Darkness...

 

On The Edge Of Town (1978) 

Bruce Springsteen

 

Ora mi sfogo un po'...

e poi ritorno in me...

lo dicevo io che il mio gatto nero mi era venuto a cercare per un motivo...

Nulla accade per caso 

Irene da " Siamo proprio messi male ma non è detta l'ultima parola"

Badlands

Bruce Springsteen

People....

Have the Power

Bruce Springsteen

I was dreaming in my dreaming

Of an aspect bright and fair

And my sleeping it was broken

But my dream it lingered near

In the form of shining valleys

Where the pure air recognized

And my senses newly opened

I awakened to the cry

That the people

have the power

To redeem

the work of fools

Upon the meek

the graces shower

It's decreed

the people rule

The people have the power

The people have the power

The people have the power

The people have the power

Vengeful aspects became suspect

And bending low as if to hear

And the armies ceased advancing

Because the people had their ear

And the shepherds and the soldiers

Lay beneath the stars

Exchanging visions

And laying arms

To waste

in the dust

In the form of

shining valleys

Where the pure air

recognized

And my senses

newly opened

I awakened

to the cry

Where there were deserts

I saw fountains

Like cream the waters rise

And we strolled there together

With none to laugh or criticize

And the leopard

And the lamb

Lay together truly bound

I was hoping in my hoping

To recall what I had found

I was dreaming in my dreaming

God knows

a purer view

As I surrender to my sleeping

I commit my dream to you

The power to dream

to rule

To wrestle the world from fools

It's decreed the people rule

It's decreed the people rule

Listen

I believe everything we dream

Can come to pass through our union

We can turn the world around

We can turn the earth's revolution

We have the power

People have the power...

I'm countin' on a miracle..

Baby I'm countin' on a miracle

Darlin' I'm countin' on miracle

To come through...

Countin' On A Miracle

Bruce Springsteen

It's a fairytale so tragic

There's no prince to break the spell

I don't believe in the magic

But for you I will, for you I will

If I'm a fool, I'll be a fool

Darlin' for you

I'm countin' on a miracle

Baby I'm countin' on a miracle

Darlin' I'm countin' on miracle

To come through

There ain't no storybook story

There's no never-ending song

Our happily ever after Darlin'

Forever come and gone

I'm movin' on

If I'm gonna believe

I'll put my faith

Darlin' in you

I'm countin' on a miracle

Baby I'm countin' on a miracle

Darlin' I'm countin' on miracle

To come through

Sleeping beauty awakes from her dream

With her lover's kiss on her lips

Your kiss was taken from me

Now all I have is this...

Your kiss, your kiss, your touch, your touch

Your heart, your heart, your strength, your strength

Your hope, your hope, your faith, your faith

Your face, your face, your love, your love

Your dream, your dream, your life, your life

I'm runnin' through the forest

With the wolf at my heels

My king is lost at midnight

When the tower bells peal

We've got no fairytale ending

In God's hands our fate is complete

Your heaven's here in my heart

Our love's this dust beneath my feet

Just this dust beneath my feet

If I'm gonna live

I'll lift my life

Darlin' to you

I'm countin' on a miracle

Baby I'm countin' on a miracle

Darlin' I'm countin' on miracle

To come through

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......

No surrender

Bruce Springsteen

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 wed always remember

No retreat, believe me, no surrender

Like soldiers in the winters 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

Im ready to grow young again

And hear your sisters 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 wed 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...

Mrs McGrath

Bruce Springsteen

"Mrs McGraw," the captain said,
"would you like to make a pirate
Out of your son, Ted?
With a scarlet cloak and a great cocked hat,
Mrs McGraw wouldn't you like that?"

With me too-rye-ay
Foddle-diddle-day
With me toorye oorye oorye-ay
With me toorye-ay
Foddle diddle day
Me toorye oorye oorye-ay

Mrs McGraw lived on the seashore
For the length of seven long years or more
When a great big ship sailed into the bay
"It's my son Ted with his legs away"

Then up comes Ted without any legs
And in their place are two wooden pegs
She kissed him a dozen times or two
Saying "My son Ted is it really you?"
"O were you drunk or were you blind
When you left your two fine legs behind?
Or was it walking on the sea
That cut your legs from the knees away?"

