonight I pick my campsite carefully

Outside the Sacramento Yard

Gather some wood and light a fire

In the early winter dark

Wind whistling cold I pull my coat around me

Make some coffee and stare out into the black night

I lie awake, I lie awake sir

With my machete by my side

My Jesus your gracious love and mercy

Tonight I'm sorry could not fill my heart

Like one good rifle

And the name of who I ought to kill

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Released on:

The Ghost Of Tom Joad 1995


The New Timer GER
The New Timer

German Translation

Er fuhr mit der Bahn seit der großen Depression

50 Jahre draußen auf den Rädern

Er sagt, du begegnest niemanden, du wirst ok sein

Verlies meine Familie in Pennsylvania

Suchte Arbeit, ging auf die Straße

Ich traf Frank in Ost-Texas

Auf einem Güterbahnhof, jagte durch den Schnee

Von New Mexico nach Colorado, Kalifornien zu den Seen

Frank zeigte mir die Tricks, Sir

Grad als ich auf die Füße kam

Ich hackte Zuckerrüben draußen vor Firebaugh

Ich pflückte die Pfirsiche von Maryvilles Bäumen

Sie quartierten uns in einer Scheune ein wie Tiere

Mich und Hundert andere wie mich

Wir gingen auseinander als der Frühling kam

Ich sah Frank nie wieder

In einer Regennacht verschwand er neben mir von einem Getreidewagen

Rief meinen Namen und verschwand in Regen und Wind

Sie fanden ihn erschossen vor Stockton, sein Körper lag auf einem Matschhügel

Nichts weggenommen, nichts gestohlen

Jemand tötete nur um zu töten

Im Spätsommer rollte ich durch die Prärie von Texas

Eine Vision vor Augen, ein kleines Haus an den Schienen

Mit dem Leuchten des herrlichen Lichts des Erlösers

Eine Frau steht kochend in der Küche

Ein Kind saß am Tisch mit seinem alten Herrn

Nun frage ich mich ob mein Sohn mich vermißt, ob er sich fragt wo ich bin

Heute Nacht suchte ich meinen Lagerplatz vorsichtig vor Sacramento

Sammelte etwas Holz und entzündete ein Feuer in der frühen Winterdunkelheit

Der Wind heulte kalt, ich zog meinen Mantel an

Kochte etwas Kaffee und starrte in die schwarze Nacht hinaus

Ich lag wach, ich lag wach, Sir mit meiner Machete neben mir

Mein Jesus Deine gütige Liebe und Gnade

Kann mir heute Nacht nicht so das Herz füllen

Wie ein gutes Gewehr

Und der Name dessen, den ich töten muß

Translation by Frank Rohwer


The Price You Pay

German Translation

You make up your mind, you choose the chance you take

You ride to where the highway ends and the desert breaks

Out on to an open road you ride until the day

You learn to sleep at night with the price you pay

Now with their hands held high, they

 reached out for the open skies

And in one last breath they built the roads

 they'd ride to their death

Driving on through the night, unable to break away

From the restless pull of the price you pay

(Chorus)

Oh, the price you pay, oh, the price youpay

Now you can't walk away from the price  you pay

(Alt. Verse)

Now some say forget the past, and some say don't look back

But for every breath you take well buddy you leave a track

And though it don't seem fair, for every smile that plays

A tear must fall somewhere

Oh the price you pay (alt. verse of '81 live version)

Now they'd come so far and they'd waited so long

Just to end up caught in a dream where everything goes wrong

Where the dark of night holds back the light of day

And you've gotta stand and fight for the price you pay

(Chorus)

Little girl down on the strand

With that pretty little baby in your hands

Do you remember the story of the promised land

How he crossed the desert sands

And could not enter the chosen land

On the banks of the river he stayed

To face the price you pay

So let the games start, you better run you little wild heart

You can run through all the nights and all the days

But just across the county line,

a stranger passing through put up a sign

That counts the men fallen away to the

price you pay, and girl before the end of the day,

I'm gonna tear it down and throw it away

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Released on:

The River 1980


The Price You Pay GER
The Price You Pay

German Translation

Du entscheidest dich

Du wählst welche Chance du ergreifst

Du fährst dahin, wo der Highway endet und die Wüste beginnt

Draußen auf einer offenen Straße fährst du bis in den Tag

Du lernst nachts zu schlafen mit dem Preis den du zahlen mußt

Nun mit erhobenen Händen ziehen sie hinaus zum offenen Himmel

Und in einem letzten Atemzug erbauen sie die Straßen auf denen sie in den Tod fahren

Fahren durch die Nacht, unfähig wegzulaufen

Vor dem ständigen Fluch des Preises den du zahlen mußt

Oh, der Preis den du zahlst

Jetzt kannst du nicht fliehen vor dem Preis den du zahlen mußt

Nun kommen sie nicht weit und sie warten zu lang

Nur um gefangen in einem Traum zu enden, in dem alles daneben geht

Wo das Dunkel der Nacht das Licht des Tages zurückhält

Und du mußt dort bleiben und kämpfen für den Preis den man zahlen muß

Kleines Mädchen unten am Strand

Mit dem hübschen kleinen Baby in Deinen Händen

Erinnerst Du Dich an die Geschichte vom “Promised Land”?

Wie wir den Wüstensand durchquerten und nicht ins gelobte Land kommen konnten

Am Ufer des Flusses standen wir vor dem Preis den man zahlen muß

Also laß das Spiel beginnen

Besser Du rennst Du kleines wildes Herz

Du kannst rennen durch alle Nächte und alle Tage

Aber kurz hinter der Landesgrenze

Stellt ein durchreisender Fremder ein Schild auf

Welches die Zahl der Männer zeigt, die gefallen sind

Für den Preis den man zahlen muß

Und Mädchen bevor der Tag zu ende ist

Werde ich es runterreißen und fortwerfen

Translation by Frank Rohwer


The Promise

Alternative Take

Johnny works in a factory and Billy works downtown

Terry works in a rock'n'roll band

Looking for that million-dollar sound

Me I don't do nothing much,

I spend a lot of time alone

Some nights I go to the drive-in,

And some night I stay home

I followed that dream

Just like those guys do way up on the screen

Drove a chopped up Challenger

     down Route 9

Through the dead ends and all the bad scenes

And when the promise was broken

I cashed in a few of my dream

Well, I built that Challenger by myself

But I needed money and so I sold it

I lived a secret I should've kept to myself

But I got drunk one night and I told it

All my life I fought that fight

The one that no man can never win

And every day it just gets harder

To live the dream I'm believing in

Thunder Road ...

I stay up every morning until it turns light

Thunder Road ...

There's something dying out on the highway tonight

Well now I won big once and I hit the coast,

Oh but somehow I paid the big cost

Inside I felt like I was carrying

The broken spirits of all the other ones who lost

When the promise is broken you go on living

But man it takes something from down in your soul

Like when the truth is spoken, it don't make no

difference

Finally something in your heart turns cold

Yeah I followed that dream, me and some guysIn the dead ends and all the

two-bit bars

The night the promise was broken

I was drunk and far away from home,

Sleeping with a stranger

In the back seat of a borrowed car

Thunder Road ...

Here's one for the lost lovers and all the fixed games

Thunder Road ...

Here's one for the tires rushing by in the rain

Thunder Road ...

I remember when me and Billy, we'd always say

Thunder Road ...

We were gonna take it all, and throw it all away


The Promise ALT1
The Promise

Alternative Take

Johnny works in a factory and Billy works downtown

Terry works in a rock 'n' roll band looking for that million-dollar sound

Me I got a little job down in Darlington but some nights I don't go

Some nights I go to the drive-in and some night I stay home

 You see I followed that dream just like those guys do way up on the screen

 With a built-up Challenger down route 9

 Through the dead ends and all the bad scenes

 And when the promise was broken I cashed in a few of my old dreams

 You see I built that Challenger by myself

 But I needed money and so I sold it

 And I lived a secret I should have kept to myself

 But I got drunk one night and I told it

 All my life I fought that fight

 The one that I can't ever win

 And everyday it just gets harder to live

 The dreams I'm believing in

 Thunder Road

 Oh baby you were so right

 Thunder Road

 There's something dying on the Highway tonight

 Well now my Daddy taught me how to walk quiet

 And how to make my peace with the past

 And I learned real good to tighten up inside

 And I don't say nothin' unless I'm asked

 When the promise is broken you go on livin'

 But it takes something from down in your soul

 Like when the truth is spoken

 And it don't make no difference

 Something in your heart turns cold

 You see I followed that dream, me and some guys

 Through the dead ends and all the two-bit bars

 When the promise was broken

 I was drunk and far away from home

 Sleeping with a stranger in the back seat of a borrowed car

 Thunder Road

 And when it washes away with the rain

 Thunder Road

 You learn to walk among the remains

 Thunder Road

 I remember when me and Terry we'd always say

 Thunder Road

 We were gonna take it all

 And throw it all

 Away


The Promised Land

German Translation

On a rattlesnake speedway in the Utah desert

I pick up my money and head back into town

Driving cross the Waynesboro county line

I got the radio on and I'm just killing time

Working all day in my daddy's garage

Driving all night chasing some mirage

Pretty soon little girl I'm gonna take charge

The dogs on Main Street howl `cause they understand

If I could take one moment into my hands

Mister I ain't a boy no I'm a man

And I believe in a promised land

I've done my best to live the right way

I get up every morning and go to work each day

But your eyes go blind and your blood runs cold

Sometimes I feel so weak I just want to explode

Explode and tear this town apart

Take a knife and cut this pain from my heart

Find somebody itching for something to start

The dogs on Main Street...

There's a dark cloud rising from the desert floor

I packed my bags and I'm heading straight into the storm

Gonna be a twister to blow everything down

That ain't got the faith to stand its ground

Blow away the dreams that tear you apart

Blow away the dreams that break your heart

Blow away the lies that leave you nothing but lost and brokenhearted

The dogs on Main Street...

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Released on:

Darkness On The Edge Of Town 1978

The Promised Land / Streets of Fire   Single - Oct 1978

Live 1975 - 1985   Live-Box 1986 (Los Angeles Coliseum, 9/30/85)


The Promised Land GER
Promised Land

German Translation

Auf einer Klapperschlangen-Rennbahn in der Utah-Wüste

Ich nehme mein Geld und fahre zurück in die Stadt

Fahre über die Waynesboro Bundesgrenze

Ich habe das Radio an und ich schlage nur die Zeit tot

Arbeite jeden Tag in meines Vaters Autowerkstatt

Fahre jede Nacht, jage ein paar Illusionen

Sehr bald, kleines Mädchen, werden ich sie kriegen

Die Hunde auf der Hauptstraße heulen, denn sie verstehen nicht

Wenn ich einen Augenblick festhalten könnte

Mister, ich bin kein Junge, nein ich bin ein Mann

Und ich glaube an das Paradies

Ich tat mein Bestes um den richtigen Weg zu gehen

Ich stehe auf jeden Morgen und gehe zur Arbeit jeden Tag

Aber deine Augen werden blind und dein Blut fließt kalt

Manchmal fühle ich mich so schwach, ich will einfach explodieren

Explodieren und diese Stadt durcheinanderbringen

Ein Messer nehmen und diese Schmerzen aus meinem Herzen schneiden

Jemanden finden den es juckt irgendwas anzufangen

Die Hunde...

