All the Way Home

All the Way Home was written in the early 90s, but Southside Johnny ended up using it. Springsteen revisited the song in 2005, changed the arrangement drastically, and put it out on his DEVILS AND DUST album. It's a cool throwaway. Never seen it live, and wouldn't be too brokenhearted if I don't, but it's a nice song. It was performed 5 times on the Human Touch/Lucky Town tour (in the old arrangement), then 18 times on the Devils tour, then 3 times on the We Shall Overcome tour. The line "crashing like a drunk on a barroom floor" was used in My Beautiful Reward, a song that did appear on 1992's LUCKY TOWN album, and - I presume - was written at the same time. The most interesting part for me is the opening lines "I know what it's like to have failed, babe, with the whole world lookin' on." With the time this was released (a few months after Springsteen's Vote For Change tour didn't do any good because we got 4 more years of Bush anyway), you'd think those lines were a reference to the 2004 election results. But no, that line was part of the song's original incarnation in 1992.

Below are videos of Southside Johnny's version, followed by a live performance by Springsteen and the Sessions Band on the 2006 We Shall Overcome tour.