Lyrics To Blinded By The Light By Bruce Springsteen

BLINDED BY THE LIGHT was performed 6 times during the Devils & Dust Solo Acoustic Tour . The live 25 Jun 2005 version of BLINDED BY THE LIGHT was released on the Stockholm 2005 official live download in 2020. BLINDED BY THE LIGHT was performed 8 times during The Seeger Sessions Tour , all in November 2006 in Europe. The song was played in a radically revamped full-band arrangement.

The live 11 Nov 2006 version of BLINDED BY THE LIGHT was released on the Wembley Arena, November 11, 2006 official live download in 2020. The live 19 Nov 2006 version of BLINDED BY THE LIGHT was released on the Live In Dublin album and home video in 2007. In April 2005, during the taping of his episode of VH1's Storytellers television series, Springsteen revealed that he wrote the words before arranging the music for BLINDED BY THE LIGHT. This is one of the few songs for which Springsteen used this method. He also mentioned that he used a rhyming dictionary to write the song after Clive Davis didn't hear any "hits" for his debut album.

The track's rambling sound and sometimes nonsensical lyrics led to the inevitable Bob Dylan comparisons. The song may not have been a hit for Springsteen but it set him up as the next big thing. Between Bruce Springsteen's version and Manfred Mann's cover, is there a definitive "Blinded By The Light"? Springsteen's opening salvo into the world of rock n' roll, is everything that people love about the Boss' early work. The first track from his 1973 debut album Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.

Is exploding with teenage lust, a need to escape, and the thrum of glistening cars speeding away from a small town. BLINDED BY THE LIGHT was performed on 04 Apr 2005 at Rechnitz Theater in Red Bank, NJ, during the taping of Bruce Springsteen's episode of VH1's Storytellers television series. An edited version of the concert was released on the VH1 Storytellers home video in 2005. BLINDED BY THE LIGHT was performed 4 times during the Wrecking Ball Tour .

On this tour, the song was played twice times in a solo acoustic guitar arrangement (on of which during the solo acoustic pre-show) and twice in a full-band arrangement. BLINDED BY THE LIGHT is known to have been performed at least 8 times during what is considered the Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J. Tour . Many of that period's setlists are incomplete or unknown, and therefore, the song must have been played on some more dates during the Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J. Tour. On this tour, the song was played in a full-band album-style arrangement, usually played as the penultimate song of the set, before THUNDERCRACK or another show-closer. After a brief interlude with experimental jazz-rock , Mann formed Manfred Mann's Earth Band in 1971.

It's not overly complicated and it never gets too prog-rock, but the album version of the song clocks in at over seven minutes and it always feels like a Moog solo is going to happen at any moment. Not that that's a bad thing, it's just overwhelming when you're not prepared. Manfred Mann's Earth Band released a version of the song on their 1976 album The Roaring Silence. Their version includes the "Chopsticks" melody played on piano near the end of the bridge of the song.

The track reached No. 1 on both the Billboard Hot 100 and the Canadian RPM charts. BLINDED BY THE LIGHT was performed off-tour on 20 Feb 2003 at Somerville Theatre in Somerville, MA, during the DoubleTake Magazine benefit shows. With the help of his trusty rhyming dictionary Springsteen penned a track full of teenage heartbreak and the need to escape and not being as grown up as he thinks he is. His line about a "silicone sister with a manager mister" who makes a pass at him isn't just one of the first references to breast implants in rock music , but it turns the song into a fish out of water story. Springsteen doesn't just need to escape his home life in this song, he's striving to recognize the place he calls home. She said I'll turn you on sonny to something strong if you play that song with the funky break" refers to the studio not releasing the album until they thought he had a hit. So he wrote this in pure frustration. That's the true story.

Bruce wrote the song when the president of Columbia Records, Cline Davis, listened to an early version of Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. Springsteen wrote "Blinded by the Light" and "Spirit in the Night" in response. Bruce used a rhyming dictionary to search for lyrics that would work. The version by Manfred Mann's Earth Band appears on their 1976 album, "The Roaring Silence", which has the lyrics printed on the back cover and the full version of Dave Flett's magnificent guitar solo.

Also, Chris Thompson is the lead vocalist; Manfred Mann does not sing until the very end of the song where the chorus is heard from the left channel, and the verse is heard from the right channel. I first heard the Manfred Mann Earth Band version of this song in early 1977. It was often played in a bar I frequented and I remember being told by a know-it-all acquaintance that I was about drag racing. He had the 'revved up like a deuce' and 'runners in the night' parts right. He knew it had been written by Springsteen but said Bruce had been inspirted to write it by the drag racing scene in the James Dean movie 'Rebel Without a Cause'.

