In a similar vein to the above video

It kinda sounds like Jon has a bit of a cold going on here. His voice is a bit iffy if you ask me. Still a very good performance from him though.

It's the same thing in this one as well, but here, the cold is more prominent.

This song ever had the studio version released?

No, at least as far as I know. I'm not sure it's verified that it got recorded in the studio or if it had the same "fate" as Heart Of America and Cadillac Man.

It's registered with ASCAP as Life's Too Short. Debatable if that means it got recorded buuuuuut I feel it was.

Yeah, I feel it was too. I can imagine that it was in the batch of material they gave to Bruce Fairbairn to work through shortly before he passed away. But I can't remember an official demo having been on a release at the time. But there have been too many B-sides in the Crush era that weren't my taste, so I'm never fully sure about that :D

Nah you're right, it was never released. Stylistically and time period wise it was probably recorded the same week as Hush.

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