{"id":829,"date":"2018-03-02T05:00:53","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T13:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/?p=829"},"modified":"2020-11-26T12:31:25","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T20:31:25","slug":"roll-of-the-dice-lets-be-friends-skin-to-skin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/02\/roll-of-the-dice-lets-be-friends-skin-to-skin\/","title":{"rendered":"Roll of the Dice: Let&#8217;s Be Friends (Skin to Skin)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><del><\/del>I&#8217;m gonna say it:\u00a0I\u00a0<em>love<\/em> this song, and it&#8217;s in my top three tracks on\u00a0<em>The Rising.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Fans love to lavish the hate on this song&#8211;heck, even Bruce seems embarrassed by it (he only ever performed it once). But from the first listen, &#8220;Let&#8217;s Be Friends&#8221; hooked me with it&#8217;s summery, shimmery, feel-good R&amp;B groove.<\/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\/hEPtmU5okkk?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>There&#8217;s no depth to &#8220;Let&#8217;s Be Friends.&#8221; It&#8217;s a seduction song, pure and simple, and the lyrics boil down to: stop pussyfooting and start carpe dieming:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>I been watchin&#8217; you a long time<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Trying to figure out where and when<\/em><br \/>\n<em>We been moving down that same line<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Time is now maybe we could get skin to skin<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Don&#8217;t know when this chance might come again<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Good times got a way of comin&#8217; to an end<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Don&#8217;t know when this chance might come again<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Good times got a way of slippin&#8217; away<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Let&#8217;s be friends, baby let&#8217;s be friends<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>I know we&#8217;re different, you and me<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Got a different way of walkin&#8217;<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The time has come to let the past be history<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Yeah if we could just start talkin&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>There&#8217;s a lot of talk going &#8217;round you<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Let them talk you know you&#8217;re the only one<\/em><br \/>\n<em>There&#8217;s a lot of walls need tearing down<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Together we could take them down one by one<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s easy to speculate that Bruce wrote it about the early days of his and Patti&#8217;s relationship, but I believe he was just reaching for a sound, a groove, a feeling&#8211;and this is what came out.<\/p>\n<p>I play this song any time I need a spirit lift. Even under the grayest of Seattle skies, &#8220;Let&#8217;s Be Friends&#8221; brings out the sun.<\/p>\n<p>I honestly can&#8217;t fathom the criticism that &#8220;Let&#8217;s Be Friends&#8221; attracts, although I will readily admit that it is <i>horribly\u00a0<\/i>out of place smack dab in the middle of <em>The Rising.\u00a0<\/em>Seriously, Bruce? You&#8217;re such a perfectionist when you sequence and structure your albums, and you thought it was a good idea to include &#8220;Let&#8217;s Be Friends?&#8221; Yeah, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/04\/roll-of-the-dice-the-fuse\/\">The Fuse<\/a>&#8221; covers similar ground, but it&#8217;s set against a stark backdrop; and &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2019\/09\/27\/roll-of-the-dice-waitin-on-a-sunny-day\/\">Waitin&#8217; on a Sunny Day<\/a>&#8221; may be light pop, but it&#8217;s rooted in sadness. &#8220;Let&#8217;s Be Friends&#8221; is just flat-out inappropriate for that album, IMO. Shoulda saved it for <em>Working on a Dream.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re hoping (like me) to catch this song live, don&#8217;t hold your breath. Bruce has played it only once, at the tail end of The Rising Tour, and it was, um, rough:<\/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\/wawtqYSdCPM?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>Yeah, maybe this one is better kept to vinyl. But if the E Street Band ever plays a show on the beach, this is gonna be my request sign. Y&#8217;all will just have to deal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Let&#8217;s Be Friends (Skin to Skin)<br \/>\nRecorded: <\/strong>1999-2002<strong><br \/>\nReleased: <\/strong><em>The Rising<\/em> (2002)<br \/>\n<strong>First performed: <\/strong>September 16, 2003 (Hartford, CT)<br \/>\n<strong>Last performed: <\/strong>September 16, 2003 (Hartford, CT)<\/p>\n<p>Looking for your favorite Bruce song? Check our full index\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/roll-of-the-dice-album-by-album\/\">here<\/a>. New entries every week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haters gonna hate it, but I&#8217;m gonna love it: &#8220;Let&#8217;s Be Friends&#8221; is one of my favorite tracks on The 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