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Springsteen
Springsteen
Springsteen
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How are ya doin’ out there tonight? That’s good, that’s good.
all the time over almost anything. But, ah, I used to have really long
hate it. And we got to where we’d fight so much that I’d, that I’d
spend a lot of time out of the house; and in the summertime it wasn’t
so bad, ‘cause it was warm, and my friends were out, but in the winter,
I remember standing downtown where it’d get so cold and, when the
wind would blow, I had this phone booth I used to stand in. And I
used to call my girl, like, for hours at a time, just talking to her all
night long. And finally I’d get my nerve up to go home. I’d stand there
in the driveway and he’d be waiting for me in the kitchen and I’d tuck
my hair down on my collar and I’d walk in and he’d call me back to
sit down with him. And the first thing he’d always ask me was what
did I think I was doing with myself. And the worst part of it was that I
bed and he had a barber come in and cut my hair and, man, I can
remember telling him that I hated him and that I would never ever
forget it. And he used to tell me: “Man, I can’t wait till the army gets
you. When the army gets you they’re gonna make a man out of you.
They’re gonna cut all that hair off and they’ll make a man out of you.”
And this was, I guess, ’68 when there was a lot of guys from the
band coming over to my house with his marine uniform on, saying
that he was going and that he didn’t know where it was. And a lot of
guys went, and a lot of guys didn’t come back. And the lot that came
back weren’t the same anymore. I remember the day I got my draft
and my friends went out and we stayed up all night and we got on the
bus to go that morning and man we were all so scared… And I went,
about… I remember coming home after I’d been gone for three days
and walking in the kitchen and my mother and father were sitting
there and my dad said: “Where you been?” and I said, uh, “I went to
USED TO = 6 TIMES
WOULD = 11 TIMES
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN - THE RIVER