Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Springsteen - Spirit in the night songtekst

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Na het tekenen van zijn eerste contract bij Columbia Records, wou de platenbaas nog een nummer als hitsingle. Bruce Springsteen schreef toen Blinded by the light en deze Spirit in the night. Het nummer werd de 2e single van Bruce Springsteen in 1973 en stond op zijn debuutalbum Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. Omdat die twee extra nummers als laatste waren opgenomen, was dit met een beperkte bezetting van Bruce Springsteen en zijn muzikanten (drummer Vini Lopez, saxofonist Clarence Clemons en Springsteen zelf). De single deed het niet zo goed, maar is wel een geliefd nummer bij live optredens en door Bruce Springsteen het meest gespeelde nummer van zijn debuutalbum. Meestal verloopt dit met veel interactie met het publiek dat meezingt 'all night' tijdens het refrein.

Spirits of the night, slaat terug op de dakloze bewoners aan Greasy Lake bij Howel NJ, die zo genoemd werden. Greasy Lake is een mytische plaats, gebaseerd op enkele bestaande locaties. De naam komt van het gelijknamige kortverhaal van schrijver T.C. Boyle.

In 1975 nam Manfred Mann's Earth Band het nummer op met iets meer rockgehalte.

Crazy Janey and her mission man were back in the alley tradin' hands
'Long came Wild Billy with his friend G-Man all duded up for Saturday night
Well, Billy slammed on his coaster brakes and said, "Anybody wanna go on up to Greasy Lake?
It's about a mile down on the dark side of route eighty-eight, I got a bottle of rose so let's try it
We'll pick up Hazy Davy and Killer Joe and I'll take you all out to where the gypsy angels go
They're built like light
Ooh, and they dance like spirits in the night" (all night) 
In the night (all night)
Oh, you don't know what they can do to you
Spirits in the night (all night)
Oh, in the night (all night)
Stand right up now and let it shoot through you

Well now Wild young Billy was a crazy cat and he shook some dust out of his coonskin cap
He said, "Trust some of this, it'll show you where you're at, or at least it'll help you really feel it"
Well, by the time we made it up to Greasy Lake I had my head out the window and Janey's fingers were in the cake
I think I really dug her 'cause I was too loose to fake
I said, "I'm hurt," she said, "Honey, let me heal it"
And we danced all night to a soul fairy band
And she kissed me just right like only a lonely angel can
She felt so nice, just as soft as a spirit in the night (all night)
In the night (all night)
Oh, Janey don't know what she do to you
Like a spirit in the night (all night)
All night (all night)
Stand right up and I let her shoot through me

(Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh)
(Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh)

(Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh)
(Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh)

Now the night was bright and the stars threw light on Billy and Davy
Dancin' in the moonlight
They were down near the water in a stone mud fight
Killer Joe gone passed out on the lawn
Well now Hazy Davy got really hurt, he ran into the lake in just his socks and a shirt
Me and Crazy Janey was makin' love in the dirt, singin' our birthday songs
Janey said it was time to go
So we closed our eyes and said goodbye to gypsy angel row, felt so right
Together we moved like spirits in the night (all night)
In the night (all night)
Oh, you don't know what they can do to you
Them spirits in the night (all night)
All night (all night)
Oh, stand right up and let it shoot through you
Like a spirit in the night (all night)
All night (all night)
All night (all night)
All night (all night)
All night (all night)
All night (all night)
All night, ooh, ooh, man, all night
The night
Be-da-ba the night
In the night
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Auteur: Bruce Springsteen

Componist: Bruce Springsteen

Publisher: Sony Music Entertainment Inc

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Uitgegeven in: 1973

Taal: Engels

Komt voor op: Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. (1973) , Live/1975-85 (1986) , Live at the Capitol Theater, Passiac, NJ (2014) , Winterland 15th December 1978 (2014) , Best Of (2024)

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