Okay, I'll bite and answer my own question.

The album is far more important than the tour to me. The album is forever. I'll still be listening to it in ten years if I'm alive. The tour is, at most, one or maybe two nights of my life.

So, far the album, I'm hoping for great songwriting. I'm hoping for the kind of promise of greatness we saw that is still there in songs like Fingerprints and Who Would You Die For from Burning Bridges. I hope for no political garbage to date the album and make me want to throw it out the window like The Circle. I hope for something universal and timeless like I know Jon is capable of writing. I hope that Jon does a lot of the writing by himself without co-writers though I think that is probably wishful thinking since he seems to really enjoy working with other people like John Shanks and Billy Falcon these days. However, should he get that chip on his shoulder and feel like he has to prove himself I wouldn't mind it one bit.

The songs. That's what I'm laying my hopes down for. I just want good songs. I don't care about a big tour. I don't care if they play every continent and make a trip to the moon just to say they did it. It's all about the songs for me. I want something that I will want to listen to in 20 years just like I do Blaze of Glory, Destination Anywhere, New Jersey, and Keep the Faith.