Da zieht eine dunkle Wolke über den Wüstenboden

Ich packte meine Koffer und ich gehe direkt in den Sturm

Werde ein Wirbelsturm sein, puste alles nieder

Was nicht das Vertrauen hat stehen zu bleiben

Wegpusten die Träume die dich kaputtmachen

Wegpusten die Träume die dein Herz zerbrechen

Wegpusten die Lügen die dich mit nichts zurücklassen

Nur einsam und mit gebrochenem Herzen

Translation by Frank Rohwer


The River

German Translation

I come from down in the valley where mister when you're young

They bring you up to do like your daddy done

Me and Mary we met in high school when she was just seventeen

We'd ride out of that valley down to where the fields were green

We'd go down to the river

And into the river we'd dive

Oh down to the river we'd ride

Then I got Mary pregnant and man that was all she wrote

And for my nineteen birthday I got a union card and a wedding coat

We went down to the courthouse and the judge put it all to rest

No wedding day smiles no walk down the aisle

No flowers no wedding dress

That night we went down to the river

And into the river we'd dive

On down to the river we did ride

I got a job working construction for the Johnstown Company

But lately there ain't been much work on account of the economy

Now all them things that seemed so important

Well mister they vanished right into the air

Now I just act like I don't remember, Mary acts like she don't care

But I remember us riding in my brother's car

Her body tan and wet down at the reservoir

At night on them banks I'd lie awake

And pull her close just to feel each breath she'd take

Now those memories come back to haunt me, they haunt me like a curse

Is a dream a lie if it don't come true

Or is it something worse that sends me

Down to the river though I know the river is dry

Down to the river, my baby and I

Oh down to the river we ride

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Released on:

The River 1980

Live 1975 - 1985   Live-Box 1986 (Los Angeles Coliseum, 9/30/85)


The River GER
The River

German Translation

Mister, wo, wenn du jung bist,

du das gleiche machen must,

was schon dein Vater tat.

Ich und Mary lernten uns in der Schule kennen,

als wir gerade 17 waren.

Wir wollten raus aus dem Tal,

dorthin, wo die Felder grunten.

Wir wollten hin zum grosen Flus

und darin tauchen, hin zum Flus

wollten wir fahren.

Dann wurde Mary schwanger,

und das war alles, was sie schrieb.

Und zu meinem 19. Geburtstag bekam ich eine

Gewerkschaftskarte und einen Hochzeitsmantel.

Wir gingen hin zum Rathaus,

und der Beamte besorgte den Rest.

Kein Hochzeitslacheln, kein Gang durchs

Kirchenschiff, keine Blumen, kein Hochzeitskleid.

Jene Nacht gingen wir zum Flus

und tauchten ein in den Flus.

Oh, wir waren wirklich am Flus angekommen.

Ich bekam einen Montage-Job

bei der Johnstown-Company.

Aber spater war nicht mehr genug

Arbeit da, zum Wohle der Wirtschaft.

All die Dinge, die uns einmal so wichtig

erschienen, Mann, die losten sich

einfach in Luft auf.

Nun fuhre ich mich so auf, wie ich das an mir

nie kannte. Mary tut so, als store sie das nicht.

Und ich erinnere mich, als wir im Auto meines

Bruders unterwegs waren, ihr Korper braun

und nas vom Schwimmen.

Nachts mochte ich wieder wach am Ufer

liegen, sie an mich ziehen und jeden

ihrer Atemzuge spuren.

Nun kommen diese Erinnerungen zuruck und

verfolgen mich, jagen mich wie ein Fluch.

Ist ein Traum eine Luge, wenn er nicht wahr wird,

oder ist es etwas Schlechtes, das mich treibt

hin zu dem Flus, obwohl ich weis, das dieser

Flus trocken ist, was mich treibt zu dem Flus

heut nacht, hin zum Flus, meine Liebe und mich,

oh, hin zum Flus fahren wir.

Text & Ubersetzung: G.S., Jugendradio DT 64, 1986


The Ties That Bind

You been hurt and you're all cried out you say

You walk down the street pushin' people outta your way

You packed your bags and all alone you wanna ride,

You don't want nothin', don't need no one by your side

You're walkin' tough baby, but you're walkin' blind

(Chorus)

The ties that bind

Now you can't break the ties that bind

Cheap romance, it's all just a crutch

You don't want nothin' that anybody can touch

You're so afraid of being somebody's fool

Not walkin' tough baby, not walkin' cool

You walk cool, but darlin', can you walk the line

And face the ties that bind

The ties that bind

Now you can't break the ties that bind

I would rather feel the hurt inside, yes I would darlin',

Than know the emptiness your heart must hide,

Yes I would darlin', yes I would darlin',

Yes I would baby

You sit and wonder just who's gonna stop the rain

Who'll ease the sadness, who's gonna quiet the pain

It's a long dark highway and a thin white line

Connecting baby, your heart to mine

We're runnin' now but darlin' we will stand in time

To face the ties that bind

The ties that bind

Now you can't break the ties that bind

You can't forsake the ties that bind

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Released on:

The River 1980


The Way

The way your heart beats when I hold you tight

The way you sigh when we kiss goodnight

The way the wind blows through the trees

Well hey, that's the way you belong to me

The way you warm me baby when I'm cold

The way you make me want you body and soul

The way the rivers run to the sea

Well hey, that's the way you belong to me

The way you soothe me when I'm in pain

The way you make the blood rush in my veins

The way the winds rush through the trees

Well hey, that's the way you belong to me

When I lose faith you take my hand

The way you make me feel like I'm a man

The way the sun belongs to the sea

Well hey, that's the way you belong to me

The way you make me feel like I belong

And if I could girl though I know it'd be wrong

I'd lock you deep inside

   'till the last rains fall

And hide you from the emptiness of it all

Sometimes at night I lie awake

I pull you close and feel each breath you take

The way the rivers belong to the seas

Well hey, that's the way you belong to me

Well hey, that's the way you belong to me


The Wish

Dirty old street, all slushed up in the rain and snow.

Little boy and his ma,

standin' outside a run-down music store window.

On top of the Christmas tree shines one beautiful star,

and lyin' underneath, a brand new Japanese guitar.

I remember in the mornin' Ma, hearin' your alarm clock ring.

I'd lie awake and listen to you gettin' ready for work,

the sound of your makeup case on the sink.

And the ladies at the office, all silk stockin's and rustlin' skirts.

And how proud and happy you always looked, walkin' home from work.

Well if Pa's eyes were windows, into a world so deadly and true,

you couldn't stop me from lookin', but you kept me from crawlin' through.

Well it's a funny old world Ma,

where a little boy's wishes come true.

Well I got a few in my pocket, and a special one just for you.

It ain't no phone call on Sunday, flowers, or a Mother's day card.

It ain't no house on the hill, with a garden and a nice little yard.

I got my hot rod down on Bond Street,

I'm older but you'll know me at a glance.

We'll find us a rock 'n roll bar, baby we'll go out and dance.

Well it was me in my Beatle boots, you in pink curlers and matador pants,

gettin' up in the livin' room, to do the twist for my uncles and aunts.

Well I got a girl of my own now Ma,

yeah, we're doin' OK.

And I've been workin' up the nerve, to say what it is I got to say.

Last night we sat around laughin', at all those things that guitar brought

us,

and I laid awake thinkin' about the other things it's brought.

Well tonight I'm takin's requests here in the kitchen,

this one's for you, let me come right out and say,

that if you're lookin' for a sad song, well, I'm not gonna play.

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Released on:

Tracks 1998 - Recorded at Thrill Hill Recording, 2/22/87


The Word

Well you flash your tongue like diamonds

You tied me to your wildcat schemes

And you forced me into a power dive

And left your mark on my jeans

And I hear the word on your soldiers

And I hear the word on Jesus too

I heard the word on the country

But I never heard the word on you

Your love was like a machine gun

I wore your bugle in my belt

And I was your kid glove lover

All the cards were yours

You always dealt

And I stood before your soapbox

Noiseless and shoeless

Playing my pantry boy's games

You had your hands raised up to the sky

Shouting Oh Sunday deity

Oh Big Daddy Longlegs

Come down and bless your sister please

You were shoutin' orders about the construction

Going on down the highway

You were namin' names, blamin' blames

And you blamed me

You wore your heart like a challenge

Far and apart for anyone who came

Open and wide like the river

With rocks on both sides to keep the water tame

But I heard the word on your high tides

And I felt the pain when I tried

To rip your flood gates wide

And pull your body on over to my side

Where we both could hide

But you heard about the freedom ride

And you heard about the Highway Crew

Who could cut the light a little bit faster than you

So you left me just your shoes

And I hear the word on Jesus

And I hear the word on his marching troop

And I hear the word on the country

But I never heard the word on you


There Will Never Be Anyone For Me But You

Princess Di did find another man

Prince Charles may want to live

in another woman's underpants

I know what he feels like

I'v been there too

but there will never be any other for me but you

Will Elizabeth Taylor get married again? buddy that's the question

Poor Larry Fertenski busted on his harly for illegal weapons possession

I'v been that down, I'v been that crazy I'v been that much of a fool

But there will never be any other for me but you

Man a love that's real

is a love that's hard

like a pit bull on your ass

in a very small backyard

a love that's hard

can be a love that's true

but there will never be any other for me but you

Elvis and Priscilla

Jim Baker and Tammy Fay

Donald and Ivana once swore their love forever and a day

I said those words

ya I meant 'em too

but I swear there will never be any other for me but you no,

baby there will never be any other for me but you


This Hard Land

German Translation

Well, hey there mister

Can you tell me what happened

To the seeds I've sown

Can you give me a reason sir

As to why they've never grown

They're just blowin' around from town to town

Till they're back out on these fields

Where they fall, from my hand

Back to the dirt of this hard land

Well me and my sister

From Germantown, yeah we did ride

And we made our beds, sir

From the rock on the mountain side

We've been blowin' around from town to town

Lookin' for a place to land

Where the sun breaks through the clouds

And falls like a circle

Like a, circle of fire down on this hard land

Well, now even the rain it don't come round

Don't come round here no more

And the only sound at night's

The wind slammin' shut that back porch door

Well it stirs it up like it wants to blow you down

Twistin' and churning up the sand

Leaving all them scarecrows lyin' face down

Down into the dirt of this hard land

From a building up on the hill

I can hear a tape deck blasting "Home On The Range"

I can see them bar rim choppers

Sweepin' low across the plains

Well, it's me and you Frank

We're looking for lost cattle

We're twistin' and churning up the sand

Yeah we're riding in the whirlwind

Searchin' for lost treasure

Way down south of the Rio Grande

We're riding cross that river

In the moonlight

Way up on the banks of this hard land

Hey Frank, won't you pack your bags

And meet me tonight down at Liberty Hall

Ah, just one kiss from you my brother

And we'll ride until we fall

We'll sleep in the fields

We'll sleep by the rivers

And in the morning we'll make a plan

Well, if you can make it

Stay hard, stay hungry, stay alive if you can

And meet me in a dream of this hard land

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Released on:

Greatest Hits 1995

Dead Man Walking Maxi-CD 1996 (Live at the Tower Theatre)

