having lived and worked in NYC at the time, and seeing the planes hit and the towers fall from my living room window I have been haunted by this song since. It's sad, yet beautiful and somehow lifted my hopes at the time.
This aired 10 days after the attacks, I was 11, and it hit me in the gut. Now at 30, have lived life...gotten married...had kids...the song hit even harder. The whole "The Rising" album does...
Every year I crack a beer and watch this performance in memory of those who lost their lives in 9/11. Haunting how the tone behind the 'cmon rise up' lyric transforms from enthusiastic to almost pleading. Music really is the universal language that unites us all. Amazing performance
I was a firefighter headed for a fire in Twisp, Washington. The rebroadcast came on a Sunday morning as I crossed the Columbia river. I was alone with my thoughts of two years of custody fight behind me, a four month deployment nearing its end. I don't make it through this song without crying.
this song will always remind me of that fateful day in US history.. this is possibly the most inspirational/sad/awesome/awe-inspiring/emotional song ever.. and is Bruce's BEST song ever...
The reaction from Ireland and other countries in the aftermath were not seen on Television nearly enough, when I saw footage of it I cried with thankfulness that we were not alone in our grief. It's always good to know who your friends are.... Éirinn go brách.....
I grew up listening to Bruce Springsteen...I bought all his albums...I listened to every song he ever released...his words and music kept me company through many lonely teenage years...I always felt his songs spoke right to my heart,it was like he was just singing those songs for me...I remember listening to the entire 5 album live 75-85 records and imagined I was there at those live shows...when I actually did see him live it was a dream come true....thanks Bruce!
R.I.P To all killed in Christchurch Earthquake in my country, New Zealand 22nd February 2011.. This song really touched me when I watched it on the news tonight. R.I.P To all killed in 9/11 also. My Heart goes out to you all.
This song applies now as much as ever. To all the health care workers fighting for all of us during this pandemic, thank you from the bottom of my heart. We need to rise up again. 🙏🙏🙏
The thing about this song is hope! 9/11 was a horrible event. So was Sandy, and the event in New Zealand, and the terrible events in Haiti and Japan. The thing is, we "people" of the world need to unite and care for each other. Not because some church or government tells us to, just because it's the RIGHT thing to do.
Missing you greatly CHCH. Returning home to a broken garden city just won't be the same. We will rebuild and be bigger and better. See you at mid-semester break CHCH. Best of luck for a fast recovery. R.I.P. to those that lost their lives in this tragedy. Special mention to Taylor and Bond's mother who didn't make it xoxoxo
Still makes me tear up to this day. One of the most powerful live musical performances I've ever seen. Thank you, Bruce. This song meant so much to me (and many others) then and now.
Truly an incredible performance and just what the country needed then. Bruce's ability to vocalize the pulse of America (this decade in particular) has been amazing. He will always be the Boss.
I was a 19-year-old volunteer firefighter who spent a day in Queens covering for an engine company that was missing (thankfully they returned in one piece). I watched this song live and it didn't take me long to realize that he was singing about New York City even though the song wasn't really meant for that when he first wrote it. "Church doors swung open; I could hear the organ's song. The congregation's call My City of Ruins." Remember the story about the church that survived the towers collapsing with only a few broken windows? That's exactly what I thought about when I heard that line. The city was in ruins, but with these hands we'll pray for the faithful, the strength, the love. RISE UP!!!! It was a true call for unity.
R.I.P. to Clarence, Bruce's sax player who passed away a few days ago. God bless those who were lost in 9/11 and other terrorist attacks around the world. We need to heed the words of this song and seek God in all we do...
This is yet another song that could mean a different thing to everybody, it is so beautiful in its lyrics and soul. There is only one Bruce and when he has gone everybody will then realise how good he is/was, awesome!
This song has special meaning for me. My friends and I played this song for a crowd of homeless women and children in a school/shelter full of bullet holes. When we cried our for them to rise up, they did so with what felt like all of humanity pulling them up. It was the single most important 5 minutes of my life. I just want everyone to love each other as freely as we did that night.
