Live In New York City de Bruce Springsteen
Álbum de Bruce Springsteen
- Fecha de lanzamiento: 27 de Marzo de 2001
- Compositores: Bruce Springsteen
- Productores: Chuck Plotkin, Bruce Springsteen
Live In New York City es un álbum de Bruce Springsteen, publicado en 2001. El disco incluye 20 canciones, entre ellas «My Love Will Not Let You Down», «Prove It All Night», «Two Hearts» y «Atlantic City».
Antecedentes: la reunión de la e Street Band
Tras una década de proyectos en solitario, Bruce Springsteen reunió oficialmente a la E Street Band en 1999 para una gira masiva, la Reunion Tour. Esta gira no promocionaba un nuevo álbum, sino que celebraba el legado de la banda y su química inigualable. "Live in New York City" captura dos de los últimos conciertos de esa gira, en el Madison Square Garden en junio y julio de 2000. El evento fue transmitido como un especial de televisión de gran éxito en HBO antes de ser lanzado como un álbum doble y un DVD.
El álbum es una declaración poderosa: la E Street Band había vuelto, y su magia estaba intacta. Es una celebración de su pasado, pero también una mirada hacia el futuro, con la inclusión de nuevas canciones que abordaban temas sociales urgentes.
El concierto y el repertorio
Los conciertos del Madison Square Garden fueron eventos catárticos tanto para la banda como para el público. La energía era palpable, una mezcla de nostalgia, alegría y un renovado sentido de propósito. El repertorio es una mezcla de clásicos ("The River", "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out"), temas favoritos de los fans que rara vez se tocaban ("My Love Will Not Let You Down") y, lo más importante, nuevas canciones.
El álbum incluye la primera grabación oficial de "American Skin (41 Shots)", una poderosa y controvertida canción sobre el asesinato de Amadou Diallo a manos de la policía de Nueva York. También presenta una nueva versión épica de "Land of Hope and Dreams", una canción que se convertiría en un pilar de sus conciertos futuros.
Un vistazo al sonido
"Live in New York City" captura a la E Street Band en su mejor momento. La banda suena más potente y cohesionada que nunca, con la adición del guitarrista Nils Lofgren y la presencia de Patti Scialfa añadiendo nuevas texturas al sonido. La producción de Chuck Plotkin es impecable, logrando un sonido de concierto que es a la vez masivo y claro, capturando cada matiz de la interacción de la banda.
Es un álbum que demuestra por qué la E Street Band es considerada una de las mejores bandas en vivo de la historia. La energía, la pasión y la musicalidad son extraordinarias, y la conexión de Springsteen con su público es palpable.
Acogida y huella posterior
"Live in New York City" fue un gran éxito comercial y de crítica. Debutó en el número 5 del Billboard 200 y fue certificado platino en Estados Unidos. El especial de HBO ganó dos premios Emmy. El álbum fue aclamado por la crítica como un regreso triunfal y una de las mejores grabaciones en vivo de la carrera de Springsteen. Sirvió como un puente perfecto entre su legado y el siguiente capítulo de su carrera, que comenzaría al año siguiente con el álbum "The Rising".
