Tunnel of love. Bruce Springsteen.

1. Ain't got you.

I got the fortunes of heaven in diamonds and gold, I got all the bonds baby that the bank could hold, I got houses ’cross the country, honey, end to end and everybody buddy wants to be my friend. Well I got all the riches, baby, any man ever knew but the only thing I ain’t got, honey, I ain’t got you.

I got a house full of Rembrandt and priceless art and all the little girls they wanna tear me apart when I walk down the street people stop and stare, well you’d think I might be thrilled but baby I don’t care. ’Cause I got more good luck honey than old King Farouk but the only thing I ain’t got, baby, I ain’t got you.

I got a big diamond watch sittin’ on my wrist, I try to tempt you baby but you just resist, I made a deal with de devil babe, I won’t deny until I got you in my arms I can’t be satisfied.

I got a pound of caviar sitting home on ice, I got a fancy foreign car that rides like paradise, I got a hundred pretty women knockin’ down my door and folks wanna kiss me I ain’t even seen before. I been around the world and all across the seven seas, been paid a king’s ransom for doin’ what comes naturally but I’m still the biggest fool honey this world ever knew ’cause the olny thing I ain’t got, baby, I ain’t got you.


2. Tougher than the rest.

Well it’s Saturday night, you’re all dressed up in blue, I been watching you awhile, maybe you been watching me too. So somebody ran out left somebody’s heart in a mess, well if you’re looking for love, honey I’m tougher than the rest.

Some girls they want a handsome Dan or some good-lookin’ Joe, on their arm some girls like a sweet-talkin’ Romeo. Well ’round here baby I learned you get what you can get so if you’re rough enough for love, honey I’m tougher than the rest.

The road is dark and it’s a thin, thin line, but I want you to know I’ll walk it for you any time. Maybe your other boyfriends couldn’t pass the test, well if you’re rough and ready for love, honey I’m tougher than the rest.

Well it ain’t no secret I’ve been around a time or two, well I don’t know baby, maybe you’ve been around too. Well there’s another dance, all you gotta do is say yes and if you’re rough and ready for love, honey I’m tougher than the rest, if you’re rough enough for love, baby I’m tougher than the rest.


3. All that heaven will allow.

I got a dollar in my pocket, there ain’t a cloud up above, I got a picture in a locket that says baby I love you. Well if you didn’t look then boys, then fellas don’t go lookin’ now, well here she comes a-walkin’ all that heaven will allow.

Say hey there mister bouncer, now all I wanna do is dance but I swear I left my wallet back home in my workin’ pants. C’mon Slim slip me in man, I’ll make it up to you somehow, I can’t be late I got a date with all that heaven will allow.

Rain and storm and dark skies, well now they don’t mean a thing, if you got a girl that loves you and who wants to wear your ring. So c’mon mister trouble, we’ll make it through you somehow, we’ll fill this house with all the love, all that heaven will allow.

Now some may wanna die young man, young and gloriously. Get it straight now mister, hey buddy that ain’t me, ’cause I got something on my mind, that sets me straight and walkin’ proud and I want all the time all that heaven will allow, yeah, I want all the time all that heaven will allow.


4. Spare parts.

Bobby said he’d pull out Bobby stayed in, Janey had a baby it wasn’t any sin, they were set to marry on a summer day, Bobby got scared and he ran away. Jane moved in with her ma out on Shawnee Lake, she sighed Ma sometimes my whole life feels like one big mistake, she settled in in a back room, time passed on later that winter a son come along. Spare parts and broken hearts, keep the world turnin’ around.

Now Janey walked that baby across the floor night after night but she was a young girl and she missed the party lights, meanwhile in South Texas in a dirty oil patch Bobby heard ’bout his son bein’ born and swore he wasn’t ever goin’ back. Spare parts and broken hearts, keep the world turnin’ around.

Janey heard about a woman over in Calverton, put her baby in the river left the river roll on, she looked at her boy in the crib where he lay, got down on her knees cried till she prayed. Mist was on the water low run the tide, Janey held her son down at the riverside, waist deep in the water how bright the sun shone, she lifted him in her arms and carried him home. As he lay sleeping in her bed, Janey took a look around at everything, went to a drawer in her bureau and got out her old engagement ring. Took out her wedding dress, tied that ring up in its sash, went straight down to the pawn shop man and walked out with some good cold cash. Spare parts and broken hearts, keep the world turnin’ around. Spare parts and broken hearts, keep the world turnin’ around.