This beautiful song is now New Zealand's anthem for the earthquake victims of Christchurch and for Christchurch itself. Our city in ruins. Kia kaha Christchurch. Rise up.....thoughts and prayers are with you all at this sad and tragic time xoxox
I remember when I was 5 years old and watching this on TV. I had no idea what 9/11 meant, or the impact on existence it would make. Now I know. Long live Bruce... Come on, rise up!!
Yes, it was written about the rise of Asbury Park - after decades of decay. The beauty of Bruce’s lyrics can be applied to so many different circumstances ❤
I Will Never Forget seeing him sing this, only 10 days after 9/11; He was Our Poet Laureate helping us this sad sad day; Masterful performance & songwriting
R.I.P. a tutti i morti del terremoto dell'Abruzzo e dell'Aquila...l'Italia e' sempre con te Boss...i morti dell' 11 settembre sono sempre nei nostri cuori...
I really envy the way Americans love there country, so admirable, wear there heart on there sleeves, hope America you realise how much we all cared about what happened during 911, we will never forget, I have a stars and stripes which I hang out for every anniversary, respect from Ireland
God bless America, stand beside her and guide her. Lead her to justice and truth, to kindness and welcome of strangers, to hope and humility. Bruce, you're one of the greatest chimes of freedom in our country and world. Preach on, brother, and thank you for the comfort that you brought on that darkest of nights!
Upon investigation, as others have noted, this song was written well before the events of 2001 and not specifically *for* those events. Nonetheless, the song is dedicated here *for* those events. However, that that in no way diminishes its power as an anthem for recovery and redemption. It's a beautiful and moving song WITH and WITHOUT its connections to September 11, 2001. We all need to 'rise up' after tragedies, big and small. Thanks, Bruce, for the inspiration.
how he doesn't burst out crying while playing this song at that time is still amazing too me. While it wasn't written for it, this song is the perfect song for 9/11. Bruce will always be MY Boss!
wow this song really sums up our earthquake here in new zealand ...Kia Kaha Christchurch our hearts, thoughts and prayers are with you ........heaps of aroha-nui........john ....a jaffa in auckland xoxox
The boarded up windows The empty streets While my brother's down on his knees My City of Ruins Sound familiar ? This song now more relevant today than ever before
Yeh I'm out in Southern California. In L.A. County but South where it borders Orange County. Night and day. But after I blew my trust fund I became an alcoholic heroin addict living in downtown L.A. The skidrow district. I'd like to think I have a fairly unique perspective. But not really. I've just seen more of being well off, then being destitute than most. Lol. I've been a Springsteen fan since 1975 or so. Born to Run came out and my big brother got it. He was 13. I was 8. Lol The deal was sealed when we saw him live for the first time. Halloween night 1980. Los Angeles Sports Arena. Changed my fucking life!! Seen him 20X since. The last being March 19th, 2016. The third and last night in Los Angeles on the 35th Anniversary of The River tour. I went all three nights. Night one by myself. Night two with my brother. How cool was that? All those years later seeing Bruce again at same venue. With my brother. Celebrating the anniversary of the album, The River, that he was touring for when we first saw him in 1980. Thank you Lord. Yeh I'm babbling. Sorry. But when he says the boarded up windows line, I immediately thought of the recent riots here in L.A. How I got stuck downtown in my friends tent. I was visiting him and was going to leave around 10pm when I was told by cops that no busses are running out of downtown area until further notice. So I got stuck in ground zero that night. Fucked up. Yeh Bruce rocks.
@Hakkis109 My friend i just wanted to say keep faith and hope alive in yourself in your heart...I too grew up listening to Bruce's music and he helped me through my teenage years and he continues to inspire me to this day and I am nearing 40...he reminds us through his music we are not alone...his music truly does connect us and speaks to our souls...
amen brother, god bless your great and mighty nation and the capital of the world new york city, we all still remember and will never forget the innocent that were butchered that day, cant wait to see the freedom tower soar over manhattan with the stars and stripes once again flying high, respect from ireland
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having lived and worked in NYC at the time, and seeing the planes hit and the towers fall from my living room window I have been haunted by this song since. It's sad, yet beautiful and somehow lifted my hopes at the time.
This aired 10 days after the attacks, I was 11, and it hit me in the gut. Now at 30, have lived life...gotten married...had kids...the song hit even harder. The whole "The Rising" album does...
