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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[hoprabbitbunny]

The Only Boss I'll Ever Work For!-In Backstreets, Bruce Springsteen writes about about a Friendship too desperate to last. In Five-and-a-half minutes, the story of Bruce, Terry and the Duke Street Kings is as haunted and tragic as Homer, Shakespeare and Faulkner. Springsteen brings it home with a guitar solo that will Tear Your Heart Out! Bruce Will Always Be the Future of Rock & Roll!

[andrewshere]

Epic...Springsteen captures a whole universe in just a few verses

[rita370]

brill song one of his best x

[UndrCovrcurve]

amazing song. amazing piano.



[myguitarism]

i play this song the first day i feel summer is here and i take a drive. i have done that for years...

[MuchoKiller]

I heard that the iliad needs a theme song

[Koffee87]

You blame it on me Terry , It don't matter to me now.

[lyonslaforet]

I don't know why but I listened to this epic again today and I shed a tear at the end!

[Warrensdeciple]

The greatest story ever told about one hell of love vivid and profound. On the backstreets until the end !

[FleetingWispsOfGlory]

It's hard for me to even articulate how much I love this song and this album and his lyricism and music in general.

[captaindillo]

for a long time i thought he sang "getting high on the backstreets." oh well, both work.