Bruce Springsteen "The Rising"/"My City of Ruins"

September 11, 2001

The title track of Bruce Springsteen's The Rising (not to mention the whole album) has been critically praised for its messages of hope and of emotion in the wake of the September 11 attacks. But while the "My City of Ruins" also became a 9/11 anthem, it was actually written years earlier about the economic collapse of New Jersey's Asbury Park.