Bruce Springsteen

Released: November 10, 1998

Songwriter: Bruce Springsteen

Producer: Bruce Springsteen Jon Landau Chuck Plotkin Little Steven

[Verse]
Every spring when the weather gets warm
They come pourin' into town straight off of them farms
Driving 455s, running hard and strong
They'd scratch built in them tool sheds all winter long
'Neath the trestles, drinkin' the beer and the wine
Now some came on run, some just to pass the time
With the brothers under the bridges

[Verse]
Me and Tommy, we was just fourteen, didn't have our licenses yet
Our walls were covered with pictures of the cars we'd get
We'd listen and wait for that highway to rumble and quake
As they drove in through town when the weekend'd break
Bringin' girls with that distant look in their eyes
Now together 'neath the trestles, they'd be laughing in the night
With the brothers under the bridges

[Verse]
Well me and my brother hitched a ride
In Joey's pickup to the edge of town
And we watched from the tall grass
As the challenges were made and the duels went down
We'd hitchhike back home
Sneak in, get in bed before our mom'd come
And we'd lay there in the night
Talkin' about how we might someday be one
Yeah someday run with the brothers under the bridges

[Verse]
Well now I hear a cry in the distance
And the sound of marching feet come and gone
Well I'm sittin' down here by this highway
Figuring, figuring just where, where I belong
Tonight from up here on Signal Hill
I watch a young man in a red shirt walking through a night so still
Put his jacket round his girl as the autumn wind sends a chill
With the brothers under the bridges

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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