Bruce Springsteen,"The Rising!"

[MoonRiver]

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[paranoid floyd]

1. So powerful.

Second time I’ve seen it and it still brings tears to my eyes. Nice quick shot of Bruce and his wife Patty in the mix.

[MoonRiver]

2. Yes it is so amazing!

[Laf.La.Dem.]

3. How many times must I cry before all this is over and Trump is GONE!

[MoonRiver]

4. I'll be crying for joy for who knows how long

after that scum is defeated!

[Laf.La.Dem.]

5. THAT will be a good cry!

[MoonRiver]

9. Yes!

[Bayard]

6. Beautiful!

I thought I heard some Bruce playing in the background for the convention last night.

[underpants]

7. This song was written after 9/11?

Inspired and for firemen? I think I read that somewhere

[musette_sf]

10. Yes.

Can't see nothin' in front of me
Can't see nothin' coming up behind
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

Bruce Springsteen said of the song on Nightline upon the album's release, "One of the most powerful images of the 11th, that I'd read in the paper, some of the people coming down were talking about the emergency workers who were ascending. The idea of those guys going up the stairs, up the stairs, ascending, ascending. I mean you could be ascending a smoky staircase; you could be in the afterlife, moving on."

[underpants]

11. Wow

I’m getting a little teary

[musette_sf]

13. The song always reminds me of Orio Palmer

He was a FDNY Battalion Chief, an avid runner, who made it to the 78th floor of 2 WTC. This floor was the Sky Lobby, in the impact zone. In one of his last transmissions, it's clear that he couldn't imagine that the building would fall: "Ladder 15, we've got two isolated pockets of fire. We should be able to knock it down with two lines."

https://www.911memorial.org/connect/blog/remembering-fdny-hero-battalion-chief-orio-j-palmer

[musette_sf]

8. K&R

[Gothmog]

12. This was great