Por Yovi-Girl @ 18:27 | Bruce Springsteen
Devils & Dust
I got my finger on the trigger
But I don't know who to trust
When I look into your eyes
There's just devils and dust
We're a long, long way from home, Bobbie
Home's a long, long way from us
I feel a dirty wind blowing
Devils and dust
I got God on my side
I'm just trying to survive
What if what you do to survive
Kills the things you love
Fear's a powerful thing
It can turn your heart black you can trust
It'll take your God filled soul
And fill it with devils and dust
Well I dreamed of you last night
In a field of blood and stone
The blood began to dry
The smell began to rise
Well I dreamed of you last night
In a field of mud and bone
Your blood began to dry
The smell began to rise
We've got God on our side
We're just trying to survive
What if what you do to survive
Kills the things you love
Fear's a powerful thing
It'll turn your heart black you can trust
It'll take your God filled soul
Fill it with devils and dust
Now every woman and every man
They want to take a righteous stand
Find the love that God wills
And the faith that He commands
I've got my finger on the trigger
And tonight faith just ain't enough
When I look inside my heart
There's just devils and dust
Well I've got God on my side
And I'm just trying to survive
What if what you do to survive
Kills the things you love
Fear's a dangerous thing
It can turn your heart black you can trust
It'll take your God filled soul
Fill it with devils and dust
It'll take your God filled soul
Fill it with devils and dust
All the Way Home
I know what it's like to have failed, baby
With the whole world lookin' on
I know what it's like to have soared, and come crashin' like a drunk on a bar room floor
Now you got no reason to trust me
My confidence is a little rusty
But if you don't feel like bein' alone
Baby, I could walk you all the way home
Well now our old fears and failures
Baby, they do linger
Like the shadow of that ring
That was on your finger
Those days they've come and gone
Baby, I could walk you all the way home
Love leaves nothin' but shadows and vapor
We go on, as is our sad nature
Now it's some old Stones' song
the band is trashin'
But if you feel like dancin'
Baby, I'm askin'
It's comin' on closing time
Bartender, he's ringin' last call
These days I don't stand on pride
And I ain't afraid to take a fall
So if you're seein' what you like
Maybe your first choice he's gone
Well that's all right
Baby, I could walk you all the way home
Baby, I could walk you all the way home
Reno
She took off her stockings,
I held them to my face
She had your ankles
I felt filled with grace
"Two hundred dollars straight in,
Two-fifty up the ass," she smiled and said
She unbuckled my belt,
pulled back her hair
And sat in front of me on the bed
She said, "Honey how's that feel,
do you want me to go slow?"
My eyes drifted out the window,
down to the road below
I felt my stomach tighten
The sun bloodied the sky
And sliced through the hotel blinds
I closed my eyes
Sunlight on the Amatitlan
Sunlight streaming thru your hair
In the Valle de dos Rios
Smell of mock orange filled the air
We rode with the vaqueros
Down into cool rivers of green
I was sure the work and that smile
coming out 'neath your hat
Was all I'd ever need
Somehow all you ever need's,
never really quite enough you know
You and I, Maria, we learned it's so
She slipped me out of her mouth
"You're ready," she said
She took off her bra and panties,
wet her finger, slipped it inside her
And crawled over me on the bed
She poured me another whisky,
Said, "Here's to the best you ever had"
We laughed and made a toast
It wasn't the best I ever had
Not even close
Long Time Comin'
Out where the creek turns shallow and sandy
And the moon comes skimmin' away the stars
The wind in the mesquite
comes rushin' over the hilltops
Straight into my arms
Straight into my arms
I'm riding hard carryin' a catch of roses
And a fresh map that I made
Tonight I'm gonna get birth naked
and bury my old soul
And dance on its grave
And dance on its grave
It's been a long time comin', my dear
It's been a long time comin' but now it's here
Well my daddy he was just a stranger
