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"Land of Hope and Dreams" is a 1999 song written by Bruce Springsteen and performed by Springsteen and the E Street Band. After being performed on tour and released on multiple live albums, a studio recording was released for the first time on ''Wrecking Ball'' in 2012. The song was written prior to the 1999–2000 E Street Band reunion tour, and appeared on the ''Live in New York City'' album from that tour. It was also used as the theme song of the ''MLB on TBS'' coverage for the postseason in the 2012 Major League Baseball season. ==History== The song's origins date to 1998 or early 1999, when it was first written.〔 It came during the close of a decade in which Springsteen had parted ways with the E Street Band, gotten married again and had children, and had released very little new music in a rock vein.〔 He later said, "I was having a hard time locating my rock voice. I knew I didn't want it to be what it was, but I didn't know ... I'd made some records over the past years, I made one in '94 that I didn't release. Then I made a series of demos, kind of in search of that voice. And I was having a hard time finding it. And there was a point I said: 'Well, gee, maybe I just don't do that now. Maybe that's something that I did.'" But after writing "Land of Hope and Dreams", he felt it was "as good as any songs like this that I've ever written. It was like, there's that voice I was looking for." The song was first heard by outsiders in March 1999 during preparations for the Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Reunion Tour. During a series of private rehearsals at Asbury Park, New Jersey's Convention Hall, several dozen of the Springsteen faithful, eager with anticipation at what the long-awaited reunion might bring, stood outside the hall on the cold and windy boardwalk and beach to hear what they could from inside the walls and reporting their findings on several Springsteen Internet forums.〔 It was during one of these rehearsals that fans first heard run-throughs of what they called "The Train Song" or "This Train". When the first public rehearsal performance at Convention Hall was given on March 18, 1999, and then when the tour actually opened on April 9 at Barcelona's Palau Sant Jordi, the song became the tour's closing epic "Land of Hope and Dreams".〔 Indeed, the one newly written song to be featured during most of the tour, and closing the shows for much of it, was "Land of Hope and Dreams".〔Marsh, ''Bruce Springsteen On Tour'', pp. 230, 234.〕 Musically based in part around The Impressions' "People Get Ready", written by Curtis Mayfield, but set to a loud guitar churn with a sometimes-heard mandolin riff from Steven Van Zandt, lyrically it was a deliberate inversion of the traditional American gospel song first recorded in the 1920s, "This Train", also known as "This Train Is Bound for Glory".〔Marsh, ''Bruce Springsteen On Tour'', p. 235.〕〔 (The song is often associated with Woody Guthrie, as the inspiration for his 1943 autobiography ''Bound for Glory'', but to music writer Dave Marsh, Springsteen's song was based more off of Sister Rosetta Tharpe's rendition.〔) In Springsteen's take, all are welcome on the train - not just "the righteous and the holy" of the original, but "saints and sinners", "losers and winners", "whores and gamblers" - you just get on board.〔 Stretched to eight or more minutes, with several false endings, "Lohad" (as it soon became known to fans in shorthand) represented the culmination of the tour's message of rock and roll revival. :''Well, you don't know where you're goin' now :''But you know you won't be back :''I said this train ... :''Dreams will not be thwarted; :''This train ... :''Faith will be rewarded ''Entertainment Weekly'' called the song "pure secular gospel", helping to promote the outing "as much (a ) traveling tent revival as reunion tour," and suggested that churches would be lucky to have as feverish an audience response as Springsteen received in his concerts.〔 While it was unusual for almost every show on the tour to end with a new, unreleased song, ''The New York Times'' felt it "was a very appropriate and telling conclusion to the show, a happy ending of sorts to the preceding tales of characters trying to navigate their way through a morally, financially and emotionally uncertain world, weighing their dreams against their reality and trying to decide which path to follow." "Land of Hope and Dreams" represented a thematic strain in Springsteen's work. Author Louis P. Masur wrote that in a sense, the song represented a return to the motifs of the 1975 ''Born to Run'' album with the "But you know you won't be back" line, but that overall the song had a more optimistic view.〔Masur, ''Runaway Dream'', p. 167.〕 Author Jimmy Guterman traced it back even further, to the all-is-forgiven, magical-city universe of 1973's "New York City Serenade", and forward to the 2002 album ''The Rising''.〔Guterman, ''Runaway American Dream'', p. 77.〕 Author Eric Alterman wrote that the song "somehow seemed to encapsulate twenty-five years of Springsteen songwriting" and in particular a moral from 1978's "Badlands": "It ain't no sin to be glad you're alive."〔Alterman, ''It Ain't No Sin To Be Glad You're Alive'', pp. 274–276.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Land of Hope and Dreams」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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