Born to Run (acoustic)

5/3/88 "Roses and Broken Hearts" Shorline Amphatheater, CA

Oh thank you.  Uh.  I was sitting home thinking, ah what I wanted to do when we came out on tour this time.  I know I wanted to sing a new song, felt that was my job.  And ah this is a song I've sung everynight for the past 15 years. It was a song that seemed to open up as I played it, over the years, and kinda let the time it.  And it seemed to kinda age a long with me... gracefully I hope.  But hey man... I'm a youngblood still.  And uh.. when I wrote this song I guess I was writing about a guy and a girl that wanted to to keep on running, never come black[back?].  And it was kinda a nice romantic idea.  Well like I was telling the folks last night... I put all those people in those cars  and I uh.. I had to figure out some place for them to go.  Becasue in the end I guess that the individual freedom ,in and of itself, without some connection to your community or ya family or ya friends, ends up feeling kinda empty and meaningless.  And I realize that those two people that I put in that car 15 years ago were out there somewhere trying to make a connection, trying to, ah, trying to find out where they fit in... trying to find some place, that, I guess they could stand for a little while and call home.  And as I got older that that home isn't out there but that it is buried deep inside a here someplace.  And I guess if you search for it, fight for it, maybe you end up with a little peace of it.  And this song has, a, kept me good company on my search and I hope it had kept you good company on yours.  And I would like to do it for ya tonight wishing that you all have happyness and find a little piece of your home.
     In the day we sweated out on the streets...