Tracks 1998 - Recorded at the Hit Factory 5 / 11 / 83

Written for "Born In The USA" 1984/83


This Hard Land GER
This Hard Land

German Translation

Hallo Mister, koennen sie mir sagen, was mit den Samen geschehen ist,

die ich ausgesaet habe

Koennen sie mir einen Grund nennen, Sir, warum sie niemals gedeihen

Sie werden einfach umhergeweht von Stadt zu Stadt

Bis zurueck draussen auf diese Feldern

Wo sie von meiner Hand fallen

Zurueck in den Schmutz diese rauhen Landes

Ich und meine Schwester wir fuhren los von Germantown

Und wir machten unser Bett aus den Felsen der Bergseite

Wir wurden umhergeweht von einer Stadt zur anderen

Auf der Suche nach einem Platz zum Leben

Wo die Sonne durch die Wolken brechen kann

Und wie ein Kreis niederfaellt

Ein Kreis aus Feuer nieder auf dieses rauhe Land

Nun kommt nicht mal mehr der Regen,

Er kommt hier nicht mehr her

Und das einzige Geraeusch in der Nacht ist der Wind

Der die hintere Verandatuer zuschlaegt

Er ruettelt dich auf, als ob er dich niederblasen will

Wirbelt und wuehlt den Sand auf

Und laesst all die Vogelscheuchen mit dem Gesicht

Mit dem Gesicht im Schmutz dieses rauhen Landes zurueck

Von einem Gebaeude oben vom Huegel

Kann ich einen Cassettenspieler hoeren, der "Home on the Range" spielt

Ich kann ihre Metallfelgenmotorraeder sehen

Wie sie tief ueber die Ebene jagen

Das sind wir beide Frank, wir suchen nacht entlaufenen Rindern,

Unsere Hufe wirbeln und wuehlen den Sand auf

Ja, wir reiten in den Wirbelwind und suchen nach einem verlorenen Schatz

Unten im Sueden des Rio Grande

Wir reiten im Mondlicht ueber den Fluss

Hoch an die Ufer dieses rauhen Landes

Hey Frank, willst du nicht deine Sachen packen

Und mich heute Nacht an der Freiheits Halle treffen

Nur ein Kuss von dir, mein Bruder

Und wir werden reiten bis zur Erschoepfung

Wir werden draussen in den Feldern schlafen

Wir werden in der Naehe der Fluesse schlafen und am Morgen

Werden wir einen Plan machen

Nun, wenn du es nicht schaffst

Bleib hart, bleib hungrig, bleib am Leben

Wenn du kannst

Und triff mich in einem Traum von diesem rauhen Land


Thunder Road

German Translation

French Translation

Italian Translation

Danisch Translation

See also Wings For Wheels

The screen door slams, Mary's dress sways

Like a vision she dances across the porch. As the radio plays

Roy Orbison singing for the lonely

Hey that's me and I want you only

Don't turn me home again, I just can't face myself alone again

Don't run back inside, darling you know just what I'm here for

So you're scared and you're thinking

That maybe we ain't that young anymore

Show a little faith, there's magic in the night

You ain't a beauty, but hey you're alright

Oh and that's alright with me

You can hide `neath your covers and study your pain

Make crosses from your lovers, throw roses in the rain

Waste your summer praying in vain

For a saviour to rise from these streets

Well now I'm no hero, that's understood

All the redemption I can offer, girl, is beneath this dirty hood

With a chance to make it good somehow

Hey what else can we do now?

Except roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair

Well the night's busting open

This two lanes will take us anywhere

We got one last chance to make it real

To trade in these wings on some wheels

Climb in back: Heaven's waiting on down the tracks

Oh-oh come take my hand

Riding out tonight to case the promised land

Oh-oh Thunder Road, oh Thunder Road, oh Thunder Road,

Lying out there like a killer in the sun

Hey I know it's late we can make it if we run

Oh Thunder Road, sit tight take hold, Thunder Road

Well I got this guitar and I learned how to make it talk

And my car's out back if you're ready to take that long walk

From your front porch to my front seat

The door's open but the ride it ain't free

And I know you're lonely and there's words that I ain't spoken

But tonight we'll be free, all the promises'll be broken

There were ghosts in the eyes of all the boys you sent away

They haunt this dusty beach road

In the skeleton frames of burned out Chevrolets

They scream your name at night in the street

Your graduation gown lies in rags at their feet

And in the lonely cool before dawn

you hear their engines roaring on

But when you get to the porch they're gone

On the wind, so Mary climb in

It's a town full of losers and I'm pulling out of here to win.

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Released on:

Born to Run 1975

Live 1975 - 1985   Live-Box 1986 (Roxy, 10/18/1975)

MTV - Unplugged 1992

Secret Garden Maxi-CD 1995 (Taken from MTV-Unplugged)

Greatest Hits 1995

Early version known as Wings for Wheels


Thunder Road D
Thunder Road

Danisch Translation

Doeren smaekker

Marys kjole svajer

Som en aabenbaring danser hun over terrassen

Mens radioen spiller

Roy Orbison synger for de ensomme

Hey, det er mig og jeg oensker kun dig

Send mig ikke hjem igen

Jeg kan slet ikke klare at skulle vaere alene igen

Loeb ikke ind igen

Skat, du ved lige, hvad jeg er her for

Men du er bange og du tror

At maaske er vi ikke saa unge mere

Vis en smule tillid, der er magi i natten

Du er ingen skoenhed, men hey, du er god nok

Oh, og det er i orden med mig

Du kan gemme dig i dine skjul

Og studere din smerte

Saette kryds for hver elsker

Kaste roser i regnen

Spilde din sommer bedende forgaeves

For at en frelser skal rejse sig fra disse gader

Ja, nu er jeg ingen helt

Det forstaas

Al den forloesning jeg kan tilbyde, toes

Er under denne beskidte hjaelm

Med en chance for at goere det rigtigt alligevel

Hey, hvad ellers kan vi goere nu?

Andet end at rulle vinduerne ned

Og lade vinden blaese

Dit haar tilbage

Saadan er natten revet op

Disse to baner vil tage os hvor som helst

Vi har en sidste chance til at goere det til virkelighed

At bytte disse vinger paa hjul

Kravl ind bagi

Himlen venter nede ad vejen

Oh-oh, kom og tag min haand

Ride ud i nat og undersoege det forjaettede land

Oh-oh, Torden Vej, oh Torden Vej

Oh Torden Vej

Liggende derude som en draeber i solen

Hey, jeg ved, det er sent, vi kan klare det, hvis vi loeber

Oh Torden Vej, laen dig tilbage, hold fast

Torden Vej

Ja, jeg fik denne guitar

Og jeg laerte at faa den til at tale

Og min bil er ude bagved

Hvis du er klar til at tage den lange tur

Fra din forhave til mit forsaede

Doeren er aaben, men turen er ikke gratis

Og jeg ved, du er ensom

Af ord, som jeg ikke har talt

Men i aften vil vi vaere frie

Alle loefterne vil vaere brudt

Der var spoegelser i oejnene

Paa alle de maend du sendte vaek

De hjemsoeger denne stoevede strandvej

I de afgnavede skeletter af gamle Chevrolet'er

De raaber dit navn om natten i gaden

Din studenterkjole ligger i pjalter ved deres foedder

Og i den ensomme kulde foer daggry

Hoerer du deres maskiner broele

Men naar du kommer ud paa terrassen, er de vaek

Paa vinden, saa Mary, stig ind

Det er en by fyldt med tabere

Og jeg koerer herfra for at vinde


Thunder Road F
Thunder Road

French Translation

La porte d'entrie claque

Les vjtements de Marie se balancent

Comme une apparition, elle danse sous le porche

Alors que la radio joue

Roy Orbison chantant pour le solitaire

Hey c'est moi et je ne veux que toi

Ne me renvoie pas encore chez moi

je ne peux pas me retrouver seul encore

Ne rentre pas chez toi

chirie tu sais juste pourquoi je suis l`

Aussi tu est effrayie et tu penses

Que peut-jtre nous ne sommes plus aussi jeunes

Aie confiance, la nuit est magique

Tu n'est pas une beauti, mais hey tu n'es pas mal

Oh et ga me convient

Tu peux te cacher sous tes couvertures

Et t'occuper de ta souffrance

Faire des croix sur tes amoureux

Envoyer des roses sous la pluie

Gaspiller ton iti ` prier en vain

Un sauveur pour t'ilever de ces rues

Eh bien maintenant je ne suis pas un hiros

Cel` va sans dire

La seule ridemption que je puisse t'offrir, ma fille

Se trouve sous ce sale capuchon

Avec une chance de bien le faire d'une fagon ou d'une autre

Hey que pouvons-nous faire d'autre ?

A part ouvrir la fenjtre

Et laisser le vent souffler

Tes cheveux en arrihre

Bien, la nuit ...(busting open ???)

Ces deux chemins nous mhneront n'importe oy

Nous avons une dernihre chance de le concritiser

D'ichanger ces ailes pour des roues

Monte derrihre

Le Paradis nous attend en bas sur les chemins

Oh-oh prend-moi la main

A conduire dehors ce soir pour rejoindre la terre promise

Oh-oh Route de tonnerre, oh Route de tonnerre,

oh Route de tonnerre

Etendu l` dehors comme un meurtrier sous le soleil

Hey je sais qu'il est tard nous pouvons le faire si nous courons

Oh Route de tonnerre, assis-toi tout prhs accroches-toi

Route de tonnerre

Eh bien j'ai eu cette guitare

Et j'ai appris ` la faire parler

Et ma voiture est l` derrihre

Si tu es prjte ` faire cette longue promenade

Du porche devant ta maison au sihge avant de ma voiture

La porte est ouverte mais la ballade n'est pas gratuite

Et je sais que tu es seule

A cause des mots que je n'ai pas dit

Mais ce soir nous serons libres

Toutes les promesses seront brisies

Il y a des fanttmes dans les yeux

Des gargons que tu as rejetis

Ils hantent cette route poussiireuse de la plage

Dans les formes squelettiques des Chevrolet brulies

Ils hurlent ton nom la nuit dans la rue

Ta toge d'unviversitaire itendue en lambeaux ` leurs pieds

Et dans la francheur solitaire avant l'aurore

Tu entends leurs engins rugir

Mias quand tu arrives sous le porche ils sont partis

Dans le vent, alors Marie remonte chez toi

C'est une ville pleine de perdants

Et je me tire d'ici pour gagner.


Thunder Road GER
Thunder Road

German Translation

Das Fliegengitter an der Tur schlagt zu,

Mary's Kleid weht

Wie eine Vision tanzt sie uber die Veranda, wenn das Radio spielt.

Roy Orbison spielt fur die Einsamen

Hey, das bin ich, und ich will nur dich

Schick mich nicht wieder nach Hause

Ich halte es einfach nicht aus, wieder allein zu sein

Lauf nicht wieder rein,

 du weist genau, weshalb ich hier bin

Du hast also Angst, und meinst, wir seien vielleicht nicht mehr so jung

Zeig doch etwas Vertrauen, die Nacht ist voller Zauber

Du bist keine Schonheit, aber du bist schon in Ordnung,

 und das ist in Ordnung fur mich

Du kannst dich unter deiner Decke verstecken

 und dich in deinen Schmerz versenken

Du kannst den ganzen Sommer vertun

 und vergeblich darum beten, das aus diesen Strasen ein Held auftaucht

Nun, ich bin kein Held, das ist schon klar

 und alles was ich dafur zu bieten habe, liegt unter dieser schmutzigen

 Haube und die Chance, das eines Tages alles gut wird

Hey, was konnen wir denn sonst tun,

 auser das Fenster herunter zu drehen

 und dir den Wind durch das Haar wehen zu lassen

Die Nacht liegt vor uns, diese zwei Fahrspuren bringen uns uberall hin

Wir haben eine letzte Moglichkeit,

 dies wahr werden zu lassen.

Diese Flugel gegen ein paar Reifen einzutauschen.

Steig ein, der Himmel wartet dort auf uns.

Oh Oh Oh , komm nimm meine Hand

Wir fahren heute Nacht los um das Gelobte Land zu suchen

Oh Oh Oh Thunder Road

Sie liegt da, wie ein Killer in der Sonne

Hey, ich weis, es ist spat,

 aber wir konnen es schaffen, wenn wir rennen

Oh Oh Oh Thunder Road

 setz dich nah zu mir, halt dich fest, Thunder Road

Nun ich hab diese Gitarre,

 und ich hab gelernt, sie sprechen zu lassen

Und mein Auto steht da hinten

 wenn du bereit bist, diesen langen Weg zu gehen,

 von deiner Veranda zu meinem Vordersitz

Die Tur steht offen., aber die Fahrt ist nicht umsonst

Denn ich weis du bist einsam,

 wegen der Worte, die ich nie gesagt habe

Aber heute Nacht werden wir frei sein,

Alle Versprechen werden gebrochen werden

Da sind Gespenster in den Augen all der Jungs,

 die du weggeschickt hast

Sie spuken auf diesem staubigen Strandweg herum,

 in den Skeletten ausgebrannter Chevrolets

Sie rufen deinen Namen nachts auf der Strase

 deine Robe vom Schulabschlus liegt zerfleddert zu ihren Fusen

Und in der einsamen Kalte der Morgendammerung

 horst du das Brummen ihrer Maschinen

Doch bis du auf der Veranda bist, sind sie verschwunden

 mit dem Wind

Also Mary, steig ein, die Stadt ist voller Verlierer,

 und ich hau hier ab um zu gewinnen


Thunder Road ITA
Thunder Road

Italian Translation

La porta a rete sbatte

Il vestito di Mary svolazza

Come una visione danza attraverso la veranda

Mentre la radio suona

Roy Orbison canta per i solitari

Ehi sono io e voglio solo te

Non rimandarmi a casa

Non posso proprio immaginarmi un'altra volta da solo

Non tornare dentro di corsa

Tesoro, lo sai perche' sono qui

Sei impaurita e pensi

Che forse non siamo piu' cosi' giovani

Mostrami un po' di fiducia, c'e' magia in questa notte

Non sei una bellezza, ma ehi stai bene cosi'

Oh, a me vai bene cosi'

Puoi nasconderti sotto le coperte

A rimuginare i tuoi dolori

Mettere una croce sui tuoi vecchi amori

Disperdere rose nella pioggia

Sprecare la tua estate pregando invano

Che da queste strade si levi un redentore

Bene, io non sono un eroe

Questo si sa

L'unica redenzione che ti posso offrire, ragazza

E' sotto questo sporco cofano

Con una possibilita' di renderlo in qualche modo migliore

Ehi, cos'altro possiamo fare adesso ?