5. Cautious man.

Bill Horton was a cautious man of the road, he walked lookin’ over his shoulder and remained faithful to its code. When something caught his eye he’d measure his need and then very carefully he’d proceed. Billy met a young girl in the early days of May, it was there in her arms he let his cautiousness slip away. In their lovers twilight as the evening sky grew dim, he’d lay back in her arms and laugh at what had happened to him.

On his right hand Billy’d tattooed the word love and on his left hand was the word fear and in which hand he held his fate was never clear. Come Indian summer, he took his young lover for his bride and with his own hands built her a great house down by the riverside.

Now Billy was an honest man, he wanted to do what was right, he worked hard to fill their lives with happy days and loving night. Alone on his knees in the darkness for steadiness he’d pray, for he knew in a restless heart the seed of betrayal lay. One night Billy awoke from a terrible dream callin’ his wife’s name, she lay breathing beside him in a peaceful sleep, a thousand miles away.

He got dressed in the moonlight and down to the highway he strode, when he got there he didn’t find nothing but road. Billy felt a coldness rise up inside him that he couldn’t name, just as the words tattooed ’cross his knuckles he knew would always remain. At their bedside he brushed the hair from his wife’s face as the moon shone on her skin so white, filling their room in the beauty of God’s fallen light.


6. Walk like a man.

I remember how rough your hand felt on mine on my wedding day, and the tears cried on my shoulder, I couldn’t turn away. Well so much has happened to me that I don’t understand, all I can think of is being five years old following behind you at the beach, tracing your footprints in the sand trying to walk like a man.

By our lady of the roses, we lived in the shadow of the elms. I remember ma draggin’ me and my sister up the street to the church, whenever she heard those wedding bells. Well would they ever look so happy again, the handsome groom and his bride, as they stepped into that long black limousine for their mystery ride. Well tonight you step away from me and alone at the altar I stand, and as I watch my bride coming down the aisle I pray for the strength to walk like a man.

Well now the years have gone and I’ve grown from that seed you’ve sown but I didn’t think there’d be so many steps I’d have to learn on my own. Well I was young and I didn’t know what to do when I saw your best steps stolen away from you, now I’ll do what I can, I’ll walk like a man and I’ll keep on walkin’.


7. Tunnel of love.

Fat man sitting on a little stool takes the money from my hand while his eyes take a walk all over you, hands me two tickets smiles and whispers good luck, cuddle up angel cuddle up my little dove, we’ll ride down baby into this tunnel of love.

I can feel the soft silk of your blouse and them soft thrills in our little fun house, then the lights go out and it’s just the three of us, you me and all that stuff we’re so scared of, gotta ride down baby into this tunnel of love.

There’s a crazy mirror showing us both in 5-D, I’m laughing at you, you’re laughing at me, there’s a room of shadows that gets so dark brother, it’s easy for two people to lose each other in this tunnel of love.

It ought to be easy, ought to be simple enough, man meets a woman and they fall in love, but the house is haunted and the ride gets rough, and you’ve got to learn to live with what you can’t rise above if you want to ride on down in through this tunnel of love.


8. Two faces.

I met a girl and we ran away, I swore I’d make her happy every day and how I made her cry, two faces have I. Sometimes mister I feel sunny and wild, lord I love to see my baby smile then dark clouds come rolling by, two faces have I. One that laughs, one that cries, one says hello, one says goodbye, one does things I don’t understand, makes me feel like half a man.

At night I get down on my knees and pray, our love will make that other man go away but he’ll never say goodbye, two faces have I. Last night as I kissed you ’neath the willow tree, he swore he’d take your love away from me, he said our life was just a lie and two faces have I, well go ahead and let him try.


9. Brilliant disguise.

I hold you in my arms as the band plays, what are those words whispered baby just as you turn away. I saw you last night out on the edge of town, I wanna read your mind to know just what I’ve got in this new thing I’ve found. So tell me what I see when I look in your eyes, is that you baby or just a brilliant disguise.

I heard somebody call your name from underneath our willow, I saw something tucked in shame underneath your pillow. Well I’ve tried so hard baby but I just can’t see what a woman like you is doing with me. So tell me who I see when I look in your eyes, is that you baby or just a brilliant disguise.