Posición en listas:
- Estados Unidos (USA): 5
- Reino Unido (UK): 12
- Alemania: 5
- Suecia: 8
- España: 5
Listado de Canciones
Disco 1
- My Love Will Not Let You Down
Letra
At night I go to bed but I just can't sleep I got something running around my head That just won't keep In the silence I hear my heart beating, time slippin' away I got a time bomb ticking deep inside of me I gotta tell you what I wanna say I keep searching for you, darling Searching everywhere I go And when I find you there's gonna be Just one thing that you gotta know My love, will not let you down My love, will not let you down At night I walk the streets looking for romance But I always end up stumbling in a half-trance I search for connection in some new eyes But they're hard for protection from too many dreams passed by I see you standing across the room watching me without a sound Well I'm gonna push my way through that crowd, I'm gonna tear all your walls down Tear all your walls down My love, will not let you down My love, will not let you down Well hold still now darling, hold still for God's sake 'Cause I got me a promise I ain't afraid to make My love, will not let you down My love, will not let you down - Prove It All Night
Letra
I've been working real hard trying to get my hands clean Tonight we'll drive that dusty road from Monroe to Angeline To buy you a gold ring and a pretty dress of blue Baby, just one kiss will get these things for you A kiss to seal our fate tonight A kiss to prove it all night, prove it all night Girl, there's nothing else that we can do So prove it all night, prove it all night And girl I'll prove it all night for you Everybody's got a hunger, a hunger they can't resist There's so much that you want, you deserve much more than this But if dreams came true, oh, wouldn't that be nice But this ain't no dream we're livin' all through tonight Ah, girl, you want it, you take it, you pay the price To prove it all night, prove it all night Prove it all night baby and call the bluff Prove it all night, prove it all night And, gir,l I'll prove it all night for your love Baby, tie your hair back in a long white bow Meet me in the fields behind the dynamo You hear their voices tellin' you not to go They made their choices and they'll never know What it means to steal, to cheat, to lie What it's like to liveand die To prove it all night, prove it all night Baby, there's nothin' else that we can do So prove it all night, prove it all night Girl, I'll prove it all night for you I'll prove it all night, I'll prove it all night I'll prove it all night, I'll prove it all night - Two Hearts
Letra
I went out walking the other day Seen a little girl crying along the way She'd been hurt so bad said she'd never love again Someday your crying girl will end And you'll find once again CHORUS Two hearts are better than one Two hearts girl get the job done Two hearts are better than one Once I spent my time playing tough guy scenes But I was living in a world of childish dreams Someday these childish dreams must end To become a man and grow up to dream again Now I believe in the end CHORUS Sometimes it might seem like it was planned For you to roam empty hearted through this land Though the world turns you hard and cold There's one thing mister, that I know That's if you think your heart is stone And that you're rough enough to whip this world alone Alone buddy there ain't no peace of mind That's why I'll keep searching till I find my special one CHORUS - Atlantic City
Letra
Well, they blew up the chicken man in philly last night Now, they blew up his house, too Down on the boardwalk they're gettin ready for a fight Gonna see what them racket boys can do Now, there's trouble bustin in from outta state And the D. A. Can't get no relief Gonna be a rumble out on the promenade And the gamblin commissions hangin on by the skin of his teeth Well now, evrything dies, baby, that's a fact But maybe evrything that dies someday comes back Put your makeup on, fix your hair up pretty And meet me tonight in atlantic city Well, I got a job and tried to put my money away But I got debts that no honest man can pay So I drew what I had from the central trust And I bought us two tickets on that coast city bus Now, baby, evrything dies, honey, that's a fact... Now our luck may have died and our love may be cold But with you forever I'll stay Were goin out where the sands turnin to gold Put on your stockins baby, 'cause the nights getting cold And maybe evrything dies, baby, that's a fact But maybe evrything that dies someday comes back Now, I been lookin for a job, but it's hard to find Down here it's just winners and losers and don't Get caught on the wrong side of that line Well, I'm tired of comin out on the losin end So, honey, last night I met this guy and I'm gonna Do a little favor for him Well, I guess everything dies, baby, that's a fact... - Mansion on the Hill
