Born to Run lyrics

The screen door slams
Mary's dress waves
Like a vision she dances across the porch
As the radio plays
Roy Orbison singing for the lonely
Hey that's me and I want you only
Don't turn me home again
I just can't face myself alone again
Don't run back inside
darling you know just what I'm here for
So you're scared and you're thinking
That maybe we ain't that young anymore

Tear drops on the city
Bad Scooter searching for his groove
Seem like the whole world walking pretty
And you can't find the room to move
Well everybody better move over, that's all
I'm running on the bad side
And I got my back to the wall
Tenth Avenue freeze-out, Tenth Avenue freeze-out

I'm stranded in the jungle
Taking all the heat they was giving
The night is dark but the sidewalk's bright

You get up every morning at the sound of the bell
You get to work late and the boss man's giving you hell
Till you're out on a midnight run
Losing your heart to a beautiful one
And it feels right as you lock up the house
Turn out the lights and step out into the night

And the world is busting at its seams
And you're just a prisoner of your dreams
Holding on for your life 'cause you work all day

One soft infested summer me and Terry became friends
Trying in vain to breathe the fire we was born in
Catching rides to the outskirts tying faith between our teeth
Sleeping in that old abandoned beach house getting wasted in the heat
And hiding on the backstreets, hiding on the backstreets
With a love so hard and filled with defeat
Running for our lives at night on them backstreets

In the day we sweat it out in the streets of a runaway American dream
At night we ride through mansions of glory in suicide machines
Sprung from cages out on highway 9,
Chrome wheeled, fuel injected
and steppin' out over the line
Baby this town rips the bones from your back
It's a death trap, it's a suicide rap
We gotta get out while we're young
`Cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run

With her killer graces and her secret places
That no boy can fill with her hands on her hips
Oh and that smile on her lips
Because she knows that it kills me
With her soft french cream
Standing in that doorway like a dream
I wish she'd just leave me alone
Because french cream won't soften them boots
And french kisses will not break that heart of stone
With her long hair falling

Hey, Eddie, can you lend me a few bucks
And tonight can you get us a ride
Gotta make it through the tunnel
Got a meeting with a man on the other side

Hey Eddie, this guy, he's the real thing
So if you want to come along
You gotta promise you won't say anything
`Cause this guy don't dance
And the word's been passed this is our last chance

We gotta stay cool tonight, Eddie

The rangers had a homecoming in Harlem late last night
And the Magic Rat drove his sleek machine over the Jersey state line
Barefoot girl sitting on the hood of a Dodge
Drinking warm beer in the soft summer rain
The Rat pulls into town rolls up his pants
Together they take a stab at romance and disappear down Flamingo Lane

You get up every morning at the sound of the bell
You get to work late and the boss man's giving you hell
Till you're out on a midnight run
Losing your heart to a beautiful one
And it feels right as you lock up the house
Turn out the lights and step out into the night

And the world is busting at its seams
And you're just a prisoner of your dreams
Holding on for your life 'cause you work all day

With her killer graces
And her secret places
That no boy can fill
With her hands on her hips
Oh and that smile on her lips
Because she knows that it kills me
With her soft French cream
Standing in that doorway like a dream
I wish she'd just leave me alone
Because French cream won't soften them boots
And French kisses will not break that heart of stone
With her long hair falling

So viel Wind und keine Segel;
so viel Durst
und keinen Gin.
Und die Wolken hoch am Himmel
wandern all' zur Heimat hin.
Und die Wolken hoch am Himmel
wandern all' zur Heimat hin.
Und sie grÃÃen
grÃÃen
grÃÃen dort ein MÃdel

das so gerne
gerne
gerne ich gekÃÃt.
Denn sie wissen
wissen
wissen
daà mein MÃdel
jetzt so ferne
ferne

Sandy the fireworks are hailin' over Little Eden tonight
Forcin' a light into all those stoney faces left stranded on this warm July
Down in town the circuit's full with switchblade lovers so fast, so shiny, so sharp
As the wizards play down on Pinball Way on the boardwalk way past dark
And the boys from the casino dance with their shirts open like Latin lovers on the shore

(paradise by the sea)

Well thereâs sparklinâ angels on your fire-escape tonight
They line them up for you trying to keep you safe
But with them fire alley burglars on a midnight vamp
You lost your heart on main street to a beautiful tramp
Thatâs all right, I donât mind
'cause I got (you got) a love so fine
A love so fine, me and my baby
A love so fine, me and my baby

There's a place, so I've been told,
Every street is paved with gold
And it's just across the borderline
And when it's time to take your turn
There's a lesson that you must learn
You may lose more than you'll ever hope to find.

