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Glory Days Lyrics
Artist: Bruce Springsteen
I had a friend was a big baseball player
back in high school
He could throw that speedball by you
Make you look like a fool boy
Saw him the other night at this roadside bar
I was walking in, he was walking out
We went back inside sat down had a few drinks
but all he kept talking about was
Chorus:
Glory days well they'll pass you by
Glory days in the wink of a young girl's eye
Glory days, glory days
Well there's a girl that lives up the block
back in school she could turn all the boy's heads
Sometimes on a Friday I'll stop by
and have a few drinks after she put her kids to bed
Her and her husband Bobby well they split up
I guess it's two years gone by now
We just sit around talking about the old times,
she says when she feels like crying
she starts laughing thinking about
Chorus
My old man worked 20 years on the line
and they let him go
Now everywhere he goes out looking for work
they just tell him that he's too old
I was 9 nine years old and he was working at the
Metuchen Ford plant assembly line
Now he just sits on a stool down at the Legion hall
but I can tell what's on his mind
Glory days yeah goin back
Glory days aw he ain't never had
Glory days, glory days
Now I think I'm going down to the well tonight
and I'm going to drink till I get my fill
And I hope when I get old I don't sit around thinking about it
but I probably will
Yeah, just sitting back trying to recapture
a little of the glory of, well time slips away
and leaves you with nothing mister but
boring stories of glory days
Chorus (repeat twice)
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Comments/Interpretations
brilliant
That section that starts with "my old man...". I've never seen that before. Is that on the original recording that wasn't released.
I was thinking the same thing!!
Yeah, just sitting back trying to recapture a little "Gloria". I thought that was the word, "not glory of".
Yeah, me too. I have heard this song a million times (my mum is a big fan) and I have never heard "My old man...".
If that verse actually was recorded somewhere, I can see why it was left out of the "Born in the USA" version... it really doesn't fit the rest of the storyline. Even the chorus changes into something which appears clumsy when set alongside the rest of the tune. It also changes the narrative from a "participant" (i.e. where the narrator is just as involved, if not moreso through his acquaintances' experiences and reminisces) to a "narrator" whose sole personal reference is set more as a timeframe, not an actual act of interrelation (much as one could say, "I was 13 when JFK died"). Did this song appear on the "Tracks" box set? I could see Bruce taking that whole verse out and making another song out of it instead. But here, it's just clumsy.
Dam! THis ounds like ME!
:)
I have even the original album on vinyl and there is insertion with every lyrics and there's no verse with My old man...
I love it all its perfect it hits the happy spot
this song is the best ever!ive been to about 170 concerts in my life!BEAT THAT!!!
Nostalgic anyone?
Okay...the line when she thinks about crying...
always thought it said
"and when she thinks about Clarence"
Brilliant song! And emma my mother is huge fan too
great message, of course--it's bruce, but could the radio stations have not overplayed to the point of nauseum!!? I do like the additional verse by the dad getting laid off at the ford plant. but come on, let's be real this song isn't by a long shot one of bruce's best. really. . . .
hi ppl, omg ive just herd the song on tv, and it is AMAZING!!!!!!! love it loads and love bruce's voice- so distinctive :)
this song is just amazeeeeeee lol, meanin amazing but wat eva :P, but this is such a gurrrrrrd song, he has such a distinctive voice which is brilliant :D
BRUCE ALL THE WAY!!!!
:)
nice rerang in superbowl
ive never heard that my fater part either! Im gonna start lookin for it.
what does the song mean?
you wont really know what it means till u reach 40
The extra verse is part of a recording on the immense Bruce bootleg collection called "The Lost Masters Collection." A very large portion of these songs can be found on youtube if you're interested.
I get the impression that this songs shows that Bruce is a drunk. He drinks with everyone and makes them talk about old times. The song is good
New Jersey!
Great Song. It makes more sense now as I am 39
Kej fortne mestaro de parnetu si rama!
It's a great song!
Indeed, everybody has his Glory Days or even Glory years!
Pretty obvious what the song is about... we bump into people we knew in school and remember the good old times. Our stories don't do justice to our feelings of nostalgia for those days, because it wasn't really the events that happened that are really of interest, but that we miss being young. It is really a lament for happier days and our youth, hence all the references to the ex-baseballer stuck in the past, the broken marriage and the singer trying to fill the emptiness with drink. It is a song about our mortality. The tone of the melody is very happy, but the lyrics are melancholic really... that's why it has a bitter/sweet feel to it, as a song about nostalgia, it is in my humble opinion, brilliant.
I am going to see him at Bonnaroo in 6 days!!! :]
would anyone happen to know why Bruce doesn't seem to play JERSEY GIRL much at all any more. That song got me hooked on him. Thanks
Glory Days with Phish...appropriate, haha
Can I live while I'm young?
What a brilliant, and so often misinterpreted song. The whole born in the USA album is actually sad and take this song 'Boring stories of glory days'. Born in the USA was actually meant to be a second 'The River' album but coz its so catchy it ended up different. The song is no doubt immense as well as the album and all of Bruce!
baseball player part sounds like my dad
I always thought it part of "make him look like a fool boy" was "making love like a pool boy"
i have never heard the section 'my old man' before and my mum is a huge fan and she's never heard it either.
