Lyrics to
Does This Bus Stop At 82nd Street?

This version of Does This Bus Stop At 82Nd Street? was released by Bruce Springsteen in 1973.

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Hey bus driver, keep the change
Bless your children, give them names
Don’t trust men who walk with canes
Drink this and you’ll grow wings on your feet
Broadway Mary, Joan Fontaine
Advertiser on a downtown train
Christmas crier bustin’ cane
He’s in love again

Where dock worker’s dreams mix with panther’s schemes
To someday own the rodeo
Tainted women in VistaVision
Perform for out-of-state kids at the late show

Wizard imps and sweat sock pimps
Interstellar mongrel nymphs
Rex said that lady left him limp
Love’s like that (sure it is)
Queen of diamonds, ace of spades
Newly discovered lovers of the Everglades
They take out a full-page ad in the trades
To announce their arrival
And Mary Lou, she found out how to cope
She rides to heaven on a gyroscope
The Daily News asks her for the dope
She said, “Man, the dope’s that there’s still hope”

Senorita, Spanish rose
Wipes her eyes and blows her nose
Uptown in Harlem she throws a rose
To some lucky young matador

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Bruce Springsteen has released many songs over the years besides Does This Bus Stop At 82Nd Street?. Bruce Springsteen released songs from 1973 to 2007 spanning across albums like The Wild, The Innocent And The E Street Shuffle, Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J., Born To Run, Darkness On The Edge Of Town, The River, Nebraska, Born In The U.S.A., Tunnel Of Love, Human Touch, Lucky Town, The Ghost Of Tom Joad, The Rising, Devils & Dust, We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions, and Magic. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Bruce Springsteen.

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About Lyrics and Does This Bus Stop At 82Nd Street? by Bruce Springsteen

The lyrics to Does This Bus Stop At 82Nd Street? are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Bruce Springsteen used when the song was created in 1973. The lyrics to Does This Bus Stop At 82Nd Street? have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Bruce Springsteen and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Does This Bus Stop At 82Nd Street? by Bruce Springsteen. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Does This Bus Stop At 82Nd Street?" means the words set to the music of Does This Bus Stop At 82Nd Street?, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Bruce Springsteen. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Does This Bus Stop At 82Nd Street? and the lyrics to Does This Bus Stop At 82Nd Street? are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Bruce Springsteen who came here looking just for the lyrics to Does This Bus Stop At 82Nd Street?, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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