The last 5 minutes of this takes me to a place I don't care if I ever come back from.

The Piano is hypnotic...beautiful Mr. Roy Bittan

summer of 78 just out of school, 1967 mustang fastback rolling out on a saturday night, this song cranked up over on over on my 8 track as we were crusin up and down the avenue windows down hair blowing racing red light to red light it just couldnt get any better, i miss those days.

This is one of the most haunting songs I have ever heard. "With eyes that hate for just being born". What a lyric.

That outro could go on forever and I would never get sick of it.

I was there. Pure magic. Never forget it all my life.

I loved the Hyde Park version and the Paramount Theatre version of this gem, but this version is just at a different level. Very intimate! The Boss's vocals and Roy Bittan's piano, pure love! Drives a 58-year-old to tears.

27 of may 2023 in Amsterdam. I go with my father i bought tickets for his 65th birthday. I hope Bruce will play this epic song. Thanks for this.

Every time that I hear those 12 magical seconds that start at 7:00, I close my eyes and focus on the piano (hardcore) - I get teary eyed every damn time. Hearing this song live is on my Bucket list.

Isn’t there anyone out there who has the skills, the tools and the inspiration to put like ten or twenty outtakes of the part between 5:39 and 9:49 behind each other? That would create an hour of music that in my idea would never bore. Finish it with part of the song from 9:50 to the end and it’s complete. I think I am not the only one who would never be bored by listening to such a compilation.

I've heard this song countless times. And that is the absolute BEST version I have EVER heard. That piano solo by Roy was absolutely insane. Gave me chills the entire time.

Apart from dylan this man is the greatest artist to ever walk on this earth both been my idols for 50 years

We'll never again see or listen to a greater band than "THE E STREET BAND".

So many artists would have gotten to the end of the lyrics, given it another 25 seconds of outro and ended the song. Bruce's instincts were so good that he recognized that the best part of the song would develop after he finished singing.

I absolutely love this joint. I grew up in Jersey. My big brother Frankie built a trick 68 Camero. I always wanted to go with him on the weekends to race. Finally at 16 Franki took me from our house in River Edge to Stag Hill Rd to race. I loved it so much and will never forget all the characters too. Jersey...One Love.

Epic Masterpiece. I wish he would play this on the 2023 tour in Germany. I love the early songs more than the newer ones.

Certain songs you can remember exactly where you were when you heard it the first time . For me I was coming home from work - St Pete Florida late 70s - it's 2022 now and it is still a great song. It is like he meant every word.

I speak of this song in the same reverence that other people do about Mozart and Beethoven, and I make no apologies for it.

man, that outro can go on for the next 3000 years and i wouldn't even tire of it.

I have seen him do this live twice. It sends chills through my body. It’s his best song ever

No one does it better than Roy "The Professor" Bittan! What a beautiful song.

This song will be played at my funeral, when I go racing in the streets....

Roy Bittan makes every key cry notes of hope and of joy. That's the most Bruce tribute I could think of to celebrate this man's uncanny expressions of melody.

I cry like a baby every time I hear this in concert. 😄😳😭😭🛞🎸🖤

One day, just like Bob Dylan, Bruce should win the Nobel Prize for Literature! ❤️

My buddies and I back in the mid 1980s...cruising downtown Riverside , California. My GTO, and the rest of the cars - 70 Camaro, Impala SS, '67 Olds 442, a '67 Camaro......this song brings me back to those days every time.....

I cry every time, EVERY time, thanks Boss

YOU CAN PLAY THIS AT MY FUNERAL . IT KILLS ME EVERY TIME .

Good grief,what a version,hairs on the back of my neck on end. Always loved this…always will.

I'm blown away!! I'll never tire of listening to this song.

10:22 of sheer heaven. Such a fantastic version. Practically speechless..the piano...

The longer the ending the better the song I'm blown away!! I'll never tire of listening to this song.

I have listened to this song thousands of times, thousands. This is by far the best version I have ever heard, I was moved to tears the first time I listened to it. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart.

The word legendary gets thrown around a lot. However in this case it’s spot on. Legendary song from a legendary artist. The instrumental hits like a hammer every time.

This version is PERFECT

A song you want to never end.

I was 14 and listened to some songs on a dvd. These songs on it, just changed my life! There's only one guy in this world that makes me sleeping two days under a tarp in the rain to see him play... I'm 33 now and stil listening.. almost every single day.. thank you Bruce!

respect...only words here...we are going racing in the street.........and im 60 ish........what a man what music....and they say we are too old etc....

