[ti:born in the usa] [ar:bruce springsteen ] [by:] [00:16.50]Born down in a dead man's town [00:19.50]The first kick I took was when I hit the ground [00:23.50]You end up like a dog that's been beat too much [00:27.50]Till you spend half your life just covering up [00:32.50][00:44.50][01:04.50][01:11.50][02:38.50][02:46.50][02:54.50][02:57.50][03:01.50]Born in the [00:35.50][00:39.50][01:07.50][01:15.50][02:41.50]I was born in the [00:48.50]Got in a little hometown jam [00:52.50]So they put a rifle in my hand [00:56.50]Sent me off to a foreign land [00:59.50]To go and kill the yellow man [01:19.50]Come back home to the refinery [01:22.50]Hiring man said "Son if it was up to me" [01:27.50]Went down to see my V.A. man [01:30.50]He said "Son, don't you understand" [01:50.50]I had a brother at Khe Sahn [01:54.50]Fighting off the Viet Cong [01:58.50]They're still there, he's all gone [02:06.50]He had a woman he loved in Saigon [02:10.50]I got a picture of him in her arms now [02:21.50]Down in the shadow of the penitentiary [02:25.50]Out by the gas fires of the refinery [02:29.50]I'm ten years burning down the road [02:33.50]Nowhere to run ain't got nowhere to go [02:48.50]I'm a long gone Daddy in the [03:04.50]I'm a cool rocking Daddy in the now