Bruce Springsteen - Backstreets (Studio Version)

Lyrics - Backstreets (Studio Version)

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 they set us loose of everything
To go running on the backstreets
Running on the backstreets
Terry, you swore we'd live forever
Taking it on them backstreets together

Endless juke joints and Valentino drag
Where famous 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 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 to walk like the 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
Where we swore forever friends
On the backstreets until the end

Hiding on the backstreets
Hiding on the backstreets
Hiding on the backstreets
Hiding on the backstreets

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[nazizombiesmustdie1]

This is his best song and album

[PremiseTester]

Hope for no-hopers. I wonder how many suicides that Bruce prevented.

[brebs79]

The best version of Bruce's very best song .....can't believe there isn't a few million views here. No musician in modern times comes close to what Springsteen has deliver'd over the last 40 years....... no one!

[M Rosaria Ferrara]

One soft infested summer, me and... became friends

Trying in vain to breathe the fire we was born in

[Lblu1181]

thanks for posting the lyrics, Nuno Domingos!

[laura lopez]

thanks bruce

[Wednesday Rain]

Thank you, Boss... For everything...

[chlorophyll4lyfe]

i stand corrected. was trying to look for when it was written but couldn't find it on the web. thanks for the fact. that is very intimidating.

[Longhammer37214]

It was released in 75, but written in 72 according to Garry Tallent. Bruce turned 23 on September 23rd 1972. :o)

[chlorophyll4lyfe]

not that it's that big of a difference, but for the record dude was 25 when this song was released