Letra
There's a place out on the edge of town, sir, Risin' above the factories and the fields Now, ever since I was a child, I can remember That mansion on the hill In the day you can see the children playing On the road that leads to those gates of hardened steel Steel gates that completely surround, sir, The mansion on the hill At night my daddy'd take me and we'd ride Through the streets of a town so silent and still Park on a back road along the highway side Look up at that mansion on the hill In the summer all the lights would shine There'd be music playin', people laughin' all the time Me and my sister, we'd hide out in the tall cornfields Sit and listen to the mansion on the hill Tonight down here in Linden Town I watch the cars rushin' by, home from the mill There's a beautiful full moon rising Above the mansion on the hill - The River
Letra
I come from down in the valley Where mister, when you're young They bring you up to do like your daddy done Me and Mary we met in high school When she was just seventeen We'd drive out of this valley down to where the fields weregreen We'd go down to the river And into the river we'd dive Oh down to the river we'd ride Then I got Mary pregnant And, man, that was all she wrote And for my 19th birthday I got a union card and a wedding coat We went down to the courthouse And the judge put it all to rest No wedding day smiles, no walk down the aisle No flowers, no wedding dress That night we went down to the river And into the river we'd dive Oh down to the river we did ride I got a job working construction for the Johnstown Company But lately there ain't been much work on account of the economy Now all them things that seemed so important Well mister they vanished right into the air Now I just act like I don't remember Mary acts like she don't care But I remember us riding in my brother's car Her body tan and wet down at the reservoir At night on them banks I'd lie awake And pull her close just to feel each breath she'd take Now those memories come back to haunt me They haunt me like a curse Is a dream a lie if it don't come true Or is it something worse That sends me Down to the river Though I know the river is dry That sends me down to the river tonight Down to the river My baby and I Oh down to the river we ride - Youngstown
Letra
Here in northeast Ohio Back in eighteen-o-three James and Dan Heaton Found the ore that was linin' Yellow Creek They built a blast furnace Here along the shore And they made the cannonballs That helped the Union win the war Here in Youngstown Here in Youngstown My sweet Jenny I'm sinkin' down Here darlin' in Youngstown Well my daddy worked the furnaces Kept 'em hotter than hell I come home from 'Nam worked my way to scarfer A job that'd suit the devil as well Taconite coke and limestone Fed my children and make my pay Them smokestacks reachin' like the arms of God Into a beautiful sky of soot and clay Here in Youngstown Here in Youngstown Sweet Jenny I'm sinkin' down Here darlin' in Youngstown Well my daddy come on the Ohio works When he come home from World War Two Now the yard's just scrap and rubble He said "Them big boys did what Hitler couldn't do." These mills they built the tanks and bombs That won this country's wars We sent our sons to Korea and Vietnam Now we're wondering what they were dyin' for Here in Youngstown Here in Youngstown My sweet Jenny I'm sinkin' down Here darlin' in Youngstown From the Monongahela valley To the Mesabi iron range To the coal mines of Appalachia The story's always the same Seven hundred tons of metal a day Now sir you tell me the world's changed Once I made you rich enough Rich enough to forget my name And Youngstown And Youngstown My sweet Jenny I'm sinkin' down Here darlin' in Youngstown When I die I don't want no part of heaven I would not do heaven's work well I pray the devil comes and takes me To stand in the fiery furnaces of hell - Murder Incorporated
Letra
Bobby's got a gun that he keeps beneath his pillow (oh yeah) Out on the streets your chances are zero (oh yeah) Take a look around you (come on down) It ain't too complicated You're messin' with murder incorporated Now you check over your shoulder everywhere that you go (oh yeah) Walkin down the streets, there's eyes in every shadow (oh yeah) You better take a look around you (come on down) That equipment you got's so outdated You can't compete with murder incorporated Everywhere you look now there's murder incorporated So you keep a little secret down deep inside your dresser drawer From dealing with the heat you're feelin' down on the killin' floor No matter where you step you feel you're never out of danger So complicated you keep complaining some bones hurtin' I hear that you, you got dogged downtown, man it leaves your head cold (oh Yea) And everywhere you look life ain't got no soul (oh yeah) That apartment you live in feels like it's just a place to hide When your walkin' down the streets you won't need nowhere there to hide Now the cops reported you as just another homicide I could tell that you was just frustrated from livin' with murder Incorporated Incorporated Everywhere you look now Murder incorporated Down on your knees Murder Everywhere that you turn it's murder Murder Everywhere you look there's murder. Aaaah, mmmmm, yeah, I said aaah, mmmmm, yeah I said aaah, wooo, yeah - Badlands
