The final mix was notoriously hard to make, having 72 tracks (instruments), including drums, guitars, piano, bass, and percussion. However, Springsteen has noted that it has a much simpler core: getting out of Freehold. Written in the first person, the song is a love letter to a girl named Wendy (Wendy let me in I wanna be your friend I wanna guard your dreams and visions… I wanna die with you Wendy on the streets tonight/in an everlasting kiss!), for whom the hot-rod-riding protagonist certainly has enough passion to love, but perhaps not the patience. The lyrics to the song are appropriately epic for his last-ditch, all-or-nothing shot at the stars, yet they remain rooted in the universal desperation of adolescence: Will you walk with me out on the wire, cause baby I’m just a scared and lonely rider…We gotta get out while we’re young, ‘cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run.’
It also created one of rock’s most identifiable images. The prior year, Springsteen had released two albums to critical acclaim but with little commercial success. Bruce Springsteen ’s legendary 1975 album Born to Run did more than just change the landscape of music.
Cause tramps like us, baby, we were born to run. Written at 7½ West End Court in Long Branch, New Jersey in early 1974, the song was Bruce Springsteen’s last-ditch effort to make it big. Sign up for Deezer and listen to Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen and 90 million.
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