(chorus)
And when you reach that broken promised land
And all your dreams slip though your hand
You have learned it's too late to change your mind

Well donât move
Why donât you listen to what Iâm saying
And hey you
You better get up if you plan to be staying
Get loose
You got to listen to what the band is playing
Oh tonight
Thereâs action in the street all night
Weâre bopping to the big beat, go
Get up off your seat and roll

At school
The girls you know their dancing, mister âs just my speed
And hey cool

An echo fades of sounds once heard
By thousands brought together for
His ringing voice, a soul that stirred
The faithful to a mighty roar.

For twenty years upon the stage
For twenty years upon the stage
The passion deep within his soul
Brought forth the anger and the rage
His vision locked upon one goal.

The promises of rock and roll could
Break the chains upon his life,

In the summer that I was baptizedMy father held me to his side
As they put me to the waterHe 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 veinsAdam raised a Cain
All of the old facesAsk you why you're backThey fit you with position

I have stumbled on the plains
Staggered in the wind
Stood at a crossroad or two
Cried to a river
Swept to the sea
All just to get to you

I have flagged a yellow cab
Hopped a rusty freight
Sang till my lips turned blue
Flown a silver bird
On the tops of the clouds
All just to get to you

I ran too hard
I played too Rough
I gave my Love
Not near Enough
I bled too red

I was born saved in heaven
It was nothing like the promised land
Raised in a good christian house
Underneath a good christian hand
I was schooled down and dirty
Signed a note back to town
It was there that the workers slaved all week
Waiting for payday to come around

Break out, come on if youâre coming
Cause baby I just canât stay
I want to take out the walls of this joint

I know what it's like to have failed baby
With the whole world lookin' on
I know what it's like to have been so sure
Wake up and find it all gone

Now you've got no reason to trust me
And tonight my confidence is a little rusty
It's getting late
And if you don't feel leavin' alone
Well maybe I can walk you baby
All the way home

Our old fears and failures
Well they do linger (oh yes they do)

The moon hung like a shadow on a rung over shangai
Them soldier boys were returning home screaming "banzai"
And the kids are still playing their games
Gettin hustled and rustled out in the rain
As I sat inside listening to the broadcast
Oh save my soul sweet rockânâroll âcause Iâm sinkinâ fast
And then the band played
Out of nowhere, it was alright

I try to think that love's not around
But still it's unconfortably near
Tonight my heart is losing ground
'Cause my angel eyes ain't here

Angel eyes that devil sent
They glow unbearably bright
And need I say that my love is mis-spent
Mis-spent with angel eyes tonight

So drink up all you people
Order anything you see
Drink up all you happy people
'Cause the drinks and the jokes are on me

(cover: gary u.s. bonds. written by springsteen)

He was a bouncer in a joint called tonyâs body shop
She was a night cashier down at the stop ânâ shop
He was kinda good-lookinâ
And she was kinda fun
They met âneath that big oak tree
Out where the river runs

Little angelyne, little angelyne
As the sun goes down and the moonlight shines

Gray morning sky
Splits through the shade
Another day come
More time to make
Kids growing up
Cat's getting fatter
Lying here with you
Nothing else matters

Work hard
Keep your eyes on the prize
Wake up
From the minute you open your eyes
Every muscle
In your body hurts
Stop praying for things to get better
Pray they don't get worse
They don't get worse

Another thin line

Shrieks of sheiks as they run across the movie screen
A thousand sand-dune soldiers led by an arabian queen
And the harem girls move like fancy (clancyâs) dancers
In my dirty dreams
And I wake up on the floor clutching the bed-lamp
And mama comes in, she screams
"hey you been out with that tramp again last night
You know that silver-sequined arab black bitch

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

Well dont you want to climb a mountain
yeah, dont you want to ride the river
drink from a magic fountain
give your woman all the love that you can give her
well dont you want to be an outlaw
dont you want to ride the range
dont you want to be an outlaw children
just like jesse, like jesse james

well now dont you want to swim the ocean
dont you want to climb the highest tree

Father, I have come.
To tell you about somethinâ I done.
Well as the night reared itâs light head
Into a babyâs sun,
We rolled down into the town
From where the black throats come.

And you know there was a robbâry.
There was a holdup.
Ooh, there was a shootout.
And there was a killinâ.
And thereâs blood on my hands.
Today I killed a man.

