Balboa Park by Bruce Springsteen
Balboa Park by Bruce Springsteen

Balboa Park

Bruce Springsteen * Track #7 On The Ghost of Tom Joad

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Balboa Park by Bruce Springsteen

Release Date
Tue Nov 21 1995
Performed by
Bruce Springsteen
Produced by
Chuck Plotkin & Bruce Springsteen
About

In April, 1993, the Los Angeles Times published an article about the young boys who would smuggle drugs over the Mexican border, from Tijuana to San Diego.

These kids, often as young as 14, would then live a homeless life in the city’s parks and under the freeways. Come night, they’d get picked up...

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Balboa Park Lyrics

[Verse 1]
He lay his blanket underneath the freeway
As the evening sky grew dark
Took a sniff of toncho from his coke can
And headed through Balboa Park

[Verse 2]
Where the men in their Mercedes
Come nightly to employ
In the cool San Diego evening
The services of the border boys

[Verse 3]
He grew up near the Zona Norte
With the hustlers and smugglers he hung out with
He swallowed their balloons of cocaine
Brought them across to the Twelfth Street strip

[Verse 4]
Sleeping in a shelter
If the night got too cold
Running from the migra
Of the border patrol

[Verse 5]
Past the salvage yard across the train tracks
And in through the storm drain
They stretched their blankets out beneath the freeway
And each one took a name

[Verse 6]
There was X-man and Cochise
Little Spider, his sneakers covered in river mud
They come north to California
End up with the poison in their blood

[Verse 7]
He did what he had to for the money
Sometimes he sent home what he could spare
The rest went to high-top sneakers and toncho
And jeans like the gavachos wear

[Verse 8]
One night the border patrol swept Twelfth Street
A big car come fast down the boulevard
Spider stood caught in its headlights
Got hit and went down hard

[Verse 9]
As the car sped away, Spider held his stomach
Limped to his blanket beneath the underpass
Lie there tasting his own blood on his tongue
Closed his eyes and listened to the cars rushing by so fast

Balboa Park Q&A

Who wrote Balboa Park's ?

Balboa Park was written by Bruce Springsteen.

Who produced Balboa Park's ?

Balboa Park was produced by Chuck Plotkin & Bruce Springsteen.

When did Bruce Springsteen release Balboa Park?

Bruce Springsteen released Balboa Park on Tue Nov 21 1995.

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