100 Best Songs of the 2000s
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Bruce Springsteen, 'The Rising'
This strings-laden rock & roll rapture was written about 9/11. But when its metaphor of struggling through darkness was blasted at Obama's victory celebration, it became a national anthem for the 21st century.
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