Chords for Bruce Springsteen - Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out (Springsteen on Broadway - Official Audio)

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_ _ [F] _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _
[F] _ _ _ [Dm] _ Now 1 plus 1 equals 2, that happens every [F] day.
[Dm] That is not magic.
[F] _ [Dm] That's the grind.
[F] So when you [Dm] get up, 1.
_ [F] Go to [Dm] work, 1.
[F] Go to bed, _ _ [N] _ 2. _
_ _ _ _ Two geniuses, 2.
_ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
[Dm] _ _ But when 1 [F] plus 1 [Dm] equals 3,
_ _ [F] that's when your [Dm] life changes.
_ _ [F] You [Dm] see everything new. _
_ [F] _ [Dm] These are days when you [F] are [Dm] visited by visions.
_ [F] _
[Dm] When the world around you brings [F] down the [Dm] spirit
and you feel [F] blessed to be [Dm] alive.
_ _ _ [F] _ _ [Dm] It is the essential _ [F] equation of [Dm] love.
There is no [F] love without 1 [Dm] plus 1 equaling [F] 3.
It's the [Dm] essential equation of [F] art.
It's [Dm] the essential equation of rock [F] and roll.
[Dm] It's the reason the universe will never be fully _ comprehensible.
[F] It's the [Dm] reason Louis Louis [F] will never [Dm] be fully _ comprehensible.
[F] _ _ [Dm] _
_ _ _ [F] _ And it's [Dm] the reason true rock and [F] roll
[Dm] and true rock and roll bands will never _
[Bb] die. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ [C] J [F]-Drops [Dm] on the city [F] bed,
scooters [Dm] searching for his groove. _ _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _ [Bb]
Oh, we're walking pretty
and you can't find the room to [F] move.
[Dm] _
_ _ _ [F] _ _ _ [Dm] _ _
_ _ [C] Everybody [F] better move over, [C] that's all.
_ _ [F] _ _
[Bb] I'm running on the bad side,
with my back to the _ wall.
[F] _ _ [Dm] _
10th Avenue [F] frees [Dm] out, _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ [Dm] _ 10th Avenue [F] frees [Dm] out.
_ I'm [F] _ stranded [Dm] in the jungle
trying [F] to take [Dm] in all the heat that [F] they're giving. _
[Dm] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ [Dm] _
Hey, the [Bb] night is dark,
the sidewalks bright and lined with the light of the [F] living.
_ [Dm] _ _ _ _ [F] _
_ _ [Dm] _ _ _ [C] From a tenement [F] window, a [C] transistor blast. _
[F] Turn [Bb] around the corner, things got real quiet real fast.
I walked into [F] a [Dm] 10th Avenue _
[F] freeze [Dm] out,
_ _ _ [F] _ _
_ [Dm] 10th Avenue [F] freeze [Dm] out.
_ _ [C] And I'm all _ alone,
_ _ _ _ _ [F] _
I'm [Bb] all _ [Gm] _ alone. _
_ _ _ [F] And I can't go _ [Dm] home.
_ _ _ _ [F] _
_ _ [Dm] _ I can't [F] find my [Dm] way back home now.
_ [F] _ _ [Dm] _
_ _ _ [F] Now Gary, [Dm] Danny, Little Steve and Mighty [Fm] Max,
[Dm] Professor Roy, [G] Nils Loftwin, [Fm] Patty Scalpha,
[G] that is my [D] one plus one _ _ _ [Gm] equals_ Three!
_ _ _ Excellent, [F] _
Grasshopper.
[Dm] _ _ _ _ [F] But nobody captured my audience's imagination
or their [G] hearts like [Fm] Clarence.
_ [Dm] _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ [G] _ Clarence _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] was_
_ Clarence was a [Dm] figure out of a rock and roll _ storybook
and together we told a story that was bigger
than _
[D] _ [G] any of the ones [Fm] I'd written in my [Dm]
songs.
It was a [F] story where _ [Gm] _
not only did [F] Scooter and the Big Man
[Dm] bust the city in half, _ [Fm] _ [Dm] but we remade the city.
[Fm] _ _ [Dm] We remade the [Fm] city, shaping [G] it into the kind of place
where [Fm] _
_ [Dm] our friendship [Gm] and [Cm] our love [Dm] for one another
_ _ [Fm] wouldn't [Dm] have been such an exceptional [C] thing. _
[G] _ _ _ _ [F] First night I [G] saw Clarence, he came walking [Fm] out of the shadows
[G] towards the bandstand, [F] nodded to me, got [G] up, stood to my right
[F] for the very [G] first time.
_ [Cm] He picked up his [Dm] _ saxophone _ _ and when he played, _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [F] when he played [Gm] he whispered that [F] story in my ear.
_ [Gm] _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ And then we [F] whispered it in your ear
[G] _ _ and _ [F] _ _ _
[G] _ we carried it [F] together for [Dm] a _ [G] long, _ [F] _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ a long [F] good time. _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
[G] The Big Man was big.
[F] _
_ _ [Dm] _ _ Everything about him, [F] _ [Dm] his _ personality, his _
[F] size, his [D] laugh,
_ the [F] sound of his _ saxophone, _ _ when I first heard it
I [Dm] thought it was the biggest [G] sound I ever [F] heard.
_ _ [Dm] _ _
It was. _ _ _ _ _
It's [F] hard.
_ _ _ [G] _
His [F] problems, _ they were [Dm] big.
_ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ [Dm] _
_ [G] _ _ _ But he was [F]
elemental [D] in my life
_ [G] _ [F] and _ _ [Dm] _ _ losing [G] him was like losing the [D] rain.
_ _ [Dm] _ _ _
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_ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ [F] If I were [Bb] a mystic, _ _ _ _ [C] if I were a mystic,
I guess Clarence and [Bbm] my friendship would [F] lead me to believe
that we _ _ _ stood together in other older _ times,
_ _ _ you know, in _ _ other lives, _ _ _
_ along other rivers, _ _
[Dm] _ _ _ _ _ in other [F] ancient cities,
_ [Bb] _ _ [Dm] in other _ [F] fields, _ [Dm] _ _ working side by [F] side,
_ _ [Bb] _ _
with the sun setting, _ _ _ _ _ doing our [F] modest version of [Dm] God's work.
_ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ I'll see you in the next life, Big Man. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ When they [F] made [Dm] that change uptown
and the Big [Bb] Man _ joined the _ [Dm] band _
From _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ _ _ the _ [Am] coastline to the city all
[Bb] the little pretties [Gm] _ [Am] raised [F] their _ [Dm] hands
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[Bb] _ _ _ I'm [C] gonna sit back, ride easy and laugh
[Cm] _
_ _ _ _ [Eb] When [F] Scooter and [Gm] the Big [Am] Man bust [Bb] the [Am] city in half
[Dm] _ With [F]
the _ _ [Dm] 10th heaven who [F] frees out
_ [Bb] _ _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ [Dm] 10th heaven who [F] frees out
[Bb] _
_ _ [F] Ladies and gentlemen, let's [Dm] hear it for the biggest man you [F] ever saw. _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ From [Dm] Spick and _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ [F] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Manchester and [Bb] the legendary _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ E _ _ _ .G. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [F] _ _ _ Oh [Dm] yeah, _ _ _ [Bb] _ it's _ _ [F] _ _ alright _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ Whew!
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