{"id":22282,"date":"2020-11-05T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/?p=22282"},"modified":"2021-12-20T22:01:39","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T06:01:39","slug":"roll-of-the-dice-all-im-thinkin-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/05\/roll-of-the-dice-all-im-thinkin-about\/","title":{"rendered":"Roll of the Dice: All I&#8217;m Thinkin&#8217; About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to another installment of <em>Graphically (But Secretly) Sexual Springsteen Songs.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All I&#8217;m Thinkin&#8217; About&#8221; is about what we do when all we&#8217;re thinkin&#8217; about is sex, and especially when we&#8217;ve lost that one partner we can&#8217;t stop thinkin&#8217; about.<\/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\/G7k-tfytNrg?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>But unless you listen closely, you might never realize that &#8220;All I&#8217;m Thinkin&#8217; About&#8221; is a cousin to songs like &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2019\/08\/21\/roll-of-the-dice-pink-cadillac\/\">Pink Cadillac<\/a>&#8221; and &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/15\/roll-of-the-dice-red-headed-woman\/\">Red Headed Woman.<\/a>&#8221; Bruce sings with such a deliberately innocent falsetto and fills his verses with such pastoral imagery that we&#8217;re lulled into receiving his song as a country lark.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t help that &#8220;All I&#8217;m Thinkin&#8217; About&#8221; is an obvious homage to Canned Heat&#8217;s &#8220;Going Up the Country&#8221; road trip, from the rhythm to the melody to the lyrical &#8220;wine&#8221; reference in the first verse.<\/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\/4eQMA_noRYQ?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>But if Canned Heat hides just a bit of countercultural protest if you listen for it, Bruce positively packs &#8220;All I&#8217;m Thinkin&#8217; About&#8221; with sexual innuendo, with varying degrees of subtlety.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s break it down; I&#8217;ll do my best to maintain a sense of propriety and decorum as we go.<\/p>\n<p>We begin with our narrator parked in his truck by the side of the road.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Blind man wavin&#8217; by the side of the road<\/em><br \/>\n<em>In a flat bed Ford carrying a heavy load<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, our narrator is not literally blind, nor is he literally wavin&#8217;. However, there is an adult activity that involves repetitive hand motion and that by (thankfully) inaccurate legend can cause blindness. &#8220;Wavin'&#8221; is a pretty clever euphemism for it.<\/p>\n<p>As for &#8220;heavy load,&#8221; its graphic meaning doesn&#8217;t become clear until we realize that it&#8217;s the blind man who&#8217;s carrying it, not the Ford.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Sweet thing sippin&#8217; on a blueberry wine<\/em><br \/>\n<em>On a flat black highway down in Carolina<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Black bird slippin&#8217; in a sky of blue<\/em><\/p>\n<p>These lines are among the few that we can take literally. Our narrator slips into his, um, reverie and mentally summons the object of his desire. He leans back, uses the sky as a bluescreen, and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>All I&#8217;m thinkin&#8217; about is you<\/em><br \/>\n<em>All I&#8217;m thinkin&#8217; about is you<\/em><br \/>\n<em>All I&#8217;m thinkin&#8217; about is you<\/em><br \/>\n<em>All I&#8217;m thinkin&#8217; about is you<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Ain&#8217;t nothin&#8217; in this world I can do about it<\/em><br \/>\n<em>All I&#8217;m thinkin&#8217; about is you<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The rest of the song is nothing but a parade of passers-by while our driver self-engages in the privacy of his truck. But each image is delightfully lewd:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Little boy carryin&#8217; a fishin&#8217; pole<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Self explanatory, once we realize &#8220;fishin&#8217; pole&#8221; is a euphemism.<\/p>\n<p>Side note: when performing &#8220;All I&#8217;m Thinkin&#8217; About&#8221; in concert, Bruce was pretty good at playing it straight. Once in a while, though, his giggling inner twelve-year-old got the better of him, like at this show in Milan.<\/p>\n<div id=\"v-uycqhyAX-1\" class=\"video-player\"><iframe title='VideoPress Video Player' aria-label='VideoPress Video Player' width='758' height='426' src='https:\/\/videopress.com\/embed\/uycqhyAX?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 I digress. Moving on:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Little girl pickin&#8217; berries off of the vine<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Berries&#8221; is a common euphemism for testicles; complete the metaphor on your own.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Brown bag filled with a little green toad<\/em><br \/>\n<em>We hook &#8217;em through the lip and throw &#8217;em off of the line<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Okay, I&#8217;m gonna admit to being stumped by this one. Feel free to enlighten me; y&#8217;all may be more experienced than I am.