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Bruce Springsteen - High Hopes

Bruce Springsteen - High Hopes Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: High Hopes
Released: 2013

High Hopes Lyrics

Monday morning runs to Sunday night
Screaming slow me down before the new year dies
Well it won't take much to kill a loving smile
And every mother with a baby crying in her arms, singing
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
I got high hopes
Got high hopes
I got high hopes

Coming from the city, coming from the wild
I see a breathless army breaking like a cloud
They're gonna smother love, they're gonna shoot your hopes
Before the meek inherit they'll learn to hate themselves
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
I got high hopes
I got high hopes
I got high hopes

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
I got high hopes
Got high hopes
I got high hopes
Got high hopes

Tell me someone now, 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 wanna look in their eyes and know they'll stand a chance

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
I got high hopes
Got high hopes
I got high hopes
Got high hopes

Got high hopes
I got high hopes
I got high hopes
I got high hopes

Writer/s: MCCONNELL, TIMOTHY SCOTT
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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High Hopes

This song was written by Tim Scott McConnell in 1987 and originally appeared three years later on the debut album by his band, The Havalinas. The track was incorporated into the 1996 documentary film Blood Brothers, which chronicles Springsteen's reunion with the E Street Band and its hard-to-find accompanying EP.

This new version was performed by the The E Street Band with Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello during a tour of Australia in March 2013 and recorded during The Boss' dates Down Under. Springsteen told Rolling Stone that he broke the habit of a lifetime when laying the song down. "We've never had a recording session during a tour in our lives," he said. "We did a couple of things that I wanted to put down. So that was very exciting. And being with Tommy was exciting. The band - Steven, Nils, all those guys - continues to be a source of inspiration for me."

Springsteen said regarding the cutting of the song: "I was working on a record of some of our best unreleased material from the past decade when Tom Morello (sitting in for Steve Van Zandt during the Australian leg of our tour) suggested we ought to add 'High Hopes' to our live set. I had cut 'High Hopes," a song by Tim Scott McConnell of the LA based Havalinas, in the '90s. We worked it up in our Aussie rehearsals and Tom then proceeded to burn the house down with it. We re-cut it mid tour at Studios 301 in Sydney along with 'Just Like Fire Would.'"

Tom Morello was driving around Los Angeles in late 2012 when Springsteen's 1996 song came on E Street Radio, the SiriusXM channel devoted to The Boss. "I was reminded what a jam it was," he recalled to Rolling Stone. "In the middle of the night, I texted Bruce and said, 'What do you think about 'High Hopes' for the tour?' He agreed we should put it in the set." Little did Morello realize that a new version of of the song would become the title track and lead single of Springsteen's eighteenth studio album.

This was one of three songs from High Hopes (along with "The Ghost Of Tom Joad" and "Hunter Of Invisible Game") that were played in part on the January 12, 2014 episode of the television series, The Good Wife.

Bruce Springsteen - Dream Baby Dream

Bruce Springsteen - Dream Baby Dream Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: High Hopes
Released: 2014

Dream Baby Dream Lyrics

Dream Baby Dream
Dream baby dream
Dream baby dream
Come on and dream baby dream
Come on and dream baby dream

We gotta keep the light burning
Come on, we gotta keep the light burning
Come on, we gotta keep the light burning
Come on, we gotta keep the light burning
Come on and dream baby dream

We gotta keep the fire burning
Come on, we gotta keep the fire burning
Come on, we gotta keep the fire burning
Come on and dream baby dream

Come open up your heart
Come on and open up your heart
Come on and open up your heart
Come on dream on, dream baby dream

Come on and open up your heart
Come on and open up your hearts
Come on and open up your hearts
Come on dream on, dream baby dream

Come on, we gotta keep on dreaming
Come on, we gotta keep on dreaming
Come on, we gotta keep on dreaming
Come on dream on, dream baby dream

Come on darling and dry your eyes
Come on baby and dry your eyes
Come on baby and dry your eyes
Come on dream on, dream baby dream

Yeah I just wanna see you smile
Now I just wanna see you smile
Yeah I just wanna see you smile
Come on dream on, dream baby dream

Come on and open up your hearts
Come on and open up your hearts
Come on and open up your hearts
Come on dream on, dream baby dream

