Waitin' On A Sunny Day - Bruce Springsteen (Lyrics)

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INFO
Waitin' On A Sunny Day is a song written by Bruce Springsteen and released on his 2002 album The Rising.
Musicians
Bruce Springsteen: vocals, guitar
Patti Scialfa: backing vocals
Nils Lofgren: guitar, backing vocals
Steve Van Zandt: guitar, backing vocals
Clarence Clemons: saxophones, backing vocals
Roy Bittan: piano
Danny Federici: organ
Garry Tallent: bass
Max Weinberg: drums
Soozie Tyrell: violin, backing vocals
Brendan O´Brien: glockenspiel, tubular bells
Recording and mixing
Southern Tracks Recording Studio, Atlanta, Georgia: February to March 2002
Technical team
Producer: Brendan O´Brien
Recording engineer: Nick DiDia
Assistant recording engineers: Karl Egsieker, Billy Bowers
Mixing: Brendan O´Brien
Mastering: Bob Ludwig

GENESIS AND LYRICS
Bruce Springsteen composed Waitin' On A Sunny Day well before recording The Rising, since he played it with the E Street Band during the onstage soundcheck at the Weserstadion in Bremen, Germany, on 17 June 1999.
The song opens with the lines: "It´s raining but there ain´t a cloud in the sky/Musta been a tear from your eye." On the DVD VH1 Storytellers - On Stage, Bruce Springsteen confessed that these type of songs - which he calls folk songs - help "free [his] mind." "Now the master of this, of course, was Smokey Robinson", he says, "and when I write these sometimes I think about him singing them and it gives me an idea of the phrasing."
At first glance, this is an unpretentious song whose theme contrasts sharply with that of the album. The songwriter likely included it to provide a moment of lightness between the more dramatic Into the Fire and Nothing Man. On the other hand, precisely because the September 11 attacks, Waitin' On A Sunny Day seems to embody a sort of call for the American people to regain, if not immediate happiness, at least a new sense of confidence.

PRODUCTION
Waitin' On A Sunny Day is among the songs Jon Landau salvaged at the last minute. Springsteen had wanted to get rid of it. It´s not a masterpiece, but it´s a nice song, with a twist reminiscent of Hungry Heart. It seems to have been initially recorded in the Boss´s home studio in 1998, before being finalized in Atlanta.
Max Weinberg opens festivities with a simple and effective rock drumming. The sound of his kit is superb, his drumheads resonating to the beat of the drumsticks. The group then dives in with a very 1950s-style accompaniment, except for Soozie Tyrell´s violin, which provides the melody.
The Boss sings with lightness, although his performance lacks conviction. Clarence Clemons plays several saxophone parts, notably a baritone in the last chorus (at 3:16) and a tenor solo at the end. Brendan O´Brien plays the tubular bells and the glockenspiel (between 2:14 and 2:39). As for Danny Federici´s organ, it seems that the producer tried to imitate the sound from "Do You Know What I Mean", the 1971 Lee Michaels´ hit. One can even hear the similarity between the two pieces in the drums during the introduction.

FOR SPRINGSTEEN ADDICTS
Waitin' On A Sunny Day came out as a single in Europe (along with live versions of Born to Run, Darkness on the Edge of Town, and Thunder Road), but not in the United States. It reached its highest place in the charts in Sweden, where it got to No.15.