Live 25 Mar 1977 version
[Spoken intro:] We can't go home yet, it's too early. To go home watch TV, watch Tom Snyder (chuckles). Alright, gimme the beat, we're gonna have ??? and all sort of fun, just gimme the beat for me the beat of fun.
[Max Werinbeg starts playing the drums]
Ah yeah baby. I wanna thank uh... come on professor, come on in.
[Roy Bittan starts playing the keyborads]
I wanna thank, uh, all the people in Boston that've come down to the show these past four nights. To let you know, through the hard times, through the good times we appreciate your support. A lot of people that came down saw us when we were playing at Oliver's, in Charlie's Place, in Joe's Place. I wanna thank you all very much, surely that we sincerely appreciate it. I would like to dedicate this song to guys that are friends of mine and who have worked their ass off for me every night for a very little pay. To the crew, the light people, and everybody we say we love you very much.
And you know your love keeps lifting me higher
Than I've ever been lifted before
Just keep it up, hell burning desire
And we'll buy us a way to get rid of everything
??? a little break
(Hoohoohoo)
(Hoohoohoo)
(Hoohoohoo) (oh yeah)
(Hoohoohoo)
(Hoohoohoo)
(Hoohoohoo) (oh yeah)
(Hoohoohoo) (oh whoa yeah)
(Hoohoohoo) (yeah yeah yeah)
(Hoohoohoo) (yeah yeah)
(Hoohoohoo)
(Hoohoohoo) (whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa)
(Hoohoohoo) (oh yeah)
(Hoohoohoo) (oh yeah)
Well I said your love keeps lifting me higher
Than I've ever been lifted before
And keep on up, your burning desire
And I'll live by your side for I don't know
Because your love, your love keeps lifting me
Keeps on lifting, keeps lifting higher and higher
I said your love, your love keeps lifting me
It keeps on lifting, keeps lifting me higher and higher
Well now I'm so glad that I've found you
And I mean I'm never gonna let you go
A-just you wrap your, yeah wrap my open arms around you
And I think that I'm going I don't know
A-because your love (your love keeps lifting me)
Keeps on lifting (keeps on lifting me)
Keeps on lifting (your love keeps on lifting me higher, higher)
I said your love (your love keeps lifting me)
Higher (keeps on lifting me)
Keeps on lifting me up (your love keeps lifting me higher, higher)
Horns, go!
But now I'm so, so glad that I found you
Well I will never, said I'm never gonna let you go
I'm just gonna wrap my loving arms around you
And I'll live by your side forever more
Because your love (your love keeps lifting me)
Keeps on lifting (keeps on lifting me)
Keeps on lifting (your love keeps on lifting me higher, higher)
Well I said your love (your love keeps lifting me)
Higher (keeps on lifting me)
Keeps on lifting (your love keeps lifting me higher, higher)
Once more boys, once more!
Alright now! ???
Alright
Said all right
'Cause it's all right
It's all right now
'Cause it's all right
'Cause it's all right
'Cause it's all right
Stop!
If I could go up to those times I know
Aah but I don't wanna know
Alright
Let's just keep this going all night long
Let's dance all night long!
???
(Your love keeps lifting me)
(Keeps on lifting me)
(Your love keeps lifting me higher, higher)
Turn on the lights up here
(Your love keeps lifting me)
(Keeps on lifting me)
Turn on the lights in here
(Your love keeps lifting me higher, higher)
Say
(Your love keeps lifting me)
(Keeps on lifting me)
(Your love keeps lifting me higher, higher)
Let me hear you say
(Your love keeps lifting me)
(Keeps on lifting me)
(Your love keeps lifting me higher, higher)
Lift me a little higher (your love keeps lifting me)
A little higher (keeps on lifting me)
A little higher, a little higher (your love keeps lifting me higher, higher)
A little higher (your love keeps lifting me)
A little higher (keeps on lifting me)
A little higher, a little higher (Your love keeps lifting me higher, higher)
A little higher (your love keeps lifting me)
A little higher (keeps on lifting me)
A little higher, a little higher (your love keeps lifting me higher, higher)
A little (your love keeps lifting me)
(Keeps on lifting me)
(Your love keeps lifting me higher, higher)
Take it a little higher (your love keeps lifting me)
Ah bring it up (keeps on lifting me)
Ah bring it up, ah bring it up (your love keeps lifting me higher, higher)
Ah bring it up (Your love keeps lifting me)
Ah bring it up (keeps on lifting me)
Ah bring it up, higher (Your love keeps lifting me higher, higher)
Yeah!
(Your love keeps lifting me)
(Keeps on lifting me)
Your love, your love (your love keeps lifting me higher, higher)
Your love (your love keeps lifting me)
Your love (keeps on lifting me)
Your love, your love (Your love keeps lifting me higher, higher)
Your love (your love keeps lifting me)
Your love (keeps on lifting me)
Your love (Your love keeps lifting me higher, higher)
(Your love keeps lifting me)
(Keeps on lifting me)
(Your love keeps lifting me higher, higher)
(Your love keeps lifting me)
(Keeps on lifting me)
(Your love keeps lifting me higher)
[Spoken outro:] Thank you. Thank you and goodnight.
(YOUR LOVE KEEPS LIFTING ME) HIGHER AND HIGHER is 1967 song by Jackie Wilson. See the original Jackie Wilson version for more details.
The above lyrics are for the live 25 Mar 1977 performance of (YOUR LOVE KEEPS LIFTING ME) HIGHER AND HIGHER at Music Hall in Boston, MA, during what is known as The Lawsuit Tour. This was the last of four consecutive shows at the venue that concluded the tour.