But at least he knew the line was not 'wrapped up like a douche'. All of the Manfred Mann comments should be moved to the appropriate Manfred Mann lyrics section. Springsteen definitely says "cut loose like a deuce" which definitely refers to a 1932 Ford Deuce Coupe which is a hot rod. To Gene about Go Kart Motzart - Springsteen write this song in '71 or '72, the Edmund Fitzgerald didn't sink until '75 and Gordon Lightfoot wrote that song in '76, three years after Columbia released "Greetings from Asbury Park". Go Kart Motzart was a guy who hung out in Asbury Park in those days who was a little crazy and would do things like check the weather to see if it was safe to go outside.

A lot of the lyrics have to do with local people and Jersey shore lingo. This is perhaps the best written rock song, period. I have been in the radio business for 38 years and had dinner with Manfred Mann about a year after he released Blinded by The Light. He wasn't talking about feminine products and was embarrassed that people interpreted it that way.

When the controversy over his lyrics got back to him he became curious and the best explanation he heard was that Bruce's lyric referred to a card game. He still wasn't sure but he didn't care because the song was a huge hit for him. I don't know if he was pulling my leg or just giving a standard answer to a question he must have gotten a lot, but he seemed sincere.

BLINDED BY THE LIGHT was performed once during the High Hopes Tour . On this tour, the song was played in a full-band arrangement. Audio recordings for most High Hopes Tour shows are officially available for purchase. BLINDED BY THE LIGHT is known to have been performed at least 15 times during what is considered The Wild, The Innocent, & The E Street Shuffle Tour . Some of that period's setlists are incomplete or unknown, and therefore, the song must have been played on some more dates during The Wild, The Innocent, & The E Street Shuffle Tour. On this tour, the song was played in a full-band arrangement, much like the versions from the Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J. Tour, but with a somewhat more experimental, "Dylanesque" vocal.

In the 1974 part of the tour, the song also featured a three-to-four minute extended jazzy instrumental opening, perhaps the closest the E Street Band ever came to progressive rock. BLINDED BY THE LIGHT was usually played at or near the end of the shows. Originally titled "Madman's Bummers," the song tells the story of Springsteen's life up until that point. He references the people in his life, they places they went and the way they killed time waiting around for real life to begin.

New Jersey, specifically the boardwalk of a Jersey Shore town, is palpable in each second of this track. I heard this song was written because the record company complained they didnt think the album had a potential hit. General Commentfirst off the song has nothing to do about drugs.

Indians in the summer refers to his baseball team he played on. Manfred Mann's Earth Band's recording of the song changes the lyrics. The most prominent change is in the chorus, where Springsteen's "cut loose like a deuce" is replaced with "revved up like a deuce." The lyric is a reference to the 1932 V8-powered Ford automobile, which enthusiasts dubbed the "deuce coupe". Springsteen was fond of classic hot rods in his youth, hence the line "cut loose like a deuce, another runner in the night".

As the line is frequently misheard as "wrapped up like a douche", Springsteen has joked about confusion over the lyrics, claiming that it was not until Manfred Mann rewrote the song to be about a feminine hygiene product that it became popular. BLINDED BY THE LIGHT was performed 4 times during the Magic Tour , all in 2008. The song was played in a full-band rock arrangement.

BLINDED BY THE LIGHT is known to have been performed at least 5 times during the so-called Chicken Scratch Tour . Some of that period's setlists are incomplete or unknown, and therefore, the song may have been played on some more dates during the Chicken Scratch Tour. On this tour, the song was played in a full-band album-style arrangement.

The live 23 Oct 1999 version of BLINDED BY THE LIGHT was released on the Los Angeles October 23, 1999 official live download in 2019. Bruce Springsteen's BLINDED BY THE LIGHT was most notably covered and released by Manfred Mann's Earth Band whose version became a #1 hit single in 1977. See Manfred Mann's Earth Band's cover version for more details.

In Springsteen's version the line is "Cut loose like a deuce another runner in the night" and in Mann's version the line reads "revved up like a deuce, runner in the night". According to Springsteen the line refers to a 1932 Ford Deuce Coupe, though in listening to Mann's version, the word deuce sounds like "douche", which is a feminine hygiene product. Springsteen has jokingly stated that this is the reason Mann's version gain much more popularity than his own.

Blinded By The Light lyrics were written by Bruce Springsteen, though Manfred Mann made the song popular four years after Springsteen's version failed to hit the charts. The Blinded by the Light lyrics show off Springsteen's songwriting talent with loads of internal rhyme and other poetic devices. In his autobiography Born to Run, Springsteen wrote that he composed "Blinded by the Light" late in the process, after Columbia Records head Clive Davis heard nothing on Greetings that would work on the radio ("Spirit in the Night" was also penned at this time). Even though it was deemed commercial enough to be released as a single on Feb. 23, 1973, more than a month after the album came out, "Blinded by the Light" failed to chart. Mann's cover went to number 1 on both the Billboard Hot 100 and the Cash Box Top 100, which is nuts. The band changed a few lyrics and cut the last two verses of the song while turning it into a legitimate hit.