"I wasn't drunk and I wasn't blind
When I left my two fine legs behind
But a cannon ball on the fifth of May
Cut my two fine legs from the knees away"

"All foreign war, I do proclaim
Between Don John and the King of Spain
But by jaze I'll make them rue the time
They stole the legs from a son of mine"

Sad eyes

never lie...

Sad Eyes

Bruce Springsteen

Ev'ry day here, you come walking

I hold my tongue, I don't do much talking

You say you're happy and you're doin' fine

Well, go ahead, baby; I got plenty of time

Because sad eyes never lie

Because sad eyes never lie

Well, for a while, I've been watching you steady

Ain't gonna move 'til you're good and ready

You show up and then you shy away

But I know pretty soon you'll be walkin' this way

Because sad eyes never lie

'Cause sad eyes never lie

Baby, don't you know I don't care?

Don't you know that I've been there?

Well, if something in the air feels a little unkind

Don't worry, darling; it'll slip your mind

I know you think you'd never be mine

Well, that's okay, baby; I don't mind

That shy smile's sweet that's a fact

Go ahead; I don't mind the act

Here you come, all dressed up for a date

Well, one more step and it'll be too late

Blue, blue ribbon in your hair

Like you're so sure I'll be standing here

I guess sad eyes never lie

I guess sad eyes never lie

I guess sad eyes never lie

Sad eyes never lie

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....

Across the border

Bruce Springsteen

Tonight my bag is packed

Tomorrow I'll walk these tracks

That will lead me across the border

Tomorrow 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 water

Where the sky grows grey and wide

We'll meet on the other side

There across the border

For you I'll build a house

High upon a grassy hill

Somewhere across the border

Where pain and memory

Pain and memory have been stilled

There across the border

And sweet blossoms fill the air

Pastures of gold and green

Roll down into cool clear waters

And in your arms 'neath 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 corazon

And tomorrow 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

THIS LAND.....

THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND

Bruce Springsteen

La vita è tutta ....

 un tunnel.....

(Irene da "Citazioni improbabili")

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......

...and the big wheel keep on turning neon burning up above

and i'm just high on the world

come on and take a low ride with me girl

on the tunnel of love.....

Tunnel of Love

Dire Straits

getting crazy on the waltzers but it's the life that i choose

sing about the sixblade sing about the switchback and a torture tattoo

and i been riding on a ghost train where the cars they scream and slam

and i don't know where i'll be tonight but i'd always tell you where i am

in a screaming ring of faces i seen her standing in the light

she had a ticket for the races just like me she was a victim of the night

i put a hand upon the lever said let it rock and let it roll

i had the one arm bandit fever there was an arrow through my heart and my soul

and the big wheel keep on turning neon burning up above

and i'm just high on the world

come on and take a low ride with me girl

on the tunnel of love

it's just the danger when you're riding at your own risk

she said you are the perfect stranger she said baby let's keep it like this

it's just a cake walk twisting baby step right up and say

hey mister give me two give me two cos any two can play

and the big wheel keep on turning neon burning up above

and i'm just high on the world

come on and take a low ride with me girl

on the tunnel of love

well it's been money for muscle another whirligig

money for muscle and another girl i dig

another hustle just to make it big

and rockaway rockaway

and girl it looks so pretty to me just like it always did

like the spanish city to me when we were kids

oh girl it looks so pretty to me just like it always did

like the spanish city to me when we were kids

she took off a silver locket she said remember me by this

she put her hand in my pocket i got a keepsake and a kiss

and in the roar of the dust and diesel i stood and watched her walk away

i could have caught up with her easy enough but something must have made me stay

and the big wheel keep on turning neon burning up above

and i'm just high on the world

come on and take a low ride with me girl

on the tunnel of love

and now i'm searching through these carousels and the carnival arcades

searching everywhere from steeplechase to palisades

in any shooting gallery where promises are made

to rockaway rockaway from cullercoats and whitley bay out to rockaway

and girl it looks so pretty to me like it always did

like the spanish city to me when we were kids

girl it looks so pretty to me like it always did

like the spanish city to me when we were kids

Tunnel of love

Bruce Springsteen

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

"John Henry"

Bruce Springsteen

When John Henry was a little baby

Sittin' on his daddy's knee

Said the big Ben Tuttle of the C &O Road,

"The hammer's gonna be the death of thee, lord, lord

The hammer's gonna be the death of thee"

