Streets Of Philadelphia

Bruce Springsteen Streets Of Philadelphia Lyrics
1.Streets Of Philadelphia

I was bruised and battered and I couldn't tell
what I felt
I was unrecognizable to myself
Saw my reflection in a window I didn't know
my own face
Oh brother are you gonna leave me
wasting away
On the streets of Philadelphia

I walked the avenue till my legs felt like stone
I heard the voices of friends vanished and gone
At night I could hear the blood in my veins
Just as black and whispering as the rain
On the streets of Philadelphia

Ain't no angel gonna greet me
It's just you and I my friend
And my clothes don't fit me no more
I walked a thousand miles
just to slip this skin

The night has fallen, I'm lyin' awake
I can feel myself fading away
So receive me brother with your faithless kiss
or will we leave each other alone like this
On the streets of Philadelphia


2.If I Should Fall Behind

Lyrics:Bruce Springsteen
Music:Bruce Springsteen

We said we'd walk together baby come what may
That come the twilight should we lose our way
If as we're walkin a hand should slip free
I'll wait for you
And should I fall behind
Wait for me

We swore we'd travel darlin' side by side
We'd help each other stay in stride
But each lover's 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 let's 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 oak's bough soon we will be wed
Should we lose each other in the shadow of the evening trees
I'll wait for you
And should I fall behind
Wait for me
Darlin' I'll wait for you
Should I fall behind
Wait for me


3.Growin' Up

Lyrics:Bruce Springsteen
Music:Bruce Springsteen

I stood stone-like at midnight suspended in my masquerade
I combed my hair till it was just right and commanded the night
brigade
I was open to pain and crossed by the rain and I walked on a
crooked crutch
I strolled all alone through a fallout zone and came out with my
soul untouched
I hid in the clouded wrath of the crowd but when they said 'Sit
down' I stood up.
Ooh-ooh growin' up

The flag of piracy flew from my mast, my sails were set wing to
wing
I had a jukebox graduate for first mate, she couldn't sail but
she sure could sing,
I pushed B-52 and bombed 'em with the blues with my gear set
stubborn on standing
I broke all the rules, strafed my old high school, never once
gave thought to landing,
I hid in the clouded wrath of the crowd but when they said 'Come
down' I threw up
Ooh-ooh growin' up

I took month-long vacations in the stratosphere and you know
it's really hard to hold your breath.
I swear I lost everything I ever loved or feared, I was the
cosmic kid in full costume dress
Well, my feet they finally took root in the earth but I got me a
nice little place in the stars
And I swear I found the key to the universe in the engine of an
old parked car
I hid in the mother breast of the crowd but when they said 'Pull
down' I pulled up
Ooh-ooh growin' up. Ooh-ooh growin' up


4.The Big Muddy

Lyrics:Bruce Springsteen
Music:Bruce Springsteen

Billy had a mistress down on 'A' and 12th
She was that little somethin' that he did for himself
His own little secret didn't hurt nobody
Come the afternoon he'd take her wadin'

Waist deep in the big muddy
Waist deep in the big muddy
You start out standing but end up crawlin'

Got in some trouble and needed a hand from a friend of mine
This old friend he had a figure in mind
It was nothing illegal just a little bit funny
He said 'C'mon don't tell me that the rich don't know
Sooner or later it all comes down to money'

And you're waist deep in the big muddy
Waist deep in the big muddy
You start on higher ground but end up crawlin'

Well I had a friend said 'You watch what you do
Poison snake bites you and you're poison too'

How beautiful the river flows and the birds they sing
But you and I we're messier things
There ain't no one leavin' this world buddy
Without their shirttail dirty
Or their hands bloody

Waist deep in the big muddy
Waist deep in the big muddy
You start on higher ground but end up somehow crawlin'
Waist deep in the big muddy


5.Chimes of Freedom(Live)

Lyrics:Bob Dylan
Music:Bob Dylan

Well, far between sundown's finish and midnight's broken toll
We ducked inside the doorway, thunder crashin'
As majestic bells of bolts struck shadows in the sun;
Sayin', it may be the chimes of freedom flashin'

Flashin' for the warriors whose strength is not to fight;
Flashin' for the refugees on their unarmed road of flight.
And for each and every underdog soldier in the night
We gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashin'

Well, in the city's melted furnace unexpectedly we watched
With faces hidden here while the walls were tightenin'
As the echo of the wedding bells before the blowing rain;
Dissolved into the wild bales of lightnin'

Yeah, tollin' for the rebel, yeah, tollin' for the raked
Tollin' for the luckless, the abandoned and forsaked.
Yeah, tollin' for the outcasts burnin' constantly at stakes
And we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashin'

Oh yeah! (instrumental solo)

And then through a cloud-like curtain in a far off corner
flashed
There's a hypnotic, splattered mist was slowly liftin'
Well, electric light still struck like arrows
Fired but for the ones condemned to drift or else be kept from
driftin'

Well, tollin' for the searching ones on this speechless, secret
trail
For the lonesome haunted lovers with too personal a tale.
And for each young heart for each channeled soul misplaced
inside a jail
Yeah, we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashin'

Well, starry eyed and laughin' I recall when we were caught,
Trapped by no track of hours for they hanged suspended
As we listened one last time, and we watched with one last look
Spellbound and swallowed 'Has the tollin' ended?'

Yeah, tollin' for the achin' ones whose wounds cannot be nursed
For the countless, confused, accused, misused strung out ones at
worst.
And for every hung out person in the whole wide universe
We gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashin'

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