Tryin' To Live My Life Without You

So after previewing it at Adam's house a few months ago I picked up Bob Seger's Nine Tonight live album, and am loving it. It brought back some good memories...





This isn't the 1980 live Boston version on the album, but it works ok.

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 habit was hard to do
But nothing prepared me for the changes
That you put me through

Tryin' to live my life without you babe
Its the hardest thing i'll ever do
Try and forget the love we once shared (yeah)
Its the hardest thing i'll ever do

I had the worst reputation in town
For chasin' all the women around
I thought changin' my way of livin' was hard to do
But theres nothing could prepare me for the changes you put me through

I've done everything i tried to do
But its gonna take a miracle to get me over you

Tryin' to live my life without you babe
Its the hardest thing i'll ever do
Try and forget the love we once shared (yeah)
Its the hardest burden i'll ever know

Tryin' to live my life without you babe
Its the hardest thing i'll ever do
Try and forget the love we shared
Its the hardest burden i'll ever know

Tryin' to live my love without you babe
Hardest thing i'll ever do
Try and forget the love we shared
Its the hardest burden i'll ever know

Tryin' to live my life without you babe
Its the hardest thing i'll ever do
Try and forget the love we shared
Its the hardest burden i'll ever know

"Tryin' To Live My Life Without You" is a song written by Eugene Williams, originally popularized by soul singer Otis Clay. It has since been covered by several other artists, most notably Bob Seger on his 1981 Nine Tonight album.

Here's the Otis Clay version.



Btw, here's Andy Gibb completely destroying the song.



Gawd that's so fucking bad. I can't listen to that, and neither should you.

There doesn't seem to be much (easily obtainable) information on Eugene Williams though...

Seger has claimed that he recorded the song to show how the Eagles stole the song's melody in their song "The Long Run". Seger highlights the similarities between the two songs in the arrangement his version, in the bassline especially. I can't find "the Long Run" online (how sad :(, but here's a cover of it, and you can figure out how much The Eagles suck for yourself.