Lived in a hotel downtown
When I was a kid he was just somebody
Somebody I'd see around
Somebody I'd see around
Now down below and pullin' on my shirt
I got some kids of my own
Well if I had one wish in this
god forsaken world, kids
It'd be that your mistakes would be your own
Yea your sins would be your own
It's been a long time comin', my dear
It's been a long time comin' but now it's here
Out 'neath the arms of Cassiopeia
Where the sword of Orion sweeps
It's me and you, Rosie, cracklin'
like crossed wires
And you breathin' in your sleep
You breathin' in your sleep
Well there's just a spark of campfire burning
Two kids in a sleeping bag beside
I Reach 'neath your shirt,
lay my hands across your belly
And feel another one kickin' inside
I ain't gonna fuck it up this time
It's been a long time comin', my dear
It's been a long time comin' but now it's here
It's been a long time comin', my dear
It's been a long time comin' but now it's here
Black Cowboys
Raney William's playground
was among Haven's streets
Where he ran past melted candles
and flower wreaths
Names and photos of the young black faces
Whose death and blood consecrated these places
Raney's mother said Raney stay at my side
For you are my blessing, you are my pride
It's your love here that keeps my soul alive
I want you to come home from school
and stay inside
Raney'd do his work and put his books away
There was a channel showed
a Western movie everyday
And that brought him home books on the
black cowboys of the Oklahoma range
The Seminole scouts that fought
the tribes of the Great Plains
Summer come and the days grew long
Raney always had his mother's smile to depend on
Along the street of stray bullets he made his way
To the warmth of her arms at the end of each day
Come the Fall, the rain flooded these homes
In Ezekiel's valley of dry bones
It fell hard and dark to the ground
It fell without a sound
And they took up with a man
whose business was the boulevard
Whose smile was fixed in a face
that was never off guard
In the pipes 'neath the kitchen sink
his secrets are kept
In the day, behind drawn curtains
in the next bedroom he slept
And she got lost in the days
The smile Raney depended on
dusted away
The arms that held him were no more his own
He lay at night his head pressed to her chest
listening to the ghost in her bones
In the kitchen, Raney slipped
his hand between the pipes
From a brown bag pulled five hundred dollar bills and stuck it in his coat side
Stood in the dark
at his mother's bed
Brushed her hair and kissed her eyes
In the twilight Raney walked
to the station on streets of stone
Through Pennsylvania and Ohio
his train drifted on
Through the small towns of Indiana
the big train crept
As he lay his head back on his seat and slept
He woke and the towns gave way
to muddy fields of green
Corn and cotton and endless nothing in between
Over the rutted hills of Oklahoma
the red sun slipped and was gone
The moon rose and stripped the earth to its bone
Maria's Bed
Been on a barbed wire highway
40 days and nights
I ain't complainin', it's my job
and it suits me right
I got a sweet soft fever
rushin' around my head
I'm gonna sleep tonight in Maria's bed
Got on a dead man suit
and smilin' skull ring
Lucky graveyard boots
and a song to sing
I keep my heart in my work
but trouble's in my head
And I keep my soul in Maria's bed
I been up on sugar mountain,
cross the sweet blue seas
I walked the valley of love and tears and mystery
I got run out'a luck and give myself up for dead
And I drank the cool clear waters
from Maria's bed
She give me candy stick kisses
'neath a wolf dog moon
One sweet breath and she'll take you mister
to the upper room
I was burned by the angels,
sold wings of lead
Then I fell in the roses
and sweet salvation of Maria's bed
I been out in the desert yeah doin' my time
Searchin' through the dust for fools gold,
lookin' for a sign
Holy man said "hold on brother
there's a light up ahead"
Ain't nothing like a light that shines
on me in Maria's bed
Well I'll take my blessings at the riverhead
I'm living in the light of Maria's bed
Silver Palomino
I was barely 13 years old
She came out of the Guadalupe's on a night so cold
