John Mellencamp & Bruce Springsteen, ‘Wasted Days’
John Mellencamp and Bruce Springsteen have both assembled discographies stretching back to the 1970s, and each spent the ’80s dominating pop radio with hits that remain inescapable.
But they’ve never actually recorded in the studio together until now.
“Wasted Days” wastes little time getting to the point, as Mellencamp opens the song with a series of questions, including “How many summers still remain?” and “How many minutes do we have left?” To say a sense of imminent mortality hangs heavily over “Wasted Days” would be an understatement, as the singers grapple with lives lived well past middle age — not to mention a world in existential crisis. Still, as bleak and mournful as the song gets, it also carries an implicit message about making the most of the years, months and minutes we’ve got left.
John Mellencamp, Bruce Springsteen – Wasted Days (Official Video)
Hear ‘Wasted Days,’ the new song from John Mellencamp and Bruce Springsteen
How many days are lost in vain?
How many minutes do we have here?
Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, and Seymour, Ind. native, John Mellencamp teamed up with “The Boss” Bruce Springsteen team to ask those heavy questions in a new folksy rock single “Wasted Days.”
Springsteen also ponders:
How much sorrow is there left to climb?
How many promises are worth the time?
The two alternate verses, coming together for the choruses, in which they conclude: “We watch our lives just fade away to more wasted days.”
The two alternate verses, coming together for the choruses, in which they conclude: “We watch our lives just fade away to more wasted days.”
Wasted Days lyrics
How many summers staring at nothin’?
How many days are lost in vain?
Who’s counting now these last remaining years?
How many minutes do we have ahead?
Wasted days
Wasted days
We watch our lives just fade away
To more wasted days
How much sorrow is there left to climb?
How many promises aren’t worth a dime?
And who on earth is worth our time?
Is there a heart here that I can call mine?
Wasted days
Wasted days
We watch our lives just fade away
To more wasted days
How can a man watch his life go down the drain?
How many moments has he lost today?
And who among us could ever see clear?
The end is coming, it’s almost here
Wasted days
Wasted days
We watch our lives just fade away
To more wasted days
Wasted days
Wasted days
We watch our lives just fade away to more wasted days
Wasted days
More wasted days
We watch our lives just slip away to more wasted days
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John Mellencamp And Bruce Springsteen Size Up Mortality On First-Ever Duet ‘Wasted Days’
John Mellencamp collaborates with fellow Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Bruce Springsteen on the newly released song “Wasted Days.”
A mid-tempo meditation on making the most of the time we have, “Wasted Days” is a Mellencamp composition slated to appear on his next album.
Mellencamp and Springsteen each sing a verse and they divide a third verse equally. On the song’s chorus, Mellencamp offers weathered vocals while Springsteen adds high harmonies.
“How many summers still remain,” Mellencamp asks at the beginning of “Wasted Days.” “How many days are lost in vain?” During one of Springsteen’s spotlights, he sings, “Who on earth is worth our time? Is there a heart here that I can call mine?”
A video to accompany the song shows Mellencamp and Springsteen playing cards as well as guitars.
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Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen is an American singer, songwriter, and musician.
(born September 23, 1949)
He has released twenty studio albums, many of which feature his backing band, the E Street Band. Originally from the Jersey Shore, he is one of the originators of the heartland rock style of music, combining mainstream rock musical style with narrative songs about working class American life. During a career that has spanned five decades, Springsteen has become known for his poetic, socially conscious lyrics and energetic stage performances, sometimes lasting up to four hours in length.
He has been nicknamed “the Boss”.
John Mellencamp
John J. Mellencamp, previously known as Johnny Cougar, John Cougar, and John Cougar Mellencamp, is an American musician, singer-songwriter, painter, actor, and film director.
(born October 7, 1951)
He is known for his catchy, populist brand of heartland rock, which emphasizes traditional instrumentation. Mellencamp rose to fame in the 1980s while “honing an almost startlingly plainspoken writing style” that, starting in 1982, yielded a string of Top 10 singles, including “Hurts So Good”, “Jack & Diane”, “Crumblin’ Down”, “Pink Houses”, “Lonely Ol’ Night”, “Small Town”, “R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A.”, “Paper in Fire”, and “Cherry Bomb”.
He has amassed 22 Top 40 hits in the United States. In addition, he holds the record for the most tracks by a solo artist to hit number one on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, with seven. Mellencamp has been nominated for 13 Grammy Awards, winning one.
His latest album of original songs, Sad Clowns & Hillbillies, was released on April 28, 2017 to widespread critical acclaim. Mellencamp has sold over 30 million albums in the US and over 60 million worldwide.