This is my favorite song Bruce ever wrote. It came out just after I got married and moved out of my parents home. It brings back the good memories I had in that part of my life. I got married the day after Edmonton was destroyed by a mile wide tornado. I'm here in 2024!
One of the absolute best songs ever written and performed. The music, the lyrics, the setting. Just haunting and perfect. I first heard this song as a twenty-something. At 52, it still gives me chills.
In my opinion, this is the best song he ever wrote. It's a brilliant metaphor for a failed relationship. His guitar solo is perfect, it sounds like he's crying.
Here and this song reminds me of where I was when it came out. Santa Monica pier. Working the door of the Merry Go-round for a wedding reception. The wedding party was sitting around and riding the merry go round.
My favorite song from my favorite Springsteen album. The real brilliance of the album is that the order of the songs trace a relationship from the beginning all the way to the end...and every step in between in chronological order. It amazes me that this album and this song have largely been forgotten or minimized in the pantheon of his discography. I can't think of any album that hits emotionally as hard and right to the bone as this one. Pure genius.
truly a great song, filmed at Asbury park.. Every tine my wife sees it she goes down memory lane. She is the sward sallower in this video. The tattooed gentleman was Mikle Wilson better known as tattoo Mike, the illustrated man. When she was asked to do the video, she had no idea it was Bruce Springsteen, she was told it was a local band. Her stage name at the Coney Island side show was Lady Diane.
I was there, and I remember your wife , lovely woman. She and the snake charmer lady were very cool. That was a fun night for the art department- no work, just hanging out.
I recognize her! Tattoo Mike was a dear friend of mine and I visited him at Coney Island and met his crew at the side show. Michael told me that during a pause in the filming of this video he was reading Flannery O'Connor and Bruce came over and they talked about how much they liked her writing. I miss Michael and I love Bruce.
I agree. I'm not a fan. But this song brings back memories for me from late 1987. It does something to me. Even now. Great song. Can't explain it really
A nice song from back in the good ole days. Sounds just as good now as it did back then, even better now because it's from the Classic 80's Jamms, and those are forever.❤️🤙😎☝️ 12/31/21
True that...except I am a Bruce Springsteen fan from the beginning. Try Devils and Dust for later installments. Try Brilliant Disguise for the same time frame as this.
The words are insanely powerful. I am not a fan, but this...this song is an astonishing standalone music statement about real life happening to him in real time. This song is in my top 10 of all time favorites. And it deserves it.
I'd be honored if some Springsteen fans would take a quick listen to my acoustic piano & vocal YT performance DANCING IN THE DARK in tribute to Bruce's biggest world-wide hit. Live acoustic with no autotune. Peace and stay safe in the '020s.
Yes R.M. That combination of beauty and sorrow is something that we usually never forget.... Plus the background singer Patty S. provides the secret ingredient that pulls it all together..... It is brilliant.....
I feel the same thing. I can't help but play it over and over again. Makes me cry but I've made it through to the other side so it is just bittersweet now.
One of the truly great Springsteen songs. I live in the area and have seen Bruce walking the Asbury boardwalk just as he does in the video. After all, Asbury is where everything started for him, and he has never forgotten where those roots began. Springsteen, like Asbury Park are both iconic and although both have changed, they live on.
Some of his finest work during this period of his career. "Tunnel of Love", "Human Touch" and "Brilliant Disguise". You don't even have to be a fan to love these songs. It sure made me one.
Awesome tunes... It's definitely something to do with that recurring synth bass sound that is in all the 'Boss's songs you mentioned. All in a very simple key, and easy chords to play on an acoustic guitar. But they sound like nothing without that mysterious, ominous, but almost 'warm' haunting bass production sound. I love it every time I hear it.
Absolutely the best Springsteen song. I think this is the one song that would be my choice to have on a deserted island with solar power, of course to play it endlessly.
I was at the Palace with my wife when he did this video. It was a cloudy day, and obviously closed. They used a giant spotlight to illuminate the windows so it looked like it was sunny out. He came out for a break and hung out with some fans and we talked for about 20 minutes. Great memories growing up in Asbury.
While I don't consider myself a big Bruce Springsteen fan, this song has haunted me from the very first time I saw the video almost 30 years ago. The video's final scenes of Mr. Springsteen's solitary walk past a dilapidated carousel undergoing repairs in a closed-for-the-season Asbury Park -- under cold, graying skies, no less -- has always left me with a deep feeling of loneliness and solitude. I've listened to many songs in my life -- this one I felt.
Even when this song came out it wasn't given the appreciation or accolades regarding the lyrics or music. I think this song should be played at every carnival and amusement park across this country especially on the Himalaya ride. The one where it goes in a circle and it rides up and down it goes forward and then it goes backwards at a fast rate.
'It's just the 3 of us, yeah, you and me and all that stuff we're so scared of' Wow, how this sing is not regarded as one of Springsteen's top 10 songs is beyond me!
Those words “This is not a dark ride” are thrilled me over the years, when I saw the video back in 1987 I was 15, and i will never forgett those words...even today I feel something magic, dark, seeing the video
Awesome video and even better song. Of all Bruce Springsteen's songs, this one is my favorite. Came out in 1987, wow 31 years ago, I'm 65 now, the years go by for all of us way too fast.
