Song For the Night: Bruce Springsteen - I'll work for your love

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Song for the night: Bruce Springsteen - The Price You Pay (with an additional verse)

Bruce Springsteen: Bankers Are 'Greedy Thieves'

Bruce Springsteen: Bankers Are 'Greedy Thieves':

'via Blog this'

BERLIN, May 30 - Rocker Bruce Springsteen touched on a nerve of widespread discontent with the financiers and bankers at a Berlin concert on Wednesday, railing against them as "greedy thieves" and "robber barons."

Springsteen, a singer-songwriter dubbed "The Boss" who has long championed populist causes, played to a sold-out crowd at Berlin's Olympic Stadium, singing from his album "Wrecking Ball" and speaking about tough economic times that have put people out of work worldwide and led to debt crises in Greece and other countries.

"In America, a lot of people have lost their jobs," said Springsteen, 62, who performed for three hours to some 58,000 fans in the packed stadium that hosted the 1936 Olympics and the 2006 World Cup final.

"But also in Europe and in Berlin, times are tough," he added, speaking in fluent German. "This song is for all those who are struggling." He then introduced "Jack of All Trades", a withering attack on bankers that includes the lyrics: "The banker man grows fat, working man grows thin."

Europe has been especially hard hit since 2008's financial meltdown that sparked an enduring sovereign debt crisis. Unemployment on the continent has risen to levels not seen since the 1990s.

Springsteen's "Wrecking Ball" tour began on May 13 in Spain, which is struggling with its crushing debt load, and it runs for 2-1/2 months with 33 stops in 15 countries before concluding on July 31 in Helsinki.

originally from Rueters http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/31/bruce-springsteen-bankers_n_1559776.html

Bruce Springsteen - Death To My Hometown

LP - Was in Littleton New Hampshire Friday. A woman was setting up a play date for her child with girl friend's child. She had been picking up more hours at Dunkin' Donuts and talking to a friend who was in there and had a week off. She seemed depressed that she was now working full time at a dead end job and said "What do you expect from a mother who is a single parent."

The town appeared run down. There was big box stores on the outskirts of town selling each other things and people who worked for the tourist industry. When you broke it down what did the town now produce: it didn't appear much. It was just people selling each other shit that had originally been made in China. What did America produce now? Not much. There was no more gold rushes and what was left was charlatan feasting off the bones of public education and privatized jails, that's where the real opportunities currently are. It's in these small towns where you see the ache of the American recession.

It reminded me of being in Lubbock Maine a few years back when the sardine industry went out there and people were left with out work. My wife and I were trading money to go into Canada on vacation, and they were desperate to get whatever they could out of the bank so it wouldn't foreclose on their houses. Go to these small towns. Take their temperature and you'll see the overall health of this country. It's something that the Washington politicians can't be bothered to do.

"American Skin (41 Shots)" Live in Tampa, FL 03/23/12

In honor of Trayvon Martin in Tampa

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - "This Land Is Your Land" (Woody ...

American Land Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band Live Hyde Park 2009

Whoa!

What is this land America, so many travel there
I'm going now while I'm still young, my darling meet me there
Wish me luck my lovely, I'll send for you when I can
And we'll make our home in the American land

Over there all the women wear silk and satin to their knees
And children, dear, the sweets, I hear, are growing on the trees
Gold comes rushing out the rivers straight into your hands
When you make your home in the American land

There's diamonds in the sidewalk, the gutters lined in song
Dear, I hear that beer flows through the faucets all night long
There's treasure for the taking, for any hard working man
Who'll make his home in the American land

Whoa!

Whoa!

I docked at Ellis Island in the city of light and spire
I wandered to the valley of red-hot steel and fire
We made the steel that built the cities with the sweat of our two hands
We made our home in the American land
Go!
There's diamonds in the sidewalk, the gutters lined in song
Dear, I hear that beer flows through the faucets all night long
There's treasure for the taking, for any hard working man
Who'll make his home in the American land

Whoa!
Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!
???!
Come on!

The McNicholas, the Posalskis, the Smiths, Zerillis too
The Blacks, the Irish, Italians, the Germans and the JewsThey come across the water a thousand miles from home
With nothing in their bellies but the fire down below

They died building the railroads, they worked to bones and skin
They died in the fields and factories, names scattered in the wind
They died to get here a hundred years ago, they're still dying now
Their hands that built the country we're always trying to keep out
There's diamonds in the sidewalk, the gutters lined in song
Dear, I hear that beer flows through the faucets all night long
There's treasure for the taking, for any hard working man
Who'll make his home in the American land
Who'll make his home in the American land
Who'll make his home in the American land
Whoa!

