Découvrez les paroles de la chanson « Jungleland » de Bruce Springsteen, accompagnées des explications de leur signification, d’anecdotes et de contexte.
Paroles de la chanson
The rangers had a homecoming in Harlem late last night
And the Magic Rat drove his sleek machine over the Jersey state line
Barefoot girl sitting on the hood of a Dodge
Drinking warm beer in the soft summer rain
The Rat pulls into town rolls up his pants
Together they take a stab at romance and disappear down Flamingo Lane
Well the Maximum Lawman run down Flamingo chasing the Rat and the barefoot girl
And the kids round here look just like shadows always quiet, holding hands
From the churches to the jails tonight all is silence in the world
As we take our stand down in Jungleland
The midnight gang's assembled and picked a rendezvous for the night
They'll meet `neath that giant Exxon sign that brings this fair city light
Man there's an opera out on the Turnpike
There's a ballet being fought out in the alley
Until the local cops, Cherry Tops, rips this holy night
The street's alive as secret debts are paid
Contacts made, they vanished unseen
Kids flash guitars just like switch-blades hustling for the record machine
The hungry and the hunted explode into rock'n'roll bands
That face off against each other out in the street down in Jungleland
In the parking lot the visionaries dress in the latest rage
Inside the backstreet girls are dancing to the records that the D.J. plays
Lonely-hearted lovers struggle in dark corners
Desperate as the night moves on, just a look and a whisper, and they're gone
Beneath the city two hearts beat
Soul engines running through a night so tender in a bedroom locked
In whispers of soft refusal and then surrender in the tunnels uptown
The Rat's own dream guns him down as shots echo down them hallways in the night
No one watches when the ambulance pulls away
Or as the girl shuts out the bedroom light
Outside the street's on fire in a real death waltz
Between flesh and what's fantasy and the poets down here
Don't write nothing at all, they just stand back and let it all be
And in the quick of the night they reach for their moment
And try to make an honest stand but they wind up wounded, not even dead
Tonight in Jungleland
Explication des paroles
« Jungleland » est une chanson épique de l’album « Born to Run » de Bruce Springsteen, sorti en 1975. Les paroles racontent l’histoire de deux amoureux, Terry et Mary, qui tentent de s’échapper de leur ville en déclin pour trouver un avenir meilleur dans la Jungleland, un lieu mythique où tout est possible.
La chanson capture l’essence de l’espoir, de la désillusion et du désir de liberté. Les arrangements orchestraux grandioses et la performance passionnée de Springsteen en font l’une des chansons les plus emblématiques de sa carrière.
Une anecdote intéressante est que la saxophoniste du E Street Band, Clarence Clemons, a joué un solo de saxophone mémorable sur « Jungleland », qui est devenu l’un des moments les plus célèbres de la chanson.
« Jungleland » est souvent considérée comme l’un des chefs-d’œuvre de Springsteen et a été saluée par la critique pour sa profondeur émotionnelle et son storytelling puissant. La chanson reste un incontournable des concerts du Boss et continue d’émouvoir les fans du monde entier.