Song for the Orphans Songtext
von Bruce Springsteen

Well, the multitude assembled
And tried to make the noise
Them black blind poet generals
And restless loud white boys

Time′s grew thin and the axis
Grew somehow incomplete
Where instead of child lions
We had aging junkie sheep

Well, how many wasted have I seen signed:
"Hollywood or bust"
And left to ride the ever ghostly Arizona gusts
Cheerleader tramps and kids with big amps
Sounding in the void
High society vamps, ex-heavyweight champs
Mistaking soot for soil


So break me now, big Mama
As Old Faithful breaks the day
Believe me, my good Linda
The aurora will shine the way
The confederacy's in my name now
The hounds are held at bay
The axis needs a stronger arm
Do you feel your muscles play?

Well, the doorstep blanket weaver
Madonna pushes bells
From house to house I see her
Giving last kisses and wishing well

To every gypsy mystic hero
That the kids might find a place
Who get lost forever their mom and pops
On their weekends out in space

Well, sons they search for fathers
But the fathers are all gone
The lost souls search for saviors
But saviors don′t last long

Those nameless, questless renegade brats
Who live their lives in song
They run the length of a candle
With a goodnight whisper, then they're gone


So break me now, big Mama
As Old Faithful breaks the day
Believe me, my good Linda
The aurora will shine the way
The confederacy's in my name now
The hounds are held at bay
The axis needs a stronger arm
Do you feel your muscles play?

Well, the missions are filled with Hermits
They′re looking for a friend
The terraces are filled with cat-men
Just looking for a way in

Those orphans jumped on silver mountains
Lost in celestial alleyways
They wait for that old tramp Dog Man Moses
He takes in all the strays

Now don′t you grow on empty legends
Or lonely cradle songs
Billy the Kid was just a bowery boy
Who made a living twirling his guns

The night she's long and lanky
And she speaks in a mother tongue
She lullabies the refugees
With amplifier′s hum

So break me now, big Mama
As Old Faithful breaks the day
Believe me, my good Linda
The aurora will shine the way
The confederacy's in my name now
The hounds are held at bay
The axis needs a stronger arm
Do you feel your muscles play?

The confederacy′s in my name now
The hounds are held at bay
The axis needs a stronger arm
Do you feel your muscles play?