Bruce Springsteen quotes

„Show a little faith, there's magic in the night;
You ain't a beauty but hey you're all right.“

—  Bruce Springsteen

"Thunder Road"
Song lyrics, Born to Run (1975)
Context: 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.
Show a little faith, there's magic in the night;
You ain't a beauty but hey you're all right.
Oh and that's all right with me.

„We gotta get out while we're young,
'Cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run.“

—  Bruce Springsteen, book Born to Run

"Born to Run"
Song lyrics, Born to Run (1975)
Context: In the day we sweat it out on the streets of a runaway American dream.
At night we ride through mansions of glory in suicide machines.
Sprung from cages 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.

„At this point, I don’t need my records to be Number One or sell as many as this person or that person. That’s not fundamentally important — I don’t believe that sustains you.“

—  Bruce Springsteen

„I'm stranded in the jungle,
Taking all the heat they was giving.
The night is dark but the sidewalk's bright
And lined with the light of the living.
From a tenement window a transistor blasts,
Turn around the corner things got real quiet real fast.
She hit me with a Tenth Avenue freeze-out.
Tenth Avenue freeze-out.“

—  Bruce Springsteen

"Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out"
Song lyrics, Born to Run (1975)

„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 to feelin' sorry for himself
And turn 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.“

—  Bruce Springsteen

"Better Days"
Song lyrics, Lucky Town (1992)

„You ride in a limousine the first time, it’s a big thrill but after that it’s just a stupid car.“

—  Bruce Springsteen

„Well, no cannon ball did fly, no rifles cut us down.
No bombs fell from the sky, no blood soaked the ground.
No powder flash blinded the eye.
No deathly thunder sounded.
But just as sure as the hand of God,
They brought death to my hometown.
They brought death to my hometown.“

—  Bruce Springsteen

"Death to My Hometown"
Song lyrics, Wrecking Ball (2012)

„Can't see nothin' in front of me;
Can't see nothin' coming up behind.
I make my way through this darkness;
I can't feel nothing but this chain that binds me.
Lost track of how far I've gone,
How far I've gone, how high I've climbed.
On my back's a sixty pound stone,
On my shoulder a half mile line.“

—  Bruce Springsteen

"The Rising"
Song lyrics, The Rising (2002)

„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.“

—  Bruce Springsteen

"Prove It All Night"
Song lyrics, Darkness on the Edge of Town (1978)

„We all come up a little short and we go down hard.
These days I spend my time skipping through the dark.
Through the empires of dust, I chant your name.
I am the hunter of invisible game.“

—  Bruce Springsteen

"Hunter of Invisible Game"
Song lyrics, High Hopes (2014)

„Well let there be sunlight, let there be rain.
Let the brokenhearted love again.
Sherry we can run with our arms open before the tide“

—  Bruce Springsteen

"Sherry Darling"
Song lyrics, The River (1980)

„Now I think I'm going down to the well tonight
And I'm going to drink till I get my fill.
And I hope when I get old I don't sit around thinking about it,
But I probably will.
Yeah, just sitting back trying to recapture
A little of the glory of,
Well time slips away and leaves you with nothing mister but boring stories of glory days.“

—  Bruce Springsteen

"Glory Days"
Song lyrics, Born in the U.S.A. (1984)

„Now I been out in the desert, just doin' my time.
Searchin' through the dust, lookin' for a sign.
If there's a light up ahead well brother I don't know.
But I got this fever burnin' in my soul.
So let's take the good times as they go,
And I'll meet you further on up the road.“

—  Bruce Springsteen

"Further On (Up the Road)"
Song lyrics, The Rising (2002)

„When they built you brother, they turned this dust to gold.
When they built you brother, they broke the mold.“

—  Bruce Springsteen

"Terry's Song"
Song lyrics, Magic (2007)

„Now I don't know what it always was with us.
We chose the words, and yeah, we drew the lines.
There was just no way this house could hold the two of us.
I guess that we were just too much of the same kind.“

—  Bruce Springsteen

"Independence Day"
Song lyrics, The River (1980)

„Last night me and Kate we laid in bed talking about getting out.
Packing up our bags maybe heading south.
I'm thirty-five, we got a boy of our own now.
Last night I sat him up behind the wheel and said son take a good look around.
This is your hometown.“

—  Bruce Springsteen

"My Hometown"
Song lyrics, Born in the U.S.A. (1984)

„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
To blow 'em away in the night.“

—  Bruce Springsteen

"Night"
Song lyrics, Born to Run (1975)

„And your strength is devastating in the face of all these odds.
Remember how I kept you waiting when it was my turn to be the god.“

—  Bruce Springsteen

"For You"
Song lyrics, Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. (1973)

„In the third grade a nun stuffed me in a garbage can under her desk because she said that’s where I belonged.“

—  Bruce Springsteen