Added: 4 years ago
From: Tubestew
Views: 212,857
Sort by time | Sort by thread (beta)

Link to this comment:

Share to:
see all

All Comments (216)

Sign In or Sign Up now to post a comment!
  • 9 people don't know what it's like to slip free.

  • one of the most beautiful songs ever written.....this is my parents

  • Bruce wrote it for Patti- they got married under an oak tree in their grounds of their home 20 years ago...I remember the newspaper reports at the time-guess he was right here-what it takes to makes a relationship work ..!

  • Lovely! Though I prefer the live version (cf "LIVE AT NYC" DVD).

    Hats off to Patti &Nils: so sweet!

  • Brought a tear to my eye.

  • A sweet man. You will be so missed. See you again.

  • Clarence R.I.P You will be missed!!

  • Sometimes..all that keeps us going is just a flicker..a glimmer..of hope. It is knowing that there IS that kind of love out there. Maybe it is knowing that the human heart is capable of this kind of love and goodness.. that allows us to get up off our knees..and try again. Rest In Peace Clarence.

  • There's a beautiful river in the valley ahead...should I fall behind, wait for me Clarence. Rest in peace, Big Man

  • RIP CC

  • RIP Big Guy.

  • R.I.P., Big Man.  Wait for us:-(

  • RIP Clarence Clemons

  • breoite fanacht leat, agus ba chóir dom titim taobh thiar fanacht liom

  • this is so good , no! this is music god damn they knew how to do music back in the days now its just negrorap

  • @pitbullpower90 - remember this was only the 90's. Which was the decade of the boy/girl bands . . . Music has been the same since the 60's. If you wanna find heart and sole its there you just got to look behind the crap the music the record companies are throwing at you!

  • @KidLightnin i consider this to be good music thou dont know about you

  • Hey check out My Video of a cover version of this great song! thanks!

  • bruce springsteen has to be the most underviewed person on youtube

  • @monkeypi6 Good lets keep it that way.

  • Pretty good singing...Sil hahahhahaa

  • This is moving. My sister just got married, she walked down the isle to this song. It is bittersweet. On the one hand, I'm so happy she has found someone to share her life with. On the other hand, her husband is Isreali so they live there. It's as if I lost a sister in a way. So now, everytime I hear this song, I can't help but cry. Absolutely one of my favorite bruce songs.

  • !! *G*R*E*A*T* !!!

  • In Belgium killer-socialists reign and instore a badass underworld "in official clothes". So they proved . When I went to help an old friend- woman ,whos husband hang himself, the police came to fuck my action up time and time again.

    I never have been letting her down.I did what I had to do.

    But again this is a bleeding  prove of what socialism does to you me and the country, the brutal anti-life idiots they really are.

    Bernard De Schepper. Belgium.

  • Haha silvio singing'.

  • what a great set of words written there . it can mean soldiers fighting in war it can mean a older couple rising even above the golden years and hoping there is a heaven so they see each other again, or could it be two younger kids running down the road on their bikes .. you just can make so many different observations..thank you for posting that version .

  • Fantastic x My husband has just been asked to transpose this to bagpipe music for a funeral this week, Its sounds amazing x

  • @candiebar65 I would love to hear that

  • @candiebar65 ill try and get him to play while i record and get it on here.

  • just pure class !! wat a song hear the words MINT!!

  • anyone got tabs for this version please? :)

    Thanks :)

  • Comment removed

  • Epic, legendary, Bruce

  • oh my sky!

  • Comment removed

  • just perfect .

  • One of the most beautiful love songs ever - will be played at my funeral and of course Bruce wrote it - so wonderful his words and music always and forever - thanks for posting this great song for us! One of his oh so many and many best.

  • So many great solo of E-Streetmembers. And one of the are a Swedish Nils Löfgren a great musician. I lova them all. Thanks from Birgitta in Sweden

  • absoluty wonderful The are the greatest

  • this really is one of the best songs ever, i've got no more to say other than that i wish i could have been at this gig.

  • your mature...

  • PATTI IS A GODDESS!! AND BRUCE GOD...

  • check out the version I uploaded it's much better quality, ripped straight from the video anthology dvd

  • Unbelievable song!!!

  • Brilliant

  • Beautiful.

