OUT IN THE STREET

Live 05 Nov 1980 version

Come on boys!
One, two, three!

Put on your best dress baby and, darling, fix your hair up right
'Cause there's a party, honey, way down beneath the neon lights
All day you've been working that hard line
Now tonight you're gonna have a good time

I work five days a week, girl, loading crates down on the dock
I take my hard earned money, I meet my girl down on the block
And Monday when the foreman calls time
I've already got Friday on my mind

When that whistle blows, girl, I'm down the street
I'm home, I'm out of my work clothes
When I'm out in the street, (oh oh oh oh oh), I walk the way I wanna walk
When I'm out in the street, (oh oh oh oh oh), I talk the way I wanna talk
When I'm out in the street, when I'm out in the street
Say!

When I'm out in the street, girl, well I never feel alone
When I'm out in the street, girl, in the crowd I feel at home
The black and whites they cruise by
And they watch us from the corner of their eye

But there ain't no doubt, girl, down here
We ain't gonna take what they're handing out
When I'm out in the street, oh oh oh oh oh, I walk the way I wanna walk
When I'm out in the street, (oh oh oh oh oh), I talk the way I wanna talk
Out in the street I don't feel sad or blue
Out in the street I'll be waiting for you

When the whistle blows, girl, I'm down the street
I'm home, I'm out of my work clothes
When I'm out in the street, (oh oh oh oh oh), I walk the way I wanna walk
When I'm out in the street, (oh oh oh oh oh), I talk the way I wanna talk
When I'm out in the street, (oh oh oh oh oh), pretty girls, they all pass me by
When I'm out in the street, (oh oh oh oh oh), from the corner we give them the eye

Baby, out in the street I just feel all right
Meet me out in the street, little girl, tonight
Come on!
Meet me out in the street, meet me out in the street

Meet me out in the street
Meet me out in the street
Meet me out in the street
(Oh out in the street)
Meet me out in the street
Meet me out in the street
(Come on me out) in the street
(Come on me out in the street)
Meet me out in the street
Meet me out in the street
(Meet me out in the street)
Meet me out in the street
(Meet me out in the street)
Meet me out in the street
(Meet me out in the street)
Meet me out in the street
(Out in the street)

You're gonna meet me?

Info

The above lyrics are for the live 05 Nov 1980 performance of OUT IN THE STREET at Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ, during The River Tour. The show was held at the university's Activity Center. The song was played in its full-band arrangement.

Video of the entire live 05 Nov 1980 performance of OUT IN THE STREET from the upcoming The Ties That Bind: The River Collection box set debuted on 01 Dec 2015 when it was posted on Bruce Springsteen's official website and Bruce Springsteen's VEVO YouTube channel.

The 05 Nov 1980 Show

During The River Tour, Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band performed a concert at Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ on 05 Nov 1980. The concert was held at the university's Activity Center. It was professionally shot on three-quarter-inch U-matic videotape for promotional use. 24 songs were released on The Ties That Bind: The River Collection box set in 2015. The footage was originally produced and directed by Barry Rebo and the 2015 released video was produced and edited by Thom Zimny. "All the footage that was available from Tempe was used," Zimny told Backstreets.com. "No one, for instance, cut 'Racing in the Street' because they didn't like it ─ there was no editing in that sense. We used every frame of what we had available, down to the DVD menus."

Ticket stub for the 05 Nov 1980 show at Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

Pass for the 05 Nov 1980 show at Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
(Taken from Brucebase)

Audio for the remaining 10 songs was officially released in December 2015 on Live.BruceSpringsteen.net. It was mixed from the multitrack tapes by Bob Clearmountain in December 2015 and mastered by Adam Ayan at Gateway Mastering Studios in Portland, ME. The missing ten songs were released in response to fan feedback. "We saw the petition. We read the tweets. We heard it loud and clear," Brad Serling, founder and CEO of Nugs.net told Backstreets.

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band -- Arizona State University, Tempe 1980

The Ties That Bind: The River Collection

The Ties That Bind: The River Collection is a Bruce Springsteen box set released in 2015 on Columbia Records to celebrate the 35th anniversary of The River album. The 10"x12" box set contains four CDs, two Blu-Ray discs or three DVDs, and a hardcover 148-page coffee table book featuring 200 mostly unseen studio and live photographs, pages from Springsteen's notebooks, single covers, images and outtakes from the original album package, and other memorabilia documenting the album, plus a new essay by Mikal Gilmore. The box set was announced on 16 Oct 2015 and released to retail on 04 Dec 2015.

The Ties That Bind: The River Collection (box set cover art)

The first two discs consist of the 2014 remastered version of The River album. The third disc contains The River: Single Album, a 10-track album originally planned for release in 1979, under the title "The Ties That Bind". "The songs lacked the kind of unity and conceptual intensity I liked my music to have. So we went back in the studio," Springsteen wrote in his 1998 book Songs. He scrapped the project and went on to rework some of the songs and write and record some others, leading to the double-disc release the following year. All but one of these ten tracks were previously released.

The fourth discs contains The River: Outtakes, a 22-track album collection consisting of outtakes from the 1979-1980 sessions that didn't make the cut for either the single- or double-album versions of The River. The CD is divided into two parts, "Record One" (the first 11 tracks) and "Record Two" (the remaining 10 tracks). The former consists of unreleased songs while the latter consists of previously released songs.

The fifth disc contains the 60-minute documentary, The Ties That Bind, produced and directed by Grammy and Emmy-winning filmmaker Thom Zimny. The documentary features an intimate interview with Bruce Springsteen as he reflects on writing and recording of The River. The film transitions between Springsteen telling the stories behind the music ─ and illustrating them with solo acoustic guitar performances ─ interspersed with period concert footage and rare photos of him and the band in and out of the studio.

The sixth disc (on the Blu-Ray release) or sixth and seventh disc (on the DVD release) feature(s) The River Tour, Tempe 1980, a new professionally shot film consisting of 24 songs from Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band's 05 Nov 1980 concert at Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ. The film uses four cameras and is recorded in multitrack audio and clocks at 2 hours and 40 minutes. The tapes were edited by Thom Zimny and the audio was mixed by Bob Clearmountain and mastered by Bob Ludwig.

The last disc also contains The River Tour Rehearsals, which consists of a 5-song 20-minute bonus footage from Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band's private rehearsals in late September 1980 at Clair Brothers Audio in Lititz, PA. Springsteen and the band can be seen working through live arrangements of what was then unreleased material from the upcoming album.

Available Versions

List of available versions of OUT IN THE STREET on this website:

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