{"id":32253,"date":"2022-01-28T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/?p=32253"},"modified":"2022-01-28T06:54:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T14:54:00","slug":"rotd-matr-joe-grushecky-and-bruce-springsteen-im-not-sleeping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/28\/rotd-matr-joe-grushecky-and-bruce-springsteen-im-not-sleeping\/","title":{"rendered":"RotD\/MatR: Joe Grushecky and Bruce Springsteen: I&#8217;m Not Sleeping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Grushecky and Bruce Springsteen&#8217;s songwriting partnership started with\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/17\/american-babylon-a-retrospective\/\">American Babylon<\/a>,<\/em> but it certainly didn&#8217;t end there.<\/p>\n<p>Inspired by their songwriting chemistry, Bruce and Joe continued collaborating even once <i>American Babylon <\/i>was in the can, writing a collection of songs in 1995, many of which are still unreleased.<\/p>\n<p>As had become their custom when they worked together, Joe wrote most of the lyrics and Bruce wrote most of the music. But for at least one track the process was a lot more iterative.<\/p>\n<p>Joe wrote the lyrics for &#8220;I&#8217;m Not Sleeping&#8221; as political commentary on the state of the union, but his inspiration was his father&#8217;s playful excuse when his mother called him out for falling asleep on them: &#8220;I&#8217;m not sleeping!,&#8221; Joe&#8217;s dad would say, &#8220;I&#8217;m only resting my eyes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Joe realized their family joke would also make for a great hook in a song for anyone who&#8217;s ever been overwhelmed by the 24-hour news cycle and needed to tune out the world for a bit. We&#8217;re not sleeping; we&#8217;re just resting our eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Joe shared his lyrics with Bruce during a 1995 songwriting session, and Bruce set them to music. But this time, their back-and-forth continued for several iterations, with Bruce and Joe each taking ideas from the other, sharing and absorbing, tweaking and recording, until they finally arrived at a song that bore both of their stamps.<\/p>\n<p>Joe recorded released &#8220;I&#8217;m Not Sleeping&#8221; on his 1998 album, <em>Coming Home.<\/em><\/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\/VCVz7Vlvyo4?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 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>I never go out, I just stay at home<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Change my address and disconnect the phone<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Turn off the TV because it bothers me<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I&#8217;ve seen all, seen all I want to see<\/em><br \/>\n<em>And if my friends ask where I&#8217;ve been<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Just say I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s become of him<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Well I&#8217;m not sleeping<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I&#8217;m only resting my eyes<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Well I&#8217;m not sleeping<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I&#8217;m only taking my time<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Well it&#8217;s so hard, so hard to be responsible<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Knowing everything, everything that&#8217;s possible<\/em><br \/>\n<em>When the bad wind, when it comes blowing in<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I&#8217;ll pack my things and I&#8217;ll move on again<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I feed the rich and fool the poor<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Stack the bodies outside my door<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>The world outside is such a dangerous place<\/em><br \/>\n<em>That I don&#8217;t dare, I don&#8217;t dare show my face<\/em><br \/>\n<em>They got my number, they know where I live<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Well I&#8217;ve got no more to say, I&#8217;ve got no more to give<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>But I&#8217;m not sleeping<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Another night comes drawing near<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I shut my doors and then I disappear<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>But I&#8217;m not sleeping<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I&#8217;m only resting my eyes<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In a just world, &#8220;I&#8217;m Not Sleeping&#8221; would have been a hit single. It had all the elements, and it sounds even more relevant and fresh today than it did in 1998. (At least one of Joe&#8217;s lines also snuck its way into one of Bruce&#8217;s songs almost a decade later. Can you spot it?)<\/p>\n<p>But while Bruce doesn&#8217;t appear on Joe&#8217;s studio track and hasn&#8217;t released his own version, he performed it live on stage with Joe eight times over a four-year period from 2010 to 2014. Those performances are an absolute joy to behold: Joe and Bruce perform it as a true duet, and not only does Bruce clearly enjoy singing it, he knows it well enough to not even glance at a teleprompter&#8211;a pretty rare thing in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>Joe and Bruce&#8217;s performances of &#8220;I&#8217;m Not Sleeping&#8221; are so great, in fact, that I can&#8217;t bring myself to choose just one to feature here. So let&#8217;s enjoy this pair of clips from 2010 and 2011 and appreciate the artistry and chemistry of the Grushecky\/Springsteen songwriting team.<\/p>\n<div id=\"v-S42c7wmq-1\" class=\"video-player\"><iframe title='VideoPress Video Player' aria-label='VideoPress Video Player' width='758' height='424' src='https:\/\/videopress.com\/embed\/S42c7wmq?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<div id=\"v-bNmTsDJo-1\" class=\"video-player\"><iframe title='VideoPress Video Player' aria-label='VideoPress Video Player' width='758' height='424' src='https:\/\/videopress.com\/embed\/bNmTsDJo?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><strong>I&#8217;m Not Sleeping<br \/>\nReleased:\u00a0<\/strong><em>Coming Home\u00a0<\/em>(1998)<br \/>\n<strong>First performed:<\/strong> November 4, 2010 (Pittsburgh, PA)<br \/>\n<strong>Last performed:<\/strong> May 23, 2014 (Pittsburgh, PA)<\/p>\n<p>Looking for your favorite Bruce song? Check our full index\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/roll-of-the-dice-album-by-album\/\">here<\/a>. New entries every week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s one of Joe and Bruce&#8217;s best songwriting collaborations and on-stage moments, as fresh today as it was when they wrote it a quarter-century 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