text: Now one plus one equals two, that happens every day, that is not magic. Thats the grind. Thats when you get up, one. Go to work, one. Go to bed, two. Two, geniuses, two. But when one plus one equals three, thats when your life changes, and you see everything new, and these are days when you are visited by visions, when the world around you brings down the spirit and you feel blessed to be alive. It is the essential equation of love. There is no love without one plus one equaling three. Its the essential equation of art. Its the essential equation of rock n roll. Its the reason the universe will never be fully comprehensible. Its the reason Louie Louie will never be fully comprehensible. And its the reason true rock n roll, and true rock n roll bands, will never die
  Teardrops on the city
  Bad Scooter searchin for his groove
  Whole world walking pretty and you cant find the room to move
  Everybody better move over, thats all
  Im runnin on the bad side
  With my back to the wall
  Tenth Avenue freeze-out
  Tenth Avenue freeze-out
  Im stranded in the jungle tryna take in all the heat theyre givin
  Yeah, the night is dark but the sidewalks bright and lined with the light of the living
  From a tenement window a transistor blasts
  Turn around the corner things got real quiet real fast
  I walked into a Tenth Avenue freeze-out
  Tenth Avenue freeze-out
  And Im all alone, Im all alone
  And I cant go home
  I cant find my way back home now
  Now Gary, Danny, Little Steven, Mighty Max, Professor Roy, Nils Lofgren, Patty Scialfa, that is my one plus one equals three. Excellent, grasshopper! But nobody captured my audiences imagination or their hearts like Clarence. Clarence was, Clarence was a figure out of a rock n roll storybook, and together, we told a story that was bigger than any of the ones I had written in my songs. It was a story where not only does Scooter and the Big Man bust the city in half, but we remade the city. We remade the city shaping into the kind of place where our friendship and our love for one another wouldnt have been such an exceptional thing. First night I saw Clarence he came walkin out of the shadows towards the band stand, nodded to me, got up, stood to my right, for the very first time. He picked up his saxophone, and when he played - when he played, he whispered that story in my ear. And then we whispered it into your ear, and we carried it together for a long, a long good time. The Big Man was big. Everything about him. His personality, his size, his laugh, the sound of his saxophone. When I first heard it I thought it was the biggest sound I ever heard. And it was. His heart, his problems - they were big. But he was elemental in my life. And losing him was like losing the rain. If I were a mystic, if I were a mystic, I guess Clarence and mines friendship would lead me to believe that we, we stood together in other older times, ya know and uh, in other lives, along other rivers, in other ancient cities, in other fields, workin side by side, with the sun settin, doin our modest version of Gods work. Ill see you in the next life Big Man
  When they made that change uptown
  And the Big Man joined the band
  From the coastline to the city
  All the little pretties raise their hands
  Im gonna sit back right easy and laugh
  When Scooter and the Big Man bust this city in half
  With a Tenth Avenue freeze-out
  Tenth Avenue freeze-out
  Ladies and gentlemen lets hear it for the biggest man you ever saw
  Clarence Big Man Clemons
  And the legendary
  E
  Street
  Band
  Thats it
  Oh yeah, its alright
  Yeah!