The band scored another hit penned by Springsteen later that year with "Spirit in the Night," but it didn't capture the audience's attention. Manfred Mann's rock biography involves two distinct phases. Born in South Africa, Mann joined a band in England that was very successful on the UK charts and even came to America in the British Invasion. That band was called, somewhat confusingly, Manfred Mann, and was responsible for "Do Wah Diddy Diddy," a #1 hit in the U.S., and a cover of Bob Dylan's "Mighty Quinn" which peaked at #10.

Those two songs and another, "Pretty Flamingo," all topped the UK chart, and Manfred Mann placed another 10 cuts in the UK top 10 before breaking up in 1969. When the Manfred Mann's cover of the song charted in 1977, Mann's phrasing of "deuce" made listeners and fans of feminine hygiene products perk up. Many people listening in their cars heard Mann sing the line "revved up like a douche," which doesn't really make sense but that doesn't matter. As with "Purple Haze" and "Money For Nothing," listeners are prone to hearing what they want. The song came about when Columbia Records president Clive Davis, upon listening to an early version of Greetings from Asbury Park N.J., felt the album lacked a potential single.

Springsteen wrote this and "Spirit in the Night" in response. I'm not so sure about Manfred Mann's version, whether he was trying to take the song in another direction or not. Agreed, Mann's version is open to interpretation, much more that I think Bruce's is. The only lyrics Mann sings are actually the spoken lyrics of "she got down, but she never got tight, she's gonna make it through the night".

I do believe Thompson's vocals are very misinterpreted by many people. Also, Springsteen is famously UNself-obsessed, and has been remarkably generous with his songs. Cowritten with Springsteen, and "The song was first performed live at a Patti Smith concert at the CBGB's Theater in New York City on December 30, 1977, with Springsteen joining on vocals and guitar." Manfred Mann's Earth Band's cover of BLINDED BY THE LIGHT was included on many more releases, including some various artists Bruce Springsteen tribute albums. BLINDED BY THE LIGHT was performed twice during The Rising Tour , both in the United States and in 2003. Comes in a die-cut Columbia logo sleeve, but some promo copies were issued with the rare picture sleeve.

The sleeve has the lyrics to the song printed on the rear and missing the lines that are edited on the single version. BLINDED BY THE LIGHT was recorded late during the Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J. The track, as well as the whole album, was produced by Mike Appel and Jimmy Cretecos. According to Sony's logs of Bruce Springsteen's studio sessions, BLINDED BY THE LIGHT was cut on 11 Sep 1972 at 914 Sound Studios. The version that was released on the album is possibly from that 11 Sep 1972 session. It was released only in the US, where it didn't see much sucess.

Although, the band Manfred Mann's Earth Band recorded a cover for the song in 1976, becoming the only Springsteen song to reach #1. Below you will find lyrics, music video and translation of Blinded By The Light - Bruce Springsteen in various languages. The music video with the song's audio track will automatically start at the bottom right. To improve the translation you can follow this link or press the blue button at the bottom. The theme of the Blinded by the Light lyrics is an impressionistic look at some of the characters Springsteen met when he was a young, up and coming musician trying to get people to pay attention to his music.

There has also been a long-standing controversy regarding a misheard lyric in the song. Thus all things considered, there does seem to necessarily be a central theme to this song. Springsteen was under pressure from his label to come up with a song they could release as a single for his debut album, and this was the result. But in general, it can said that "Blinded by the Light" is based on the singer's past experiences as well as his take on other matters, specifically in relation to particular individuals whom he observed.

Or at least that is the framework he operates in before more or less going on a lyrical freestyle. Springsteen then broke down the track, the opener and first single from his 1973 debut Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J.The "madman drummer" mentioned in the opening line was drummer Vini "Mad Dog" Lopez; the Indians were Springsteen's Little League team. He set the song on the boardwalks of the Jersey Shore by referencing a merry-go-round and calliope. Springsteen has referenced this mishearing of his lyric, and he doesn't really care that people think he's talking about an intimate product. In an episode of VH1 Storytellers he even goofs on the fact that the song didn't become a hit until Manfred Mann changed the lyrics to be about feminine hygiene. The first verse of the song spills out of Springsteen's mouth like marbles falling on the pavement.

Each line tells a small story about his life as a child in New Jersey. Being "in the dumps with the mumps" is just what happens when you're young. The song isn't as laser focused as the massive singles that he released in the late '70s and into the '80s, but it's clear from this first verse that he's already on track to be one of the 20th century's greatest storytellers. It's interesting how people often don't know the origin of a song like Manfred Mann's #1 hit, Blinded by the Light - and this is it! Hard to believe it's the same song, because it basically isn't.