Bruce Springsteen fans have been on fire with a question over the past few days: What’s the real opening lyric to “Thunder Road”? Now his longtime manager has given a definitive answer: “The word is ‘sways’”
Photo: Taylor Hill/Getty Images Bruce Springsteen fans have been on fire with a question over the past few days: What’s the real opening lyric to “Thunder Road”? It started on July 3, when the New York Times’ lead Trump scribe and political reporter Maggie Haberman tweeted a line from the Boss’s epic Born to Run opener while waiting to watch the return of Springsteen on Broadway.
The question became such a flash point that it reached The New Yorker’s editor-in-chief David Remnick, who emailed Springsteen’s longtime manager, Jon Landau, for a July 17 “Cultural Comment” column on the lyric confusion. “The word is ‘sways,’” Landau replied, definitively. “That’s the way he wrote it in his original notebooks, that’s the way he sang it on ‘Born to Run,’ in 1975, that’s the way he has always sung it at thousands of shows, and that’s the way he sings it right now on Broadway.
Springsteen’s former manager Mike Appel, who worked with the rocker during Born to Run, agreed, telling the L.A. Times he sent the lyrics to the U.S. Copyright Office as “sways.” “I heard him sing it I don’t know how many times, and it was always ‘sways,’” he said. Two Springsteen managers — the only more definitive answer might be a decree from the Boss himself. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t strong proponents in the “waves” camp too. Springsteen scholar Caryn Rose, who ranked all of the Boss’s songs for Vulture and wrote the 2012 book Raise Your Hand: Adventures of an American Springsteen Fan in Europe, told the Times she “can’t believe this is even up for debate,” and that the line is “waves.
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