Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteenis an American musician, singer, songwriter, and humanitarian. He is best known for his work with his E Street Band. Nicknamed "The Boss", Springsteen is widely known for his brand of poetic lyrics, Americana, working class and sometimes political sentiments centered on his native New Jersey, his distinctive voice and his lengthy and energetic stage performances, with concerts from the 1970s to the present decade running over three hours in length...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth23 September 1949
CityLong Beach, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
I met a girl and we ran away, I swore I'd make her happy every day. And how I made her cry, two faces have I.
So tell me what I see when I look in your eyes, is that you baby or just a brilliant disguise?
You use to drive me wild, but lately you get your kicks from just knocking me down, down, down.
Badlands, you got to live it everyday, let the broken hearts stand as the price you've got to pay.
I got Mary pregnant and man that's all she wrote. And for my 19th birthday, I got a union card and a factory coat.
I'm just tired and bored with myself.
My soul is lost, my friend, tell me how do I begin again? My city's in ruins, my city's in ruins.
Outside the street's on fire in a real death waltz between what's flesh and what's fantasy.
Sometimes, at night you could hear the whole damn city crying.
Got a wife and kid in Baltimore Jack, I went out for a ride and I never went back. Like a river that don't know where it's flowing, I took a wrong turn and I just kept going.
There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.
I've had an experience through music that has touched almost every part of me. It educated me in ways that I didn't get educated in school. So we try to lay on a bit of that, through being funny, being serious, playing hard.
If you listen to the great Beatle records, the earliest ones where the lyrics are incredibly simple. Why are they still beautiful? Well, they're beautifully sung, beautifully played, and the mathematics in them is elegant. They retain their elegance.
In the third grade, a nun stuffed me in a garbage can under her desk because she said that's where I belonged. I also had the distinction of being the only altar boy knocked down by a priest during mass.