Bruce Springsteen-Shackled And Drawn

Shackled and drawn, shackled and drawn
Pick up the rock, son, carry it on
What's a poor boy to do in a world gone wrong
Woke up this morning shackled and drawn...

... Gambling man rolls the dice, working man pays the bill

It's still fat and easy up on banker's hill
Up on banker's hill the party's going strong
Down here below we're shackled and drawn

Shackled and drawn, shackled and drawn
Pick up the rock, son, carry it on
Trudging through the dark in a world gone wrong
I woke up this morning shackled and drawn

Bruce Springsteen - Death To My Hometown

A fuller story here: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/03/04/1070037/-On-Wrecking-Ball-Bruce-Springsteen-takes-aim-at-robber-barons-and-bankers?via=blog_1

"Death to My Hometown" is perhaps the strongest such political statement (and, to my biased ear, the strongest song) on the album, beginning as a riddle: "No bombs fell from the sky, no blood soaked the ground" but "just as sure as the hand of God they brought death to my hometown." We don't know through most of the song who brought the death Springsteen sings about in clipped, bitter tones to music that alternates between a spare, driving beat and a more lush, swinging sound with the thread of a choir just audible beneath Celtic instrumentation. But death doesn't sound like a metaphor here. He is angry and he is mourning. Then, late in the song, we get the answer: It's robber barons, "greedy thieves who came around/And ate the flesh of everything they found." They, the robber barons, brought this blood-free death, and they'll be returning. Springsteen's voice drives through the final indictment; "Whose crimes have gone unpunished now/Who walk the streets as free men now," the final "now" echoing, reinforcing that while there is a death to be mourned, there is also an ongoing injustice. The song ends with another swell of that choir—a revolution? a funeral? some of both?

Bruce Springsteen discusses "Wrecking Ball"

LP - Springsteen on the road in Europe with Wrecking Ball tour.

Bruce Springsteen: 'What was done to my country was un-American' | Music | guardian.co.uk

Bruce Springsteen: 'What was done to my country was un-American' Music guardian.co.uk

"I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream," Springsteen told the conference, where the album was aired for the first time. It was written, he claimed, not just out of fury but out of patriotism, a patriotism traduced...

"I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream," Springsteen told the conference, where the album was aired for the first time. It was written, he claimed, not just out of fury but out of patriotism, a patriotism traduced...

"Previous to Occupy Wall Street, there was no push back at all saying this was outrageous – a basic theft that struck at the heart of what America was about, a complete disregard for the American sense of history and community … In Easy Money the guy is going out to kill and rob, just like the robbery spree that has occurred at the top of the pyramid – he's imitating the guys on Wall Street. An enormous fault line cracked the American system right open whose repercussion we are only starting to be feel.

"Nobody had talked about income inequality in America for decades – apart from John Edwards – but no one was listening. But now you have Newt Gingrich talking about 'vulture capitalism' – Newt Gingrich! – that would not have happened without Occupy Wall Street."

Bruce Springsteen - We Take Care Of Our Own

New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina, and the day the American Psyche changed

Bruce Springsteen has a new album coming out and his new song hints at New Orleans and Katrina again. A clear change in tone appeared to happen in Springsteen following what he saw in New Orleans and it was certainly understandable. It was the first time that government appeared to not care what happened to its own citizens. Even the networks seemed surprised when their own anchors couldn't ignore the bodies floating by them. Of course much of the national guard wasn't available because for some reason they were in Iraq instead trying to rebuild that country instead of their own back yards. For a time Blackwater, or America's rent a soldier, had to come in and bring law and order. There was some question whether if they shot anybody in New Orleans whether that person could be found guilty under American law as the federal government was contracting out their responsibility.

"Them who's got got out of town

And them who ain't got left to drown"
--Springsteen How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Time and Live

Black or White: the common denominator was poor and the American government had very little compassion for its own citizens.

Spike's Lee documentary that showed the general indifference of our leaders when it came to Americans

Pretty hard for the helicopters to miss the message. The first on the scene was actually people from Cuba, Venezuela and Canada just disgraceful. Not only could the US government not do enough but it even prevented other from helping its own people.