Beautiful 💞
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Every year I crack a beer and watch this performance in memory of those who lost their lives in 9/11. Haunting how the tone behind the 'cmon rise up' lyric transforms from enthusiastic to almost pleading. Music really is the universal language that unites us all. Amazing performance
I was a firefighter headed for a fire in Twisp, Washington. The rebroadcast came on a Sunday morning as I crossed the Columbia river. I was alone with my thoughts of two years of custody fight behind me, a four month deployment nearing its end. I don't make it through this song without crying.
I remember watching this live from my apartment in Manhattan. ❤️
When Bruce hits inspiration, he hits it BIG.
God rest all of those who died in Paris yesterday
On the 20th anniversary tomorrow, I remember…and mourn. 😔
this song will always remind me of that fateful day in US history..
this is possibly the most inspirational/sad/awesome/awe-inspiring/emotional song ever..
and is Bruce's BEST song ever...
This song absolutely devastates me every time. Unbelievable songwriting.
Best version of this song.
This song still makes me cry.
Every time, it's like I'm back at that time.
The reaction from Ireland and other countries in the aftermath were not seen on Television nearly enough, when I saw footage of it I cried with thankfulness that we were not alone in our grief. It's always good to know who your friends are....
Éirinn go brách.....
please never take this video down. so it live on tv stuck with me to this day. this is my only way to get this version stay for life lol 👍👍👍
I grew up listening to Bruce Springsteen...I bought all his albums...I listened to every song he ever released...his words and music kept me company through many lonely teenage years...I always felt his songs spoke right to my heart,it was like he was just singing those songs for me...I remember listening to the entire 5 album live 75-85 records and imagined I was there at those live shows...when I actually did see him live it was a dream come true....thanks Bruce!
Came across this by accident. I recall this performance. It was the only time I cried during a song. It still tears my heart out.
Such a great song. Should be one of the inspirational songs of what we are going through now in our dear world
Watching this in 2017, beautiful. Paid my respect at the ground zero this morning. Love is love is love. We humans need to unite as one.
Yep, i agree. No more wars, no more hijacking airplanes to crash them.
R.I.P To all killed in Christchurch Earthquake in my country, New Zealand 22nd February 2011.. This song really touched me when I watched it on the news tonight.
R.I.P To all killed in 9/11 also.
My Heart goes out to you all.
One of the greatest songs ever written 💯 take a bow Bruce✌️
Remembering 9/11/2001 ... 18 years later ... Thank you for the gift of music 🙏
I really, REALLY love this song and appreciate listening to it on the 20th anniversary of 9/11.
It is always our artists who lead us and inspire us to do better. Bruce and his band are just perfect here.
This song applies now as much as ever. To all the health care workers fighting for all of us during this pandemic, thank you from the bottom of my heart. We need to rise up again. 🙏🙏🙏
The thing about this song is hope! 9/11 was a horrible event. So was Sandy, and the event in New Zealand, and the terrible events in Haiti and Japan. The thing is, we "people" of the world need to unite and care for each other. Not because some church or government tells us to, just because it's the RIGHT thing to do.
Missing you greatly CHCH. Returning home to a broken garden city just won't be the same. We will rebuild and be bigger and better. See you at mid-semester break CHCH. Best of luck for a fast recovery. R.I.P. to those that lost their lives in this tragedy. Special mention to Taylor and Bond's mother who didn't make it xoxoxo
What a magical moment this was. I'll never forget it. Thanks, Bruce.
Still makes me tear up to this day. One of the most powerful live musical performances I've ever seen. Thank you, Bruce. This song meant so much to me (and many others) then and now.
Awesome and beautiful voice
I remember those days very well. Nobody knew what was gonna happen next.
This song makes me cry every single time I hear it. I can't help it, it's a dagger to my heart. Thank you Boss for such a wonderful song.
Truly an incredible performance and just what the country needed then. Bruce's ability to vocalize the pulse of America (this decade in particular) has been amazing. He will always be the Boss.
Most powerful live performance ever. Ever.
i love this song. It is powerful and filled with feelings. His singing allmost makes me cry.
I remember playing this after 22/07-2011. Moved me to tears. Thank you, Bruce. You are very special to Norway.
