Brothers Under the Bridge ('83) Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Pirtyfool22 

Cover art for Brothers Under the Bridge ('83) lyrics by Bruce Springsteen

Another song from the Tracks album that should have been released as a single when first recorded (part of the Born in the USA album) and should have been a huge hit.

It seems like another reference to Miami Steve Van Zandt's departure from the E Street Band, along with Bobby Jean and No Surrender. I like this one the best of the three.

Can you ,please, help me about the meaning of these last words ? :

'I hear a 'CRY' in the distance and the sound of 'MARCHING FEET', 'come and gone'.I'm stitting down here by this 'highway-figuring', 'FIGURING' just where I belong. Tonight up on Signal Hill, I watch a young man in a red shirt walking through the night so still. Put his jacket around his girl as the autumn wind sends a chill through the brothers under the bridges'.