Bruce Springsteen The Rising torrent

The Rising" was the title track on Bruce Springsteen's twelfth studio album The Rising, and was released as a single in 2002. Concerning the September 11, 2001 attacks, the song gained critical praise, a Grammy Award for Song of the Year nomination, and the Grammy Awards for Best Rock Song and Best Male Rock Vocal Performance, and became Springsteen's best-known song of the 2000s.


The song tells the story of a New York Fire Department firefighter, climbing one of the World Trade Center towers after the planes had hit. The lyric depicts the surreal, desperate environment in which he finds himself:

Can't see nothin' in front of me,
Can't see nothin' coming up behind ...
I make my way through this darkness,
I can't feel nothing but this chain that binds me.
Lost track of how far I've gone
How far I've gone, how high I've climbed ...
On my back's a sixty-pound stone
On my shoulder a half mile of line
The choruses are more upbeat in a sense, featuring a more pronounced drum part and "Li, li, li" vocal parts, but as the song progresses the verses trace the ever more dire situation. Images of fire engines and the Cross of Saint Florian are introduced, and then, "in the garden of a thousand sighs," a series of final visions: his wife, his children, and all human experience:

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