Bill Morton ...52 yo now...used to crank this up on the big brothers sound system back in the day, worked 3 days, off 2...kept this on while cleaning, cooking and playing with my 2 yo. While bro was living elsewhere, left the stereo with the 3 foot high speakers at parents house. Bf n I married and bought our own house a year later. Celebrating our 30th anniversary in January...our adult son is a happy healthy young man of 34 in February. Havent spoken to bro in a couple of years. Shame for him...that its only us left in our family. The ball is in his court. But this brings memories of the simpler days...still with Mom n Dad. Have a happy n healthy new year and the best to you n yours. Stay close to your loved ones. God bless. BTW...Springsteen n band have ruled since their inception. He sings life, no other way to say it.
This is my favorite song as far as the way the lyrics just seemed to flow together so seamlessly. Is truly poetry set to music. And when you learn how to it's a great song to sing along with LOL
I was a teenager in 1987, age 16 & hadn't learned to appreciate Bruce Springsteen. As an adult, having relationships & experiencing all the things we cultivate, collect, treasure & regret along the way, I slowly realized his music was great, even amazing. I finally understood all the hysteria he induces.Of all his songs, this one, in particular, hauntingly resonates, w/profoundly honest & simple lyrics, the line "It ought to be easy, ought to be simple enough, man meets woman & falls in love, but this house is haunted & the ride gets rough. You've got to learn to live with what you can't rise above." To me, that's one of the most soul-stirring lyrics I've ever encountered. Now, looking back on a first marriage, at 19, it unraveled in hateful hostility. My second marriage, was a fun & exciting ride, the complete opposite of first, sadly ending w/his sudden death at age 45. Just as much my friend as a lover & a spouse. A painful season of grief followed. Between marriages, I was engaged to the love of my life. He sank ever deeper into alcoholism & unspoken despair, raging battle inside him. So intense, he couldn't find words to even express it was happening. He got sicker & sicker, as I drifted away, when he wasn't pushing me away. We let go of the grip of our hands & hearts. I got up, walked away, but it was extremely messy, taking a yr to completely cut ties, both of us moved to different states, no contact info given.This song resonates w/me, the house is haunted w/ memories, ones that scar & remain & exorcises itself, the only way it can be done. The ride gets rough often, especially in young adulthood, but for valid reasons that you'll understand many years removed from those times. Eventually, if fortunate, you arrive at a place internally, easily learning to live w/what you can't rise above. The process of getting older does provide wisdom & an ability to have a level of perception unavailable to younger adults. It's a level of maturity referred to in this song & you either get it, or you don't.
Thank you , Tom, for taking a moment of your time & replying to what I wrote, I appreciate your good wishes for me. I wrote that over 2 yrs ago & I have definitely cheered up & even (,dare I say it) had periods of sheer happiness. That's the part about happiness that makes us all strive for it like a drug,. All of us (for the most part,), have had the sweet, divine pleasure of experiencing the great state called happiness, and, like most of us, it's fleeting as other forces converge upon one's life to continually push us to the edge, forcing upon you not only life changing challenges, but mundane chores & tasks that unfortunately, we spend the bulk of our lives undertaking. I think the key 🔑 is to know when you find joy & savor it as long as acceptably possible. Joy, like pain, is random, but certain. Again, thank you for the kind words you took the time to express to me. If only we practiced more kindness not only to strangers, as we are so often reminded to do by the media we are engulfed by, but sometimes kindness goes the furthest when we give (freely, I might add!) to the very people we share our lives with, because one day, usually without warning, either you, or them will be gone. The memories left behind aren't all perfect, for we all know that word doesn't exist in reality, only in our fantasies & the stuff made in Hollywood. Memories are what we leave behind & if you did it right, they will be of the kind that provides comfort & humor & lessons to live by. My memories are rich & full of the knowledge that once upon a time I was loved by the most astounding & unique individual that I ever came across, of the type that caused me to experience an emotional state that I'd never felt before & had only heard of, but never experienced . It was the most unusual thing, to fall in "love at first sight", of which there are two types of this state.. One type is also one-sided, the other, is felt mutually between both parties involved. To my fantastic good fortune, it was a mutual occurrence. My future husband never felt this before either, preferable I think.
Wow, you are brilliant in your discription of the song.i too,never had much for Bruce in the 80s,it wasn't till decades later that I found how brilliant these instant classics are. And that line is a favorite life lesson ,sadly,a lot never learn to live with what they can't rise above
It's easy for two people to lose each other. I first heard this song when I was 20, I'm 54 now. Brilliant, beautiful, haunting song that nails the essence of a broken heart 💔
I hear it now and it takes me right back to 1987 and being 18yrs old. That feeling of being young with hopes and dreams and a youthful naivety laced with confidence. Great song then & still is now. Lyrical genius. Arguably Bruce's best album, definitely his most personal after his own marriage breakdown! If only it was 1987 again! 🤷♂️
how can we go back? to o much work to do now, on the internet we need to call out the false leaders, they have threatened democracy with lies, easy to spot, if you make a comment they gag up on u, weird, yet it is all on tape, double talk, lol here is one example who was it Lm Graham who said Joe is one of the sweetest people u would like to meet, I calkled 46 before he became 46 a bible thumper! ity was a compliment,>3
One of the best lines and the greatest advice anyone ever gave, "you better learn to live with what you can't rise above" That is life advice that I follow to this day!
