More songs by Bruce Springsteen
Description
Nebraska '82: Expanded Edition
Associated Performer, Acoustic Guitar, Harmonica, Vocal: Bruce Springsteen
Tambourine: Larry Campbell
Synthesizer: Charlie Giordano
Lyricist, Composer: B. Springsteen
Recording Engineer, Mixing Engineer: Rob Lebret
Recording Engineer: Monty Carlo
Mastering Engineer: Brian Lee
Mastering Engineer: Bob Jackson
Lyrics and translation
Original
Last night I dreamed I had, I was a child.
Out where the pines grow wild and tall.
I was trying to make it home through the forest before the dark, darkness falls.
I heard the wind rustling through the trees and ghostly voices rose from the fields.
I ran with my heart pounding down that broken path with the devil snapping at my heels.
I broke through the trees and there in the night, my father's house stood shining hard and bright.
The branches and brambles tore my clothes, scratched my arms.
But I ran 'til I fell, shaking in his arms.
And
I awoke and I imagined the hard things that pulled us apart will never again, sir, tear us from each other's hearts.
I got dressed and to that house
I did ride.
From out on the road, I could see its windows shining in light. I walked up the steps and
I stood on the porch.
A woman I didn't recognize came and spoke to me through a chain door.
I told her my story and who I'd come for.
She said, "I'm sorry, son, but no one by that name lives here anymore. "
My father's house shines hard and bright.
Stands like a beacon calling me in the night.
Calling and calling, so cold and warm.
Shining 'cross this dark highway where our sins lie unatoned.