Bruce is about to release his 17th studio album and he’s still awesome, and let me tell you why. Like many of his greatest hits, We Take Care Of Our Own appears on the surface to be this bombastic Red State Yay America anthem, but it isn’t. It is the exact opposite. If you listen to the lyrics in the verse he’s all like, “From Chicago to New Orleans / From the muscle to the bone / From the shotgun shack to the Superdome / We yelled help but the cavalry stayed home / There ain’t no-one hearing the bugle blown.” The whole ‘we take care of our own’ refrain is a very blunt and caustic sort of irony. Because Bruce Springsteen hates America. Fact*.
*Not a fact. Bruce Springsteen actually hates Canada.
