Bruce Springsteen - Pink Cadillac Lyrics

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Well now, 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 'bout that

Well, come on over here and hug me

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 the back of your pink Cadillac

Pink Cadillac

 

Well now, way back in the Bible

Temptation's always come along

There's always somebody tempting 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 pleasure

That the flesh does surely hold

They say Eve tempted Adam with an apple

But, 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 it feels like in the back of your pink Cadillac

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

Yeah, 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

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 what you do there in the back of your Pink Cadillac

Pink Cadillac

Pink Cadillac

Pink Cadillac

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Bruce Springsteen - Preacher's Daughter Lyrics

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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...

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Bruce Springsteen - I Can't Help Falling In Love Lyrics

Bruce Springsteen - I Can't Help Falling In Love Video

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

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Bruce Springsteen - The River Lyrics

Bruce Springsteen - The River Video

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 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

Oh down to the river we'd 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 tanned 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

That sends me down to the river tonight

 

Down to the river

My baby and I

Oh down to the river we ride

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Bruce Springsteen - Jungleland Lyrics

Bruce Springsteen - Jungleland Video

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 around 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 gangs 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 cop's cherry top

Rips this holy night

 

The street's alive as secret debts are paid

Contacts made, they vanished unseen

Kids flash guitars just like switchblades

Hustling for the record machine

 

The hungry and the hunted

Explode into rock 'n' roll bands

That faced 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 DJ plays

 

Lonely hearted lovers struggle in dark corners

Desperate as the night moves on

With just one look and a whisper

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

The 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 what's 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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Bruce Springsteen - I'm A Rocker Lyrics

Bruce Springsteen - I'm A Rocker Video

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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Bruce Springsteen - Bad Moon Rising (John Fogerty/creedence Clearwater Revival) Lyrics

Bruce Springsteen - Bad Moon Rising (John Fogerty/creedence Clearwater Revival) Video

I see a bad moon rising

I see troubles on the way

I see earthquakes and lightning

I see bad times today

 

Don't go 'round tonight

Well, it's bound to take your life

There's a bad moon on the rise

 

I hear hurricanes a-blowin'

I know the end it's coming soon

I fear rivers overflowing

I hear the voice of rage and ruin

 

Don't go 'round tonight

 

Well, it's bound to take your life

There's a bad moon on the rise

 

Hope you got your things together

Hope you're quite prepared to die

Looks like we're in for nasty weather

One eye is taken for an eye

 

Don't go 'round tonight

Well, it's bound to take your life

There's a bad moon on the rise

 

Don't go 'round tonight

Well, it's bound to take your life

There's a bad moon on the rise

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Bruce Springsteen - I Ain't Got No Home Lyrics

Bruce Springsteen - I Ain't Got No Home Video

I ain't got no home, I'm just a-ramblin' 'round

Work when I can get it, I roam from town to town

The police make it hard, boys, wherever I may go

I ain't got no home in this world anymore

 

I was farmin' shares and always I was done

My debts they was so many they wouldn't go around

Drought got my crops and Mr. Banker's at my door

And I ain't got no home in this world anymore

 

Six children I have raised, they're scattered and they're gone

And my darling wife to heaven she has flown

She died of the fever upon the cabin floor

And I ain't got no home in this world anymore

 

I mined in your mines and I gathered in your corn

I been workin' mister since the day that I was born

I worry all the time like I never did before

'Cause I ain't got no home in this world anymore

 

Well, now I just ramble 'round to see what I can see

This wide wicked world is a funny place to be

The gamblin' man is rich and the workin' man is poor

I ain't got no home in this world anymore

 

I'm stranded on this road that goes from sea to sea

A hundred thousand others are stranded here with me

A hundred thousand others, yes, a hundred thousand more

I ain't got no home in this world anymore

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Bruce Springsteen - Secret Garden Lyrics

Bruce Springsteen - Secret Garden Video

She'll let you in her house

If you come knocking late at night

She'll let you in her mouth

If the words you say are right

If you pay the price, she'll let you deep inside

There's a secret garden she hides

 

She'll let you in her car

To go driving 'round

She'll let you into the parts of herself

That'll bring you down

She'll let you in her heart if you got a hammer and a vise

But into her secret garden, don't think twice

 

You've gone a million miles

How far'd you get

To that place where you can't remember

And you can't forget

 

She'll lead you down the path

There'll be tenderness in the air

She'll let you come just far enough

So you know she's really there

Then 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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Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road Lyrics

Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road Video

The screen door slams, Mary's dress sways

Like a vision she dances across the porch as the radio plays

Roy Orbison's 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 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 busted open, these 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 down on the tracks

 

Oh, come take my hand

We're riding out tonight to case the promised land

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've 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 ain't free

And I know you're lonely for words that I ain't spoken

Tonight we'll be free, all the promises will 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, I'm pulling out of here to win

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Bruce Springsteen - I'm On Fire Lyrics

Bruce Springsteen - I'm On Fire Video

Hey, little girl, is your daddy home?

Did he go away and leave you all alone, mm-hmm?

I got a bad desire

Oh-oh-oh, I'm on fire

 

Tell me now, baby, is he good to you?

Can he do to you the things that I do, uh-huh?

I can take you higher

Oh-oh-oh, I'm on fire

 

Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby, edgy and dull

And cut a six-inch valley through the middle of my skull

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

Oh-oh-oh, I'm on fire

Oh-oh-oh, I'm on fire

Oh-oh-oh, I'm on fire

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Bruce Springsteen - When You Need Me Lyrics

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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

 

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

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Bruce Springsteen - Incident On 57th Street Lyrics

Bruce Springsteen - Incident On 57th Street Video

Spanish Johnny drove in from the underworld last night

With bruised arms and broken rhythm in 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 sighed 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 came a young girl's voice saying 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, there'll be action goin' down on Shanty Lane tonight

All them golden-heeled fairies in a real bitch fight

Pull .38s and kiss the girls good night

Oh good night, it's all right 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 he'd never be true but then she didn't really mind

Upstairs a band was playin', the singer was singin' something about goin' 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

Oh all them barefoot boys they left their homes for the woods

Them little barefoot street boys they say homes ain't no good

They left the corners, threw away all their switchblade knives and kissed each other good-bye

 

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 puttin' 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:

Good night, it's all tight Jane

I'll meet you tomorrow night on Lover's Lane

We may find it out on the street tonight baby

Or we may walk until the daylight maybe

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Bruce Springsteen - High Hopes Lyrics

Bruce Springsteen - High Hopes Video

Monday morning runs to Sunday night

Screaming slow me down before the new year dies

It won't take much to kill a lovin' smile

And every mother with a baby cryin in her arms singin

Give me Help, give me Strength

Give a soul a Night of fearless sleep

Give me love, give me peace

Don't you know these days you pay for everything

Got high hopes

 

Comin from the cities, comin from the wild

I see a breathless army breakin like a cloud

It's gonna smother love it's gonna shoot your hopes

Before the meek inherit they'll learn to hate themselves

Singin

Give me Help, give me Strength

Give a soul a Night of fearless sleep

Give me love, give me peace

Don't you know these days you pay for everything

Got high hopes

 

So tell me someone what's the price

I wanna buy some time and maybe live my life

I wanna have a wife I wanna have some kids

I want to look in their eyes and know they're gonna stand a chance

Singin

Give me Help, give me Strength

Give a soul a Night of fearless sleep

Give me love, give me peace

Don't you know these days you pay for everything

Got high hopes

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