Can't Start A Fire Without A Spark....

[SPKrazy]

this gun's for hire... even if we're just dancing in the dark

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrNg4nYTC8E


I get up in the evening, and I aint got nothing to say
I come home in the morning, I go to bed feeling the same way
I aint nothing but tired, man Im just tired and bored with myself
Hey there baby, I could use just a little help

You cant start a fire, you cant start a fire without a spark
This guns for hire even if were just dancing in the dark

Message keeps getting clearer, radios on and Im moving round the place
I check myself out in the mirror I wanna change my clothes my hair my face
Man I aint getting nowhere just sitting in a dump like this
Theres something happening somewhere baby I just know that there is

You cant start a fire...

You sit around getting older theres a joke here somewhere and its on me
Ill shake this world off my shoulders come baby this laughs on me

Stay on the streets of this town and theyll be carving you up alright
They say you got to stay hungry hey baby Im just about starving tonight
Im dying for some action Im sick of sitting round here trying to write
This book
I need a love reaction come on now baby give me just one look

You cant start a fire..

[wildhorses]

1. joe, i gotta go

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3-dtbnfzKA

I had a job, I had a girl
I had something going, mister, in this world
I got laid off down at the lumber yard
Our love went bad, times got hard
Now I work down at the car wash
Where all it ever does is rain
Don't you feel like you're a rider on a downbound train

She just said, "Joe, I gotta go
We had it once, we ain't got it anymore"
She packed her bags, left me behind
She bought a ticket on the Central Line
Nights as I sleep, I hear that whistle whining
I feel her kiss in the misty rain
And I feel like I'm a rider on a downbound train

Last night I heard your voice
You were crying, crying, you were so alone
You said your love had never died
You were waiting for me at home
Put on my jacket, I ran through the woods
I ran till I thought my chest would explode
There in the clearing, beyond the highway
In the moonlight, our wedding house shone
I rushed through the yard
I burst through the front door, my head pounding hard
Up the stairs I climbed
The room was dark, our bed was empty
Then I heard that long whistle whine
And I dropped to my knees, hung my head and cried
Now I swing a sledge hammer on a railroad gang
Knocking down them cross ties, working in the rain
Now, don't it feel like you're a rider on a downbound train

[wildhorses]

2. i'm on fire

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NLV5DxNSkA

Hey little girl is your daddy home
Did he go away and leave you all alone
I got a bad desire
I'm on fire

Tell me now baby is he good to you
Can he do to you the things that I do
I can take you higher
I'm on fire

Sometimes it's like someone took a knife baby
edgy and dull and cut a six-inch valley
through the middle of my soul

At night I wake up with the sheets soaking wet
and a freight train running through the
middle of my head
Only you can cool my desire
I'm on fire

[SPKrazy]

4. Only you can cool my desire

I'm on fire

:thumbsup:

excellent!

[wildhorses]

5. my all time fave of the boss

love the line about the knife edgy and dull

one of the best lines in rock n roll:thumbsup:

[SPKrazy]

14. My Favorites!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQewwkbrp8o

BORN TO RUN!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un2dq08MneU
For you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCY1_msUYPQ
Piano version of For You

[SPKrazy]

19. Of Manfred Mann's version of For You

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPjYRdjIV1w

pretty cool too

[wildhorses]

22. very nice!! thanks

budapest...who knew?

[wildhorses]

21. thanks for the links

:hug:

[idgiehkt]

23. For You

really is one of his best and finest efforts. The lyrics in that song are incomparable with just about anything else I've ever heard they are so fine.

[PVnRT]

3. Meet me tonight in Atlantic City

n/t

[hellbound-liberal]

6. The Rangers had a homecoming in Harlem late last night...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aRhqVWUPPs

Jungleland

The Rangers had a homecoming
In Harlem late last night
And the Magic Rat drove his sleek machine
Over the Jersey state line
Barefoot girl sitting on the hood of a Dodge
Drinking warm beer in the soft summer rain
The Rat pulls into town rolls up his pants
Together they take a stab at romance
And disappear down Flamingo Lane

Well the Maximum Lawmen run down Flamingo
Chasing the Rat and the barefoot girl
And the kids round here look just like shadows
Always quiet, holding hands
From the churches to the jails
Tonight all is silence in the world
As we take our stand
Down in Jungleland

The midnight gang's assembled
And picked a rendezvous for the night
They'll meet 'neath that giant Exxon sign
That brings this fair city light
Man there's an opera out on the Turnpike
There's a ballet being fought out in the alley
Until the local cops
Cherry Tops

