Mary's clothing was the subject of a heated controversy over Bruce Springsteen's "Thunder Road" lyrics.

Mary's clothing was the subject of a heated controversy over Bruce Springsteen's "Thunder Road" lyrics.

The heated dispute about Bruce Springsteen's "Thunder Road" lyrics and Mary's dress movement in the iconic song is now officially ended.

The celebrations began just before Independence Day when New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman tweeted the well-known and frequently sung "Thunder Road" opening line from Bruce Springsteen's iconic 1975 album "Born to Run."

With an image of an empty stage before a "Springsteen on Broadway" performance, Haberman wrote, "A screen door smashes, Mary's dress sways." As a result, a slew of Twitter users said Haberman was dazzled by the light and that the lyric should read "waves," not "sways."

The Los Angeles Times looked into the issue ""Springsteen is hardly one of rock's great enunciators, and because dress finishes with a sibilant S,' such ways is difficult to differentiate from such-waves,'" he writes. Isn't it true that the subject is up for debate?"

Stevie Van Zandt, an E Street guitarist, and longstanding collaborator seemed unconcerned with the situation, telling a Twitter questioner, "Oy vey! Get this Bruce lyric (expletive) outta my feed!"

Springsteen remained silent on the subject, yet the word "waves" appears on his official website and in his songbook. Springsteen, on the other hand, uses "sways" on page 220 of his biography "Born To Run" and in handwritten lyrics that were auctioned off by Sotheby's in 2018.

By texting longtime Springsteen colleague and manager Jon Landau, co-producer of "Born to Run," New Yorker editor David Remnick joined and ended the argument.

In a piece published Saturday, Remnick said, "Short of Springsteen himself, no one could answer the issue more firmly than Landau."

"The term is ways,'" said Landau. "That's how he penned it in his notebooks, that's how he sang it on 'Born to Run,' in 1975, that's how he's always sung it at thousands of performances, and that's how he sings it on Broadway right now. Official Bruce content will be updated if there are any typos. 'Dresses,' by the way, don't know how to 'wave.'"