Born to Run (Bruce Springsteen song) in Long Branch, New Jersey in early 1974, the song was Bruce Springsteen's final attempt to become successful. The prior year, Springsteen had released two albums to critical acclaim but with little commercial movement. Written in the first person, the song is a love letter to a girl named Wendy, for whom the hot rod-riding protagonist seems to possess the passion to love, just not the patience. However, Springsteen has noted that it has a much simpler core: getting out of Freehold. Route 9 is mentioned from the lyric "sprung from cages out on Highway 9". In his 1996 book
The Rising (Bruce Springsteen song) picked up and used for that, so you end up here. If someone had told me in 2001 that 'you're going to sing this song at the inaugural concert for the first African-American president,' I'd have said, 'Huh?' But eight years go by, and that's where you find yourself. You're in there, you're swimming in the current of history and your music is doing the same thing." The Rising (Bruce Springsteen song) "The Rising" is the title track on Bruce Springsteen's 12th studio album "The Rising", and was released as a single in 2002. Springsteen wrote the song in reaction