Brice Springstone - Made in the USA
MADE IN THE USA
NOTICE ME
DARLING OF THE COUNTY
STALLED OUT ON THE HIGHWAY
THROBBING PAIN
I’M SO TIRED
SURRENDER
BOBBY JEAN
I’M GONNA DROWN
GLORY FADES
SLEEPING IN THE PARK
YOU’RE ALONE NOW
MADE IN THE USA
I used to work at a factory in town
I was there everyday until they shut it down
All our jobs got shipped to another place
I remember when we were all proud to say
It’s made in the USA, made in the USA
made in the USA, made in the USA
The company wants to save a buck or two
and now were waiting in a line with nothing to do
We made this country great with our own two hands
Now it’s hard for us to understand things were
It’s made in the USA, made in the USA
made in the USA, made in the USA
They tried to get us back on our feet
but flippin burgers doesn’t make ends meet
That’s the day that we got the news
That it didn’t matter that we paid our dues
It’s made in the USA, made in the USA
made in the USA, made in the USA
NOTICE ME
The seems harder to get the signal through
I just don’t know what I gotta do to make you
Notice me, come on baby, notice me
Well I’m just waiting for someone who will come on in and notice me
I can’t wait baby until you find me
I can leave all this heartache behind me
Notice me, come on over and notice me
Well I’m just waiting here for someone who will come and notice me
Outside’s it’s cold, but inside is colder
Maybe I get you if I was a little bolder
Turn out the light, hit the floor
I ain’t going out seeking trouble any more
It seems like everyone is on ignore
I just don’t know why I try anymore
Notice me, come on over and notice me
Well I’m just waiting here for someone who will come and notice me
I’m just waiting for someone who will come on in and notice me
DARLING OF THE COUNTY
You know she was the darling of the county
I tried to pick her up on the 4th of July
You know she was the darling of the county
I should have known I shouldn’t even try
All the guys want to take her out
She gets all the attention and she knows how to play the game
I should have known that I didn’t stand a chance
Lived here all my life and she doesn’t know my name
I might as well be 800 miles away now
I should be getting that thought out of my mind and how
Sha la la
Sha la la la la
Sha la la la la la la, hey eh
Sha la la
Sha la la la la
Sha la la la la la la
Hey little girl standing on the corner
Do you think that you could get her off my mind?
I’ve been shot down and I need a little help now
And you’re the right kind of distraction I should find
Girl you’re not looking at much of a big spender
But maybe you can think of something we might do
I know that you can lift my spirits a little higher
A kiss and a smile will help me make it through
Come on baby, climb into the front seat
It’s a long night so let’s cruise on down the street
Just me and you, we could
Sha la la
Sha la la la la
Sha la la la la la la
Sha la la
Sha la la la la
Sha la la la la la la
Little girl sitting in the window
It’s no use I can’t seem to let her go
Everybody is telling me the same thing
I’m not the kind of guy she wants and I should know
Little girl you’re so young and pretty
but maybe we should just call it a day
I know that you’ve tried your best now
But I don’t see any other way
You know she was the darling of the county
Every guy tries to chase her down the road
You know she was the darling of the county
At least that what I’ve always been told
STALLED OUT ON THE HIGHWAY
I went to take a road trip Friday after work
Tired of the hassles messing with the jerks
Needed a vacation from the stress and the grind
Roll the windows down leave my troubles all behind
We were cruising pretty fast down on ninety five
Until the engine light came on and we sputtered down the line
I should have had it checked out but I didn’t have the time
Now all I have to do is watch while the traffic pass me by
Stalled out on the highway waiting for the tow truck
Stalled out on the highway, man, I’m down on my luck
Stalled out on the highway, dont you know that this sucks
Stalled out on the highway, Stalled out on the highway
I met her in the produce section at the grocery store
We got along good and she said she wanted more
So I took her for the weekend and she said it was alright
Now we’re on the side of the highway stuck for the night
Stalled out on the highway waiting for the tow truck
Stalled out on the highway, man, I’m down on my luck
Stalled out on the highway, dont you know that this sucks
Stalled out on the highway, Stalled out on the highway
So we were sitting in the car with nothing much to do
