Released: November 10, 1998
Songwriter: Bruce Springsteen
Producer: Bruce Springsteen Jon Landau Little Steven
[Verse]
Well, ever since you were a little girl
You set the rules in your little world
But girls grow up and throw their toys away
You're a big girl now, but you still wanna play
(Girl we're living)
You dress them up the way you want to
(Girl we're living)
You make them do just what you want them to
(Girl we're living)
Once I thought we had a love that was true
But I'm just another doll in your dollhouse to you
[Chorus]
We're living in a dollhouse
We're living in a dollhouse
Girl, we're living in a dollhouse
You may feel safe and sound
But your dollhouse, girl, is falling down
[Verse]
It's all been neatly arranged in your mind
Every detail fits your own design
Every room is perfectly in place
But I can see the sadness, baby, on your face
(Girl we're living)
You had a plan and, darling, like a child
(Girl we're living)
You thought it's down to fashion, down to style
(Girl we're living)
But your little dreamhouse is runnin' wild
(Girl we're living)
Before your very eyes we're shrinking down to size
[Chorus]
We're living in a dollhouse
We're living in a dollhouse
Girl, we're living in a dollhouse
You may feel safe and sound
But your dollhouse, girl, is falling down
[Verse]
Everything's as you dreamed it would be
But there's something wrong that you can't see
Room by room, you're looking for some little flaw
A crack somewhere in your dollhouse wall
(Girl we're living)
Something, girl, that will explain away
(Girl we're living)
The hurt you feel, darling, when we play
(Girl we're living)
Your little dolls, they got grip on you
(Girl we're living)
Your little dolls, they got grip on you
(Girl we're living)
Your little dolls, they got grip on you
Until you're just another doll in your dollhouse too
[Outro]
We're living in a dollhouse
Girl, we're living in a dollhouse
Girl, we're living in a dollhouse
We may feel safe and sound
But our dollhouse, girl, is falling down
Oh we're living in a dollhouse
And we're living in a dollhouse
Oh we're living in a dollhouse
Yeah, we're living in a dollhouse
Well, ever since you were a little girl
You set the rules in your little world
But girls grow up and throw their toys away
You're a big girl now, but you still wanna play
(Girl we're living)
You dress them up the way you want to
(Girl we're living)
You make them do just what you want them to
(Girl we're living)
Once I thought we had a love that was true
But I'm just another doll in your dollhouse to you
[Chorus]
We're living in a dollhouse
We're living in a dollhouse
Girl, we're living in a dollhouse
You may feel safe and sound
But your dollhouse, girl, is falling down
[Verse]
It's all been neatly arranged in your mind
Every detail fits your own design
Every room is perfectly in place
But I can see the sadness, baby, on your face
(Girl we're living)
You had a plan and, darling, like a child
(Girl we're living)
You thought it's down to fashion, down to style
(Girl we're living)
But your little dreamhouse is runnin' wild
(Girl we're living)
Before your very eyes we're shrinking down to size
[Chorus]
We're living in a dollhouse
We're living in a dollhouse
Girl, we're living in a dollhouse
You may feel safe and sound
But your dollhouse, girl, is falling down
[Verse]
Everything's as you dreamed it would be
But there's something wrong that you can't see
Room by room, you're looking for some little flaw
A crack somewhere in your dollhouse wall
(Girl we're living)
Something, girl, that will explain away
(Girl we're living)
The hurt you feel, darling, when we play
(Girl we're living)
Your little dolls, they got grip on you
(Girl we're living)
Your little dolls, they got grip on you
(Girl we're living)
Your little dolls, they got grip on you
Until you're just another doll in your dollhouse too
[Outro]
We're living in a dollhouse
Girl, we're living in a dollhouse
Girl, we're living in a dollhouse
We may feel safe and sound
But our dollhouse, girl, is falling down
Oh we're living in a dollhouse
And we're living in a dollhouse
Oh we're living in a dollhouse
Yeah, we're living in a dollhouse
Tracks
- Does This Bus Stop At 82nd Street? (Demo)
- Santa Ana
- Lucky Man
- Happy
- Man at the Top
- Johnny Bye-Bye
- I Wanna Be with You
- Goin’ Cali
- Living on the Edge of the World
- TV Movie
- Be True
- Frankie
- Seven Angels
- Janey Don’t You Lose Heart
- Linda Let Me Be the One
- Brothers Under the Bridge
- Where the Bands Are
- The Honeymooners
- Growin’ Up (Demo)
- It’s Hard to Be a Saint in the City (Demo)
- Mary Queen of Arkansas (Demo)
- Born in the U.S.A. (Demo)
- Stolen Car (Tracks Version)
- Roulette
- Cynthia
- Part Man, Part Monkey
- When You Need Me
- Hearts of Stone
- Ricky Wants a Man of Her Own
- Don’t Look Back
- Mary Lou
- Brothers Under the Bridges (’83)
- Loose Ends
- Restless Nights
- When the Lights Go Out
- Over the Rise
- Give the Girl a Kiss
- Bring on the Night
- Rockaway the Days
- Dollhouse
- My Lover Man
- Iceman
- Zero and Blind Terry
- Seaside Bar Song
- Sad Eyes
- Rendezvous (live)
- Lion’s Den
- Thundercrack
- Shut Out the Light
- A Good Man Is Hard to Find (Pittsburgh)
- Stand on It
- Bishop Danced
- Take ’Em as They Come
- The Wish
- This Hard Land
- Leavin’ Train
- Wages of Sin
- Car Wash
- Loose Change
- Gave It A Name
- Trouble in Paradise
- My Love Will Not Let You Down
- So Young and in Love
- Two for the Road
- Back in Your Arms
- Pink Cadillac
- Tracks (1998)
- The Ties That Bind: The River Collection (2015)
- Born in the U.S.A.
- Born to Run
- Dancing in the Dark
- I’m On Fire
- Thunder Road
- Blinded by the Light
- The River
- Atlantic City
- Hungry Heart
- Jungleland
- Glory Days
- Badlands
- My Hometown
- Streets of Philadelphia
- Backstreets
- The Ghost of Tom Joad
- Tenth Avenue Freeze Out
- Secret Garden
- Racing in the Street
- Nebraska
- I’m Goin’ Down
- Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
- Growin’ Up
- The Rising