Yeah I just wanna see you smile
And I just wanna see you smile
Yeah I just wanna see you smile
Come on dream on, dream baby dream

Yeah I just wanna see you smile
Yeah I just wanna see you smile
Yeah I just wanna see you smile
Come on dream on, dream baby dream

Come on and open up your heart
Come on and open up your heart
Come on and open up your heart
Come on dream on, dream baby dream

Come on dream on, dream on baby
Come on dream on, dream on baby
Come on dream on, dream on baby
Come on dream on, dream baby dream

Ah ah ah ah
Ah ah ah ah

Writer/s: MARTIN REV, ALAN VEGA
Publisher: REVEGA PUBLISHING CO.
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Dream Baby Dream

This song was originally written and recorded by Suicide under the title of "Keep Your Dreams," for their 1977 debut EP. The electronic protopunk duo remade the dark, electronic tune two years later under the title of "Keep Your Dreams," and released as a non album single. It found a fan in Springsteen, who transformed it into a warmer and more optimistic version, which he performed a solo keyboard version to close the concerts on his 2005 Devils & Dust tour.

The track later resurfaced as the soundtrack to a video released in October 2013 as a thank you to Springsteen's fans for supporting the 2012 and 2013 Wrecking Ball tour and then was included on his 2014 High Hopes album.

Suicide have been recording intermittently active since 1970. A flyer the band circulated in November of that year was the first ever to use the phrase "punk music" to advertise a concert. Alan Vega's vocals were backed by a primitive drum machine and Martin Rev's fuzz organ and their nihilistic attitude and lack of guitars often aroused bewildered reactions amongst their audiences. Despite their lack of popularity amongst the general public, Suicide's albums of the late '70s and early '80s are regarded as highly influential by music critics, having helped shape the direction of indie rock, industrial and dance music.

Alan Vega commented of Springsteen's cover in an 2005 interview with Backstreets Magazine. "A lot of bands have done my stuff, Suicide stuff, and they basically try and copy and do it the way that you do it," he said. "He just - thank god! - finally somebody did their version of it. They interpreted my song, he did it his way, and such a great way, that I'm going to have to sing it that way, or not sing it at all any more!"

High Hopes producer Ron Aniello admitted to Rolling Stone that he didn't know this was such a well-known song. He recalled: "(Bruce) played me the thing and said it was an experience more than anything at the end of his Devils and Dust shows. It took a lot to get that experience on a record for him. We had to do that song probably 10 times – different versions of it – until he was satisfied it was the right version."

Aniello told Rolling Stone about the recording process for High Hopes at Springsteen's home studio. "Each day he'd give me a list of things and I'd write them down," the producer said. "When he starts talking, I start writing. Then I try to distil what his advice is about the song to make it work for him. We play the song again and get it to a place."

"Take the song 'Dream Baby Dream," he added. "I had some versions of the song and he was like, 'That sounds good, but it's not quite there,' or 'It's good. You're really close.' Then the next day he'd be like, 'Ah, it's terrible. Throw it out.' I was like, 'Come on, love this song. I gotta deliver this song for you.' We went over and and over it. You never know what he's thinking. It's not like when he was 21 and he'd go 16 hours in the studio without eating. He doesn't have to do that now. He has a home studio and it's quite comfortable for him."

Bruce Springsteen - Hunter Of Invisible Game

Bruce Springsteen - Hunter Of Invisible Game Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: High Hopes
Released: 2013

Hunter Of Invisible Game Lyrics

Hunter Of Invisible Game

This acoustic waltz finds Springsteen singing about a hunter traveling though a wasteland. A song with biblical overtones, it is unclear whether the mysterious figure represents Satan or a Savior. The recording dates from 2004-2008, under the production-ship of Brendan O'Brien, but with an overdub of Tom Morello's guitar. Producer Ron Aniello told Rolling Stone that the editing Springsteen and he did on the song "was very light." He added: "With respect to Brendan, that's his production, and I didn't want to meddle too much. We touch it up and Bruce might have changed a lyric or two. I actually can't remember, but for the most part those were the Brendan O'Brien stuff."

