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Lucky Town
by Bruce Springsteen
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Overall Rating:
3.1061
Avg. Critic Score:
3.2000
Lucky Town Lyrics
Lyrics
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- Well my soul checked out missing as I sat listening
- To the hours and minutes tickin' away
- Yeah just sittin' around waitin' for my life to begin
- While it was all just slippin' away
- I'm tired of waitin' for tomorrow to come
- Or that train to come roarin' 'round the bend
- I got a new suit of clothes a pretty red rose
- And a woman I can call my friend
- These are better days baby
- Yeah there's better days shining through
- These are better days baby
- Better days with a girl like you
- Well I took a piss at fortune's sweet kiss
- It's like eatin' caviar and dirt
- It's sad funny ending to find yourself pretending
- A rich man in a poor man's shirt
- Now my ass was draggin' when from a passin' gypsy wagon
- Your heart like a diamond shone
- Tonight I'm layin' in your arms carvin' lucky charms
- Out of these hard luck bones
- These are better days baby
- These are better days it's true
- These are better days
- There's better days shining through
- Now a life of leisure and a pirate's treasure
- Don't make much for tragedy
- But it's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin
- And can't stand the company
- Every fool's got a reason for feelin' sorry for himself
- And turning his heart to stone
- Tonight this fool's halfway to heaven and just a mile outta hell
- And I feel like I'm comin' home
- These are better days baby
- There's better days shining through
- These are better days
- Better days with a girl like you
- These are better days baby
- These are better days it's true
- These are better days
- Better days are shining through
- House got too crowded clothes got too tight
- And I don't know just where I'm going tonight
- Out where the sky's been cleared by a good hard rain
- There's somebody callin' my secret name
- I'm going down to Lucky Town
- Going down to Lucky Town
- I wanna lose these blues I've found
- Down in Lucky Town
- Down in Lucky Town
- Had a coat of fine leather and snakeskin boots
- But that coat always had a thread hangin' to loose
- Well I pulled it one night and to my surprise
- It led me right past your house and on over the rise
- I'm going down to Lucky Town
- Down to Lucky Town
- I'm gonna lose these blues I've found
- Down in Lucky Town
- Down in Lucky Town
- I had some victory that was just failure in deceit
- Now the joke's comin' up through the soles of my feet
- I been a long time walking on fortune's cane
- Tonight I'm sleepin' lightly and feelin' no pain
- Well here's to your good looks baby now here's to my health
- Here's to the loaded places that we take ourselves
- When it comes to luck you make your own
- Tonight I got to dirt on my hands but I'm building me a new home
- Down in Lucky Town
- Down in Lucky Town
- I'm gonna lose these blues I've found
- Down in Lucky Town
- I was driving through my hometown
- I was just kinda killin' time
- When I seen a face staring out of a black velvet painting
- From the window of the five and dime
- I couldn't quite recall the name
- But the pose looked familiar to me
- So I asked the salesgirl "Who was that man
- Between the doberman and Bruce Lee ?"
- She said "Just a local hero"
- "Local hero" she said with a smile
- "Yeah a local hero he used to live here for a while"
- I met a stranger dressed in black
- At the train station
- He said "Son your soul can be saved"
- There's beautiful women nights of low livin'
- And some dangerous money to be made
- There's a big town 'cross the whiskey line
- And if we turn the right cards up
- They make us boss the devil pays off
- And them folks that are real hard up
- They get their local hero
- Somebody with the right style
- They get their local hero
- Somebody with just the right smile
- Well I learned my job I learned it well
- Fit myself with religion and a story to tell
- First they made me the king then they made me pope
- Then they brought the rope
- I woke to a gypsy girl sayin' "Drink this"
- Well my hands had lost all sensation
- These days I'm feeling all right
- 'Cept I can't tell my courage from my desperation
- From the tainted chalice
- Well I drunk some heady wine
- Tonight I'm layin' here
- But there's something in my ear
- Sayin' there's a little town just beaneath the floodline
- Needs a local hero
- Somebody with the right style
- Lookin' for a local hero
- Someone with the right smile
- Local hero local hero she said with a smile
- Local hero he used to live here for a while
- We said we'd walk together baby come what may
- That come the twilight should we lose our way
- If as we're walking a hand should slip free
- I'll wait for you
- And should I fall behind
- Wait for me
- We swore we'd travel darlin' side by side
- We'd help each other stay in stride
- But each lover's steps fall so differently
- But I'll wait for you
- And if I should fall behind
- Wait for me
- Now everyone dreams of a love lasting and true
- But you and I know what this world can do
- So let's make our steps clear that the other may see
- And I'll wait for you
- If I should fall behind
- Wait for me
- Now there's a beautiful river in the valley ahead
- There 'neath the oak's bough soon we will be wed
- Should we lose each other in the shadow of the evening trees
- I'll wait for you
- And should I fall behind
- Wait for me
- Darlin' I'll wait for you
- Should I fall behind
- Wait for me
- All over the world the rain was pourin'
- I was scratchin' where it itched
- Oh heartbreak and despair got nothing but boring
- So I grabbed you baby like a wild pitch
- It takes a leap of faith to get things going
- It takes a leap of faith you gotta show some guts
- It takes a leap of faith to get things going
- In your heart you must trust
- Now your legs were heaven your breasts were the altar
- Your body was the holy land
- You shouted "jump" but my heart faltered
- You laughted and said "Baby don't you understand ?"