She said when we got back that she and I were through
I didn’t get a chance to make it up to her that day
I guess I took my chances and I flushed it all away
Stalled out on the highway waiting for the tow truck
Stalled out on the highway, man, I’m down on my luck
Stalled out on the highway, dont you know that this sucks
Stalled out on the highway, Stalled out on the highway
THROBBING PAIN
I had some cash, I had some time
I was looking for somewhere I could spend my dime
I got jacked up down at Joe’s grill and bar
Then I left drunk with the keys to my car
Now I’m trying to drive down the highway
swirving in the pouring rain
and I feel like I could throw up with this throbbing pain
bartender said, “Joe you gotta go”
“You’ve had too much you don’t need to drink no more”
They called me a cab tried to get me a ride
But I told them I could make it outside
Now I’m trying to drive down the highway
swirving in the pouring rain
and I feel like I could throw up with this throbbing pain
Last night I heard a voice
I was crying, I was so alone
Couldn’t think straight, thought I was driving
There was no way I could have known
I hit a tree somewhere in the woods
My car was about to explode
Someone pulled me out barely in time
I didn’t know that I could have died
and I tried to drive down the highway
swirving in the pouring rain
and I feel like I could throw up with this throbbing pain
I’M SO TIRED
Hey now baby is your daddy home
Does he know how much you like to roam
I got no desire
oh I’m so tired
Tell me now baby is it good for you
to keep me up now doing those things you do
I can’t take you higher
oh I’m so tired
Sometimes it feels like someone took a knife baby edgy and dull
and stuck it into my heart and made it bleed so
Late at night I stay up cause I can’t get to sleep
when I thought I was falling in a love so deep
But I got no desire
oh I’m so tired
SURRENDER
Well, we were bored in class
Couldn’t get away from those rules
I wish we paid more attention back then baby
We might have learned something in school
But at night we would follow our restless hearts
The excitment began to build
Our bodies move closer and you just close your eyes
and our minds begin to yeild
Well, we made a promise we swore we’d always remember
You were the one, baby I’d surrender
Falling in love in the heat of the night
With nothing to lose
You were the one, baby I’d surrender
Well, now young faces are growing old
Cruelty of life shows it’s face
We swore that we would fight against the wind
And we’d never give up the race
There’s a voice that’s calling us home
Across the open years
And I still hold you now like I held you back then
Shielding you from your fears
Well, we made a promise we swore we’d always remember
You were the one, baby I’d surrender
Falling in love in the heat of the night
With nothing to lose
You were the one, baby I’d surrender
BOBBY JEAN
Well, I came to your house the other day
They was nothing that I could say
They said there was nothing that I could have done
To make this turn out any other way
Me and you, we’ve known each other ever since we were sixteen
I wished I could have known
That was the last time I would see you
I would have said goodbye, Bobby Jean
Now, you and me were unlike all the others
They looked at us like we had the plague
We were so different they didn’t want to hang around us
We knew somehow that we weren’t the same
I wish somehow I could have seen
Now I wished you would have told me
I wished I could have talked to you
So I could say goodbye, Bobby Jean
Now, we went walking in the rain,
Talking about the pain that from the world we hid
Now there ain’t nobody, nowhere, nohow
Gonna ever understand me the way you did
I hope that somehow, someway that your happier
You left me walking on this road alone
In some motel room there’ll be a radio playing
but you’ll never hear me sing this song
Still I hope you know somehow I’m thinking of you
And all the miles in between
And wish I could call you one last time
To change your mind and to say I miss you, baby
Goodbye, goodbye, Bobby Jean
I’M GONNA DROWN
We sit in the car outside your house
Can’t believe that you’re here sitting with me
I go to put my arm around you
and I imagine this is the way that it should be
Well you go to kiss me long and deep
And girl when I look into your eyes
Drown, drown, drown, drown
I’m goin drown, drown, drown, drown
I’m goin drown, drown, drown, drown
I’m goin drown, drown, drown, drown
We get dressed up and we go out, baby, for the night
You want to stay out, out, out until the early morning light
I know how you love to wear me out yeah
