What's his best lyric?
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What's his best lyric?
born in the usa
>Now I been lookin' for a job but it's hard to find
>Down here it's just winners and losers
>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
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
No wedding day smiles no walk down the aisle
No flowers no wedding dress
There were ghosts in the eyes
Of all the boys you sent away
They haunt this dusty beach road
In the skeleton frames of burned out Chevrolets
>Independence Day
Cause the darkness of this house has got the best of us
There's a darkness in this town that's got us too
But they can't touch me now, and you can't touch me now
They ain’t gonna do to me, what I watched them do to you
>Adam raised a Cain
In the summer that I was baptized,
My father held me to his side,
As they put me to the water,
He said how on that day I cried.
We were prisoners of love, a love in chains,
He was standin' in the door, I was standin' in the rain,
with the same hot blood burning in our veins,
Adam raised a Cain.
The highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive
Everybody's out on the run tonight
>>63466069
Has to be this one.
I followed that dream
Just like those guys do way up on the screen
Drove my Challenger down Route 9
Through the dead ends and all the bad scenes
The promise was broken
Cashed in a few of my dreams
Well I built that Challenger by myself
But I needed money and so I sold it
Lived a secret I should've kept to myself
But I got drunk one night and I told it
All my life, I fought that fight
The fight that you can't win
Every day it just gets harder to live
The dream you're believing in
>>63466036
the delivery of these lines is so good, it sounds like he's genuinely in emotional pain when singing them.
STANDIN' ON THE CORNER
SUITCASE IN MY HAND
>>63466020
correct
it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive
OH YEAH LIFE GOES ON
LONG AFTER THE THRILL OF LIVING IS GONE
Last night I dreamed that I was a child out where the pines grow wild and tall
I was trying to make it home through the forest before the darkness falls
I heard the wind rustling through the trees and ghostly voices rose from the fields
I ran with my heart pounding down that broken path
With the devil snappin at my heels
I broke through the trees and there in he night
My fathers house stood shining hard and bright the branches and brambles tore my clothes and scratched my arms
But I ran till I fell shaking in his arms
damn
Nebraska > Born to Run > The River > DOTEOT
>>63466036
The whole song desu
ITS GOING DOWN DOWN DOWN DOWN
>>63466036
Top five song of all time tbqhwyf
Wrapped up like a douche mumble grumble croak
Springsteen is overrated I don't get why he's so famous
>>63468904
Fuck you
>>63466036
Have you heard Aaron Ellis' cover? It is SO good
>he had a woman he loved in saigon
>i got a picture of him in her arms now
>>63468606
Listen to the live version.
>but I had DEBTS THAT NO HONNNNNNESSSSSST MANNNNN COULD PAY
/watch?v=tgIc9WiDLPQ
>and go kart mozart was checking out the weather charts
>to see if it was safe outside
>>63469076
>had a buddy at khe sahn
>fighting off the viet cong
>they're still there
>he's all gone, gone, gone, gone, gone
>You can't start a fire
>sitting around crying over a broken heart
>this gun's for hire; even if we're just dancing in the dark
>God have mercy on the man
>Who doubts what he's sure of
>Is a dream a lie if it don't come true
>Or is it something worse?
>The big top is for dreamers, we can take the circus all the way to the border
>And the gallows wait for martyrs whose papers are in order
>But I was not born to live to die, and you were not born for queenin'
>It's not to late to infiltrate, the servants are just leavin'
or
>Some guys they just give up living
>And start dying little by little, piece by piece,
>Some guys come home from work and wash up,
>And go racin' in the street.
>>63469723
classic. goat album too.
>>63466069
>>63466211
Saw this live last Thursday. He talked a bit about what he was thinking writing Independence Day before he played it.
He said something like, "It was about the feeling of the world closing in on you when you're a young man, realizing the compromises that come with growing up, but not yet understanding the the small miracles that come with compromise and, in turn, shape the fabric of our lives." Fuck.
