Bruce Springsteen

Released: April 26, 2005

Songwriter: Bruce Springsteen

Producer: Brendan O’Brien

[Verse 1]
Been on a barbed wire highway forty days and nights
I ain't complaining, it's my job and it suits me right
I got a sweet soft fever rushing around my head
I'm gonna sleep tonight in Maria's bed

[Verse 2]
Got on a dead man's suit and a smiling skull ring
Lucky graveyard boots and a song to sing
I keep my heart in my work, my troubles in my head
And I keep my soul in Maria's bed

[Refrain]
Hey, hey
Hey, hey

[Verse 3]
I been up on sugar mountain, 'cross the sweet blue sea
I walked the valley of love and tears and mystery
I got run out'a luck and gave myself up for dead
And I drank the cool clear waters from Maria's bed

[Refrain]
Hey, hey
Hey, hey

[Verse 4]
She gave me candy stick kisses 'neath a wolf-dog moon
One sweet breath and she'll take you, mister, to the upper room
I was burned by the angels, sold wings of lead
Then I fell in the roses and sweet salvation of Maria's bed

[Verse 5]
I been out in the desert, yeah, doing my time
Sifting through the dust for fool's gold, looking for a sign
Holy man said "Hold on, brother, there's a light up ahead"
Ain't nothing like a light that shines on me in Maria's bed

[Outro]
Well I'll take my blessings at the riverhead
I'm living in the light of Maria's bed
Hey, hey
Hey, hey
Hey, hey

Bruce Springsteen is a rock ‘n’ roll icon from the great state of New Jersey. Nicknamed “The Boss,” he’s known for spirited sax-powered anthems about working-class people making their way in the world. Backed by the trusty E Street Band, he’s sold more than 120 million records, won numerous awards (including 20 Grammys and an Oscar), sold out stadiums around the globe, and earned a place alongside his teenage heroes in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Although he’s a living legend who ranks among the most important artists in rock history, Springsteen wasn’t an overnight success. Around the time of his first album, 1973’s Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J., he was dismissed as just another “new Dylan"—some scruffy folk singer with a decent vocabulary looking to follow in Bob’s footsteps. In the decade that followed, Springsteen proved himself to be much more.

His breakthrough came with his third album, 1975’s Born to Run. The record hit No. 3 on the Billboard 200 and landed the singer-songwriter on the cover of both Time and Newsweek. Bruce nabbed his first chart-topping album five years later with The River, and in 1984, he went global with Born in the U.S.A., a critical and commercial smash that produced seven Top 10 singles.

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