So Agree. Takes me back to my Beach Trips with Steph-this was our song, Carlos! -----We would sit up in the dunes, play Springsteen. she would throw pickles at me!
what in his entire catalog are you not a fan of? If I were a talent scout, I would rate this song, Human Touch and the entire Ghost of Tom Joad album as profound...
2022 and still rockin’ this song. I was never a big Springsteen fan, but this is my favorite song ever. The end of the video is cool with him walking and the sun coming up in the background while it is still dark around him.
Since he is walking on a beach in NJ, it is the sun setting. The sun comes up over the ocean there, sets on the bayside. Just sayin'....I grew up there.
I wasnt a huge Springsteen fan but I remember thinking this man is crazy to break up the E street band. One cold snowy night in Boston I was on a bar stool staring into nothingness and this song came on the juke box and I was so moved I consider this record amongst the best 20 records ever made❤👏🏆
my 2 faves are this and Dancing In The Dark ruclips.net/video/129kuDCQtHs/видео.html ^really good song IMHO I'm not a hardcore fan but Springsteen has some good stuff if you give him a chance, give his 80's output a listen....
I say that about this whole album. I've never been a fan and this is easily in my top 5 albums of all time and I am not easy to please that's what she said
He pulled out all the stops on this one. Musical perfection. Lyrics, vocals, melody are supreme. The haunting organ/piano ard stunning. Arguably, besides Born to Run - his best ever. Just love everything about it.
The woman seen in shadow 3:26 was Springsteen’s first wife Julienne Phillips. Background vocals by his soon to be second wife Patti Scialfa. Tunnel of Love indeed.
Because it’s so true. In everything in life, nothing is perfect, but if you love something enough, you absolutely must rise above that which you don’t like to keep what you do love. An absolute must!
He doesn't really like being called The "Boss"' He real and a beautiful soul... A truly good man, not in the boring Way.. I actually, love him ! I'm older now, it's not a fan - girly thing He connects with something within., me He has that personal conversation With all all of us... He gets it, the desperate, the dreamers, And the rebels..
Straight away the opening lyrics of this song hits hard, painting the picture of doubt and mistrust that can creep into even the early stages of a relationship. This song is a masterpiece of speaking to commitment and accepting that true love is compromise and not without its difficulties. But maybe that’s what true love really is?
This song is my favorite Springsteen' song by far. It's not just the lyrics that give me the chills. My grandfather lived right on the boardwalk in Asbury park and I knew it in its heyday. I saw Bruce at the stone pony, also saw him play at the convention center, and the video clips of Asbury park as it used to be always make me tear up. Between the song itself and the video, I can never hear this enough
Man, this song just so captures what it was like to be alive and in your late 20s in the late 80s. Out of school, career gaining traction, chasing skirts, partying, making lasting friendships, girlfriends coming and going....wow, what a great time to be alive and Bruce pretty much captured it all....the emotions, the feelings, the hope and fears...all of it, on this album.
God what a song! Too many people on this thread saying "Not a Springsteen fan, but...." BUT nothing, I say!! This is truly a powerful amazing song by Bruce - as if his songwriting were maturing with his age and life experience. But damn, he was great! This album was a little heavier, darker, melancholy. But some of his earlier songs were pretty somber too. But it's all GREAT!!! The passion and exuberance of life as a younger man, the upbeat optimism. Love Bruce Springsteen!
Love him. Dont get the not a fan disclaimer either. Just say you like/ love the song. He has so many gems. I love Born to Run, Brilliant Disguise this song here so much as well as many others. He is a treasure of an artist
Who can never get enough of this song?! Truly a gem; my all-time fave. Perfect song for a myriad of reasons, Who’s with me?!
Best opening lines ever written!
I love it, too!
Yes, hauntingly beautiful song!
I’m not even a Springsteen fan but that’s an incredible song
Same here! This whole album is good. 👍🏻
you are right! this song is so incredible, even Bruce, being so good is even somehow above him! Paradox!
Me too....
This is one of Bruce Springsteen’s best songs ever in my opinion🎧
I agree completely. The writing is incredibly good.
Agreed.... One of Bruce's finest songs
Absolutely - along with about 100+ Bruce best songs ever
Stunning !
The house is haunted... =reason for instability... (=insecurity)
This is my favorite song Bruce ever wrote. It came out just after I got married and moved out of my parents home. It brings back the good memories I had in that part of my life. I got married the day after Edmonton was destroyed by a mile wide tornado. I'm here in 2024!
Glad you’re safe. You have great taste in music. ❤
"The lights go out and it's just the three of us;
You, me, and all that stuff we're so scared of..."
That's a haunting lyric if I've ever heard one.
Right behind it: "there's a crazy mirror showing us both in 5D..." not 3D!
@@jackobora3193 this song is great.
Who is here in 2024?????
where else would we be?
Me. Here fiorever
I’m here forever. This is my favourite LP of the Boss.❤
Una delle più belle canzoni del boss ❤
Hello me! I freaking love this
“The house is haunted and the ride gets rough but you’ve got to learn to live with what you can’t rise above”. Absolutely brilliant lyrics!!
