10 Underrated Bruce Springsteen Songs You Should Listen To
6. You're Missing (2002)
The Rising, understandably, was a big deal for a lot of fans, and to this day it remains an album most hold close to their heart. If you ask them about their favourite track, you'll probably get for an answer the therapeutic pair of "The Rising" and "My City of Ruins", the intercultural "Worlds Apart", the jubilant "Mary's Place", or maybe even "Lonesome Day", the opening track which marked the triumphant return of Springsteen and the E Street Band on a studio album.
"You're Missing" would not come up as much, but it would be a fine choice too. Presumably written from the perspective of a woman who lost her husband on 9-11, it is a delicate and heartbreaking elegiac ballad, with a hypnotic cello riff by Larry Lemaster, sorrowful violin notes by Soozie Tyrell and a soothing organ solo by Danny Federici to cap things off.
It's hard to imagine anyone who has experienced the loss of a cherished one not holding back tears as Bruce slowly grabs the very feeling of mourning out of the ether, and lays it bare right before our eyes :
"Shirts in the closet, shoes in the hall
Mama's in the kitchen, baby and all
Everything is everything
Everything is everything, but you're missing"