Album: Born to Run (1975)

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• Hey Eddie, can you lend me a few bucks?
  Tonight, can you get us a ride?
  Gotta make it through the tunnel
  Got a meeting with a man on the other side
  
  Hey Eddie, this guy, he's the real thing
  So if you want to come along
  You gotta promise you won't say anything
  'Cause this guy don't dance
  And the word's been passed, this is our last chance
  
  We gotta stay cool tonight, Eddie
  'Cause man, we got ourselves out on that line
  And if we blow this one
  They ain't gonna be looking for just me this time
  
  And all we gotta do is hold up our end
  Here, stuff this in your pocket
  It'll look like you're carrying a friend
  And remember, just don't smile
  Change your shirt, 'cause tonight we got style
  
  Well, Cherry says she's gonna walk
  'Cause she found out I took her radio and hocked it
  But Eddie, man, she don't understand
  That two grand's practically sitting here in my pocket
  
  Tonight's gonna be everything that I said
  And when I walk through that door
  I'm just gonna throw that money on the bed
  She'll see this time I wasn't just talking
  Then I'm gonna go out walking
  
  Hey Eddie, can you catch us a ride? Writer/s: Bruce Springsteen
  Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Comments: 5

• H from Pacific NorthwestThis is a extraordinarily powerful, compelling vocal performance. The poignancy of this song has somehow touched my soul - I'm unexpectedly crying a bit playing this song again this morning. Wasn't sure I still could. I hadn't listened to this album until yesterday since my roommate Mike played it on his reel-to-reel deck when we were in college in '82. I'm glad to read Private User's comment, but still wish to retain my own interpretation, and the hazy scenes I've built in my mind of street lights and shadows, of cars and clandestine meetings amid bridge abutments and old brick industrial buildings. I imagine that Eddie was the better man, but ended up on the wrong end of things, and the lead character lived his life with the sorrow of knowing it was his fault, and could have all been avoided if he'd just found a way to satisfy the guys who 'don't dance' and never smile, and backed away from the criminal life while he still had a chance and reconciled with his girl and buckled down to a small but legit life on his side of the river.
• Private User from Boston, MaThis song is about a friend of my father-in-law, both of who were concert promoters and close friends with Springsteen in the 70s. And no, “Eddie” (name changed and I won’t reveal it) was not a criminal, but someone who put on a lot of events in the Trenton, NJ area but did fall on hard times. In fact, “Eddie” appears in at least one other of Springsteen’s songs under a different name. My father-in-law isn’t alive (he passed in the 70s) but “Eddie” still is and is currently living on a beach down in Jamaica. :D
• Mippy724 from Ashland OrLOVE this song, always have from the first listen. The rhythm is so damn cool
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• Daniel from Seattle, WaTom Waits said that he wished HE had written this song. Springsteen repaid the complement by doing Waits' "Jersey Girl."
• Derek from Shrewsbury, Magreat song not very well known but thats understandable because its so slow

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