Bruce Springsteen

Released: July 30, 2002

Songwriter: Bruce Springsteen

Producer: Brendan O’Brien

[Verse 1]
I been watching you a long time
Trying to figure out where and when
We been moving down that same line
Time is now maybe we could get skin to skin

[Chorus]
Don't know when this chance might come again
Good times got a way of coming to an end
Don't know when this chance might come again
Good times got a way of slipping away
Let's be friends, baby, let's be friends

[Verse 2]
I know we're different you and me
Got a different way of walking
The time has come to let the past be history
Yeah, if we could just start talking

[Chorus]
Don't know when this chance might come again
Good times got a way of coming to an end
Don't know when this chance might come again
Good times got a way of slipping away
Let's be friends, baby, let's be friends

[Bridge]
Do, do do doo do do do doo
Do, do do doo do do do doo
Do, do do doo do do do doo
Let's be friends
Do, do do doo do do do doo
Do, do do doo do do do doo
Do, do do doo do do do doo
Let's be friends

[Verse 3]
There's a lot of talk going around you
Let them talk, you know you're the only one
There's a lot of walls need tearing down
Together we could take them down one by one

[Chorus]
Don't know when this chance might come again
Good times got a way of coming to an end
Don't know when this chance might come again
Good times got a way of slipping away
Let's be friends, baby, let's be friends

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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