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Bruce Springsteen - High Hopes

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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.

Pink Floyd - High Hopes

Pink Floyd - High Hopes Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The Division Bell
Released: 1994

High Hopes Lyrics

Beyond the horizon of the place we lived when we were young
In a world of magnets and miracles
Our thoughts strayed constantly and without boundary
The ringing of the division bell had begun

Along the Long Road and on down the Causeway
Do they still meet there by the Cut

There was a ragged band that followed in our footsteps
Running before times took our dreams away
Leaving the myriad small creatures trying to tie us to the ground
To a life consumed by slow decay

The grass was greener
The light was brighter
When friends surrounded
The nights of wonder

Looking beyond the embers of bridges glowing behind us
To a glimpse of how green it was on the other side
Steps taken forwards but sleepwalking back again
Dragged by the force of some sleeping tide
At a higher altitude with flag unfurled
We reached the dizzy heights of that dreamed of world

Encumbered forever by desire and ambition
There's a hunger still unsatisfied
Our weary eyes still stray to the horizon
Though down this road we've been so many times

The grass was greener
The light was brighter
The taste was sweeter
The nights of wonder
With friends surrounded
The dawn mist glowing
The water flowing
The endless river

Forever and ever

Writer/s: GILMOUR, SAMSON
Publisher: IMAGEM U.S. LLC
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High Hopes

This was the first song written for the album and yet the last one finished.

Within the song, Dave Gilmour's son Charlie hangs up the telephone on Pink Floyd manager Steve O'Rourke. (thanks, Mike - Mountlake Terrace, Washington, for above 2)

Nightwish covered this song on their 2005 compilation album Highest Hopes. They also played it at their final concert of the Once Tour, which was released on the DVD End Of An Era. (thanks, Bella - Pretoria)

The title of Pink Floyd's 2014 album The Endless River previously appeared as part of the closing lyric on this song, which was the last single released from The Division Bell. Gilmour explained to BBC Radio 6 Music's Matt Everitt that naming 'The Endless River' after the line suggested, "some sort of continuum" connecting the two records, since they both came from the same sessions.

Sammy Hagar - High Hopes

Sammy Hagar - High Hopes Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Unboxed
Released: 1994

High Hopes Lyrics

Another dream, goes up in smoke
Huh!

And so fire me up, another toke
Yeah, I'm commin' on
I've got master plans, by the dozens
A-flashin' through my brain, when I get buzzin'

Whoa!
Suddenly, they're gone
All that inspiration, runnin' through your head
Instant stimulation
Oh, your runnin' on

You got...
High Hopes
And they're up in smoke

Up all night, tweakin' every detail
The way I've got it, this could never fail
Hey! This could be the big one
High hopes
Come and go, so high
But commin' down, fade away and die
High hopes
I got them, more than a dream
They all get wasted
Yeah!

Ohhh, the inspiration, runnin' through your head
Instant stimulation
Your runnin' on
Oh!
You got...high hopes
Your livin' on
High hopes
High hopes
Oh yeah...
But they're wasted

All that talk, is gettin' nuthin' done
Ain't it hard to move, when your body's numb
Put it off, another day

High hopes
Come and goin' so high
And commin' down, fade away and die
High hopes
They're nuthin' more than a dream
They all get wasted

Ohhh, the inspiration, runnin' through your head
Instant stimulation
They're givin' you
Oh!...you got
Welllll Oh,
High hopes

Your livin' on
High hopes
You got
High hopes

High hopes
AAAAAAH! Yeah
High hopes
Keep livin' on
High hopes
High hopes

Writer/s: HAGAR, SAMMY
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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High Hopes Song Chart

The cover of the album shows Hagar in a boxing ring. His father was a professional boxer, and Sammy was headed down that road until moving to Southern California at age 19. From then on, he played in numerous bar bands.

Hagar claims this is based on people who create wonderful plans and aspirations while under the influence of drugs, but then fail to follow through when they come down. He also says it's based on personal experience.

This is the leadoff song on the album.

While recording this, Hagar was still the lead singer of Van Halen. Guitarist Eddie Van Halen got a production credit.