Backstreets Lyrics - Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band

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 they set us loose of everything 

To go running on the backstreets 

Running on the backstreets 

Terry, you swore we'd live forever 

Taking it on them backstreets together 

Endless juke joints and Valentino drag 

Where famous 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 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 to walk like the 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 

Where we swore forever friends 

On the backstreets until the end