Aniello wasn't surprised that the High Hopes album focuses on older songs. He told Rolling Stone: "For any other artist alive, that's how they make records. It's, 'Oh, I got a song. It's great.' Then it just ends up on the record. With any other artist, this would be completely acceptable. And we're not saying it's unacceptable to some fans. It's just if you read fan sites you see people saying, "Oh, it's older songs."

"But you have to understand it has its own story, in my opinion," Aniello continued. "This is the story of what he's not willing to put on albums because they don't fit. They just didn't fit the particular story he was telling for each album. The first time I heard 'Hunter of Invisible Game' I thought, 'My God, this is one of your greats.' He went, 'Yeah, it just never quite fit.' That's the story of the record. So I'm not sure how fans are going to react, but it's a great Bruce record. It's a great rock & roll record. The fact they're older songs doesn't detract from the brilliance of the record."

This was one of three songs from High Hopes (along with "The Ghost Of Tom Joad" and the title track) that were played in part on the January 12, 2014 episode of the television series, The Good Wife.

Bruce Springsteen came up with the song title many years before he recorded it, and the song subsequently evolved. "I don't remember a lot about it except I said, 'That's a nice title,'" he told Rolling Stone. "I wrote it down and it sat there. Then I did more reading of other things. And I started to get into this sort of post-apocalyptic idea. The idea of these travelers in the wasteland, and what's the guy trying to do? He's trying to hold onto their humanness, their humanity in all of this ruin. That was the idea. That's who this guy is, the guy who is hunting out remnants of what makes the spirit."

"It was one of those songs that came together a certain way and I didn't think much about it when I wrote it," Springsteen added." I put it away. Now it's probably one of my favorite things on the record."

Springsteen co-directed a 10-minute film based on the song title with his longtime video collaborator, Thom Zimny.

Bruce Springsteen - Frankie Fell In Love

Bruce Springsteen - Frankie Fell In Love Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: High Hopes
Released: 2014

Frankie Fell In Love Lyrics

Frankie Fell In Love

Springsteen said in the liner notes for High Hopes that this celebratory bar-band romp about a small town engagement was something he felt, "deserved a home and a hearing." He added that "the ill-prepared roomies" on the song are "shades of Steve (Van Zandt, guitar) and I bumming together in our Asbury Park apartment."

Rolling Stone asked producer Ron Aniello if the songs on High Hopes tell a new story within the context of the album? He replied: "I think so. You have a song like 'Frankie Fell in Love,' which reminds me of him and Steve hanging out together. That song has some of the best lyrics I've ever heard from him. It's just a great, playful, rowdy rock & roll song. Then you have these other songs . . . Maybe it's not as linear a story as his other albums, but it's interesting to see what he let go."

"I'm not speaking for Bruce, but it just seems like he doesn't have that sort of weight on him,"Aniello added. "It's a little more relaxed. Putting together a novel like Bruce does in his records, that's hard. That's why it takes so long and that's why he doesn't release that many records, really. It's just very difficult."

Bruce Springsteen - The Wall

Bruce Springsteen - The Wall Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: High Hopes
Released: 2014

The Wall Lyrics

The Wall

This touching number is an elegy for Walter Cichon, the leader of Jersey Shore band the Motifs, who went missing in action in Vietnam in 1968. We hear Springsteen contemplate the lost potential of all those names on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial ("the Wall") in Washington. He explained in the liner notes to High Hopes: "'The Wall' is something I'd played on stage a few times and remains very close to my heart. The title and idea were (Pittsburgh rock musician) Joe Grushecky 's, then the song appeared after (second wife) Patti and I made a visit to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington."

"It was inspired by my memories of Walter Cichon," Springsteen added. "Walter was one of the great early Jersey Shore rockers, who along with his brother Ray (one of my early guitar mentors) led the 'Motifs.' The Motifs were a local rock band who were always a head above everybody else. Raw, sexy and rebellious, they were the heroes you aspired to be. But these were heroes you could touch, speak to, and go to with your musical inquiries. Cool, but always accessible, they were an inspiration to me, and many young working musicians in 1960's central New Jersey.

