Tag: We Take Care of Our Own

We previously wrote about Bruce Springsteen’s new single, “We Take Care of Our Own” from his upcoming album, Wrecking Ball, due to be released March 6. Today, an official video for the song was released. The video for the song addressing society’s economic hard times shows Springsteen by himself playing his guitar in what appears to be an abandoned house, intercut with scenes of us common folk, beginning in black and white and ending in color with a little ray of hope. Or as Clint Eastwood would sum up, “It’s halftime in America.”

What do you think of the new video? Leave your two cents in the comments.

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Bruce Springsteen released a new single today, “We Take Care of Our Own” from his forthcoming album Wrecking Ball, due to be released March 6. The new album reportedly addresses tough economic times and has been described as an angry album.

The song combines common Springsteen themes of anger about recent events (“From the shotgun shack to the Superdome / We yelled ‘help’ but the cavalry stayed home”) to questions about recent economic hard times (“Where’s the work that’ll set my hands, my soul free?”) to a possible reference to the Springsteen canon (“Where’s the promise, from sea to shining sea?”) to a final hopeful chorus aching to be misused by a presidential candidate (“Wherever this flag is flown / We take care of our own”). Blogness on the Edge of Town has its own take on the anthem quality of the song.

Here’s the track list for the new album:

1. We Take Care of Our Own
2. Easy Money
3. Shackled and Drawn
4. Jack of All Trades
5. Death to My Hometown
6. This Depression
7. Wrecking Ball
8. You’ve Got It
9. Rocky Ground
10. Land of Hope and Dreams
11. We Are Alive

What do you think of the new song? Leave your two cents in the comments.

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