Bruce Springsteen

[fox69]

ALL THE WAY HOME

ALL THE WAY HOME


I know what it's like to have failed, baby
With the whole world lookin' on
I know what it's like to have soared
And come crashin' like a drunk on a bar room floor

Now you got no reason to trust me
My confidence is a little rusty
But if you don't feel like bein' alone
Baby, I could walk you all the way home

Well now our old fears and failures
Baby, they do linger
Like the shadow of that ring
That was on your finger
Those days they've come and gone
Baby, I could walk you all the way home

Love leaves nothin' but shadows and vapor
We go on, as is our sad nature
Now it's some old Stones'
Song the band is trashin'
But if you feel like dancin'
Baby, I'm askin'

It's comin' on closing time
Bartender, he's ringin' last call
These days I don't stand on pride
And I ain't afraid to take a fall

So if you're seein' what you like
Maybe your first choice he's gone
Well that's all right
Baby, I could walk you all the way home

Baby, I could walk you all the way home

 

[fox69]

ALWAYS A FRIEND

ALWAYS A FRIEND


Go

Wasn't I always
A friend to you?
Wasn't I always
A friend to you?
Do you wanna
Be my friend?
Ooh, ooh
Do you wanna
Be my friend?
Ooh, ooh

Every once in a while
Honey
Let your love show
Every once in a while
Honey
Let yourself show
Nobody gets hurt
No, no
Ooh, ooh
Nobody gets hurt

Well
We came here as two
We laid down as one
I don't care
If I'm not your only
What I see in you
You see in me
But if I be wrong
Smoke my smoke
Drink my wine
Bury
My snakeskin boots
Somewhere
I'll never find
Still be
Your lover baby

Oo, oo, oo

Wasn't I always
A friend to you?
Wasn't I always
A friend to you?
Do you wanna
Be my friend?
Ooh ooh
Do you wanna
Be my friend?
Ooh, ooh

Every once in a while
Honey
Let yourself go
Every once in a while
Honey
Let yourself show

Nobody gets hurt
No, no
Ooh ooh
Nobody gets hurt

Well
I could be
An astronaut
On the wrong side
Of the moon
Or wrapped up
Like a baby
On a bus under you
Wherever I go
You go with me
But if I do you wrong
Take the master suite
I'll take the floor
Sleep in late
Get some rest
I'll get mine
Still be
Your lover baby

Oo, oo, oo

Wasn't I always
A friend to you?
Wasn't I always
A friend to you?

Every once in a while
Honey
Let your love show
Every once in a while
Honey let yourself
Go
Nobody gets hurt
It's only love
Love, love
Oo, oo, oo

Wasn't I always
A friend to you?
Wasn't I always
A friend to you?
Wasn't I always
A friend to you?
Wasn't I always
A friend to you?

 

[fox69]

AMERICAN LAND

AMERICAN LAND


What is this land of America? So many travel there
I'm going down while I'm still young, my darlin' meet me there
Wish me luck my lovely, I'll send for you when I can
And we'll make our home in the American land

Over there the women wear silk and satin to their knees*
And children near, the sweets I hear are growin' on the trees*
Gold comes rushing out the river straight into your hands*
If you make your home in the American land*

There's diamonds in the sidewalks, there's gutters lined in song
Dear I hear the beer flows from the faucets all night long
There's treasure for the takin' for any hard working man
Who'll make his home in the American land

I docked at Ellis Island in a city of light and spire
I wandered to the valley of red hot steel and fire
We made the steel that built the cities from the sweat of our two hands
And I made my home in the American land

There's diamonds in the sidewalks, there's gutters lined in song
Dear I hear the beer flows from the faucets all night long
There's treasure for the takin' for any hard working man
Who'll make his home in the American land

The McNichols, the Molsowskis, the Smiths, the Rilleys too**-***
The Blacks, the Irish, the Italians, the Germans and the Jews
The Puerto Ricans, illegals, the Asians, Arabs miles from home**
Come across the water with a fire down below

