September 3, 2009

  • Damned Hell, I had wanted to find sheet music for For You during the summer, not far after it had finished. Of course, this reminder led me to listening to some tracks and...geez, you forget how unnerving he can be. If you like raw rock, this is just downright gorgeous.

     

     

    Beneath...the city...
         two hearts beat
    Soul engines running through a night so tender...
    In a bedroom, locked
    In whispers of soft
         confusion...and then
         ...surrender
    In the tunnels uptown...the Rat's own dream guns him down
    Shots echo down them hallways in the night...
    No one watches as an ambulance pulls away

    Or as the girl shuts out the bedroom light...

    Outside, the streets are on fire -
         in a real death-waltz -
    Between what's flesh and what's fantasy
    And the poets down here don't write nothing at all -
         they just stand back and let it all be

    And in the quick of a knife - they reach for their moment
         and try to take an honest stand
    But they wind up wounded...not even dead...

    Tonight...
         in...
              Jun-
                   gle
                        Land!

     

     

    Well, there's a dark cloud rising from the desert storm
    I've packed my bags and I'm heading straight into the storm
    Gonna be a twister to blow everything down
    And I ain't got - the faith - to stand it's ground

    Blow away!
         the dreams that tear you apart
    Blow away!
         the dreams that break your heart
    Blow away!
         the lies that leave you nothing but lost and broken-hearted...

     

     

    So, oh, ohh - come take my hand
    We're riding out tonight to case the Promise Land
    Oh, oh - ohh, Thunder Road
         oh, Thunder Road, Thunder Road...
    Lying out there, like a killer in the sun!
    Baby, I know it's late - but we can make it, if we run
    Oh, oh, oh - oh, Thunder Road
         Sit tight - take hold!
    Thunder Road!

     

     

    Well now, some folks are born into a good life
    And other folks get it anyway, anyhow
    Well now, I lost my money and I lost my wife
    But them things don't seem to matter much to me now

    Tonight I'll be on that hill!
         'cause I can't stop...
    I'll be on that hill
         with everything that I've got
    Lives on the line!
         Where dreams are found and lost!
    I'll be there on time!
         And I'll pay the cost
    For wanting things - that can - on-ly - be - found...

    In the Darkness on the edge of town

     

     

    Outside, inside - wherever you may be: Rosie! Come out tonight!

     

     

    http://houston.culturemap.com/newsdetail/08-01-10-is-there-a-haunting-suicide-in-bruce-springsteen-past-songs-20-11/
    http://houston.culturemap.com/newsdetail/08-08-10-the-top-best-bruce-springsteen-songs-of-all-time-and-a-beckoning-HBO-Boss-documentary/
    (all 200 hundred of the songs have the author criticize the bad and bring up the good, so I gave you the page for where the last 20 greats by him starts; it's not a long read (and I kinda freaked a little when he gave Wild Billy's Circus Story a low rating), but totally worth it)