Lyrics to
The E Street Shuffle

This version of The E Street Shuffle was released by Bruce Springsteen in 1973.

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Sparks fly on E Street when the boy- prophets walk it, handsome and hot
All the little girls’ souls grow weak when the man-child gives them a double shot
The schoolboy pops pull out all the stops on a Friday night
The teenage tramps in skin-tight pants do the E Street dance and everything’s alright
Little kids down there either dancin’ or hooked up in a scuffle
Dressed in snakeskin suits packed with Detroit muscle
They’re doin’ the E Street Shuffle

Now those E Street brats in twilight dual flashlight phantoms in full star stream
Down fire trails of silver nights with blonde girls pledged sweet 16
The newsboys say the heat’s been bad since Power 13 gave a trooper all he had in a summer scuffle
And Power’s girl, Little Angel, has been on the corner keepin’ those crazy boys out of trouble
Little Angel steps the shuffle like she ain’t got no brains
She’s deaf in combat down on Lover’s Lane
She drives all them local boys insane

Little Angel says, “Oh, everybody form a line
Oh, everybody form a line”

Sparks fly on E Street when the boy- prophets walk it, handsome and hot
All the little girls’ souls grow weak when the man-child gives them a double shot
Little Angel hangs out at Easy Joe’s, it’s a club where all the riot squad goes when they’re cashin’ in for a cheap hustle
But them boys are still on the corner, loose and doin’ that lazy E Street Shuffle
As them sweet summer nights turn into summer dreams
Little Angel picks up Power and he slips on his jeans as they move on out down to the scene
All the kids are dancin’

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About Lyrics and The E Street Shuffle by Bruce Springsteen

The lyrics to The E Street Shuffle are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Bruce Springsteen used when the song was created in 1973. The lyrics to The E Street Shuffle 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 The E Street Shuffle 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 The E Street Shuffle" means the words set to the music of The E Street Shuffle, 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 The E Street Shuffle and the lyrics to The E Street Shuffle 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 The E Street Shuffle, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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