Hangin’ from the trapeze my wrists waitin’ for your wrists
Two daredevils high up on the wall of death
You throwin’ the knife that lands inches from my heart
Sundown
After seeing the outpouring of support following Danny’s death, Bruce Springsteen, the E Street Band, Danny’s family and Dr. Chapman decided Danny’s vision could make an even greater impact. Together with Debra and Leon Black, founders of the Melanoma Research Alliance (MRA) they created the Danny Fund to bring melanoma to the forefront of public awareness and to fund research with top melanoma doctors from around the world.
Through the houses of the dead past those fallen in their tracks
Always moving ahead and never looking back
Now the moon’s dirty light shines ‘cross the highway unfurled
And this love burns inside me like the last light in the world
And the night is shining bright like some mystery uncovered
I’ll keep moving through the dark with you in my heart, my blood brotherDanny “Phantom” Federici (January 23 1950 - April 27 2008)
“Of course we all grow up and we know “it’s only rock and roll”…but it’s not. After a lifetime of watching a man perform his miracle for you, night after night, it feels an awful lot like love.”—Bruce Springsteen, eulogy for Danny Federici
(via illbeonthathill)
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band - 4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)
“…A few weeks back we ended up onstage in Indianapolis for what would be the last time. Before we went on I asked him what he wanted to play and he said, “Sandy.” He wanted to strap on the accordion and revisit the boardwalk of our youth during the summer nights when we’d walk along the boards with all the time in the world.” (Bruce Springsteen’s eulogy for Danny Federici x)
Sandy the fireworks are hailin’ over Little Eden tonight
Forcin’ a light into all those stoned-out faces left stranded on this Fourth of July
Down in town the circuit’s full with switchblade lovers so fast so shiny so sharp
And the wizards play down on Pinball Way on the boardwalk way past dark
And the boys from the casino dance with their shirts open like Latin lovers along the shore
Chasin’ all them silly New York girls
Sandy the aurora is risin’ behind us
The pier lights our carnival life forever
Love me tonight for I may never see you again
Hey Sandy girl
Now the greasers they tramp the streets or get busted for trying to sleep on the beach all night
Them boys in their spiked high heels ah Sandy their skins are so white
And me I just got tired of hangin’ in them dusty arcades bangin’ them pleasure machines
Chasin’ the factory girls underneath the boardwalk where they promise to unsnap their jeans
And you know that tilt-a-whirl down on the south beach drag
I got on it last night and my shirt got caught
And that Joey kept me spinnin’ I didn’t think I’d ever get off
Oh Sandy the aurora is risin’ behind us
The pier lights our carnival life on the water
Runnin’ down the beach at night with my boss’s daughter
Well he ain’t my boss no more Sandy
Sandy, the angels have lost our desire for us
I spoke to ‘em just last night and they said they won’t set themselves on fire for us anymore
Every summer when the weather gets hot they ride that road down from heaven on their Harleys they come and they go
And you can see ‘em dressed like stars in all the cheap little seashore bars parked making love with their babies out on the Kokomo
Well the cops finally busted Madame Marie for tellin’ fortunes better than they do
This boardwalk life for me is through
You know you ought to quit this scene too
Sandy the aurora’s rising behind us, the pier lights our carnival life forever
Oh love me tonight and I promise I’ll love you forever
The last time Bruce Springsteen & Danny Federici shared the stage March 20, 2008.
We won’t be dancing together on the high wire
Facing the lions with you at my side anymore
I’ve been trying to find a significant extract from this article to quote here to encourage you guys to read this, but actually it’s all so good I can’t simply isolate one sentence or paragraph.
Joan Walsh here speaks as much for many of us who converted to the Church of Springsteen long ago, as for those who joined recently. A Springsteen concert is not just a concert; it’s a sensual, physical, spiritual experience. And it carries the story of a man and his band, a story that has touched all of us in different ways, and that brings us together here and there - on the web and in the arena.
Read it and see for yourself. I’m willing to put money on this article being the smartest, most constructive, and deepest analysis of the current state of the Springsteen nation that will appear this year.
Ladies and gentlemen, the E Street Band, or: I’m so worried about this talk about “the band’s future” that Mr Springsteen is planning in the next week or so.
(Source: delivermefromnowhere)
