'We Take Care Of Our Own': Bruce Springsteen's New Video

Sing it, Bruce!

Bruce Springsteen and his E Street band have released the video for "We Take Care Of Our Own," off their upcoming album "Wrecking Ball."

Shot in both black and white and color, Springsteen takes one for the working class with a factory rock-out session and begs the questions, "Where's the works that has set my hands, my soul free? Where's the spirit that will reign, reign over me? Where's the promise from sea to shining sea?"

Springsteen recently announced that he had hired late band member Clarence Clemons' nephew, Jake Clemons, to join the band on saxophone.

"Wrecking Ball," which draws inspiration from the Occupy movement, hits stores on March 6th.

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Comments

[wildshovel]

03:47 PM on 02/13/2012

Have to give Springsteen credit: at least he's stepping up, and coming out in support. Most other bands seem scared to death.

Here's another new protest track, this one a cover of the fist-shaking 60s protest / garage rock anthem “NOTHING CAN CHANGE THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME”: http://tinyurl.com/7p93vvm

The lyrics are all too relevant:

“There’s a new sun rising up angry in the sky.
There’s a new voice crying but not afraid to die.
Let the old world make believe it’s blind and deaf and dumb
BUT NOTHING CAN CHANGE THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME.

There are changes lying ahead on every road.
There are new thoughts ready and waiting to explode.
When tomorrow is today, the bells will toll for some.
BUT NOTHING CAN CHANGE THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME.

The future’s coming on sweet and strong,
And no-one’s gonna hold it back for long…

There are new dreams crowding out old realities.
There’s revolution sweeping in like a fresh new breeze.
Let the old world make believe it’s blind and deaf and dumb,
BUT NOTHING CAN CHANGE THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME. “

(BTW, the whole album is pretty decent, if you are into that vintage 60s garage rock thing. It's a free download http://tinyurl.com/7od26by)

[outloud]

03:26 PM on 02/12/2012

What a bunch of hooey. I don't know what he's been smokin' but take a good look around for the last decade or so....we're not taking care of our own.

Simplistic, jingoistic, chest thumpin' somewhat catchy tune.

I do like him and his talent but this is not his best work...or even near.

[loudneighbor]

06:21 PM on 02/12/2012

I agree that musically it's nothing special, but I think his lyrics are more an admonishment than a statement of fact. As in, "shouldn't we be taking care of our own? Cuz we sure as hell ain't."

[outloud]

06:27 PM on 02/12/2012

I did wonder about that but maybe the concept was just too oblique for me.

[american-dolt]

08:47 PM on 02/12/2012

I think he is saying that we should be, and we are not. Listen again.

I'm not crazy about the tune, but I am the message. Rock on Bruce.

[outloud]

03:29 PM on 02/13/2012

Although I couldn't stand watching the entire Grammy Awards, I did catch Bruce doing this song.
Couldn't understand any of the lyrics. Very poor performance.

[Ira Meyers]

10:42 AM on 02/12/2012

Words more then swords have made more changes. Thanks again Boss.

[Lorraine Adler]

09:25 AM on 02/12/2012

a good song for out time

[missmaizeybelle]

07:32 AM on 02/12/2012

Have loved this man and his music since the early 70's.Rock on Bruce.

[loki]

07:01 PM on 02/11/2012

better watch it Boss, the Capitalist and their Tea Party attack dogs will be coming to get you for this.

[NYERFEDUP]

12:51 PM on 02/12/2012

The same thing I was thinking, but they just might not get it and use it for a stump song, like Regan used Born in the USA....After I watched the video all I could think about is what they did to the Dixie Chicks....but they had the last laugh with The Grammy win

[bahkey]

05:51 PM on 02/11/2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8MAsAoRxqw&feature=fvsr... Born in the USA, The way it should have been recorded the first time around. This song and Thunder Road tell two great stories.

[real1234]

04:52 PM on 02/11/2012

He's still got it.

[Atim-moot Tugayak]

03:36 PM on 02/11/2012

He's singing about the rich 1% which is where's been for 30 years. Rich take care of their own all right.

[catgirl666]

12:39 PM on 02/12/2012

A list of Bruce Springsteen's charity work, events and causes.

http://www.looktothestars.org/celebrity/711-bruce-springsteen

Open mouth insert f oot.

[Artamentous]

02:58 PM on 02/12/2012

That is true, but some of those 1% realize how screwed up things are.. Do you think any enlightenment thinker was dirt poor? Yet many of them advocated for things that would see them LESS well off than they would have been otherwise.

[Salukeitis]

07:17 AM on 02/11/2012

Be quiet Bruce and count the hundreds of millions you have.

[Estreet1964]

10:20 AM on 02/11/2012

Another "shut up and sing" knuckle dragging conservative.

But you'd probably defend Rush Limbaugh and the hundreds of millions he makes propagating hate on AM radio three hours a day.

[Salukeitis]

12:51 PM on 02/11/2012

Me??? My hero is Cenk Uygar. And where the heck is Keith??

[zdeedle]

01:04 PM on 02/11/2012

don't believe in freedom of speech? i know, if bruce pays out millions to a superPAC to sing it for him, will you respect his freedoms then? why do cons hate america? we've given you everything, and still you're not happy.

[Salukeitis]

02:48 PM on 02/11/2012

Go Cenk Go Keith Go Rachel I'm not what you say

[Polar Shift]

03:06 AM on 02/12/2012

zdeedle, Saluks' a lib, I just don't think he's a Bruce fan.

[Anym]

11:49 PM on 02/10/2012

I need a class warfare soundtrack any recommendations?

[Anym]

11:47 PM on 02/10/2012

There are many things we can respectively disagree on but if you don't like Springsteen you're unAmerican.

[otop016]

06:14 AM on 02/11/2012

What about those of us who Love Springsteen but think the new song sucks? Are we unAmerican too?

[Polar Shift]

03:07 AM on 02/12/2012

otop, I agree. This just isn't up to the 'mark' for him. It almost sounds like a 'rehash'.

[Salukeitis]

07:18 AM on 02/11/2012

Seriously I would like to see him TRY to sing the National Anthem in front of tens of thousands.

[another looker]

08:24 AM on 02/11/2012

It would be huge fail! The man has no talent! None! ....Yet, his denizen of are unaware of such because they are tone-deaf.

If only that Fender Esquire has been in the hands of someone with talent....

[zdeedle]

01:06 PM on 02/11/2012

he's packed stadiums with tens of thousands... the man is an icon. and hey, if john ashcroft gets to sing, then i think springsteen should too at obama's next inauguration. maybe this time, john roberts can get it right.

[axt113]

09:46 PM on 02/10/2012

Most people will be fooled by the upbeat chorus and music, they won't even notice the fact that he's talking about all the hardships that people have been facing for years without any help (although at the end the video does seem to indicate the possibility for things to get better)

[dethburger]

01:45 AM on 02/11/2012

Same with "Born in the USA".

[drumz]

01:18 PM on 02/11/2012

That reagan was so ignorant to embrace.

[cerdayes]

09:42 PM on 02/10/2012

dang socialist!

[Frod43]

08:30 PM on 02/10/2012

Ask the republicans who don't want to help the G I's coming home ...or the middle and lower economic strata of our society ...The president can only do so much ...

The republicans believe in the so called trickle down theory ...which is just another way to fool the working class ....ya blame Obama ...for all the wrongs done by privious presidents , including clinton who gave away the ranch to the chinese I was fighting in Laos ...