Her coat was frosted diamonds
in the sallow moon's glow
My silver palomino
Sixteen hands from her withers to the ground
I lie in bed and listen to the sound
Of the west Texas thunder roll
My silver palomino
I track her into the mountains she loved
Watch her from the rocks above
She'd dip her neck and drink from the winter flows
My silver palomino
Our mustañeros were the very best, sir
But they could never lay a rope on her
No corral will ever hold
The silver palomino
In my dreams bareback I ride
Over the pradera low and wide
As the wind sweeps out the draw
'Cross the scrub desert floor
I'd give my riata and spurs
If I could be forever yours
I'd ride into the serrania where no one goes
For my silver palomino
Summer drought come hard that year
Our herd grazed the land so bare
Me and my dad had to blowtorch
the thorns off the prickly pear
And mother, your hand slipped from my hair
Tonight I wake early the sky is pearl,
the stars aglow. I saddle up my red roan
I ride deep into the mountains
along a ridge of pale stone
Where the air is still with the coming snow
As I rise higher I can smell your hair
The scent of your skin, mother, fills the air
'Midst the harsh scrub pine that grows
I watch the silver palomino
Jesus was an Only Son
Jesus was an only son
As he walked up Calvary Hill
His mother Mary walking beside him
In the path where his blood spilled
Jesus was an only son
In the hills of Nazareth
As he lay reading the Psalms of David
At his mother's feet
A mother prays, "Sleep tight, my child, sleep well
For I'll be at your side
That no shadow, no darkness,
no tolling bell,
Shall pierce your dreams this night"
In the garden at Gethsemane
He prayed for the life he'd never live,
He beseeched his Heavenly Father to remove
The cup of death from his lips
Now there's a loss that can never be replaced,
A destination that can never be reached
A light you'll never find in another's face,
A sea whose distance cannot be breached
Well Jesus kissed his mother's hands
Whispered, "Mother, still your tears,
For remember the soul of the universe
Willed a world and it appeared"
Leah
I wanna build me a house, on higher ground
I wanna find me a world,
where love's the only sound
High above this road,
filled with shadow and doubt
I want to shoulder my load,
and figure it all out
With Leah
I walk this road, with a hammer
and a fiery lantern
With this hand I've built,
and with this I've burned
I wanna live in the same house,
beneath the same roof
Sleep in the same bed,
search for the same proof
As Leah
I got somethin' in my heart,
I been waitin' to give
I got a life I wanna start,
one I been waitin' to live
No more waitin', tonight I feel the light
I say the prayer
I open the door, I climb the stairs...
The Hittler
Come to the door, Ma, and unlock the chain
I was just passin' through and got caught in the rain
There's nothin' I want, nothin' that you need say
Just let me lie down for a while and I'll be on my way
I was no more than a kid when
you put me on the Southern Queen
With the police on my back I fled to New Orleans
I fought in the dockyards and with the money I made
I knew the fight was my home
and blood was my trade
Baton Rouge, Ponchatoula, and Lafayette town
Well they paid me their money, Ma,
I knocked the men down
I did what I did well it come easily
Restraint and mercy, Ma,
were always strangers to me
I fought champion Jack Thompson
in a field full of mud
Rain poured through the tent to the canvas
and mixed with our blood
In the twelfth I slipped my tongue
over my broken jaw
I stood over him and pounded
his bloody body into the floor
Well the bell rang and rang and still I kept on
'Till I felt my glove leather slip
between his skin and bone
Then the women and the money came fast
and the days I lost track
The women red, the money green,
but the numbers were black
I fought for the men in their silk suits
to lay down their bets
I took my good share, Ma, I have no regrets
Then I took the fix at the
state armory with big John McDowell
From high in the rafters I watched myself fall
As they raised his arm my stomach twisted
and the sky it went black
I stuffed my bag with their good money
