growin' up

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• harika bir bruce springsteen şarkısı.
  
  özellikle bruce springsteen & the e street band live 1975-85 canlı kayıt versiyonu dinlenmelidir. the boss şarkı arasında kendi gençliği ile ilgili ufak bir hikaye anlatır. hele the boss -well, tonight, youse are both just gonna have to settle for rock 'n' roll- dedikten sonra acayip tiribe sokar adamı.
  
  live versiyonunun bruce'un konuşmalarıyla beraber şarkı sözleri şu şekildedir.
  
  [bruce:]there ı was one night, just a normal guy. and then, there ı was the next night -- goddamn it ı was still just a normal guy. ı was...
  
  well ı stood stone-like at midnight suspended in my masquerade
  then ı combed my hair till it was just right and commanded the night brigade
  well ı was open to pain and crossed by the rain, ı walked on a crooked crutch
  ı strode all alone into a fallout zone and came out with my soul untouched
  hid in the clouded wrath of the crowd, when they said "sit down" ı stood up
  ooh, ooh, growin' up
  
  well the flag of piracy flew from my mast, my sails were set wing to wing
  ı had a jukebox graduate for first mate, she couldn't sail but she sure could sing
  well ı pushed b-52, bombed 'em with the blues, my gear set stubborn on standing
  ı broke all the rules, strafed my old high school, never once gave thought to landing
  hid in the clouded wrath of the crowd, when they said "come down" ı threw up
  ooh, ooh, growin' up
  
  big man, assist me please!
  
  [bruce:] ı think, ı ain't sure, but ı think my mother and father and my sister, they're here again tonight. hey, are you guys out there? you're over there? for six years, they've been following me around california, trying to get me to come back home. hey ma! give it up, ma! give me a break! they're still [chuckles] [someone in the crowd: where are they?] ı don't know. they're over there somewhere. but, [audience voice: get them to take a bow] you know, they're still trying to get me to go back to college. every time ı come in the house, "you know, it's not too late, you can still go back to college," they tell me. ı say, "alright, alright, ma". but it's funny, 'cause when ı was growin' up, there were two things that were unpopular in my house. one was me, and the other one was my guitar. and my father, he used to sit in the kitchen. and we had this grate, like the heat's supposed to come through, except it wasn't hooked up to any, any like, heating ducts. ıt was just open, straight down to the kitchen. and there was a gas stove right underneath it. and when ı used to start playing, he used to turn on the gas jets and try to smoke me out of my room. ı'd end up out on the, out on the roof or something, you know. and he used to always refer to this guitar, you know, never "fender guitar", "gibson guitar", it was always the "goddamned guitar", you know. whenever he stuck his head into my door, that's all ı'd hear: "turn down the goddamned guitar." you know. he used to try to get me to be a lawyer. and it was funny 'cause ı was in a motorcycle accident when ı was 17. and like, this cat just, you know, ran head on into me and then got out and yelled at me for ruining his cadillac. and we had like a suit, a legal suit. and my father took me down to this lawyer in town. his name was billy boyle, and he later became mayor, which, uh, and anyway, ı went down there, and he looked at me, he said, "oh man, ı gotta defend this?" ı looked about, just about exactly the same way ı look right now. and uh, and like ı remember, we were going to court, right? the day of the suit. like ı got, ı'm like in the right! ı just got hit, and my leg's messed up. and ı remember my lawyer telling me, "ıf ı was the judge, ı'd find you guilty!" you know? ı don't know for what. for being, just for being there, ı guess, you know. and ı said... but anyway, my father always said "you know, you should be a lawyer. you know, you get, get a little something for yourself." you know? then my mother, you know, she used to say "no, no, no, no. he should be, he should be an author. he should write books. you know, you should... that's a good life, you can get a little something for yourself." well, like, what they didn't understand was, was that ı wanted everything. [some woman in the crowd: you got it!] and so you guys, you, one of you guys wanted a lawyer, and the other one wanted an author. well, tonight, youse are both just gonna have to settle for rock 'n' roll.
  
  ı took month-long vacations in the stratosphere, you know it's really hard to hold your breath
  ı swear ı lost everything ı ever loved or feared, ı was the cosmic kid
  my feet they finally took root in the earth but ı got me a nice little place in the stars
  ı swear ı found the key to the universe in the engine of an old parked car
  ı hid in the clouded wrath of the crowd, when they said "sit down" ı stood up
  ooh, ooh, growin' up
  yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
  growin' up
  yeah!