589 - Bruce Springsteen Waitin' on a Sunny Day 2002

With "The Rising" Springsteen wades into the wreckage and pain of September 11th attack and emerges bearing fifteen songs that genuflect with enormous grace before the sorrows that drift in its wake. Not every song on the album was written in the wake of September 11th: "Waitin' on a Sunny Day", for example, with its big, meaty riff and strutting lyrics.

Without you I'm workin' with the rain fallin' down
Half a party in a one dog town
I need you to chase the blues away
Without you I'm a drummer girl that can't keep a beat
And ice cream truck on a deserted street
I hope that you're coming to stay...