{"id":10411,"date":"2019-06-21T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/?p=10411"},"modified":"2019-12-06T20:42:33","modified_gmt":"2019-12-07T04:42:33","slug":"roll-of-the-dice-lions-den","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2019\/06\/21\/roll-of-the-dice-lions-den\/","title":{"rendered":"Roll of the Dice: Lion’s Den"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I often get asked about my favorite Springsteen song, and I agonize over it each and every time. My answer tends to vary by the day. Bruce’s catalog is too vast and too stellar to latch onto any one song as an ultimate favorite.<\/p>\n

Once, though, a fellow fan asked me what my favorite Springsteen lyrics<\/em> were, and although I’d never even considered the question, my answer came surprisingly quickly and easily.<\/p>\n

In theory, it should have been just as tough a task as picking a favorite song. After all, this is the man who wrote “Is a dream a lie if it don’t come true, or is it something worse” and “God have mercy on the man who doubts what he’s sure of<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

But as killer as those lines are, they’re not what came immediately to mind when pressed for my favorite Springsteen lyrics.<\/p>\n

No, my vote for Bruce’s best lyric goes to:<\/p>\n

Dum dum dee-dum dum dee-dee dum dum!<\/em><\/p>\n

I contend to you, dear reader, that there are no finer words to be found anywhere in Bruce Springsteen’s catalog, and his inclusion of them in “Lion’s Den” is more than mere evidence of his unerring lyrical instincts–it elevates a castoff trifle to one of Bruce’s best and tightest pop songs.<\/p>\n

Let’s take a listen.<\/p>\n