  • for general info the live version of this can be found on the 'live from nyc' dvd or cd, but this studio version was put on the dvd called 'the complete video anthology 1978-2000'. all the versions are touching.

  • Makes me think about my friend a long long way away and makes me cry

  • What I love about this song is that it's tolerant. So many love songs talk about how they will be together forever and never ever lose each other and everything will be perfect, but this song says that it's okay. One can fall behind or screw things up, but that's okay, because they'll wait for each other... God bless you Bruce.

  • Well said.

  • Thanks! ^_^

  • loveleigh4ever... you're exactly right in your overview of this song. The ending when they harmonize gets me every time.

  • Me, too.... It's so beautiful!

  • ha...silvio danta..

    can't fucking believe it

  • Incredible! Gotta love the E Street Band!

  • I don't understand how anyone can listen to this song and not know that Patti has the most amazing voice. (And, in any case, there is no reason to be so vulgar about your opinion) People forget that she was in the band long before she and Bruce were together.

  • @themonaghans

    Ya, she slept with him and kept him happy on tour while he was married....she's a nice girl.

  • @themonaghans There's no accounting for taste. I don't like her voice. But, I agree, there's no need to be nasty in voicing your opinion.

  • Jesus Christ, SxeRye, shut the fuck up! you wish you could sing like that, and, whoa, it looks like youre not in a band at all :O and if you are, then that's your band mates loss.

    Yours truly, your mom

  • Pattie got a beautiful voice and she sings even better then Bruce and thats comes from me who is a BIG Springsteen fan so just shut up if you don´t have anything nice to say , remarks like yours is just fucking STUPID!!!!!!!!

  • One of those songs that makes me simply be.

  • wooow :-O

  • Patti Scialfa's voice is just amazing! I love this song! They are great together ..

  • i get shivers, so f*cking beautiful!!

  • That is amazing

  • Quality

  • my mom told me about the E street band, there ahmazing but among them and among all music are true gems, and this songs a gold mine of them

  • that was different and woow :)

  • Across the board talent

  • Simply perfect

  • nice that they let the little guy have a go

  • this is stunning...actually we need new words...how to you really describe this?? is the song performed this way in concert, which each band member taking turns with the verses??

  • janathen94 the original version is tucked away on the album lucky town, and when the band reunited in 1999 they blew everybody away by performing it this way at the end of their, brilliant live as always

  • Can't believe this is 10 years old.

    Atmospheric version.

    great stuff

  • WOW amazing ! this is great version of this song great well done bruce and the E street band !

  • WOW Nils Lofgren is quite the vocalist...I wept during his chorus

  • This is a wonderful ballad that I saw the Boss perfom in concert

  • I saw this performed way back in `99 at Earls court, London. Quite simply, a truly magical song. And the best gig i ever saw. i was speechless as was so many others afterwards. They were that good

  • A very pretty song

  • Fantastic, atmospheric, spiritual ........ hopeful.

  • I don´t care what any1 thinks, this song is so beautiful! I LOVE IT!

  • So what? You don't like waiting?

  • So superb

  • This song is done beautifully in concert. The whole audience is reduced to silence during this poignant song.

  • btruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuce

  • deep stuff

  • now that is a TUNE !!!!!!!!!!

  • I love this song nils and pattie sound great

  • actually i just came to see

    silvio my favorite character on the sopranos.

  • Guys

    This is a beautiful song about love, commitment, understanding and truth. I first heard this song at a funeral last year of an amazing woman who died of a brain clot at the age of 43 on New Years Day. This was chosen by her husband as a fitting remembrance of their love at her service. Please don't muddle this with politics.

  • @nickburrows70

    absolute dribble and dross

  • @nickburrows70 its just wonderfull...beautifuld ....Patti voice goes right in my soul....

  • Check out CiaranBolgerMusic for his cover of Springsteen's 'If I Should Fall Behind'. Ciaran Bolger is an unsigned 16 year old musician with amazing talent. Check him out!

  • lucky town is a very underrated album, it deserves more recognition!

  • I'm glad someone agrees with me. Luckytown and Humantouch are both incredible, why "they" his so called faithful fans, ever said they were poor, well they were fools.

    Thanks bruce for another increidble song!

