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The things that I loved about Bob's [Dylan] music - and I describe him in the book as the father of my country, which he really is - were things that just didn't fit when I went to do my job. You know, I'd come out of a

The things that I loved about Bob's [Dylan] music - and I describe him in the book as the father of my country, which he really is - were things that just didn't fit when I went to do my job. You know, I'd come out of a somewhat different circumstance and shoes - the clothes just didn't fit.

Bruce Springsteen
Country, Jobs, Father
Source: www.npr.org

Dancing in the dark. Does fortune wait or just the black hand of fate, It'll take your God filled soul. Fill it with devils.

Bruce Springsteen
Fate, Dark, Hands

There's a girl across the bar, I get the message she's sending. Mmm, she ain't looking too married, and me, well, I'm pretending.

Bruce Springsteen
Girl, Infidelity, Bars

In a restless heart the seed of betrayal lay.

Bruce Springsteen
Betrayal, Heart, Infidelity
Song: Cautious Man, Album: Tunnel Of Love, 1987

Got a wife and kid 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.

Bruce Springsteen
Kids, Rivers, Wife
Song: Hungry Heart, Album: The River, 1980

Me and crazy Janey were making love in the dirt singing our birthday songs.

Bruce Springsteen
Song, Crazy, Dating

Walk tall, or baby don't walk at all.

Bruce Springsteen
Respect, Baby, Walks
Song: New York City Serenade, 1973

Out of our way mister, you best keep.

Bruce Springsteen
Way
Song: Racing in the Street, Album: Darkness On The Edge Of Town, 1978

I cut my bow from the wood of this tree of evil. Of this tree of good, I want a kiss from your lips.

Bruce Springsteen
Cutting, Kissing, Evil
Song: Empty Sky, Album: The Rising, 2002

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.

Bruce Springsteen
Girl, Travel, Real
Song: Thunder Road, Album: Born To Run, 1975

Your flag flyin' over the courthouse Means certain things are set in stone. Who we are, what we'll do and what we won't

Bruce Springsteen
Mean, Flying, Flags
"Song: 'Long Walk Home'". 2007.

I hadn't performed by myself in a while. It feels very natural to me, and I assume people come for the very same reasons as they do when I'm with the band: to be moved, for something to happen to them.

Bruce Springsteen
People, Band, Assuming
"A fan's eye view". Interview with Nick Hornby, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2005.

The marriage-equality issue should be recognized for what it truly is - a civil rights issue that must be approved to assure that every citizen is treated equally under the law.

Bruce Springsteen
Issues, Rights, Law
"Bruce Springsteen voices support for gay marriage in New Jersey" by Gil Kaufman, www.mtv.com. December 9, 2009.

Wendy, let me in, I wanna be your friend. I wanna guard your dreams and visions.

Bruce Springsteen
Friendship, Dream, Vision
"Song: "Born to Run"". 1975.

Baby, this town rips the bones from our back it's a death trap, it's a suicide rap. We got to get out while we're young.

Bruce Springsteen
Death, Suicide, Baby

I played in front of every conceivable audience you could face: an all-black audience, all-white, firemen's fairs, policemen's balls, in front of supermarkets, bar mitzvahs, weddings, drive-in theaters. I'd seen it all before I ever walked into a recording studio.

Bruce Springsteen
White, Black, Bars

I was the only person I'd ever met who had a record contract. None of the E Street Band, as far as I know, had been on an airplane until Columbia sent us to Los Angeles.

Bruce Springsteen
Airplane, Records, Band
"Bruce Springsteen Interviewed by Ed Norton" by Sophia Savage and Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. November 16, 2010.

You'll walk with me out on the wire, cuz baby, I'm just a scared and lonely rider, but I gotta know how it feels... I want to know love is wild, babe, I want to know love is real.

Bruce Springsteen
Baby, Lonely, Real

now you play the loving woman, I play the faithful man

Bruce Springsteen
Men, Play, Faithful

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