{"id":1278,"date":"2018-03-26T05:00:56","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T12:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/?p=1278"},"modified":"2019-11-24T10:39:55","modified_gmt":"2019-11-24T18:39:55","slug":"roll-of-the-dice-life-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/26\/roll-of-the-dice-life-itself\/","title":{"rendered":"Roll of the Dice: Life Itself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Little known fact: &#8220;Life Itself&#8221; was actually released ahead of Bruce&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Working on a Dream\u00a0<\/em>album, along with the video below. &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2019\/07\/04\/roll-of-the-dice-working-on-a-dream\/\">Working on a Dream<\/a>&#8221; (the single) and &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2019\/09\/02\/roll-of-the-dice-my-lucky-day\/\">My Lucky Day<\/a>&#8221; also received the pre-release treatment, and both garnered much more attention than &#8220;Life Itself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s too bad, because &#8220;Life Itself&#8221; is clearly the most complex and mature song of the three, and it deserved more airplay than it received.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"758\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Pk8KPdWgAJY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>At first listen, &#8220;Life Itself&#8221; plays like a straight Springsteen love song: Boy meets troubled girl and falls hard:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>We met down in the valley, where the wine of love and destruction flowed<\/em><br \/>\n<em>There in that curve of darkness where flowers of temptation grow<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I left the rest for the others; it was you and nothing else<\/em><br \/>\n<em>You felt so good to me baby, good as life itself<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>I knew you were in trouble, anyone could tell<\/em><br \/>\n<em>You carried your little black book from which all your secrets fell<\/em><br \/>\n<em>You squandered all your riches, your love, your beauty and your wealth<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Like you had no further use for life itself<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>You were life itself, rushing over me<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Life itself, the wind in black elms<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Life itself, in your heart and in your eyes<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I can&#8217;t make it without you<\/em><\/p>\n<p>But the key to &#8220;Life Itself&#8221; is the third verse&#8211;it taps into the unifying theme of\u00a0<em>Working on a Dream:<\/em> the aging process and coming to grips with it; the feeling of life accelerating and the gradual acclimation to loss.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Why do the things that we treasure most slip away in time<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Till to the music we grow deaf and to God&#8217;s beauty blind<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Why do the things that connect us slowly pull us apart<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Till we fall away in our own darkness, stranger to our own hearts<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When I sat down to write this post, I re-watched the official video above. I&#8217;m struck now as I was at first viewing by the images Bruce chose to show at key moments of the song: himself with Patti was an obvious choice. But a clip of Bruce and Stevie at the mic make it clear that Bruce didn&#8217;t write this song purely about romantic love. And the image of the anonymous old man during the instrumental bridge telegraphs the emergence of the song&#8217;s heart in verse three.<\/p>\n<p>But today I was struck by an image I&#8217;d overlooked before: around the 2:40 mark, at the key line:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Why do the things that connect us slowly pull us apart<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Till we fall away in our own darkness, stranger to our own hearts<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;there&#8217;s an image of an unknown older man, with an out-of-focus American flag waving in the background. I never noticed the flag before, but today I did&#8211;and I heard that line in a new and different way.<\/p>\n<p>And now I can hear the entire song through that lens as well. Did Bruce intend a double meaning? Is there a sly political subtext here? I think so: Bruce wrote and recorded a demo of &#8220;Life Itself&#8221; during the production of <em>Magic<\/em>\u00a0, and that line seems very much in keeping with what Bruce wrote and sang about on that album.<\/p>\n<p>And very much relevant today.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re still waiting to hear &#8220;Life Itself&#8221; performed live; Bruce has yet to premiere it. But if we ever get that long-rumored solo tour after his Broadway run is finished, I nominate it for a setlist staple&#8211;I suspect it&#8217;ll still be relevant by then.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Life Itself<br \/>\nRecorded:\u00a0<\/strong>2007-2008<br \/>\n<strong>Released:<\/strong> &#8220;Life Itself&#8221; (single) (2008);\u00a0<em>Working on a Dream<\/em> (2009)<br \/>\n<strong>Never Performed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Looking for your favorite Bruce song? Check our full index\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/roll-of-the-dice-album-by-album\/\">here<\/a>. 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