Now look at me baby struggling to do everything right and then it all falls apart when out go the lights. I’m just a lonely pilgrim, I walk this world in wealth, I wanna know if it’s you I don’t trust ’cause I damn sure don’t trust myself.

Now you play the loving woman I’ll play the faithful man but just don’t look too close into the palm of my hand. We stood at the altar, the gypsy swore our future was right but come the wee wee hours, well maybe, baby, the gypsy lied. So when you look at me you better look hard and look twice, is that me, baby, or just a brilliant duisguise.

Tonight our bed is cold, I’m lost in the darkness of our love, God have mercy on the man who doubts what he’s sure of.


10. One step up.

Woke up this morning, the house was cold, checked the furnace she wasn’t burnin’, went out and hopped in my old Ford, hit the engine but she ain’t turnin’. We’ve given each other some hard lessons lately but we ain’t learnin’, we’re the same sad story that’s a fact, one step up and two steps back.

Bird on a wire outside my motel room but he ain’t singin’, girl in white outside a church in June but the church bells they ain’t ringin’. I’m sittin’ here in this bar tonight but all I’m thinkin’ is I’m the same old story same old act, one step up and two steps back.

It’s the same thing night on night, who’s wrong baby who’s right, another fight and I slam the door on, another battle in our dirty little war. When I look at myself I don’t see the man I wanted to be, somewhere along the line I slipped off track, I’m caught movin’ one step up and two steps back.

There’s a girl across the bar, I get the message she’s sendin’. Mm she ain’t lookin’ too married and me well honey I’m pretending. Last night I dreamed I held you in my arms, the music was never ending, we danced as the evening sky faded to black, one step up and two steps back, one step up and two steps back, one step up and two steps back.


11. When you're alone.

Times were tough, love was not enough, so you said, sorry Johnny, I’m gone gone gone . You said my act was funny but we both knew what was missing honey, so you lit out on your own. Now that pretty form that you’ve got baby, will make sure you get along but you’re gonna find out some day honey, when you’re alone you’re alone, when you’re alone you’re alone, when you’re alone you’re alone, when you’re alone you ain’t nothing but alone.

Now I was young and pretty on the mean streets of the city and I fought to make ’em my home, with just the shirt on my back I left and swore I’d never look back, and man I was gone gone gone. But there’s things that’ll knock you down you don’t even see coming and send you crawling like a baby back home, you’re gonna find out that day sugar, when you’re alone you’re alone, when you’re alone you’re alone, when you’re alone you’re alone,wWhen you’re alone you ain’t nothing but alone.

I knew some day your runnin’ would be through and you’d think back on me and you, and your love would be strong. You’d forget all about the bad and think only of all the laughs that we had and you’d wanna come home. Now it ain’t hard feelings or nothin’ sugar, that ain’t what’s got me singing this song, it’s just nobody knows, honey, where love goes, but when it goes it’s gone gone. When you’re alone you’re alone, when you’re alone you’re alone, when you’re alone you’re alone, when you’re alone you ain’t nothing but alone.


12. Valentine's day.

I’m driving a big lazy car, rushin’ up the highway in the dark, I got one hand steady on the wheel and one hand’s tremblin’ over my heart. It’s pounding baby, like it’s gonna bust right on through and it ain’t gonna stop till I’m alone again with you.

A friend of mine became a father last night, when we spoke in his voice I could hear the light of the skies and the rivers, the timberwolf in the pines and that great jukebox out on Route 39. They say he travels fastest who travels alone but tonight I miss my girl mister, tonight I miss my home.

Is it the sound of the leaves left blown by the wayside that’s got me out here on this spooky old highway tonight. Is it the cry of the river with the moonlight shining through, that ain’t what scares me baby, what scares me is loosin’ you.

They say if you die in your dreams, you really die in your bed, but honey last night I dreamed my eyes rolled straight back in my head and God’s light came shinin’ on through, I woke up in the darkness scared and breathin’ and born anew. It wasn’t the cold river bottom I felt rushing over me, it wasn’t the bitterness of a dream that didn’t come true, it wasn’t the wind in the grey fields I felt rushing through my arms, no no baby, baby, it was you.

So hold me close. honey say you’re forever mine and tell me you’ll be my lonely valentine.

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Año: 1987.
Procedencia de la banda: Long Branch (Nueva Jersey), Estados Unidos.
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