We gotta celebrate our last days of freedom
Make the best of them before they're gone
We're gonna leave these same old streets behind
Disappear before they know what went on
In the day we sweat it out in the street
Waiting for the dusk to come
At night we ride the way out of town
'Cause babe we were born to run
We were born to run
Hey babe, are we gonna lay back and mellow out to the music
like spaced out deadhead bores?
Or are we gonna get up and begin our dance in the dark
like all them revved up soul spirits on the shore
For lost souls who stand but can't deliver
For fools that drive their cars into the river
For guys with faces of stone but hearts of schmaltz
we're gonna freak out till we can’t take it anymore
I've only got two more weeks left till the army
so tonight we gotta make it right
Let's get ourselves and the whole gang drunk
under the sparkling starlight
There's a south wind blowin' in with a hard edge
sinking in like a shark's bite
But what's a south wind to stop young ones like us
Whose entire lives can be lived
All night
All night
All night
Our whole lives can be lived all night
All night
All night
We're still young and nothing's gonna stop us
We'll keep it going all through this eternal night
The streets are full of grown up kids searching
Just searching for their individual promised lands
They don't know just how far they're going
They don't know just where they stand
They wander the streets of Jerusalem wondering
what keeps them from their true love
Truth is they don't know where to look for it
And they're lost when the push comes to shove
Push comes to shove
They cry out:
Save me now, save me now, save me now, save me now, save me now, save me now, save me now baby
I don't wanna grow up but they're forcing it down my throat
and I always gotta answer Yes sir,
never no or maybe
Up till now I was playing in a band
Now they wanna put a gun in my hand
I don't know if I wanna be a full grown man yet
'Cause only yesterday I was a baby
They marshal their forces to run the blockade
and pretend they don't have any fear
They gather their strength to chase their dream
and to find their way out of here
They're edging dangerously close to the borderline
and no one's gonna stop them tonight
They don't know what's on the other side
But their engines keep on running
All night
All night
All night
Their engines keep on running all night
All night
All night
All the young ones will keep on searching
Feeling their way through the never ending night
Well the greatest rock'n'roll song in history came on the radio
that night we were passed out in my back seat
And those Kretshnyever boys with their payis flying in the wind
they came by in their big black Cadillac just tearing up the street
The creatures of the night come crawling out of their hole
Screaming The Best Revenge Is Rock'n'Roll!
And on the edge of town there's a darkness
and it's full of young ones dancing
Doing anything to keep from going mad in the heat
Shice, man. Why don't we just steal away
We won't be dancing in the dark forever
There's a place for us in the sun somewhere
We'll be walking on the sunshine together
All night
©2023 The Hesh Inc.
This is another attempt at portraying the night life I experienced in Israel (in the pre-cosmopolitan era of the 1980s) during the year or so before I began my mandatory army service. The Springsteen influence is obvious; I wanted to view what I was actually experiencing through the lens of the Jersey Shore, some 6,000 miles and a world of culture away. A little less obvious is the Lou Reed influence, but it's there too.