Yes.
U can rise above anything
Amen Hanna
🙌 yes!!! Totally agree!!
Makes me envious that I didn't write that line.
One of the absolute best songs ever written and performed. The music, the lyrics, the setting. Just haunting and perfect. I first heard this song as a twenty-something. At 52, it still gives me chills.
Am 50 and this still takes me back to y teens.❤
Absolutely agree.
Absolutely! I'm 61 and couldn't agree more. Still one of my favorite songs ever!
I'm 60. This song gets inside you.
You were 16 when this tune came out, not twenty-something...
In my opinion, this is the best song he ever wrote. It's a brilliant metaphor for a failed relationship. His guitar solo is perfect, it sounds like he's crying.
Nils Lofgren solo i believe
Yes....it is exactly that brother...
I am not a huge bruce fan but this tune is superb and human touch
Yes! I love it!!
Paul Mcdonough Same here!😊
"house is haunted and the ride gets rough, you got to learn to live with what you can't rise above" There's some writing.
Here and this song reminds me of where I was when it came out. Santa Monica pier. Working the door of the Merry Go-round for a wedding reception. The wedding party was sitting around and riding the merry go round.
How could you not like this song? The 80s were the best.
YES IT WAS!!!!!!!!
Yes!!
Yes they did, they were the best times of my life
second best @ Best....as a child of all things 60's...now in my 60's
Yes,very passionate song,intense!like no other
Let’s go back to the eighties! Who’s with me? I was 12 in 1980. I didn’t realize how good we had it.
Same!
I was 12, good times
I’m with you.
Those were the golden days
I was 14; best time to grow up indeed. What's the saying "I wish there was a way to know you were in the good ole days before you actually left them!"
Bruce will always be the man!
after almost 5 decades this is still his best song ever
I agree❤
My favorite song from my favorite Springsteen album. The real brilliance of the album is that the order of the songs trace a relationship from the beginning all the way to the end...and every step in between in chronological order. It amazes me that this album and this song have largely been forgotten or minimized in the pantheon of his discography. I can't think of any album that hits emotionally as hard and right to the bone as this one. Pure genius.
Best Springsteen song EVER
My only quibble is that I place "I'm On Fire" in a tie as his best song.
@@deadeye4520 I heard that
My favorite is Dancing in The Dark
A masterpiece that you don't hear on radio anymore who else misses this?A masterpiece from the boss,The guitar player on this is amazing!
It's Nils Lofgren. He is great.
The entire album is pure magic. I believe this was his best.
@@362chop It's and excellent album for sure!
@@patriciamercurio7741 never knew Nils Lofgren was so insane, inspiring & talented on an electric guitar 🎸
Wow
@Gene Connor Excellent!! Great taste in music sir
truly a great song, filmed at Asbury park.. Every tine my wife sees it she goes down memory lane. She is the sward sallower in this video. The tattooed gentleman was Mikle Wilson better known as tattoo Mike, the illustrated man. When she was asked to do the video, she had no idea it was Bruce Springsteen, she was told it was a local band. Her stage name at the Coney Island side show was Lady Diane.
That's terrific!
I was there, and I remember your wife , lovely woman. She and the snake charmer lady were very cool. That was a fun night for the art department- no work, just hanging out.
Is she still at Coney ever? I'm a Coney Island Polar Bear and would love to say hi
I recognize her! Tattoo Mike was a dear friend of mine and I visited him at Coney Island and met his crew at the side show. Michael told me that during a pause in the filming of this video he was reading Flannery O'Connor and Bruce came over and they talked about how much they liked her writing. I miss Michael and I love Bruce.
Wow
Fun stuff
Although I've never been a fan of Springsteen and believe that he's somewhat overrated this song is a total standout! A great song that's well done!!!
Bruce is a great musician
Oh my lord.❤❤❤❤
All these years later, this song still gives me chills....
It’s a haunting gorgeous song
a beach song on a summer night in julywalking around on the boardwalk with your girl after a day spent together in the sand and surf. xox
Great song, so true!
^ me too hot song. Boss lives
it's a haunting song and i love it!
Certainly amongst the most profound lyrics ever written. A completely perfect song.
Itchycoo Park...Small Faces Prolific
Imo best song he ever did
I love this song. For me, not being a springsteen fan, this song as an exception is one of the greatest of it's time. Period.
I agree. I'm not a fan. But this song brings back memories for me from late 1987.
It does something to me. Even now.
Great song.
Can't explain it really
A nice song from back in the good ole days. Sounds just as good now as it did back then, even better now because it's from the Classic 80's Jamms, and those are forever.❤️🤙😎☝️ 12/31/21
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@Chad Hilton
True that...except I am a Bruce Springsteen fan from the beginning. Try Devils and Dust for later installments. Try Brilliant Disguise for the same time frame as this.
This song gives me soul chills. Beautiful
Me too ❤
The words are insanely powerful. I am not a fan, but this...this song is an astonishing standalone music statement about real life happening to him in real time. This song is in my top 10 of all time favorites. And it deserves it.
