Backstreets chords by Bruce Springsteen

Backstreets chords *
Bruce Springsteen **

G Em 3x
D C C D G C C D G D C D

G Em 4x

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

G       C
Hiding on the backstreets
G       C
Hiding on the backstreets
    G        Am      G  Em
With a love so hard and filled with defeat
        C             G
Running for our lives at night on them backstreets

G Em 2x

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

   G       C
To go running on the backstreets
G       C
Running on the backstreets
      G     Am   G  Em
Terry, you swore we'd live forever
C                G
Taking it on them backstreets together

G Em 2x

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

B7 D B7 D7 D
Wa ah Wa Ah

G Em 4x

G                    Em
Laying here in the dark, you're like an angel on my chest
   G               Em
Just another tramp of hearts crying tears of faithlessness
 D              C
Remember all the movies, Terry, we'd go see
     Am                C         D
Trying to learn to walk like the heroes we thought we had to be
  Em                 Bm
And after all this time, to find we're just like all the rest
     C        C6      D
Stranded in the park and forced to confess

  G       C
To hiding on the backstreets
G       C
Hiding on the backstreets
     G    Am  G   Em
Where we swore forever friends
    C           G
On the backstreets until the end

G Em 2x

       G
Hiding on the backstreets
       Em
Hiding on the backstreets
       G
Hiding on the backstreets
       Em
Hiding on the backstreets . . .
       C6
Hiding on the backstreets
       Am
Hiding on the backstreets

       G
Hiding on the backstreets
       C
Hiding on the backstreets
       G
Hiding on the backstreets
       C
Hiding on the backstreets . . .

G C C D

G D G D  G
* courtesy of Bruce Springsteen Complete

** Alternate:

Capo III

G  = E
Em = C#m
D  = B
C  = A
D7 = B7
Am = F#m
A  = G
F#m = Em
E  = C
Bm = G#m


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