2016-04-05 American Airlines Center, Dallas, TX

Scheduled: 19:30 Local Start Time 20:06 / End Time 23:29

Info & Setlist | Venue

The 33-song standard set with only a single change from Oklahoma City, "Backstreets" replacing "Lonesome Day". A massive group of girls was invited on the stage during "Dancing In The Dark". On the setlist "No Surrender" and "Wrecking Ball" were scheduled between "The Promised Land" and "Badlands", but they were not played. "Bobby Jean" however was not on the setlist. "Two Hearts" includes "It Takes Two" and "Drive All Night" includes a snippet of "Dream Baby Dream". Patti Scialfa is not present.

Intro to “Meet Me in the City”
“Good evening (crowd cheers)…”

Middle of “Meet Me in the City”
“Dallas! (crowd cheers) Texas, let me hear you (crowd cheers) are you ready to be entertained? (crowd cheers) are you ready to be entertained? (crowd cheers) are you ready to be transformed? (crowd cheers) alright, come on, Max…”

Intro to “The Ties That Bind”
“Good evening (crowd cheers) good evening, good evening…”The River”… “The River” was my coming-of-age record…all the records before “The River” were sort of young man’s records, we were living in a small community on the streets of Asbury Park (crowd cheers) but “The River,” by the time I got to “The River,” I was taking notice of things that bond people to their lives, their work, their commitments, their families, I wanted to imagine and I wanted to write about those things, figuring if I could write about them, I’d get a little closer to having them…people’d always said yeah, the records were good, they were good but they never felt like the show so it was on “The River” that we tried to make a record that was big and felt like life or felt like an E Street Band show (crowd cheers) I wanted the record to contain fun and dancing and laughter and jokes and sex and good comradeship and love and heartbreak and lonely nights and of course teardrops…and I figured if I could make a record big enough to hold those things, maybe I’d get closer to the answers and the home I was looking for
so tonight…let’s go back down to “The River” and see what we find (crowd cheers)…”

Intro to “Sherry Darling”
“Alright, let’s hear some Texas-size party noises! (crowd cheers)…”

Intro to “Independence Day”
“This is “Independence Day” (crowd cheers) this is for Jared and Howie…“Independence Day” was the first song that I wrote about fathers and sons…I was probably…23 or 24 years old…it’s the kind of song you write when you’re young…and you’re first startled by your parents’ humanity…by the fact that they may have had their own dreams and their own desires and their own hopes that might not have panned out the way they hoped they might…and you’re at an age when all you can see are the adult compromises they had to make…and you’re still too young to understand the blessings that come with compromise…so the idea of it frightens you and all you see is that small world closing in and all you can think about is getting away…well, I had a very simple setting for this song, it was just a late night conversation around the kitchen table between two people struggling to understand one another but who loved each other…”

Intro to “Crush on You”
“Dallas! (crowd cheers) I got a crush on you! (crowd cheers)…”

**##030390|Intro to “You Can Look”
“Shake those hankies!…”
^{[According to Backstreets.com, there were a group of young ladies waving red bandanas at every song.]}

Intro to “I Wanna Marry You”
“Alright, alright…Texas is for lovers (crowd cheers) do we have any cowgirls out there? (women cheer) woo!…I’m not even gonna ask for the cowboys, it’s gonna be too tough to top that (chuckles) oh, well, this is a love song…yes it is…it’s a song about a dream of love …the kind you have when you’re…young and you haven’t quite yet run into the real thing…it’s the love without the responsibilities… without the consequences…the crowd is silent because they know it doesn’t exist (chuckles)(crowd cheers) good, that was a test, that was a test (chuckles) but this is a song of youth, of imagining love in all of its glory and tenderness and…tentativeness, yes (crowd cheers) alright, this isn’t quite the real thing but you gotta start someplace…Well, sometimes at night when I lie in bed…I see your face running ‘round my head…sometimes at night when I lie in bed …I still see your face running ‘round my head…here she comes walking down the street…here she comes walking down the street… she’s looking so fine, she’s looking so sweet…she’s so fine, she’s so sweet…someday I’m gonna make her mine, I know that I will… someday I’ll make her mine, I know that I will…someday she’s gonna stop instead of walking by…she’s gonna stop instead of walking by, she’s gonna stop instead of walking by, she’s gonna stop instead of walking…little girl, little girl, little girl, little girl, little girl, little girl…little girl, little girl, little girl, little girl…little girl, little girl, little girl, little girl, little girl, little girl…little girl, little girl, little girl, little girl…oh, my girl, my girl, my girl, my girl, my girl, my girl, my girl…oh, my girl, my girl, my girl, my girl, my girl, my girl, my girl (crowd cheers) here we go…”

