Bruce Springsteen - Greatest Hits [compilation] (1998) by Bruce Springsteen (보컬) on maniadb.com

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 wanna 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 rear-view 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 powerdrive
Everyone'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

The screen door slams
Mary's dress waves
Like a vision, she dances, across the porch
As the radio plays
Roy Orbison signin' for the lonely
Hay that's me, and I wan't 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 thinkin'
That maybe we ain't that young anymore
Show a little faith, there's magic in the night
You ain't a beauty, but Hay,,, you're allright
Oh and that's allright 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 prayin' in vain
For a savior 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
These tow 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 waitin' 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
Lyin' 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
For 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
You graduation gown lies in rags at their feet
And in the lonely cool before dawn
You hear their engines roarin' 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 pullin' out of here to win

Lights out tonight
trouble in the heartland
Got a head-on collision
smashin' in my guts, man
I'm caught in a cross fire
that I don't understand
But there's one thing I know for sure girl
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 everyday
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 fields
till you get your back burned
Workin' 'neath the wheel
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

Well 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 may raise me above these

Badlands, you gotta live it everyday
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

mmmmmmmm, mmmmm, mmmmmm

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

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 drive out of this 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 nineteenth birthday
I got a union card and a weddin' 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
Oh down to the river we did ride

I got a job workin' construction
For the Johnstown company
But lately there ain't been much work
On accounta the economy
Well 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 ridin' in my brother's car
Her body tan and wet down at the reservoir
At night on those banks I'd lie awake
And pull her close just to feel each breath she takes
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
That sends me down to the river tonight
Down to the river
My baby and I
Oh down to the river we ride

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

(Chorus)
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

(Chorus)

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

(Chorus)

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 busin' 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 its teeth

(Chorus)
Well now everything dies baby that's a fact
But maybe everything 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

(Chorus)

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 so put on
your stockin's baby `cause the night's getting cold
And everything dies baby that's a fact
But maybe everything 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
But maybe everything that dies someday comes back
Put your hair up nice and set up pretty
and meet me tonight in Atlantic City
Meet me tonight in Atlantic City
Meet me tonight in Atlantic City

I get up in the evening
and I ain't got nothing to say
I come home in the morning
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 my look in the mirror
I wanna change my clothes, my hair, my face
Man I ain't getting nowhere
I'm just living in a dump like this
There's something happening somewhere
baby I just know that there is

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

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 on baby this laugh's on me

Stay on the streets of this town
and they'll be carving you up alright
They say you gotta 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 gimme just one look

You can't start a fire sitting 'round crying over a broken
heart
This gun's for hire
Even if we're just dancing in the dark
You can't start a fire worrying about your little world
falling apart
This gun's for hire
Even if we're just dancing in the dark
Even if we're just dancing in the dark
Even if we're just dancing in the dark
Even if we're just dancing in the dark
Hey baby

Born in the U.S.A. Song by Bruce Springsteen Born down in a dead man's town the first kick I took was when I hit the ground End up like a dog that's been beat too much till you spend half your life just to 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. now 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. I was Born in the U.S.A. Born in the U.S.A. I was Born in the U.S.A. Come back home to the refinery Hiring man says Son if it was up to me went down to see my V.A. man he said Son don't you understand now@ I had a brother at Khe Sahn fighting off the Viet Cong They're still there he's all gone He had a woman that 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 nowhere to go Born in the U.S.A. I was Born in the U.S.A. now Born in the U.S.A. I'm a long gone daddy in the U.S.A. now 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. now Ooh no Ooh no no no no Ooh no no no Ooh no no no Ooh no no no Ah@

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
to my hometown
to my hometown
to my hometown
Now Main Street's whitewashed windows and vacant stores
Seems like there ain't nobody
wants to come down here no more
They'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

I had a friend
Was a big baseball player
Back in high school
He could throw that speedball by ya
Make you look like a fool boy
Saw him the other night at this roadside bar
I was walkin' in, he was walkin' out
We went back inside
Sat down, had a few drinks
But all we kept talkin' about
Was Glory Days!
Well they'll pass you by
Glory Days!
In the wink of a young girl's eye
Glory Days! Glory Days!

