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"
Bruce Springsteen also told Wieder that, "I went through a divorce, and it was really difficult and painful and I was very frightened about getting married again. So part of me said, 'Hey, what does it matter?' But it does matter. It's very different than just living together. First of all, stepping up publicly—which is what you do: You get your license, you do all the social rituals—is a part of your place in society and in some way part of society's acceptance of you ... Patti and I both found that it did mean something." Springsteen and Scialfa lived in New