Bruce Springsteen Lyrics

Welcome to the Bruce Springsteen Lyrics page where you'll find a few of Springsteen's top hits with more to be added here soon. You'll also find a few of my covers on these songs here.




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Full Tutorial - 13 min 51 sec

--- Start Of Tougher Than The Rest ---
Well it's saturday night ... you're all dressed ......... up ......... in blue
I been watching you awhile ... maybe you been watching me too
So somebody ran out ... left somebodys heart in a mess
Well if you're looking for love ... honey I'm tougher than the rest

Some girls they want a handsome dan ... or some good-lookin joe
On their arms some girls like a sweet-talkin romeo
Well round here baby ... I learned you get what you can get
So if you're rough enough for love ... honey I'm tougher than the rest

The road is dark ... and its a thin thin line
But I want you to know ... I'll walk it for you anytime
Maybe your other boyfriends ... couldnt pass the test
Well if you're rough and ready for love ... honey I'm tougher than the rest

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Well it aint no secret ...I've been around a time or two
Well I don't know baby ... maybe you've been around too
Well there's another dance ... all you gotta do is say yes
And if you're rough and ready for love ... honey I'm tougher than the rest
If you're rough enough for love ... baby I'm tougher than the rest

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Full Tutorial - 6 min 08 sec

--- Start Of Erie Canal ---
I've got a mule and her name is Sal ... fifteen miles on the Erie Canal
She's a good old worker and a good old pal ... fifteen miles on the Erie Canal
We haul'd some barges in our day ... filled with lumber, coal, and hay
We know every inch ... of the way ... from Albany to Buffalo

Low bridge everybody down ... low bridge yeah we're coming to a town
And you'll always know your neighbor and you'll always know your pal
If ya ever navigated on the Erie Canal

We'd better look around for a job, old gal ... fifteen miles on the Erie Canal
You can bet your life ... I'll never part with Sal ... fifteen miles on the Erie Canal
Get up mule here comes a lock ... we'll make Rome 'bout six o'clock
One more trip and back we'll go ... right back home to Buffalo

Low bridge everybody down ... low bridge yeah we're coming to a town
And you'll always know your neighbor and you'll always know your pal
If ya ever navigated on the Erie Canal

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Where would I be if I lost my pal ... Fifteen miles on the Erie Canal
I'd like to see a mule ... as good as my Sal ... fifteen miles on the Erie Canal
A friend of mine once got her sore ... now he's got a broken jaw
Cause she let fly with an iron toe ... and kicked him back to Buffalo

Low bridge everybody down ... low bridge yeah we're coming to a town
And you'll always know your neighbor and you'll always know your pal
If ya ever navigated on the Erie Canal

Low bridge everybody down ... low bridge yeah we're coming to a town
And you'll always know your neighbor and you'll always know your pal
If ya ever navigated on the Erie Canal


Low bridge everybody down ... low bridge yeah we're coming to a town
ooohhhhhhhh

--- End Of Bruce Springsteen Lyrics for Erie Canal ---
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For two days the river keeps you down
Then you rise to the light without a sound
Past the playgrounds and empty switching yards
The turtles eat the skin from your eyes so they lay open to the stars

Your clothes give way to the current and river stone
'Till every trace of who you ever were is gone
And the things of the earth they make their claim
That the things of heaven may do the same

Goodbye, my darling, for your love I give God thanks
Meet me on the Matamoros
Meet me on the Matamors
Meet me on the Matamors banks

Over rivers of stone and ancient ocean beds
I walk on dust of twine and tire tread
My pockets full of dust ... my mouth filled with cool stone
The pale moon opens the earth ... to its bones

I long my darling for your kiss
For your sweet love I give ... God thanks
The touch of your loving fingertips
Meet me on the Matamoros
Meet me on the Matamoros
Meet me on the Matamoros bnks

Break

Your sweet memory comes on the evenin' wind
I sleep and dream of holding you in my arms again
The lights of Brownsville across the river shine
A shout rings out and into the silty red river I dive

I long my darling for your kiss
For your sweet love I give God thanks
A touch of your loving fingertips
Meet me on the Matamoros
Meet me on the Matamoros
Meet me on the Matamoros banks

Meet me on the Matamoros
Meet me on the Matamoros
Meet me on the Matamoros banks

--- End Of Bruce Springsteen Lyrics for Matamoros Banks ---
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Full Tutorial - 6 min 08 sec

Have you ever seen a one trick pony in the field so happy and free?
If you've ever seen a one trick pony then you've seen me
Have you ever seen a one-legged dog ... making its way down the street?
If you've ever seen a one-legged dog then you've seen me

Then you've seen me ... I come and stand at every door
Then you've seen me ... I always leave with less than I had before
Then you've seen me ... bet I can make you smile when the blood, it hits the floor
Tell me, fan, can you ask for anything more?
Tell me can you ask for anything more?

Have you ever seen a scarecrow filled with nothing but dust and wheat?
If you've ever seen that scarecrow then you've seen me
Have you ever seen a one-armed man punching at nothing but the breeze?
If you've ever seen a one-armed man then you've seen me

Then you've seen me, I come and stand at every door
Then you've seen me, I always leave with less than I had before
Then you've seen me, bet I can make you smile when the blood, it hits the floor
Tell me, fan, can you ask for anything more?
Tell me can you ask for anything more?
These things that have comforted me, I drive away
This place that is my home I cannot stay
My only faith's in the broken bones and bruises I display

Have you ever seen a one-legged man trying to dance his way free?
If you've ever seen a one-legged man then you've seen me

--- End Of Bruce Springsteen Lyrics for The Wrestler ---
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Full Instruction Tutorial - 11 min 28 sec

They're still racing out at the Trestles
But that blood it never burned in her veins
Now I hear she's got a house up in Fairview
And a style she's trying to maintain
Well if she wants to see me
You can tell her that I'm easily found
Tell her there's a spot out `neath ... Abram's Bridge
And tell her ... there's a darkness on the edge of town
There's a darkness on the edge of town

Everybody's got a secret Sonny
Something that they just can't face
Some folks spend their whole lives trying to keep it
They carry it with them every step that they take
Till someday ... they just cut it loose
Cut it loose or let it drag `em down
Where no one asks any questions or looks too long in your face
In the darkness on the edge of town
In the darkness on the edge of town

Break

Some folks are born into a good life
Other folks get it anyway anyhow
Me I lost my money ... and I lost my wife
Them things don't seem to matter much to me now
Tonight I'll be on that hill ...`cause I can't stop
I'll be on that hill ... with everything I got
Lives on the line ... where dreams are found and lost
I'll be there on time ... and I'll pay the cost
For wanting things ... that can only be found
In the darkness on the edge of town
In the darkness on the edge of town

--- End Of Bruce Springsteen Lyrics for
Darkness On The Edge Of Town ---




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