The Gaslight Anthem - History Books Lyrics

The Gaslight Anthem Lyrics

"History Books"
(feat. Bruce Springsteen)

What's that you say?
I knew you when?
You don't look too much like my friend
Those history books
Filled up with crooks
Stories I don't want to read again

I've tried to live
One thousand years from here

When I think of it now
It just brings me down
When I think of you now
And when I think of it now
It just brings me down
When I think of you now

I'm keeping time
One day goes by
I try to live till the next one
But these history books
Full of haunted looks
From people I don't want to see again

'Cause I've learned to live
But they try to hold me here

When I think of it now
It just brings me down
When I think of it now
And when I think of it now
It just brings me down
When I think of you now

You just remind me of the
Nights of smoke and dirty jokes
Darkened rooms with lonely ghosts
And they were beautiful some time ago
But time keeps rollin' us on

When I think of it now
It just brings me down
When I think of you now
And when I think of you now
It just brings me down
When I think of you now

You just remind me of the
Nights of smoke and dirty jokes
Darkened rooms with lonely ghosts
And they were beautiful some time ago
But time keeps rollin' us on
Rollin' us on
Rollin' us on
Rollin' us on
Rollin' us on
Rollin' us on

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Writer(s): Brian Fallon

"History Books" is the title track from the Gaslight Anthem's first album in nine years, "History Books". The song was released on the 21st of July, 2023.

Brian Fallon told the Associated Press about having Bruce Springsteen on this song, "There's a definitely a little wink in there," adding, "It's like 'Now write this off'. We've got the approval of the guy! What are you going to say? You can't say anything!"

"When Bruce Springsteen said I should write a duet for us, I think my head exploded," Gaslight Anthem frontman Brian Fallon said in a statement. "It will never get old to me that one of the greatest songwriters in the world, and one of my hero's voices, will forever be captured in a song I wrote at a small wooden desk, in October, in New Jersey."

album: "History Books" (2023)

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