This Hard Land 05.04.1995


Video di Springsteen del 5 aprile 1995.

Hey there mister can you tell me
What happened to the seeds I’ve sown
Can you give me a reason, sir, as to why they’ve never grown
They’ve just blown around from town to town
Back out on these fields
Where they fall from my hand
Back into the dirt of this hard land

Well me and my sister
From Germantown we did ride
We made our bed, sir
From the rock on the mountainside
We been blowin’ around from town to town
Lookin’ for a place to stand
Where the sun burst through the clouds and fall like a circle
A circle of fire down on this hard land

Now even the rain it don’t come ’round
Don’t come ’round here no more
And the only sound at night’s the wind
Slammin’ the back porch door
Yeah it stirs you up like it wants to blow you down
Twistin’ and churnin’ up the sand
Leavin’ all them scarecrows lyin’ facedown
In the dirt of this hard land

From a building up on the hill
I can hear a tape deck blastin’ “Home on the Range”
I can hear them Bar-M choppers
Sweepin’ low across the plains
It’s me and you, Frank, we’re lookin’ for lost cattle
Our hooves twistin’ and churnin’ up the sand
We’re ridin’ in the whirlwind searchin’ for lost treasure
Way down south of the Rio Grande
We’re ridin’ ‘cross that river in the moonlight
Up onto the banks of this hard land

Hey, Frank, won’t you pack your bags
And meet me tonight down at Liberty Hall
Just one kiss from you, my brother
And we’ll ride until we fall
Well sleep in the fields
We’ll sleep by the rivers
And in the morning we’ll make a plan
Well if you can’t make it stay hard, stay hungry, stay alive if you can
And meet me in a dream of this hard land


ZERO & BLIND TERRY

Ma quanto bella è questa canzone?

The Skulls met the Pythons
Down at the First Street station
Alliances have been made in alleyways
All across the nation
These boys live off the milk of a silver jet
And the love of sweet young women
Now the Pythons are down from old Englishtown
And they’re looking to do some livin’
Well the leader of the Pythons
Is a kid they just call Zero
Now Terry’s pop says these kids are some kind of monsters
But Terry says “No, pop, they’re just plain heroes”

Zero and Terry they found a love that burnes like wildfire
Now Terry’s daddy understood that this Zero was no good
A child, a thief and a liar
Well from out of the darkness that breaks the dawn
Zero rode like twilight
He said “Tonight’s the night, Blind Terry, come on”
Terry come on, tonight is the night
Pack your bags, baby

And together they ran like reindeers through the street
Like tomorrow the earth was gonna catch on fire
Now Terry’s dad hired some troopers to kill Zero and bring Terry back home
They crawled up in the night
Like firelight

Now snow-white troopers from the council of crime
Rode silver foxes through Terry’s field
Oh they met the Pythons down on Route 9 but they refused to yield
The Pythons fought with buzz guns
And the troopers with swords like light
And Zero and Terry they ran away
And the gang fought all through the night

Well now some folks say Zero and Terry got away
Other said they were caught and brought back
But still young pilgrims to this day
Go to that spot way down by the railroad track
Where the Troopers met the Pythons
Old timers cry on a hot August night
If you look hard enough, if you try
You’ll catch Zero and Terry and all the Pythons

Oh just hiking them streets of the sky
Just walkin’, hiking the streets of the sky
Just hiking the streets of the sky
Hey Zero

Copyright © Bruce Springsteen (ASCAP)

LAST STAND AT CAMP NOU 20.07.2008

Bootleg video multicamera della serata conclusiva del Leg Europeo del Magic tour registrato allo stadio Camp Nou di Barcelona il 20 luglio 2008.

Il commento del creatore, Amos:

complete show, 5-cam mix, Crystal Cat audio dubbed, 16:9, PAL

As I did with my Milano 2007 mix, I tried to keep every best available picture on screen, trying not to miss any interesting moment of the show.
The greatest problem is that only 1 complete source is available. For this reason, there are some songs that are a single-cam. In the same way, in the moments where Bruce was off-stage, I had to keep the only camera that focused on him… hand-held and shacky.
For these reasons I’m not completely satisfied with this job… but it’s the best I could do with the poor (and incomplete) material I had. I still believe that the dvds are enjoyable and capture the atmosphere of that hot hot last show in Barcelona

Nonostante l’ opinione di Amos lo trovo superiore al suo lavoro di Milano 2007.

Buona visione.

Blowin’ In the Wind and Bad Moon Rising

Essendo oggi domenica ecco un altro video, questa settimana ho scelto un video che credo essere del 1988 (ma non sono sicuro).

Indipendentemente dalla data comunque si tratta di Springsteen che interpreta due bellissime versioni di Blowin’ in the wind di Bob Dylan e Bad Moon Rising dei Creedence.

Se qualcuno è in grado di dirmi la data esatta mi fa un favore.
Grazie e buona visione

The Making Of Magic 2/2

Ecco la seconda parte.

The Making Of Magic 1/2

Questo me lo ero perso, è un documentario/intervista in due parti sul making of di Magic

Intanto la prima parte.

My Hometown 11.04.2003

Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band played My Hometown in Vancouver during The Rising Tour.

Enjoy the video!

LYRICS

I was eight years old and running with a dime in my hand
Into the bus stop to pick up a paper for my old man
I’d sit on his lap in that big old Buick and steer as we drove through town
He’d tousle my hair and say son take a good look around this is your hometown
This is your hometown
This is your hometown
This is your hometown

In ’65 tension was running high at my high school
There was a lot of fights between the black and white
There was nothing you could do
Two cars at a light on a Saturday night in the back seat there was a gun
Words were passed in a shotgun blast
Troubled times had come to my hometown
My hometown
My hometown
My hometown

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