Lyrics to
Streets Of Fire

This version of Streets Of Fire was released by Bruce Springsteen in 1978.

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When the night’s quiet and you don’t care anymore,
And your eyes are tired and there’s someone at your door
And you realize you wanna let go
And the weak lies and the cold walls you embrace
Eat at your insides and leave you face to face with
Streets of fire

I’m wandering, a loser down these tracks
I’m dying, but girl I can’t go back
‘Cause in the darkness I hear somebody call my name
And when you realize how they tricked you this time
And it’s all lies but I’m strung out on the wire
In these streets of fire

I live now, only with strangers
I talk to only strangers
I walk with angels that have no place
Streets of fire

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About Lyrics and Streets Of Fire by Bruce Springsteen

The lyrics for Streets Of Fire are defined as the words making up the song released by Bruce Springsteen in 1978. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Streets Of Fire have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Bruce Springsteen and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

Some folks are interested in word and phrase etymology. It is easy to understand the lyrics to Streets Of Fire by Bruce Springsteen if you think through it. 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 Streets Of Fire" means the words set to the music of Streets Of Fire, 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 Streets Of Fire and the lyrics to Streets Of Fire 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 Streets Of Fire, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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