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No Surrender Lyrics

Artist: Bruce Springsteen

Well, we bursted out of class
Had to get away from those fools
We learned more from a 3-minute record, baby
Than we ever learned in school
Tonight I hear the neighborhood drummer sound
I can feel my heart begin to pound
You say you're tired and you just want to close your eyes
And follow your dreams down

Chorus:
Well, we made a promise we swore we'd always remember
No retreat, baby, no surrender
Like soldiers in the winter's night
With a vow to defend
No retreat, baby, no surrender

Well, now young faces grow sad and old
And hearts of fire grow cold
We swore blood brothers against the wind
Now I'm ready to grow young again
And hear your sister's voice calling us home
Across the open yards
Well maybe we'll cut someplace of own
With these drums and these guitars

'Cause we made a promise we swore we'd always remember
No retreat, baby, no surrender
Blood brothers in the stormy night
With a vow to defend
No retreat, baby, no surrender

Now on the street tonight the lights grow dim
The walls of my room are closing in
There's a war outside still raging
You say it ain't ours anymore to win
I want to sleep beneath
Peaceful skies in my lover's bed
With a wide open country in my eyes
And these romantic dreams in my head

Once we made a promise we swore we'd always remember
No retreat, baby, no surrender
Blood brothers in a stormy night
With a vow to defend
No retreat, baby, no surrender

Ohhhhh Ohhhhh Ohhhhh
Ohhhhh Ohhhhh Ohhhhh
Ohhhhh Ohhhhh Ohhhhh
Ohhhhh Ohhhhh Ohhhhh

Comments/Interpretations

by rbh on 6/5/2008 9:23am
they didn't burst out of class, they busted.... duh.

by Cath Carlile on 6/18/2008 2:47am
Bruce played this on Sat in Cardiff.... it's our anthem from the early '80's,the words are still emotive and a reminder to keep the dream alive - no retreat, no surrender. Thanks Bruce... and yes, it is 'busted'!

by Yannick Sadoine on 9/13/2008 11:31am
great song !

by Bruce on 9/18/2008 8:38am
I wrote this song *chuckles*

by Christa on 9/21/2008 7:02am
...must be the best ever?

by brian palmer on 11/26/2008 7:02pm
A very under-rated song in the boss' catalogue

by John on 12/23/2008 11:15pm
My favorite song of all time. It is my ring tone on my cell phone.

by shelbell on 1/25/2009 6:22pm
i love this song to death and im like the only 13 year old in my school who loves this song. its so awesome!!

by Big Stevie on 3/26/2009 11:42am
Always a homerun live!

by Ant on 8/1/2009 8:59pm
This song gives me sanity in life at times and ranks on my 10 top favorites

by Great me on 8/9/2009 5:38am
It's one f my favourites songs, really positive message. I like it!
No surrender!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

by Anne on 11/28/2009 8:29am
Eug�...no surrender!!

by CaiWales on 1/5/2010 3:04am
One of my all-time Bruce favs without a doubt, he opened up with this song when I saw him in Manchester last May, brilliant !

by Lyndac on 1/30/2010 9:22am
BRUUUUUUUUCE!!!!!!!!

by BP on 2/11/2010 9:37am
I love Bruce and even more so after Hard Rock Calling last summer in London. I only 'found' this song when downloading a load of his other stuff recently. Wish I'd found it sooner, along with "Gypsy Biker".

by T-Mann on 4/1/2010 7:11am
Great, great song. I play it loud and my head swells at every turn. Probably the only Nigerian who loves it. Great, great song!!!!!!!

by batman on 6/22/2010 1:21pm
i like no surrender, come on Bruce!!!!!!!!

by hardnessofthisworld on 10/12/2010 4:58pm
incredibly gifted songwriter

by Chud on 7/18/2011 6:55am
The Boss certainly lives up to his name with this one. My all time favourite song. Like the comment earlier says, a homerun when he belts it out live!

by Jens on 9/3/2011 5:26pm
One of the best songs ever. Great. I hope the boss will be one hundret years !!

by Doctawho on 10/21/2011 8:48am
Need chills up your spine?

Grab The Boss and The E Street Band live in London and listen to this baby, simply awesome and inspirational!!

They do not write songs like this anymore and they never will!!

by Danda on 11/24/2011 8:33am
Yess in london with brian fallon from gas light anthem..amazin day amazin show..not the boss hes GOD

by JeffGoldblumIII on 12/21/2011 5:41pm
My mission statement:

I want to sleep beneath
Peaceful skies in my lover's bed
With a wide open country in my eyes
And these romantic dreams in my head

by Vinko on 4/5/2012 7:17am
Everything I know about love, friendship, respect and being who I am, I've learned from this song! "...learned more from a 3-minute record..." So f��g true! Long live Bruce!

by obinna ibeh on 7/12/2012 9:54am
i have always loved rock music but this one i play it everytime and it gives me pimples especially'''Cause we made a promise we swore we'd always remember
No retreat, baby, no surrender
Blood brothers in the stormy night
With a vow to defend
No retreat, baby, no surrender''

by joec on 1/27/2013 7:05pm
a true American poet sblessongs to live by love his concerts love him god

by Ritchie on 10/28/2013 8:15am
Dedicated to my Brothers on Tattoo

by los colombianos on 3/10/2014 1:21am
no retreat no surrender is sure a hit. Bruce still rocks my world. Have about two hundred of his songs. And each stands out!

by John Lucky on 7/26/2014 11:26pm
I love this song..i played for like a thousand times. i only had this one song of Bruce, and now i'm searching his other songs. help find as many songs as i can please..

by garry the gardener on 9/17/2014 4:14am
when I depart this world this is the song I,m going to take with me

by Cybernat on 12/7/2014 5:43am
I love this song. I sing my baby to sleep with it every night, and if it doesn't do the trick, I move on to Thunder Road. :-)

by Morr on 9/10/2016 7:07pm
Awesome!

by Mike the man on 2/29/2020 5:49am
I beat pancreatic cancer and damn sure walking my daughter down the isle to “no surrender”. Thank you Bruce!