Born to Run - Acoustic Version - Live at LA Memorial Sports Arena, Los Angeles, CA - April 1988

In the day, we sweat it out on the streets of a runaway American dream

At night, we ride through mansions of glory in suicide machines

Sprung from cages out on Highway 9

Chrome wheel, fuel-injected, I'm steppin' out over the line

Baby, this town rips the bones from your back

It's a death trap, it's a suicide rap

I wanna get out while I'm still young

'Cause tramps like us, baby, we were born to run

Well, Wendy, let me in, I wanna be your friend

I want to guard your dreams and visions

Just wrap your legs 'round these velvet rims

Strap your hands across my engines

And together we could break this trap

We'll run 'til we drop, and, baby, we'll never go back

Walk with me out on the wire

Girl, I'm just a scared and lonely rider and I gotta know how it feels

I wanna know if love is wild, I wanna know if love is real

Beyond the palace, hemi-powered drones

Scream down the boulevard

The girls comb their hair in rearview mirrors

The boys try to look so hard

The amusement park rises bold and stark

Kids are huddled on the beach in the mist

Well, I wanna die with you, Wendy, on the streets tonight

In an everlasting kiss

Well, the highways jammed with broken heroes

On a last chance power drive

Everybody's out on the run tonight

But there ain't no place left to hide

And together, we could live with the sadness

I'll love you with all the madness in my soul

Someday, baby, I don't know when

We're gonna get to that place

And we really want to go, and we'll walk in the sun

'Til then, tramps like us

Baby, we were born to run

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Oh-oh-oh-oh, you do it

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