Se non tirare giu' il finestrino

E lasciare che il vento spinga

Indietro i tuoi capelli

La notte e' tutta per noi

Queste due corsie ci porteranno ovunque

Abbiamo un' ultima possibilita' per farlo davvero

Per scambiare le nostre ali con delle ruote

Salta su

Il paradiso ci attende lungo il percorso

Oh-oh, prendi la mia mano

Stanotte correremo per raggiungere la terra promessa

Oh-oh Thunder Road, oh Thunder Road

Oh Thuder Road

La' fuori in attesa come un killer sotto il sole

ehi, lo so che e' tardi ma possiamo farcela se corriamo

Oh Thunder Road, siediti bene e tieniti forte

Thunder Road

Bene, io ho preso questa chitarra

Ed ho imparato a farla parlare

La mia macchina e' la' dietro

Se sei pronta a iniziare questo lungo cammino

Dalla tua veranda al mio sedile anteriore

Lo sportello e' aperto ma la corsa non e' gratis

E so che ti senti sola

Per le parole che non ti ho detto

Ma stanotte saremo liberi

Tutte le promesse saranno sciolte

C'erano spettri negli ochhi

Di tutti i ragazzi che hai mandato via

Loro tormentano questa polverosa strada sulla spiaggia

Nelle scheletriche carcasse di Chevrolet bruciate

Gridano forte il tuo nome in queste strade di notte

La tua toga universitaria e' a pezzi ai loro piedi

E nella fredda solitudine che precede l'alba

Senti i loro motori rombare

Ma quando ti affacci sulla veranda sono gia' andati

Nel vento, percio' Mary salta su'

E' una citta' piena di perdenti

E io mi sto tirando fuori da qui per vincere


Thundercrack

Well her brains they rattle and her bones they shake

Oh she`s an angel from the Inner Lake

Her brains they rattle and her bones they shake

Oh she`s an angel from the Iner Lake

Don`t dance with her Henry don`t you dance with her Jake

Oh she's an angel from the Inner Lake

She gives me more loving than a poor man can take

Oh she`s an angel from the Inner Lake

Thundercrack, baby`s back

This time she`ll tell me how she really feels

And bring me down to her lightning shack

You can watch my partner reeling

She moves up, she moves back

Out on the floor there ain't no one cleaner

She does this thing she calls the Jump Back Jack

She's got the heart of a ballerina

Straight from the Bronx, hung off the line

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

Even the old dancehall hacks from the West side of the tracks

Move in close to catch her timing

She moves up and then she moves back

Out on the floor there ain't no one cleaner

She does this thing she calls the Jump Back Jack

She's got the heart of a ballerina

She ain`t no little girl, she ain`t got no curls

her hair ain`t brown and her eyes ain't either

Round and round and round and round and round and round and round

Round and round and round and round and round and round and round

And around she whirls

My heart's wood, she`s  a carpenter

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

Dance with me partner

Dance with me partner

Dance with me partner, till the dawn (all night)

Thundercrack, baby`s back

This time she`ll tell me how she really feels

And bring me down to her lightning shack

You can watch my partner reeling

She moves up, she moves back

Out on the floor there ain't no one cleaner

She does this thing she calls the Jump Back Jack

She's got the heart of a ballerina

She has parents, she has religion, she has sisters

She ain`t no little girl, she ain`t got no curls

her hair ain`t brown and her eyes ain't either

Round and round and round and round and round and round and round

Round and round and round and round and round and round and round

And around she whirls

My heart's wood, she`s  a carpenter

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

Dance with me partner

Dance with me partner

Dance with me partner, till the dawn (all night)

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Released on:

Tracks 1998 - Recorded at 914 Sound Recording, 6 / 28 / 73


Tokyo
Tokyo (And The Band Played)

The moon hung like a shadow on a rung over Shanghai

And the soldier boys were returning home screaming "Bonzai!"

And the kids are still playing their games,

Getting hustled and rustled out in the rain

As I sat inside listening to the broadcast.

Oh save my soul sweet rock and roll 'cuz I'm sinking fast.

And then the band played.

(Out of nowhere)

(Everybody)

(Everybody)

Well now the legendary chaplain of the fighting 51st

Was getting ready to go.

I said "Padre do you know a cheap virgin who likes to tango?"

He said "You can try Linda Lee;

Around the corner and across the sea.

Oh word is out, word is out she's fast."

Oh blow me down now Linda, 'cuz I'm sinking fast.

Yes and them cats are sure getting fat down in the trainyard.

And the sandman brings them dreams they ship out in boxcars.

The union says hold; break out the dice, break out the gold.

It's lunchtime at last.

And old big mama said George Raff's tonight on the late show.

She sits straddling the kitchen chair really gung-ho

She shivers with chills, wet with slotcar thrills

Hypnotically lost in the glass

And we all sighed...

With the sunrise

As we watched the credits pass.

And the little blue dot went away.

And then the morning cloak fell down like a hoax over sleepytown

And garbage truck Big Lenny's out drinking the last round

He hurriedly sipped his beer, and poking fun of the queer

And threatened to kick his ass.

And the bell rang

And the horn blows

And he's outside pumping gas

But things were moving so slow tonight

So the kid goes back inside the station

And turns on the radio to his local AM station

And the band played

Right on the radio

It's on the radio

And he listened to the bass line

And the boys in the band sang

Whoa, whoa whoa-wo

Whoa, whoa whoa-wo

(They're so excited about it)

Whoa, whoa whoa-wo

(Everybody alright)

Whoa, whoa whoa-wo

(And the band played)

Whoa, whoa whoa-wo

(and the band played)

Whoa, whoa whoa-wo

(Everybody)

Whoa, whoa whoa-wo


Tonight

Every day I <can't believe> I wanna be around you

Gotta gotta gotta gotta be, I wanna be with you

What I want ... baby, ...

But god, I just can't stop and let you go

And I can't leave you

Tonight!

All I wanna do is kiss your lips

Tonight!

All I ...fingertips

Tonight!

...

Tonight tonight tonight tonight tonight

Woah, tonight.

...

Come on come on come on come back, baby, ...

And I've got ...

Well I ...

When I ...

And I...

Tonight!

Tonight!

All I wanna do is kiss your lips

Tonight!

Tonight!

Tonight tonight tonight tonight tonight

Woah, tonight


Tougher Than The Rest

Well It's Saturday night you're all dressed up in blue

I been watching you awhile maybe you been watching me too

So somebody ran out left somebody's heart in a mess

Well if you're looking for love honey I'm tougher than the rest

Some girls they want a handsome Dan or some good-lookin' Joe

On their arms some girls like a sweet-talkin' Romeo

Well 'round here baby I learned you get what you can get

So if you're rough enough for love honey I'm tougher than the rest

The road is dark and it's a thin thin line

But I want you to know I'll walk it for you anytime

Maybe your other boyfriends couldn't pass the test

Well if you're rough and ready for love honey I'm tougher than the rest

Well it ain't no secret I've been around a time or two

Well I don't know baby maybe you've been around too

Well there's another dance all you gotta do is say yes

And if you're rough and ready for love honey I'm tougher than the rest

If you're rough enough for love baby I'm tougher than the rest

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Released on:

Tunnel Of Love 1987

Chimes Of Freedom, 1988


Trapped

(Written by Jimmy Cliff)

German Translation

Well it seems like I'm caught up in your trap again

And it seems like I'll be wearin' the same ol' chains

Good will conquer evil and the truth will set you free

Then I know someday I'll find the key

Then I know somewhere I'll find the key

Well it seem like I've been playin' the game way too long

And it seems the game I played has made you strong

Well when the game is over, I won't walk out a loser

And I know that I'll walk out of here again

And I know that someday I'll walk out of here again

But now I'm trapped...Oh yeah!

Trapped...Oh yeah yeah!

Trapped...Oh yeah!

Trapped...Oh yeah!

Now it seems like I've been sleepin' in your bed too long

And it seems like you've been meanin' to do me harm

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

And someday I'll walk out of here again

Yeah I know someday I'll walk out of here again

(Chorus)

Well it seem like I've been playin' the game way too long

And it seems the game I played has made you strong

Because I'm trapped...Oh yeah!

Trapped...Oh yeah yeah!

Trapped...Oh yeah yeah!

Trapped...Oh yeah!

I'm trapped...Oh yeah yeah!

Trapped...Oh yeah yeah

Trapped...Oh yeahhhhhh

Trapped....oh yeahhhh

I'm trapped.


Trapped GER
Trapped

German Translation

Nun es scheint als wäre ich wieder in deiner Falle gefangen

Und es scheint als trüge ich dieselben alten Ketten

Sie sagen das Gute bekämpft das Böse

Und daá die Wahrheit mich befreien wird

Alles was ich weiß ist daá ich eines Tages den Schlüssel finde

Irgendwie finde ich den Schlüssel

Es scheint als spielte ich dein Spiel, warte zu lang

Und es scheint das Spiel das ich spielte hat dich stark gemacht

Aber wenn das Spiel vorbei ist will ich rausgehen und verlieren

Eines Tages werde ich von hier fortgehen

Ja ich schw”re eines Tages werde ich von hier fortgehen

Aber jetzt bin ich gefangen

Nun es scheint als schliefe ich in deinem Bett zu lang

Und es scheint als verstehst du es mich hart zu machen

Aber ich lehre meine Augen hinter diese Mauern vor mir zu sehen

Eines Tages werde ich von hier fortgehen

Ja ich schwöre eines Tages gehe ich von hier fort

Aber nun bin ich gefangen

Nun es scheint als spiele ich dein Spiel warte zu lang

Und es scheint das Spiel das ich spiele hat dich stark gemacht

Denn ich bin gefangen

Translation by Frank Rohwer


Trouble River
TROUBLE RIVER (I CAN'T KEEP FROM CRYING)

Well, the river runs through this valley

Combing deep and black     [?]

