dean’s top 13 springsteen traxx: or songs dean listens to late at night, baby’s engine cooling beneath his back
a look at dean through the years in sort of chronological order (starting at the beginning and ending with what we deserved — love, free will, peace, y’know, the whole deal).
1. death to my hometown. I awoke on a quiet night, I never heard a sound / the marauders raided in the dark / they brought death to my hometown, boys / death to my hometown
2. my father's house (yes this version specifically). last night I dreamed that I was a child / out where the pines grow wild and tall / I was trying to make it home through the forest / before the darkness falls
3. radio nowhere. this is radio nowhere / is there anybody alive out there?
4. darkness on the edge of town. well everybody's got a secret, son / something that they just can't face / some folks spend their whole lives trying to keep it / they carry it with them every step that they take
5. out in the street. when I'm out in the street / I walk the way I wanna walk / when I'm out in the street / I talk the way I wanna talk
6. thunder road. don't turn me home again / I just can't face myself alone again
7. the wrestler. these things that have comforted me, I drive away / this place that is my home, I cannot stay / my only faith's in the broken bones and bruises I display
8. badlands. for the ones who had a notion, a notion deep inside / that it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive / I wanna find one face that ain't looking through me / I wanna find one place, I wanna spit in the face of these / badlands
9. tougher than the rest. so somebody ran out / left somebody's heart in a mess / well, if you're looking for love / honey, I'm tougher than the rest
10. born to run. together, Wendy, we can live with the sadness / I'll love you with all the madness in my soul
11. letter to you. 'neath a crowd of mongrel trees I pulled that bothersome thread / got down on my knees, grabbed my pen and bowed my head / tried to summon all that my heart finds true / and send it in my letter to you
12. atlantic city. and everything dies, baby, that's a fact / but maybe everything that dies someday comes back
13. land of hope and dreams (bc i watched jon stewart’s last taping of the daily show live and it changed me). well, darling if you’re weary / lay your head upon my chest / we’ll take what we can carry / yeah, and we’ll leave the rest