Rips this holy night
The street's alive
As secret debts are paid
Contacts made, they vanish unseen
Kids flash guitars just like switch-blades
Hustling for the record machine
The hungry and the hunted
Explode into rock'n'roll bands
That face off against each other out in the street
Down in Jungleland

In the parking lot the visionaries
Dress in the latest rage
Inside the backstreet girls are dancing
To the records that the DJ plays
Lonely-hearted lovers
Struggle in dark corners
Desperate as the night moves on
Just one look
And a whisper, and they're gone

Beneath the city two hearts beat
Soul engines running through a night so tender
In a bedroom locked
In whispers of soft refusal
And then surrender
In the tunnels uptown
The Rat's own dream guns him down
As shots echo down them hallways in the night
No one watches when the ambulance pulls away
Or as the girl shuts out the bedroom light
Outside the street's on fire
In a real death waltz
Between what's flesh and what's fantasy
And the poets down here
Don't write nothing at all
They just stand back and let it all be
And in the quick of the night
They reach for their moment
And try to make an honest stand
But they wind up wounded
Not even dead
Tonight in Jungleland

[rockymountaindem]

10. That song is my prime argument against my old English teacher who said that

"pop" music couldn't be poetry.

[SPKrazy]

20. Well Ya POPPED Him Didn't Ya?

[rockymountaindem]

24. It was a she

and no, I didn't want to break my hand on her android construction. I'm quite certain the one I have in mind wasn't a human. I mean, she looked just as real as the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park, is all I'm saying...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. These are GREAT songs!

Even I love them......

They take me back to an earlier time......

Bruce still gives me goosebumps!

Thanks for the trip down memory lane...... :hug:

[SPKrazy]

12. The Boss is The Boss

for a reason!

:hug:

[hellbound-liberal]

8. I always think of Courtney Cox when I hear that song. Here's mine: The Rangers had a homecoming,

in Harlem late last night.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aRhqVWUPPs


The Rangers had a homecoming
In Harlem late last night
And the Magic Rat drove his sleek machine
Over the Jersey state line
Barefoot girl sitting on the hood of a Dodge
Drinking warm beer in the soft summer rain
The Rat pulls into town rolls up his pants
Together they take a stab at romance
And disappear down Flamingo Lane

Well the Maximum Lawmen run down Flamingo
Chasing the Rat and the barefoot girl
And the kids round here look just like shadows
Always quiet, holding hands
From the churches to the jails
Tonight all is silence in the world
As we take our stand
Down in Jungleland

The midnight gang's assembled
And picked a rendezvous for the night
They'll meet 'neath that giant Exxon sign
That brings this fair city light
Man there's an opera out on the Turnpike
There's a ballet being fought out in the alley
Until the local cops
Cherry Tops

Rips this holy night
The street's alive
As secret debts are paid
Contacts made, they vanish unseen
Kids flash guitars just like switch-blades
Hustling for the record machine
The hungry and the hunted
Explode into rock'n'roll bands
That face off against each other out in the street
Down in Jungleland

In the parking lot the visionaries
Dress in the latest rage
Inside the backstreet girls are dancing
To the records that the DJ plays
Lonely-hearted lovers
Struggle in dark corners
Desperate as the night moves on
Just one look
And a whisper, and they're gone

Beneath the city two hearts beat
Soul engines running through a night so tender
In a bedroom locked
In whispers of soft refusal
And then surrender
In the tunnels uptown
The Rat's own dream guns him down
As shots echo down them hallways in the night
No one watches when the ambulance pulls away
Or as the girl shuts out the bedroom light
Outside the street's on fire
In a real death waltz
Between what's flesh and what's fantasy
And the poets down here
Don't write nothing at all
They just stand back and let it all be
And in the quick of the night
They reach for their moment
And try to make an honest stand
But they wind up wounded
Not even dead
Tonight in Jungleland

[SPKrazy]

11. That's Right!

courtney cox

;)

[Pacifist Patriot]

9. Aw no! Now it's going to go through my head as I try to get to sleep.

[SPKrazy]

16. THEN GET THE HELL UP AND ROCK WITH BRUCE!

:woohoo:

[Madspirit]

13. I FUCKING LOVE BRUCE....

He's one of the best of the best. I love this man.
Lee

[SPKrazy]

15. I FUCKING LOVE HIM TOO MAN!

I JUST DO!

:thumbsup:

[Madspirit]

17. ...and

He's another old dude too....which is cool. My generation produced rockers who don't drop from old age. They either die really young...Joplin, Morrison, Hendrix, etc...or they seem to live on and ROCK on for forever.
Lee

[SPKrazy]

18. Yeah!

my generation too (well about 7 years behind)

[Starbucks Anarchist]

25. BRUUUUCE!

:headbang: