Bruce Springsteen has stated that he wrote 'Born to Run' as a last-ditch effort to become a true star. His first two albums had been critically acclaimed but didn't sell particularly well. The song is essentially a passionate, heroic love letter to a girl named Wendy. The imagery in the song is powerful with 'kids huddled on the beach in a mist' and 'highways jammed with broken heroes.' The song, along with the rest of the album Born to Run did help make Bruce Springsteen into a star. He appeared on the covers of Time and Newsweek and the album hit #3 on the charts. Neither of his first two albums had placed inside the top 50. The song itself reached #23 on the pop singles chart in the US.

Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run Lyrics :-

In the day we sweat it out in the streets of a runaway american dream
At night we ride through mansions of glory in suicide machines
Sprung from cages out on highway 9,
Chrome wheeled, fuel injected and steppin out over the line
Baby this town rips the bones from your back
Its a death trap, it's a suicide rap
We gotta get out while were young
`cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run

Wendy let me in I wanna be your friend
I want to guard your dreams and visions
Just wrap your legs round these velvet rims
And strap your hands across my engines
Together we could break this trap
W.