Bruce Springsteen

Released: September 25, 2007

Songwriter: Bruce Springsteen

Producer: Brendan O’Brien

[Verse 1]
You can't sleep at night
You can't dream your dream
Your fingerprints on file
Left clumsily at the scene

[Bridge]
Your own worst enemy has come to town
Your own worst enemy has come to town

[Verse 2]
Yesterday the people were at ease
Baby, you slept in peace
You closed your eyes and saw her
You knew who you were

[Chorus]
And your own worst enemy has come to town
Your own worst enemy has come
Your world keeps turning round and round
But everything is upside down
Your own worst enemy has come to town

[Verse 3]
There's a face you know
Staring back from the shop window
The condition you're in
Now you just can't get out of this skin

[Bridge]
Ah ah ah
Ah ah ah
Ah ah ah
Hooo

[Verse 4]
The times, they got too clear
So you removed all the mirrors
Once the family felt secure
Now no one's very sure

[Chorus]
Your own worst enemy has come to town
Your own worst enemy has come
Everything is falling down
Your own worst enemy has come to town
Your own worst enemy has come
Everything is falling down
Your own worst enemy has come to town
Your flag, it flew so high
It drifted into the sky

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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