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King Shit *board owner* | posted on 03-16-2001 @ 1:13 PM |    | |||
| O&A Board Veteran Registered: Feb. 01  | I was eight years old and running with a dime in my hand into the busstop to pick up a paper for my old man I’d sit on his lap in that big old Buick and steer as we drove through town He’d tousle my hair and say son take a good look around this is your hometown This is your hometown This is your hometown This is your hometown In ’65 tension was running high, at my high-school There was a lot of fights between the black and white There was nothing you could do Two cars at a light on a Saturday night, in the back seat there was a gun Words were passed, in a shotgun blast Troubled times had come, to my hometown My hometown My hometown My hometown Now Main Street’s white washed windows and vacant stores seems like there ain’t nobody wants to come down here no more They’re closing down the textile mill across the railroad tracks Foreman says these jobs are going boys and they ain’t coming back to your hometown Your hometown Your hometown Your hometown Last night me and Kate we laid in bed talking about getting out Packing up our bags maybe heading south I’m 35, we got a boy of our own now Last night I sat him up, behind the wheel and said son take a good look around, this is your hometown  ~Matt/Froy from Jersey Official Protector of Gay Marco & SwampJunk...if he ever decides to post. Also providing total immunity to Fayth | ||||
| spitfire421 | posted on 03-16-2001 @ 1:19 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Dec. 00 | Thanks Froy for reminding me that it's time to take out Bruce!!! the warm weather's coming! Thunder Road The screen door slams Mary's dress waves Like a vision she dances across the porch As the radio plays Roy Orbison singing for the lonely Hey that's me and I want you only Don't turn me home again I just can't face myself alone again Don't run back inside Darling you know just what I'm here for So you're scared and you're thinking That maybe we ain't that young anymore Show a little faith, there's magic in the night You ain't a beauty, but hey you're alright Oh and that's alright with me You can hide 'neath your covers And study your pain Make crosses from your lovers Throw roses in the rain Waste your summer praying in vain For a savior to rise from these streets Well now I'm no hero That's understood All the redemption I can offer girl Is beneath this dirty hood With a chance to make it good somehow Hey what else can we do now Except roll down the window And let the wind blow back your hair Well the night's busting open These two lanes will take us anywhere We got one last chance to make it real To trade in these wings on some wheels Climb in back Heaven's waiting on down the tracks Oh oh come take my hand Riding out tonight to case the promised land Oh oh Thunder Road, oh Thunder Road Oh Thunder Road Lying out there like a killer in the sun Hey I know it's late, we can make it if we run Oh Thunder Road, sit tight take hold Thunder RoadWell I got this guitar And I learned how to make it talk And my car's out back If you're ready to take that long walk From your front porch to my front seat The door's open but the ride it ain't free And I know you're lonely For words that I ain't spoken But tonight we'll be free All the promises'll be broken There were ghosts in the eyes Of all the boys you sent away They haunt this dusty beach road In the skeleton frames of burned out Chevrolets They scream your name at night in the street Your graduation gown lies in rags at their feet And in the lonely cool before dawn You hear their engines roaring on But when you get to the porch they're gone On the wind, so Mary climb in It's a town full of losers And I'm pulling out of here to win   | ||||
| Rommel | posted on 03-16-2001 @ 1:49 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Oct. 00 | Who wants to meet me at Federici's in Freehold for some Pizza, or Lasagna? :) my fave Bruce Tune. GROWIN' UP I stood stone-like at midnight suspended in my masquerade I combed my hair till it was just right and commanded the night brigade I was open to pain and crossed by the rain and I walked on a crooked crutch I strolled all alone through a fallout zone and came out with my soul untouched I hid in the clouded wrath of the crowd but when they said "Sit down" I stood up. Ooh-ooh growin' up The flag of piracy flew from my mast, my sails were set wing to wing I had a jukebox graduate for first mate, she couldn't sail but she sure could sing, I pushed B-52 and bombed `em with the blues with my gear set stubborn on standing I broke all the rules, strafed my old high school, never once gave thought to landing, I hid in the clouded wrath of the crowd but when they said "Come down" I threw up Ooh-ooh growin' up I took month-long vacations in the stratosphere and you know it's really hard to hold your breath. I swear I lost everything I ever loved or feared, I was the cosmic kid in full costume dress Well, my feet they finally took root in the earth but I got me a nice little place in the stars And I swear I found the key to the universe in the engine of an old parked car I hid in the mother breast of the crowd but when they said "Pull down" I pulled up Ooh-ooh growin' up. Ooh-ooh growin' up  Jeder oder Keiner, Alles oder Nichts | ||||
| BigYellowOne | posted on 03-16-2001 @ 4:35 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Sep. 00 | My Hometown: Great song. I'm watching this stuff happen to my town in Jersey. Thunder Road: My favorits song. Growin up: Great song. 2nd Favorite: Used Cars My little sister's in the front seat, with an ice cream cone. My ma's in the back seat sitting all alone. My pa steers her slow out of the lot, For a test-drive down Michigan Avenue. Now my mom she fingers her wedding band, Watches the salesman stare at my old man's hands. He's tellin' us all about the break he'd give us, If he could, but he just can't. Well if I could I swear I know just what I'd do. Now mister the day the lottery I win, I ain't ever gonna ride in no used car again. Now the neighbors come from near and far, As we pull up in our brand new used car. I wish he'd just hit the gas and let out a cry, Tell 'em all the can kiss our asses goodbye. Dad he sweats the same job from mornin' to morn, Me I walk home on the same dirty streets where I was born. Up the block I can hear my little sister in the front seat blowin' that horn, The sounds echoin' all down Michigan Avenue. Now mister the day my number comes in, I ain't ever gonna ride in no used car again. | ||||
| spitfire421 | posted on 03-16-2001 @ 5:03 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Dec. 00 | Thunder Road is my first favorite, but I can't find my other anywhere :Jersey Girl:( | ||||
| BigYellowOne | posted on 03-16-2001 @ 5:05 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Sep. 00 | Jersey Girl is pretty much only available on the Live 75-85 box set. | ||||
King Shit *board owner* | posted on 03-16-2001 @ 5:57 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Veteran Registered: Feb. 01 | I have Jersey girl on the 8/12/99 bootleg also...but if you want lyrics for it, check a Tom Waits site since he wrote it. ~Matt/Froy from Jersey Official Protector of Gay Marco & SwampJunk...if he ever decides to post. Also providing total immunity to Fayth | ||||
| FaithfulListener | posted on 03-17-2001 @ 8:52 AM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Sep. 00 | Bruce!! gotta love "Tenth Avenue freeze-out" Tear drops on the city bad scooter searching for his groove seem like the whole world walking pretty and you cant find the room to move well everybody better move over, that's all 'cause i'm running on the bad side and i got my back to the wall Tenth Avenue freeze-out, tenth avenue freeze-out i'm to lazy to type the whole thing .. another good verse though..... when the change was made uptown and the Big man joined the band from the coastline to the city all the little pretties raise their hands i'm gonna sit back right easy and laugh when scooter and the big man bust this city in half with the tenth avenue freeze out...... Bruce ROCKS.. adopted by PanterA | ||||
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