Coming like a tombstone's

Shadows across my back

Trouble River

Six foot high and risin'

Trouble River

I can't keep from cryin'

Woke up last night a'shakin'

Shakin' from a dream

All I seen was smilin' faces

Starin' back at me

Trouble River

Six foot high and risin'

Trouble River

I can't keep from cryin'

Snakes crawling in the house

I'm stuck in muddy ground

Tonight I'm gonna shed this skin

Cause water's risin' and I goin' down to

Trouble River

Six foot high and risin'

Trouble River

I can't keep from cryin'

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Human Touch outtake 1992


Trouble in Paradise

You do the drying, I'll do the dishes

Who'll do the crying when all the wishes don't come true

You do the washing, I'll do the folding

Whose heart is breaking

When whose arms are holding someone new

Sittin' on a peaceful lake sunnin'

Didn't hear the roar of the waterfall coming

When it's all a storybook story

When it's all so easy and nice

Here comes trouble in paradise

You did the dusting, I did the sweeping

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

On a picnic 'neath the sky so blue

We didn't see the rain and heartache coming through

When it's all an old black and white movie

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

Here comes trouble in paradise

You said everything was fine

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

Oh so beautifully you read your lines

But in a play where the hero has no vice

And love comes without a price

So does trouble in paradise

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

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

Laying in a field on a summer's day

Waitin' for those gray skies to clear away

Knowing all love's glory and beauty

Can vanish before you think twice

Leaving trouble in paradise

Now we share the laughing, we share the joking

We do the sleeping with one eye open

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Released on:

Tracks 1998 - Recorded at Soundworks West (LA), 12/1/89


Tunnel Of Love

German Translation

Fat man sitting on a little stool

Takes the money from my hand while his eyes take a walk all over you

Hands me the ticket smiles and whispers good luck

Cuddle up angel cuddle up my little dove

We'll ride down baby into this tunnel of love

I can feel the soft silk of your blouse

And them soft thrills in our little fun house

Then the lights go out and it's just the three of us

You me and all that stuff we're so scared of

Gotta ride down baby into this tunnel of love

There's a crazy mirror showing us both in 5-D

I'm laughing at you you're laughing at me

There's a room of shadows that gets so dark brother

It's easy for two people to lose each other in this tunnel of love

it ought to be easy ought to be simple enough

Man meets woman and they fall in love

But the house is haunted and the ride gets rough

And you've got to learn to live with what you can't rise above if you want

to ride on down in through this tunnel of love

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Released on:

Tunnel Of Love 1978

Tunnel Of Love / Two For The Road   Single 1988


Tunnel of Love GER
Tunnel of Love

German Translation

Ein fetter Mann sitzt auf einem kleinen Hocker.

Er nimmt das Geld aus meiner Hand, wahrend

seine Augen einen Spaziergang auf dir machen.

Er gibt mir zwei Tickets

und flustert: "Viel Gluck !"

Kuschle dich ein, Engelchen.

Kuschle dich ein, mein kleines Taubchen.

Wir werden hineinfahren, Baby,

in diesen Tunnel der Liebe.

Ich kann die weiche Seide deiner Bluse fuhlen

und ihre sanfte Erregung in unserer kleinen

Geisterbahn. Dann gehen die Lichter aus,

und wir sind zu dritt, du, ich und all das Zeug,

vor dem wir so erschrocken sind.

Las uns hineinfahren, Baby,

in den Tunnel der Liebe.

Da ist ein verruckter Spiegel, der uns beide

5-dimensional zeigt.

Ich lache uber dich, du lachst uber mich.

Da ist ein Raum der Schatten, der so dunkel ist,

Freund. Es ist leicht fur zwei Menschen,

einander im Tunnel der Liebe zu verlieren.

Eigentlich sollte es leicht, einfach genug sein.

Ein Mann trifft eine Frau, und sie verlieben sich.

Aber es spukt in der Bahn,

und die Fahrt ist sturmisch.

Du must lernen, mit dem zu leben,

uber das du dich nicht hinwegsetzen kannst.

Wenn du weiterfahren willst, direkt hinein

in diesen Tunnel der Liebe.

Text & Ubersetzung: neues leben, 1988


Tweeter And The Monkey Man

(Written by Bob Dylan)

Tweeter and the Monkey Man were hard up for cash,

They stayed up all night selling cocaine and hash,

To an Undercover Cop who had a sister named Jan.

For reasons unexplained she loved the Monkey Man.

Tweeter was a Boy Scout 'fore she went to Vietnam,

And found out the hard way, nobody gives a damn.

They knew that they found freedom just across the Jersey line,

So they hopped into a stolen car, took Highway 99.

And the walls came down,

All the way to hell.

Never saw them when they're standing,

Never saw them when they fell.

The Undercover Cop never liked the Monkey Man,

Even back in childhood he wanted to see him in the can.

Jan got married at fourteen to a racketeer named Bill,

She made secret calls to the Monkey Man from a mansion on the hill.

It was out on Thunder Road, Tweeter at the wheel,

They crashed into paradise, they could hear them tires squeal.

The Undercover Cop pulled up and said "Everyone of you's a liar,

If you don't surrender now it's gonna go down to the wire."

And the walls came down,

All the way to hell.

Never saw them when they're standing,

Never saw them when they fell.

An ambulance rolled up, a state-trooper close behind,

Tweeter took his gun away and messed up his mind.

The Undercover Cop was left tied up to a tree,

Near the souvenir stand, by the old abandoned factory.

Next day the Undercover Cop was hot in pursuit,

He was taking the whole thing personal, he didn't care about the loot.

In Jersey anything's legal, as long as you don't get caught".

And the walls came down,

All the way to hell.

Never saw them when they're standing,

Never saw them when they fell.

Some place by Rahwey Prison they ran out of gas,

The Undercover Cop had cornered them, said,

"Boy you didn't think this could last?"

Jan jumped out of bed, said, "There's someplace I gotta go".

She took the gun out of the drawer, said, "It's best that you don't know".

The Undercover Cop was found face down in a field,

The Monkey Man was on the river bridge, using Tweeter as a shield.

Jan said to the Monkey Man, "I'm not fooled by Tweeter's curl,

I knew him long before he became a Jersey Girl."

And the walls came down,

All the way to hell.

Never saw them when they're standing,

Never saw them when they fell.

Now the town of Jersey City is quieting down again,

I'm sitting in a gambling club called the Lion's Den.

The TV set was blown up, every bit of it is gone,

Ever since the nightly news showed that the Monkey Man was on.

I guess I'll go to Florida and get myself some sun,

There ain't no more opportunity here, everything's been done.

Sometimes I think of Tweeter, sometimes I think of Jan,

Sometimes I don't think about nothing but the Monkey Man.

And the walls came down,

All the way to hell.

Never saw them when they're standing,

Never saw them when they fell.

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From Traveling Wilburys songbook


Twist And Shout

(Written by the Beatles)

Shake it now babe

Come on and twist and shout now

Come on babe

Come on and work it all out now

Twist little girl

You know you twist so fine

Twist a little closer

Let me know you're mine

Ah ah ah ah ah...


Two Faces

German Translation

I met a girl and we ran away

I swore I'd make her happy every day

And how I made her cry

Two faces have I

Sometimes mister I feel sunny and wild

Lord I love to see my baby smile

Then dark clouds come rolling by

Two faces have I

One that laughs one that cries

One says hello one says goodbye

One does things I don't understand

Makes me feel like half a man

At night I get down on my knees and pray

Our love will make that other man go away

But he'll never say goodbye

Two faces have I

Last night as I kissed you 'neath the willow tree

He swore he'd take your love away from me

He said our life was just a lie

And two faces have I

Well go ahead and let him try

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Released on:

Tunnel Of Love 1987


Two Faces GER
Two Faces

German Translation

Ich traf ein Mädchen und wir liefen fort

Ich schwor sie jeden Tag glücklich zu machen

Und wie ich sie nun zum weinen bringe

Ich habe zwei Gesichter

Manchmal Mister fühle ich mich glücklich und wütend

Oh Gott ich liebe es mein Baby lächeln zu sehen

Dann ziehen dunkle Wolken auf

Ich habe zwei Gesichter

Eines das lacht, eines das weint

Eines sagt Hallo, eines sagt Goodbye

Eines tut Dinge, die ich nicht verstehe

Ich fühle mich wie ein halber Mann

Nachts knie ich und bete

Daß unsere Liebe den anderen fortgehen läßt

Aber er sagt niemals Goodbye

Ich habe zwei Gesichter

Letzte Nacht als ich Dich küßte unter dem Ulmenbaum

Schwor er, er nimmt Deine Liebe weg von mir

Er sagt unser Leben war nur eine Lüge

Und daß ich zwei Gesichter habe

Also geh los und laß es ihn versuchen

Translation by Frank Rohwer


Two For The Road

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

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

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

It takes one for the running but two for the road

One thousand dreams whispered in the dark

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

It takes more than one to rev it up and go

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

Two one-way tickets and a diamond ring

Hell it don't matter what the rain might bring

When this world treats you hard and cold

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

When you're alone my love will shine the light

Through the dark and starless night

I'll hold you close and never let you go

Come on now honey, we're two for the road

I'll stand beside you and I'll never go

Come on now girl, we're two for the road

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Released on:

Tunnel Of Love / Two For The Road   Single 1988

Tracks 1998 - Recorded at Thrill Hill Records 2 / 87


Two Hearts

German Translation

I went out walking the other day

Seen a little girl crying along the way

She'd been hurt so bad said she'd never love again

Someday your crying girl will end

And you'll find once again

Two hearts are better than one

Two hearts girl get the job done

Two hearts are better than one

Once I spent my time playing tough guy scenes

But I was living in a world of childish dreams

Someday these childish dreams must end

To become a man and grow up to dream again

Now I believe in the end

Two hearts are better than one...

Sometimes it might seem like it was planned

For you to roam empty hearted through this land

Though the world turns you hard and cold

There's one thing mister that I know

That's if you think your heart is stone

And that you're rough enough to whip this world alone

Alone buddy there ain't no peace of mind

That's why I'll keep searching till I find my special one

Two hearts are better than one...

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Released on:

The River 1980

Live 1975 - 1985   Live-Box 1986 (Meadowlands Arena, 7/6/81)


Two Hearts GER
Two Hearts

German Translation

Ich ging spazieren an diesem Tag

Sah ein Mädchen weinend am Weg stehen

Sie wurde so schwer verletzt, sie sagte, sie würde niemals mehr Lieben können

Irgendwann wird Dein Weinen aufhören, Mädchen

Und Du wirst wieder Einen finden

Zwei Herzen sind besser als eins

Zwei Herzen, Mädchen, packen es

Zwei Herzen sind besser als eins

Früher habe ich meine Zeit damit verbracht, den harten Burschen rauszuhängen

Weil ich in einer Welt voller kindischer Träume lebte

Eines Tages müssen diese kindischen Träume enden

Damit man erwachsen werden und erneut träumen kann

Jetzt glaube ich wirklich

Zwei Herzen sind besser als eins

Zwei Herzen, Mädchen, packen es

Zwei Herzen sind besser als eins

Manchmal mag es so scheinen, als wäre es vorbestimmt für Dich

Einsamen Herzens durch die Gegend zu ziehen

Damit Dich die Welt hart und kalt macht

Doch da ist eine Sache, Mister, die ich weiss

Wenn Du denkst, dass Dein Herz aus Stein sei

Und Du wärst hart genug

Um Dich alleine durch diese Welt zu schlagen

Alleine, Kumpel, gibt’s keinen Seelenfrieden

Darum werde ich weiter suchen, bis ich die Richtige gefunden habe

Translation by Robert Steinseufzer / RoSteins@aol.com


Two Hearts In True Walz Time

Well the first frame finds her running

But the night pushes her deep within the tunnel

She camouflages herself in dayglo paint

And she sings her love songs through a funnel

And she clings to the walls like a cat who calls

The shots for life and for death

Wearing nothing but the make-up she uses

To try and cover up for herself

Well if she can't hide her sword

She gives no terms for surrender

'Cause she's living the Third World War

The Tunnel Police, they steadily increase

The search for where she hides her kid

She swings on avine across the State Line

they measured the length of her skid

She nevr goes back to do something she didn't

Or undo something she did

Smoke streams from the street

And the night is complete

With a long and fiery belch

She's just another Orphan Annie cartoon and a Raquel Welch

She rides like Caesar, brandishing a whip

On the hood of his squad car

As the siren wails she silently sails

Leaving footprints in the tar

Oh she breaks with the dawn

And by morning she's gone

Leaving nothing but another night

She returns to her home

Like a dog returns to a bone

Another unsatisfied wife

And there's little Booth

Secure from the truth

He wants her more than he's got the guts to say

'Cause as she needs to be real

He needs to conceal

The realness of his place

So he sings a little song

And in a chiffon sarong

She performs a black ballet in space

But she's another flop with a fancy name

And he's just another cop with a pretty face

So together they commit the ultimate crime

Two hearts locked in true waltz time


Used Cars

My sister's in the front seat with an ice cream cone

My ma's in the black seat sittin' all alone

As my pa steers her slow out of the lot

For a test drive down Michigan Avenue

Now, my ma, she fingers  her wedding band

And watches the salesman stare at my old man's hands

He's telling us all about the break he'd give us

If he could, but he just can't

Well if I could, I swear I know just what I'd do+

Now, mister, the day the lottery I win

I ain't ever gonna ride in no used car again

Now, the neighbors come from near and far

As we pull up in our brandnew used car

I wish he'd just hit the gas and let out a cry

Tell `em all they can kiss our asses goodbye

My dad, he sweats the same job from mornin' to morn

Me, I walk home on the same dirty streets where I was born

Up the block I can hear my little sister

In the front seat blowin' that horn

The sounds echoin' all down Michigan Avenue

Now, mister, the day my numbers comes in

I ain't ever gonna ride in no used car again

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Released on:

