"Secret Garden" is a song by American musician Bruce Springsteen. It was originally released as a single from his Greatest Hits album on February 27, 1995, on Columbia Records. Upon its initial release, it peaked at number 63 on the BillboardHot 100. "Secret Garden" was re-released on April 11, 1997, through Sony as a two-track single, of which also featured a live version of "Thunder Road". This re-issue returned the song to the Hot 100, where it peaked at number 19 and remains Springsteen's final top-20 hit in the United States to date. The song gained much of its popularity after being featured on the soundtrack for the 1996 movieJerry Maguire peaking at number 12 and number 15 on the Adult Top 40 and Top 40 Mainstream respectively. "Secret Garden" was also featured in the film Night at the Roxbury and the TV showIt's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. The song was also synced with Garry Dell'Abate's 'Love Tape' to his ex-girlfriend. The song has been performed only a handful of times live. It was performed three times in 1995 in New York, and one time on the Reunion Tour in 2000. The song returned to the setlist once in 2013 when Springsteen performed it in the United Kingdom. After a three-year hiatus, Springsteen performed it twice in 2016 in New Jersey and Washington, D.C., and once in 2017 in Brisbane, Australia. The lyrics of the song is about the little part of all of us, that, despite everything, will ever be a personal thing. The place that only we can reach. "There will always be a secret place inside each and one of us" that makes who we are and which only we can reach. The people who love us can see its existence, but will not be able to enter or fully understand it. In particular, the lyrics is a thought which Springsteen has regarding words, behaviours and situations that will be able to make you feel so close to a woman that you are in reach of that secret garden, but than you realise that the "secret garden, where everything you want, where everything you need, will always stay a million miles away."