They died building the railroads, worked their bones and skin
They died in the fields and factories, they've scattered in the wind
They died to get here a hundred years ago, they're dying now
The hands that built the country we're all trying to keep down

There's diamonds in the sidewalks, there's gutters lined in song
Dear I hear the beer flows from the faucets all night long
There's treasure for the takin' for any hard working man
Who'll make his home in the American land
Who'll make his home in the American land
Who'll make his home in the American land

 

[fox69]

AMERICAN SKIN

AMERICAN SKIN


41 shots (8x)

and we'll take that ride
across this bloody river to the other side
41 shots... cut through the night
you're kneeling over his body in the vestibule
praying for his life

is it a gun, is it a knife
is it a wallet, this is your life
it ain't no secret
it ain't no secret
no secret my friend
you can get killed just for living
in your american skin

41 shots
Lena gets her son ready for school
she says "on these streets, Charles
you've got to understand the rules
if an officer stops you
promise you'll always be polite
that you'll never ever run away
promise mamma you'll keep your hands insight

is it a gun, is it a knife
is it a wallet, this is your life
it ain't no secret
it ain't no secret
no secret my friend
you can get killed just for living
in your american skin

is it a gun, is it a knife
is it in your heart, is it in your eyes
it ain't no secret

41 shots... and we'll take that ride
across this bloody river
to the other side
41 shots... got my boots caked in this mud
we're baptized in these waters and in eachothers blood

is it a gun, is it a knife
is it a wallet, this is your life
it ain't no secret
it ain't no secret
no secret my friend
you can get killed just for living
in your american skin

 

[fox69]

AND THE BAND PLAYED

AND THE BAND PLAYED


The moon hung like a shadow on a rung over shangaiThem soldier boys were returning home screaming banzaiAnd the kids are still playing their gamesGettin hustled and rustled out in the rainAs I sat inside listening to the broadcastOh save my soul sweet rock?n?roll ?cause I?m sinkin? fastAnd then the band playedOut of nowhere, it was alrightWell now the legendary chaplain of the fightin? 51st was gettin? ready to goI said: padre, do you know a cheap virgin who like to tango? He said: you can try linda lee,Around the corner and across the seaOh word is out word is out she?s fastOh blow me down linda ?cause I?m sinkin? fastYes and them cats are sure getting fatDown in the train yardAnd the sandman brings them dreamsTo ship out in boxcarsThe union says hold, break out the dice, break out the goldIt?s lunchtime at lastAnd old big mama said: georges raft?s tonight on the late showShe sits straddlin? a kitchen chair, really gung-hoShe shivers with chills, wet with her slot-card thrillsHypnotically lost in the glassAnd we all sigh with the sunriseAs we watch the credits passAnd the little blue dot went awayAnd then the morning cloak fell downLike a hoax over sleepytownThem garbage truck vigilantes out making their last roundsThe inheritor he sipped his beerAnd poked fun at the queerAnd threatened to kick his assAnd the bell rings, a horn blowsAnd he?s outside pumpin? gasBut the things were movin? so slow tonightSo the kid goes back inside the stationAnd turns on his radio to his local am stationAnd then the band playedRight on the radio, it was alrightAnd the boys in the band sungAnd the band played, everybody

 

[fox69]

ANGELYNE

ANGELYNE


He was a bouncer in a joint called Tony's Body Shop
She was a night cashier down at the Stop 'n' Shop
He was kinda good-lookin'
And she was kinda fun
They met 'neath that big oak tree
Out where the river runs

Little Angelyne, little Angelyne
As the sun goes down and the moonlight shines
Back of a greyhound bus sit two lovers entwined
Just Big Bill and little Angelyne

She was just in from Texas, didn't know her way around
So he took her to a roadhouse on the edge of town
In the beerhall light she looked so fine
And so he popped the question that was on his mind

