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Bruce Springsteen – Jungleland (9:33)

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“Jungleland” is an almost ten-minute long, epic closing song on Bruce Springsteen’s classic 1975 album Born to Run, and tells a tale of love amid a backdrop of gang violence. It contains one of E Street Band saxophonist Clarence Clemons’ most recognizable solos. It also features short-time E Streeter Suki Lahav, who performs the delicate 23-note violin introduction to the song, accompanied by Roy Bittan on piano in the foreboding opening.

The song in its lyrics mirrors the pattern of the entire Born to Run album, beginning with a sense of desperate hope that slides slowly into despair and defeat. The song opens with the “Rat” “driving his sleek machine/over the Jersey state line” and meeting up with the “Barefoot Girl,” with whom he “takes a stab at romance and disappears down Flamingo Lane.” The song then begins to portray some of the scenes of the city and gang life in which the “Rat” is involved, with occasional references to the gang’s conflict with the police. The last two stanzas, coming after Clemons’ extended solo, describe the final fall of the “Rat” and the death of both his dreams, which “gun him down” in the “tunnels uptown,” and the love between him and the “Barefoot Girl.” The song ends with a description of the apathy towards the semi-tragic fall of the “Rat” and the lack of impact his death had- “Nobody watches as the ambulance pulls away/Or as the girl shuts out the bedroom light,” “Man the poets down here don’t write nothin’ at all/They just stand back and let it all be.”
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  • bobchak

    #1 Springsteen song. E Street's National Anthem

    Wednesday evening

  • joe-mcc96

    Awesome sax solo R.I.P. Big Man

    last month

  • hararama

    LIKE A BAT OUTTA HEEEEEEEELLLLL!

    March 2012

  • Steelbound

    v I just wanted to say that mine's only about 7 minutes long... then I checked and it's really 9 minutes long. Your statement is very true, dear sir.

    March 2012

  • erkkix

    One of the few 9 min tracks, that doesn't feel like 9 min long. Pure awesomeness!

    March 2012

  • JuniorMcCartney

    When i listen to this the time stops, and i want it to last forever.

    February 2012

  • ColorCaptn

    Ein Könner unter den Großen !

    December 2011

  • puggs-

    I miss you,..

    December 2011

  • hanginchili

    Good night Big Man!

    November 2011

  • pingpong_fiasco

    It's sad that the Big Man died. But the sax never made this song special. It's the piano ...

    October 2011

  • Gabrmachado

    Epic sax solo.

    October 2011

  • me_araujo

    obra-prima

    September 2011

  • DavidVSoho

    A dream!

    September 2011

  • truckerluckyman

    Tell it like is brother

    August 2011

  • DblJerseyGirl

    BEST.SONG.EVER. period. RIP Clarence

    August 2011

  • PiecesInPurpil

    best sax solo ever, best part 5:36 - 6:04 !

    July 2011

  • PitaDauphin

    I hate long songs but I love this song.

    July 2011

  • AgentEddie6

    RIP Clarence. Possibly the greatest rock sax solo ever, in the finale to one of the greatest rock albums ever.

    June 2011

  • Bird_Cooder

    R.I.P Clarence. Thank you for that sax solo!

    June 2011

  • carpeliam

    This was always my favorite Springsteen song, with my favorite sax solo. RIP Clarence. (I wonder how many people are listening to this song today...)

    June 2011
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