“Wait For Me” by Rise Against

"Wait for Me" is the ballad in the room on Endgame, Rise Against's sixth album, from 2011: Tim McIlrath himself called it more ballad-esque, and it is one of the slower songs on the record. He wrote it with producers Bill Stevenson and Jason Livermore, cut it at The Blasting Room in Fort Collins, Colorado, and named it his favorite track on the album. Chris Lord-Alge mixed it and Ted Jensen mastered it.

McIlrath sings lead and plays guitar alongside Zach Blair, with Joe Principe on bass and Brandon Barnes on drums. It reached radio in June 2012 as the last single from Endgame, reviewers liked its patient, deliberate pace, and it climbed to 14 on the US Rock Songs chart.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.