Secret Garden (Bruce Springsteen song)
| "Secret Garden" | ||||
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| Single by Bruce Springsteen | ||||
| from the album Greatest Hits | ||||
| A-side | "Secret Garden" | |||
| B-side | "Thunder Road" (live) | |||
| Released | April 11, 1995 | |||
| Genre | Soft rock | |||
| Length | 4:30 | |||
| Label | Sony | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Bruce Springsteen | |||
| Producer(s) | Bruce Springsteen Jon Landau Chuck Plotkin | |||
| Bruce Springsteen singles chronology | ||||
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"Secret Garden" is a song by American musician Bruce Springsteen. It was originally released as a single from his Greatest Hits album on February 27, 1995, on Columbia Records. Upon its initial release it peaked at number 63 on the Billboard Hot 100.
"Secret Garden" was re-released on April 11, 1997, through Sony Records as a two-track single, of which also featured a live version of "Thunder Road". (An EP was also released in 1995, featuring two versions of "Secret Garden" ("album" and "string"), live versions of "Murder Incorporated" and "Thunder Road" and the original version of "Pink Cadillac" from "Greatest Hits.") This re-issue returned the song to the Hot 100, where it peaked at number 19 and remains Springsteen's final top-20 hit in the United States to date.[1]
The song gained much of its popularity after being featured on the soundtrack for the 1996 movie Jerry Maguire peaking at number 12 and number 15 on the Adult Top 40 and Top 40 Mainstream respectively.[1]
"Secret Garden" was also featured in the film Night at the Roxbury and the TV show It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. The song was also synced with Garry Dell'Abate's 'Love Tape' to his ex-girlfriend.
The song has been performed only a handful of times live. It was performed three times in 1995 in New York, and one time on the Reunion Tour in 2000. The song returned to the setlist once in 2013 when Springsteen performed it in the United Kingdom. After a three-year hiatus, Springsteen performed it twice in 2016 in New Jersey and Washington, D.C., and once in 2017 in Brisbane, Australia.
The lyrics of the song is about the little part of all of us, that, despite everything, will ever be a personal thing. The place that only we can reach. "There will always be a secret place inside each and one of us" that makes who we are and which only we can reach. The people who love us can see its existence, but will not be able to enter or fully understand it.
In particular the lyrics is a thought which Springsteen has regarding words, behaviours and situations that will be able to make you feel so close to a woman that you are in reach of that secret garden, but than you realise that the "secret garden, where everything you want, where everything you need, will always stay a million miles away."
"She'll let you come just far enough
So you know she's really there
She'll look at you and smile
And her eyes will say
She's got a secret garden
Where everything you want
Where everything you need
Will always stay
A million miles away"
Track listing
- "Secret Garden" – 4:29
- "Secret Garden - string version" – 4:38
- "Murder Incorporated - live version" – 5:50
- "Thunder Road - Live" – 5:29
Chart performance
| Chart (1995-1997) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Australia (ARIA)[2] | 9 |
| Canadian RPM Top Singles | 7 |
| Finland (Suomen virallinen lista)[3] | 14 |
| German Singles Chart | 66 |
| Irish Singles Chart | 1 |
| Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[4] | 29 |
| UK Singles (OCC)[5] | 17 |
| US Billboard Hot 100[6] | 19 |
| US Adult Contemporary (Billboard)[7] | 5 |
| US Adult Pop Airplay (Billboard)[8] | 12 |
| US Pop Airplay (Billboard)[9] | 15 |
End of year charts
| Chart (1995) | Position |
|---|---|
| Canada Top Singles (RPM)[10] | 83 |
| End of year chart (1997) | Position |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100[11] | 77 |
References
- ^ a b Allmusic Bruce Springsteen chart history
- ^ "Bruce Springsteen – Secret Garden". ARIA Top 50 Singles. Retrieved June 17, 2017.
- ^ Nyman, Jake (2005). Suomi soi 4: Suuri suomalainen listakirja (in Finnish) (1st ed.). Helsinki: Tammi. ISBN 951-31-2503-3.
- ^ "Nederlandse Top 40 – Bruce Springsteen" (in Dutch). Dutch Top 40. Retrieved June 17, 2017.
- ^ "Bruce Springsteen: Artist Chart History". Official Charts Company. Retrieved June 17, 2017.
- ^ "Bruce Springsteen Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved June 17, 2017.
- ^ "Bruce Springsteen Chart History (Adult Contemporary)". Billboard. Retrieved June 17, 2017.
- ^ "Bruce Springsteen Chart History (Adult Pop Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved June 17, 2017.
- ^ "Bruce Springsteen Chart History (Pop Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved June 17, 2017.
- ^ "RPM 100 Hit Tracks of 1995". RPM. Retrieved November 26, 2017.
- ^ "Billboard Top 100 - 1997". Retrieved 2010-08-28.
