Bruce Springsteen Lyrics

Album: 18 Tracks

BROTHERS UNDER THE BRIDGES Lyrics

Saigon, it was all gone

 The same Coke machines as the streets I grew on

 Down in a mesquite canyon, come walking along the ridge

 Me and the brothers under the bridge

 Campsite's an hour's walk from the nearest road or town

 There's too much brush in camp for the CHP choppers to touch down

 Ain't lookin' for nothin , I just want to live

 Me and the brothers under the bridge

 Come the Santa Anas and man that dry brush would light

 Jimmy Devon got burned up in his own campfire one winter night

 We buried his body in the white stone high up on the ridge

 Me and the brothers under the bridge

 I had enough of the town oh and the straight life

 Ain't careful you end up on the wrong end of someone's knife

 Now I want no trouble and I ain't got none to give

 Me and the brothers under the bridge

 Well I shipped home back in '72

 And you know you were just a beautiul light in your mom's dark eyes of

 blue

 I stepped out on the tarmac, we were just kids

 Me and the brothers under the bridge

 Come Veterans' Day I sat on the stand in my dress blues

 I held your mother's hand, and they passed with the red, white and

 blue

 One minute you're right there, and somethin' slips.............