Letra
There’re lights out tonight, trouble in the heartland Got a head-on collision, smashin’ in my guts, man I'm caught in a crossfire, that I don't understand But there's one thing I know for sure, girl I don't give a damn for the same old played out scenes Honey, I don't give a damn, for just the in-betweens Honey, I want the heart, I want the soul, I want control right now You better listen to me, baby Talk about a dream; try to make it real You wake up in the night, with a fear so real You spend your life waitin’ for a moment, that just don't come Well, don't waste your time waiting Badlands, you’ve gotta live it every day Let the broken hearts stand As the price you’ve gotta pay Keep pushin’ until it's understood And these badlands start treating us good Workin’ in the field Till you get your back burned Workin’ 'neath the wheels Till you get your facts learned Baby, I got my facts, learned real good right now You better get it straight, darling Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king And a king ain’t satisfied, till he rules everything I wanna go out tonight, I wanna find out what I got Now, I believe in the love that you gave me I believe in the faith, that could save me I believe in the hope and I pray that someday it Will raise me above these Badlands, you’ve gotta live it every day Let the broken hearts stand As the price you’ve gotta pay Keep pushin’ till it's understood And these badlands start treating us good Whoa, whoa, whoa (Guitar & Sax Solo) Mmmmm, mmmmm, mmmm Mmmmm, mmmmm, mmmm Mmmmm, mmmmm, mmmm Mmmmm, mmmmm, mmmm For the ones who had a notion, a notion deep inside That it ain’t no sin to be glad you're alive I wanna find one face, that ain’t looking through me I wanna find one place, I wanna spit in the face of these Badlands, you’ve gotta live it every day Let the broken hearts stand As the price you’ve gotta pay Keep pushin’ until it's understood And these badlands start treating us good A-whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa Badlands, a-whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa Badlands, a-whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa Badlands, a-whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa Badlands, a-whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa Badlands, a-whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa - Out in the Street
Letra
Put on your best dress baby And darlin', fix your hair up right Cause there's a party, honey Way down beneath the neon lights All day you've been working that hard line Now tonight you're gonna have a good time I work five days a week girl Loading crates down on the dock I take my hard earned money And meet my girl down on the block And Monday when the foreman calls time I've already got Friday on my mind When that whistle blows Girl, I'm down the street I'm home, I'm out of my work clothes When I'm out in the street I walk the way I wanna walk When I'm out in the street I talk the way I wanna talk When I'm out in the street When I'm out in the street When I'm out in the street, girl Well, I never feel alone When I'm out in the street, girl In the crowd I feel at home The black and whites they cruise by And they watch us from the corner of their eye But there ain't no doubt, girl, down here We ain't gonna take what they're handing out When I'm out in the street I walk the way I wanna walk When I'm out in the street I talk the way I wanna talk Baby, out in the street I don't feel sad or blue Baby, out in the street I'll be waiting for you When the whistle blows Girl, I'm down the street I'm home, I'm out of my work clothes When I'm out in the street I walk the way I wanna walk When I'm out in the street I talk the way I wanna talk When I'm out in the street Pretty girls, they're all passing by When I'm out in the street From the corner, we give them the eye Baby, out in the street I just feel all right Meet me out in the street, little girl, tonight Meet me out in the street Meet me out in the street - Born to RunIn the day we sweat it out on the streets of a runaway American Dream At night we ride through mansions of glory in suicide machines Sprung from cages