Born to Run
Destined for flight
Born to Run is Bruce Springsteen's 1975 album and its title track, widely considered his breakthrough work.
The phrase captures restless yearning to escape—small-town limitations, dead-end jobs, ordinary life: We were born to run.
It's become shorthand for that urgent need to break free, often invoked when someone seems made for movement rather than settling down.
- highwayMajor road for travel
- freedomAbsence of constraint
- escapeFlight from captivity
- racingSpeed competition sport
- wildNot domesticated or controlled
Bruce Springsteen · Springsteen · youth · Jersey · heartland · muscle car · rock anthem · asphalt · road trip · muscle cars · sweat · dreams · guitar · anthem · restless · chase · open road · velocity
- travel songsroad songs, Route 66, Highway to Hell, I Get Around, Chattanooga Choo Choo
- SpringsteenThunder Road, Badlands, Nebraska, Atlantic City, Bruce
- Albumsalbum, Thriller, Rumours, Pet Sounds, OK Computer
- 1975Saturday Night Live, SNL, Bohemian Rhapsody, Apollo-Soyuz, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Michael MorpurgoWar Horse
- Sports MemoirsKareem, Raging Bull, Behind the Mask
Born to Runrooted
Firmly established in place
settled · homebound · stationary · grounded · planted
Born to Runtrapped
Unable to escape
caged · bound · imprisoned · confined · tied down
Born to RunNebraska
Central plains state
settled down · contentment · complacency · easy listening · muzak
born, run, bore, borne, bearing, bearer, runs, running, runner