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Darkness on the Edge of Town
by Bruce Springsteen
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3.4362
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3.5150
Darkness on the Edge of Town Lyrics
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- Lights out tonight,
- Trouble in the heartland,
- Got a head on collision,
- Smashin' in my guts, man,
- I'm caught in a cross fire,
- That I don't understand,
- I don't give a damn,
- for the same old played out scenes,
- I don't give a damn,
- for just the in betweens,
- Honey, I want the heart, I want the soul,
- I want control right now
- Talk about a dream,
- try to make it real
- You wake up in the night,
- with a fear so real,
- Spend your life waiting,
- for a moment that just don't come,
- Well, don't waste your time waiting,
- Badlands, you gotta live it everyday,
- Let the broken hearts stand
- As the price you've gotta pay,
- We'll keep pushin' till it's understood,
- and these badlands start treating us good.
- Workin' in the fields
- till you get your back burned,
- Workin' 'neath the wheel
- till you get your facts learned,
- Baby, I got my facts
- learned real good right now,
- Poor man wanna be rich,
- rich man wanna be king,
- And a king ain't satisfied,
- till he rules everything,
- I wanna go out tonight,
- I wanna find out what I got
- I believe in the love that you gave me,
- I believe in the hope that can save me,
- I believe in the faith
- and I pray, that someday it may raise me,
- Above these badlands
- Badlands, you gotta live it everyday,
- Let the broken hearts stand
- As the price you've gotta pay,
- We'll keep pushin' till it's understood,
- and these badlands start treating us good.
- For the ones who had a notion,
- A notion deep inside,
- That it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive
- I wanna find one face that ain't looking through me
- I wanna find one place,
- I wanna spit in the face of these badlands
- Badlands, you gotta live it everyday,
- Let the broken hearts stand
- As the price you've gotta pay,
- We'll keep pushin' till it's understood,
- and these badlands start treating us good.
- 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.
- All of the old faces,
- Ask you why you're back,
- They fit you with position,
- And the keys to your daddy's Cadillac,
- In the darkness of your room,
- Your mother calls you by your true name,
- You remember the faces, the places, the names,
- You know it's never over, it's relentless as the rain,
- Adam raised a Cain.
- In the Bible Cain slew Abel
- And East of Eden he was cast,
- You're born into this life paying,
- for the sins of somebody else's past,
- Daddy worked his whole life, for nothing but the pain,
- Now he walks these empty rooms, looking for something to blame,
- You inherit the sins, you inherit the flames,
- Adam raised a Cain.
- Lost but not forgotten, from the dark heart of a dream,
- Adam raised a Cain.
- I'm riding down Kingsley,
- figuring I'll get a drink
- Turn the radio up loud,
- so I don't have to think,
- I take her to the floor,
- looking for a moment when the world seems right,
- And I tear into the guts,
- of something in the night.
- You're born with nothing,
- and better off that way,
- Soon as you've got something they send
- someone to try and take it away,
- You can ride this road 'till dawn,
- without another human being in sight,
- Just kids wasted on
- something in the night.
- Nothing is forgotten or forgiven,
- when it's your last time around,
- I got stuff running 'round my head
- That I just can't live down.
- When we found the things we loved,
- They were crushed and dying in the dirt.
- We tried to pick up the pieces,
- And get away without getting hurt,
- But they caught us at the state line,
- And burned our cars in one last fight,
- And left us running burned and blind,
- Chasing something in the night.
- 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,
- Strangers from the city, call my baby's number and they bring her toys,
- When I come knocking, she smiles pretty, she knows I wanna be Candy's boy,
- There's a sadness hidden in that pretty face, a sadness all her own, from which no man can keep Candy safe.
- We kiss, my heart's pumpin' to my brain
- the blood rushes in my veins, when I touch Candy's lips,
- We go driving, driving deep into the night,
- I go driving deep into the light, in Candy's eyes.
- She says, Baby if you wanna be wild,
- you got a lot to learn, close your eyes,
- Let them melt, let them fire,
- let them burn
- Cause in the darkness, there'll be hidden worlds that shine,
- When I hold Candy close she makes the hidden worlds mine,
- She has fancy clothes and diamond rings,
- She has men who give her anything she wants, but they don't see,
- That what she wants is me,
- Oh, and I want her so,
- I'll never let her go, no, no, no
- She knows that I'd give
- all that I got to give,
- All that I want, all that I live,
- to make Candy mine
- Tonight
- I got a sixty-nine Chevy with a 396
- Fuelie heads and a Hurst on the floor
- She's waiting tonight down in the parking lot
- Outside the Seven-Eleven store
- Me and my partner Sonny built her straight out of scratch
- And he rides with me from town to town
- We only run for the money, got no strings attached
- We shut 'em up and than we shut 'em down
- Tonight, tonight the strip's just right
- I wanna blow 'em off in my first heat
- Summer's here and the time is right
- For racin' in the street
- We take all the action we can meet
- And we cover all the northeast state
- When the strip shuts down we run 'em in the street
- From the fire roads to the interstate
- 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.
