Bruce Springsteen

[fox69]

RAISE YOUR HAND

RAISE YOUR HAND


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


Please let me try
Come on now get up
Try and understand
Just raise your hand

 

[fox69]

RAMROD

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

 

[fox69]

RANDOLPH STREET

RANDOLPH STREET


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.

 

[fox69]

REAL MAN

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 on your chest
Hell any monkey can
Your love?s got me feelin? like a real man
Oh feelin? like a real man

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
Feelin? like a real man
Well you can beat on your chest
Hell any monkey can
You got me feelin? like a real man
Oh feelin? like a real man
Yeah I been felin? like a real man
Feelin? like a real man

 

[fox69]

REAL WORLD

REAL WORLD


Mister trouble come walkin' this way
Year gone past feels like one long day
But I'm alive and I'm feelin' all right
Well I run that hard road outta hearbreak city
Built a roadside carnival out of hurt and self-pity
It was all wrong well now I'm movin' on

Ain't no chuch bells ringing
Ain't no flags unfurled
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 it wasn'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 chuch 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 sinkin'
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

Well tonight I just wanna shout
I feel my soul waist deep and sinkin'
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 or runnin' 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 chuch bells ringing
Ain't no flags unfurled
Oh just me you and the hope we're bringing
Into the real world
Well into the real world
Oh into the real world

 

[fox69]

REASON TO BELIEVE

REASON TO BELIEVE


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
Still at the end of every hard 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 everyday 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 funny yea indeed how at the end of every hard earned day you can 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 the body to the graveyard and over him they pray Lord won't you tell us,
Tell us what does it mean
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
Wonderin' where can his baby be still at the end of every hard earned day people find some reason to believe

 

[fox69]

RED-HEADED WOMAN

RED-HEADED WOMAN


Well, brunnetes are fine man
And blondes are fun
But when it comes to getting a dirty job done
Itl takes a red headed woman
A red headed woman
To get a dirty job done
Well listen up stud
Your life's been wasted
Till you got down on your knees and tasted
A red headed woman
A red headed woman
It takes a red headed woman to get a dirty job done

Tight skirt, strawberry hair
Tell me what you got, baby, waiting under there
Big green eyes that look like, son,
They can see every cheap thing that you ever done

Well I don't know how many girls you've dated, man
But you ain't lived till you had your tires rotated
By a red headed woman
A red headed woman

It takes a red headed woman
To get a dirty job done

Alternate third verse, Solo Acoustic Tour:
Well, push comes to shove
Man, and shove comes to push
And I was Moses standing 'fore the burning bush
A red headed woman
A red headed woman
It takes a red headed woman to get that dirty job done

 

[fox69]

REMEMBER WHEN THE MUSIC

REMEMBER WHEN THE MUSIC


Remember when the music came from wooden boxes
Strung with silver wires and as we sang
The words would set our hearts on fire
To believe in things so we'd sing

Remember when the music brought us all together
To stand inside the rain and as we'd join hands
We'd meet in the refrain
With dreams to live and hope to give

Remember when the music was the best that we'd dream of
For our's children's time and as we'd worked we'd sing
'Cause we knew time was just a lie
A gift to say a gift that future gave

Remember when the music was a rock we could cling to
So we would not despair and as we sang we'd knew
We'd hear an echo in the air and if we weren't smiling then
We'd smile again and all the times I listened

And all the times I heard and all the melodies I'm missing
And all the magic words, all the beautiful words, all the beautiful voices
And all the choices we had then I hope you find you got
Those kind of choices once again

Remember when the music brought the night
Across the valley and as we hum the melody
We'd be safe within the sound
So we'd sleep to awake with dreams and promises to keep

 

[fox69]

RENDEZVOUS

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

 

[fox69]

RENO

RENO


She took off her stockings
I held 'em to my face
She had your ankles
I felt filled with grace

"Two hundred dollars straight in
Two-fifty up the ass" she smiled and said
She unbuckled my belt, pulled back her hair
And sat in front of me on the bed

She said, "Honey, how's that feel
Do you want me to go slow?"
My eyes drifted out the window
And down to the road below

I felt my stomach tighten
As the sun bloodied the sky
And sliced through hotel blinds
I closed my eyes

Sunlight on the Amatitlan
Sunlight streaming through your hair
In the Valle de dos Rios
The smell of mock orange filled the air

We rode with the vaqueros
Down into cool rivers of green
I was sure the work and the smile coming out 'neath your hat
Was all I'll ever need

Somehow all you ever need's
Never quite enough you know
You and I, Maria, we learned it's so

She slipped me out of her mouth
"You're ready," she said
She took off her bra and panties
Wet her fingers, slipped it inside her
And crawled over me on the bed

She bought me another whisky
Said "here's to the best you ever had"
We laughed and made a toast
It wasn't the best I ever had
Not even close