Despite the marvelous reception received by both Born To Run and the tour which followed, the relationship between Bruce Springsteen and his now former manager and producer Mike Appel was deteriorating. In July 1976 the storm broke; Mike Appel wrote to Springsteen saying that he would not allow Jon Landau (Springsteen's friend and co-producer of Born To Run) to produce the next album, citing a particular paragraph from their original agreement. Springsteen replied on 27 Jul 1976 by firing manager Mike Appel and suing him and his management company Laurel Canyon Ltd. in Federal Court in Manhattan, claiming fraud, breach of trust, and undue influence. Appel counter-sued on 29 Jul 1976 in New York State Supreme Court, asking the court to prohibit Springsteen and Jon Landau from working together in studio. Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band were slated to enter the studio that year for the recording of a new album, except that on 15 Sep 1976 the judge in the lawsuits case ruled that Springsteen was enjoined from any further recording with Columbia Records until Appel's suit was resolved. This would drag for about a year. Meanwhile, Springsteen continued gigging, and in the process broke his self-imposed rule of not playing the larger arenas. This was basically because he was not able to put a record out, and it was the only way his fans would be able to hear him at all. The tour became known as "The Lawsuit Tour" (62 know dates, August 1976 to March 1977).
Other versions of (YOUR LOVE KEEPS LIFTING ME) HIGHER AND HIGHER were officially released.
(YOUR LOVE KEEPS LIFTING ME) HIGHER AND HIGHER was sound-checked prior to the 22 Jul 1975 show in Geneva, NY, (as far as it's known) but it was not performed on any of the Born To Run Tour's regular shows. At that sound-checked the song was played in an arrangement different to later concert versions.
(YOUR LOVE KEEPS LIFTING ME) HIGHER AND HIGHER is known to have been performed at least twice during what is known as The Lawsuit Tour (62 know dates, August 1976 to March 1977). These were the tour's very last two shows. Some of that period's setlists are incomplete or unknown, and therefore, the song may have been played on some more dates during the Lawsuit Tour, but that's unlikely.
(YOUR LOVE KEEPS LIFTING ME) HIGHER AND HIGHER was performed 11 times during the Working On A Dream Tour (83 dates, April to November 2009); these include the tour's last 10 show. The live 20 Oct 2009 version of (YOUR LOVE KEEPS LIFTING ME) HIGHER AND HIGHER was released on the Wachovia Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA 10/20/09 official live download in 2017. The live 07 Nov 2009 version of (YOUR LOVE KEEPS LIFTING ME) HIGHER AND HIGHER was released on the MSG 11.07.09 official live download in 2020. The live 08 Nov 2009 version of (YOUR LOVE KEEPS LIFTING ME) HIGHER AND HIGHER was released on the MSG Nov 08, 2009 official live download in 2018. The live 22 Nov 2009 version of (YOUR LOVE KEEPS LIFTING ME) HIGHER AND HIGHER was released on the HSBC Arena, Buffalo, NY 11/22/2009 official live download in 2016.
(YOUR LOVE KEEPS LIFTING ME) HIGHER AND HIGHER was performed once during the Wrecking Ball Tour (133 dates, March 2012 to September 2013), on 31 Jul 2012 in Helsinki, Finland. The live 31 Jul 2012 version of (YOUR LOVE KEEPS LIFTING ME) HIGHER AND HIGHER was released on the Olympiastadion, Helsinki July 31, 2012 official live download in 2017.
(YOUR LOVE KEEPS LIFTING ME) HIGHER AND HIGHER was performed off-tour on 13 May 1977 (late show) at Monmouth Arts Center in Red Bank, NJ, with The Asbury Park All-Star Revue.
(YOUR LOVE KEEPS LIFTING ME) HIGHER AND HIGHER was performed off-tour on 31 Dec 1977 at Capitol Theatre in Passaic, NJ, during a Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes concert. Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band made an unscheduled appearance at the end of the show, joining the Jukes onstage for a few songs before kicking into a 5-song set of their own. The song was played as part of the first set with Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes.
(YOUR LOVE KEEPS LIFTING ME) HIGHER AND HIGHER was performed off-tour on 05 Sep 1981 at Perkins Palace in Pasadena, CA, during a guest appearance with The Pretenders.
(YOUR LOVE KEEPS LIFTING ME) HIGHER AND HIGHER was performed off-tour on 29 Oct 2009 at Madison Square Garden in New York City, NY, during the first of the two Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame 25th anniversary concerts. The song was played at the end of Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band's set and also featured Darlene Love, John Fogerty, Tom Morello, Billy Joel, Jackson Browne, and Peter Wolf. This performance of (YOUR LOVE KEEPS LIFTING ME) HIGHER AND HIGHER aired on HBO a month later and was officially released on The 25th Anniversary Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Concerts album and home video in 2010.
Between 2002 and 2011, Bruce Springsteen played private benefit shows for schools and colleges that his kids attended — Rumson Country Day School of Rumson, NJ, and Ranney School of Tinton Falls, NJ, and Boston College of Chestnut Hill, MA. (YOUR LOVE KEEPS LIFTING ME) HIGHER AND HIGHER was performed at one of these fundraisers, on 23 Jan 2010 at The Stone Pony in Asbury Park, NJ, backed by Bobby Bandiera and his band.
(YOUR LOVE KEEPS LIFTING ME) HIGHER AND HIGHER was performed during the fifteenth (2015) annual Light Of Day benefit. The song was played with La Bamba's Big Band and Friends.
Thanks Timmy Peterson (Terry at Greasy Lake) for the lyrics help.
List of available versions of (YOUR LOVE KEEPS LIFTING ME) HIGHER AND HIGHER on this website:
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