Only one line about a Ford in this song, and not a specific Ford.. but, a Ford nevertheless. What would a thread about car songs be without art least one Springsteen song?

This song dates from the period when Springsteen was in conflict with his former producer, Mike Appe, and was conrtactually unable to record. You can see him testing out lines that later made it into other songs asuch as the line 'I wanna go out tonight, I wanna find out what I got' which made it into 'Badlands' and onto the DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN LP. There's some nice imagery in there such as him and his girl trying to drive back to the Garden of Eden in 'this dirty ole Ford.'

Does it show much that I spent an awful lot of time in Jersey as a kid or that I married a guy from the Jersey Shore? (who is not Davetnova) Naaaaaaaaah!



ICEMAN
(Bruce Springsteen)

Sleepy town ain't got the guts to budge
Baby, this emptiness has already been judged
I wanna go out tonight, I wanna find out what I got

You're a strange part of me, you're a preacher's girl
And I don't want no piece of this mechanical world
Got my arms open wide and my blood is running hot

We'll take the midnight road right to the devil's door
And even the white angels of Eden with their flamin' swords
Won't be able to stop us from hitting town in this dirty old Ford

Well it don't take no nerve when you got nothing to guard
I got tombstones in my eyes and I'm running real hard
My baby was a lover and the world just blew her away

Once they tried to steal my heart, beat it right outta my head
But baby they didn't know that I was born dead
I am the iceman, fighting for the right to live
I say better than the glory roads of heaven better off riding
Hellbound in the dirt, better than the bright lines of the freeway
Better than the shadows of your daddy's church
Better than the waiting, baby better off is the search