SPIRIT IN THE NIGHT

Crazy Janey and her mission man were back in the alley tradin' hands
'long came Wild Billy with his friend G-man all duded up for Saturday night
Well Billy slammed on his coaster brakes and said anybody wanna go on up to Greasy Lake
It's about a mile down on the dark side of route eighty-eight
I got a bottle of rose so let's try it
We'll pick up Hazy Davy and Killer Joe and I'll take you all out to where the gypsy angels go
They're built like light
and they dance like spirits in the night (all night) in the night (all night)
Oh, you don't know what they can do to you
Spirits in the night (all night), in the night (all night)
Stand right up now and let it shoot through you

Well now Wild young Billy was a crazy cat and he shook some dust out of his coonskin cap.
He said, "Trust some of this it'll show you where you're at, or at least it'll help you really feel it"
By the time we made it up to Greasy Lake I had my head out the window and Janey's fingers were in the cake
I think I really dug her 'cause I was too loose to fake
I said, "I'm hurt." She said, "Honey let me heal it".
And we danced all night to a soul fairy band
and she kissed me just right like only a lonely angel can
She felt so nice, just as soft as a spirit in the night (all night)
In the night (all night). Janey don't know what she do to you
Like a spirit in the night (all night), in the night (all night)
Stand right up and let her shoot through me.

Now the night was bright and the stars threw light on Billy and Davy
dancin' in the moonlight
They were down near the water in a stone mud fight
Killer Joe gone passed out on the lawn
Well now Hazy Davy got really hurt, he ran into the lake in just his socks and a shirt
Me and Crazy Janey was makin' love in the dirt singin' our birthday songs
Janey said it was time to go
So we closed our eyes and said goodbye to gypsy angel row, felt so right
Together we moved like spirits in the night, all night
Baby don't know what they can do to you
Spirits in the night, all night
Stand right up and let it shoot right through you

One of the Greetings From Asbury Park, NJ tracks that has stood the test of time, this was cut to be a single for the album. Like BLINDED BY THE LIGHT, the sales didn't break any records. Was recorded by Manfred Mann and his Earth Band, but did not achieve anywhere as much success as their (very poor) interpretation of BLINDED BY THE LIGHT. This song inspired the name for one of the better Bruce web sites on the net, Greasy Lake.

Published on Greetings From Asbury Park, NJ, constant part of live shows from 1973 till the end of the Darkness On The Edge Of Town tour. Played a few times during The River, Born In The USA, Human Touch, The Ghost Of Tom Joad, Reunion, The Rising, and Devils & Dust tour. Also included on Live 1975-85 and The Essential Bruce Springsteen.

Published as B-side for BORN TO RUN in 1976, 1979, 1983, and 1988, and in 2002 (live from Barcelona version) on the Lonesome Day [enhanced] single with LONESOME DAY, THE RISING (live from VMA's). Also published on other singles in 1973, 1977, 1987 with FOR YOU, BLINDED BY THE LIGHT, BORN TO RUN (19 Aug 1985), JOHNNY 99 (19 Aug 1985), BECAUSE THE NIGHT (28 Dec 1980), SEEDS (30 Sep 1985), and others...