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Your sweet brown legs got me feeling so blue<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here, I will simply point out that Bruce uses the word &#8220;blue&#8221; as a rhyme three times in this song, and we know that Bruce certainly is never at a loss for rhymes. There&#8217;s a dual meaning at work here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>All I&#8217;m thinkin&#8217; about is you<\/em><br \/>\n<em>All I&#8217;m thinkin&#8217; about is you<\/em><br \/>\n<em>All I&#8217;m thinkin&#8217; about is you<\/em><br \/>\n<em>All I&#8217;m thinkin&#8217; about is you<\/em><br \/>\n<em>There ain&#8217;t nothin&#8217; in this world I can do about it<\/em><br \/>\n<em>All I&#8217;m thinkin&#8217; about is you<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Black car shinin&#8217; on a Sunday morn<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Mama go to church now, Mama go to church now<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Friday night, daddy&#8217;s shirt is torn<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Daddy&#8217;s goin&#8217; downtown, Daddy&#8217;s goin&#8217; downtown<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Ain&#8217;t no one understand this sweet thing we do<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Oh yes we do, Bruce, because we&#8217;re paying attention. We&#8217;re pretty sure we know what Mama does at church; it likely involves invoking the name of the Almighty.\u00a0 We know where Daddy&#8217;s goin&#8217; down, too.<\/p>\n<p>Still, that last line functions as a pretty neat triple entendre, one of which is the songwriter&#8217;s self-congratulation at slipping one risque reference after another over the head of the casual listener.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s move on. We&#8217;re deep into it now, and the song is reaching its climax. We&#8217;re just about at the moment of truth&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Field turned up, the seed is sowed<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Rain comin&#8217; in from over &#8216;cross the road<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and now here it comes, enveloping us like a curtain as Bruce&#8217;s vocal builds to a moment of intense release:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Big black curtain coming &#8216;cross the field<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Blind&#8217;ll see, the lame will be healed<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Oh, the mystical power of the orgasm. It&#8217;s powerful in effect, but it fades oh so quickly. Momentarily, our narrator is returned to the real world, where he realizes he&#8217;s still alone&#8211;and now we finally learn why:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Brown eyed girl, I turned my back on you, now it&#8217;s lonely<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the last original line of the song, and its the one that grounds the song in tragedy after soaring in whimsy. It&#8217;s the classic Springsteenian trope: he had a girl, he screwed up and lost her, and now he can&#8217;t get his mind off her.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>All I&#8217;m thinkin&#8217; about is you<\/em><br \/>\n<em>All I&#8217;m thinkin&#8217; about is you<\/em><br \/>\n<em>All I&#8217;m thinkin&#8217; about is you<\/em><br \/>\n<em>All I&#8217;m thinkin&#8217; about is you<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Bruce gets in one last joke, though: our narrator may have temporarily relieved himself of one level of blueness, but there&#8217;s another that refuses to budge.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Ain&#8217;t nothin&#8217; in this world take away these blues<\/em><br \/>\n<em>All I&#8217;m thinkin&#8217; about is you<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>We know that Bruce wrote &#8220;All I&#8217;m Thinkin&#8217; About&#8221; in 1997, during the\u00a0Ghost of Tom Joad\u00a0era, and we know that at the very least, Brendan O&#8217;Brien&#8217;s bass was recorded in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>The core recording, though, is an all-Springsteen production&#8211;he plays three guitars, keyboards, tambourine, and a light brush on the drums. That recording very likely dates back to the 1997-98 era (and possibly the backing vocals by Patti, Soozie, and Lisa Lowell as well), but Bruce has yet to definitively pin that down for us.<\/p>\n<p>Curiously, though, there&#8217;s an alternate version of &#8220;All I&#8217;m Thinkin&#8217; About&#8221; that was captured by Danny Clinch and included on the DVD\/CD &#8220;dual disc&#8221; release of\u00a0<em>Devils &amp; Dust.\u00a0<\/em>It&#8217;s still a solo acoustic Springsteen arrangement, but there are some unseen backing vocalists we haven&#8217;t heard from before.<\/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\/ffUyqhxWkrE?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>That was the debut of backing vocalists Evan Springsteen, Jessica Springsteen, and Sam Springsteen in their first official contribution to one of their father&#8217;s albums. (Yes, this strikes me as kind of an odd song to have your kids cameo on, but I&#8217;m not gonna judge.)<\/p>\n<p>Bruce played &#8220;All I&#8217;m Thinkin&#8217; About&#8221; semi-regularly (at about one out of every three shows) on his 2005 solo acoustic tour. He also performed it once on television, at a\u00a0<em>Today <\/em>appearance on NBC in April to promote his new album.<\/p>\n<div id=\"v-1XyTRHmH-1\" class=\"video-player\"><iframe title='VideoPress Video Player' aria-label='VideoPress Video Player' width='758' height='500' src='https:\/\/videopress.com\/embed\/1XyTRHmH?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>It&#8217;s been fifteen years since Bruce played it last, however; he seems to be thinkin&#8217; about other things these days.<\/p>\n<p>I guess he&#8217;s worked &#8220;All I&#8217;m Thinkin&#8217; About&#8221; out of his system.<\/p>\n<p><strong>All I&#8217;m Thinkin&#8217; About<br \/>\nRecorded:\u00a0<\/strong>1997-2004<br \/>\n<strong>Released:\u00a0<\/strong><em>Devils &amp; Dust<\/em> (2005)<br \/>\n<strong>First performed:\u00a0<\/strong>April 30, 2005 (Glendale, AZ)<br \/>\n<strong>Last performed:\u00a0<\/strong>November 19, 2005 (Hollywood, FL)<\/p>\n<p>Looking for your favorite Bruce song? Check our\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/roll-of-the-dice-album-by-album\/\">full index<\/a>. New entries every week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laced with playfully ribald metaphor and delightfully sly euphemism, &#8220;All I&#8217;m Thinkin&#8217; About&#8221; earns its place among the great masturbation 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