Bruce Springsteen - "Save My Love" från nya "The Promise" (Darkness Reissue Outtake)

The Boss släpper ett nytt album med låtmaterial som inte kom med på ”Darkness of the Edge of Town” - låtarna var helt enkelt för positiva ;-)
Samtidigt kommer Thom Zimnys dokumentärfilm ”The Promise” som skildrar tillkomsten av LP:n ”Darkness of the Edge of Town” som kom ut 1978.

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Ps.
Om jag förtsått allt rätt så släpps en dubbel-CD och en DVD den 16:e november.

Across the Border

Tonight my bag is packed
Tomorrow I'll walk these tracks
That will lead me across the border

Tomorrow my love and I
Will sleep 'neath auburn skies
Somewhere across the border

We'll leave behind my dear
The pain and sadness we found here
And we'll drink from the Bravo's muddy waters

Where the sky grows grey and white
We'll meet on the other side
There across the border

For you I'll build a house
High up on a grassy hill
Somewhere across the border

Where pain and memory
Pain and memory have been stilled
There across the border

And sweet blossoms fills the air
Pastures of gold and green
Roll down into cool clear waters

And in your arms 'neath the open skies
I'll kiss the sorrow from your eyes
There across the border

Tonight we'll sing the songs
I'll dream of you my corazon
And tomorrow my heart will be strong

And may the saints' blessing and grace
Carry me safely into your arms
There across the border

For what are we
Without hope in our hearts
That someday we'll drink from God's blessed waters

And eat the fruit from the vine
I know love and fortune will be mine
Somewhere across the border

Bruce Springsteen
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Kanske något av det bästa Bruce skrivit, så sammanfattande och så sant. Som ett "musikreportage" om alla dem som är på väg mot gränser på jakt efter ett bättre liv, som korsar Rio Bravo, Medelhavet, Östersjön...

Och vad jag lyssnar på medans jag redigerar bilder, nedan en bild från vardagsrummet varifrån musiken just nu strömmar ut...


Ricoh GR-D III Tagen för någon minut sedan, uppladdad direkt från koret via PS.

Less is more - Highway Patrolman - och finns det DOGMA-musik?

Youtube-klippet från ett live-framträdande i Dublin, dvs inte från originalinspelningen, den får ni hitta själva ;-)


Bruce spelade in hela albumet Nebraska hemma på sin fyraspårs Portastudio (kasettbandspelare;-) Jag tycker nog att det är hans starkaste skiva, och speciellt "Highway Patrolman" står ut. För mig blir detta "DOGMA-music" ;-) Dvs det hjälper inte alltid med dyr utrustning och massor av efterbearbetning, ibland kan det enkla och avskalade lyfta fram kärnan i budskapet mycket bättre. På reklamspråk: "less is more", på fotospråk: "känslan är bilden".

Nedan texten till "Highway Patrolman" - för er som vill sjunga med :-)

My name is Joe Roberts I work for the state
I'm a sergeant out of Perrineville barracks number 8
I always done an honest job as honest as I could
I got a brother named Franky and Franky ain't no good

Now ever since we was young kids it's been the same come down
I get a call over the radio Franky's in trouble downtown
Well if it was any other man, I'd put him straight away
But when it's your brother sometimes you look the other way

Me and Franky laughin' and drinkin' nothin' feels better than blood on blood
Takin' turns dancin' with Maria as the band played "Night of the Johnstown Flood"

I catch him when he's strayin' like any brother would
Man turns his back on his family well he just ain't no good

Well Franky went in the army back in 1965 I got a farm deferment, settled down, took Maria for my wife
But them wheat prices kept on droppin' till it was like we were gettin' robbed
Franky came home in '68, and me, I took this job

Yea we're laughin' and drinkin' nothin' feels better than blood on blood
Takin' turns dancin' with Maria as the band played "Night of the Johnstown Flood"
I catch him when he's strayin', teach him how to walk that line
Man turns his back on his family he ain't no friend of mine

Well the night was like any other, I got a call 'bout quarter to nine
There was trouble in a roadhouse out on the Michigan line
There was a kid lyin' on the floor lookin' bad bleedin' hard from his head there was a girl cryin' at a table and it was Frank, they said
Well I went out and I jumped in my car and I hit the lights
Well I must of done one hundred and ten through Michigan county that night

It was out at the crossroads, down round Willow bank
Seen a Buick with Ohio plates behind the wheel was Frank
Well I chased him through them county roads till a sign said Canadian border five miles from here
I pulled over the side of the highway and watched his taillights disappear

Me and Franky laughin' and drinkin'
Nothin' feels better than blood on blood
Takin' turns dancin' with Maria as the band played "Night of the Johnstown Flood"
I catch him when he's strayin' like any brother would
Man turns his back on his family well he just ain't no good
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Highway Patrolman - © Bruce Springsteen
 

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