Bruce Springsteen - Spare Parts lyrics

Bobby said he’d pull out Bobby stayed in

Janey had a baby it wasn’t any sin

They were set to marry on a summer day

Bobby got scared and he ran away

Jane moved in with her ma out on Shawnee Lake

She sighed Ma sometimes my whole life feels like one big mistake

She settled in in a back room time passed on

Later that winter a son come along

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And broken hearts

Keep the world turnin’ around

Now Janey walked that baby across the floor night after night

But she was a young girl and she missed the party lights

Meanwhile in South Texas in a dirty oil patch

Bobby heard ’bout his son bein’ born and swore he wasn’t ever goin’ back

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And broken hearts

Keep the world turnin’ around

Janey heard about a woman over in Calverton

Put her baby in the river left the river roll on

She looked at her boy in the crib where he lay

Got down on her knees cried till she prayed

Mist was on the water low run the tide

Janey held her son down at the riverside

Waist deep in the water how bright the sun shone

She lifted him in her arms and carried him home

As he lay sleeping in her bed Janey took a look around at everything

Went to a drawer in her bureau and got out her old engagement ring

Took out her wedding dress tied that ring up in its sash

Went straight down to the pawn shop man and walked out with some good cold cash