- Tonight, tonight the strip's just right
- I wanna blow 'em all out of their seats
- Calling out around the world, we're going racin' in the street.
- I met her on the strip three years ago
- In a Camero with this dude from L.A.
- I blew that Camero off my back,
- and drove that little girl away,
- But now there's wrinkles around my baby's eyes
- And she cries herself to sleep at night
- When I come home the house is dark
- She sighs, "Baby did you make it all right,"
- She sits on the porch of her Daddy's house
- But all her pretty dreams are torn,
- She stares off alone into the night
- With the eyes of one who hates for just being born
- For all the shut down strangers and hot rod angels,
- Rumbling through this promised land
- Tonight my baby and me, we're gonna ride to the sea
- And wash these sins off our hands.
- Tonight, tonight the highway's bright
- Out of our way, mister you best keep
- 'Cause summer's here and the time is right
- For racin' in the street.
- On a rattlesnake speedway in the Utah desert
- I pick up my money and head back into town
- Driving cross the Waynesboro county line
- I got the radio on and I'm just killing time
- Working all day in my daddy's garage
- Driving all night, chasing some mirage
- Pretty soon little girl I'm gonna take charge.
- The dogs on main street howl,
- 'cause they understand,
- If I could take one moment into my hands
- Mister, I ain't a boy, no, I'm a man,
- And I believe in a promised land.
- I've done my best to live the right way
- I get up every morning and go to work each day
- But your eyes go blind and your blood runs cold
- Sometimes I feel so weak I just want to explode
- Explode and tear this town apart
- Take a knife and cut this pain from my heart
- Find somebody itching for something to start
- The dogs on main street howl,
- 'cause they understand,
- If I could take one moment into my hands
- Mister, I ain't a boy, no, I'm a man,
- And I believe in a promised land.
- There's a dark cloud rising from the desert floor
- I packed my bags and I'm heading straight into the storm
- Gonna be a twister to blow everything down
- That ain't got the faith to stand its ground
- Blow away the dreams that tear you apart
- Blow away the dreams that break your heart
- Blow away the lies that leave you nothing but lost and brokenhearted
- The dogs on main street howl,
- 'cause they understand,
- If I could take one moment into my hands
- Mister, I ain't a boy, no, I'm a man,
- And I believe in a promised land
- I believe in a promised land...
- Early in the morning factory whistle blows,
- Man rises from bed and puts on his clothes,
- Man takes his lunch, walks out in the morning light,
- It's the working, the working, just the working life.
- Through the mansions of fear, through the mansions of pain,
- I see my daddy walking through them factory gates in the rain,
- Factory takes his hearing, factory gives him life,
- The working, the working, just the working life.
- End of the day, factory whistle cries,
- Men walk through these gates with death in their eyes.
- And you just better believe, boy,
- somebody's gonna get hurt tonight,
- It's the working, the working, just the working life.
- When the night's quiet and you don't care anymore,
- And your eyes are tired and there's someone at your door
- And you realize you wanna let go
- And the weak lies and the cold walls you embrace
- Eat at your insides and leave you face to face with
- Streets of fire
- I'm wandering, a loser down these tracks
- I'm dying, but girl I can't go back
- 'Cause in the darkness I hear somebody call my name
- And when you realize how they tricked you this time
- And it's all lies but I'm strung out on the wire
- In these streets of fire
- I live now, only with strangers
- I talk to only strangers
- I walk with angels that have no place
- Streets of fire
- I've been working real hard, trying to get my hands clean,
- Tonight we'll drive that dusty road from Monroe to Angeline,
- To buy you a gold ring and pretty dress of blue,
- Baby just one kiss will get these things for you,
- A kiss to seal our fate tonight,
- A kiss to prove it all night.
- Prove it all night,
- Girl there's nothing else that we can do,
- So prove it all night, prove it all night,
- And girl I'll prove it all night for you.
- Everybody's got a hunger, a hunger they can't resist,
- There's so much that you want, you deserve much more than this,
- But if dreams came true, oh, wouldn't that be nice,
- But this ain't no dream we're living through tonight,
- Girl, you want it, you take it, you pay the price.
- Prove it all night,
- Girl there's nothing else that we can do,
- So prove it all night, prove it all night,
- And girl I'll prove it all night for you.
- Prove it all night, prove it all night girl and call the bluff,
- Prove it all night, prove it all night and girl,
- I prove it all night for your love.
- Baby, tie your hair back in a long white bow,
- Meet me in the fields out behind the dynamo,
- You hear the voices telling you not to go,
- They made their choices and they'll never know,
- What it means to steal, to cheat, to lie,
- What it's like to live and die.
- Prove it all night,
- Girl there's nothing else that we can do,
- So prove it all night, prove it all night,
- And girl I'll prove it all night for you.
- To prove it all night...
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