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The original version of "Spirit in the Night" was released on Bruce Springsteen's debut album, Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.. It was one of the last songs to be written and recorded for the album.
"Spirit in the Night" has been described as the one song on the album on which the music and narrative fit together.Clemons' sax playing and Lopez' drumming match the freedom and ebullience described in the lyrics.
The lyrics themselves describe a group of teenagers — Crazy Janey, Hazy Davy, Killer Joe, Wild Billy, G-Man and Mission Man, who is the person in the song telling the story — going to a spot called "Greasy Lake" near "Route 88" for a night of freedom, sex, and drinking. But although their escape to the freedom of Greasy Lake is short lived, the emphasis is on the friends' togetherness.
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