Matt Harvey, Local Hero: a look back in pictures

I was driving through my hometown
I was just kinda killin’ time
When I seen a face staring out of a black velvet painting
From the window of the five-and-dime
I couldn’t quite recall the name
But the pose looked familiar to me
So I asked the salesgirl, “Who was that man
Between the doberman and Bruce Lee?” (Bruce Springsteen)

She said “Just a local hero”
“Local hero” she said with a smile
“Yeah, a local hero
He used to live here for a while” (Bruce Springsteen)

 

I met a stranger dressed in black at the train station
He said, “Son, your soul can be saved”
There’s beautiful women, nights of low livin’
And some dangerous money to be made (Bruce Springsteen)

There’s a big town ‘cross the whiskey line
And if we turn the right cards up
They make us boss, the devil pays off
And them folks that are real hard up

They get their local hero
Somebody with the right style
They get their local hero
Somebody with just the right smile (Bruce Springsteen)

 

Well, I learned my job, I learned it well
Fit myself with religion and a story to tell (Bruce Springsteen)

First they made me the king, then they made me pope
Well, then they brought the rope (Bruce Springsteen)

 

I woke to a gypsy girl sayin’ “Drink this”
Well my hands had lost all sensation
These days I’m feeling all right
‘Cept I can’t tell my courage from my desperation

From the tainted chalice
Well, I drunk some heady wine
Tonight I’m layin’ here, but there’s something in my ear
Sayin’ there’s a little town just beneath the flood line

Needs a local hero
Somebody with the right style
Lookin’ for a local hero
Someone with the right smile (Bruce Springsteen)