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THE ANGEL 
Live 22 Nov 2009 version
[Spoken intro to Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J. album performance:]
Good evening and thank you for filling these seats tonight! We've had a great,
great, great couple of years -- we started in October 2007, the Magic record, and uh, really it's
been just about the best time in, uh, our band's work life, and I want... Thank you for supporting
our new music, our old music, our tours. As we got towards the end of the tour, we're trying to
think of things we could do that would make our last nights special for our fans and for us, so we
started to play our albums, and uh, of course we played Darkness On The Edge Of Town, Born To Run,
we played the Wild and the Innocent, we played The River... but tonight! One time only! This was
the miracle. [laughs] This was the record that took everything from way below zero to... one! And
uh, big, big, big moment, big time. Um, hard to believe, but there was a guy at CBS Records named
John Hammond, one of the great legends of uh, the then, the music production, who uh, invited me
and my friend in straight off the streets of New York after my pal did what a lot of what must
have been incredible talking [laughs], and uh, these were some of the songs we played that day as
I sat across his desk, with just my acoustic guitar. So tonight, I'm gonna dedicate this to the
man who got me in the door; Mike Appel's here tonight -- Mike, this is for you!
[Performs BLINDED BY THE LIGHT]
[Performs GROWIN' UP]
[Performs MARY QUEEN OF ARKANSAS]
[Performs DOES THIS BUS STOP AT 82ND STREET]
[Performs LOST IN THE FLOOD]
[THE ANGEL:]
The angel rides with hunch-back children
Poison oozing from his engine
Wieldin' love as a lethal weapon
On his way to hubcap heaven
Baseball cards poked in his spokes
His boots in oil he's patiently soaked
Roadside attendant nervously jokes
As the angel's tires stroke his precious pavement
The interstate's choked with nomadic hordes
In Volkswagen vans with full running boards dragging great anchors
Followin' dead-end signs into the sore
The angel rides by humpin' his hunk metal whore
Madison Avenue's claim to fame
In a trainer bra with eyes like rain
She rubs against the weather-beaten frame
And asks the angel for his name
Off in the distance the marble dome
Reflects across the flatlands with a naked feel off into parts unknown
Woman strokes his polished chrome
And lies beside the angel's bones
Page last updated: 14 Oct 2010
Info
The above lyrics are for the live 22 Nov 2009 performance of THE ANGEL at HSBC
Arena in Buffalo, NY, during the Working On A Dream Tour. The song was played in an
album-style arrangement featuring Bruce Springsteen on acoustic guitar, Roy Bittan on piano, and
an unidentified viola player as a guest-performer at the end of the song. This was the only time
THE ANGEL was ever played at an E Street Band show.
Ticket stub for the 22 Nov 2009 show at HSBC Arena, Buffalo, NY |
On this show Bruce and the band played the entire Greetings From Asbury
Park, N.J. album from start to finish and in sequence.
Available Versions
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Credits
Thanks Jake (ol'catfishinthelake at BTX and Greasy Lake).
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