Nebraska 1982


Valentine's Day

I'm driving a big lazy car rushin' up the highway in the dark

I got one hand steady on the wheel and one hand's tremblin' over my heart

It's pounding baby like it's gonna bust right on through

And it ain't gonna stop till I'm alone again with you

A friend of mine became a father last night

When we spoke in his voice I could hear the light

Of the skies and the rivers the timberwolf in the pines

And that great jukebox out on Route 39

They say he travels fastest who travels alone

But tonight I miss my girl mister tonight I miss my home

Is it the sound of the leaves

left blown by the wayside

That's got me out here on this spooky old highway tonight

Is it the cry of the river

With the moonlight shining through

That ain't what scares me baby

What scares me is losing you

They if you die in your dreams you really die in your bed

But honey last night I dreamed my eyes rolled straight back in my head

And God's light came shinin' on through

I woke up in the darkness scared and breathin' and born anew

It wasn't the cold river bottom I felt rushing over me

It wasn't the bitterness of a dream that didn't come true

It wasn't the wind in the grey fields I felt rushing through my arms

No no baby it was you

So hold me close honey say you're forever mine

And tell me you'll be my lonely valentine

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Released on:

Tunnel Of Love 1987


Vibes Man

Vibes man in the alley, play me your spitball serenade,

And a deeper blue and you'll be playing in your grave.

Save your notes, spend them on your blues, boy.

Help your darlin' yearlin' blues, boy.

Hit the church note, ring it!

Vibes man sing the trashcan hear your junkman singing.

Fish lady, don't you bait those tenement walls.

Don't take corner boys because they're too easy.

You were born black and blue,

You didn't have to wait for somebody to hit you.

Take my arm, I'll move with you down Broadway.

Take my arm, oh honey, I'll walk with you down Broadway.

I'm the young man and I'll be proud,

And I can talk real loud.

And I'm from out of town, too.

Won't you come home with me.

Won't you come home with me.

But no, cause she won't take a train,

Oh, she won't take that train.

Oh, she won't take a train.

Oh, she won't take that train.

She won't take a train.

Oh, she won't take that train.

Oh, she won't take a train.

Oh, she won't take that train.

You won't take the train.

She won't take the train.

Cause she's afraid those tracks are gonna slow her down.

And when she turns around,

I'm gonna be gone like the ???????

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As recorded for the Laurel Canyon Publishing demo tape - 1972


Visitation At Fort Horn

Behind the wals where heat lightning falls

On five starred gnat-faced princess

The buffalo man shoots at the tin cats

Turns and shouts "Children, blow your bridges"

On death row halls where dustmen stall

Where time's an enemy and a friend

At night jackals crawl from the cracks in the walls

And salvation is never spoken

Morning sickness breaks the garrison gate

The cavalry cries for treason

The soldier strokes his pony and goes to shine the Captain's sword

In this young boy's eyes lie reason

And the sergeant bursts in and cries "I caught a prisoner, Captain,

A prisoner, what ho !"

The Captain looks up and says "Let her go"

"But Captain, she patrols the light ships that patrol the sea around

The rainbow tips, whose bagpiper wail unbroken

She haunts the nigth and the dawnin' light

On her sounds and words your cavalry chokin' "

The Captain says "Have no fear, boys

For what you hear

Because danger can't be spoken "

The whirlwind crackles and I hear the rustle of shackles

>From the stockade door bursts Merlin

His eyes red, and swollen, like they've been pushed into the sun

His robes aflame and burnin'

He jumps a horse, tries to get away

But he gets caught in his eyes, tangled in his eyes

He falls to the ground, his neck is broken

His spirit rises high in the western sky

The magician lies an empty token

the sergeant walks over and kicks his body

And says "Captain, he's dead - What shall we do with him ?"

The Captain says "Hang him

For though his live moments on this earth are well spent

And I can se his body is sure well bent

It's magic that must be broken "

Now night cradles low

The penniless weed plays wrath felt in the Captain's corner

With anvil spread wide, the Captain glides

Each blow to scare her, not to hurt her

She spits "what truth" at the Captain's boots

But he holds his rage suspended

The sergeant comes in stinkin' of soldier's gin

And cries "Captain, the storm she blows unending"

Oh and the lightning cracked and the sky was hacked

By dagger rain it was torn

And the yard was charged into a raging sea

And the Captain ran crazily

For the first time in his life, in the Captain's heart

Fear was born

The Captain storms out on the stoop, panic strikes

He sees Merlin's hung body stretched by the neck

Silhouetted on his door

The sergeant screams "Captain, look high, look to the sky !"

Some whirling, swirling emission ...

But the Captain falls to his knees crying silent pleas

'Cause he knows, he knows, and he thinks to himself

"A Magician..."


Viva Las Vegas

Hey blackjack dealer, Hit me man!

Bright lights city gonna set my soul gonna set my soul on fire

I got a whole lotta money that's ready to burn so get those stakes up high

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

hey're all living just the devil may care

And I'm just a devil with love to spare

So Viva Las Vegas

I wish that there were more than twenty-four hours in a day

Even if there were forty more I wouldn't sleep a minute away

There's blackjack, poker, and roulette wheel

A fortune won and lost on every deal

All you need is money and nerves of steel

Viva Las Vegas

Well viva Las Vegas with the neon flashing

And the walls crashing all your hopes down the drain

Yea viva Las Vegas turning day into nighttime

Turning night into daytime if you seen it once you'll never be the same again

I'm gonna be on the run I'm gonna have me some fun if it costs me my very

      last dime

If I wind up broke, well, I'll always remember that I had me a swinging time

I'm gonna give it everything I got

Lady Luck I want you let the dice stay hot

Let me shoot a seven with every shot

Viva Las Vegas

Busted!

Hey man, you going anywhere near Vegas?

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Originally performed by ELvis Presley

Performed by Bruce Springsteen on the

album: The Last Temptation Of Elvis


Wages of Sin

When we fight and I wanna talk it out

You won't say nothing, nothing at all

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

I think you like keeping my back up against the wall

Wages of sin, you keep me paying

Wages of sin for wrongs that I've done

Wages of sin, you keep me paying

Wages of sin, one by one

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

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

I don't wanna believe what my heart keeps saying

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

Wages of sin, we keep paying

Wages of sin for the wrongs that we've done

Wages of sin, we keep paying

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

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

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

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

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

I tried so hard, so hard in every way

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

Cried all the tears, baby, that I could cry

Stomached all my fears till they came rushin' up inside

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

Still I play on and on just the same

Wages of sin, I keep paying

Wages of sin for some wrong that I've done

Wages of sin, well I keep paying

Wages of sin, one by one

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Released on:

Tracks 1998 - Recorded at The Power Station, 5/10/82


Walk Like A Man

German Translation

I remember how rough your hand felt on mine on my wedding day

And the tears cried onmy shoulder I couldn't turn away

Well so much has happened to me that I don't understand

All I can think of is being five years old following behind you at the

beach tracing your footprints in the sand

Trying to walk like a man

By Our Lady Of The Roses we lived in the shadow of the elms

I remember ma draggin' me and my sister up the street to the church whenever

she heard those wedding bells

Well would they ever look so happy again the handsome groom and his bride

As they stepped into that long black limosine for their mystery ride

Well tonight you step away from me and alone at the alter I stand

And as I watch my bride coming down the aisle I pray for the strength to

walk like a man

Well now the years have gone and I've grown from that seed you've sown

But I didn't think there'd be so many steps I'd have to learn on my own

Well I was young and I didn't know what to do

When I saw your best steps stolen away from you

Now I'll do what I can

I'll walk like a man

And I'll keep on walkin'

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Released on:

Tunnel of Love 1987


Walk Like A Man GER
Walk Like A Man

German Translation

Ich weiß noch wie rauh sich deine Hand anfühlte in meiner

An meinem Hochzeitstag

Und die Tränen auf meiner Schulter, ich konnte nicht weg

Mann, soviel ist mir passiert

Was ich nicht verstehe

Alles woran ich mich erinnere ist

Als ich 5 Jahre alt war verfolgte ich dich an den Strand

Trat in deine Fußabdrücke im Sand

Versuchte wie ein Mann zu gehen

Die Straße runter zur Kirche schleifte

Wann immer sie die Hochzeitsglocken hörte

Mann, würden sie je wieder so glücklich aussehen

Der schöne Bräutigam und seine Braut

Wie sie jetzt in die lange schwarze Limousine steigen

Für ihre geheimnisvolle Fahrt

Heute nacht gingst du fort von mir

Und ich stand allein vor dem Altar

Und während ich darauf warte daß meine Braut durch die Kirche kommt

Bete ich für die Kraft um wie ein Mann zu gehen

Nun sind die Jahre vergangen und ich bin gewachsen

Aus der Saat die du gesäht hast

Aber ich glaube nicht daß ich viele Schritte gelernt habe

Ich war jung und wußte nicht was ich tun sollte

Als ich sah wie dir deine besten Schritte gestohlen wurden

Nun will ich tun was ich kann

Ich will gehen wie ein Mann

Und ich gehe weiter

Translation by Frank Rohwer


Walking Trough Midnight

Well I've been walking through midnight

And there's no trace of dawn

I'm stuck in this moonlight

It's leading me on

My body's on fire

And I can't stand the pain

This burning desire

I feel once again

Now I'm fighting with madness

As I move down the street

Surrounded by sadness

I can't take this heat

The streetlamps are glowing

Like coals in the mist

Their lights keep me moving

I just can't resist

Now there's peace in this valley

But none in my mind

Like a drunk in an alley

I'm stumbling blind

With no destination

At an unholy speed

I must keep on moving

Try to walk off this need


War

(Barret Strong, Norman Whitfield/Edwin Star)

War

What is it good for

Absolutely nothing

War

What is it good for

Absolutely nothing

War is something that I despise

For it means destruction of innocent lives

For it means tears in thousands of mothers' eyes

When their sons go out to fight to give their lives

War

What is it good for

Absolutely nothing

Say it again

War

What is it good for

Absolutely nothing

War

It's nothing but a heartbreaker

War

Friend only to the undertaker

War is the enemy of all mankind

The thought of war blows my mind

Handed down from generation to generation

Induction destruction

Who wants to die

War

What is it good for

Absolutely nothing

Say it again

War

What is it good for

Absolutely nothing

War has shattered many young men's dreams

Made them disabled bitter and meanLife is too precious to be fighting wars

each day

War can't give life it can only take it away

War

It's nothing but a heartbreaker

War

Friend only to the undertaker

Peace love and understanding

There must be some place for these things today

They say we must fight to keep our freedom

But Lord there's gotta be a better way

That's better than

War

War

What is it good for

Absolutely nothing

Say it again

War

What is it good for

Absolutely nothing

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Released on:

Live 1975 - 1985   Live-Box 1986 (Los Angeles Coliseum, 9/30/85)

War / Merry Chrristmas Baby   Single 1986


War Nurse

She was just another war nurse

She could strike a noble pose

Caring for our young boys when a bullet laid them low

She would hover over them and cry

And pull the cover over them when they'd die

She was just another lonesome lady, lover, sister of the gun

And though France would call her darling,

She was a nurse 'neath the rising sun

She knew no hells or heavens, or harbors or havens

She was every mother, sister, wife and lover

Whose love a soldier boy was savin'

