Home demo version
We left our home on the hillside
We left our family and our friends
We came down here to California
To start all over again
We left when the fields turned for springtime
We made it there in eight hours time
Da da da da da da
La la la la la
I wanna start a new life
I wanna start a new life
I wanna make it easy and free
And forget about the man that I used to be
I WANNA START A NEW LIFE is a song written by Bruce Springsteen. It remains officially unreleased and apparently it was not recorded in studio.
The above lyrics are for a demo take of I WANNA START A NEW LIFE. It was recorded solo on acoustic guitar at Springsteen's home in Holmdel, NJ, sometime between September and December 1979.
Springsteen recorded many demos at his home around the time The River was being cut in studio. These home demos were not professionally recorded; it seems that Springsteen used a regular cassette recorder. They were just song fragments, and there is much stopping and starting heard as Springsteen records bits and pieces, manually stops the recorder, and then returns sometime later to add more ideas.
This home demo version of I WANNA START A NEW LIFE can be found on The Definitive River Outtakes Collection Volume 1 (E. St. Records) [disc 1, track 02] bootleg.
Thanks Jake (ol'catfishinthelake at BTX and Greasy Lake) for the lyrics help.
List of available versions of I WANNA START A NEW LIFE on this website:
I WANNA START A NEW LIFE [Home demo version]