{"id":26451,"date":"2021-05-04T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/?p=26451"},"modified":"2023-01-02T17:52:05","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T01:52:05","slug":"roll-of-the-dice-surprise-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/04\/roll-of-the-dice-surprise-surprise\/","title":{"rendered":"Roll of the Dice: Surprise, Surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"

“In my dreams, I’ve written many, many songs. And in my dreams these songs sound like the greatest songs I’ve ever written. I wake up, and I write some of these things down. And then I get up the next morning, and almost invariably all these songs are total shit! You think you’re great in your dream, but you’re not. For years, I’d write a song in my dreams, and in my dream I’m going ‘This is the one! This is the one that’ll make them forget Born to Run!’ I get up, I write it down, and I get up the next morning and play it and it’s horrendous. But one song I wrote in my dream, and I got up the next morning and played it and it was good. There’s only been one in all of 45 years.” — Bruce Springsteen’s on-stage introduction to “Surprise, Surprise”, November 4, 2011<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So… who’s gonna tell him?<\/p>\n

Because if “Surprise, Surprise” is the only “good” song to come out of Bruce’s dreams, I’m glad he never recorded the others.<\/p>\n

(Bruce may be prone to on-stage exaggeration at times, but this is one story I believe one hundred percent.)<\/p>\n