There's a place out on the edge of town, sir Risin' above the factories and the fields Ever since I was a child I can remember That mansion out on the hill In the day you can see the children playing On a road that leads to those gates of hardened steel Steel gates that completely surround, sir The mansion on the hill At night my daddy'd take me and we'd ride Through the streets of a town so silent and still We'd park on a back road along the highway signs Sit an' look up at the mansion on the hill In the summer all the lights would shine There'd be music playin', people laughin' all the time Me and my sister we'd hide out in the tall cornfields Sit and listen to the mansion on the hill Well, tonight down here in the rain I watch the cars rushin' by home from the mill There's a beautiful full moon rising Above the mansion on the hill ©Bruce Springsteen