Official studio version
Well there's a man who leads a life of danger
With everyone he meets he stays a stranger
He's a repo man
Oh baby that's a repo man
Well hey big daddy cruising down the line
You don't make your monthly that Mercedes is mine
I'm a repo man
Hey buddy I'm a repo man
Well dead beats, tax cheats, you on welfare
Had a little dry spell, repo man don't care
A repo man lives by a code
You don't pay and I own your little piece of the road
Hide it in the city, hide it in the 'burbs
You wake up and it's gone 'fore you can say the words
Repo man
Quick baby, it's the repo man
Come on baby!
Woo! Here we go!
Well grifters, bums, hard cases, and slobs
A real repo man he loves his job
Couldn't tell you how many times I could've got killed or laid
You shouldn't have bought it if you couldn't have paid
Gran Torino way up in the Bronx
Guy with a pistol in his briefs and socks
Shouting repo man
I'll kill you, the repo man
Well a little pink nighty crying by the road
Sorry Miss, a repo man's got his code
I'm a repo man
Hey baby I'm a repo man
Come on Mar!
Whoa!
Well porch light flickering, I'm under the hood
A shot, I'm burning rubber, ah life is good
I'm a repo man
Yea baby that's a repo man
Honey I'm a repo man
Oh that's a real repo man
Yeah sugar I'm a repo man
Good God, baby I'm a repo man
REPO MAN is a song written by Bruce Springsteen and first released on the Tracks II: The Lost Albums box set in 2025. The above lyrics are for Bruce Springsteen's official studio version of REPO MAN as released in 2025.
The official studio version of REPO MAN was included on the Lost And Found: Selections From The Lost Albums compilation in 2025.
The first two lines in REPO MAN are lifted from The Challengers' 1965 song SECRET AGENT MAN.
The song's title first appeared in 2022 when it was filed at the United States Copyright Office. See the "Copyright Filings" section below form more details.
REPO MAN is the fourth single from Tracks II: The Lost Albums, released on 14 May 2025 at 9:04 a.m. Eastern Time (1:04 p.m. GMT).
REPO MAN was originally recorded in summer 1995 and was likely written not long before it was recorded. See the "Somewhere North Of Nashville" section below for more details.
Judging from the track's credits below, it seems that the original 1995 recording was done by Toby Scott (who parted company with Springsteen in November 2017) and Ross Petersen, and other parts that were overdubbed later on, like Charles Giordano's piano, were recorded by Ron Aniello and Rob Lebert.
Track credits:
Bruce Springsteen: vocals, guitar
Garry Tallent: bass
Charles Giordano: piano
Gary Mallaber: drums
Marty Rifkin: pedal steel guitar
Bruce Springsteen: producer
Ron Aniello: producer, recording engineer
Toby Scott: recording engineer
Rob Lebert: recording engineer
Ross Petersen: recording engineer
Bob Clearmountain: mixing engineer
Sergio Ruelas Jr.: assistant mixing engineer, mixing engineer
Bob Ludwig: mastering engineer
James Brown: additional engineer
In 2022, a "Recorded Document" consisting of 539 Bruce Springsteen "musical works" was filed at the United States Copyright Office. The two filings are related to Springsteen's late 2021 deal with Sony Music in which he sold the masters of his entire catalog and the coinciding music publishing rights. They show the transfer of the songs from Bruce Springsteen to Thrill Hill Music LLC and then from Thrill Hill Music LLC to Sony Music Publishing (US) LLC and Asbury Boss LLC. Thrill Hill Music LLC and Asbury Boss LLC are limited liability companies incorporated in September 2021 and October 2021 respectively and likely created for the deal.
Copyright entry #1:
Type of Work: Recorded Document
Document Number: V15007D317
Date of Recordation: 2022-05-13
Entire Copyright Document: V15007 D317 P1-13
Date of Execution: 01Nov21; 01Mar22
Title: 100 Miles From Jackson & 538 other titles; Musical Work.
Notes: Assignment.
Party 1: Bruce Springsteen
Party 2: Thrill Hill Music LLC
Links: List of titles
Names: Springsteen, Bruce | Thrill Hill Music LLC
Copyright entry #2:
Type of Work: Recorded Document
Document Number: V15007D318
Date of Recordation: 2022-05-13
Entire Copyright Document: V15007 D318 P1-14
Date of Execution: 22Nov21; 22Nov21
Title: 100 Miles From Jackson & 538 other titles; Musical Work.