Venezuala - An offer of aid from the Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez, which included two mobile hospital units, 120 rescue and first aid experts and 50 tonnes of food, has been rejected, according to the civil rights leader, Jesse Jackson.

Mr Jackson said the offer from the Venezuelan leader, whom he recently met, included 10 water purification plants, 18 power generation plants and 20 tonnes of bottled water.

The offer was made in a letter from the Venezuelan ambassador to the United States, Bernardo Alvarez, to the governor of Louisiana, Kathleen Blanco.

It was one of many from governments and aid organisations across the world, despite allegations by many conservative commentators and bloggers that the US is being ignored by countries it has helped during crises.

Mr Jackson said the rejection of the offer from one of Mr Bush's most outspoken political foes was a sign the federal government was incapable of handling the crisis properly. "This may be Mr Bush's worst hour of leadership," said Mr Jackson.

Full story here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/sep/07/venezuela.hurricanekatrina

Cuba - On several instances, Cuba has offered to send free doctors and medical supplies to the United States, and the US has turned them down. Is this right? Cuban doctors are known around the world for the excellent medical care they provide in underserved and recent-disaster areas, absolutely free of charge. Why should we turn them down?

Full Story: http://sustainablemedicine.org/2009/03/cubans-offer-free-doctors-us-refuses/

From all over they came to the super dome unfortunately food and water didn't so they sat out in the sun and baked. And they waited for somebody to care enough to do something.

In Springsteen's new song "We Care For Our Own" the Super dome is again mentioned. It's almost as if Springsteen can't get these terrible images out of his mind.

President Bystander looks down

With that, he launched into a song titled "How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?" and dedicated the song to "President Bystander." Its lyrics included the lines: "There's bodies floatin' on Canal and the levees gone to hell ... them who's got out of town, and them who ain't got left to drown, tell me, how can a poor man stand such times and live?"

Real Story: http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/5/1/113726.shtml

He says, "Me and my old school pals had some might high times 'round here

And what happened to you poor black folks, well it just ain't fair"
He took a look around, gave a little pep talk, said, "I'm with you" then he took a little walk
-- Springsteen "How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Time and Live."

The lines are almost actual quotes from Bush about New Orleans whose experiences seemed to have gone no further than getting drunk and yelling "Show me your tits."

For awhile boat was the leading mode of transportation

The American media did everything to ignore the story but even they couldn't miss the bodies floating past them and at least for a day or two so-called objective journalism went out the window. I guess next time they'll have to cover the flood from a different city so their hearts don't get in the way.

New Orleans again showed how much we take care of our own when they sold of the school system whole sale, got rid of people's housing,  and celebrated the fact they had made people homeless. Even homes that were in decent enough shape had to be torn down so the politicians friends could rebuild in and skim off the top. As Louisiana Congressman Richard Baker (R-LA) said, after the hurricane, "We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans. We couldn't do it, but God did."

We Take Care Of Our Own (With Lyrics) - Bruce Springsteen

One sings of taking care of our own. The other wants to turn poor inner city kids into janitors while he gets huge speaking fees as a historian. Or hides the money he made throwing people out of work in the Caymen Islands. Quite a choice.

Bruce Springsteen's first single from We Take Care Of Own

Here is Springsteen's new single from Album "We take care of our own."  - What a thought. At a time like this it's good to hear from someone who's been singing about this for the length of his career. I hope you enjoy

http://918.tumblr.com/post/16088721470/new-bruce-springsteen-single-we-take-care-of-our

i've been knockin' on the door, there's ... of throne
i've been lookin' for the map that leads me home
i've been stumblin' on good hearts turned to stone
those good intentions have gone dry as bone
we take care of our own
we take care of our own
wherever this flag's flownwe take care of our own

from chicago to new orleans
from the muscleto the bone
from the shotgun shack to the superdomewe needed help but the cavalry stayed home,
there ain't no-one hearing the bugle blown
we take care of our own
we take care of our own
wherever this flag's flown
we take care of our own

where's the eyes, the eyes with the will to see
where's the hearts, they run over with mercy
where's the love that has not forsaken me
where's the work that set my hands, my soul free
where's the spirit to reign, reign over me
where's the promise, from sea to shining sea
where's the promise, from sea to shining seawherever 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
we take care of our own