"Though my character in 'The Wall' is a Marine, Walter was actually in the Army, A Company, 3rd Battalion, 8th Infantry," Springsteen continued. "He was the first person I ever stood in the presence of who was filled with the mystique of the true rock star. Walter went missing in action in Vietnam in March 1968. He still performs somewhat regularly in my mind, the way he stood, dressed, held the tambourine, the casual cool, the freeness. The man who by his attitude, his walk said 'you can defy all this, all of what's here, all of what you've been taught, taught to fear, to love and you'll still be alright.' His was a terrible loss to us, his loved ones and the local music scene. I still miss him."

Springsteen debuted this song in February 2003 during a solo acoustic concert in Somerville, Massachusetts, which benefited the financially strapped Doubletake Magazine. He performed it twice more in 2005 during his Devil's & Dust tour.

Producer Ron Aniello told Rolling Stone that he just needed to add some touches to the original late 1990s recording. "I think that's just the band playing in a room," he said. "It's haunting. Danny [Federici] is there, too. We had a couple of guitars, but we wound up just using one."

"The way they transfer the music to digital, there's no track sheet and you don't know who is playing what. I didn't know who was playing what, and I added some touches to it.," Aniello added. "But that's the E Street Band back in the day. The track is beautiful and haunting. I think that's the only one (on High Hopes) they are all playing on."

Bruce Springsteen - Red-Headed Woman

Bruce Springsteen - Red-Headed Woman Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Plugged: In Concert
Released: 1992

Red-Headed Woman Lyrics

Red-Headed Woman

Springsteen wrote this about his second and current wife, the red headed Patti Scialfa. She has released two albums of her own - Rumble Doll and 23rd Street Lullaby - and is a member of the E street band.

For the Plugged: In Concert MTV special, Springsteen broke from their acoustic format and played electric (not quite Bob Dylan at the Newport Folk Festival, but a statement nonetheless). The E Street Band was on hiatus for this performance, which was released as an album and on video, with this as the first track. When the DVD was released, it contained some additional tracks.

Bruce Springsteen - Heaven's Wall

Bruce Springsteen - Heaven's Wall Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: High Hopes
Released: 2014

Heaven's Wall Lyrics

Heaven's Wall

This out and out Gospel rocker couched in Biblical language is most likely an outtake from Springsteen's proposed Gospel album, which he eventually scrapped for the more political Wrecking Ball. However, Springsteen felt it deserved a proper studio recording and gave the demo to producer Ron Aniello to play around. Aniello told Rolling Stone: "On 'Heaven's Wall' we took the basic track and jumped on there with overdubs. That's pretty much the original, vocal, drum and bass."

This was one of eight tracks on High Hopes that Tom Morello played on. The Rage Against The Machine guitarist also toured with the E Street Band during the Australia leg of Springsteen's Wrecking Ball World Tour. "He became a filter that I ran my music through," Springsteen told Rolling Stone. "He would send the songs back to me with a very current slant on them . . . He jolted those songs into the now. He's one of the few guitarists that creates a world by himself. It's like the Edge or Pete Townshend or Johnny Marr. The E Street Band is a big house, but when Tom is on stage he builds another room."

The New York Chamber Consort provided the orchestral instrumentation. The string section also played on three Wrecking Ball tracks as well as the High Hopes tunes "Dream Baby Dream" and "Just Like Fire Would."

Bruce Springsteen - Hurry Up Sundown

Bruce Springsteen - Hurry Up Sundown Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: American Beauty
Released: 2014

Hurry Up Sundown Lyrics

Hurry Up Sundown

Springsteen is looking forward on this song to "the end of another working day" and the chance to "pack your blues away." The uptempo rocker is one of four unreleased cuts from the High Hopes sessions included on American Beauty, a limited edition 12-inch vinyl EP that was released exclusively for Record Store Day on April 19, 2014.

Springsteen played every instrument on the song with the exception of the drums which were handled by session player Josh Freese (A Perfect Circle, Devo, and Nine Inch Nails).

Bruce Springsteen - Youngstown

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Album: The Ghost Of Tom Joad
Released: 1995

Youngstown Lyrics

Youngstown Song Chart

This is about an unemployed steelworker in Youngstown, Ohio. Most people think that Bruce is singing this song to a woman named Jenny ("my sweet Jenny I'm sinkin' down" etc.), but "Jenny" is the nickname given to the Blast Furnace at Youngstown steelworks - The Jeanette Blast Furnace (named after the daughter of W.A. Thomas, who was the President of Brier Hill Steel). It's common practice at steelworks to have nicknames for blast furnaces - for example, at Scunthorpe steelworks in the UK the four furnaces are known as Bess, Victoria, Anne and Mary (after 4 Queens of England/Britain). The fact that Bruce's character is singing to the furnace, rather than a person, changes the song considerably. (thanks, Alex - Newport, Scotland)

Springsteen wrote this as part of a series of songs on The Ghost Of Tom Joad where one character develops into another.