In The Song I thought the line...
I guess it's two years gone by now
We just sit around talking about the old times,
she says when she feels like crying
she starts laughing thinking about
I thought it was...
I guess it's two years gone by now
We just sit around talking about the old times,
she says when she feels like Clarence
she starts laughing thinking about
It is really funny! Thatnk you who ever posted this video :)
I´ve never heard that line starting My old man.... Anyway, great song!!!!
I think that we all agree that that verse is entirley unheard of. Could someone help us out and tell us oficially if it ever existed and proof of it? Thank you.
mario_lopez_frias@yahoo.com
very very boring
i think this song is about ninja turkeys fighting evil.
talk about an overrated artist!
That Metuchen Ford plant is now gone and they're building another Jersey strip-mall(like we need another) on the land. What a shame.
"the well" is a bar right?
How I wish Bruce tour Latin America
if you like closely like in the last line wheere he says boring glory days he means dont live in those days and life goes on and you cant live in the glory days
It's anti-jock and anti-cheerleader and anti-popular kid. The great athlete, the pretty girl...enjoy it while you can. It's over real quick and it sure don't mean a thing when real life starts. Song is quite sad.
"the well" is american slang for any bar; in reference to it being like a "watering hole" as in a place that sustains you, or just a metaphor for alcohol.
You people are idiots
This song has been on my mind all day. Didn't hear it on any media. For a 50+ year old woman, it just stirred so many memories, I had to look up the lyrics. I can see/hear my friends and I singing our lil old hearts out when we were maybe 20/25. It is true, you don't "get it" till after you're 40. Great song, Bruce and band. Thanks.
i like it when bruce springsteen yells " we're coming up!!".
Mine is even worse, I always thought the line was "After she purchased a bed" instead of "after she put her kids to bed"... oh yeah and making love like a fool boy lol.
cool cool cool
The Well he was speaking about, was the Ink Well, a coffee house, late night hang out. In Long Branch NJ
If you check the lyrics on Bruce's official website, you will see that that line (my dad, etc) is not there. www.brucespringsteen.net
@Anthony Stoner on 11/23/2008 7:31pm
Okay...the line when she thinks about crying...
always thought it said
"and when she thinks about Clarence"
I re-read the lyrics with and added that line-Your post made me choke up.
How 'bout Springsteen finally coming out of the closet? It's obvious that he smokes the pole!
Gotta be: 'Makin love like a pool boy'...
Other than that, a typical Springsteen story/song which you can interpreter any way you like.
Depending on your own situation, age and probably most of all; your experiences and feelings attached to the subject/s touched.
I used to listen to and sing this song when I was 5 years old(on a micro cassettee). I didn't understand it much back then. 25 years later it makes perfect sense, "they'll pass you by glory days." This song makes me think of university mostly.
That old comic Richie Rich had several female characters. Two of them were Little Lotta and Gloria. So I heard, "Yeah, just sitting back trying to recapture
a Little Lotta, Gloria."
Fu*kin days jst pass by
Bruce singing his FULL VERSION uncensored
type on a youtube search:
Rare version of Glory Days by Bruce Springsteen
I think everyone has had a special time in their life. We can never go back, but we can cling to the memories. Life is not always good, but the memories help us to get through it.
UR GRANDAMDAR VERY OLD LIKE RASIAN THIS SONG IS OP NOW SHUT UR FACE
Obviously, urmom spends way too much time at the well... better get over to that AA meeting right now!
I pooped.
Seems to be a lot of knockers and haters posting on here. My question is why were you here in the first place? Songs like this have stood the test of time which is why they still get airplay. At the end of the day, you can't argue success. Haters, how many albums have you sold and how many arenas have you sold out? Exactly. The world of music is a better place because of people like The Boss. Rock on buddy!
Great as every song Bruce writes.
We better listen instead of bla bla...
glory days in Hyde Park!!!
Since my teacher just read it to me no bueno
My Glory Days were in Belleville, NJ. Thanks for recordig them, Bruce.
Great song by the Boss.
Ahhh - to the good old days.
The lesson is "move on" reminiscing is okay but don't make it your hobby.
Glad to see the section abt Dad @ the Ford plant in Metuchen, NJ bein let go after 20 yrs and out lookn for work. Bruce's evocation of US workers.
He could throw that speedball "fire"
don´t forget to vote
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Have always thought he was singing the line "When she feels like Clarence..." and now after watching this I am certain. He evens looks to his right, toward Clarence, when he says "Clarence" with that broad grin of his.
Is it not:
Drink till I get my BILL ( not fill) ?
Great song !
I was in high school when this song came out. It was annoying then and some things never change. The redundancy of the keyboard is trash. I’d rather eat a frozen skunk than hear it again. “The Boss” trying to throw a baseball in the music video is self-indulgent and laughable. The original version of Blinded by the Light is a garbled mess. Nebraska? Don’t get me started. A friend saw him about 25 years ago and said “he played for 3 hours!” No thanks.