LIGHT OF DAY

Well I've been out of the woods for six days and nights now
Well I'm a little hot wired, but I'm feeling alright
I got some money in my pocket and a long lean ride
I got to make it down to Galveston by Saturday night, now

Well I'm a little down under, but I'm feeling O.K.
Got a little lost along the way

I'm just around the corner to the light of day
Well, I'm just around the corner to the light of day

Been driving five hundred miles, got five hundred to go, yeah
I got rock and roll music on the radio
I got a brother on a rig just off the gulf coast
He says the girls down there, well they're really the most, man

Well I'm a little down under, but I'm feeling O.K.
I got a little lost along the way

Just around the corner to the light of day
Just around the corner to the light of day
I'm just around the corner to the light of day
I'm just around the corner to the light of day

Well I got thrown out of work on the Kokomo
Don't ask me what I'm doing, I don't know
I hope he wasn't joking when he wrote me that letter
Things can't get any worse, they got to get better

Well I'm a little down under, but I'm feeling O.K.
I got a little lost along the way

I'm just around the corner to the light of day
Just around the corner to the light of day
Just around the corner to the light of day
Just around the corner to the light of day

Along with RED HEADED WOMAN, it was released for the first time on the MTV UnPlugged CD. Initially, Bruce wrote this song for Joan Jett. Played each night of the Tunnel Of Love, Human Touch, and Reunion tour, with the exception of 23 Mar 1993 Red Bank, NJ. Many off-tour performances.

Included on one single in 1994 with STREETS OF PHILADELPHIA, IF I SHOULD FALL BEHIND (live), and GROWIN' UP (live).

Available on:

1. MTV UnPlugged (track 10)
2. Tribute 1997: One Step Up / Two Steps Back: The Songs Of Bruce Springsteen (disc 1- track 8), performed by Joe Grushecky & The Houserockers

Liner notes from the One Step Up / Two Steps Back: The Songs Of Bruce Springsteen tribute booklet:

It was a cold Oct night in Asbury Park in 1995. We were rehearsing at the Stone Pony with Bruce who had graciously joined the band for a week of club dates to promote American Babylon. As the night wore down, everyone felt that we still needed one more rocker to close the show. Bruce Suggested "Light Of Day." We all said "Yea!" Bruce taught us the song and we ran through it a few times. During the following week, "Light Of Day" always brought down the house. It was a great song to play live and just as much fun to record.

-Joe Grushecky