Una delle più belle canzoni di Springsteen: Backstreets.

L’ audio è tratto dal bootleg We swore we’d live forever, registrato a Tampa il 22 aprile 2008. Concerto molto particolare essendo il primo dopo i funerali di Danny Federici.

Backstreets

One soft infested summer me and Terry became friends
Trying in vain to breathe the fire we was born in
Catching rides to the outskirts tying faith between our teeth
Sleeping in that old abandoned beach house getting wasted in the heat
And hiding on the backstreets, hiding on the backstreets
With a love so hard and filled with defeat
Running for our lives at night on them backstreets

Slow dancing in the dark on the beach at Stockton’s Wing
Where desperate lovers park we sat with the last of the Duke Street Kings
Huddled in our cars waiting for the bells that ring
In the deep heart of the night to set us loose from everything
to go running on the backstreets, running on the backstreets
We swore we’d live forever on the backstreets we take it together

Endless juke joints and Valentino drag where dancers scraped the tears
Up off the street dressed down in rags running into the darkness
Some hurt bad some really dying at night sometimes it seemed
You could hear the whole damn city crying blame it on the lies that killed us
Blame it on the truth that ran us down you can blame it all on me Terry
It don’t matter to me now when the breakdown hit at midnight
There was nothing left to say but I hated him and I hated you when you went away

Laying here in the dark you’re like an angel on my chest
Just another tramp of hearts crying tears of faithlessness
Remember all the movies, Terry, we’d go see
Trying to learn how to walk like heroes we thought we had to be
And after all this time to find we’re just like all the rest
Stranded in the park and forced to confess
To hiding on the backstreets, hiding on the backstreets
We swore forever friends on the backstreets until the end
Hiding on the backstreets, hiding on the backstreets

La scaletta della serata:

01 Backstreets
02 Radio nowhere
03 Lonesome day
04 No surrender
05 Gypsy biker
06 4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)
07 Growin’ up
08 Atlantic City
09 Because the night
10 Darkness on the edge of town
11 She’s the one
12 Livin’ in the future
13 The promised land
14 Waitin’ on a sunny day
15 Brilliant disguise
16 Racing in the street
17 The rising
18 Last to die
19 Long walk home
20 Badlands
21 Out in the street
22 I’ll fly away
23 Rosalita (Come out tonight)
24 Born to run
25 10th avenue freeze-out
26 American land

Buon ascolto.

Discreto bootleg audio di Springsteen e la E-street registrato a Cleveland l’8 Aprile 1976 esattamente 33 anni fa quindi.

Ecco la scaletta:

Disc One

1. Night
2. Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
3. Spirit In The Night
4. It’s My Life
5. Thunder Road
6. She’s The One
7. Born To Run

Disc Two

1. Incident On 57th Street
2. Everytime You Walk Into The Room
3. Frankie
4. Backstreets
5. Growin Up
6. It’s Hard To Be A Saint In The City
7. Jungleland

Buon ascolto.