Bruce Springsteen & ESB - Backstreets (Live)

2aud mix + 1 uncirculated aud recording

One soft infested summer me and Terry became friends
Trying in vain to breathe the fire we were born in
Catching rides to the outskirts, tying faith between our teeth
Sleeping in that old abandoned beach house, getting wasted in this 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 out on those 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, 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'd take it together

Endless juke joints and Valentino drag
Where dancers scrape the tears up off the streets dressed down in rags
Running into the darkness, some hurt bad some really dying
At night sometimes it seemed you could hear that whole damn city crying
Blame it on the lies that killed us, 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
'Cept I hated him and I hated you when you went away
Say yeah

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 the heroes we thought we had to be
But after all this time we 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
'Til the end
'Til the end
'Til the end

Just me and you baby
Just me and you
And you, and you
'Til the end, 'til the end, 'til the end
'Til the end, 'til the end, 'til the end

Hiding on the backstreets, hiding on the backstreets
Hiding on the backstreets, hiding on the backstreets
Hiding on the backstreets, hiding on the backstreets
Hiding on the backstreets, hiding on the backstreets
Hiding on the backstreets, hiding on the backstreets
Hiding on the backstreets, hiding on the backstreets
Hiding on the backstreets, hiding on the backstreets
It's alright
We'll go hiding on the backstreets tonight
Running on the backstreets, on the backstreets
On the backstreets, on the backstreets

Whoah, whoah, oh, oh, oh, oh, ooh

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[foxyoxyyy]

OMG this is one of my absolute favorite versions of this song. I absolutely love the tempo and the profound sound of the tempo... it seems to be a bit slower this version, but it's aces.

Also, I love his moaning prior to the repetitive 'hiding on the backstreets' so sexy..

what year is this from? what city? Please advise!!

[Ev2clip]

@foxyoxyyy 2009

[jhein1992]

I love when Bruce takes the solo for himself

[sassy3121]

This man is AMAZING!!!!!! I was at this show!!!!!!!HE IS THE BOSS FOREVER!

[Eeza07]

@angelanj99

It's from one of the Philly shows at The Spectrum on the WOAD Tour, when he opened with When You Walk In The Room.

[Eeza07]

This from Philly?

[rlambert15]

this is music. period. this is love. period.

[giants5961]

nice snot rocket

[talietime]

My God......this man is a living dream. Never have words painted a story so vivid.

[Ananderson100]

Best looking sixty year old, nearly 61 ever, lots of love Annie x