Doc F.Springsteen „The River“
Eine Strophe ersetzt eine ganze Biographie. Hat mich immer schon beeindruckt.
Springsteen hat eine unglaubliche Menge solcher Killer-Openings.
Sandy the fireworks are hailin‘ over Little Eden tonight
Forcin‘ a light into all those stoned-out faces left stranded on this Fourth of July
Spanish Johnny drove in from the underworld last night
With bruised arms and broken rhythm in a beat-up old Buick
But dressed just like dynamite
The screen door slams
Mary‘ dress waves
Like a vision she dances across the porch
As the radio plays
In the day we sweat it out in the streets of a runaway American dream
At night we ride through mansions of glory in suicide machines
The Rangers had a homecoming
In Harlem late last night
And the Magic Rat drove his sleek machine
Over the Jersey state line
Got a wife and kids 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
Lights out tonight,
Trouble in the heartland,
Got a head on collision,
Smashin‘ in my guts, man,
I’m caught in a cross fire,
That I don’t understand
Born down in a dead man’s town
The first kick I took was when I hit the ground
You end up like a dog that’s been beat too much
Till you spend half your life just covering up
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Ohne Musik ist alles Leben ein Irrtum.