Bruce Springsteen - Backstreets live in Cleveland 1978

Fantastic song in a wonderful version recorded live on 9th August 1978 at The Agora, in Cleveland, Ohio. Heartstopping portion in the song of "Sad eyes" and "Drive all night" in the song.

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Lyrics:
One soft infested summer me and Terry became friends
Trying in vain to breathe the fire we was born in
Catching rides to the outskirts tying faith between our teeth
Sleeping in that old abandoned beach house getting wasted in the heat
And hiding on the backstreets, hiding on the backstreets
With a love so hard and filled with defeat
Running for our lives at night on them backstreets

Slow dancing in the dark on the beach at Stockton's Wing
Where desperate lovers park we sat with the last of the Duke Street Kings
Huddled in our cars waiting for the bells that ring
In the deep heart of the night to set us loose from everything
to go running on the backstreets, running on the backstreets
We swore we'd live forever on the backstreets we take it together

Endless juke joints and Valentino drag where dancers scraped the tears
Up off the street dressed down in rags running into the darkness
Some hurt bad some really dying at night sometimes it seemed
You could hear the whole damn city crying blame it on the lies that killed us
Blame it on the truth that ran us down you can blame it all on me Terry
It don't matter to me now when the breakdown hit at midnight
There was nothing left to say but I hated him and I hated you when you went away

Laying here in the dark you're like an angel on my chest
Just another tramp of hearts crying tears of faithlessness
Remember all the movies, Terry, we'd go see
Trying to learn how to walk like heroes we thought we had to be
And after all this time to find we're just like all the rest
Stranded in the park and forced to confess
To hiding on the backstreets, hiding on the backstreets
We swore forever friends on the backstreets until the end
Hiding on the backstreets, hiding on the backstreets


Copyright © Bruce Springsteen (ASCAP)

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• bruce
• springsteen
• street
• band
• backstreets
• 1978
• cleveland
• ohio
• agora

[duffy19631]

Played this song recorded live of the radio hundreds of times as a teen, it still gives me chills 30 plus years later.

[moocow117]

Blame it on the lies that killed us

On the truth that ran us down

Blame it all on me, Terry

It don't matter to me know...

[WegrennerX]

@draygnol You are not alone.. you are not alone my friend :)

[draygnol]

So utterly, profoundly, brutally true. Listening to this still after 34 years is still a deeply religious moment for me.

[brn2rn72]

sad eyes will dry for the new music.But this is awesome

[934johno]

is there a better songwriter he even rivals paul mcartney as a songwriter .i was going to go to that show like all his small hall concerts in those days he.d sell out in 5 minutes and i was raising 3 babys thank god for u tube

[Kathy12764]

This touches my soul

[xeli8810]

AMAZING..

[Oikeusmurha]

Remember all the movies, Terry, we'd go to see

trying to learn how to walk like heroes we thought we had to be

[SuzzyStohelit]

Laying here in the dark you're like an angel on my chest

Just another tramp of hearts crying tears of faithlessness

[brucefan2007]

God I love this song

[LoeChoaletie]

Is that the Angel up in Hubcap Heaven at 10:51?