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“There Ain’t No Help, the Cavalry Stayed Home.” The Boss Chimes In.

Hey FireDogs. Well all I can say is it’s about damn time. I have been waiting to hear some music come out of this protest movement…….this Occupy……..this longing for a return to democracy(either real or imagined) that has impacted so many of us for so many different reasons.
  
To be fair, there has been some, but I am a musician, a guitar player and a singer…….and I judge other’s work by a very simple standard. If I like it, it gives me goose bumps……more than once…….repeated goose bumps is the standard.
 
Well, The Boss has a new album out called “The Wrecking Ball”, some of the music……like the title track itself has been out for a while. But make no mistake……this is a hard driving collection of songs that in Bruce’s words “measure the distance between the American reality and the American dream”. In an interview in Paris a couple of days ago he was asked if he was calling for an armed uprising. He laughed……..but there is no doubt that the anger and frustration over what he is witnessing happen to his beloved America is at best thinly veiled.
 
I am 54 years old now. I feel responsible for what is occurring here in this country now, somehow culpable, like I stood by and allowed it to occur……..although I somehow suspect that without the egregious overreaching that has now been perpetrated, making our choices so clear……..that effective organized resistance would not have been possible until now. Even though I am finding every way to engage that I can, I still oddly feel like a spectator………but a spectator who wants to see the twenty somethings have a real chance at the American dream.
 
Here’s a couple of tunes off of the new album FireDogs, enjoy…….have a good Sunday, and maybe some goosebumps :

I’ve been knocking on the door that holds the throne
I’ve been looking for the map that leads me home
I’ve been stumbling on good hearts turned to stone
The road of good intentions has gone dry as bone

We take care of our own
We take care of our own
Wherever this flag’s flown
We take care of our own

From Chicago to New Orleans
From the muscle to the bone
From the shotgun shack to the Super Dome

There ain’t no help, the cavalry stayed home,
There ain’t no one hearing the bugle blowin’
We take care of our own
We take care of our own
Wherever this flag’s flown
We take care of our own

Where’re the eyes, the eyes with the will to see
Where’s the hearts that run over with mercy
Where’s the love that has not forsaken me
Where’s the work that’ll set my hands, my soul free
Where’s the spirit to reign rain over me
Where’s the promise, from sea to shining sea
Where’s the promise, from sea to shining sea

Wherever this flag is flown
Wherever this flag is flown
Wherever this flag is flown
We take care of our own
We take care of our own
Wherever this flag’s flown
We take care of our own
We take care of our own
We take care of our own
Wherever this flag’s flown

And Lastly Here is the Title Track “The Wrecking Ball” :

Stay Strong and Take Care of One Another.

Hat tips to Lisa Simeone @ Liberty Underground for posting Fiachra Gibbons article on Bruce Springsteen this morning, and also to Mr. Gibbons for his previous article in the Gaurdian for which Lisa also provided a link. Good stuff all.

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