I'd be honored if some Springsteen fans would take a quick listen to my acoustic piano & vocal YT performance DANCING IN THE DARK in tribute to Bruce's biggest world-wide hit. Live acoustic with no autotune. Peace and stay safe in the '020s.
Not a big fan of The Boss either but I always liked the Tunnel of Love album.
“Tunnel of Love” and “One Step Up” get to the core of every troubled relationship.
This is my favorite song by Bruce. It is, in my opinion, the best of all his hits.
So many years after this release, this song still gets me. Love it!
Me too!
Me too!!
I’ve probably listened to this a thousand times and my heart aches every time.
I think I'm in love with you.
great song seaside fairgrounds have a special place for me
Yes R.M. That combination of beauty and sorrow is something that we usually never forget....
Plus the background singer Patty S. provides the secret ingredient that pulls it all together.....
It is brilliant.....
I feel the same thing. I can't help but play it over and over again. Makes me cry but I've made it through to the other side so it is just bittersweet now.
Just brought me to tears again. It's a brilliant archetypal ballad which touches all who've been in love.
One of the truly great Springsteen songs. I live in the area and have seen Bruce walking the Asbury boardwalk just as he does in the video. After all, Asbury is where everything started for him, and he has never forgotten where those roots began. Springsteen, like Asbury Park are both iconic and although both have changed, they live on.
Some of his finest work during this period of his career. "Tunnel of Love", "Human Touch" and "Brilliant Disguise". You don't even have to be a fan to love these songs. It sure made me one.
my favorite period, too
Awesome tunes... It's definitely something to do with that recurring synth bass sound that is in all the 'Boss's songs you mentioned.
All in a very simple key, and easy chords to play on an acoustic guitar.
But they sound like nothing without that mysterious, ominous, but almost 'warm' haunting bass production sound.
I love it every time I hear it.
thats really true
Human touch and brilliant disguise perfect songs I agree with you 100%
I'm on fire....great song.
Who’s here because 2021 is no different than 2020 but listening to this amazing track by The Boss makes everything better?
🙋🏻♂️
Got to ride down baby into this TUNNEL.OF LOVE!!!!! JERSEY SHORE STRONG
Perfect damn question. XO
Would you rather?
l miss my high school days im 59 turning 60 next month on the 20th, now my granson is 20.
Ok
Me too
Me too. 60 next year and feeling very nostalgic.
64 here I feel ya
Absolutely the best Springsteen song. I think this is the one song that would be my choice to have on a deserted island with solar power, of course to play it endlessly.
A masterpiece, no doubt! 😊
There is no age limit to great music. I'm 58 and still love this song. 😊
I’m 19 and love this song. THE BOSS🗣🤝
❤🎉 = 61
im 59 and we both would have been teenagers when it was released
I was at the Palace with my wife when he did this video. It was a cloudy day, and obviously closed. They used a giant spotlight to illuminate the windows so it looked like it was sunny out. He came out for a break and hung out with some fans and we talked for about 20 minutes. Great memories growing up in Asbury.
I live close to Asbury Park, i have lived in Jersey my whole life, this video makes me wish it was the 80's again
Tunnel of love and Glory Days absolute magic
While I don't consider myself a big Bruce Springsteen fan, this song has haunted me from the very first time I saw the video almost 30 years ago. The video's final scenes of Mr. Springsteen's solitary walk past a dilapidated carousel undergoing repairs in a closed-for-the-season Asbury Park -- under cold, graying skies, no less -- has always left me with a deep feeling of loneliness and solitude. I've listened to many songs in my life -- this one I felt.
couldn't agree more
Thank you for sharing, Tarot
This song had always left me feeling 'what was to be, but never fulfilled.'
It escapes me.
Wow, that was a haunting statement of the human condition. Very well articulated. Short and succint, yet thought provokingly deep. Cheers
cheer up mate
No worries - won't be stocking up on the sleeping pills anytime soon. :D
Even when this song came out it wasn't given the appreciation or accolades regarding the lyrics or music. I think this song should be played at every carnival and amusement park across this country especially on the Himalaya ride. The one where it goes in a circle and it rides up and down it goes forward and then it goes backwards at a fast rate.
Nils Lofgren's guitar solo is glorious-one of the greatest.
'It's just the 3 of us, yeah, you and me and all that stuff we're so scared of' Wow, how this sing is not regarded as one of Springsteen's top 10 songs is beyond me!
Hedgin bets! Amo Bruce! Ma questa canzone è quella che ascolti di meno! 🙋♀️😍🤔😊😔
Americans, collectively, have terrible taste.
This house is haunted...the most beautiful metaphor ever sung. And the backing vocals of a ghost wailing..
"THIS IS NOT A DARK RIDE".. Yeah right. Beautiful song with a powerful message: love is not a fairtale it's scary as hell.
You nailed it. Many twists, turns, distractions and disappointments.
I CONCUR 100%+ 😉😎Alexander Garcia
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Those words “This is not a dark ride” are thrilled me over the years, when I saw the video back in 1987 I was 15, and i will never forgett those words...even today I feel something magic, dark, seeing the video
' pun for all ' - brilliant
Awesome video and even better song. Of all Bruce Springsteen's songs, this one is my favorite. Came out in 1987, wow 31 years ago, I'm 65 now, the years go by for all of us way too fast.
