4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy) is the second song on The Wild, The Innocent and The E Street Shuffle[?] by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, and often cited as the best song on the album. It is a powerful love ballad, dedicated to Sandy and describing the depressing atmosphere that threatens to suffocate the love between the singer and Sandy. Locals include the "stoned-out faces," "switchblade[?] lovers" and "the greasers[?]" who "tramp the streets or get busted for sleeping out on the boardwalk[?] till dawn." The singer is tired of "hangin' in them dustyarcades" and "chasin' the factory girls."
... was thus
enabled to support himself. Later he was admitted
to the Augustinian convent of Mount Saint Agnes
near Zwolle where his brother John had been before
him and ...