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Bruce Springsteen
Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J.
It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City
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"It's Har to Be a Saint in the City" is the last track on Bruce Springsteen's "Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J"
And this is the song that impressed producer Mike Appel so much that he quit his job to become Springsteen's manager, even though Springsteen did not have a record contract yet. This was also the first song Springsteen played at his audition for John Hammond at CBS Records, who eventually signed him to a record contract, on May 2, 1972.
"It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City" is a fast-paced song. It is a solid rock 'n' roll song when played in concert. Its tone is cocky and arrogant. The lyrics contain an element of religious allegory as the singer boasts of his streetwise toughness. The song is about a young man growing up on the streets of a city, and who is trying to stay "good" and do what he believes is right. Unfortunately, "those gasoline boys sure talk gritty" and he is inexorably dragged into some very unsaintly activities. One of the more quoted lines is "The devil appeared like Jesus through the steam in the street/Showin' me a hand I knew even the cops couldn't beat/I felt his hot breath on my neck as I dove into the heat/It's so hard to be a saint when you're just a boy out on the street."
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HASH1: 09C16DED5106B306 HASH2: 46B86D09A29878D7 (MP3)
HASH1: 5B8AA4F00A4199B8 HASH2: 6CDE427A1923C92F (MP3)
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"It's Har to Be a Saint in the City" is the last track on Bruce Springsteen's "Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J"
And this is the song that impressed producer Mike Appel so much that he quit his job to become Springsteen's manager, even though Springsteen did not have a record contract yet. This was also the first song Springsteen played at his audition for John Hammond at CBS Records, who eventually signed him to a record contract, on May 2, 1972.
"It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City" is a fast-paced song. It is a solid rock 'n' roll song when played in concert. Its tone is cocky and arrogant. The lyrics contain an element of religious allegory as the singer boasts of his streetwise toughness. The song is about a young man growing up on the streets of a city, and who is trying to stay "good" and do what he believes is right. Unfortunately, "those gasoline boys sure talk gritty" and he is inexorably dragged into some very unsaintly activities. One of the more quoted lines is "The devil appeared like Jesus through the steam in the street/Showin' me a hand I knew even the cops couldn't beat/I felt his hot breath on my neck as I dove into the heat/It's so hard to be a saint when you're just a boy out on the street."
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HASH1: 09C16DED5106B306 HASH2: 46B86D09A29878D7 (MP3) HASH1: 5B8AA4F00A4199B8 HASH2: 6CDE427A1923C92F (MP3) 
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