I was a 19-year-old volunteer firefighter who spent a day in Queens covering for an engine company that was missing (thankfully they returned in one piece). I watched this song live and it didn't take me long to realize that he was singing about New York City even though the song wasn't really meant for that when he first wrote it.
"Church doors swung open; I could hear the organ's song. The congregation's call My City of Ruins." Remember the story about the church that survived the towers collapsing with only a few broken windows? That's exactly what I thought about when I heard that line.
The city was in ruins, but with these hands we'll pray for the faithful, the strength, the love. RISE UP!!!! It was a true call for unity.
R.I.P. to Clarence, Bruce's sax player who passed away a few days ago. God bless those who were lost in 9/11 and other terrorist attacks around the world. We need to heed the words of this song and seek God in all we do...
This is yet another song that could mean a different thing to everybody, it is so beautiful in its lyrics and soul.
There is only one Bruce and when he has gone everybody will then realise how good he is/was, awesome!
Best Live performance ever
This song has special meaning for me. My friends and I played this song for a crowd of homeless women and children in a school/shelter full of bullet holes. When we cried our for them to rise up, they did so with what felt like all of humanity pulling them up. It was the single most important 5 minutes of my life. I just want everyone to love each other as freely as we did that night.
I remember hearing this at the time, and it brought great comfort.
Bruce, thank you for such a beautiful song. When I'm down, I sing this song...
This beautiful song is now New Zealand's anthem for the earthquake victims of Christchurch and for Christchurch itself. Our city in ruins. Kia kaha Christchurch.
Rise up.....thoughts and prayers are with you all at this sad and tragic time xoxox
Watching Sept.11.2020
This just took me back to seeing this back when it aired. Very sad...
My heart hurts for Minneapolis right now.
I hear you loud and clear! And, Never Forget 9/11/2001.
I remember when I was 5 years old and watching this on TV. I had no idea what 9/11 meant, or the impact on existence it would make. Now I know. Long live Bruce... Come on, rise up!!
Rise up this November!
Yes, it was written about the rise of Asbury Park - after decades of decay. The beauty of Bruce’s lyrics can be applied to so many different circumstances ❤
Oh how this relates to Christchurch, and how sad it is, knowing of the devastation to the city and the horrendous loss of life. Keep singing, Bruce
A day that will never be forgotten and a time of a country united together and strong which has been forgotten...
I Will Never Forget seeing him sing this, only 10 days after 9/11; He was Our Poet Laureate helping us this sad sad day; Masterful performance & songwriting
I clicked the dislike-button on accident and I totally freaked out. Beautiful stuff. Heart and soul.
Perfect, poignant and said all we felt. Rise up and with these hands. Thank you Bruce....
We listened to this in my History class.
It brought tears to my eyes. ♥
R.I.P. a tutti i morti del terremoto dell'Abruzzo e dell'Aquila...l'Italia e' sempre con te Boss...i morti dell' 11 settembre sono sempre nei nostri cuori...
NCIS NEW ORLEANS BROUGHT ME HERE .
a beautiful tune....in such a delicate time!!
I think of this tonight and those in Boston.
Originally written about/ for Asbury Park, NJ. It was so fitting that many assumed it was written about 9/11.
I really envy the way Americans love there country, so admirable, wear there heart on there sleeves, hope America you realise how much we all cared about what happened during 911, we will never forget, I have a stars and stripes which I hang out for every anniversary, respect from Ireland
If that were true nearly half of America would not have voted for someone like Trump who hates America with a passion.
This song is such a good song. I Love it. Bruce sings beautiful. Bruce is the best!!
God bless America, stand beside her and guide her. Lead her to justice and truth, to kindness and welcome of strangers, to hope and humility. Bruce, you're one of the greatest chimes of freedom in our country and world. Preach on, brother, and thank you for the comfort that you brought on that darkest of nights!
tha fuckin boss!! amen
beautiful song
Yes, it fits perfectly. And it makes a good final track for The Rising with the last words on the album being "rise up."
I've been to one of his concert just yesterday, the boss is truely awesome
everyone should say prayers like this one every day ....
Upon investigation, as others have noted, this song was written well before the events of 2001 and not specifically *for* those events.
Nonetheless, the song is dedicated here *for* those events.
However, that that in no way diminishes its power as an anthem for recovery and redemption.
