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Behind file number 9 is a 45 rpm from 1981. It’s a purple-labeled Capitol record by Bob Seger. The single is Tryin’ To Live My Life Without You/Brave Strangers.
I like to try to give perspective by considering the ages of celebrities at the time of media release. So saying, Bob Seger is around 36 at the time this is released.
Tryin’ To Live My Life Without You clocks in at 3:46 on this fantastic A side. It was recorded live at Boston Garden in Boston, Massachusetts, on 10/6/1980.
I got these lyrics off google and then tweaked them a LOT!
All right, you guys feel funky tonight, ah yeah/This is an old Memphis song, old Memphis song/I used to smoke/Five packs of cigarettes a day/It was the hardest thing/To put them away/I drank four or five bottles of wine/I kept a glass/In my hand all the time/Breaking those habits was hard to do/But nothing compared to the changes/That you put me through/Trying to live my life without you babe/It’s the hardest thing I’ll ever do/Trying to forget the love we once shared/It’s the hardest thing I’ll ever have/All right, I said/I had the worst reputation in town/For chasing all the women around/I thought changing my way of living/Was hard to do/But it’s nothing compared to the changes/That you put me through/I’ve done everything I’ve tried to do/But it’s gonna take a miracle/To get me over you/Trying to live my life without you babe/It’s the hardest thing I’ll ever do/Trying to forget the love we once shared/It’s the hardest thing I’ll ever have/Trying to live my life without you babe/It’s the hardest thing I’ll ever do/Trying to forget the love we shared/It’s the hardest thing I’ll ever have/Listen/Trying to live my life without you babe/It’s the hardest thing I’ll ever do/Trying to forget the love we shared/It’s the hardest thing I’ll ever have/Trying to live my life without you babe/It’s the hardest thing I’ll ever do/Trying to forget the love we shared/It’s the hardest thing I’ll ever have/All right
This live song clocks in at 7:05 on this B side. Brave Strangers was recorded on 6/14/80 Cobo Hall Detroit Michigan. Only thing is, it’s hard to believe you’ve been listening to it for 7 minutes, it’s so good!
Nights were warm/Dreams were easy/No one standing over head/Conversation didn’t mean much/We were hungry but we could not be fed/Radio blasting silly little love songs/We only listened for the beat/Taking our chances/Out there on the mean streets/Hiding in the shadows from the heat/Hey!/From the heat/We weren’t lovers just brave strangers/As we rolled and we tumbled through the night/We were players not arrangers/And we jammed till the dawn’s early light/Swimming in the big lake/Taking it easy/Taking any comfort we could find/Didn’t need the real truth/Didn’t need the meaning/Straight ahead ignoring every sign, yeah/Every sign/And oh I remember/I know you do too/Oh that one evening/I know you do too/Baby/I know you remember it too, yeah/The moon was high/Big ol’ Southern Michigan moon was flying high/We were hiding out in the backwoods/Hiding out in the backwoods/With a couple six packs of Stroh’s/The moon flying high/And you know what darlin’?/My hand was shaking/My hand was shakin’ baby/And you took my hand/Ya took my hand/And it went all right/It went all right/It went all right/It went all right/It went all right/Alright/Alright/Alright/So we walked out hardly speaking/Disappearing in the night/Saw each other a few times after/But we never really got it right/We weren’t lovers just brave strangers/As we rolled and we tumbled through the night/We were players not arrangers/And we jammed till the dawn’s early light
I love both of these songs! I never listened to Bob Seger hardly at all before this, and I think he’s a hit with me. These two songs would definitely make me go out and buy the Nine Tonight album. I probably would pick Tryin’ To Live My Life Without You as the favorite of the two, but it’s pretty hard to pick!
What do you say?