  • Yeah... I love tracks like LOCAL HERO, LUCKY TOWN, ROLL OF THE DICE and A BEAUTIFUL REWARD... I also like MAN'S JOB, that's a funny song... :-)

  • thank you

  • AWESOME!!! thanx to all who told me where to find this video! xxx

  • what a beautiful song... thanx to all who helped me find it on youtube!!!!! been looking for ages..

  • Beautiful song and awesome presentation by all the band and a suitable contrast to the Seeger sessions. Can't get much better than this!

  • anybody know the tabs for this version i cant find it anywhere. send it to me if u have them thanks... love this song

  • Anyone tell me who exactly everyone is in this?

    I know Clemons, Springfield and Patti, who are the other 2?

  • The other 2 are Little steven Van Zandt (with bandana)and Nils Lofgren!

  • Thank you soooo much, im gonna look them up :)

  • Bruce Springsteen, Clerence Clemens, Patti Scalfia, Nils Lofgren and Stevie Van Zandt.

  • IS THIS SONG FROM A FILM SOUND TRACK?

  • this is such a beautiful song ..full of emotion; genuine from the soul......it makes the heart scream for more.......why is everyone argung ????? this is about memories

    from a lifetme..if i should fall behind wait for me...

  • mikemoscow, you rant the drivel of a citizen of a washed up and irrelevant monarchy. Like your nation you are a cypher, meaningless at best. Your leaders are relegated to acting only as our toadies and sycophants, and you know this as well. You impoverished little welfare stater. Live in your past you pathetic little imbecile, stop resenting those who do have a future. tiny little Brit Arse.

  • Shut the fuck up i may only be 14 but i know that if there is any country who you should critisize is yours and you should be thanking us for protecting yourselves from your gun-ho attitude You Faked 9/11 as an excuse to invae Iraq and we sent our boys to support your febal attempts of finding "wepons of mass destruction" instead we just get shot at and bombed by your badly trained army and so called air-force we have lost more men to your guns than that of the taliban so and i havnt finished...

  • part 2 yes we are just a small rock stuck next to france we do have a monarchy who is 90% irrelevant in the running of the country but we never claimed she was. but i would never ever traid being a Brittish citezen to become american because the more and more this world falls apart through conflict and war this tiny little island in the north sea will stick together and pull through whilst your "great nation" argues over the next moronic president of your iddiott infested country I pray for you.

  • youve never bin 14

  • what the fuck is that supposed to mean?

  • Everything you said would have prompted me to give you a shout out, but then you said 9/11 was an inside job and lost any credibility you had, what a shame. When you grow up and actually look into the events that occurred from unbiased and well educated sources rather than a couple of idiotic college students, you'll understand what happened was a disgusting act of terror caused by the american government's fucking retarded foreign policy and terrorist funding.

  • yeah i felt stupid saying that i just wantedf to paddi it out

  • you lost your credibility now too tho by your american government jibe. Each to their own my friend.

  • What american government jibe?

  • A minute of your lifetime is what I ask you:

    Pray for a hell so friendly and soft belgian para-friend TO BE VIGILANT on that unknown moment the strike unleashes.

    THANKS for being a human and moreover a religious person to overclass wartugs.

    "There are no atheists on the battle field" ,only behind hidden computers you might find them ruling all kinds of weird shit.May you stay forever STRONG!

  • forever friend

  • this is a very beautiful song

  • Que autentica maravilla! Una banda en la que todos tienen una voz de puta madre.

    Temazo!

  • Non conoscevo questo brano.

    Bellissimo...Grazie.

  • Per quei pochi che, come il sottoscritto, masticano solo un po' di inglese, penso valga la pena di tradurre ciò che viene cantato.

    B.Springsteen = (Ci siamo promessi di camminare insieme, qualsiasi cosa accada,)che se nel crepuscolo dovessimo smarrire la strada o mentre camminiamo una mano smarrisse l'altra, io ti aspetterò. Se dovessi essere io a restare indietro, aspettami tu.

    Steven van Zandt = Abbiamo giurato di viaggiare fianco a fianco, amore, di aiutarci nelle difficoltà. Si sa che ..

  • Vera e propria dichiarazione d'amore,

    semplice, onesta, diretta come non mai. Nel "Reunion Tour" del 1999-2000, ogni componente della E Street Band ne cantò un pezzetto, facendola in tal modo diventare una canzone sulla solidarietà fra amici.

    Un brano che emoziona e fa riflettere.