This revisits a common Springsteen theme: the division between the wealthy and the working class.

Springsteen performed this on the 1999 E-Street Band reunion tour.

Bruce Springsteen - Murder Incorporated

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Album: Greatest Hits
Released: 1995

Murder Incorporated Lyrics

Murder Incorporated Song Chart

Recorded in 1982 at the Born In The USA sessions, this was remixed by Bob Clearmountain in 1994 and finally released the next year on Greatest Hits.

At one time this was going to be the title track to Springsteen's 1984 album. He decided on Born In The USA instead.

The lyrics are about how murder has been incorporated into society to the point where violence is accepted.

Springsteen performed this in concert years before it was released.

The title was taken from a 1960 movie starring Peter Falk. Springsteen also got the title for his song "Badlands" from a movie.

The video was directed by Jonathan Demme. Springsteen wrote "Streets Of Philadelphia" for Demme's movie, Philadelphia, a year earlier.

The E-Street Band performed together for the first time in 7 years at the shoot for this video. They played it 6 times during the shoot at Tramps in New York.

Bruce Springsteen - Secret Garden

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Album: Greatest Hits
Released: 1995

Secret Garden Lyrics

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Springsteen wrote this for his 1992 album Human Touch, but decided not to use it on that album. He didn't record it until 1995 and released it on Greatest Hits.

In the liner notes of Greatest Hits, Springsteen wrote: "Men and women... and the big man sweeter than ever." The big man is sax player Clarence Clemons.

This became a radio hit when a disc jockey mixed in bits of dialogue ("You had me at hello") from the film Jerry McGuire, starring Tom Cruise and Renée Zellweger. The song was featured in the movie.

Bruce Springsteen - Light of Day

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Album: In Concert: MTV Plugged
Released: 1987

Light of Day Lyrics

Well I've been out of the woods for six days and nights now
Well I'm a little hot wired, but I'm feeling alright
I got some money in my pocket and a long lean ride
I got to make it down to Galveston by Saturday night, now

Well I'm a little down under, but I'm feeling O.K.
Got a little lost along the way

I'm just around the corner to the Light of Day
Well, I'm just around the corner to the light of day

Been driving five hundred miles, got five hundred to go, yeah
I got rock and roll music on the radio
I got a brother on a rig just off the gulf coast
He says the girls down there, well they're really the most, man

Well I'm a little down under, but I'm feeling O.K.
I got a little lost along the way

Just around the corner to the light of day
Just around the corner to the light of day
I'm just around the corner to the light of day
I'm just around the corner to the light of day

Well I got thrown out of work on the Kokomo
Don't ask me what I'm doing, I don't know
I hope he wasn't joking when he wrote me that letter
Things can't get any worse, they got to get better

Well I'm a little down under, but I'm feeling O.K.
I got a little lost along the way

I'm just around the corner to the light of day
Just around the corner to the light of day
Just around the corner to the light of day
Just around the corner to the light of day

Writer/s: BIRTLES, BEEB
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Springsteen wrote this and gave it to filmmaker Paul Schrader for his 1987 movie starring Michael J. Fox and Joan Jett as a brother and sister who lead a garage band. In 1982 Schrader sent Springsteen a script for a movie called Born In The U.S.A., hoping he would take a role in the film. Bruce declined, but used the title and thanked Schrader on the album's liner notes.

Michael J. Fox and Joan Jett performed this in the movie. The song was released as a single credited to "The Barbusters" (the name of the group in the film) and it hit #33 in the US. In the movie, the song is a duet with Fox and Jett, but the single was just Jett accompanied by her band, The Blackhearts. Some clever editing was done for the video to show Michael J. Fox but never see him sing.

On this version, Benmont Tench of Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers played Hammond organ.

