Born to Run is the title track of the 1975 album of the same name, the album that saved Bruce Springsteen's career after two albums that nearly drove him into limbo.
The recording was hell: it took more than six months at 914 Sound Studios. Bruce was so obsessed that he rewrote the lyrics in the studio and told the band to record again.
Clarence Clemons iconic saxophone was built with patience: Bruce spent hours singing the solo note by note for Big Man, adjusting every detail until it was perfect.
Released as a single, it reached #23 on the Billboard Hot 100, but the album was so successful that Bruce appeared simultaneously on the covers of Time and Newsweek in October 1975, an unprecedented feat for the time.
Dire Straits 🎼Brothers In Arms (Live)🎵
These mist covered mountains
Are a home now for me
But my home is the lowlands
And always will be
Some day you'll return to
Your valleys and your farms
And you'll no longer burn
To be brothers in arms
Through these fields of destruction
Baptisms of fire
I've witnessed your suffering
As the battle raged high
And though they did hurt me so bad
In the fear and alarm
You did not desert me
My brothers in arms
There's so many different worlds
So many different suns
And we have just one world
But we live in different ones
Now the sun's gone to hell
And the moon riding high
Let me bid you farewell
Every man has to die
But it's written in the starlight
And every line in your palm
We're fools to make war
On our brothers in arms