It was a simple affair, only a friend or two
Preacher asked if they did, they said they do
She bought two tickets with her Daddy's American Express
And hopped a greyhound bus in her wedding dress

Little Angelyne, little Angelyne
As the sun goes down and the moonlight shines
Back of a greyhound bus sit two lovers entwined
Just Big Bill and little Angelyne

In a six dollar motel with the honey bun
With seven glorious days in the Nevada sun
He played the tables, she pumped the slots full of dimes
They came back broke but they had a good time

Now many fell apart in the years come and gone
But Big Bill and little Angel they'd last on and on
They held together when the times grew thin
A little boy that looked like her, and a girl that looked like him

So mister don't you pay it no mind
Let the sun go down and the moonlight shine
Back of a greyhound bus sit two lovers entwined
Just Big Bill and little Angelyne

Little Angelyne, little Angelyne
As the sun goes down and the moonlight shines
Back of a greyhound bus sit two lovers entwined
Just Big Bill and little Angelyne

Little Angelyne, little Angelyne
As the sun goes down and the moonlight shines
Back of a greyhound bus sit two lovers entwined
Just Big Bill and little Angelyne

 

[fox69]

ATLANTIC CITY

ATLANTIC CITY


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:
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 in too deep and I could not pay
So I drew what I had from the Central Trust
And I bought us two tickets on that Coast City bus
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 sands turnin' to gold
so put on your stockin's 'cause the night's
gettin' cold and maybe
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 makeup on fix your hair up pretty and
meet me tonight in Atlantic City

 

[fox69]

BABY DOLL

BABY DOLL


Oh Baby Doll
They tried to tell me you were deaf and dumb
But I knew they were wrong
You're just a silent one

Oh Baby Doll
They tried to tell me you could not feel
But I found out they tried to conceal
From you, that you were a woman

Well they brought you into their laboratory
And tried to get you to show and tell
They wanted to hear you say that you were sorry
And then they told you that you were conceived in hell

But Baby Doll, you knew
you knew that wasn't true
you knew that it was them
it wasn't you

Oh baby doll
It was so hard to know you
I could not tell, I couldn't show you
But I didn't have to, 'cause you already knew

Oh baby doll
They had to see by touching hands
We had to dance to a silent band
and you surprised me, being so graceful

I know you can't hear these songs I sing
But then they're more for me than they are for you
Because you don't need these songs, babe, like I do
Yeah, you knew the first time that I held you babe
You didn't have to hear how I love

Oh baby doll
They tried to tell me you were deaf and dumb
But I knew that they were wrong
And you were just the lonely one

 

[fox69]

BABY I

BABY I


Baby I - Don't need you loving no more
Baby I - Don't need your kisses no more
Baby I - Don't need your tender touch
Baby I

Baby I - Don't need your tender kiss
Baby I - You'll never miss
Baby I - Don'y Want you round me no more
Baby I

'Cause I got someone new
Somebody better than you
Somebody who'll be true
Somebody better than you

(Repeat all - both verses and chorus- one time)

 

[fox69]

BACK IN YOUR ARMS

BACK IN YOUR ARMS


In my dream our love was lost, I lived by luck and fate
I carried you inside of me, prayed it wouldn't be too late
Now I'm standin' on this empty road where nothin' moves but the wind

Once I was your treasure and I saw your face in every star
But the promises we make at night, oh that's all they are
Unless we fill them with faith and love they're empty as the howlin' wind
And honey I just wanna be back in your arms
Back in your arms again

You came to me with love and kindness
But all my life I've been a prisoner of my own blindness
I met you with indifference and I don't know why

Now I wake from my dream, I wkae from my dream to this world
Where all is shadow and darkness and a above me a dark sky unfurls
And all the love I've thrown away and lost I'm longin' for again
Now darlin' I just wanna be back in your arms
Back in your arms again