  • tdcwagner your an idiot your the one whos stupid

  • When they come to germany ?

  • sorry to tell you they were in germany a month or so ago already..

    btw. does anybody know where this clip is from?

  • its from the TOP OF THE POPS 2 Bruce special from 2001-2 i think,

  • fantastic! saw them in Helsinki, what an awesome band!!

  • You're joking right? Bruce wrote this one, sorry.

  • If the U.S.A is so bad, then why do millions risk life to enter?

  • great song.  the faces these guys pull are so funny!!!!

  • Bruce, You are still the hero!

  • Nils Lofgren what a great voice. Amazing guitar player aswell. And of course Brucie.

  • gotta love Little stevie!!!!

    AND OF COURSE BRUCE...

  • 4 years on youtube and this by far,by far the best!!! thank you tubestew.

  • Unbelievable, thanks for posting ...what a family...

  • no soy de la epoca pero por mis brothers lo escuche mis respeto , lastima q no llegaran por estos lares

  • makes tears come to my eyes.... reminds me of my dad

  • Just Wonerful Bruce

  • r.i.p. danny federici! we miss you!

  • I think its really funny that all u people are fighting over the internet about a trivial thing such as this. If u love ur country good for u. Then u should respect others thats what a true "american"Patriot is. I'm from Ireland myself (Northern Ireland yhat is and I know what its like to have conflict.

    Arguing on the internet is like running in the special olympics - even if u win; your still retarded

  • columnthealmighty: Thank you for your intelligent and sincere comment. You are a treasure that is not often found. I wish you only the best in this Journey we call life. Peace to you and yours. You are one of the few special people around. :) Your last statement is oh so true. :)

  • thank you - lyablonski - I do believe taht people are far too negative towards eachother.

    we all need to just chill and be friends we're all human; and to quote you I also "I wish you all the best in this journey called life"

    Peace and Love to everybody out ther in this beautiful world; but especially you - lyablonski. x

  • yeah, it's a great song

  • I had never heard this song until I saw this video on tv yesterday. What a song and what a performance.

  • This is so beautiful it brings me to tears. It's like they're all connected by a cord,they love each other so much.

  • those harmonies are amazing. and that sax really does get you deep, as does clemons voice. awesome, thank you for making my day

  • johnnythefox66:Had not heard this song until the other day. It has been around for a long time. Songs like this are always in the back of your mind. When you need them, they come to you.I wish I had their talents, I am glad they share with us. I saw Bruce this past Monday. He is an excellent entertainer, as is his band. They put their own pain aside temporarily to make us happy. All had heavy hearts, but did not let on. May they have comfort. Peace. RIP Danny and Terry.

  • johnnythefox66:I saw Bruce and Band on 04/14/08 The 14th would have been Bruce's right hand man and best friend since 1971, Terry MacGovern's birthday. He passed away last year. I am sure that Danny Federici was also on Bruce's mind and he died later that week. Upon entering the arena, there was a heavy feeling of sorrow. Bruce and Band played their asses off, but I know their hearts and souls were heavy with grief. I feel much empathy for the situation. Terry and Danny are in a better place.

  • So beautiful! Thank for posting this.

  • This is one of the MOST incredible things I have ever seen. It touches me to my soul. Makes me hope that I would have people like that surrounding me. You can feel the loved they have for each other. Brilliant.

  • mikemosocw: Will you come visit me in the U.S.? I have never met anyone that is Russian and British. I bet you are SO interesting and have knowledge about EVERYTHING in the WORLD! Please say yes, I am counting the days.

  • bruce is amazing even now! with his latest music being second to non and making #1 in the american album chart! i cant wait to see him live in cardiff in june! GO on Bruce

  • Epic.

    I especially love Clemons's bit. love it.

  • beautiful

  • My wife hates Bruce with a passion.

    But even she said this was beautiful.

    Now thats makin' music.

  • Please forgive me for saying something that I should keep to myself. Hate is such a horrible word. Everyone is entitled to their opinion. I just don't understand how you can Hate someone or something you don't even know. Your wife has her reasons I am sure. Peace. :)

  • How the hell can you hate Bruce?

  • e street forever! Bring back patti too!! Go on Brucie!!!

  • Beautiful.

  • Now that's music <3

  • Tears many tears - there is only one Bruce