{"id":21110,"date":"1980-07-30T11:00:00","date_gmt":"1980-07-30T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/?p=21110"},"modified":"2026-09-25T07:41:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T14:41:22","slug":"roll-of-the-dice-break-my-heart-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/1980\/07\/30\/roll-of-the-dice-break-my-heart-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"Break My Heart (Tonight)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He didn&#8217;t have lyrics, but he had a riff. And that was all Bruce needed to gather the E Street Band together at his house toward the end of their month off during the Darkness Tour.<\/p>\n<p>On October 26, 1978, the E Street Band got to work.<\/p>\n<div id=\"v-lmLmY0uk-1\" class=\"video-player\"><iframe title='VideoPress Video Player' aria-label='VideoPress Video Player' width='758' height='568' src='https:\/\/videopress.com\/embed\/lmLmY0uk?hd=1&amp;cover=1&amp;loop=0&amp;autoPlay=0&amp;permalink=1&amp;muted=0&amp;controls=1&amp;playsinline=0&amp;useAverageColor=0&amp;preloadContent=metadata' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen data-resize-to-parent=\"true\" allow='clipboard-write; presentation'><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Tonight&#8221; (as it was called at the time) was a riff in search of a song.<\/p>\n<p>And also in search of a tempo, it seemed, because they tried it again&#8211;this time a bit faster.<\/p>\n<div id=\"v-1YAm8kJH-1\" class=\"video-player\"><iframe title='VideoPress Video Player' aria-label='VideoPress Video Player' width='758' height='568' src='https:\/\/videopress.com\/embed\/1YAm8kJH?hd=1&amp;cover=1&amp;loop=0&amp;autoPlay=0&amp;permalink=1&amp;muted=0&amp;controls=1&amp;playsinline=0&amp;useAverageColor=0&amp;preloadContent=metadata' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen data-resize-to-parent=\"true\" allow='clipboard-write; presentation'><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>But despite at least a half-dozen attempts that day, &#8220;Tonight&#8221; never developed into a full song.<\/p>\n<p>(All was not lost that day, however. Bruce and the band worked on another new song that day, one that had more promise&#8211;so much promise, in fact, that &#8220;The Ties That Bind&#8221; made its debut on stage just six days later when the tour resumed.)<\/p>\n<p>Months later, after the Darkness Tour ended and Bruce began working on what would become <em>The River, <\/em>he took another run at &#8220;Tonight,&#8221; keeping the riff (and speeding it up even more) but re-writing the song as &#8220;Break My Heart.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"v-oFuAmdF3-1\" class=\"video-player\"><iframe title='VideoPress Video Player' aria-label='VideoPress Video Player' width='758' height='426' src='https:\/\/videopress.com\/embed\/oFuAmdF3?hd=1&amp;cover=1&amp;loop=0&amp;autoPlay=0&amp;permalink=1&amp;muted=0&amp;controls=1&amp;playsinline=0&amp;useAverageColor=0&amp;preloadContent=metadata' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen data-resize-to-parent=\"true\" allow='clipboard-write; presentation'><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>That one didn&#8217;t go anywhere either.<\/p>\n<p>But Bruce wasn&#8217;t about to give up on that riff. 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