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Teardrops on the city

Bad Scooter searchin' for his groove

Whole world walking pretty and you can’t find the room to move

Everybody better move over, that’s all

I’m runnin' on the bad side

With my back to the wall

Tenth Avenue freeze-out

Tenth Avenue freeze-out

I’m stranded in the jungle tryna take in all the heat they’re givin'

Yeah, the night is dark but the sidewalk’s bright and lined with the light of

the living

From a tenement window a transistor blasts

Turn around the corner things got real quiet real fast

I walked into a Tenth Avenue freeze-out

Tenth Avenue freeze-out

And I’m all alone, I’m all alone

And I can’t go home

I can’t find my way back home now

Now Gary, Danny, Little Steven, Mighty Max, Professor Roy, Nils Lofgren,

Patty Scialfa, that is my one plus one equals three. Excellent, grasshopper!

But nobody captured my audience’s imagination or their hearts like Clarence.

Clarence was, Clarence was a figure out of a rock 'n' roll storybook,

and together, we told a story that was bigger than any of the ones I had

written in my songs. It was a story where not only does Scooter and the Big Man

bust the city in half, but we remade the city. We remade the city shaping into

the kind of place where our friendship and our love for one another wouldn’t

have been such an exceptional thing. First night I saw Clarence he came walkin'

out of the shadows towards the band stand, nodded to me, got up,

stood to my right, for the very first time. He picked up his saxophone,

and when he played — when he played, he whispered that story in my ear.

And then we whispered it into your ear, and we carried it together for a long,

a long good time. The Big Man was big. Everything about him. His personality,

his size, his laugh, the sound of his saxophone. When I first heard it I

thought it was the biggest sound I ever heard. And it was. His heart,

his problems — they were big. But he was elemental in my life. And losing him

was like losing the rain. If I were a mystic, if I were a mystic,

I guess Clarence and mine’s friendship would lead me to believe that we,

we stood together in other older times, ya know and uh, in other lives,

along other rivers, in other ancient cities, in other fields, workin' side by

side, with the sun settin', doin' our modest version of God’s work.

I’ll see you in the next life Big Man

When they made that change uptown

And the Big Man joined the band

From the coastline to the city

All the little pretties raise their hands

I’m gonna sit back right easy and laugh

When Scooter and the Big Man bust this city in half

With a Tenth Avenue freeze-out

Tenth Avenue freeze-out

Ladies and gentlemen let’s hear it for the biggest man you ever saw

Clarence «Big Man» Clemons

And the legendary

Street

Band

That’s it

Oh yeah, it’s alright

Yeah!

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