John Henry said to his captain,

"A man ain't nothing' but a man

Before I let this steam drill beat me down

I'll die with a hammer in my hand, lord, lord,

I'll die with a hammer in my hand"

Well, the man who invented the steam drill

Thought he was mighty fine

But John Henry drove about fifteen feet

And the steam drill only made nine, lord, lord,

The steam drill only made nine

John Henry said to his preacher,

"Man, why don't you pray,

'cause if I miss with this nine pound hammer

Tomorrow be my buryin' day lord, lord,

Tomorrow be my buryin' day

John Henry swung the hammer over his head

He brought the hammer down to the ground

A man in Chantanooga two hundred miles away

Said, "Listen to the rumblin' sound, lord, lord,

Listen to that rumblin' sound"

They took John Henry to the graveyard,

Buried him in the hot sand

Now every locomotive comes rollin' by says,

"There lies a steel-drivin' man, lord, lord,

There lies a steel drivin' man!"

Ramrod

Bruce Springsteen

 
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

Should we lose each other...

in the shadow of the evening trees....

If I Should Fall Behind

Bruce Springsteen

We said we’d walk together baby come what may

That come the twilight should we lose our way

If as we’re walking 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

God's drifting in heaven

devil's in the mailbox

I got dust on my shoes, 

nothing but teardrops.....

You're missing

Bruce Springsteen

Shirts in the closet, shoes in the hall

Mama's in the kitchen, baby and all

Everything is everything

Everything is everything

But you're missing

Coffee cups on the counter, jackets on the chair

Papers on the doorstep, but you're not there

Everything is everything

Everything is everything

But you're missing

Pictures on the nightstand, TV's on in the den

Your house is waiting, your house is waiting

For you to walk in, for you to walk in

But you're missing, when I shut out the lights

You're missing, when I close my eyes

You're missing, when I see the sun rise

You're missing

Children are asking if it's alright

Will you be in our arms tonight?

Morning is morning, the evening falls I got

Too much room in my bed, to many phone calls

How's everything, everything?

Everything, everything

You're missing, you're missing

God's drifting in heaven, devil's in the mailbox

I got dust on my shoes, nothing but teardrops

Two faces have I.....

One that laughs one that cries

One says hello one says goodbye

One does things I don’t understand.....

Two Faces (1988)

Bruce Springsteen

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

Fire

Bruce Springsteen

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 youre 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

Sweet.......

Soul Music

Bruce Springsteen

Tonight I'll be on that hill .....`

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....

Darkness On The Edge Of Town - New York City

Bruce Springsteen 

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

In the hollow of the evening,.....

as you lay your head to rest 

May the evening stars scatter 

a shining crown upon your breast
 

In the darkness of the morning
as the sky struggles to light
May the rising sun caress and bless your soul 

throughout your life......

 Surprise, Surprise

Bruce Springsteen

Well surprise, surprise, surprise

Yeah surprise, surprise, surprise

Well surprise, surprise, come on open your eyes

And let your love shine down

Well surprise, surprise, surprise

Yeah surprise, surprise, surprise

Well surprise, surprise, come on open your eyes

And let your love shine down

Well today is your birthday

We've traveled so far we two

So let's blow out the candles on your cake

And we'll raise a glass or two

And when the sun comes out tomorrow

It'll be the start of a brand new day

And all that you have wished for I know will come your way

Well surprise, surprise, surprise

Yeah surprise, surprise, surprise

Well surprise, surprise, come on open your eyes

And let your love shine down

In the hollow of the evening, as you lay your head to rest

May the evening stars scatter a shining crown upon your breast

In the darkness of the morning, as the sky struggles to light

May the rising sun caress and bless your soul throughout your life

Well surprise, surprise, surprise

Yeah surprise, surprise, surprise

Well surprise, surprise, come on open your eyes

And let your love shine down

Well surprise, surprise, surprise

Yeah surprise, surprise, surprise

Well surprise, surprise, come on open your eyes

And let your love shine down (let your love shine down)

Let your love shine down (let your love shine down)

Let your love shine down

Surprise, surprise, come on open your eyes

And let your love shine down

Badlands

Bruce Springsteen

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

(chorus)

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...