“I met her on the strip three years ago
In a Camaro with this dude from
L.A.
I blew that Camero off my back
And drove that little girl away.
But now there’s wrinkles around
my baby’s eyes
And she cries herself to sleep at
night
When I come home the house is
dark
She sighs, ‘baby did you make it all right’
She sits on the porch of her
daddy’s house
But all her pretty dreams are
torn
She stares off alone into the
night
With the eyes of one who hates
for just being born.
For all the shut down strangers
and hot rod angels
Rumbling through this promised
land
Tonight my baby and me, we’re
gonna ride to the sea
And wash these sins off our
hands.
Tonight, tonight, the highway’s
bright
Out of our way mister you best
keep
‘cause summer’s here and the time
is right
For racing in the street.”
---“Racing in the Street” Bruce Springsteen.
---“Racing in the Street” Bruce Springsteen.
Today is
an anniversary of sorts. Today is my
grandson’s birthday. Happy birthday son.
Today also marks the 17th anniversary of my first meeting Katie in
Indianapolis, Indiana..It seems like so long ago, and yet like almost
yesterday. Today, for what it is worth,
also marks the 42nd anniversary of the resignation of Richard
Nixon.
While
here I pine for love’s labor lost, the nation pines for Nixon. Only my grandson, insulated by youth and
innocence, remains unscathed.
-------
Springsteen, Bruce. "Racing in the Street" from the album "Darkness at the Edge of Town"
1978 Columbia Records.
