Lyrics to
Tenth Avenue Freeze Out

This version of Tenth Avenue Freeze Out was released by Bruce Springsteen in 1975.

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Teardrops on the city
Bad Scooter searching for his groove
Seem like the whole world walking pretty
And you can’t find the room to move
Well everybody better move over, that’s all
‘Cause I’m running on the bad side
And I got my back to the wall
Tenth Avenue freeze-out
Tenth Avenue freeze-out

Well I was stranded in the jungle
Trying to take in all the heat they was giving
The night is dark but the sidewalk’s bright
And lined with the light of the living
From a tenement window a transistor blasts
Turn around the corner things got real quiet real fast
I walked into a Tenth Avenue freeze-out
Tenth Avenue freeze-out
And I’m all alone, I’m all alone
And kid you better get the picture
And I’m on my own, I’m on my own
And I can’t go home

When the change was made uptown
And the Big Man joined the band
From the coastline to the city
All the little pretties raise their hands
I’m gonna sit back right easy and laugh
When Scooter and the Big Man bust this city in half
With the Tenth Avenue freeze-out
Tenth Avenue freeze-out

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Tenth Avenue Freeze Out, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1975 song by Bruce Springsteen. Some of the lyrics to Tenth Avenue Freeze Out have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Bruce Springsteen and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Tenth Avenue Freeze Out if you take apart the structure of the words. 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 Tenth Avenue Freeze Out" means the words set to the music of Tenth Avenue Freeze Out, 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 Tenth Avenue Freeze Out and the lyrics to Tenth Avenue Freeze Out 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 Tenth Avenue Freeze Out, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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