GLORY DAYS^©

Live 07 Jan 1985 version

Well I had this friend, he was a big baseball player back in high school
Man, he could throw that speedball by you, make you look like a fool boy
Well I saw him the other night in this roadside bar, I was walking in, he was walking out
We went back inside, sat down, had a few drinks, but all he kept talking about was

Glory days
They'll pass you by, glory days
In the wink of a young girl's eye, glory days
Glory days

Well now there's this girl, well she lives up the block, but back in school she could turn all the boys' heads
But sometimes on a Friday I'll stop by and have a few drinks with her after she put her kids to bed
Her and her husband Bobby, well they split up I guess, it's about two years gone by now
We just sit around talking about the old times, she says when she feels like crying, she starts laughing thinking about

Glory days
They'll pass you by, glory days
In the wink of a young girl's eye, glory days
Glory days

Alright Indiana, express yourself
Whoa!

Think I'm going down to the well tonight and I'm gonna drink till I get my fill
Well I hope when I get old I don't sit around thinking about it, but I probably will
Yeah just sitting back trying to recapture a little of the glory of
Well the time slips away and leaves you with nothing mister but boring stories of

Glory days
They'll pass you by, glory days
In the wink of a young girl's eye, glory days
Glory days
They'll pass you by, glory days
In the wink of a young girl's eye, glory days
Glory days

Alright!
Oh yeah! (crowd: Oh yeah)
Alright! (crowd: Alright)
Oh yeah! (crowd: Oh yeah)
Alright! (crowd: Alright)
Oh yeah! (crowd: Oh yeah)
Alright! (crowd: Alright)
Come on, keep on rocking now people
Don't ever be stopping
Don't let me down now
Because I can hear that big clock ticking away, every minute of my life, everyday
It says Boss, you're 30 (oh no), 31 (oh no), 32 (oh no), 33 (oh no), 34 (oh no), 35 (oh no)
You're, you're (what), you're (what), you're an adult!

Aah, let's dance

I don't feel that old
I feel sweet sixteen

Oh! Glory days
Oh! Yeah

These lyrics refer to the live performance on 07 Jan 1985 at Market Square Arena, Indianapolis, IN, during the Born In The USA tour.

Check the album's version, the extra verse outtake, and the original demo. Check also these live versions form the Born In The USA tour: 12 Jul 1984, 19 Aug 1984, 20 Aug 1984, 14 Sep 1984, 18 Nov 1984, 19 Nov 1984, 07 Dec 1984, and 04 Jul 1985. They are pretty similar, but the spoken introductions differ sometimes. Check also these live versions form the Tunnel Of Love Express tour, 10 May 1988, Human Rights Now! tour, 15 Oct 1988, Human Touch tour, 10 Jul 1992 and 24 Jun 1993, and The Rising tour, 16 Nov 2002, 07 Mar 2003, 26 Jul 2003, and 06 Aug 2003. All those live versions are very similar.

Song intro on 07 Jan 1985 at Market Square Arena, Indianapolis, IN:

Let's go! Come on now! Alright! Alright! (crowd: Alright) Oh yeah! (crowd: Oh yeah) Alright! (crowd: Alright) Oh yeah! (crowd: Oh yeah) Alright! (crowd: Alright) Come on now! (crowd: Come on now) Oh yeah! (crowd: Oh yeah) Oh yeah! (crowd: Oh yeah) Alright! (crowd: Alright).
Well now, this is a song about ancient history (cheers). But I'm not talking about the Mesopotamians, I'm not talking about the Trojans, I'm not talking about the Italians, I'm talking about personal stuff, things from my ??? past (cheers). That kind of stuff that when I die, you're gonna read about it in the National Enquirer (cheers). Or if my girlfriend gets mad at me, you're gonna read about it while I'm still alive (cheers). In one of them tell-all books, you know, when, when they ??? all the time, all about the unusual sexual habits and all that kind of stuff (cheers). Can't keep that thing a secret anymore. But anyway, this goes back when I was a child, I was only interested in three things. The one my father was a real good pool player. He beat me all the time, so I wanted to learn how to play pool really good. And the other one was the guitar (cheers). And then the third one was... you know that one, that one (cheers). Anyway, I remember one Christmas time, my mother took me to Sears, it was in New Brownswood, New Jersey, and, she got me this pooltable for 69.95, and we like tied it to the roof of the car. I remember sitting holding on to it driving home in the snow. We got to my house and my father made me put it upstairs, so we locked it up the stairs, and it just kinda fit in my bedroom. So like I used to bring my girlfriends over, and I would say "Dad, we're gonna go up in my room and play pool for a little while" (cheers). So like, you know I go up there, but like, but like he was always kinda slick because if he didn't hear the pool balls knocking around, if he didn't hear the guitar torming, he had this broomstick that he used to bang on the ceiling, to interrupt my concentration (chuckles). But like, but like I, I kinda tricked him because I used to pull the pooltable like real over close to the bed, and then every once in a while I lean up and knock the pool balls around a little bit (cheers). That worked pretty good. But uh, anyway, I matured, I grew up (chuckles), and I, I put away childish things, and stopped playing pool... And of the other two, the only one that I really became good at was the guitar (cheers). See that's why my shows are so long, cause the other thing happens so fast (chuckles). But that's alright (chuckles), because my new year's resolution is I'm gonna get it right, so I'm still looking for some volunteers who wanna practice, practice, practice (cheers). Anyway, we'll get it down this year, '85 (chuckles). In the end all things must pass, and you're left with nothing but glory days (cheers). Come on boys!