American musician (1949- )
Hello beautiful thing, maybe you could save my life.
In just a glance, down here on magic street,
Loves a fool's dance
And I ain't got much sense, but I still got my feet.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
"Girls in Their Summer Clothes", Magic
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.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
"Night", Born to Run
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
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
"Hungry Heart", The River
And of course we searched for everything, to see what was there, but we just felt lucky that we had what we had.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
interview, Backstreets, December 10, 2015
Spare parts
And broken hearts
Keep the world turnin' around.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
"Spare Parts", Tunnel of Love
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.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
"Darkness on the Edge of Town"
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.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
"Dancing in the Dark", Born in the U.S.A.
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.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
"Secret Garden"
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.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
"No Surrender", Born in the U.S.A.
When I die I don't want no part of heaven.
I would not do heaven's work well.
I pray the devil comes and takes me
To stand in the fiery furnaces of hell.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
"Youngstown", The Ghost of Tom Joad
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.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
"Jungleland", Born to Run
The wise men were all fools, what to do?
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
"Last to Die", Magic
To accept that our fortunes were going to rest on whatever this was, for better or for worse. That was a big responsibility at the time, and we were putting everything we had on what we'd done. So it was just traumatic. And you're young, 24 or 25, and you don't have the stability or the history to be able to put it in any kind of perspective. It was just all that there is and all that there was gonna be. [It felt like] there were gonna be no more records after this record. We were all going off a cliff the next day, as far as my approach to it. It was just, "This was it."
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
interview, Rolling Stone, August 25, 2015
The first day I can remember looking into a mirror and being able to stand what I saw was the day I had a guitar in my hand.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
Bruce Springsteen Talking
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.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
"Brilliant Disguise", Tunnel of Love
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.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
"The River"
In the third grade a nun stuffed me in a garbage can under her desk because she said that's where I belonged.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
Bruce Springsteen Talking
It's a fairytale so tragic,
There's no prince to break the spell.
I don't believe in magic,
But for you I will, for you I will.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
"Countin' on a Miracle", The Rising
Now I think I'm going down to the well tonight
And I'm going to drink till I get my fill.
And I hope when I get old 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 time slips away and leaves you with nothing mister but boring stories of glory days.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
"Glory Days", Born in the U.S.A.
At this point, I don't need my records to be Number One or sell as many as this person or that person. That's not fundamentally important -- I don't believe that sustains you.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
Bruce Springsteen Talking