Badlands (Live at Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ - November 1980)

One, two

Lights out tonight, trouble in the heartland

Got a head-on collision smashing in my guts, man

I'm caught in a crossfire that I don't understand

But there's one thing I know for sure

I don't give a damn for the same old played out scenes

I don't give a damn for just the in-betweens

Honey, I want the heart, I want the soul, I want control right now

Talk about a dream, try to make it real

You wake up in the night with a fear so real

You spend your life waiting for a moment that just don't come

Don't waste your time waiting

Badlands, you gotta live it every day

Let the broken hearts stand as the price you've gotta pay

Keep pushing 'til it's understood

These badlands start treating us good

Working in the field 'til you get your back burned

Working 'neath the wheels 'til you get your facts learned

Baby, I got my facts learned real good right now

You better get it straight, darling

Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king

And a king ain't satisfied til' he rules everything

I wanna go out tonight, I wanna find out what I got

Now I believe in the love that you gave me

I believe in the faith that could save me

I believe in the hope and I pray that some day it may raise me above these

Badlands, you gotta live it every day

Let the broken hearts stand as the price you've gotta pay

Keep pushing 'til it's understood

These badlands start treating us good

Whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa

Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh

Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh

Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh

Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh

For the ones who had a notion, a notion deep inside

That it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive

Wanna find one face that ain't looking through me

Wanna find one place, I wanna spit in the face of these

Badlands, you gotta live it every day

Let the broken hearts stand as the price you've gotta pay

Keep pushing 'til it's understood

And these badlands start treating us good

Whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa

Badlands, whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa

Badlands, whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa

Badlands, whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa

Badlands, whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa