8/15/2023 0 Comments Gaslight anthem lyrics 59 sound![]() ![]() On “American Slang,” though, the band is much more than that, with the Joe Strummer influence clearer than ever as it mingles with shades of reggae, grunge and Ramones-era punk pop. But in Fallon’s raspy sincerity, his desperate images of heartbroken loners and crushed dreams and the band’s embrace of the power of rock ’n’ roll redemption, Gaslight Anthem is the current frontrunner in the battle of the Springsteen successors. Gone are the direct references to Springsteen lyrics and mentions of Mary and Janey that dotted The Gaslight Anthem’s breakout sophomore album, 2008’s “The ’59 Sound.” But that doesn’t mean the shadow of The Boss doesn’t loom large over the band's latest release.īrian Fallon and the Jersey boys that make up The Gaslight Anthem were always more Springsteenian in spirit than in practice, with Alex Rosamilia’s punky guitars and Benny Horowitz’s pounding drums making their three-minute songs more reminiscent of The Clash than of the E Street Band’s piano-and-saxophone epics. ![]() I'da Called You Woody, Joe: And this was the sound of the very last gang in town/As heard by my wild young heart like directions on a cold dark night/Sayin' "Let it out, let it out, let it out you're doin' all right."/And I heard it in his chain gang soul/how it wasn't just the same sad song/Sayin' "Let it out, let it out, let it out, you're doin' all right.If there’s one thing “American Slang” isn’t, it’s a Bruce Springsteen tribute album. Red in the Morning: Let me drive, let me drive, disappear in the night/Like I was a ghost in your dreamsįilm Noir: I lit a fire that wouldn't go out, until it consumed the walls and roof of this house, until all I remember was burnin' away, and all I remember, you burned it away High Lonesome: And Maria came from Nashville with a suitcase in her hand/I always kinda sorta wished I looked like Elvis/And in my head there's all these classic cars and outlaw cowboy bands/I always kinda sorta wished I was someone else Orphans: Goodbye, circus wheel, maybe you rest along the seas/I have given you the fire of my youth and the triumph of my enemies/And goodbye, fair weather home and your faithless factories/I have given you the blood and the truth from the wounds that they laid on me/And whatever they left, I kept it for my own heart/And the lonesome understand with the choirs in my head, we were orphans before we were ever the sons of regret ![]() ![]() We Came to Dance: Strike up the band, play a song that everybody knows/If I'm not your kind, then don't tell a soul/I'm not the one who hates bein' alone, so come on We're Getting a Divorce, You Keep the Diner: Were the things that we wanted when we were still 16 only passing and fleeting or just too far out of reach?īoxer: You found the bandages inside the pen, and the stitches on the radio/But there was something heavy holding you down, and there were whispers that were driving you crazy Old Haunts: So don't sing me your songs about the good times/Those days are gone and you should just let them go/And god help the man who says "If you'd have known me when." The Backseat: But you and I, we've been through this/Maybe a hundred times before/Always hitchin' rides with strangers that papa warned us about before/But you know the summer always brought in/That wild and reckless breeze/And in the backseats we just tried to find some room for our knees Those Molly and the Zombies demos that came out recently reminded me that Brian Fallon an excellent lyricist, plus I'm pretty hyped for the new Gaslight Anthem album so here are my favorite lines from his songs. ![]()
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