Well, there's a girl that lives up the block
Back in school she could turn all the boy's heads
Sometimes on a Friday I'll stop by
And have a few drinks
After she puts 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, talkin' bout the old times
And when she feels like cryin'
She starts laughin', thinkin' about
Glory Days!
Well they'll pass you by
Glory Days!
In the wink of a young girl's eye
Glory Days! Glory Days!

My old man worked twenty years on the line
And they let him go
Now everywhere he goes out lookin' for work
They just tell him that he's too old
I was nine years old, and he was workin' 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! Well they'll pass you by
Glory Days! In the wink of a young girl's eye
Glory Days! Glory Days!

Now I think I'm goin' down to the well tonight
Gonna drink till I get my fill
And I hope when I get old
I don't sit around talkin' about it
But I probably will
Yeah, just sittin' back
Trying to recapture
A little of the glory of
Well time slips away
And leaves you with nothin' Mister
But boring stories of
Glory Days! Well they'll pass you by
Glory Days! In the wink of a young girl's eye
Glory Days! Glory Days! Glory Days!

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
To 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 who 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 altar
The gypsy swore our future was right
But come the wee wee hours
Well 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

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 blessings darlin'
But I got a deal for you right here
I ain't lookin' for prayers or pity
I ain't comin' 'round searchin' 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 drawin' wine from this blood
It's just you and me tonight
Tell me in a world without pity
Do you uthink 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 you prize
Well it comes with a hard hard price
You can't shut off the risk and pain
Without losin' the love that remains
We're all riders on this train
So you been broken and you been hurt
Show me soomebody who ain't
Yeah I know I ain't nobody's bargain
But hell a little touchup
And a little paint...
You might need somethin' to hold on to
When all the answers they don't amount to much
Somebody that you can just 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
And share a little of that human touch...

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' around 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 shinin' 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 endin', to find yourself pretendin'
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 hard luck bones

These are better days baby
These are better days, it's true
These are better days
There's better days shinin' 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, for feelin' sorry for himself
And turnin' 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 shinin' 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 baby
Better days are shinin' through

I was bruised and battered
and I couldn't tell what I felt
I was unrecognizable to myself
I saw my reflection in a window
I didn't know my own face
Oh brother gonna leave me Wastin'
away On the streets of
Philadelphia

I walked the avenue till
my legs felt like stone
I heard voices of friends
vanished and gone At night
I could 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
I walked a thousand miles
Just to slip this skin
The night has fallen I'm lyin awake
I can feel myself fading away
So receive me brother
with your faithless kiss
Or will we leave each other
alone like this On the streets of
Philadelphia

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 gaden, 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

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 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

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've just blown around, from town to town
Back out on these fields
Where they fall from my hand
Back into the dirt of this hard land

Well, me and my sister
From Germantown we did ride
We made our bed sir
From the rock on the moutainside
We been blowin' around, from town to town
Lookin' for a place to stand
Where the sun burst through the clouds
And falls like a circle
A circle of fire on this hard land

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' the back porch door
Yeah it stirs you up
Like it wants to blow you down
Twistin' and churnin' up the sand
Leavin' all them scarecrows lyin' face down
In the dirt of this hard land

From a building up on the hill
I can hear a tape deck blastin' Home on the Range
I can hear them Bar M choppers
Sweepin' low across the plains
It's me and you Frank
We're lookin' for lost cattle
Our hooves twistin' and churnin' up the sand
We're ridin' in the whirlwind, searchin' for lost treasure
Way down south of the Rio Grande
We're ridin' across that river in the moonlight
Up onto the banks of this hard land


Hey Frank, won't you pack your bags
And meet me tonight down at Liberty Hall
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't make it..Stay Hard
Stay Hungry, Stay Alive if you Can
And meet me in a dream of this hard land