Read More: http://monsterlyrics.blogspot.com/2012/01/bruce-springsteen-we-take-care-of-our.html#ixzz1ju3NSiLB

From The Onion Magazine Bruce Springsteen New Album About Growing up in The Hardscrabble Background Of A Miner On Mars

Bruce Springsteen Releases New Sci-Fi Concept Album About Struggles Of Poor Miners Working On Mars

September 14, 2011 | ISSUE 47•37

05.13.98

RUMSON, NJ—After more than a year of writing and recording, Bruce Springsteen released his 18th studio album Tuesday, a concept record titled Red Dust that explores the everyday lives and struggles of immigrant workers scraping by in the 23rd-century carbonate mines on Mars.

According to the 61-year-old songwriter, the new tracks depict rugged Martian colonists as they come to question what's happened to their lives, finding themselves saddled with unpayable debts and hard-pressed to put food on the table for their embryonically harvested juvenile-clones.
"These are songs about growing up on a tough planet," said Springsteen, telling reporters that when the idea of humans and aliens working side by side in an extraterrestrial labor colony first occurred to him, he immediately knew he "had to tell their story." "The Martians aren't trying to run away from their lives or make excuses. They're proud of what they do and where they're from, even if the high-impact ion-compression carbonate mining industry isn't what it used to be."
Springsteen says the album taps into the real feelings of blue-collar Martians, humans, and humanoids alike.
"I try to write about universal feelings and desires," Springsteen continued. "There's tragedy, grief, redemption. But there's also nostalgia for one's carefree younger days of racing souped-up hyper-thrust cruisers through the Valles Marineris canyon, and for nights spent chasing Martian girls along the rusting boardwalks of a crater-side spaceport."

Full Story: http://www.theonion.com/articles/bruce-springsteen-releases-new-scifi-concept-album,21358/

A little more on the book that inspired Springsteen's Youngstown and the continued war on the working poor

Music for the Night: Bruce Springsteen, the destruction of Steel industry and the early stages of class warfare

Here in northeast Ohio

Back in eighteen-o-three
James and Dan Heaton
Found the ore that was linin' Yellow Creek
They built a blast furnace
Here along the shore
And they made the cannonballs
That helped the Union win the war

Here in Youngstown
Here in Youngstown
My sweet Jenny I'm sinkin' down
Here darlin' in Youngstown

Well my daddy worked the furnaces
Kept 'em hotter than hell
I come home from 'Nam worked my way to scarfer
A job that'd suit the devil as well
Taconite coke and limestone
Fed my children and make my pay
Them smokestacks reachin' like the arms of God
Into a beautiful sky of soot and clay

Here in Youngstown
Here in Youngstown
Sweet Jenny I'm sinkin' down
Here darlin' in Youngstown

Well my daddy come on the Ohio works
When he come home from World War Two
Now the yard's just scrap and rubble
He said "Them big boys did what Hitler couldn't do."
These mills they built the tanks and bombs
That won this country's wars
We sent our sons to Korea and Vietnam
Now we're wondering what they were dyin' for

Here in Youngstown
Here in Youngstown
My sweet Jenny I'm sinkin' down
Here darlin' in Youngstown

From the Monongahela valley
To the Mesabi iron range
To the coal mines of Appalachia
The story's always the same
Seven hundred tons of metal a day
Now sir you tell me the world's changed
Once I made you rich enough
Rich enough to forget my name

And Youngstown
And Youngstown
My sweet Jenny I'm sinkin' down
Here darlin' in Youngstown

When I die I don't want no part of heaven
I would not do heaven's work well
I pray the devil comes and takes me
To stand in the fiery furnaces of hell 

The story behind the song:

Do Your Job Springsteen parody

Springsteen Land of Hope and Dreams

This is a great song about how vast and all encompassing America is. America is the whole bunch of us and people who divide us are doing none of us any favors.

This train

Carries saints and sinners
This train
Carries losers and winners
This Train
Carries whores and gamblers
This Train
Carries lost souls
This Train
Dreams will not be thwarted
This Train
Faith will be rewarded
This Train
Hear the steel wheels singin'
This Train
Bells of freedom ringin'
This Train
Carries broken-hearted
This Train
Thieves and sweet souls departed
This Train
Carries fools and kings
This Train
All aboard