She believed in the birth of the broad sword

She was not a shielded one

Though France would call her darlin'

She was nurse 'neath the rising sun

She was a soldier's shrapnel sweetheart, direct from the combat zone

She was a reincarnation o fthe Virgin MAry

She was the hooker down in San Antone

And though her heart was somewhere in Iceland

Commanding the dawn patrol

Blessed in this blood and stitched into these bones

the war nurse left her soul

Blessed in this blood and stitched into these bones

the war nurse left her soul


When The Lights Go Out

Well you say you have a friend

You trust him with your life

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

You even trust him with your wife

You better watch what's going down when the lights go out

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

WHen the lights go out

Down in this dirty little town

Well now the world is dark and --------

You better listen to what I say

You ain't gonna know what's going on

By what you see in the light of day

You better watch what's going on when the lights go out

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

When the lights go out

Down in this dirty little town

Well now baby she trusted Billy

With reason you understand

But Billy he kept coming home late at night

And in the morning he had that smell on his hand

Well now the world is turning

Rome is burning

Me I'm watching --------------

You say as sure as God's hand that the ticking of the clock

the Lord's light shining under every dirty rock

Well now last night I slept right here

And I heard God's voice whisper in my ear

You better watch what's going on when the lights go out

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

When the lights go out

Down in this dirty little town

Down in this dirty little town

Down in this dirty little town

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Released on:

Tracks 1998 - Recorded at the Record Plant (LA) 12/6/90


When You`re Alone

Times were tough love was not enough

So you said sorry Johnny I'm gone gone gone

You said my act was funny

But we both knew what was missing honey

So you let out on your own

Now that pretty form that you've got baby

Will make sure you get along

But you're gonna find our someday honey

When You're alone you're alone

When You're alone you're alone

When You're alone you're alone

When You're alone you ain't nothing but alone

Now I was young and pretty on the mean streets of the dity

And I fought to make'em my home

With just the shirt on my back I left and swore I'd never look back

And man I was gone gone gone

But there's things that'll knock you down you don't even see coming

And send you crawling like a baby back home

You're gonna find out that day sugar

When you're alone...

I knew some day your runnin' would be through

And you'd think back on me and you

And your love would be strong

You'd forget all the bad and think only of all the laughs that we had

And you'd wanna come home

Now it ain't hard feelings or nothin' sugar

That ain't what's got me singing this song

It's just nobody knows baby where love goes

But when it goes it's gone gone

When you're alone...

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Released on:

Tunnel Of Love 1987


When you need me

When you need me call my name

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

If you want me come sunny skies or rain

When you need me just call my name

If you miss me, I'll be there

To brush the sunlight from your hair

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

If you need me I'll be there

And when this dirty world has been cold to you

I got two strong arms waitin' to hold you

And when those mean days come along

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

So if you need me just call my name

When you need me call my name

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

'Cause when this world kicked me around

You picked me up off the ground

So if you need me I'll be there

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Released on:

Tracks 1998 - Recorded at Thrill Hill Recording, 1/20/87


Where the Bands are

I hear the guitars ringin' out

Ringin' out down Union Street

I hear the lead singer shoutin' out, girl

I wanna be a slave to the beat

Yeah, tonight I wanna break my chains

Somebody break my heart

Somebody shake my brains

Downtown there's something that I wanna hear

There's a sound, little girl, keeps ringing in my ear

CHORUS:

I wanna be where the bands are

I wanna be where the bands are

Where the bands are

I wanna be where the bands are

I get off from work and I grab something to eat

I turn the corner and I drive down your street

Little gray houses darling looks like nowhere

But hey I know you're hiding in there

Come on out for just a little while

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

Tonight I wanna feel the beat of the crowd

And when I tell you that I love you

I wanna have to shout it out loud

Shout it out loud

(CHORUS)

I hear the guitars ringin' out again

Ringin' on down Union Street

I hear the lead singer shoutin' out and girl

I wanna be a slave to the beat

And I want something that'll break my chains

Something to break my heart

Something to shake my brains

There's a rocker's special on tonight

So meet me on down

'Neath the neon lights

(CHORUS)

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Released on:

Tracks 1998 - Recorded at The Power Station, 10/9/79


White Town

It's midnight down in sector two

Little girl walkin' dressed in innocence and cool

Only fourteen and dressed up for the score

Hold that breath now boy, he(?)

She dances, baby, to the beat

Of breaking glass and running feet

Down in White Town

Down in White Town

Down in White Town

Oh, she comes home from work and grabs something to eat

Turn the corner and walks down her street

In a row of houses, chic, shiny and dirty and grey

Disappears like the scenery in another man's play

And as she dances, oh, to the beat

Oh the trooper stickin' dresses for the number on the sheet

Down in White Town

Down in White Town

Down in White Town

Down in White Town

Yeah, Mr. Outside, you're walkin' so free

If you turn your eyes so you don't see

You act like you're the hand turns the key

And you become the hand that turns the key

And no matter how I try I cannot understand

The way that they will turn a man

Into a stranger in his own land

Down in White Town

(repeat to fade)


Who'll Stop The Rain

(John Fogerty/Creedence Clearwater Revival)

Long as I remember

The rain been falling down

Clouds of myst'ry pourin'

Confusion on the ground

Good men through the ages

They try to find the sun

But I wonder, still I wonder

Who'll stop the rain

I went down Virginia

Seekin' shelter from the storm

Just caught up in the fable

I watched the tower grow

Five-year plan and new deals

Wrapped in golden chains

Still I wonder, yes I wonder

Who'll stop the rain

Heard the singers playin'

How we cheered for more

The crowd had rushed together

Tryin' to keep warm

Still the rain keeps falling

Fallin' through the years

And I wonder, still I wonder

Who'll stop the rain

I wanna know, baby I wanna know


Wild Billy's Circus Story

The Machinist climbs his ferris wheel like a brave and the fire-eater's lyin'

in a pool of sweat victim of the heatwave,

Behind the tent the hired hand tightens his legs on the sword swallowers blade,

Circus town's on the shortwave

Well the runway lies ahead like a great false dawn,

Fat lady, big mama, Missy Bimbo sits in her chair and yawns,

And the man-beast lies in his cage sniffin' popcorn and the midget licks his

fingers and suffers Missy Bimbo's scorn

Circus town's been born.

And a press roll drummer go, ballerina to-and-fro cartwheelin' up on that

tightrope,

With a cannon blast, lightin' flash, movin' fast through the tent,

Mars bent,

He's gonna miss his fall, oh God save the human cannonball.

And the flying zambini's watch Marguarita do her neck twist,

And the ringmaster gets the crowd to count along: 95, 96, 97.

A ragged suitcase in his hand, he steals silently away from the circus

grounds,

And the highway's haunted by the carnival sounds

They dance like a great greasepaint ghost on the wind,

A man in baggy pants, a lonely face, a crazy grin, runnin' home to some small

Ohio town

Jesus, send some sweet women to save all your clowns

And circus boy dances like a monkey on barbed wire, and the barker romances

with a junkie, she's got a flat tire,

And now the elephants dance real funky and the band plays like a jungle fire,

Circus town's on the live wire.

And the strong man Sampson lifts the midget, little Tiny Tim, up on his

shoulders, way up, and carries carries him on down the midway past the

kids, past the sailors, to his dimly lit trailer,

And the ferris wheel turns and turns like it ain't ever gonna stop,

And the circus boss leans over and whispers into the little boy's ear, hey son

you want to try the big top?

All aboard, Nebraska's our next stop.

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Released on:

The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle 1973


Wild Kisses
Wild Kisses (I'm Gonna Treat You Right)

Well, mister, you see that girl walking down the street

That little girl, she used to turn 'em on

Wild kisses and a heart that's oh-so-sweet

In the middle of the night.

And now, wild kisses <wouldn't> seem to settle down

Afraid to get my feet back on the ground

...

I'm gonna meet her tonight

And now my wild world's tumblin' and dancin'???

true romancin'

...

Listen to me, baby

I wanna celebrate my dream, girl

I don' wan' no lonely dream, babe

I wanna give everything to my little baby tonight

I gotta... on the track<s>

What she gives me -my god- she break my back

Wild kisses in the morning

<Wendy> gives me a ... to go on?

And now... like dancin'

...true romancin'

Why won't you... heart.. to try?

Listen to me, baby

I want to ..., girl

I want to...

I want to...

[bridge]

I don't want...

Listen to my heart, girl

I know...

Mister, see that girl walkin' down the street

Well that girl, she used to drive me wild

Wild kisses...

...meet her tonight

Wild kisses and <yaddas>


Wings For Wheels
Wings For Wheels (Thunder Road)

The screen door slams, Christine's (Angelina's) dress waves

Like a vision she dances across the porch as the radio plays

Roy Orbison singing for the lonely

(Hey) that's me (babe) and I want you only

Don't turn me home again

I just can't face myself alone (in that mirror) again tonight

Don't run back inside, you know just what I'm here for

So you're scared and you're thinking

That maybe you (we) ain't that young anymore

Show a little faith (well woman) there's magic in the night

You ain't a beauty but hey (baby, ah) you're alright

And that's alright with me

This 4/4 she's gonna overheat

Make up your mind girl I gotta get her back out on the street

I know you're lonely like me so baby don't try and fake it

I'm no prince and I can't lay the stars at your feet

But I got this old car and she's pretty tough to beat

There's plenty of room in my front seat, baby if you wanna take it

Oh roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair

It's like the rushing touch, the dirty wings them highway Angels wear

Well tonight we're gonna find out how it feels

I'm gonna trade in your wings - for wheels

Climb in back, heaven's waiting down on the tracks

Ah, mama, come take my hand (Well now try hard Chrissie to understand)

We're gonna ride all the way to the promised land

Oh I'm gonna dance all the way, dance all the way

(Babe if you're born with nothing in your hands

Hey it's your only chance)

Well I don't know but baby I've been told

There's something waiting for us, down that dirty road

Oh take a chance, take a chance, take a chance

(Oh I wish you would come

So leave what you've lost, leave what's grown old on Thunder Road)

Well now I bought this guitar and I learned how to make it talk

I got my car parked out back if you're ready to take that long walk

From your front porch to my front seat

Well I think we could take it all babe, just you and me

Climb in back baby, the ride's for free

Oh come take my hand, we're gonna ride all the way to the promised land

We'll dance all the way

Oh baby I don't know but I've been told

There's something waiting for us, down that dirty road

If we take our chance, take our chance

Now the season's over and I feel it getting cold

I wish I could take you to some sandy beach where we'd never grow old

Ah but baby you know that's just jive

But tonight's bustin' open and I'm alive

Oh do (baby) whay you can to make me feel like a man

But this 4/4/2's gonna overheat

Make up your mind girl, I gotta get her back out on the street

I know you're lonely like me, oh so don't fake it

And maybe I can't lay the stars at your feet

But I got this old car and she's pretty tough to beat

There's plenty of room in my front seat

Oh if you think you can make it, climb in (So Christine climb in)

This is town full of losers and baby I was born to win


Winter Song

From their northeast source the sour wind roars

Bear gifts fresh from the valley waters.

Hallow echoes strip Pennsylvania mountain walls

With their corsets and their old Betsy ruffle

And their slips with pearly white.

They stand bulging up against the screen door,

A banshee "Good night."

Summer's sweet and she brings me water,

But give me Winter, that old icy whore.

While Summer lies meek and follows orders,

Winter cries "Me!" and pulls you through the door.

The limp milk tramp cries metal-flake tears.

They drip like honey down <soot?> momma's leg.

You lay watchin' them off.  Eat a hole in his cloth.

He'll ask, but he don't beg.

Said I'd like to the mademoiselle

Who holds the keys to all these doors around the waist

And rings the bell.

Summer's sweet and she brings me water,

But give me Winter, that old icy whore.

