Live 07 Aug 1992 version
[Spoken intro:]
[Bruce Springsteen:] A special guest Southside Johnny gonna come and sing a song with us (cheers).
[Southside Johnny:] You know these people? Who are these people? I don't know, they look like relatives to me, Bruce.
[Bruce Springsteen:] ??? over here. Alright, here's a little tune I wrote for him, he hasn't thanked me enough for it yet but he'll get around I guess. ???.
[Southside Johnny:] It's a lot bigger than I thought it would be. Is that your ???.
[Bruce Springsteen:] You haven't even seen it yet.
Southside Johnny: | I know what it's like to have failed baby |
With the whole world looking on | |
And I know what it's like to have been so sure | |
And I wake up and find it all gone, yeah yeah | |
Bruce Springsteen: | Now I know you've got no reason to trust me, no no |
And tonight my confidence is a little rusty | |
But it's getting late if you don't feel like leaving alone | |
Won't you let me walk you baby all the way home | |
Southside Johnny: | Our old fears and failures, whoa, they do linger |
Bruce Springsteen: | Like the shadow of that ring that was on your finger |
Southside Johnny: | Oh but those days darling, all those days they're dead and gone |
Oh I could walk you baby all the way home | |
Southside and Springsteen: | Now there's things no one can rearrange |
We both have yesterdays oh that we can't change | |
Southside Johnny: | Don't you know it's closing time baby |
The bartenders ringing last call, last call baby | |
Bruce Springsteen: | Tonight I can't stand on pride |
And I ain't afraid to take a fall | |
Southside Johnny: | But the time has come |
And if your first choice ??? gone | |
Whoa that's alright baby | |
'Cause I can walk you all the way home | |
Southside and Springsteen: | All the way home |
I walk you all the way home | |
I walk you all the way home baby | |
I walk you all the way home baby | |
I walk you all the way home baby | |
I walk you all the way home | |
I walk you all the way home, whoaaa |
[Spoken outro:]
[Southside Johnny:] Thanks for the song Bruce.
[Bruce Springsteen:] You don't really mean it, but it's nice to hear it anyway. Southside Johnny! Good luck! ??? anyway.
The above lyrics are for the live 07 Aug 1992 performance of ALL THE WAY HOME at Brendan Byrne Arena in East Rutherford, NJ, during World Tour 1992-1993. The song was played in a slow full-band arrangement and featured a guest appearance by Southside Johnny on shared lead vocals.
This was the tenth of an eleven-night stand at Brendan Byrne Arena.
List of available versions of ALL THE WAY HOME on this website:
ALL THE WAY HOME [Album version]