1) Badlands
2) Adam Raised A Cain
3) Something In The Night
4) Candy's Room
5) Racing In The Street
6) The Promised Land
7) Factory
8) Streets Of Fire
9) Prove It All Night
10) Darkness On The Edge Of Town

Bruce: "After Born to run I wanted to write about life in the close confines of the small towns I grew up in. In 1977 I was living on a farm in Holmdel, New Jersey. It was there that I wrote most of the songs for Darkness on the edge of town.

The songs were difficult to write. I remember spending hours trying to come up with a single verse. "Badlands", "Prove it all night" and "Promised land" all had a chorus but few lyrics. I was searching for a tone somewhere between Born to run's spiritual hopefulness and '70s cynism. I wanted my new characters to feel weathered, older, but not beaten. The sense of daily struggle in each song greatly increased. The possibility of transcendence or any sort of personal redemption felt a lot harder to come by. This was the tone wanted to sustain. I intentionally steered away from any hint of escapism and set my characters down in the middle of a community under siege. Week, even month went by, before I had something that felt right.

With the final verse, "Tonight I'll be on that hill...", my characters stand unsure of their fate, but dug in and committed. By the end of Darkness I'd found my adult voice."

Prove It All Night/Factory

Badlands/Something in the Night

Badlands/Streets of Fire

Badlands / Candy's Room

Lead Guitar, Harmonica

Organ