Take me now baby here as I am
Pull me close try an understand
I work all day out in the hot sun
Stay with me now till the mornin' comes
Come on now try and understand
The way I feel when I'm in your hands
Take me now as the sun descends
They can't hurt you now
They can't hurt you now
They can't hurt you now

Because the night belongs to lovers
Because the night belongs to us

Put on your muddy boots
Baby, down on Main Street
Where the assassin shoots
Ya, in a rock and roll beat
Where Gypsy dancers dance
And roll the night away
Where cowboy figures ride
Ya, just to fade away

They say they're listening
But they aint even trying
They're the blood that's glistening
Glistening down on the vine
Beneath the Floodline
Beneath the Floodline

Little girl you're oh so cruel

We played king of the mountain out on the end
The world come chargin' up the hill, and we were women and men
Now there's so much that time, time and memory fade away
We got our own roads to ride and chances we gotta take
We stood side by side each one fightin' for the other
We said until we died we'd always be blood brothers

Now the hardness of this world slowly grinds your dreams away

Boom boom boom boom
I wanna shoot you right down
Take you in my arms
Iâm in love with you
A love that is true
Boom boom boom boom

I need you right now
I mean right now
I donât mean tomorrow
I mean right now
Come on come on
I wanna give it up babe

Shake it up babe
Come on and shake
Shake it up babe
Come on come on shake it up babe

I like the way you walk
I like the way you talk

BORDER GUARD

Bless on the border guard so cold and alone
Bless on the child so far from his home
Pity the border guard who feels like a woman to cry
Pity the border guard whose life guards the line
A light is a funny thing
A border sometime
A light is a hurting thing
Use only to divine
I pity the refugee whose home lies behind
I pity the border guard and his border line

Well you know when you're young there's such a distance between you and your family
You just can't see things from the same point of view
Papa wants a lawyer and mama she wants an author
And all you want is for them to want you

Well, I saw lot of bad signs and we had some real bad times back on the east coast.
And I guess you could say it took California to bring us close

Camilla Horne, she was born a long, long time ago.
She Came From Germany to the U.S.A.
and was acclaimed as the next Garbo.
They came to her on their knees, to bless them, caress them and tell them what they need.

But oh, oh, she did not know.
and so she took her place at the bar.
Just another fallen star.

Oh, when I was a little kid I never liked to eat,
Mama'd put things on my plate, I'd dump them on her feet,
But then one day she made this soup, I ate it all in bed,
I asked her what she put in it, and this is want she said.

Chorus:
Chicken lips and lizard hips and alligator eyes
Monkey legs and buzzard eggs and salamander thighs
Rabbit ears and camel rears and tasty toe-nail pies

A lovely, poignant song
About a man fated to be kept apart from his true love

"well, sometimes I dream of gettinâ outta here,
Headinâ down towards them old tracks
I swore Iâd come and get her
But I know I ainât never goinâ back

"thereâs nights I canât sleep
No matter how hard I try
So from my window I watch the moonlight
Fall on the far hillside

Well, far between sundown's finish and midnight's broken toll
We ducked inside the doorway, thunder crashin'
As majestic bells of bolts struck shadows in the sun;
Sayin', it may be the chimes of freedom flashin'

Flashin' for the warriors whose strength is not to fight;
Flashin' for the refugees on their unarmed road of flight.
And for each and every underdog soldier in the night

I pick you up with flowers
When you get off from work
Itâs like you donât even care
Itâs like Iâm some kind of jerk
I take you out on a date
And then you wonât even kiss me
Boy when I ainât around
Iâll bet you donât even miss me

I donât know why
I love you like I do
I try and try
You treat me like a fool
It makes me want to cry

The machinist climbs his ferris wheel like a brave
And the fire eater's lyin' in a pool of sweat victim of the heatwave
Behind the tent the leatherboy tightens his legs
On the sword swallower's blade
Circus town's on the shortwave

Well now (and) the runway lies ahead like a great false dawn
Oh fat lady, Missy Bimbo, sits in her chair and yawns
And the man-beast lies in his cage sniffin' popcorn

Pack up your bags
Donât look back
Thereâs a little place
Out âcross the the railroad tracks
If youâre broken-hearted
And you donât know what to do
But they got a place down there thatâs just for you

Club soul, club soul city, yeah yeah yeah
Club soul, club soul city, oh yeah

Thereâs a waitress at the back bar
Goes with the the guy that runs the place

There's a code of silence,
that we don't dare speak
There's a wall between us
So high and so deep
We keep pretending that there's nothing wrong
And there's a code of silence that can't go wrong

