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
Till The End
Little girl I remember you... ItŽs just me and you, baby...
little girl, I remember you... baby, I remember you...
down on Richmond Avenue... down on Richmond Avenue...
with your hair piled high... and that look in your eye...
for every boy that was passing you by...
and I remember the way he held your hand...
he looked so satisfied....he looked so satisfied...
and I remember... checking outside of town...
and I remember this stripped-down Cadillac ...
and I remember you riding in back...
baby, riding in back... yeah, riding back...
I swore IŽd take you anyplace youŽd wanna go...
I swore for you IŽd drive all night anytime, anyplace...
IŽd drive all night anytime anyplace...
IŽd drive all night just to see your face...
just to buy you some shoes... and just to check you out...
and just to buy you a Christmas present... IŽd drive all night,
I remember I swore... that IŽd drive all night...
and I remember you promised that youŽd never leave without me...
you promised that youŽd never leave without me...
and I remember, like everything else was back then...
like everybody else around me did...
that you promised... you promised...
but baby, you lied... baby, you lied...
baby, you lied... baby, you lied... baby, you lied...
baby, you li-li-li-lied... yes, you li-li-li-lied...
baby, you li-li-li-lied ... pretty li-li-li-lies,
you were so young and you could tell such pretty lies...
you could tell such pretty lies...
and now youŽre back... and I wanna know why,
why, why, why, why, why, why,
why, why, why, why, why, WHY ?
Hiding on the backstreets, hiding on the backstreets
Hiding on the backstreets, hiding on the backstreets
Hiding on the backstreets, hiding on the backstreets
Hiding on the backstreets, hiding on the backstreets
Hiding on the backstreets, hiding on the backstreets
Hiding on the backstreets, hiding on the backstreets
Hiding on the backstreets, hiding on the backstreets
Hiding on the backstreets, hiding on the backstreets
It's alright, we'll go hiding on the backstreets
On the backstreets... On the backstreets...
On the backstreets... On the backstreets...
On the backstreets... On the backstreets...
~Bruce Springsteen~