Meet Me by the River's Edge Lyrics
Pounding sweat beneath these wheels.
We tattooed lines beneath our skin.
No surrender, my Bobby Jean.
(2x)
Just from growing up around here.
Our father's factories marked our cars.
While Eden burned against the stars.
I can't take no more regret.
It cut us deep, into our souls.
Came and climbed into our bed.
And Sally said, Sally said.
Meet me by the River's edge.
We're going to wash these sins away.
Or else we won't come back again.
That, as a child, came to me.
I was a boy in Grandma's arms.
A mother's pride and a wounded heart.
And I was full with fiery wonder.
You wore Audrey Hepburn pearls.
You were the only one who understood me then and the only one who will.
I can't take no more regret.
It cut us deep, into our souls.
Came and climbed into our bed.
And Sally said, Sally said.
Meet me by the River's edge.
We're going to wash these sins away.
Or else we won't come back again.
And I'm amazed at all the stars beneath that old Hollywood sign.
And they waltz, (?), to a place we never kept.
And I'm not sure if we belong here, if I ever really left, or If I can go home.
I can't take no more regret.
It cut us deep, into our souls.
Came and climbed into our bed.
And Sally said, Sally said.
Meet me by the River's edge.
We're going to wash these sins away.
Or else we won't come back again.
Meet me by the river's edge.
+1 for Bruce Springsteen references
The Gaslight Anthem are one of my favourite bands, but their songs aren't really ambiguous, are they? I think they're great stories, though. They make me wanna quit my course and my future and move to a town out on the coast where I'll get a real man's job and spend my nights drinking and chasing girls and dreams through the streets.
Yeah, that was pretty gay of me to say.
Damn good song, though.
There's nothing gayer than chasing girls, haha.
There's nothing gayer than chasing girls, haha.
Anyone else think this is the best track on the album. "No retreat, no regrets" is great.
And I think it's "And we waltz, ballet up a boulevard to a place we never kept"
incredible. i thgouth it was just a catchy throwaway on the album at first, kinda thought this and even cowgirls get the blues were the 2 weakest on the album. now this is possibly my favourite!
and its:
and they waltz the ballet up the boulevard to a pace we've never kept
Yeah this song is rife with Springsteen references.
"No surrender my Bobby Jean."
That is a line in the song that is simply to sequential song titles from "Born in the USA"
"our father's factories marked our cars while Eden burned against the stars." - i don't know what this means but i think i love it.
Small Jersey factory town, you coudl see the lights from the city in the sky.
Lyrically they seem almost identical to something springsteen would sing, same style of telling stories.
their from the elizabeth area, its factories galore.
LOTS of Springsteen in this track! Good song.
"Pounding sweat beneath these wheels..." - Springsteen's "The Promised Land" is a story of a guy 'Working all day in my daddy’s garage, Driving all night chasing some mirage'
"No surrender my Bobby Jean" - references Springsteen songs Bobby Jean ("goodbye Bobby Jean") and No Surrender ("No retreat baby, no surrender")
"Our father's factories marked our cars / While Eden burned against the stars" - small factory town, think Eden is a reference like "We are the Boys from Little Eden" in "Blue Jeans and White T Shirts" to Springsteen's Sandy
"Meet me by the River's edge / We're going to wash these sins away" - see Springsteen's Racing In The Street ("ride to the sea and wash these sins off our hands"), and Meeting Across The River from Born to Run.
He seems to be homesick in the part with the Hollywood sign and not being sure if he can ever really go home.
Ok you make some good points but these could just as easily NOT be references to Springsteen. The Bobby Jean one is def, but the rest could easily just be similar. I mean "Pounding sweat beneath these wheels" does sound like a mechanic but not really a reference to Springsteen's "The Promised Land". It could be but I feel like its a stretch. Everyone just looks for references to Springsteen so they see them, sometimes when they aren't there. Amazing song though.
Ok you make some good points but these could just as easily NOT be references to Springsteen. The Bobby Jean one is def, but the rest could easily just be similar. I mean "Pounding sweat beneath these wheels" does sound like a mechanic but not really a reference to Springsteen's "The Promised Land". It could be but I feel like its a stretch. Everyone just looks for references to Springsteen so they see them, sometimes when they aren't there. Amazing song though.
we also forgot the final springsteen reference in the song from Racing In The Street- "Tonight my baby and me we're gonna ride to the sea And wash these sins off our hands" very similar to the line "Meet me by the River's edge. We're going to wash these sins away."