on Highway Nine Chrome wheeled, fuel injected and steppin’ out over the line Oh, baby, this town rips the bones from your back It’s a death trap, it's a suicide rap We gotta get out while we’re young Cause tramps like us, baby, we were born to run Yes, girl, we are Wendy, let me in I wanna be your friend I wanna guard your dreams and visions Just wrap your legs ‘round these velvet rims And strap your hands ‘cross my engines Together we could break this trap We’ll run till we drop, baby we’ll never go back Oh, will you walk with me out on the wire? Cause baby I'm just a scared and lonely rider But I gotta know how it feels I wanna know if love is wild, babe, I wanna know if love is real Oh, can ya show me Huh, sax (Sax Solo) Beyond the palace, hemi-powered drones scream down the boulevard Girls comb their hair in rearview mirrors And the boys try to look so hard The amusement park rises bold and stark Kids are huddled on the beach in the mist I wanna die with ya, Wendy, on the street tonight In an everlastin’ kiss, ha (Guitar Solo) One, two, three, four The highway’s jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive Well, everybody’s out on the run tonight, but there's no place left to hide Together Wendy we can live with the sadness I’ll love you with all the madness in my soul Oh, someday girl, I don't know when we’re gonna get to that place Where we really wanna go and we’ll walk in the sun But till then, tramps like us, baby, we were born to run Come on, Honey, tramps like us Baby, we were born to run Come on Wendy, tramps like us Baby, we were born to run Whoa, a-whoa, mmm, mmm, ahh, ahh, aah Whoa, oh, whoa, oh, oh, oh, oh, oo, ooo Mmm, mmm, whoa, ooo, ooo, whoa, oh, oh, oh, ooo, ooo
Disco 2
- Tenth Avenue Freeze Out
- Land of Hope and Dreams
Letra
Oh this train... I'm ridin' this train... Don't you wanna ride? Grab your ticket and your suitcase Thunder's rollin' down this track Well, you don't know where you're goin' now But you know you won't be back Well darlin' if you're weary Lay your head upon my chest We'll take what we can carry And we'll leave the rest Big wheels rolls through fields where sunlight streams Meet me in a land of hope and dreams I will provide for you And I'll stand by your side You'll need a good companion now For this part of the ride Leave behind your sorrows Let this day be the last Tomorrow there'll be sunshine And all this darkness past Big wheels roll through fields where sunlight streams Meet me in a land of hope and dreams Well, this train Carries saints and sinners This train Carries losers and winners This train Carries whores and gamblers This train Carries lost souls I said, this train Dreams will not be thwarted This train Faith will be rewarded This train Hear the steel wheels singin' This train Bells of freedom ringin' This train Carries saints and sinners This train Carries losers and winners This train Carries whores and gamblers This train Carries lost souls I said, this train Carries broken-hearted This train Thieves and sweet souls departed This train Carries fools and kings This train All aboard I said now, this train Dreams will not be thwarted This train Faith will be rewarded This train Hear the steel wheels singin' This train Bells of freedom ringin' Come on this train... People get ready You don't need no ticket All you gotta do is Just get on board On board this train People get ready You don't need no ticket (Oh I know you don't) You don't need no ticket You just get on board (People get ready) You just thank the lord (People get ready) You just thank the lord (People get ready) You just thank the lord (People get ready) Come on this train People get ready Come on this train People get ready - American Skin
Letra
41 shots 41 shots 41 shots 41 shots 41 shots 41 shots 41 shots 41 shots 41 shots, and we'll take that ride Across this bloody river to the other side 41 shots, they cut through the night You're kneeling over his body in the vestibule Praying for his life Is it a gun? Is it a knife? Is it a wallet? This is your life It ain't no secret (it ain't no secret) It ain't no secret (it ain't no secret) Ain't no secret my friend You can get killed just for living in your american skin 41 shots 41 shots 41 shots 41 shots 41 shots, lena gets her son ready for school She says now on these streets charles You got to understand the rules Promise me if an officer stops you'll always be polite Never ever run away and promise mama you'll keep your hands in sight Cause is it a gun? Is it a knife? Is it a wallet? This is your life It ain't no secret (it ain't no secret) It ain't no secret (it ain't no secret) No secret my friend You can get killed just for living in your american skin 41 shots 41 shots 41 shots 41 shots Is it a gun? Is it a knife? Is it a wallet? This is your life It ain't no secret (it ain't no secret) It ain't no secret (it ain't no secret) It ain't no secret (it ain't no secret) 41 shots and we'll take that ride Across this bloody river to the other side 41 shots my boots caked in mud We're baptized in these waters and in each other's blood Is it a gun? Is it a knife? Is it a wallet? This is your life It ain't no secret (it ain't no secret) It ain't no secret (it ain't no secret) No secret my friend You can get killed just for living in You can get killed just for living in You can get killed just for living in Your american skin 41 shots 41 shots 41 shots 41 shots 41 shots 41 shots 41 shots - Lost in the Flood