The finest Springsteen tune ever. Dancing In The Street ended so absolute perfectly, I never bought an album of him since then. Nothing else could be better. I respect him, I really do. But nothing can destroy this one. And nothing else could be worthy enough to follow. Love.

just have to hear this every day......so beautiful!!!!! (Roy and Max) 😍🥰😍

So love this song from The Boss. I can feel this song to its limits. Had my near-death motorcycle accident here in New Zealand in 1990 when I was 26. Ultimately I lost my entire left leg as high up as it gets i.e. my hip joint and left side of my pelvis was amputated. All of the doctors & surgeons who saved my life believed my high fitness level contributed greatly to my survival. I was a successful athlete at the time [road cycling, triathlon, and marathon running]. I went over& over why and what was the cause of my accident however all I discovered was that if I spent anymore time analyzing it and trying to find the answers I would have gone nuts...er. If I have learnt one thing though it is the following, when we are younger and have this and that relationship/s with partners or people who don't love us back as much as we love them and in my instance didn't love me at all...please think about this...yes it is passion and passionate...and intense...and complex, and this and that...BUT guess what? It really isn't. It isn't that important, and that crucial. When you want someone so bad...and they don't want you...please...LET THEM GO. Yes it is as simple as that. Yes you CAN do it. You WILL find someone else. You & them just ain't meant to be. Please stop trying so hard to win them over. As the harder you try and win them, the more they will reject you. Yes it IS rejection. Even though you are completely head over heals loving them [note I never wrote 'in love with them', because that equates to two people loving each other] and yes even obsessed with them like I was...again...let 'em, and in my instance it was a beautiful lady, let 'em GO...Otherwise, when they go and flirt with someone else in front of you and you seeeeeeeeeeeeeeth with confusion...and you take your emotions out with alcohol...and then take that to the ROAD...you WILL pay the consequences. And fall from grace. And in my instance it was easily the greatest fall in my life. At well over 100mph. If you don't want to have your leg instantly amputated at the knee after sliding across the surface of a tar sealed and chipped open road and then impacting with a farmer's paddock concrete fencepost, spend 3 weeks in the ICU [Intensive Care Unit] of two hospitals while you are induced with the most amount of morphine your body can take because you are in so much pain, have your remaining part of your leg contact septicemia [blood poisoning] and be forced to under go a hemipelvectomy operation i.e. amputation of the remaining part of your leg including your hip joint and one side of your pelvis, while surgeons rush to flush your body with 10 units of your blood type so to remove all the septicemia before it reaches your vital organs and you die - have a near-death experience during the massive operation i.e. 'out-of-body' experience in that you see yourself from a distance being operated on, then you see in your mind a tunnel that you travel through at warp speed and on to the 'other side' and in instance I traveled to planet Mars. A voice asked me if I liked it there. As I felt it was cold I replied it was ok but cold. The voice then asked me if I wanted to stay there. I replied no. Then I traveled back through the same tunnel again at warp speed and woke up in the recovery ward of the hospital. Have both your kidneys develop renal failure and spend time on a kidney dialysis machine, sustain severe injuries to your sexual organs, have a testicle amputated [men], gain a colostomy. Sweat profusely for most of the time in the Intensive Care Unit due to high body temperature not be able to drink ANY water other than have your mouth swabbed, lose some of your hair, experience wild hallucinations while dozing intermittently, fear for your life because you believe an Intensive Care Unit nurse is going to kill you [fear of dying is worse than dying], once you begin healing and you leave the ICU and are placed in a General Surgery ward you now are in fear of falling asleep at night because you wonder if you might not wake up in the morning, and after spending a total of 101 days in hospital and you return home you then experience the most intense and amount of nerve PAIN for the rest of your life - yep I've lived now for 31 years with chronic stump nerve/neuropathic pain even though there is no stump, and am forced to ingest the strongest opioid pain medication available, and in the highest dosage, and as a result suffer ALL the heinous side effects as possible, suffer P.T.S.D and have treatment [I was already diagnosed with clinical depression at the age of 20, spent several years in denial off and on medication until my accident], then please do not have a serious road accident after getting rejected by someone you love or you think you love. I have been married for 16 years now after one time thinking in hospital I was a piece of meat and who would want to marry me. My wife and I are as deeply in love now as we were in 2005. My sporting career took off after I left hospital. I became the first lower limb amputee to complete a Half Marathon on crutches on one leg in 1991. I then became the first lower limb amputee to complete a full Marathon on crutches on one leg in 1992. In 1994 I became the World's Fastest A.K.A. [above knee amputee] over the Marathon using crutches on my one good remaining right leg only. My time of 5 hours 58 minutes 13 second. remained unbeaten for 19 years and was finally beaten by an amputee using crutches with inbuilt shock absorbers giving him an advantage over my time because I had used standard hospital issue aluminum alloy crutches without any such hi-tech gadgetry. I use a pair today though! I went to the 1993 New Zealand Disabled Sporting Championships and won 7 gold, 1 silver, and 1 bronze medal in swimming in the S9 category. I can still ride a mountain bike even though I only have one buttock [right]. I am also able to wear a hemipelvectomy prosthesis and that is a miracle. Life is worth living. Make the most of it because it so SO short and it is not a dress rehearsal. Laugh as much as you possibly can. My favorite song from Bruce Springsteen? Wouldn't it be 'Born To Run'?...well that one is great...however because I rate The Boss probably the BEST story telling music artist of all, I have always loved 'Downbound Train', however my favorite song is off the 'Tunnel Of Love' album 1987. When I was in London in 1988 on my O.E. [overseas experience] from here in New Zealand I was in a tavern with some friends and this song came over the speakers that were placed up high around the walls. At the time it was the very time I had heard it and I instantly loved it. I tried to listen to its lyrics and could make out a few and I thought to myself the artist sounded like The Boss; Bruce Springsteen. Next time I was in the C.B.D. I visited a music store and asked the attendant if they knew of Bruce Springsteen's latest album, and they showed me it. Of course it was 'Tunnel Of Love'. I bought it on cassette tape [still have it]. When I played it the song I'd heard in the pub came on as I recognized it. And the song is? Side One Track #2...'Tougher Than The Rest' "Well It's Saturday night You're all dressed up in blue I been watching you awhile Maybe you been watching me too So somebody ran out Left somebody's heart in a mess Well if you're looking for love Honey I'm tougher than the rest" Please check out my photos from my O.E. in London in 1988 when I was 25. I was fortunate to go to the Pink Floyd gig at Wembley Stadium on Saturday August 6th 1988. Here's some snaps from the gig: www.flickr.com/photos/35707376@N00/29866632340/in/album-72157673246424191/

