{"id":4353,"date":"2018-09-03T05:00:31","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T12:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/?p=4353"},"modified":"2020-12-03T16:48:16","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T00:48:16","slug":"roll-of-the-dice-youll-be-comin-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/03\/roll-of-the-dice-youll-be-comin-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Roll of the Dice: You&#8217;ll Be Comin&#8217; Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someday, I&#8217;d love to see Bruce play &#8220;You&#8217;ll Be Comin&#8217; Down&#8221; back-to-back with &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/24\/roll-of-the-dice-lucky-town\/\">Lucky Town<\/a>&#8221; and see if he has the same epiphany that he had in Sunrise a few years ago&#8230;<\/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\/KtyeEEnkLAk?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;start=20&#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>&#8230;because it&#8217;s sure hard not to hear echoes of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/24\/roll-of-the-dice-lucky-town\/\">Lucky Town<\/a>&#8221; from 1992 when you listen to this under-the-radar track from Bruce&#8217;s 2007\u00a0<em>Magic<\/em> album, particularly the chorus:<\/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\/487gIbI4Z4I?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>Let&#8217;s set the musical similarities aside though, because lyrically the songs couldn&#8217;t be more extreme polar opposites. Whereas &#8220;Lucky Town&#8221; is optimistic, fueled by idealism tempered with life experience, &#8220;You&#8217;ll Be Comin&#8217; Down&#8221; is downright cynical.<\/p>\n<p>Something about Bruce&#8217;s vocal delivery keeps it from tipping over into outright bitterness, however. Instead, the singer seems at peace rather than resigned, confident rather than angry. That&#8217;s all in the delivery, because the lyrics tell a different story:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>White roses and misty blue eyes<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Red mornings, then nothin&#8217; but gray skies<\/em><br \/>\n<em>A cup of coffee, a heart shot clean through<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The jacket you bought me gone daisy gray-blue<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Bruce has a sure hand with metaphor, but he mostly restrains it in this song. Instead, he relies on color as his dominant conceit: the girl he sings about is vividly lit in vibrant colors, but everything she touches fades, from the skies above her to the gifts she bestowed.\u00a0 (It&#8217;s a little lazy to use gray twice&#8211;even modified as gray-blue&#8211;but we&#8217;ll let that slide.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>You&#8217;re smiling now but you&#8217;ll find out<\/em><br \/>\n<em>They&#8217;ll use you up and spit you out now<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Your head&#8217;s spinnin&#8217; in diamonds and clouds<\/em><br \/>\n<em>But pretty soon it turns out<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>You&#8217;ll be comin&#8217; down now baby<\/em><br \/>\n<em>You&#8217;ll be coming down<\/em><br \/>\n<em>What goes around, it comes around and<\/em><br \/>\n<em>You&#8217;ll be comin&#8217; down<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Reading those lines, it would be easy to hear spite and bitterness, but Bruce&#8217;s delivery is that of someone who&#8217;s lived a long life and is secure in the knowledge that life is full of ups and downs&#8211;and if you don&#8217;t live the life of someone who&#8217;s going to eventually have downs, you won&#8217;t be prepared for them when they come.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Easy street, a quick buck and true lies<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Smiles as thin as those dusky blue skies<\/em><br \/>\n<em>A silver plate of pearls my golden child<\/em><br \/>\n<em>It&#8217;s all yours at least for a little while<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Back to the color wheel we go, although this time it&#8217;s in service of a monetary metaphor, &#8220;golden child&#8221; serving in both senses. And then, as is often the case with Bruce&#8217;s songs, we arrive at the one sentence that captures the essence of the entire song:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>You&#8217;ll be fine long as your pretty face holds out<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Then it&#8217;s gonna get pretty cold out<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it right there: a prediction and a warning delivered with sadness and affection. The end of the verse and the bridge are basically identical in meaning, driving home the singer&#8217;s message (in case it&#8217;s been too subtle):<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>An empty stream of stars shooting by<\/em><br \/>\n<em>You got your hopes on high<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>For a while you&#8217;ll go sparklin&#8217; by<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Just another pretty thing on high<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The last verse ends the song on a weak note, in my opinion:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Like a thief on a Sunday morning<\/em><br \/>\n<em>It all falls apart with no warning<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Your cinnamon sky&#8217;s gone candy-apple green<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The crushed metal of your little flying machine<\/em><\/p>\n<p>These are odd metaphors: maybe I&#8217;m just unfamiliar with a life of crime, but exactly is it about Sundays that poses a danger to thieves? And I&#8217;m not sure why a green sky would be any less alarming, concerning, or foreboding than a red one.<\/p>\n<p>But with preceding context, it&#8217;s pretty clear that Bruce is saying that someday this woman will lose her beauty and vivacity, and it may happen suddenly and to severe and immediate effect. There&#8217;s no indication that the object of the song is listening or will ever hear it, however, so we&#8217;re left to just consider it a message to heed ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>IMHO, &#8220;You&#8217;ll Be Comin&#8217; Down&#8221; is the weakest song on\u00a0<em>Magic,\u00a0<\/em>and perhaps that&#8217;s why Bruce has only ever played it live once, in the heart of that album&#8217;s tour in Columbus. Here&#8217;s a pro-shot snippet and an audio clip of the performance in its entirety.<\/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\/w6jctYNR8Ds?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<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\/ZhcOV4f3xho?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>It&#8217;s actually a solid performance, both on stage and on record, and the song itself isn&#8217;t\u00a0 bad either. It&#8217;s just not great.<\/p>\n<p>Got a different opinion? Please share&#8211;when I find a Springsteen song I don&#8217;t particularly care for, I love finding reasons to change my mind.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You&#8217;ll Be Comin&#8217; Down<\/strong><strong><br \/>\nRecorded: <\/strong>February-May 2007<strong><br \/>\nReleased:<\/strong>\u00a0<em>Magic\u00a0<\/em>(2007)<br \/>\n<strong>First performed:\u00a0<\/strong>March 24, 2008 (Columbus, OH)<br \/>\n<strong>Last performed:\u00a0<\/strong>March 24, 2008 (Columbus, OH)<\/p>\n<p>Looking for your favorite Bruce song? Check our <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>Musical cousin but lyrical opposite to &#8220;Lucky Town,&#8221; &#8220;You&#8217;ll Be Comin&#8217; Down&#8221; is an under-the-radar track (perhaps justifiably) from Bruce&#8217;s Magic 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