Darkness on the edge of town    (video)    (midi)

 

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  1. Now they’re still racing out at the trestles,

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    but that blood it never burned in her veins.

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    Now I hear she’s got a house up in Fairview,

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    and a style she’s trying to maintain.

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    Well, if she wants to see me,

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    you can tell her that I’m easily found.

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    Tell her there’s a spot out beneath Abram’s Bridge,

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    and tell her         there’s a darkness on the edge of town,

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    there’s a darkness on the e........dge of town.

 

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2. Now everybody’s got a secret, Sonny,

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     something that they just can’t face,

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     some folks spend their whole lives trying to keep it,

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    they carry it with them every step that they take.

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    Till some day         they just cut it loose,

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    cut it loose or let it drag ‘em down,

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    where no one asks any questions or looks too long in your face,

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    in the darkness on the edge of town,

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    in the darkness on the e.......dge of town.

 

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3. Now some folks are born into a good life,

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    yeah, other folks get it anyway anyhow.

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    Well, me, I lost my money and I lost my wife,

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    some things don’t seem to matter much to me now.

 

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    Tonight I’ll be on that hill, ‘cause I can’t stop,

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    I’ll be on that hill with everything I got.

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    There are lives on the line where dreams are found and lost,

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    I’ll be there on time and I’ll pay the cost,

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    for wanting things that can only be found

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    in the darkness on the edge of town,

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    in the darkness on the e.......dge of town.

 

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      (Bruce Springsteen)