• Song:

    Backstreets

  • Artist:

    Bruce Springsteen

  • Album:

    Born To Run - 30th Anni...

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Backstreets chords *
Bruce Springsteen **

G Em 3x
D (xx0232@1)name="chord_x32010@1">C  C (x32010@1)name="chord_xx0232@1">D  G (320003@1)name="chord_x32010@1">C  C (x32010@1)name="chord_xx0232@1">D  G (320003@1)name="chord_xx0232@1">D  C (x32010@1)name="chord_xx0232@1">D

G Em 4x

G (320003@1)                          EmOne (022000@1)soft infested summer, me and Terry became friends
          G (320003@1)                             EmTrying (022000@1)in vain to breathe the fire we was born in
         G (320003@1)                           EmCatching (022000@1)rides to the outskirts, tying faith between our teeth
                 D (xx0232@1)                                CSleeping (x32010@1)in that old abandoned beach house, getting wasted in the heat, yeh

G (320003@1)           CHiding (x32010@1)on the backstreets
G (320003@1)           CHiding (x32010@1)on the backstreets
       G (320003@1)              Am (x02210@1)          G (320003@1) EmWith (022000@1)a love so hard and filled with defeat
                C (x32010@1)                        GRunning (320003@1)for our lives at night on them backstreets

G Em 2x

G (320003@1)                        EmSlow (022000@1)dancing in the dark on the beach at Stockton's Wing
      G (320003@1)                                    EmWhere (022000@1)desperate lovers park, we sat with the last of the Duke Street Kings
D (xx0232@1)                  C (x32010@1)Huddled in our cars, waiting for the bells that ring
       Am (x02210@1)                                C (x32010@1)           DIn (xx0232@1)the deep heart of the night they set us loose of everything

G (320003@1)            CTo (x32010@1)go running on the backstreets
G (320003@1)            CRunning (x32010@1)on the backstreets
           G (320003@1)        Am (x02210@1)    G (320003@1) EmTerry, (022000@1)you swore we'd live forever
C (x32010@1)                              GTaking (320003@1)it on them backstreets together

G Em 2x

A (x02220@1)                     F#mEndless (244222@1)juke joints and Valentino drag
      A (x02220@1)                                  F#mWhere (244222@1)dancers scraped the tears up off the street, dressed down in rags
       A (x02220@1)                           F#m (244222@1)
Running into the darkness, some hurt bad, some really dying
   E (022100@1)                                          DAt (xx0232@1)night sometimes it seemed you could hear the whole damn city crying
A (x02220@1)                                                  EBlame (022100@1)it on the lies that killed us, blame it on the truth that ran us down
        A (x02220@1)                                 DYou (xx0232@1)can blame it all on me, Terry, it don't matter to me now
         D (xx0232@1)                                  E (022100@1)                    
When the breakdown hit at midnight, there was nothing to say
      A (x02220@1)              E (022100@1)                      F#m (244222@1)
But I hated him, and I hated you when you went away

B7 D  B7 D7 D
Wa ah Wa Ah

G Em 4x

G (320003@1)                                     Em (022000@1)     
Laying here in the dark, you're like an angel on my chest
      G (320003@1)                           EmJust (022000@1)another tramp of hearts crying tears of faithlessness
  D (xx0232@1)                          CRemember (x32010@1)all the movies, Terry, we'd go see
          Am (x02210@1)                             C (x32010@1)               DTrying (xx0232@1)to learn to walk like the heroes we thought we had to be
    Em (022000@1)                               BmAnd (x24432@1)after all this time, to find we're just like all the rest
         C (x32010@1)             C6 (03221x@1)         DStranded (xx0232@1)in the park and forced to confess

G (320003@1)           CTo (x32010@1)hiding on the backstreets
G (320003@1)           CHiding (x32010@1)on the backstreets
         G (320003@1)      Am (x02210@1) G (320003@1)    EmWhere (022000@1)we swore forever friends
       C (x32010@1)                   GOn (320003@1)the backstreets until the end

G Em 2x

GHiding (320003@1)on the backstreets
              EmHiding (022000@1)on the backstreets
              GHiding (320003@1)on the backstreets
              EmHiding (022000@1)on the backstreets . . .
              C6Hiding (03221x@1)on the backstreets
              AmHiding (x02210@1)on the backstreets

GHiding (320003@1)on the backstreets
              CHiding (x32010@1)on the backstreets
              GHiding (320003@1)on the backstreets
              CHiding (x32010@1)on the backstreets . . .

G (320003@1)name="chord_x32010@1">C  C (x32010@1)name="chord_xx0232@1">D

G (320003@1)name="chord_xx0232@1">D  G (320003@1)name="chord_xx0232@1">D    G* (320003@1)courtesy of Bruce Springsteen Complete

** Alternate:

Capo III

G (320003@1) = EEm (022100@1) = C#m
D (xx0232@1) = B (x2444x@1)name="chord_x32010@1">C   = AD7 (x02220@1) = B7
Am  = F#m
A (x02220@1) = GF#m (320003@1)= Em
E (022100@1) = CBm (x32010@1) = Abm

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