Cause the truth's so elusive
So elusive you see
That it ain't enough baby,
To bridge the distance between you and me
Well, there's a list of grievance a hundred miles long

Every year when summer comes around
They stretch a banner 'cross the main street in town
You can feel somethin' happenin' in the air
Well, from Carol's house up on Telegraph Hill
You can see the lights goin' up out in the soldiers' field
Gettin' ready for the county fair

County fair, county fair
Everybody in town will be there
So come on, hey, we're goin' down there

They ride beneath the waves at 20,000 leagues
On stallions stitched to seaweed strands
So smiling, so smiling
They herd the fishes of the deep
They ride for you and me
They ranch the rich and the sunken soil
At the bottom of the sea

In the dead of night, alive in sleep
I hear them calling me
Them deep sea desperadoes
Them midnight maelstrom freaks
The cowboy of the sea

Thereâs a pale horse coming
And Iâm going to ride it
Iâll rise in the morning
My fate decided
Iâm a dead man walking
Iâm a dead man walking
In st jamesâ parish I was born and christened
Iâve got my story mister
Ainât no need for you to listen
Itâs just a dead man talking
Once I had a job I had a a girl
Between our dreams and actions lies this world

Well way back in the Bible time
A cat named noah built an ocean liner
Everybody laughed when they told him why
But when the rain came, noah was high and dry
âcause he had

Dedication baby through and through
Dedication like I give to you
Dedication girl every way
Dedication girl every day

Well admiral byrd and some eskimos
They took a little trip to the old north pole

The crops are all in, the peaches are rotting
The oranges are piled in their creosote dumps
Theyâre flying you back to the mexico border
To pay all your money to wade back again

My fatherâs own father, he waded that river
They took all the money he made in his life
My brothers and sisters they work in the fruit trees
They rode the truck till they took down and died

Day after day, I'm more confused
Yet I look for the light through the pourin' rain
You know that's a game that I hate to loose
And I'm feelin' the strain
Ain't it a shame.

Give me the beat boys and free my soul
I wanna get lost in your rock n roll
And drift away.
Give me the beat boys and free my soul
I wanna get lost in your rock n roll
And drift away.

Sometimes I think I'm wastin' my time

Times are tough there baby there
Itâs getting tougher now
This world is rough honey itâs
Just getting rougher now

Their on top there baby
Just tryinâ to score-well
Seen enough, honey I donât
Wanna see no more
Drop on down and cover me
On down and cover me

Sometimes girl I just wanna
Leave it all behind us, yeah
Hold me in your arms tonight letâs

Well what power of God does a nun use
to hold a parish priest
And what makes a good cop
let go a beautiful thief
Oh and how does a queen know
She got hold that man with honey
Oh and what makes an old woman
Give a young man all her money

Well, late in the night
'neath that pale moon light
that power comes over me
And it's old Eloise

One, Two, Three, Four

Girl, on the edge flippin' off the lamp

There'll be an end darling to your endless night
On the other side of the street.

Yea, the light on your portrait and the light in your face

And you'll be looking for another pretty place

Baby, this side of the street.

Well, keep dreaming baby that your desire brings and girl

It was on the day the cowboys were abandoned from the ranch
(It was on the day the cowboys were banned from the range)
Middle touch world as a master
(Metal touched the world as a master)
They rode their ponies down in the cities of gold
To leave them for ever after
Now the sun was swollen red and old
The earth it was windy, dark and cold
Were the highway ends the desert takes its toll

The night rushes in through the door
Kids running across the floor
Those guys aim it'll tear this town down
And blow it into the sea
Man that's alright with me
'Cause I don't care anymore

She, she who is everything
The fever that she brings
She's got everything
And I've got caught
Wasting my life so bad
Just looking for the facts
Sometimes I
Feel like I'm walking dazed

When I get home from my job
I turn on my T.V.
But I can't keep my mind on the show
When I lay down at night
I don't get no sleep
So I turn on the radio
But, Lord, the only thing I hear
Is you whisperin' in my ear
The words that you used to say
Well, now the days grow longer
My love grows stronger
And the fever gets worse every day

I got a fever for a girl
He's got the fever

If your heart is restless from waiting too long
When youâre tired and weary, and you canât go on
Well if a distant dream is a callinâ you
Then thereâs just one thing that you can do

Yeah, you gotta follow that dream wherever that dream may lead you
You gotta follow that dream to find the love you need

Now baby, I walk in dreams
And I talk in dreams