Joe Grushecky & The Houserockers' album version
| Bill Deasy: | Go! |
| Joe Grushecky: | Broken wheel, broken wheel |
| I am so numb I cannot feel | |
| Lost in a fog, can't tell what's real | |
| This heart of stone will never heal | |
| Tell me when someone will mend this broken wheel | |
| Bill Deasy: | I am a man who is running away from his last chance |
| Joe Grushecky: | And I'd like to think that I am a victim of my circumstance |
| The police are on my trail | |
| I got a story I will tell | |
| Joe Grushecky: | Broken wheel |
| Bill Deasy: | Broken wheel |
| Joe Grushecky: | Broken wheel |
| Bill Deasy: | Broken wheel |
| Joe Grushecky: | I am so numb |
| Grushecky and Deasy: | I cannot feel |
| Joe Grushecky: | Lost in a fog |
| Bill Deasy: | Lost in a fog |
| Joe Grushecky: | Can't tell what's real |
| Bill Deasy: | Can't tell what's real |
| Joe Grushecky: | This heart of stone |
| Grushecky and Deasy: | Will never heal |
| And tell me when someone will mend this broken wheel | |
| Bill Deasy: | We were driving home |
| Down a back road that I knew so well | |
| I heard his tires screeching right before he hit me | |
| Like a freight train right out of hell | |
| Yeah, she lay lifeless in the back | |
| I had my hands around his neck | |
| Bill Deasy: | Broken wheel |
| Joe Grushecky: | Broken wheel |
| Bill Deasy: | Broken wheel |
| Joe Grushecky: | Broken wheel |
| Bill Deasy: | I am so numb |
| Grushecky and Deasy: | I cannot feel |
| Bill Deasy: | Lost in a fog |
| Joe Grushecky: | Lost in a fog |
| Bill Deasy: | Can't tell what's real |
| Joe Grushecky: | Can't tell what's real |
| Bill Deasy: | This heart of stone |
| Grushecky and Deasy: | Will never heal |
| Tell me when someone will mend this broken wheel | |
| Joe Grushecky: | I got to keep on running |
| Bill Deasy: | I got to keep moving on |
| Joe Grushecky: | Keep on running |
| Bill Deasy: | Can't stay in one place too long |
| Joe Grushecky: | Keep on running |
| Bill Deasy: | I got to keep moving on |
| Joe Grushecky: | I got to keep on running |
| Bill Deasy: | No matter where I go she's gone |
| Grushecky and Deasy: | Yeah she's gone |
| No matter where I go she's gone | |
| Bruce Springsteen: | [Guitar solo] |
| Joe Grushecky: | I got to keep on running |
| Bill Deasy: | I got to keep moving on |
| Joe Grushecky: | I got to keep on running |
| Bill Deasy: | Can't stay in one place too long |
| Joe Grushecky: | Keep on running |
| Bill Deasy: | I got to keep moving on |
| Joe Grushecky: | I got to keep on running |
| Bill Deasy: | No matter where I go she's gone |
| Joe Grushecky: | Well, she's gone |
| Bill Deasy: | Yeah, no matter where I go she's gone |
| Joe Grushecky: | Well, she's gone |
| Bill Deasy: | Well, she's gone |
| Joe Grushecky: | Oh, she's gone |
| Bill Deasy: | Oh, she's gone |
| Joe Grushecky: | No matter where I go she's gone |
| Bill Deasy: | Yeah, she's gone |
| Joe Grushecky: | Broken wheel |
| Bill Deasy: | Broken wheel |
| Joe Grushecky: | Broken wheel |
| Bill Deasy: | Broken wheel |
| Joe Grushecky: | I am so numb |
| Bill Deasy: | I cannot feel |
| Joe Grushecky: | Broken wheel |
| Bill Deasy: | Broken wheel |
| Joe Grushecky: | Broken wheel |
| Bill Deasy: | Broken wheel |
| Grushecky and Deasy: | No matter where I go she's gone |
BROKEN WHEEL is a song written by Joe Grushecky and Bill Deasy and released on Joe Grushecky & The Houserockers' 2009 album East Carson Street. Bruce Springsteen participated in the recording of three of the album's tracks; he plays guitar on EAST CARSON STREET, sings duet vocals and plays lead guitar on ANOTHER THIN LINE, and plays lead guitar on BROKEN WHEEL. The above lyrics are for Joe Grushecky & The Houserockers' album version of BROKEN WHEEL as released in 2009. It features Bill Deasy on duet vocals.
As far as it's known, Bruce Springsteen has never performed BROKEN WHEEL live.
Thanks Steen Andersson (rosalita101 at Greasy Lake) for the help.
List of available versions of BROKEN WHEEL on this website:
BROKEN WHEEL [Joe Grushecky & The Houserockers' album version]