Long Time Comin'

One of the best tracks off the new album. It's a tale of a no good father wanting a second chance and determined to make things right. Determined not to be like his own father anymore. The last verse just hammers me.

springsteen: the greatest

This is my favorite song off the new album...

It's pretty clearly a man looking back at his life and his wife and kids, and having an epiphany.

I heard a bootleg of this from '96, just Bruce solo on guitar, and I gotta say having a small band behind him helps him on songs like this.

The last verse never really got to me until I actually read it, as opposed to just listening to it. I have goosebumps all over now. Wow. Springsteen is simply the greatest songwriter of his generation.

i saw bruce preform this on the Devils and Dust tour. he played it on the piano. it was beautiful. i do believe that this is also the first time bruce said "fuck" in one of his songs.

This song is so good. Definetely my favorite on this album.

It's pretty crystal clear. It's about a man, who has been a terrible father, like his father before him, and he sees his unborn child as a sign of redemption, and a way to stop the cycle.

A fairly typical, but excellent rendition of the "sins of the father" theme and possibly a companion piece to "Straight Time".

what a fucking song. I seriously got som small tears in my eyes when i read the lyrics, and I swear I'm not even that kind of guy. great both musically and lyrically, and also good matching between the both ingredients which I find to be one of his greatest strengths. sorry about the spelling here.

I don't see the protagonist as having been a bad father. I simply see a man who's finally happy. He understands that his dad was a bad one, and hopes he doesn't have the same negative impact on his kids. "If I had one wish in this God-forsaken world kids, it's that your mistakes will be your own", an obvious reference to the idea presented in "Adam Raised a Cain" 30 years earlier, which itself was an excellent representation of the Biblical story of "the Fall", and what came with it for mankind.

And instead of being a sequel to "Straight Time", I see this as a sequel to "Beautiful Reward". It's been a long time coming, but he's found his reward.

In that song he says he didn't find his reward in romantic love, but in this song it seems he has. However he's obviously made a big change, and that's presented in the first verse. He's buried his old soul, his self-centered soul that was looking at love selfishly, as something that would make himself fulfilled., and he finally found his reward in "Long Time Coming" when he realized it's found in sacrifice, devotion to others (wife and family) ahead of devotion to his own wants and needs.

Between 1990 (when He was 41) and 1994 Bruce and Patty had 3 kids. This song was first performed live during the solo acoustic Tom Joad tour in 1996. It wasn't released till 2005 on the "Devils and Dust" album. Bruce regularly performed it on that years tour, which was also Him solo, but often playing the piano. A nice song about the hope that the sins of the father aren't repeated by His children. A wish that most young rock stars, with no kids, probably wouldn't think about. A song by a more mature artist. We can all hope that our kids learn from our mistakes.

Let your mistakes would be your own Yeah, your sins would be your own

one of the many times the Boss brings the tear to my eyes