- It takes a leap of faith to get things going
- It takes a leap of faith you gotta show some guts
- It takes a leap of faith to get things going
- In your heart you must trust
- Now you were the Red Sea I was Moses
- I kissed you and slipped into a bed of roses
- The waters parted and love rushed inside
- I was Jesus' son sanctified
- Tonight the moon's looking young but I'm feelin' younger
- 'Neath a veil of dreams sweet blessings rain
- Honey I can feel the first breeze of summer
- And in your love I'm born again
- It takes a leap of faith to get things going
- It takes a leap of faith you gotta show some guts
- It takes a leap of faith to get things going
- In your heart you must trust
- Billy had a mistress down on 'A' an 12th
- She was that little somethin' that he did for himself
- His own little secret didn't hurt nobody
- Come the afternoon he'd take her wadin'
- Waist deep in the big muddy
- Waist deep in the big muddy
- You start out standing but end up crawlin'
- Got in some trouble and needed a hand from a friend of mine
- This old friend he had a figure in mind
- It was nothing illegal just a little bit funny
- He said "C'mon don't tell me that the rich don't know
- Sooner or later it all comes down to money"
- And you're waist deep in the big muddy
- Waist deep in the big muddy
- You start on higher ground but end up crawlin'
- Well I had a friend said "You watch what you do
- Poison snake bites you and you're poison too"
- How beautiful the river flows and the birds they thing
- But you and I we're messier things
- They're ain't no one leavin' this world buddy
- Without their shirttail dirty
- Or their hands bloody
- Waist deep in the big muddy
- Waist deep in the big muddy
- You start on higher ground but end up somehow crawlin'
- Waist deep in the big muddy
- Well now on a summer night in a dusky room
- Come a little piece of the Lord's undying light
- Crying like he swallowed the fiery moon
- In his mother's arms it was all the beauty I could take
- Like the missing words to some prayer that I could never make
- In a world so hard and dirty so fouled and confused
- Searching for a little bit of God's mercy
- I found living proof
- I put my heart and soul I put 'em high upon a shelf
- Right next to the faith the faith that I'd lost in myself
- I went down into the desert city
- Just tryin' so hard to shed my skin
- I crawled deep into some kind of darkness
- Lookin' to burn out every trace of who I'd been
- You do some sad sad things baby
- When it's you you're tryin' to lose
- You do some sad and hurtful things
- I've seen living proof
- You shot through my anger and rage
- To show me my prison was just an open cage
- There were no keys no guards
- Just one frightened man and some old shadows for bars
- Well now all that's sure on the boulevard
- Is that life is just a house of cards
- As fragile as each and every breath
- Of this boy sleepin' in our bed
- Tonight let's lie beneath the eaves
- Just a close band of happy thieves
- And when that train comes we'll get on board
- And steal what we can from the treasures treasures of the Lord
- It's been a long long drought baby
- Tonight the rain's pourin' down on our roof
- Looking for a little bit of God's mercy
- I found living proof
- I'm standing in the backyard
- Listening to the party inside
- Tonight I'm drinkin' in the forgiveness
- This life provides
- The scars we carry remain but the pain slips away it seems
- Oh won't you baby be in my book of dreams
- I'm watchin' you through the window
- With your girlfriends from back home
- You're showin' off your dress
- There's laughter and a toast
- From your daddy to the prettiest bride he's ever seen
- Oh won't you baby be in my book of dreams
- In the darkness my fingers slip across your skin
- I feel your sweet reply
- The room fades away and suddenly I'm way up high
- Just holdin' you to me
- As through the window the moonlight streams
- Oh won't you baby be in my book of dreams
- Now the ritual begins
- 'Neath the wedding garland we meet as strangers
- The dance floor is alive with beauty
- Mystery and danger
- We dance out 'neath the stars' ancient light into the darkening trees
- Oh won't you baby be in my book of dreams
- On the road to Basra stood young Lieutenant Jimmy Bly
- Detailed to go through the clothes of the soldiers who died
- At night in dreams he sees their souls rise
- Like dark geese into the Oklahoma skies
- Well this is a prayer for the souls of the departed
- Those who've gone and left their babies brokenhearted
- This is a prayer for the souls of the departed
- Now Raphael Rodriguez was just seven years old
- Shot down in a schoolyard by some East Compton Cholos
- His mama cried "My beautiful boy is dead"
- In the hills the self-made men just sighed and shook their heads
- This is a prayer for the souls of the departed
- Those who've gone and left their babies brokenhearted
- Young lives over before they got started
- This is a prayer for the souls of the departed
- Tonight as I tuck my own son in bed
- All I can think of is what if it would've been him instead
- I want to build me a wall so high nothing can burn it down
- Right here on my own piece of dirty ground
- Now I ply my trade in the land of king dollar
- Where you get paid and your silence passes as honor
- And all the hatred and dirty little lies
- Been written off the books and into decent men's eyes
- Well I sought gold and diamond rings
- My own drug to ease the pain that living brings
- Walked from the mountain to the valley floor
- Searching for my beautiful reward
- Searching for my beautiful reward
- From a house on a hill a sacred light shines
- I walk through these rooms but none of them are mine
- Down empty hallways I went from door to door
- Searching for my beautiful reward
- Searching for my beautiful reward
- Well your hair shone in the sun
- I was so high I was the lucky one
- Then I came crashing down like a drunk on a barroom floor
- Searching for my beautiful reward
- Searching for my beautiful reward
- Tonight I can feel the cold wind at my back
- I'm flyin' high over gray fields my feathers long and black
- Down along the river's silent edge I soar
- Searching for my beautiful reward
- Searching for my beautiful reward
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