"The Ghost of Tom Joad" is a song written by Bruce Springsteen. It is the title track to his eleventh studio album, released in 1995. The character Tom Joad, from John Steinbeck's classic 1939 novel The Grapes of Wrath, is mentioned in the title and narrative. Originally a quiet folk song, "The Ghost of Tom Joad" has also been recorded by Rage Against the Machine and Junip. Springsteen himself has performed the song in a variety of arrangements, including with the E Street Band Read more on Last.fm.
Length: 4:44
If it's really love you'd follow it forever
Would you wander for me?
Even though you think I'm lost and you know better
Would you wander for me?
'Cause wandering is more than filling footprints
Right behind me
How far would you go outside the lines
If just to find me?
Letting go off anything that grounds us
Would you wander for me?
Even though there's darkness all around us
Would you wander for me?
'Cause I've wandered for you
Wandering is more than filling footprints
Right behind me
How far would you go outside the lines
If just to find me?
When you see that I have gone
To the edge and way beyond
Would you, would you
Would you wander for me?
It doesn't matter where we are
We can be our northern star
Far above the earth and weather together
'Cause wandering is more than filling footprints
Right behind me
How far would you go outside the lines
If just to find me?
When you see that I have gone
To the edge and way beyond
Would you, would you
Would you wander for me?
If it's really love you'd follow it forever
Would you wander for me?
Would you wander for me?
Even though you think I'm lost and you know better
Would you wander for me?
'Cause wandering is more than filling footprints
Right behind me
How far would you go outside the lines
If just to find me?
Letting go off anything that grounds us
Would you wander for me?
Even though there's darkness all around us
Would you wander for me?
'Cause I've wandered for you
Wandering is more than filling footprints
Right behind me
How far would you go outside the lines
If just to find me?
When you see that I have gone
To the edge and way beyond
Would you, would you
Would you wander for me?
It doesn't matter where we are
We can be our northern star
Far above the earth and weather together
'Cause wandering is more than filling footprints
Right behind me
How far would you go outside the lines
If just to find me?
When you see that I have gone
To the edge and way beyond
Would you, would you
Would you wander for me?
If it's really love you'd follow it forever
Would you wander for me?
more tracks from the album
From the album
- The Way It Really Is (2004)
Lisa Loeb popular songs
- Will You Wander
- Grandma’s in the Cellar
- Home on the Range
- No Fairy Tale
- H.a.p.p.y
- Hand-Me-Downs
- Bring Me Up
- I Do (acoustic version)
- Jake (alternate version)
- Kick Start
- What Am I Supposed to Say (acoustic)
- Firecracker
- Snow Day (live in-studio)
- Accident
- Take Me Back
- A Hot Minute
- Cookie Jar Song
- Look Me in the Eye
- Single Me Out
- Lucky Me
- Snow Day
- Split Second
- Swept Away
- Try