wearing me out just to watch-a watch-a watch-a me drown
Drown, drown, drown, drown
I’m goin drown, drown, drown, drown
I’m goin drown, drown, drown, drown
I’m goin drown, drown, drown, drown, hey now
I pull you close now baby when we kiss I can feel a spark
And I don’t want to stop once we start
Your kisses always turn me inside out
You make me feel like
I’m goin drown, drown, drown, drown
I’m goin drown, drown, drown, drown
I’m goin drown, drown, drown, drown
I’m goin drown, drown, drown, drown
GLORY FADES
I remember these real mean guys back in high school
They used to pick on me bad, man they were cruel
At a roadside bar I ran into one of those guys
I was walking in and he was walking out
We went back inside and had a few drinks
But all he kept talking about
Glory Fades
Yeah, it has to die
Glory Fades
As much as a young girl cries
Glory Fades
Glory Fades
There was this girl I use to pine for who married this rich guy instead
But he mostly left her alone and sometimes she wished she were dead
She thought that having all that money
would solve all her problems in life
Now when she starts to cry and thinks about it
All she keeps thinking about is
Glory Fades
Yeah, it has to die
Glory Fades
As much as a young girl cries
Glory Fades
Glory Fades
Tonight I’m going to go out and search for the glory
of those days gone by
Everybody’s living in the past
like they already died
Sometimes you just gotta look back
When you were young and free
But to live like your best day’s behind you
Is no way to be
SLEEPING IN THE PARK
I get up in the morning
And I ain’t got nothing to do
I’m walking in the evening
And I hope I’m not catching the flu
I ain’t nothing but tired
Man, I just tired of walking around
Hey there baby,
Don’t you hear that sound
Chorus:
I can’t start a fire
I can’t start a fire without a spark
So I’m freezing my butt off
While I’m sleeping in the Park
Message keeps getting clearer
I need to be doing something else
But I don’t have no options
But at least I’ve got a pulse
Man, I ain’t getting nowhere I’m just living a life like this
There’s something better out somewhere
Baby, I just know that there is
Chorus:
I can’t start a fire
I can’t start a fire without a spark
So I’m freezing my butt off
While I’m sleeping in the Park
You sit around pointing fingers
Someone’s to blame and it’s on me
I carry this world on my shoulders
Come on baby the blame’s on me
Stay on the streets of this town
And they’ll be carving you up all right
They say you gotta keep watchin’
Cause baby, they wanna be starting a fight
Their looking for some action
and you know that it’s gonna hurt
Man, where’s the compassion
Their kicking up the dirt
Chorus:
I can’t start a fire
I can’t start a fire without a spark
So I’m freezing my butt off
While I’m sleeping in the Park
YOU’RE ALONE NOW
She was eight years old and running with a doll in her hand
They snatched her up and kept her back from her old man
When her mom had died he started to drink and everyone knew in town
They hauled him off and when she took a good look around
You’re alone now
You’re alone now
You’re alone now
You’re alone now
For 65 years he’d been with the love of his life
Down through the years they made it through tears and strife
She had a heart, it was attacked and then it worked no more
He didn’t know what he should do troubled times came on
You’re alone now
You’re alone now
You’re alone now
You’re alone now
Now when you walk down main street you get vacant stares
And you wonder if there’s anybody who cares
He ended up in the nursing home next to the railroad tracks
His children came to visit once but they ain’t coming back
You’re alone now
You’re alone now
You’re alone now
You’re alone now
Last night my girl kicked me out I slept in my car
I thought about getting out and driving far
to a place where no one knows and maybe I could start again
I looked around in times like this you need a friend
but I’m alone now
I’m alone now
I’m alone now
I’m alone now
NOTE : Bruce Springsteen’s BORN IN THE USA album was huge when I was in High School, which seems like a whole lifetime ago. I finally wrote a parody of the entire album.
Here are what the songs are paradies of:
MADE IN THE USA - BORN IN THE USA
NOTICE ME - COVER ME
DARLING OF THE COUNTY - DARLINGTON COUNTY
STALLED OUT ON THE HIGHWAY - WORKING ON THE HIGHWAY
THROBBING PAIN - DOWNBOUND TRAIN
I’M SO TIRED - I’M ON FIRE
SURRENDER - NO SURRENDER
BOBBY JEAN - BOBBY JEAN
I’M GONNA DROWN - I’M GOING DOWN
GLORY FADES - GLORY DAYS
SLEEPING IN THE PARK - DANCING IN THE DARK
YOU’RE ALONE NOW - MY HOMETOWN