"Tunnel of Love" is the title song by Bruce Springsteen from his 1987 Tunnel of Love album. It was released as the second single from the album, reaching number nine on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.^[1] Like the first single from the album, "Brilliant Disguise", "Tunnel of Love" reached number one on the Album Rock Tracks chart.^[1] The single had less commercial success in other countries.

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Like much of the Tunnel of Love album, "Tunnel of Love" was recorded in Springsteen's home studio, called Thrill Hill East, between January and May 1987 with several members of the E Street Band.^[2] On this song, Springsteen played several instruments and is backed by Roy Bittan on synthesizers, Nils Lofgren on lead guitar and Max Weinberg on drums.^[2] Springsteen's future wife, Patti Scialfa provided backing vocals.^[2] Effects on the song include the sounds of an actual family riding a roller coaster in Point Pleasant, New Jersey.^[3]

The song uses a fairground funhouse ride as a metaphor for marriage.^[3][4] The relationship described in the song has three principals - the singer, his wife, and all the things they are scared of.^[3] The singer feels that marriage should be simple ("man meets woman and they fall in love"), but recognizes that along the way the ride can become difficult and unpredictable.^[3][5] The characters in the song laugh when they see each other in the funhouse mirrors, but it is not clear if they are laughing out of humor, or laughing at each other in derision.^[3] The song notes that it is all too easy for two people to lose each other on the "funhouse ride" of marriage.^[3][4]

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Passage

Get human here with Her or alone

Let everything go give away all you own

I suspect it sounds hokey a lot of bull

You hold the strings go steady & pull

You have my permission to get lost in love

Lose one another at your own risk

You thought love a lark some kind of wing

But love's not a bird its some other thing 

Blind in the dark caught in the riot

You can die from love if you're on the wrong diet

In your own damn way it hurts when you slide

But the tunnel can save  when you trust in the ride

--GP (Greenpagan) aka JSW  &  Y.S. Warshofskii

Tunnel of Love

Fat man sitting on a little stool
Takes the money from my hand while his eyes take a walk all over you
Hands me the ticket smiles and whispers good luck
Cuddle up angel cuddle up my little dove
We'll ride down baby into this tunnel of love

I can feel the soft silk of your blouse
And them soft thrills in our little fun house
Then the lights go out and it's just the three of us
You me and all that stuff we're so scared of
Gotta ride down baby into this tunnel of love

There's a crazy mirror showing us both in 5-D
I'm laughing at you you're laughing at me
There's a room of shadows that gets so dark brother
It's easy for two people to lose each other in this tunnel of love

It ought to be easy ought to be simple enough
Man meets woman and they fall in love
But the house is haunted and the ride gets rough
And you've got to learn to live with what you can't rise above 
If you want to ride on down in through this tunnel of love

--song written by Bruce Springsteen

When You're Alone

Times were tough love was not enough
So you said sorry Johnny I'm gone gone gone
You said my act was funny
But we both knew what was missing honey
So you let out on your own
Now that pretty form that you've got baby
Will make sure you get along
But you're gonna find out someday honey

When you're alone you're alone
When you're alone you're alone
When you're alone you're alone
When you're alone you ain't nothing but alone

Now I was young and pretty on the mean streets of the city
And I fought to make 'em my home
With just the shirt on my back I left and swore I'd never look back
And man I was gone gone gone
But there's things that'll knock you down you don't even see coming
And send you crawling like a baby back home
You're gonna find out that day sugar

When you're alone you're alone
When you're alone you're alone
When you're alone you're alone
When you're alone you ain't nothing but alone

I knew some day your runnin' would be through
And you'd think back on me and you
And your love would be strong
You'd forget all the bad and think only of all the laughs that we had
And you'd want to come home
Now it ain't hard feelings or nothin' sugar
That ain't what's got me singing this song
It's just nobody knows baby where love goes
But when it goes it's gone gone

When you're alone you're alone
When you're alone you're alone
When you're alone you're alone
When you're alone you ain't nothing but alone

--song written by  Bruce Sprinsteen

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