Notes: Exhibit 10.1 Assignment
Party 1: Thrill Hill Music LLC
Party 2: Sony Music Publishing (US) LLC; Asbury Boss, LLC
Links: List of titles
Names: Thrill Hill Music LLC | Sony Music Publishing (US) LLC | Asbury Boss, LLC
Tracks II: The Lost Albums is Bruce Springsteen's follow-up to his 1998 box set Tracks, released on 27 Jun 2025. The box set consists of seven "lost albums" recoded between 1983 and 2018, totaling 83 songs, of which 74 have never been officially released in any form. The seven albums are: L.A. Garage Sessions '83, Streets Of Philadelphia Sessions, Faithless, Somewhere North Of Nashville, Inyo, Twilight Hours, and Perfect World.
Tracks II: The Lost Albums, along with its companion Lost And Found: Selections From The Lost Albums, was officially announced on 03 Apr 2025 at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time (1:00 p.m. GMT). The announcement was accompanied by a "trailer" for the upcoming set, posted on Bruce Springsteen's YouTube channel and other online services. The previous day, Springsteen released a teaser on his social media accounts, linking to a new website, lostalbums.net, created for the two upcoming releases.
The box set is available in limited edition as a seven-disc CD set and a nine-disc LP set, as well as digital download and streaming. The physical releases will include original packaging for each of the previously unreleased records, with a 100-page cloth-bound, hardcover book featuring rare archival photos, liner notes on each lost album from essayist Erik Flannigan and a personal introduction on the project from Springsteen himself.
Disc 1: (LA Garage Sessions '83)
Disc 2: (Streets Of Philadelphia Sessions)
Disc 3: (Faithless)
Disc 4: (Somewhere North Of Nashville)
Disc 5: (Inyo)
Disc 6: (Twilight Hours)
Disc 7: (Perfect World)
Side 1: (LA Garage Sessions '83)
Side 2: (LA Garage Sessions '83)
Side 3: (LA Garage Sessions '83)
Side 4: (LA Garage Sessions '83)
Side 5: (Streets Of Philadelphia Sessions)
Side 6: (Streets Of Philadelphia Sessions)
Side 7: (Faithless)
Side 8: (Faithless)
Side 9: (Somewhere North Of Nashville)
Side 10: (Somewhere North Of Nashville)
Side 11: (Inyo)
Side 12: (Inyo)
Side 13: (Twilight Hours)
Side 14: (Twilight Hours)
Side 15: (Twilight Hours)
Side 16: (Twilight Hours)
Side 17: (Perfect World)
Side 18: (Perfect World)
Lost And Found: Selections From The Lost Albums is a curated collection of 20 previously unreleased songs from the Tracks II: The Lost Albums box set, released on 27 Jun 2025.
Lost And Found: Selections From The Lost Albums, along with the Tracks II: The Lost Albums box set, was officially announced on 03 Apr 2025 at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time (1:00 p.m. GMT).
The album is available as a one-disc CD album or two-disc LP set, as well as digital download and streaming. The physical releases will include a personal introduction from Springsteen himself.
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Side 2:
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Side 4:
Somewhere North Of Nashville is a 12-track album was eventually released in 2025 as one of the of the seven "lost albums" included on the Tracks II: The Lost Albums box set.
According to a press release, the album is a "collection inspired by the sounds of honky tonk, rockabilly and uptempo country." Somewhere North Of Nashville was recorded simultaneously with The Ghost Of Tom Joad in the summer of 1995 and features much of the core band at the heart of those sessions, including Danny Federici, Garry Tallent and Gary Mallaber, with added elements like pedal steel from Marty Rifkin and fiddle from Soozie Tyrell. The press release claims that the album "saw Springsteen spontaneously cutting material live in the studio with a full band."
"What happened was I wrote all these country songs at the same time I wrote 'The Ghost of Tom Joad.' Those sessions completely overlap each other. I'm singing 'Repo Man' in the afternoon and 'The Line' at night. So the country record got made right along with 'The Ghost of Tom Joad.' Very similar to 'Born in the U.S.A.' and 'Nebraska,'" Springsteen recalled. "'Streets of Philadelphia' got me connected to my socially conscious or topical songwriting. So that's where 'The Ghost of Tom Joad' came from. But at the same time I had this country streak that was also running through those sessions and I ended up making a country record on the side."
Bruce Springsteen has never performed REPO MAN live.
As far as it's known, no artist has recorded and released Bruce Springsteen's REPO MAN.
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REPO MAN [Official studio version]