Summer lies meek and follows orders,

Winter cries "Me!" and pulls you through the door.

With scufflin' sound, the knot-voiced matron makes her rounds,

Knockin' on each and every door.

With a look like white heat, she sways, salty, sweet

And leads me 'cross her Persian floor.

She squeeze' my hand and before her I stood.

I was scared.  It was dark, but it was good.

Summer's sweet and she brings me water,

But give me Winter, that old icy whore.

While Summer lies meek and follows orders,

Winter cries "Me!" and pulls me through her door.


With Every Wish

Ol' catfish in the lake, we called him Big Jim

When I was a kid, my only wish was to get my line in him

Skipped church one Sunday and throw'd in my line

Jim took that hook, pole and me right over the side

Went drifting down past old tires and rusty cans of beer

The angel of the lake whispered in my ear

"Before you chose your wish, son, you'd better think first

With every wish there comes a curse"

I fell in love with beautiful Doreen

She was the prettiest thing this old town'd ever seen

I courted her and I made her mine

But I grew jealous whenever another man'd come walkin' down the line

And my jealousy made me treat her mean and cruel

She sighed, "Bobby, oh Bobby, you're such a fool

Don't you know before you chose your wish you'd better think first

With every wish there comes a curse"

These days I sit around and laugh at all the rivers I've crossed

But on the far banks there's always another forest where a man can get lost

Well there in the high trees love's bluebird glides

Guiding us 'cross another river on the other side

And there someone is waitin' with a look in her eyes

And though my heart's grown weary, and more than a little bit shy

Tonight I'll drink from her waters to quench my thirst

And leave the angels to worry

With every wish...

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Released on:

Human Touch 1992


Working On The Highway

Friday night's pay night guys fresh out of work

Talking about the weekend scrubbing off the dirt

Some heading home to their families some looking to get hurt

Some going down to Stovell wearing trouble on their shirts

I work for the county out on 95

All day I hold a red flag and watch the traffic pass me by

In my head I keep a picture of a pretty little miss

Someday mister I'm gonna lead a better life than this

Working on the highway laying down the blacktop

Working on the highway all day long I don't stop

Working on the highway blasting through the bedrock

Working on the highway, working on the highway

I met her at a dance down at the union hall

She was standing with her brothers back up against the wall

Sometimes we'd go walking down the union tracks

One day I looked straight at her and she looked straight back

Working on the highway...

I saved up my money and I put it all away

I went to see her daddy but we didn't have much to say

"Son can't you see that she's just a little girl

She don't know nothing about this cruel cruel world"

We lit out down to Florida we got along all right

One day her brothers came and got her and they took me in a black and white

The prosecutor kept the promise that he made on that day

And the judge got mad and he put me straight away

I wake up every morning to the work bell clang

Me and the warden go swinging on the Charlotte County road gang

Working on the highway...

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Released on:

Born in the U.S.A. 1984

Live 1975 - 1985   Live-Box 1986 (Giants Stadium, 8/19/85)


Wreck On The Highway GER
Wreck On The Highway

German Translation

Letzte Nacht fuhr ich draussen

Kam heim am Ende des Arbeitstages

Ich fuhr allein durch den Nieselregen

Auf einer verlassenen Strecke einer County Two Strasse

Als ich zu einem Wrack auf dem Highway kam

Dort war überall Blut und Glas

Und ausser mir war niemand dort

Während der Regen kalt und hart fiel

Sah ich einen jungen Mann am Strassenrand liegen

Er schrie »Mister, könnten Sie mir bitte helfen«

Schliesslich kam ein Krankenwagen und brachte ihn nach Riverside

Ich schaute zu, als sie ihn wegfuhren

Und ich dachte an eine Freundin oder eine junge Frau

Und ein Polizist klopft mitten in der Nacht

Um zu sagen: Dein Schatz starb in einem Wrack auf dem Highway

Manchmal sitze ich noch im Dunkeln

Und betrachte meine Süsse, während sie schläft

Dann gehe ich ins Bett und halte sie fest

Ich liege einfach wach da, mitten in der Nacht

Und denke an das Wrack auf dem Highway

Translation by Robert Steinseufzer / RoSteins@aol.com


Wreck On the Highway

German Translation

Last night I was out driving

Coming home at the end of the working day

I was riding alone through the drizzling rain

On a deserted stretch of a county twolane

When I cam upon a wreck on the highway

There was blood and glass all over

And there was nobody there but me

As the rain tumbled down hard and cold

I seen a young man lying by the side of the road

He cried Mister, won't you help me please

An ambulance finally came and took him to Riverside

I watched as they drove him away

And I thought of a girlfriend or a young wife

And a state trooper knocking in the middle of the night

To say your baby died in a wreck on the highway

Sometimes I sit up in the darkness

And I watch my baby as she sleeps

Then I climb in bed and I hold her tight

I just lay there awake in the middle of the night

Thinking 'bout the wreck on the highway

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Released on:

The River 1980


You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch)

Yesterday I went shopping buddy down to the mall

Looking for something pretty I could hang on my wall

I knocked over a lamp before it hit the floor I caught it

A salesman turned around said "Boy you break that thing you bought it"

You can look but you better not touch boy

You can look but you better not touch

Mess around and you'll end up in dutch boy

You can look but you better not no you better not no you better not touch

Well I came home from work and I switched on channel 5

There was a pretty little girly lookin' straight into my eyes

Well I watched as she wiggled back and forth across the screen

She didn't get me excited she just made me feel mean

You can look...

Well I called up Dirty Annie on the telephone

I took her out to the drive-in just to get her alone

I found a lover's rendezvous the music low set to park

I heard a tappin' on the window and a voice in the dark

You can look...

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Released on:

The River 1980

Live 1975 - 1985   Live-Box 1986 (Nassau Coliseum 12/29/80)


Youngstown

German Translation

Here in north east Ohio

Back in eighteen-o-three

James and Danny Heaton

Found the ore that was linin' yellow creek

They built a blast furnace

Here along the shore

And they made the cannon balls

That helped the union win the war

Here in Youngstown

Here in Youngstown

My sweet Jenny, I'm sinkin' down

Here darlin' in Youngstown

Well my daddy worked the furnaces

Kept 'em hotter then hell

I come home from 'Nam worked my way to scarfer

A job that'd suit the devil as well

Taconite, coke and limestone

Fed my children and made my pay

Then smokestacks reachin' like the arms of god

Into a beautiful sky of soot and clay

Here in Youngstown

Here in Youngstown

My sweet Jenny, I'm sinkin' down

Here darlin' in Youngstown

Well my daddy come on the 0hio works

When he come home from world war two

Now the yards just scrap and rubble

He said, "Them big boys did what Hitler couldn't do"

These mills they built the tanks and bombs

That won this countries wars

We sent our sons to Korea and Vietnam

Now were wondering what they were dyin' for

Here in Youngstown

Here in Youngstown

My sweet Jenny, I'm sinkin' down

Here darlin' in Youngstown

From the Monongaleh valley

To the Mesabi  iron range

To the coal mines of Appalacchia

The story's always the same

Seven-hundred tons of metal a day

Now sir you tell me the world is changed

Once I made you rich enough

Rich enough to forget my name

Here in Youngstown

Here in Youngstown

My sweet Jenny, I'm sinkin' down

Here darlin' in Youngstown

When I die I don't want no part of heaven

I would not do heavens work well

I pray the devil comes and takes me

To stand in the fiery furnaces of hell

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Full Band version was played during

1999 World Tour

Released on:

The Ghost Of Tom Joad


Youngstown GER
Youngstown

German Translation

Hier in Nordost Ohio, damals 1803

James und Dan Heaton fanden das Erz, es lag in Yellow Creek

Sie bauten einen Hochofen hier am Ufer

Und sie machten die Kanonenkugeln, die der Union zum Sieg verhalfen

Hier in Youngstown

Meine süße Jenny ich sinke zu Boden

Hier, Darling, in Youngstown

Nun, mein Vater arbeitete an den Öfen, hielt sie heißer als die Hölle

Ich kam heim aus Vietnam arbeitete

in einem Job, der dem Teufel gut stehen würde

Taconite-Koks und Kalkstein

Ernähren meine Kinder und bezahlen meine Rechnungen

Diese Schornsteine erheben sich wie die Arme Gottes

in einen schönen Himmel aus Ruß und Lehm

Hier in Youngstown...

Mein Vater kam zu den Ohio-Werken als er aus dem 2.Weltkrieg zurück kam

Nun ist auf dem Fabrikhof nur Schrott und Trümmer

Er sagt, “Diese Big Boys tun, was Hitler nicht vermochte.”

Diese Stahlwerke die die Panzer und Bomben bauten

welche die Kriege dieses Landes gewannen

Wir schickten unsere Söhne nach Korea und Vietnam,

nun wundern wir uns wofür sie starben

Hier in Youngstown...

Vom Monongahela Tal zur Mesami Eisenhütte

zu den Kohlenbergwerken von Appalachia

ist die Geschichte immer dieselbe

700 Tonnen Metall am Tag, Sir Sie sagen die Welt hat sich verändert

Damals machte ich Sie reich genug um meinen Namen zu vergessen

Und Youngstown...

Wenn ich sterbe will ich keinen Teil vom Himmel

Ich will kein himmlisches Werk tun

Ich bete, daß der Teufel kommt und mich mitnimmt

um in den glühenden Öfen der Hölle zu stehen

Translation by Frank Rohwer


Your Love

She promises to be yours forever and always

And you're too young to know it don't work out that way

When she kisses you and your heart skips

And you're ten feet off the ground

Soon you'll be crying and that when you'll have found

That

Your love is gonna let you down, boy

Your love is gonna let you down

Your love is gonna let you down, boy

Your love is gonna let you down

Well it's kisses and sweet talk

When she first starts coming round

But soon tears start falling down

You say every day she makes your dreams come true

But soon those very dreams will be the death of you

Well

Your love is gonna let you down, boy

Your love is gonna let you down

Your love is gonna let you down, boy

Your love is gonna let you down

No cold denials, no-one really lied

It was time spent, promise implied

And suddenly you see something new in her eyes

And in that moment you realize

Lately you've been walking the streets at night

Like an empty shadow in the morning light

Like an empty shadow that's suddenly found

That your love is gonna let you down

Your love is gonna let you down, boy

Your love is gonna let you down

Your love is gonna let you down, boy

Your love is gonna let you down


Zero And Blind Terry

The Skulls have met the Pythons

Down at the first Street Station

Alliances have been made in alleyways

All across the nation

These boys live off the milk of a silver jet

And the love of sweet young women

The Pythons are down from old Englishtown

And they're looking to do some living

Well the leader of the Pythons

Is the kid they just call Zero

Now Terry's pop says these kids

Are som ekind of monsters

But Terry says "No, Pop (Daddy)

They're just plain heroes "

Zero and Terry had found a love

That burned like wild fire

Now Terry's daddy understood

That this Zero was no good

A tramp, a thief, and a liar

Well from out of the darkness

That breaks the dawn

Zero rode like twillight

He said tonight's the night

Blind Terry come on

Terry come on

Tonight's the night

Pack your bags baby

And together they ran like raindeers

Through the streets

Well like tomorrow the earth

Is gonna catch on fire

Now Terry's dad hired some troopers

To kill Zero and bring Terry back home

They caught up in the night, like firelight

Them starlight troopers, with their guns that are ...

Zero marches through Blind terry's field

They met the Pythons down on Route Nine

But they refused to yield

Now the Pythons fought with blazed guns

And the Troopers with swords of light

And Zero and Terry they ran away

And the gang fought all through the night

Now some folks say

That they got away

Other said they were caught and brought back

Ah, still young pilgrims to this day

Go to that spot way down by the railroad tracks

Where the Troopers met the Pythons

Old-timers cry on a hot August night

If you look hard enough if you try

You'll see Zero and Terry and all the Pythons

Just hiking them streets up in the sky

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Tracks 1998 - Recorded at 914 Sound Recording, 6 / 28 / 73