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Racing in the Street Lyrics

Artist: Bruce Springsteen
Album: Darkness on the Edge of Town

I got a sixty-nine Chevy with a 396
Fuelie heads and a Hurst on the floor
She's waiting tonight down in the parking lot
Outside the Seven-Eleven store
Me and my partner Sonny built her straight out of scratch
And he rides with me from town to town
We only run for the money, got no strings attached
We shut 'em up and then we shut 'em down

Tonight, tonight the strip's just right
I wanna blow 'em off in my first heat
Summer's here and the time is right
For racin' in the street

We take all the action we can meet
And we cover all the northeast state
When the strip shuts down we run 'em in the street
From the fire roads to the interstate
Some guys they just give up living
And start dying little by little, piece by piece,
Some guys come home from work and wash up,
And go racin' in the street.

Tonight, tonight the strip's just right
I wanna blow 'em all out of their seats
Calling out around the world, we're going racin' in the street.

I met her on the strip three years ago
In a Camaro with this dude from L.A.
I blew that Camaro off my back,
and drove that little girl away,
But now there's wrinkles around my baby's eyes
And she cries herself to sleep at night
When I come home the house is dark
She sighs, "Baby did you make it all right,"
She sits on the porch of her Daddy's house
But all her pretty dreams are torn,
She stares off alone into the night
With the eyes of one who hates for just being born
For all the shut down strangers and hot rod angels,
Rumbling through this promised land
Tonight my baby and me, we're gonna ride to the sea
And wash these sins off our hands.

Tonight, tonight the highway's bright
Out of our way, mister, you best keep
'Cause summer's here and the time is right
For racin' in the street.

Comments/Interpretations
by Reto on 9/8/2008 7:28am Maybe Bruce's greatest song...
by Neven on 11/16/2008 2:46pm Live version is out of this world.
by Greg on 1/24/2009 1:43am it is his best song. the live version is the only way to listen to it
by Gerardo on 1/30/2009 3:08pm His best song !!!
by Carla on 7/23/2009 5:56pm Sono una "nuova" del Boss....Ma penso che sia la migliore!
by Joel on 9/11/2009 10:40am Super song
by max on 11/11/2009 4:40pm my boss favourite... try listen the live version with Jackson Browne

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