No Surrender by Bruce Springsteen is featured in The Quarterback, the third episode of Season Five. It is sung by Puck.
Puck sits in the center of The Choir Room, on a stool, as he plays the guitar and sings No Surrender. He looks over at the empty chair next to Will, as if implying that Finn is there, or at least meant to be there. The meaningful lyrics of the song are dedicated to his lost best friend. As the performance is completed, the New Directions gather around Puck. He tells them that he loves them but Santana enters, starting an argument, accusing him of stealing Finn's letterman jacket.
Lyrics
Puck:
Well, we bursted out of class
Had to get away from those fools
We learned more from a 3-minute record, baby
Than we ever learned in school
Tonight I hear the neighborhood drummer sound
I can feel my heart begin to pound
You say you're tired and you just want to close your eyes
And follow your dreams down
Well, we made a promise we swore we'd always remember
No retreat, baby, no surrender
Like soldiers on the winter's night
With a vow to defend
No retreat, baby, no surrender
Well, now young faces grow sad and old
And hearts of fire grow cold
We swore blood brothers against the wind
And I'm ready to grow young again
And I hear your sister's voice calling us home
Across the open yards
Well even we can cut someplace of our own
With these drums and these guitars
'Cause we made a promise we swore we'd always remember
No retreat, baby, no surrender
Blood brothers on a summer's night
With a vow to defend
No retreat, baby, no surrender
Huh ah ah ah ah ah ah
Huh ah ah ah ah ah ah
Now out on the streets tonight the lights are growing dim
And the walls of my room are closing in
But it's good to see your smiling face
And to hear your voice again
Now we can sleep in the twilight
By the river bed
With a wide open country in our hearts
And these romantic dreams in our hands
'Cause we made a promise we swore we'd always remember
No retreat, baby, no surrender
Blood brothers on a summer's night
With a vow to defend
No retreat, baby, no surrender
No retreat, baby, no surrender
Trivia
- This is the first time Puck sings in the choir room since You Get What You Give in Goodbye.
- This is the last of the three songs originally by Bruce Springsteen that were sung in the show, the others being Fire and Glory Days.
- Both Glory Days and No Surrender feature Puck as a singer.
- They also both come from Bruce Springsteen's seventh studio album, Born in the USA, released in 1984.
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