Sure... This Song Is the best music componiment in the world fill of sweet pure emotional mood

I absolutely LOVE the instrumental portion during the last 5 minutes.

Quite simply the best song ever written......if I could only have one song on my iPlayer this'd be it

The best live performance of my very favorite Bruce Springsteen song. Just beautiful.

Damn.... I wanted it to never end....

Roy B. slays me, he's such a monster talent. I was at this concert and sobbed through the whole song, it's so evocative and poetic. Bruce's voice is particularly amazing here, it cuts like a knife. Maybe not the best choice in a post-COVID universe where everyone is feeling so raw.

This is one of my favorite songs by Bruce! I especially love when they’re jamming together with their instruments!!!❤

This song and "Telegraph Road" by Dire Straights. Two of my all time favorites

The longer the ending the better the song

I can’t listen to this song without crying.

It IS the best version! Hearing it live there was incredible! Only negative was the drunks in GA next to us shouting and taking during the whole song. Just kept focus on the music. Love it!

Always yearned to hear the fade out continue of this song, every time I dropped the needle on this tune. The Darkness & River tours @ The Spectrum in Philly gave the answer. As well as being stage left this very night on 9/9/16. The East Street Band is the definition of musicianship.

Bruce played the entire Darkness album in Sydney a few years ago. It was a moment of culimation of journey that started in 1981. Darkness itself is my life story of wanting things that can only be found on the edge of town. Racing is the song that plays on the long lonely journeys we all take. A masterpiece

Absolutely love this song! I heard this song when I was 17, memorized it and it is part of my soul. This is Springsteen that doesn't get the headlines, or the pop charts, yet I think is his most beautiful and greatest music. Thank you for posting this song!

Quintisentional Spiringsteen sound. It's a beautiful story and love the way how Bittan takes us on journey. For me it's like the characters driving into the sunset.

I love the way Bruce is leaning on the beat, and the Professor ... the Professor is just sitting back, letting that musical space happen. Enter Mighty Max, to frame it all. Damn! That's good stuff.

this is a slower version than normal, the best version I have heard so far. Thank you !

