BRILLIANT DISGUISE

I hold you in my arms
As the band plays
What are those words whispered baby
Just as you turn away
I saw you last night
Out on the edge of town
I wanna read your mind
To know just what I've got in
This new thing I've found
So tell me what I see
When I look in your eyes
Is that you baby
Or just a brilliant disguise

I heard somebody call your name
From underneath our willow
I saw something tucked in shame
Underneath your pillow
Well I've tried so hard baby
But I just can't see
What a woman like you
Is doing with me
So tell me who I see
When I look in your eyes
Is that you baby
Or just a brilliant disguise

Now look at me baby
Struggling to do everything right
And then it all falls apart
When out go the lights
I'm just a lonely pilgrim
I walk this world in wealth
I want to know if it's you I don't trust
'Cause I damn sure don't trust myself

Now you play the loving woman
I'll play the faithful man
But just don't look too close
Into the palm of my hand
We stood at the alter
The gypsy swore our future was right
But come the wee wee hours
Well maybe baby the gypsy lied
So when you look at me
You better look hard and look twice
Is that me baby
Or just a brilliant disguise

Tonight our bed is cold
I'm lost in the darkness of our love
God have mercy on the man
Who doubts what he's sure of

Published on the Tunnel Of Love album. Also included on Greatest Hits and The Essential Bruce Springsteen.

Played during the Tunnel Of Love, Human Rights Now!, Human Touch, Reunion, The Rising, and Devils & Dust tours. Also played during the Christic Institute benefit shows in Nov 1990 and the Double Take Magazine benefit shows in Feb 2003.

Included on singles in 1987 with LUCKY MAN, 4TH OF JULY, ASBURY PARK (SANDY), and TUNNEL OF LOVE.

Liner notes by Bruce Springsteen in the Greatest Hits booklet:

After'85 I'd had enough, I turned inward to write about men, women + love, things that had previously been on the periphery of my work.