Bill Morton ...52 yo now...used to crank this up on the big brothers sound system back in the day, worked 3 days, off 2...kept this on while cleaning, cooking and playing with my 2 yo. While bro was living elsewhere, left the stereo with the 3 foot high speakers at parents house. Bf n I married and bought our own house a year later. Celebrating our 30th anniversary in January...our adult son is a happy healthy young man of 34 in February. Havent spoken to bro in a couple of years. Shame for him...that its only us left in our family. The ball is in his court. But this brings memories of the simpler days...still with Mom n Dad. Have a happy n healthy new year and the best to you n yours. Stay close to your loved ones. God bless. BTW...Springsteen n band have ruled since their inception. He sings life, no other way to say it.
This is my favorite song as far as the way the lyrics just seemed to flow together so seamlessly. Is truly poetry set to music. And when you learn how to it's a great song to sing along with LOL
Nicely put and so true
I'm 53,"what a drag it is getting old"the great stones song
@@dannynicastro3207 yup Heartland music,Mr Springsteen
Good old days...baby...good old days.......The big 80s
I was a teenager in 1987, age 16 & hadn't learned to appreciate Bruce Springsteen. As an adult, having relationships & experiencing all the things we cultivate, collect, treasure & regret along the way, I slowly realized his music was great, even amazing. I finally understood all the hysteria he induces.Of all his songs, this one, in particular, hauntingly resonates, w/profoundly honest & simple lyrics, the line "It ought to be easy, ought to be simple enough, man meets woman & falls in love, but this house is haunted & the ride gets rough. You've got to learn to live with what you can't rise above." To me, that's one of the most soul-stirring lyrics I've ever encountered. Now, looking back on a first marriage, at 19, it unraveled in hateful hostility. My second marriage, was a fun & exciting ride, the complete opposite of first, sadly ending w/his sudden death at age 45. Just as much my friend as a lover & a spouse. A painful season of grief followed. Between marriages, I was engaged to the love of my life. He sank ever deeper into alcoholism & unspoken despair, raging battle inside him. So intense, he couldn't find words to even express it was happening. He got sicker & sicker, as I drifted away, when he wasn't pushing me away. We let go of the grip of our hands & hearts. I got up, walked away, but it was extremely messy, taking a yr to completely cut ties, both of us moved to different states, no contact info given.This song resonates w/me, the house is haunted w/ memories, ones that scar & remain & exorcises itself, the only way it can be done. The ride gets rough often, especially in young adulthood, but for valid reasons that you'll understand many years removed from those times. Eventually, if fortunate, you arrive at a place internally, easily learning to live w/what you can't rise above. The process of getting older does provide wisdom & an ability to have a level of perception unavailable to younger adults. It's a level of maturity referred to in this song & you either get it, or you don't.
Hope you have peace now
Thank you , Tom, for taking a moment of your time & replying to what I wrote, I appreciate your good wishes for me. I wrote that over 2 yrs ago & I have definitely cheered up & even (,dare I say it) had periods of sheer happiness. That's the part about happiness that makes us all strive for it like a drug,. All of us (for the most part,), have had the sweet, divine pleasure of experiencing the great state called happiness, and, like most of us, it's fleeting as other forces converge upon one's life to continually push us to the edge, forcing upon you not only life changing challenges, but mundane chores & tasks that unfortunately, we spend the bulk of our lives undertaking. I think the key 🔑 is to know when you find joy & savor it as long as acceptably possible. Joy, like pain, is random, but certain. Again, thank you for the kind words you took the time to express to me. If only we practiced more kindness not only to strangers, as we are so often reminded to do by the media we are engulfed by, but sometimes kindness goes the furthest when we give (freely, I might add!) to the very people we share our lives with, because one day, usually without warning, either you, or them will be gone. The memories left behind aren't all perfect, for we all know that word doesn't exist in reality, only in our fantasies & the stuff made in Hollywood. Memories are what we leave behind & if you did it right, they will be of the kind that provides comfort & humor & lessons to live by. My memories are rich & full of the knowledge that once upon a time I was loved by the most astounding & unique individual that I ever came across, of the type that caused me to experience an emotional state that I'd never felt before & had only heard of, but never experienced . It was the most unusual thing, to fall in "love at first sight", of which there are two types of this state.. One type is also one-sided, the other, is felt mutually between both parties involved. To my fantastic good fortune, it was a mutual occurrence. My future husband never felt this before either, preferable I think.
Peace for you with Bruce master pieces...🙏
Wow, you are brilliant in your discription of the song.i too,never had much for Bruce in the 80s,it wasn't till decades later that I found how brilliant these instant classics are. And that line is a favorite life lesson ,sadly,a lot never learn to live with what they can't rise above
Wow , so well said . Hope you are well and happy these days...
The lyrics of this song bring chills to my spine. So haunting.
It's easy for two people to lose each other. I first heard this song when I was 20, I'm 54 now. Brilliant, beautiful, haunting song that nails the essence of a broken heart 💔
I’m a “born in the USA” fan but this song is at the top of my favorite Springsteen songs!!
Didnt know they were mutually exclusive?
My fav Springsteen track Scialfa’s voice in the background is hauntingly beautiful
It really helps to make this song. They’re incredible background vocals.