A song not afraid to go to the darkest part of the soul and come back. Have heard it hundreds of times and never gets old, a true anthem for the working man

My God, you cannot better this. Top version of a great song.

What a great story and a great peace of music. THANK YOU BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN THE BOSS

This is one of the most beautiful songs ever made. Thank you for uploading. 🤝

When I was about 12 I started listening to Bruce, and this song quickly became a great favourite of mine. I remember asking my mom to sit down on my bed and listen to the song in silence. I love the intensity of the original version - the man choir in the third verse and the ending. The best live versions I find are on some of the '78 bootlegs - especially the ones where Bruce's guitar is in tune😉

WHEN BRUCE STARTS DOING OLD SCHOOL STUFF ITS STILL BETTER THAN WHAT OUT THERE TODAY

Mozart, Beethoven, Sibelius, Bruchner, Mahler, there are many who show us true passion and knowledge in music. We are truly blessed to know the music of Bruce Springsteen and to live in his time. I cannot imagine a day without his music and lyrics. Thank you Bruce.

so clear and takes you into his world, another fantastic song, you can imagine him racing in the sreet

There are no words to describe how awesome this song is. ..best version ever, I am so glad that I got to see it live, thank you BRUCE, you're the best! !

iconic. bruce. amazing songwriter. love & miss these marathon shows.

One other thing I'll add -- the entire band was/is great, and a lot of it is a product of how they blend together. But it took me a long time and I finally realized that one thing that truly defines the sound, so you know it's the E Street Band right away, is that interplay from either side of the stage between Roy Bittan and Danny Federici (and now Charlie Giordano.) Roy has to be as good a virtuoso pianist as there is in rock/pop music.

Professor Roy Bittan has magic in his hands. Few people are able to do what he does.

One of his best ever songs....I love it....Seen Bruce 3 times now.....He is AMAZING....A Legend...A Gentlerman...and one of the Greatest...Tony from Middlesbrough UK....Love this Brilliant......I have never heard him sing this live at any concerts I been too.

Thanks for sharing. The band is tight and Bruce is so emotionally locked in - I love this version!

The professor's fingers rule the stage on this one. I can listen to this masterpiece forevermore

And this is why Bruce is the very best there is, I remember seeing them do this at the O2 back a few years ago in London. He was full of a cold but performed this song to perfection. Nice video!

I could listen to Bruce Springsteen n The E Street Band everyday of my life,They are Truly Awesome

Awesome! I started listening to this song when I was 14. Finally got to hear it live in Sydney 3 years ago. I cried! (damn! I got to hear the whole record live at that show!) I'd had to wait 35 years. Thanks for sharing this, Bruce and the E-Street just keep getting better!

The great Roy Bittan. And the Mighty, Mighty Max.

Thanks! Thanks very much. Bruce Springsteen for ever. 🎸🎸🎸

I am 58 years old from south philly all way loved this song drag racing on front stop brigs back a lot of good memories Bruce and philly will. All way go together

Bruce, you're simply the best. No one comes near, no one. Xx

goosebumps all over...thanks for sharing.

So help us all the day he decides to leave it all behind, we can just keep lovin the day he was born ❤

Just fantastic -- beautiful! Thanks for uploading this version

' … she just stares off alone into the night with the eyes one who hates for just being born'

Great version Roy bitten great solo to end the song

This is the platonic ideal of this song. Thanks for sharing!

Definitely the best version of this song! I think it's my favorite Springsteen story...this song. Thanks for puttin it up

Always loved this beauty of a song, & such an amazingly powerful performance here, wow!!

Count yourself among the lucky if you were there. Thanks for sharing for those of us who were not. Roy is amazing.

I love this song. It reminds of when i was young.

When Bruce finishes singing this he knows Roy and Max are going to bring it home

My uncle got me hooked on Bruce back in the seventies and this is by far one of my favorites ..........

Tried so hard to get tix for this show, ended up going to PSU in April of that year instead. The River tour was phenomenal but this set list blew that out of the water.

Wow - what an awesome version of this song! Spectacular...

Oh so beautiful. Ron plays beautifully!! Thanks for sharing Bruce. 💘 you always

A masterpiece.

“Some guys come home from work and wash up, And go racin' in the street” 👍🏼👍🏼

Wow. Simply stunning. Fantastic live music by brilliant musicians. Absolute class.

It’s about trying to continue to live in a time that doesn’t exist anymore.

For all the shut down strangers and hot rod angels Rumbling through this Promised Land...