591 - Bruce Springsteen Backstreets 1975

Springsteen’s heroes and heroines face terror and survive it, face delight and die by its hand, and then watch as the process is reversed, understanding finally that they are paying the price of romanticizing their own fear.

One soft infested summer
Me and Terry became friends
Trying in vain to breathe
The fire we was born in...
Remember all the movies, Terry
We’d go see
Trying to learn to walk like the heroes
We thought we had to be
Well after all this time
To find we’re just like all the rest
Stranded in the park
And forced to confess to
Hiding on the backstreets
Hiding on the backstreets
Where we swore forever friends....