Letra
The ragamuffin gunner is returnin' home like a hungry runaway He walks through town all alone He must be from the fort he hears the high school girls say His countryside's burnin' with wolfman fairies dressed in drag for homicide The hit and run, plead sanctuary, 'neath a holy stone they hide They're breakin' beams and crosses with a spastic's reelin' perfection Nuns run bald through Vatican halls pregnant, pleadin' immaculate conception And everybody's wrecked on Main Street from drinking unholy blood Sticker smiles sweet as gunner breathes deep, his ankles caked in mud And I said "Hey gunner man that's quicksand, that's quicksand that ain't mud Have you thrown your senses to the war or did you lose them in the flood? " That pure American brother, dull-eyed and empty-faced Races Sundays in Jersey in a Chevy stock super eight He rides 'er low on the hip, on the side he's got Bound For Glory in red, White and blue flash paint He leans on the hood telling racing stories, the kids call him Jimmy The Saint Well the blaze and noise boy, he's gunnin' that bitch loaded to blastin' Point He rides head first into a hurricane and disappears into a point And there's nothin' left but some blood where the body fell That is, nothin' left that you could sell Just junk all across the horizon, a real highwayman's farewell And he said "Hey kid, you think that's oil? Man, that ain't oil that's blood" I wonder what he was thinking when he hit that storm Or was he just lost in the flood? Eighth Avenue sailors in satin shirts whisper in the air Some storefront incarnation of Maria, she's puttin' on me the stare And Bronx's best apostle stands with his hand on his own hard ware Everything stops, you hear five, quick shots, the cops come up for air And now the whiz-bang gang from uptown, they're shootin' up the street And that cat from the Bronx starts lettin' loose but he gets blown right off His feet And some kid comes blastin' round the corner but a cop puts him right away He lays on the street holding his leg screaming something in Spanish Still breathing when I walked away And somebody said "Hey man did you see that? His body hit the street with such a beautiful thud" I wonder what the dude was sayin' or was he just lost in the flood? Hey man, did you see that, those poor cats are sure messed up I wonder what they were gettin' into, or were they just lost in the flood? - Born in the U.S.A.Born down in a dead man's town The first kick I took was when I hit the ground You end up like a dog that's been beat too much Till you spend half your life just covering up Born in the U.S.A I was born in the U.S.A I was born in the U.S.A Born in the U.S.A Got in a little hometown jam So they put a rifle in my hand Sent me off to a foreign land To go and kill the yellow man Born in the U.S.A I was born in the U.S.A. ah! Born in the U.S.A I was born in the U.S.A Come back home to the refinery Hiring man says: son if it was up to me Went down to see my v.a. man He said: son, don't you understand now Had a brother at Khe Sahn fighting off the Viet Cong They're still there he's all gone He had a woman he loved in Saigon I got a picture of him in her arms now Down in the shadow of penitentiary Out by the gas fires of the refinery I'm ten years burning down the road Nowhere to run ain't got nowhere to go Born in the U.S.A I was born in the U.S.A. now Born in the U.S.A I'm long gone daddy in the U.S.A. now Born in the U.S.A Born in the U.S.A Born in the U.S.A I'm a cool rocking daddy in the U.S.A. now
- Don't Look Back
Letra
