Outlaw Pete

Bruce Springsteen

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He was born a little baby on the Appalachian Trail At six months old he'd done three months in jail He robbed a bank in his diapers and his little bare baby feet All he said was "Folks my name is Outlaw Pete." I'm Outlaw Pete! I'm Outlaw Pete! Can you hear me? Doo doo doo doo doo At twenty-five a mustang pony he did steal And they rode around and 'round on heaven's wheel Father Jesus I'm an outlaw killer and a thief And I slowed down only to sow my grief I'm Outlaw Pete! I'm Outlaw Pete! Can you hear me? Doo doo doo doo doo They cut his trail of tears across the countryside And where he went women wept and men died One night he awoke from a vision of his own death Saddled his pony and rode her deep into the West Married a Navajo girl and settled down on the res And as the smoke fell he held that beautiful daughter to his chest I'm Outlaw Pete! I'm Outlaw Pete! Can you hear me? Can you hear me? Can you hear me? (x2) Out of the East on an Irish stallion came Bounty Hunter Dan His heart quickened and burdened by the need to get his man He found Pete peacefully fishing by the river pulled his gun and got the drop He said "Pete you think you've changed but you have not." He cocked his pistol pulled the trigger and shouted "Let it stop!" He drew a knife from his boot threw it and pierced Dan through the heart Dan smiled as he laid in his own blood dying in the sun And whispered in Pete's ear "We cannot undue these things we've done." You're Outlaw Pete! You're Outlaw Pete! Can you hear me? Can you hear me? Can you hear me? For forty days and nights Pete rode and did not stop Till he sat high upon an icy mountain top He watched the hawk on a desert updraft slip and slide Moved to the edge and dug his spurs deep into his pony's side Some say Pete and his pony vanished over the edge Some say they remain frozen high upon that icy ledge The young Navajo girl washes in the river skin so fair And braids a piece of Pete's buckskin chaps into her hair Outlaw Pete! Outlaw Pete! Can you hear me? Can you hear me? Can you hear me? Can you hear me? Can you hear me? Can you hear me? Can you hear me? Can you hear me? Can you hear me? Can you hear me? Can you hear me? Can you hear me? Can you hear me? ...

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La chanson raconte l'histoire d'un enfant dont la vie tumultueuse commence dès la naissance, marquée par des actes illicites. Petit agité, il commet des délits, se véhicule de manière audacieuse et finit par épouser une femme Navajo. Malgré ses tentatives de se racheter, il est poursuivi par un chasseur de primes qui lui rappelle son passé, et une confrontation fatale s'ensuit. À la fin, le personnage semble disparaître, symbole d'une vie de rebelle toujours en quête de rédemption, laissant derrière lui une fille qui se souvient de lui par un simple fil d’un de ses habits. Cette chanson évoque des thèmes de paternité, de fuite et de l’impossibilité d'échapper à son passé. Elle se déroule dans un cadre sauvage, entre les montagnes et les rivières, où la nature joue un rôle fondamental en tant que témoin des événements tragiques de la vie d'Outlaw Pete.

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