Valentine's Day

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Impossible for me...since 1987 to go through Valentine's Day without thinking of Bruce's take on it. Off the Tunnel of Love Album.

Valentine's Day

Driving a big lazy car, rushing up the highway in the dark
I got one hand steady on the wheel and one hand's tremblin over my heart
It's pounding, baby, like it's going to bust right on through
And it ain't gonna' stop until I'm alone again with you.

A friend of mine became a father last night
when we spoke, in his voice, I could hear the light
of the skies and the rivers, the timberwolf in the pines
and that great jukebox out on route 39
They say he travels fastest, he who travels alone
But tonight I miss my girl, mister, tonight I miss my home.

Is it the sound of the leaves left blown by the wayside
that's got me out here on this spooky old highway tonight
Is it the cry of the river with the moonlight shining through
that ain't what scares me baby,
what scares me is losing you.

They say if you die in your dreams you really die in your bed
But honey last night I dreamed my eyes rolled straight back in my head
And God's light came shining on through
I woke up in the darkness, scared and breathing and born anew

It wasn't the cold river bottom I felt rushing over me
It wasn't the bitterness of a dream that didn't come true
It wasn't the wind in the gray fields I felt rushing through my arms

No, no, baby, it was you.

So hold me close, honey, say you're forever mine

And tell me you'll be my lonely valentine.


I gotta' stop listening to E Street Radio so much, but after watching the crap at the Grammy's, I wonder why there are no great songwriter's left!

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