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Chapter And Verse track list CD format. Paul, MN Nov 12, official live download in List of Springsteen On Broadway rehearsals performances. List of Springsteen On Broadway performances. List of Stand Up For Heroes benefit shows performances. The Hit Co. After sitting alone with his restless thoughts on a beach below the foot of the bridge, Springsteen started back to the parking lot. At that moment, a man drove by, with his window open, and yelled out — "Bruce, we need you.

The driver who called upon Springsteen at the beach, and seemingly every other fan, got the Bruce they needed. As a born-and-bred New Yorker who could see the original World Trade Center from rooftops in my Brooklyn neighborhood, I did my share of grieving, and then some. I had a raft of feelings, mostly raw, ambiguous, not altogether lucid — and not quite expressed in the triumphal stadium rock that Springsteen delivered on this album, so bracingly and, yes, beautifully.

If I needed Bruce at that time, it would have been the Springsteen of the s — experimental and introspective, often stripped down to him and his acoustic guitar. I might have been looking for more of " The Ghost of Tom Joad ," his previous album , which took an outsider's perspective, searching for the roots of American music and our foibles and failures as a nation. Looking back, though, I feel that Springsteen made the right moves on "The Rising," more or less. He chose not to hitch the album entirely to the events of Sept.

The album may lack a notable element of self-examination — a larger space for contemplating the evil that resides within as well as outside our borders — but it steers clear of jingoism.

And, more to the point, "The Rising" explores inexhaustible themes of love, loss, faith, hope and renewal, replete with the big, Bruce sound courtesy of his reunion a few years earlier with the iconic E Street Band. The title track is one of the rockers on the album, featuring a wall of electric guitar sound. The lyrics, about heroism and sacrifice, draw on the deep well of Springsteen's Catholic upbringing and religious imagination.

Springsteen sings from the viewpoint of a firefighter, who left the station that morning with the bells ringing, "wearin' the cross of my calling. Spirits above and behind me Faces gone, black eyes burnin' bright May their precious blood bind me Lord as I stand before your fiery light. I hear it as a plea for reconciliation between Islam and the West.

Springsteen wrote "My City of Ruins" before planes crashed into the towers — about the sad fortunes of his adopted hometown in New Jersey, Asbury Park which have recently changed for the better.

The album also has many decidedly upbeat notes, including the house-party song, "Mary's Place," which ushers in the exuberant saxophone of E Street's Clarence Clemons, heard on "Born to Run" and other Springsteen classics.