My sentiments exactly....This is a brilliant song.....
One of the best love songs ever written.
Please tell me??? Who DOESN'T LOVE ❤️ This SONG!!!!!!
Sh..t it's awesome...👌
One of my many favs of his
I love, love, love it!!!
Great song! Greetings from Asbury Park
Great song and video!
I hear it now and it takes me right back to 1987 and being 18yrs old. That feeling of being young with hopes and dreams and a youthful naivety laced with confidence.
Great song then & still is now. Lyrical genius. Arguably Bruce's best album, definitely his most personal after his own marriage breakdown!
If only it was 1987 again! 🤷♂️
These hits from the 1980's let's us go back in time! Priceless!
how can we go back? to o much work to do now, on the internet we need to call out the false leaders, they have threatened democracy with lies, easy to spot, if you make a comment they gag up on u, weird, yet it is all on tape, double talk, lol here is one example who was it Lm Graham who said Joe is one of the sweetest people u would like to meet, I calkled 46 before he became 46 a bible thumper! ity was a compliment,>3
Nils Lofgren's guitar solo kicks in at 2:00 minutes and just explodes into the song. He can hold and bend a note with anyone. Incredible guitar work.
Seconded.
Love it just as much in 2021 as I did in 1987.
Nils is another ZONE on that Guitar Break!....Awesome!
His greatest moment in rock music for sure...
Oh yea!!! True beauty like this is to be appreciated since it is so rare....
That's really true.
Hendrix could do it better.
One of the best lines and the greatest advice anyone ever gave, "you better learn to live with what you can't rise above" That is life advice that I follow to this day!
one of his best songs
So Agree. Takes me back to my Beach Trips with Steph-this was our song, Carlos! -----We would sit up in the dunes, play Springsteen. she would throw pickles at me!
Grettings is the Best...Followed by this
Patricia Scully I like Secret Garden to.
1 of his best albums sir!!!
Easily his best I would say.
Not a Springsteen fan but he kills it with this song. The man describes beautifully and poetically all the vicissitudes of that emotion which is love.
Just for your use of vicissitudes you will go down in my memory as game changer, words matter.
what in his entire catalog are you not a fan of? If I were a talent scout, I would rate this song, Human Touch and the entire Ghost of Tom Joad album as profound...
Not a fan either...maybe 3 decent songs
haunting melody, still blows me away that someone could write something this good.
Craig you couldn't be more right. This is some damn good songwriting.
yes it is something haunting about this song but i like it
craig cacek yes this haunting song as well as all the places we were at when this came out. I know were I was
craig cacek Totally agree. As amazing today as when I first heard in far away London in my grad school days...
+craig cacek Exactly!
This song is still pure art
"Ya gotta learn to live with what you cant rise above.."
Damn straight.
Christo Benno yup!👈🤟🤙
Personally one of my favorite lyrics out there. Heard in 1st in my 20s now I live it in my 50s
Logical
words of wisdom
Springsteen's best song.
I just love this song.... Thank you God.
I agree.....😌
to me this is Bruce at his best
It's ok.
2022 and still rockin’ this song. I was never a big Springsteen fan, but this is my favorite song ever. The end of the video is cool with him walking and the sun coming up in the background while it is still dark around him.
Same. Wonderfully nostalgic. Why did we worry so much back in the day? It will all take care of itself.
Since he is walking on a beach in NJ, it is the sun setting. The sun comes up over the ocean there, sets on the bayside. Just sayin'....I grew up there.
Great video!!!!
But you must love brilliant disguise and also the song thunder road .....come on now!
Mike, yeah that part really is bad ass its like he's on a mission zippin up the ol leather goin out to meet it head on
"Fat man sitting on a little stool" gets me everytime!! 😄
Me too !
It’s about diarrhea
I wasnt a huge Springsteen fan but I remember thinking this man is crazy to break up the E street band. One cold snowy night in Boston I was on a bar stool staring into nothingness and this song came on the juke box and I was so moved I consider this record amongst the best 20 records ever made❤👏🏆
Sometimes music remembers for you.
it is FANTASTIC!
Righteous
❤❤
I busted my cherry with my girlfriend 😮to this song
Never been a Springsteen fan, but this is the only song of him that everytime gives me unbelievable chills
🌞🌞
Oh no! Springsteen is amazing
my 2 faves are this and Dancing In The Dark
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^really good song IMHO
I'm not a hardcore fan but Springsteen has some good stuff if you give him a chance, give his 80's output a listen....
Listen to Human Touch and you'll get the same felling.
I say that about this whole album. I've never been a fan and this is easily in my top 5 albums of all time and I am not easy to please that's what she said
He pulled out all the stops on this one. Musical perfection. Lyrics, vocals, melody are supreme. The haunting organ/piano ard stunning. Arguably, besides Born to Run - his best ever. Just love everything about it.
I've heard Born to run too many times so not really a big fan of that....honestly this one is incredible
The whole album is remarkable especially Brilliant Disguise
This song has passed the test of time, in my opinion. An underrated classic, surely.
Such a beautiful song. Is this your favorite song?
@@scottrichard2735 It’s my favourite. ❤
The atmosphere created by the instrumentation alone on this…
He really is the New Jersey Shakespeare. Brilliant, relatable lyrics with incredible imagery. I love this song. It was him at his very best, IMHO.
