Bruce Springsteen

You know, if given the choice, I would definitely choose the version on Born to Run, the more produced and, you know, more instruments version.

No, I wouldn't say that.

I would act like that in real life, perhaps.

But I don't think I would say that.

It's a lot easier to say, with the music raging underneath.

That's the key to that line.

I wouldn't advise... They're not really to be spoken.

You need the music raging underneath for them to make sense.

The lines can be so top-heavy, which is how I wrote at the time.

I wrote very flamboyantly.

And that was after leaning it all down.

That was after really cutting it down to its toughest little construction for me.

The stuff previous to that, if you go back into my notebooks, some of it is so floridly, so far out that it's all embarrassing.

So a line like that was just the longing and the intensity and the desire for a certain sort of a kind of living that...

Art tends to, or music or films or whatever, sometimes tends to heighten and throw back on you as a way of sending you out to search for a certain kind of intensity in your own life, you know.

Hey Eddie, can you lend me a few bucks?

Tonight, can you get us a ride?

Gotta make it through the tunnel Got a meeting with a man on the other side And Eddie the Sky, he's the real thing So if you wanna come along You gotta promise you won't say anything

Cause this guy don't dance And the word's been passed, this is our last chance

The ranger's at a homecoming