and I never looked back
Understand, in the end, Ma,
every man plays the game
If you know me one different then speak out his name
Ma, if my voice now you don't recognize
Then just open the door and look into your dark eyes
I ask of you nothin', not a kiss not a smile,
Just open the door and let me lie down for a while
Now the gray rain's fallin' and my ring fightin's done
So in the work fields and alleys
I take all who'll come
If you're a better man than me
then just step to the line
Show me your money and speak out your crime
Now there's nothin' I want, Ma,
nothin' that you need say
Just let me lie down for a while and I'll be on my way
Tonight in the shipyard a man
draws a circle in the dirt
I move to the center and I take off my shirt
I study him for the cuts, the scars, the pain,
Man, nor time can erase
I move hard to the left
and I strike to the face
All I'm Thinkin' About
Blind man wavin' by the side of the road
I'm in a flat bed Ford carrying a heavy load
With a sweet thing sippin' on a blueberry wine
On a flat black highway down in Carolina
Black bird slippin' in a sky of blue
All I'm thinkin' about is you, baby
All I'm thinkin' about is you, honey
All I'm thinkin' about is you, baby
All I'm thinkin' about is you
Ain't nothin' in this world I can do about it
All I'm thinkin' about is you
Little boy carryin' a fishin' pole
Little girl pickin' berries straight off of the vine
Brown bag filled with a little green toad
We hook 'em through the lip
and throw 'em off of the line
Your sweet brown legs got me feeling so blue
All I'm thinkin' about is you, baby
All I'm thinkin' about is you
All I'm thinkin' about is you, baby
All I'm thinkin' about is you
Ain't nothin' in this world I can do about it
All I'm thinkin' about is you
Black car shinin' on a Sunday morn
Mama go to church now,
Mama go to church now
Friday night daddy's shirt is torn
Daddy's goin' downtown,
Daddy's goin' downtown
Ain't no one understand this sweet thing we do
All I'm thinkin' about is you, baby
All I'm thinkin' about is you
All I'm thinkin' about is you, baby
All I'm thinkin' about is you
Ain't nothin' in this world I can do about it
All I'm thinkin' about is you
Field turned up, the seed is sowed
Rain comin' in from over 'cross the road
Big black curtain comin' 'cross the field
Blind 'll see, the lame will be be healed
Brown eyed girl, I turned my back on you,
now it's lonely
All I'm thinkin' about is you, babe
All I'm thinkin' about is you
All I'm thinkin' about is you, babe
All I'm thinkin' about is you
Ain't nothin' in this world take away these blues
All I'm thinkin' about is you
All I'm thinkin' about is you, babe
All I'm thinkin' about is you
All I'm thinkin' about is you
All I'm thinkin' about is you
Ain't nothin' in this world I can do about it
All I'm thinkin' about is you
Matamoros Banks
For two days the river keeps you down
Then you rise to the light without a sound
Past the playgrounds and empty switching yards
The turtles eat the skin from your eyes,
so they lay open to the stars
Your clothes give way to the current and river stone
'Till every trace of who you ever were is gone
And the things of the earth they make their claim
That the things of heaven may do the same
Goodbye, my darling,
for your love I give God thanks,
Meet me on the Matamoros
Meet me on the Matamoros
Meet me on the Matamoros banks
Over rivers of stone and ancient ocean beds
I walk on sandals of twine and tire tread
My pockets full of dust,
my mouth filled with cool stone
The pale moon opens the earth to its bones
I long, my darling, for your kiss,
for your sweet love I give God thanks
The touch of your loving fingertips
Meet me on the Matamoros
Meet me on the Matamoros
Meet me on the Matamoros banks
Your sweet memory comes on the evenin' wind
I sleep and dream of holding you in my arms again
The lights of Brownsville, across the river shine
A shout rings out and into the silty red river I dive
I long, my darling, for your kiss,
for your sweet love I give God thanks
A touch of your loving fingertips
Meet me on the Matamoros
Meet me on the Matamoros
Meet me on the Matamoros banks
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