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Glory Days Lyrics

Artist: Bruce Springsteen

I had a friend was a big baseball player
back in high school
He could throw that speedball by you
Make you look like a fool boy
Saw him the other night at this roadside bar
I was walking in, he was walking out
We went back inside sat down had a few drinks
but all he kept talking about was

Chorus:
Glory days well they'll pass you by
Glory days in the wink of a young girl's eye
Glory days, glory days

Well there's a girl that lives up the block
back in school she could turn all the boy's heads
Sometimes on a Friday I'll stop by
and have a few drinks after she put her kids to bed
Her and her husband Bobby well they split up
I guess it's two years gone by now
We just sit around talking about the old times,
she says when she feels like crying
she starts laughing thinking about

Chorus

My old man worked 20 years on the line
and they let him go
Now everywhere he goes out looking for work
they just tell him that he's too old
I was 9 nine years old and he was working at the
Metuchen Ford plant assembly line
Now he just sits on a stool down at the Legion hall
but I can tell what's on his mind

Glory days yeah goin back
Glory days aw he ain't never had
Glory days, glory days

Now I think I'm going down to the well tonight
and I'm going to drink till I get my fill
And I hope when I get old I don't sit around thinking about it
but I probably will
Yeah, just sitting back trying to recapture
a little of the glory of, well time slips away
and leaves you with nothing mister but
boring stories of glory days

Chorus (repeat twice)

Comments/Interpretations
by mike on 5/18/2008 1:03pm brilliant
by Bob on 6/3/2008 8:47pm That section that starts with "my old man...". I've never seen that before. Is that on the original recording that wasn't released.
by Ed on 6/15/2008 6:33pm I was thinking the same thing!!
by Elaine on 6/25/2008 3:51am Yeah, just sitting back trying to recapture a little "Gloria". I thought that was the word, "not glory of".
by Emma on 7/4/2008 6:30am Yeah, me too. I have heard this song a million times (my mum is a big fan) and I have never heard "My old man...".
by Glen on 7/6/2008 11:21am If that verse actually was recorded somewhere, I can see why it was left out of the "Born in the USA" version... it really doesn't fit the rest of the storyline. Even the chorus changes into something which appears clumsy when set alongside the rest of the tune. It also changes the narrative from a "participant" (i.e. where the narrator is just as involved, if not moreso through his acquaintances' experiences and reminisces) to a "narrator" whose sole personal reference is set more as a timeframe, not an actual act of interrelation (much as one could say, "I was 13 when JFK died"). Did this song appear on the "Tracks" box set? I could see Bruce taking that whole verse out and making another song out of it instead. But here, it's just clumsy.
by withheld on 7/30/2008 9:15am Dam! THis ounds like ME! :)
by mira matouch on 9/9/2008 2:56am I have even the original album on vinyl and there is insertion with every lyrics and there's no verse with My old man...
by David the grady grady on 10/24/2008 6:05pm I love it all its perfect it hits the happy spot
by nikki on 11/1/2008 8:20pm this song is the best ever!ive been to about 170 concerts in my life!BEAT THAT!!!
by Blue Balls on 11/6/2008 4:55am Nostalgic anyone?
by Anthony Stoner on 11/23/2008 7:31pm Okay...the line when she thinks about crying... always thought it said "and when she thinks about Clarence"
by ME on 11/26/2008 12:15pm Brilliant song! And emma my mother is huge fan too
by queen patty on 12/16/2008 7:11am great message, of course--it's bruce, but could the radio stations have not overplayed to the point of nauseum!!? I do like the additional verse by the dad getting laid off at the ford plant. but come on, let's be real this song isn't by a long shot one of bruce's best. really. . . .
by bruce fan on 1/12/2009 11:45am hi ppl, omg ive just herd the song on tv, and it is AMAZING!!!!!!! love it loads and love bruce's voice- so distinctive :)
by DC on 1/19/2009 12:19pm this song is just amazeeeeeee lol, meanin amazing but wat eva :P, but this is such a gurrrrrrd song, he has such a distinctive voice which is brilliant :D BRUCE ALL THE WAY!!!! :)
by fgahfggsdfg on 2/3/2009 3:45pm nice rerang in superbowl
by tommy on 2/3/2009 6:49pm ive never heard that my fater part either! Im gonna start lookin for it.
by hi132123132 on 2/13/2009 6:01pm what does the song mean?
by henry on 2/19/2009 7:48pm you wont really know what it means till u reach 40
by Casey on 2/25/2009 8:56am The extra verse is part of a recording on the immense Bruce bootleg collection called "The Lost Masters Collection." A very large portion of these songs can be found on youtube if you're interested.
by Dave on 3/28/2009 11:43pm I get the impression that this songs shows that Bruce is a drunk. He drinks with everyone and makes them talk about old times. The song is good
by Neil on 4/13/2009 5:13pm New Jersey!
by Bond on 5/9/2009 11:29am Great Song. It makes more sense now as I am 39
by Jarle on 5/11/2009 2:17am Kej fortne mestaro de parnetu si rama!
by Adir Benyamini on 5/13/2009 7:54am It's a great song! Indeed, everybody has his Glory Days or even Glory years!
by Mel on 6/7/2009 8:13am Pretty obvious what the song is about... we bump into people we knew in school and remember the good old times. Our stories don't do justice to our feelings of nostalgia for those days, because it wasn't really the events that happened that are really of interest, but that we miss being young. It is really a lament for happier days and our youth, hence all the references to the ex-baseballer stuck in the past, the broken marriage and the singer trying to fill the emptiness with drink. It is a song about our mortality. The tone of the melody is very happy, but the lyrics are melancholic really... that's why it has a bitter/sweet feel to it, as a song about nostalgia, it is in my humble opinion, brilliant.
by Shelby on 6/8/2009 3:07pm I am going to see him at Bonnaroo in 6 days!!! :]
by HELEN on 6/11/2009 9:49pm would anyone happen to know why Bruce doesn't seem to play JERSEY GIRL much at all any more. That song got me hooked on him. Thanks
by Patrick on 6/14/2009 10:29pm Glory Days with Phish...appropriate, haha Can I live while I'm young?
by Gavin on 6/23/2009 6:16am What a brilliant, and so often misinterpreted song. The whole born in the USA album is actually sad and take this song 'Boring stories of glory days'. Born in the USA was actually meant to be a second 'The River' album but coz its so catchy it ended up different. The song is no doubt immense as well as the album and all of Bruce!
by nick on 7/2/2009 1:20am baseball player part sounds like my dad
by Matt on 9/23/2009 1:55pm I always thought it part of "make him look like a fool boy" was "making love like a pool boy"
by daniel on 10/29/2009 5:03pm i have never heard the section 'my old man' before and my mum is a huge fan and she's never heard it either.

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