Bruce Springsteen

Released: November 10, 1998

Songwriter: Bruce Springsteen

Producer: Little Steven Chuck Plotkin Jon Landau Bruce Springsteen

[Verse 1]
It's cloudy out in Pittsburgh, it's raining in Saigon
Snow's fallin' all across the Michigan line
She sits by the light of her Christmas tree
With the radio softly on
Thinkin' how a good man is so hard to find

[Verse 2]
Well once she had a fella, once she was somebody's girl
And she gave all she had that one last time
Now there's a little girl asleep in the back room
She's gonna have to tell about the meanness in this world
And how a good man is so hard to find

[Verse 3]
Well there's pictures on the table by her bed
Him in his dress greens and her in her wedding white
She remembers how the world was the day he left
And now how that world is dead
And a good man is so hard to find

[Verse 4]
She ain't got time now for Casanovas
Yeah those days are gone
She don't want that anymore, she's made up her mind
Just somebody to hold her as the night gets on
When a good man is so hard to find

[Verse 5]
Well, she shuts off the TV
And without a word and into bed she climbs
Well, she thinks how it was all so wasted
And how expendable their dreams all were
When a good man was so hard to find

[Outro]
Well, it's cloudy out in Pittsburgh

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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