Cold rain running down the front of my shirt I'm flat on my back wheels in the dirt Angel makes her face up out on baker street Shes straddlin; the shifter in my front seat Theres nothing to lose It's a set-up (heartbreak) The decks stacked So put your foot to the floor And darling dont look back Well making night tracks through the blazing rain Blow them pistons, work (move) in the fast lane White line burning, pockets full of cash Angel writes her name in lipstick on my dash Theres nothing to lose It's a set-up (except a heartbreak) (just a bad break) The decks stacked (baby were back) Tonight well blow off the doors (put your foot to the floor) And honey we won't look back (and darling don't look back) We held it in our hearts in the pouring rain We made it through the heart of a hurricane We tore it apart and put it together again Well wash out sins, girl down in the sea Angel won't you believe in love for me (come on meet me tonight darlin out in the street) Well move with the city in the dark You got to walk it talk it in your heart Theres nothin to lose It's a set-up (just a heartache) The decks stacked So put your foot to the floor (and) darling Tonight well blow out (off) the doors darling (baby) Put your foot to the floor (were gonna even the score) And darling don't look back (honey we won't look back) Don't look back Ah, baby, don't look back - Jungleland
Letra
The Rangers had a homecomin’ in Harlem late last night And the Magic Rat drove his sleek machine, over the Jersey state line Barefoot Girl sitting on the hood of a Dodge Drinking warm beer in the soft summer rain The Rat pulls into town rolls up his pants Together they take a stab at romance And disappear down Flamingo Lane Well, the maximum lawman run down Flamingo Chasing the Rat and the Barefoot Girl And the kids ‘round here, look just like shadows Always quiet, holding hands From the churches to the jails Tonight all is silence in the world, as we take our stand Down in Jungleland The midnight gangs assembled And picked a rendezvous for the night They'll meet 'neath that giant Exxon sign That brings this fair city light Man, there's an opera out on the turnpike There's a ballet being fought out in the alley Until the local cop, cherry top, rips this holy night The street’s alive as debts are paid Contacts made, they vanished unseen Kids flash guitars just like switch-blades Hustling for the record machine The hungry and the hunted Explode into rock ‘n roll bands That face off against each other out in the street Down in Jungleland (Guitar solo) In the parking lot the visionaries dress in the latest rage Inside the backstreet girls Are dancing to the records that the D. J. plays Lonely-hearted lovers struggle in dark corners Desperate as the night moves on Just a look and a whisper, and they're gone (Soulful Sax Solo) Beneath the city two hearts beat Soul engines runnin’ through a night so tender In a bedroom locked In whispers of soft, refusal, and then surrender In the tunnels uptown The Rat’s own dream guns him down As shots echo down them hallways in the night No one watches, when the ambulance pulls away Or, as the girl shuts out the bedroom light Outside, the street’s on fire in a real death waltz Between what’s flesh and what's fantasy And then poets down here, don't write nothin’ at all They just stand back and let it all be And in the quick of the night They reach for their moment And try to make an honest stand But they wind up wounded, not even dead Tonight in Jungleland - Ramrod
Letra
Hey, little dolly with the blue jeans on I wanna ramrod with you honey, till half-past dawn Let your hair down sugar and pick up this beat Come on and meet me tonight down on Bluebird Street I've been working all week, I'm up to my neck in hock Come Saturday night I let my ramrod rock She's a hot stepping hemi with a four on the floor She's a roadrunner engine in a '32 Ford Late at night when I'm dead on the line I swear I think of your pretty face when I let her unwind Well look over yonder see them city lights Come on little dolly 'n' go ramroddin' tonight Come on, come on, come on little baby Come on, come on let's shake it tonight Come on, come, come on little sugar Dance with your daddy and we'll go ramroddin' tonight Hey, little dolly won't you say you will Meet me tonight up on top of the hill Well just a few miles cross the county line There's a cute little chapel nestled down in the pines Say you'll be mine little girl I'll put my foot to the floor Give me the word now sugar, we'll go ramroddin' forever more - If I Should Fall Behind
Letra
We said wed walk together baby come what may That come the twilight should we lose our way If as were walkin a hand should slip free Ill wait for you And should I fall behind Wait for me We swore wed travel darlin side by side Wed help each other stay in stride But each lovers steps fall so differently But I'll wait for you And if I should fall behind Wait for me Now everyone dreams of a love lasting and true But you and I know what this world can do So lets make our steps clear that the other may see And I'll wait for you If I should fall behind Wait for me Now there's a beautiful river in the valley ahead There neath the oaks bough soon we will be wed Should we lose each other in the shadow of the evening trees Ill wait for you And should I fall behind Wait for me Darlin I'll wait for you Should I fall behind Wait for me
