"The Rising" is the title track on Bruce Springsteen's twelfth studio album The Rising, and was released as a single in 2002. Springsteen wrote the song in reaction to the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York City. It gained critical praise and earned Grammy Awards for Best Rock Song and Best Male Rock Vocal Performance of the year, as well as a nomination for Song of the Year.
The song was written late in The Rising's development, and was mean...
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"The Rising" is the title track on Bruce Springsteen's twelfth studio album The Rising, and was released as a single in 2002. Springsteen wrote the song in reaction to the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York City. It gained critical praise and earned Grammy Awards for Best Rock Song and Best Male Rock Vocal Performance of the year, as well as a nomination for Song of the Year.
The song was written late in The Rising's development, and was meant as a bookend to the album's "Into the Fire". Springsteen couldn't let go of one of the central images of that day, those who were "ascending into ... what?" Thus, the song tells the story of a New York City Fire Department firefighter, climbing one of the World Trade Center towers after the hijacked planes had hit them. The lyric depicts the surreal, desperate environment in which he finds himself:
The choruses are more upbeat, featuring a more pronounced drum part and "Li, li, li" vocal parts that suggest Hallelujahs, but as the song...
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