Towards the end of “Purple Rain”
“Prince forever, God bless (crowd cheers)…”
Middle of “Meet Me in the City”
“Good evening, Brooklyn (crowd cheers)…”
Intro to “The Ties That Bind”
“Good evening, everybody (crowd cheers)oh…alright…I’m glad to be here in Brooklyn (crowd cheers) these are gonna be the, uh, last two nights when we were officially gonna play “The River” from start to finish so (crowd cheers) we want you to enjoy it…”The River” was…was my coming-of-age record…was the record where I was trying to figure out where I fit in…by the time I’d gotten to 30 years old, I was taking notice of the things that bond people to their lives, their work, their commitments, their families and I wanted to imagine and I wanted to have those things in my own life…I figured if I could write about it, it might be the first step to having those things, uh, in my life…so I wanted to make a record that felt like, that felt like life or that felt like an E Street Band show (crowd cheers) and, uh, I wanted a record to contain fun and dancing and laughter and love and faith and I wanted it to address the spirit…and I wanted it to have lonely nights and heartbreak and teardrops…and I figured if I could make a record big enough to hold those things, maybe I’d edge a little closer to the answers and the home I was trying to find (crowd cheers) so tonight we wanna dedicate our show to Prince of course (crowd cheers) there’s, uh, there’s never been any better, there’s never been any better… bandleader, showman, songwriter, arranger…the, uh, whenever I’d catch one of his shows, I’d always leave humbled so…I’m gonna miss that and we’re gonna miss him (crowd cheers) come down to “The River” with us and let’s see what we find (crowd cheers)…”
Intro to “Sherry Darling”
“Alright, Brooklyn, hipsters, let me hear you! (crowd cheers)…”
Intro to “Independence Day”
“Oh, “Independence Day” (crowd cheers) I was about 24 or 25 years old…and I was trying, trying to write a song where I…talked to my dad…sort of roundabout way of communicating…but…it’s the kind of song that, uh…well, you write it when you’re a young man and you’re first startled by your parents’ humanity, that, uh…they had their own dreams or their own hopes that…may have drifted away…and all you can see are the compromises that they had to make to build a life…and those compromises scare the hell out of you…and all you can think of doing is…getting away, getting away …so I had a simple setting, it was just a late night conversation around the kitchen table between two people that were struggling to understand one another…”
Intro to “Hungry Heart”
“Alright…Brooklyn! (crowd cheers) home of my mother! (crowd cheers)(chuckles)…”
Intro to “Crush on You”
“Obie Dziedzic, I got a crush on you!…”
Intro to “I Wanna Marry You”
“Alright, alright…yes, yes…is there any love out there tonight? (crowd cheers) that’s nice, there’s love right there – okay, what’d that say? “Married 28 years tonight, can we dance during “I Wanna Marry You?” (chuckles) a little dance, a short one, go ahead (chuckles) romance lives right here at the Barclays Center – you can do it right there (?)(crowd cheers) alright, I’m inspired (chuckles) if you’re with your baby tonight, give ‘em a kiss right now…alright, I wrote this song as a love song, it’s kind of a daydream of a love song…it’s the kind of…the kind of love where there’s no responsibilities…no arguments…no conflicts…it’s the kind that doesn’t exist (chuckles) but that’s alright…28 years, there you go (chuckles) well, this is a song of youth…of imagining love in all of its glory and its tentativeness…you gotta start someplace…Well, sometimes at night when I lie in bed…I still see her face running ‘round my head…well, 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 wanna make her mine, I know I will…someday I’m gonna make her mine, I know I will…someday she’s gonna stop instead of walking by…she’s gonna stop instead of walking by, she’s gonna stop now instead of walking by, she’s gonna stop instead of walking…oh, little girl, little girl, little girl, little girl, little girl, little girl…little girl, little girl, little girl, little girl…oh, 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 …let’s hear it for our dancers (crowd cheers)…”
Intro to “Cadillac Ranch”
“Alright, take me down to the Cadillac Ranch (crowd cheers) …”
Intro to “Fade Away”
“A little Jersey soul music (crowd cheers)…”
Intro to “Ramrod”
“Alright, come and shake your ass to a little roadhouse music now …”
Towards the end of “Wreck on the Highway”
“Well, “The River” was about time…time slipping away…and how once you enter the adult life…and you choose your work and you choose your partner…how that clock starts ticking and you walk alongside not only the people you love and that you’ve chosen to live your life with but you walk alongside your own mortality… and you realize that you got a limited amount of time…to do your work …to raise your family…to try and do something good…to try and do something good…(music stops)(crowd cheers) alright, that’s “The River!” (crowd cheers)…”
Intro to “Badlands”
“Alright, what do we got out there?…(?) let’s kick it a little bit, here we go…I see a lot of requests for that one (?)…”
Middle of “Backstreets”
“Till the end…till the end…forever friends…forever friends…forever friends…forever friends…until the end…until the end…until the end… until the end…(crowd cheers)…”
Intro to “Born to Run”
“Thank you! (crowd cheers) thank you, Brooklyn! (crowd cheers) home of my mother! (crowd cheers)(chuckles) that’s right…that’s right, Ma…this is where she hails from…woo, alright…we got some friends in the hall tonight, folks from Neighbors Together, Neighbors Together’s committed to ending hunger and poverty in Brooklyn, they operate a community café (crowd cheers) yes, they operate a community café to feed those in need, they provide support services to help break the cycle of poverty here in Brooklyn, if you see them on your way out, Neighbors Together, they’re your neighbors on the frontline doing a good work, give them a hand if you can…alright, this is for them, here we go…”
Intro to “Rosalita”
“Rosie, come out tonight! (crowd cheers)…”
Intro to “Shout”
“E-flat…what I wanna know is…do you feel real good now? (crowd cheers) do you feel real good now? (crowd cheers) have you had enough now?…do you have anything left? (crowd cheers) do you have anything left? (crowd cheers) do you have anything left? (crowd cheers) do you have anything left? (crowd cheers)…”
Middle of “Shout”
“Sister Soozie Tyrell on the guitar, vocals 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, Little Steven Van Zandt on the guitar and vocals (crowd cheers) 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?…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?…Brooklyn! (crowd cheers) New York! (crowd cheers) Brooklyn! (crowd cheers) New York! (crowd cheers) I want you to go home tonight and tomorrow I want you to tell everybody that you see 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!”)…”
After “Shout”
“Thank you! (crowd cheers) Brooklyn, the E Street Band loves you (crowd cheers) we’ll be back Monday for another spectacular, thanks for a great night (crowd cheers)…”
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