Bruce Springsteen

Released: April 25, 2006

Songwriter: Robert Wadsworth Lowry Doris Plenn

Producer: Bruce Springsteen Jon Landau

[Verse]
My life goes on in endless song
Above earth's lamentation
I hear the real, though far off hymn
That hails the new creation
What though the tempest loudly roars
I hear the truth, it lives
What though the darkness round me close
Songs in the night, it gives
When tyrants tremble, sick with fear
And hear their death-knell ringing
When friends rejoice both far and near

[Chorus]
How can I keep from singing?

[Bridge]
No storm can shake my inmost calm
While to that rock I'm clinging
Since love is Lord in Heaven and Earth

[Chorus]
How can I keep from singing?

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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