{"id":819,"date":"1980-08-23T11:00:41","date_gmt":"1980-08-23T18:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/?p=819"},"modified":"2026-09-25T11:05:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T18:05:25","slug":"roll-of-the-dice-you-gotta-be-kind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/1980\/08\/23\/roll-of-the-dice-you-gotta-be-kind\/","title":{"rendered":"You Gotta Be Kind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;You Gotta Be Kind&#8221; is an unfinished demo, recorded by Bruce at home in early 1980.<\/p>\n<p>The song features a reggae beat paired with roughed-in lyrics that dance around the need to go out of your way to help someone in need. To be kind, in other words.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>If you see a man lying by the roadside<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Would you stop and give him a helping hand<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Or would you drive home leavin&#8217; him to cry\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>&lt;unintelligible&gt;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>You gotta be a kind to your brother<\/em><br \/>\n<em>You gotta be kind, baby, understand<\/em><br \/>\n<em>You gotta be, You gotta be kind<\/em><br \/>\n<em>You gotta be kind<\/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\/ZGdmi0tREPQ?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>The second verse doesn&#8217;t really fit with the first:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Now some boys, they come out on Stockton<\/em><br \/>\n<em>And they&#8217;re acting mighty rough and tough<\/em><br \/>\n<em>They hurt the others<\/em><br \/>\n<em>And they don&#8217;t live on blood<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The reference to &#8220;Stockton&#8221; and acting &#8220;rough and tough&#8221; leads me to believe that this verse is borrowed from &#8220;Stockton Boys&#8221; (which was recorded around the same time)\u00a0 for the purpose of working out the song (if one can borrow lines from a song that doesn&#8217;t exist yet). It was probably never intended for the final product at all.<\/p>\n<p>Bruce is known to fiddle around with lyrics, melodies and arrangements independently of each other. In the process, songs cross-pollinate, evolve, and sometimes are abandoned. This is one of the abandoned&#8211;I don&#8217;t believe I&#8217;ve seen traces of either lyrics or melody pop up anywhere else in Bruce&#8217;s work (other than an early version of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2018\/04\/19\/roll-of-the-dice-whitetown\/\">Whitetown<\/a>&#8221; that never saw the light of day either), so we may never know what this song would have become if it had made it to vinyl.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You Gotta Be Kind<br \/>\nRecorded:<\/strong> 1980 (demo)<br \/>\n<strong>Never released<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Never performed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 February 23, 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An unfinished, unreleased demo that would resonate particularly well these 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