Backstreets chords by Bruce Springsteen

Chords with lyrics

Backstreets chords *
Bruce Springsteen **

G+G E minorEm 3x
D MajorD C majorC C majorC D MajorD G+G C majorC C majorC D MajorD G+G D MajorD C majorC D MajorD

G+G E minorEm 4x

  G+G              E minorEm
One soft infested summer, me and Terry became friends
     G+G                E minorEm
Trying in vain to breathe the fire we was born in
     G+G               E minorEm
Catching rides to the outskirts, tying faith between our teeth
         D MajorD                 C majorC
Sleeping in that old abandoned beach house, getting wasted in the heat, yeh

G+G       C majorC
Hiding on the backstreets
G+G       C majorC
Hiding on the backstreets
    G+G        A minorAm      G+G  E minorEm
With a love so hard and filled with defeat
        C majorC             G+G
Running for our lives at night on them backstreets

G+G E minorEm 2x

   G+G             E minorEm
Slow dancing in the dark on the beach at Stockton's Wing
   G+G                   E minorEm
Where desperate lovers park, we sat with the last of the Duke Street Kings
D MajorD          C majorC
Huddled in our cars, waiting for the bells that ring
    A minorAm                 C majorC       D MajorD
In the deep heart of the night they set us loose of everything

   G+G       C majorC
To go running on the backstreets
G+G       C majorC
Running on the backstreets
      G+G     A minorAm   G+G  E minorEm
Terry, you swore we'd live forever
C majorC                G+G
Taking it on them backstreets together

G+G E minorEm 2x

A augmentedA            F# minorF#m
Endless juke joints and Valentino drag
   A augmentedA                  F# minorF#m
Where dancers scraped the tears up off the street, dressed down in rags
    A augmentedA               F# minorF#m
Running into the darkness, some hurt bad, some really dying
  E MajorE                      D MajorD
At night sometimes it seemed you could hear the whole damn city crying
A augmentedA                          E MajorE
Blame it on the lies that killed us, blame it on the truth that ran us down
    A augmentedA                  D MajorD
You can blame it all on me, Terry, it don't matter to me now
     D MajorD                  E MajorE
When the breakdown hit at midnight, there was nothing to say
   A augmentedA        E MajorE            F# minorF#m
But I hated him, and I hated you when you went away

B7B7 D MajorD B7B7 D7D7 D MajorD
Wa ah Wa Ah

G+G E minorEm 4x

G+G                    E minorEm
Laying here in the dark, you're like an angel on my chest
   G+G               E minorEm
Just another tramp of hearts crying tears of faithlessness
 D MajorD              C majorC
Remember all the movies, Terry, we'd go see
     A minorAm                C majorC         D MajorD
Trying to learn to walk like the heroes we thought we had to be
  E minorEm                 B minorBm
And after all this time, to find we're just like all the rest
     C majorC        C6C6      D MajorD
Stranded in the park and forced to confess

  G+G       C majorC
To hiding on the backstreets
G+G       C majorC
Hiding on the backstreets
     G+G    A minorAm  G+G   E minorEm
Where we swore forever friends
    C majorC           G+G
On the backstreets until the end

G+G E minorEm 2x

       G+G
Hiding on the backstreets
       E minorEm
Hiding on the backstreets
       G+G
Hiding on the backstreets
       E minorEm
Hiding on the backstreets . . .
       C6C6
Hiding on the backstreets
       A minorAm
Hiding on the backstreets

       G+G
Hiding on the backstreets
       C majorC
Hiding on the backstreets
       G+G
Hiding on the backstreets
       C majorC
Hiding on the backstreets . . .

G+G C majorC C majorC D MajorD

G+G D MajorD G+G D MajorD  G+G
* courtesy of Bruce Springsteen Complete

** Alternate:

Capo III

G+G  = E MajorE
E minorEm = C# minorC#m
D MajorD  = BB
C majorC  = A augmentedA
D7D7 = B7B7
A minorAm = F# minorF#m
A augmentedA  = G+G
F# minorF#m = E minorEm
E MajorE  = C majorC
B minorBm = G# minorG#m


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