Intro to “Cadillac Ranch”
“Alright, bury me down at the Cadillac Ranch (crowd cheers) come on, Texas…”

Intro to “Fade Away”
“We got a little bit of soul music Jersey-style for you…”

Intro to “Stolen Car”
“Here’s one of the first songs I wrote about men and women that kind of got down to the nitty-gritty of it…asked the question if you lose your love, do you lose yourself…this is “Stolen Car”…”

Intro to “Ramrod”
“Alright, alright…let’s shake your ass to a little bit of roadhouse music now…(intro music starts) come on…shake your booty…come on…”

Middle of “Ramrod”
“Steve…what time is it?…is it break time? (Steve: “No”) is it quitting time? (Steve: “No”…it’s Boss-time”)…”

Towards the end of “Wreck on the Highway”
“Well, “The River” was about time…time slipping away…how once you enter the adult life, you choose your partner, you choose your work…the clock starts ticking…and you walk alongside not only the folks you’ve chose to live with but you walk alongside of your own mortality…and you realize you have a limited amount of time…to do your work…to raise your family…and to try and do something good …to try and do something good…(music stops) (crowd cheers) that’s “The River!” (crowd cheers)…”

Intro to “Badlands”
“Alright…are you all warmed up? (crowd cheers) then let’s go…”

Middle of “Backstreets”
“Until the end…forever friends…until the end…forever friends…until the end…forever friends…until the end…until the end…until the end …until the end…(crowd cheers)…”

Intro to “Born to Run”
“Thank you, Dallas (crowd cheers) thank you for coming out tonight (crowd cheers) what a fabulous audience (crowd cheers) yes… Dallas rocks, Dallas rocks (crowd cheers) alright…ah…you guys, yes, thank you, darling…we got friends in the hall tonight from the North Texas Food Bank (crowd cheers) the North Texas Food Bank distributes food to those struggling and in need throughout 13 area counties, if you see them our way out, they’re your neighbors on the frontlines doing good work, the North Texas Food Bank (crowd cheers) alright, we’re gonna send this one out to Texas right now (crowd cheers)…”

Towards the end of “Dancing in the Dark”
“Oh my fucking God…that was the wildest fucking show I’ve ever been at right there…and they’re only this big, oh…”

Intro to “Shout”
“Bring the little kids back up…E flat…I feel so good tonight…do you feel real good? (crowd cheers) do you feel real good? (crowd cheers) do you feel real good? (crowd cheers) if you feel good, I want you to say yeah…I feel so good now…I’m feeling so good now …”

Middle of “Shout”
“Soozie Tyrell on the vocals, guitar and fiddle (crowd cheers) Charlie Giordano on the organ (crowd cheers) Nils Lofgren on the guitar (crowd cheers) Jake Clemons on the saxophone (crowd cheers) the Mighty Max Weinberg on the drums (crowd cheers) Professor Roy Bittan on the piano (crowd cheers) Mr. Garry W. Tallent on the bass (crowd cheers) and last but not least, the one, the only Little Steven Van Zandt (crowd cheers) alright, alright…I got a message…can I get a witness?…can I get a witness?…can I get a witness?…can I get a witness?…can I get a witness?…can I get a witness?…can I get a witness?…can I get a witness?…can I get a witness?…can I get a witness?…can I get a witness?…Dallas! (crowd cheers) Dallas! (crowd cheers) Texas! (crowd cheers) I want you to go home tonight and tomorrow I want you tell everybody that you meet that you’ve just seen the heart-stopping, pants-dropping, Earth-shocking, hard rocking, booty-shaking, Earth-quaking, love-making, Viagra-taking, history-making, legendary E (crowd: “Street Band!”)…”

Intro to “Bobby Jean”
We got nothing left…we got nothing…the little kids took it out of me…I got nothing…I got ass-whipped by the little kids…you girls took it out of me, we don’t have anything…we got nothing…bring a towel, that’s right, thank you, Steve, thank you…(band keeps playing)…give me an E…I got nothing…well, maybe one thing…”

Towards the end of “Bobby Jean”
“Thank you, Dallas, you put on a hell of a show…the E Street Band loves you (crowd cheers)…”

^{Compiled by : Johanna Pirttijärvi.}