>>63470020
I saw him on Feb 29th, It was the 7th time I've seen him and it was probably the best concert I've ever been to or will ever go to. He's an amazing live perfomrer
>At night I wake up with the sheets soaking wet
>And a freight train running through the middle of my head
>Only you can cool my desire
>Oh-oh-oh, I'm on fire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrpXArn3hII
>that moment between 1:10 to 1:18 is something I experienced waay too much
>tfw Bruce never made a full length movie about this
>>63470320
>that moment between 1:10 to 1:18 is something I experienced waay too much
getting out of bed?
every Bruce Springsteen lyric ever get ready
>WELL I WAS DRIVING MY CAR DOWN THE HIGHWAY AT NIGHT IN NEW JERSEY DID I TELL YOU THAT I LIVED IN NEW JERSEY CARS GO FAST AND I FUCK HOES FROM JERSEY THAT SIT IN SHOTGUN WHILE I ZIP ON DOWN THAT MAGIC NEW JERSEY HIGHWAY WE DRIVE PAST THE STOP N SHOP WITH THE RADIO ON AT NIGHT WE'RE BORN TO BE AMERICANS AND THIS IS AMERICA AND NEW JERSEY IS AMERICA I WAS BOOOOOOOOOOOOORN IN THE NEW JERSEY HIGHWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY
>>63470277
Totally underrated as an artist and poet, though, but only because he never ran in artsy circles, focused on blue-collar life, and injected a fair amount of humor and fun into otherwise weighty themes (Cadillac Ranch being a good example). I can't think of any contemporary band that comes anywhere close to his range of songwriting, from weighty to playful.
In all honesty, this is what has kept his music from aging better than what even the best contemporary, emotionally weighty indie stuff can hope to achieve.
>>63470381
ahahahaahaaahaaa. So epic
>>63470463
Shit. Fucking sleep deprived. Meant to say that his music will age better than any contemporary, emotionally weighty indie stuff for those stated reasons. Namely, because he never exclusively wrote depressing music and because he always made it situational and narrative, rather than about himself, when he did.
I learned how to write heavy lyrics and not come off as a self-involved, emo prick from listening to his first few albums.
>Yea we're laughin' and drinkin' nothin' feels better than blood on blood
>Takin' turns dancin' with Maria as the band played "Night of the Johnstown Flood"
>I catch him when he's strayin', teach him how to walk that line
>Man turns his back on his family he ain't no friend of mine
Yesterday I woke up succin a lemon
>I HAD SKIN LIKE LEATHER
>AND THE DIAMOND HARD LOOK OF A COBRA
>I WAS BORN BLUE AND WEATHERED
>BUT I BURST JUST LIKE A SUPERNOVA
>I COULD WALK LIKE BRANDO RIGHT INTO THE SUN
>DANCE LIKE A CASANOVA
>>63470320
that walk home would suck
>>63468904
you must have a really bad taste if you don't at least understand his appeal
>>63466007
where do you start with bruce?
>>63470788
Born To Run
>>63470788
Born To Run
If you want the laid back/singer-songwriter Bruce: Nebraska
If you want the quintessential American/Arena rock Bruce: Born in the USA
>>63470788
springsteen curiously doesn't have any great compilation albums for newcomers, like most other rock acts do. i'd personally recommend the river, but born to run, darkness, bitUSA or especially live 75/85 (if you can handle it) are good starting points as well
>>63470788
1. The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle
2. Born to Run
3. Darkness on the Edge of Town
That is, if you actually want to see the evolution of his sound and not just stick with the beer commercial hits.
>>63470821
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>>63470918
>>63470892
thanks senpai
>>63470918
not much of an evolution, though, is it? i mean he did the street poet thing for like three years and then it's been beer commercial rock ever since, with an acoustic album every ten years. his post-btr 'sound' is, thanks to van zandt, more of a regression back to oldies radio/am pop/garage rock; far less sophisticated than his early records (which are of lesser quality overall, just a bit more ambitious)
>>63470918
>see the evolution of his sound
You're stopping a few decades early, and your 1 and 2 are really overrated albums. I recommend:
1) Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ
2) Darkness on the Edge of Town
3) Nebraska
4) Tunnel of Love
5) The Rising
>>63471078
>which are of lesser quality overall
No.