Just one of those song where you forget everything and just take a ride.
jm, well said!
I agree.
Absolutely!!!
Bruce really hit it out of the park on this one! One of my old time favorites. It came out when I was young and in the Navy. Musical genius 😂🎉!!
The woman seen in shadow 3:26 was Springsteen’s first wife Julienne Phillips. Background vocals by his soon to be second wife Patti Scialfa. Tunnel of Love indeed.
You have to learn to live with what you can't rise above!!
The line that gets me every time
Because it’s so true. In everything in life, nothing is perfect, but if you love something enough, you absolutely must rise above that which you don’t like to keep what you do love. An absolute must!
I think this is one of his best
Agreed - well-written, haunting music AND telling lyrics.
yup
for me def his best and my fav
fantastica e basta.
human touch number 1
This is my all time favorite song by The Boss
Mine too
@@reston81 MINE 3X
I agree. I play this song over and over again!! 😌😌
Mine too
this is one great produced videos, I miss the 80's!
I'm listening to it right now and I love it
No cheap shitty keys here.
Nobody can paint a picture with words the way Springsteen can. I don't believe this song receives the credit it deserves; it is absolutely brilliant.
If one REALLY wants to listen to it they will discover it is an absolute masterpiece. Indeed Steven....BRILLIANT.
It is brilliant...well said.
Although he's great dont get me wrong! Eddie Vedder can put you there!
this song is a masterpiece
I'm sorry but Springsteen is an absolute god. This song is fucking brilliant. He's putting it the fuck down. You da man Boss.
He doesn't really like being called
The "Boss"'
He real and a beautiful soul...
A truly good man, not in the boring
Way..
I actually, love him !
I'm older now, it's not a fan - girly thing
He connects with something within., me
He has that personal conversation
With all all of us...
He gets it, the desperate, the dreamers,
And the rebels..
Tell him I said hi would ya.
Boss really is laying it down on this one
No doubt.
good song but bruce blows
Straight away the opening lyrics of this song hits hard, painting the picture of doubt and mistrust that can creep into even the early stages of a relationship. This song is a masterpiece of speaking to commitment and accepting that true love is compromise and not without its difficulties. But maybe that’s what true love really is?
This man is a national treasure
To bad he's not a Trumper.
He ain't called The Boss for nothin' :)
He’ll yeah . His songs are sick..
@@walthavens4999 ...keep the politics out of it...grow up..period..full stop.
Born in the USA baby!!
This song is my favorite Springsteen' song by far. It's not just the lyrics that give me the chills. My grandfather lived right on the boardwalk in Asbury park and I knew it in its heyday. I saw Bruce at the stone pony, also saw him play at the convention center, and the video clips of Asbury park as it used to be always make me tear up. Between the song itself and the video, I can never hear this enough
thats a special memory I from Liverpool England, so can relate to a amusement park on a beach we have one here i live on the coast
Jersey is the best!!
Very underrated! Wish it was more popular
I adored this album. ❤
I personally enjoy loving songs that most people don't even know!
Absolutely love this song💕💕
Bruce has a way of evoking emotions in you that leave you shook sometimes
hauntingly beautiful
Cee'
Man, this song just so captures what it was like to be alive and in your late 20s in the late 80s. Out of school, career gaining traction, chasing skirts, partying, making lasting friendships, girlfriends coming and going....wow, what a great time to be alive and Bruce pretty much captured it all....the emotions, the feelings, the hope and fears...all of it, on this album.
Truth
Best song he ever wrote. It’s not close. Brilliant arrangement.
Great song even better album. Please give “One Step Forward, Two Steps Back” a listen. The lyrics are even better.
@@MusicMan1965 there's a girl across the bar, I get the message she's sending', mmm she ain't lookin' to marry and me honey im pretending
I miss the 80s in my teen years oh so much😭
I know. We had such great music!!!
Eh, there was good and bad just like now. I dig being in my 40s.
Was 17 when this album came out I miss my youth too sands through the hourglass...time goes so damn fast 🥺🥺🥺😭😭😭😭
Michelle Loves animals I love animals too!
Such young and insistent times
My absolute fav Bruce song-brings chills and tears every time
me too
It’s my favourite to.❤
"Tunnel of love"...massive understatement, especially in this messed right up world nowadays...
Hang in there. Always have hope. 😊
BEST SONG EVER!!!
God what a song! Too many people on this thread saying "Not a Springsteen fan, but...." BUT nothing, I say!! This is truly a powerful amazing song by Bruce - as if his songwriting were maturing with his age and life experience. But damn, he was great! This album was a little heavier, darker, melancholy. But
some of his earlier songs were pretty somber too. But it's all GREAT!!! The passion and exuberance of life as a younger man, the upbeat optimism. Love Bruce Springsteen!
Love him. Dont get the not a fan disclaimer either. Just say you like/ love the song. He has so many gems. I love Born to Run, Brilliant Disguise this song here so much as well as many others. He is a treasure of an artist
Pure classic!!! Never tired of this song after 30 years, bringing back memories listening into my walkman and learning the lyrics... Thank you Bruce!
Life is sad