This is one of Springsteen's live favorites. He often performs an inspirational extended version, preaching lines like "I can not offer you eternal life, but I can offer you life right now."

Bruce performed this at a 1992 concert for MTV. Part of their "Unplugged" series, Springsteen insisted on playing electric and calling it "Plugged." The set was released as an album in England.

The title was used as the name of a benefit concert Springsteen played at The Stone Pony, a small club in New Jersey, in 2000. Proceeds went to The Parkinson's Disease Foundation. Michael J. Fox, who starred in the movie Light Of Day, has Parkinson's.

Springsteen performed this with Joan Jett at two benefit concerts in New Jersey in 2001. Proceeds from the shows went to victims of the September 11 attacks.

In 2000, the Light of Day foundation was formed, taking its name from this song. Music impresario Bob Benjamin started the foundation after he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, with proceeds going toward the search for a cure. Benjamin organized a series of concerts to raise money, which proved very successful. Springsteen has performed at many of these events to lend his support.

Bruce Springsteen - Souls Of The Departed

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Album: Lucky Town
Released: 1992

Souls Of The Departed Lyrics

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Springsteen was inspired by television images of the Persian Gulf War and the Los Angeles Riots.

This is a commentary on racial and social injustice. Often viewed as a patriotic champion after "Born In The USA," Springsteen has been openly critical of American politics.

Lucky Town and Human Touch were released on the same day, almost 5 years since Springsteen's last album, Tunnel Of Love. Many fans felt he should have released one double-album rather than 2 full price singles.

Bruce Springsteen - Lucky Town

Bruce Springsteen - Lucky Town Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Lucky Town
Released: 1992

Lucky Town Lyrics

Lucky Town Song Chart

This was the title track to the album released simultaneously with Human Touch. It probably would have sold better, but Springsteen alienated many fans by releasing both albums the same day at full price.

A live version was released as a single in England.

In 2007, this was used in the film Lucky You, a box office flop starring Drew Barrymore and Robert Duvall. (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)

Bruce Springsteen - Living Proof

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Album: Lucky Town
Released: 1992

Living Proof Lyrics

Well now on a summer night in a dusky room
Come a little piece of the Lord's undying light
Crying like he swallowed the fiery moon
In his mother's arms it was all the beauty I could take
Like the missing words to some prayer that I could never make
In a world so hard and dirty so fouled and confused
Searching for a little bit of God's mercy
I found Living Proof

I put my heart and soul I put 'em high upon a shelf
Right next to the faith the faith that I'd lost in myself
I went down into the desert city
Just tryin' so hard to shed my skin
I crawled deep into some kind of darkness
Lookin' to burn out every trace of who I'd been
You do some sad sad things baby
When it's your you 're tryin' to lose
You do some sad and hurtful things
I've seen living proof

You shot through my anger and rage
To show me my prison was just an open cage
There were no keys no guards
Just one frightened man and some old shadows for bars

Well now all that's sure on the boulevard
Is that life is just a house of cards
As fragile as each and every breath
Of this boy sleepin' in our bed
Tonight let's lie beneath the eaves
Just a close band of happy thieves
And when that train comes we'll get on board
And steal what we can from the treasures of the Lord
It's been along long drought baby
Tonight the rain's pourin' down on our roof
Looking for a little bit of God's mercy
I found living proof

Writer/s: MACRAE, JOHNNY / CLARK, STEPHEN LEWIS
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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The "Living Proof" are children. Springsteen had a young son at the time.

Written by Springsteen to finish the Human Touch album. He decided to keep writing songs and release 2 albums at the same time, putting this on Lucky Town.

Springsteen: "About the common strength it takes to constitute a family."

Bruce Springsteen - Real World

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Album: Human Touch
Released: 1992

Real World Lyrics

I wonder what it's like to be the rainmaker
I wonder what it's like to know that I made the rain
I'd store it in boxes with little yellow tags on everyone
And you can come and see them when I'm...done, when I'm done

I wonder what it's like to be a super hero
I wonder where I'd go if I could fly around downtown
From some other planet, I get this funky high on yellow sun
Boy I bet my friends will all be...stunned, they're stunned

Straight up, what did you hope to learn about here
If I were someone else, would this all fall apart
Strange, where were you, when we started this gig,
I wish the Real World, would just stop hassling me

