BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
I'M A COWARD (WHEN IT COMES TO LOVE)
Yeah, I know some of you don't like Bruce because of his Socialist leanings, but he's still pretty durn good in concert!
Here's a nugget from the 1988 Tunnel Of Love tour...
I ain't afraid of no lions
I ain't afraid of no grizzly bear
I got in a wrestlin' match with old King Kong
He didn't even muss my hair
There's just one thing in the whole wide world
That make me doubt my stuff
I'm a coward when it comes to love
Now bring down old Hulk Hogan
King Kong Bundy too
Bring down old Big Mike Tyson
I'll show them what a real man can do
They say the tougher' get goin'
Now baby that's when the goin' get tough
But I'm a coward when it comes to love
I'm a coward when it comes to love
I'm a coward when it comes to love
You can bring on a different sexy girl
At every night of the week
Buddy that's okay
But I start tremblin', my knees get weak
Whenever I hear her say
"Do you love me baby?"
"Do you love me baby?"
"Do you love me baby?"
I got a muscle of iron
I got another muscle made of steel
But when we start kissin' 'n' huggin'
You may be the bravest man in the whole wide world
But Buddy, that ain't enough
I'm a coward when it comes to love
I'm a coward when it comes to love
I'm a coward when it comes to love
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ReplyDeleteWhoa! Bruce Springsteen wrote those lyrics?
My has he slipped since the years (long ago) when I used to idolize him. I didn't listen to the song, but lyrically, that's some pitiful stuffs.
A good song about fearing the love of a good woman could probably be written, but when you start dragging in Hulk Hogan and Mike Tyson... that's just kind of goofy.
Whatever happened to the Bruce who could write stuff like 'New York City Serenade' and 'Jungleland'?
~ D-FensDogg
'Loyal American Underground'
STMcC-
DeleteI would agree that lyrically it does not hold up to those types of songs, but I do not believe it was never meant to.
This is one you probably need to listen to to get.
It is a song that he performed on the Tunnel Of Love album, which was a somber album about failed relationships.
To my knowledge, he only played it on that tour, and as a concert performance piece, it works.
He loosely based it on an old Gino Washington song, "Gino Is A Coward."
I am not aware of it ever having been recorded-it seems like it was meant to lighten the mood ofthe concert and get the crowd into it.