Born to Run (Bruce Springsteen song) in Long Branch, New Jersey in early 1974, the song was Bruce Springsteen's final attempt to become successful. The prior year, Springsteen had released two albums to critical acclaim but with little commercial movement. Written in the first person, the song is a love letter to a girl named Wendy, for whom the hot rod-riding protagonist seems to possess the passion to love, just not the patience. However, Springsteen has noted that it has a much simpler core: getting out of Freehold. Route 9 is mentioned from the lyric "sprung from cages out on Highway 9". In his 1996 book
Secret Garden (Bruce Springsteen song) Secret Garden (Bruce Springsteen song) "Secret Garden" is a 1995 single by Bruce Springsteen. It was originally released February 27, 1995 on his "Greatest Hits" album on Columbia Records. Upon its initial release it peaked at No. 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"