I wonder what it's like to be the head honcho
I wonder what I'd do if they all did just what I said
I'd shout out an order, I think we're out of this man get me some
Boy don't make me wanna change my...tone, my tone

Straight up, what did you hope to learn about here
If I were someone else, would this all fall apart
Strange, where were you, when we started this gig,
I wish the real world, would just stop hassling me

Please don't change, please don't break
Phe only thing that seems to work at all is you
Please don't change, at all from me to you,
And you to me

Straight up, what did you hope to learn about here
If I were someone else, would this all fall apart
Strange, where were you, when we started this gig,
I wish the real world, would just stop hassling me

Writer/s: THOMAS, ROB
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Soul singer Sam Moore sang on this with Springsteen. Moore was half of the duo Sam & Dave, who had a hit with "Soul Man." Moore was never paid much for his music, and in his later years had to tour just to pay his medical bills. In 2002 he got some redemption when he and some other musicians got a settlement from their union because their record companies failed to report royalties and make proper payments to their pension fund.

E-Street Band pianist Roy Bittan wrote the music, with Springsteen filling in the lyrics.

Springsteen had fired the E-Street Band, but did use Bittan, keyboard player David Sancious, and backup singer/wife Patti Scialfa on some of the songs on Human Touch and Lucky Town.

Bruce Springsteen - Human Touch

Bruce Springsteen - Human Touch Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Human Touch
Released: 1992

Human Touch Lyrics

Human Touch Song Chart

This was the title track to one of two Springsteen albums released simultaneously five years after his last album. Released with Lucky Town, they both sold poorly.

One of the first songs Springsteen recorded using musicians who were not in the E-Street Band, he says it is about "Searchin' for the bottom line."

This was the only song from Human Touch included on Springsteen's 1995 Greatest Hits album.

The cinematographer on the video was Daniel Pearl, who a decade earlier worked on the first attempt at Springsteen's "Dancing In The Dark" video. That one didn't go well, with Springsteen walking out after a dispute with Pearl over the lighting. In the ensuing years, Springsteen came to realize that Pearl was correct in how he wanted to light him, so he signed him up to work on "Human Touch."

Bruce Springsteen - Book Of Dreams

Bruce Springsteen - Book Of Dreams Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Lucky Town
Released: 1992

Book Of Dreams Lyrics

Book Of Dreams Song Chart

Springsteen says this song is about second chances.

Dion DiMucci covered this on his 2000 album Deja Nu. Dion had hits in the '60s with "Runaround Sue" and "Abraham, Martin and John." Springsteen is a fan of Dion's and contributed to the liner notes.

Bruce Springsteen - One Step Up

Bruce Springsteen - One Step Up Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Tunnel of Love
Released: 1987

One Step Up Lyrics

One Step Up Song Chart

This is one of several songs on Tunnel Of Love that depicts a troubled relationship where every time they take one step up, they take two steps back. Springsteen was having problems with his marriage to Julianne Phillips at the time, and they divorced in 1989.

Patti Scialfa, who became Springsteen's second wife, sang backup.

This song was released as a single only in the US.

Springsteen recorded this in his home studio in Rumson, New Jersey.

In 2002, Country singer Kenny Chesney covered this on his No Shirt, No Shoes, No Problems album. Chesney always loved the song and thought the lyrics were very Country, but was afraid to record it because he generally dislikes covers and has a great respect for Springsteen. When he sent his version to Springsteen, Bruce sent him back a note telling Chesney he did a great job with it, bringing a lot of sensitivity to the lyrics.

Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel of Love

Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel of Love Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Tunnel of Love
Released: 1987

Tunnel of Love Lyrics

Tunnel of Love Song Chart

This was inspired by the amusement rides on the boardwalk of Asbury Park, New Jersey, where Springsteen hung out and gigged growing up. He used the "Tunnel Of Love" ride as a metaphor for the ups and downs of a relationship. He was having problems with his first marriage at the time, and would later divorce Julianne Phillips.

This is the title track to an album Springsteen recorded mostly by himself in his home studio in Rumson, New Jersey. One of the last songs recorded for Tunnel Of Love, Springsteen liked the title enough to use it as the name of the album.

The amusement park that helped inspire this is over 100 years old. It is in the New Jersey Register of Historic Places.