Lyr Req: Tenth Avenue Freeze Out (answered)

Subject: Tenth Avenue Freeze Out
From: GUEST,Bruce Springstein
Date: 15 Mar 01 - 08:37 PM

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tenth Avenue Freeze Out
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 15 Mar 01 - 08:42 PM

Ask Clarence

Subject: ADDPOP: Tenth Avenue Freeze Out
From: Lin in Kansas
Date: 28 Aug 01 - 10:15 PM

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TENTH AVENUE FREEZEOUT
(Bruce Springsteen)

Tear drops on the city
Bad Scooter searching for his groove
Seem like the whole world walking pretty
And you can't find the room to move
Well everybody better move over, that's all
I'm running on the bad side
And I got my back to the wall
Tenth Avenue Freezeout, Tenth Avenue Freezeout

I'm stranded in the jungle
Taking all the heat they was giving
The night is dark but the sidewalk's bright
And lined with the light of the living
From a tenement window a transistor blasts
Turn around the corner things got real quiet real fast
She hit me with a Tenth Avenue freezeout
Tenth Avenue freezeout
And I'm all alone, I'm all alone
And kid you better get the picture
And I'm on my own, I'm on my own
And I can't go home

When the change was made uptown
And the Big Man joined the band
From the coastline to the city
All the little pretties raise their hands
I'm gonna sit back right easy and laugh
When Scooter and the Big Man bust this city in half
With a Tenth Avenue freezeout, Tenth Avenue freezeout
Tenth Avenue freezeout, Tenth Avenue freezeout...

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tenth Avenue Freeze Out
From: Little Hawk
Date: 29 Aug 01 - 07:57 PM

I have wondered at times if this lyric had any connection to a Dylan title "Seems Like A Freezeout" or it might have been just "Freezeout". I believe those were preliminary title ideas for what instead became "Visions of Johanna".

- LH