Santa Ana (Studio Outtake - 1973)

Artist：bruce springsteen
Songs Title：santa ana

from a tin roof top
The little boy did watch
The procession down through town

Through the museum
Where daniel walked with the devil
With them boys from the underground

Where the giants of science
Fight for tight control
Over the wild lands of new mexico

Sam houstons ghosts in texas
Fighting for his soul

And the town folks rest uneasy
Beneath the guns of kid cole

And the kid says: hey, wheres santa ana
He who could romance the dumb into talking

Take a chance with me tonight my contessa,
If it dont work out, I aint lame, I can walk
Now some folks they just cant take it
To the streets of this town
But sam easily can, and he lays his money down
Them cats in from the canyon
Strut their stuff in town

But theres only secret sinners here

Lord, theres only secret thieves

Only a fool would try to save

What the desert chose to leave

And now, hey there senorita,

With your playboys in their spanish bandanas
French cream wont soften them bullets baby
French kisses will not break your heart

Oh, painted night, set free with light
Glows outside the rainbow saloon
Match embraces with a spanish lady
Beneath a graduation moon
No more colleges, no more coronations
Some punks idea of a teenage nation
Has forced santa ana to change his stationfrom soldier to cartoon

And the giants of science
Spend their days and nights
Not with wives, not with lovers
But searching for the lights
They started in the desert on their helicopter flights
Just to be lost in the dust and the night

Ah, hey my contessa
In your juke joint rides
You always bring candy for the kids
Come waltz with me tonight senorita
cause only fools are alone on a night like this