![]() ![]() This song tells the story of Springsteen’s band’s formation the Boss refers to himself as ‘Bad Scooter’) (from the song ‘Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out’, a.k.a. “ Turn around the corner things got real quiet real fast / She hit me with a / Tenth Avenue freeze-out, tenth Avenue freeze-out” “ I broke through the trees and there in the night / My father’s house stood shining hard and bright” ![]() (from the song ‘Angelyne’, written by Springsteen for Gary ‘US’ Bonds’ 1982 album ‘On the Line’, which Springsteen co-produced) “ He was a bouncer in a joint called Tony’s Body Shop / She was a night cashier down at the Stop ‘n’ Shop” In the liner notes, Springsteen admits he stole the title from a film with Robert Mitchum) (from the eponymous song, opener of ‘Born to Run’. “ Oh oh come take my hand / Riding out tonight to case the promised land / Oh oh oh Thunder Road, oh Thunder Road, oh Thunder Road / Lying out there like a killer in the sun” In the liner notes, Springsteen calls this a “breakthrough song”, one that eventually led to ‘Nebraska’) “ That night we went down to the river / And into the river we’d dive / Oh down to the river we did ride” (from the song ‘Backstreets’, off ‘Born to Run’, 1975) “ Sleeping in that old abandoned beach house / Getting wasted in the heat / And hiding on the backstreets” ‘Sandy’, off ‘The Wild, The Innocent, And The E Street Shuffle’, 1973) (from the song ‘4th of July, Asbury Park’ a.k.a. “ Sandy the fireworks are hailin’ over Little Eden tonight / Forcin’ a light into all those stoned-out faces left stranded on this Fourth of July” (from ‘Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)’, on The Wild, The Innocent, And The E Street Shuffle) “ My tires were slashed and I almost crashed but the Lord had mercy / My machine she’s a dud out stuck in the mud somewhere in the swamps of Jersey” (from the song ‘Jungleland’ on ‘Born to Run’) “ There’s an opera out on the Turnpike, there’s a ballet being fought outside the alley” (From the song ‘Candy’s Room’, off the ‘Darkness On the Edge of Town’ album) “ In Candy’s room, there are pictures of her heroes on the wall / But to get to Candy’s room, you gotta walk the darkness of Candy’s hall” (from the song ‘Jungleland’ on the ‘Born to Run’ album) “ Well there’s a crazy kind of light tonight / Brighter than the one that sparkles for prophets / Brighter than the Giant Exxon sign that brings this fair city light” That Giant Exxon Sign That Brings This Fair City Light (from the eponymous song, on ‘Born to Run’) Featured on ‘Live in New York City’, 2002) (from the song ‘American Skin (41 Shots)’, a song about the shooting dead by the NYPD of Amadou Diallo, an African immigrant. “ 41 shots, and we’ll take that ride / ‘Cross this bloody river to the other side” (from the song ‘Spirit In the Night’, off ‘Greetings From Asbury Park, NJ’) “ Well Billy slammed on his coaster brakes and said anybody wanna go on up to Greasy Lake / It’s about a mile down on the dark side of route eighty-eight” (from ‘Born to Run’, off the eponymous album) “ 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” (from the song ‘Atlantic City’, on ‘Nebraska’) can’t get no relief / Gonna be a rumble out on the promenade and the gamblin’ commissions hangin’ on by the skin of its teeth” “ Now there’s trouble bustin’ in from outta state and the D.A. (from the song ‘Johnny 99’, off the album ‘Nebraska’) “ Down in the part of town where when you hit a red light you don’t stop / Johnny’s wavin’ his gun around and threatenin’ to blow his top” The Part of Town Where When You Hit A Red Light, You Don’t Stop ![]()
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