It's a beautiful and moving song WITH and WITHOUT its connections to September 11, 2001.
We all need to 'rise up' after tragedies, big and small.
Thanks, Bruce, for the inspiration.
I think it was originally meant for the economical decline in the USA. Especially cities like Detroit or rather rural areas
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how he doesn't burst out crying while playing this song at that time is still amazing too me. While it wasn't written for it, this song is the perfect song for 9/11.
Bruce will always be MY Boss!
There is no A.I. without E.Q.❤❤
Absolutely Great to know there are others that feel the same way!! :D
He just can't be human this man... He's something bigger all too often... Moves me to tears every time, all because Bruces feeling. He is GOD.
Come On RISE Up!!!!
For our fallen brothers and sisters in Japan, pray for this world and Japan my fellows!
Hello japan 🗾
8 years ago.. I remeber that moment as it was yesterday..
wow this song really sums up our earthquake here in new zealand ...Kia Kaha Christchurch our hearts, thoughts and prayers are with you ........heaps of aroha-nui........john ....a jaffa in auckland xoxox
The boarded up windows
The empty streets
While my brother's down on his knees
My City of Ruins
Sound familiar ? This song now more relevant today than ever before
Yeh I'm out in Southern California. In L.A. County but South where it borders Orange County. Night and day.
But after I blew my trust fund I became an alcoholic heroin addict living in downtown L.A. The skidrow district.
I'd like to think I have a fairly unique perspective. But not really. I've just seen more of being well off, then being destitute than most. Lol.
I've been a Springsteen fan since 1975 or so. Born to Run came out and my big brother got it. He was 13. I was 8. Lol The deal was sealed when we saw him live for the first time. Halloween night 1980. Los Angeles Sports Arena.
Changed my fucking life!! Seen him 20X since. The last being March 19th, 2016. The third and last night in Los Angeles on the 35th Anniversary of The River tour. I went all three nights. Night one by myself. Night two with my brother. How cool was that? All those years later seeing Bruce again at same venue. With my brother. Celebrating the anniversary of the album, The River, that he was touring for when we first saw him in 1980. Thank you Lord.
Yeh I'm babbling. Sorry. But when he says the boarded up windows line, I immediately thought of the recent riots here in L.A. How I got stuck downtown in my friends tent. I was visiting him and was going to leave around 10pm when I was told by cops that no busses are running out of downtown area until further notice. So I got stuck in ground zero that night. Fucked up.
Yeh Bruce rocks.
@@markvaught672 I saw him 9 times in 2016 during The River tour bringing my lifetime total to 49. No one better
Beautiful but still like a knife through the heart. Never forgive....never forget.💔
Yes, it is, but for an incredible, even more of a "gospel" rendition, check his Live in Barcelona 2002 version...my 5th graders were speechless.
Never forgotten, NYC is my home away from home
HE MAKES ME CRY
I guess some people did something... #neverforget 🇺🇸
this is a superb rendition of this song
Thanks Bruce.
Same on all accounts. God bless the USA
For those in TN, AL, and GA who lost loved ones this past week; One year since the flood in Nashville. C'mon Rise Up!
This song is so damn powerful, really touching, even though I'm not even an american.
Come on rise up!!!!
@Hakkis109 My friend i just wanted to say keep faith and hope alive in yourself in your heart...I too grew up listening to Bruce's music and he helped me through my teenage years and he continues to inspire me to this day and I am nearing 40...he reminds us through his music we are not alone...his music truly does connect us and speaks to our souls...
i love how over 11 years later i'm listening to this in a completely different context after Sandy and it still gives me chills but for a new reason..
C'mon Amatrice ❤️
1:40-2:05 Bruce really sings his heart out. He really means it. It great to see that.
he wrote thjs before 9/11, pretty eerie, beautiful song
God bless Eire
Its a great song. My town was hit by a tornado in 2011 and it fit perfectly.
It will be 19 years, since the Terrorist Attacks on 9/11/2001. May We Never Forget.
beautiful, its amazing to see music played with such emotion
amen brother, god bless your great and mighty nation and the capital of the world new york city, we all still remember and will never forget the innocent that were butchered that day, cant wait to see the freedom tower soar over manhattan with the stars and stripes once again flying high, respect from ireland