Wreck On The Highway

Album: The River (1980)
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  • Last night I was out driving
    Coming home at the end of the working day
    I was riding alone through the drizzling rain
    On a deserted stretch of a county two-lane
    When I came upon a wreck on the highway

    Now there was blood and glass all over
    And there was nobody there but me
    As the rain tumbled down hard and cold
    I seen a young man lying by the side of the road
    He cried Mister, won't you help me please

    An ambulance finally came and took him to Riverside
    I watched as they drove him away
    And I thought of a girlfriend or a young wife
    And a state trooper knocking in the middle of the night
    To say your baby died in a wreck on the highway

    Sometimes I sit up in the darkness
    And I watch my baby as she sleeps
    Then I climb in bed and I hold her tight
    I just lay there awake in the middle of the night
    Thinking 'bout the wreck on the highway Writer/s: BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • Christine Fox Vilmont from IllinoisThis song grabbed me. I’m staying out in the country on farm where all there is-is county highways and roads. It fits this area. The tone and melody are fabulous and the songs makes you take a look at how short life can be and how precious that time is. Also how we all need each other and we in difficult times.
  • Kevin from Auckland, New ZealandThe song that first hooked me on bruce..full of low key emotion and very much the song of a loner.
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