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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

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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...

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