Bruce Springsteen has a new song that speaks to real patriotism in America and which shares some similarities to the message of Clint Eastwood in Halftime In America. Expect to hear it a lot at rallies to re-elect President Obama.
It is one of the songs that President Obama's campaign will use:
Bruce Springsteen’s “We Take Care of Our Own” is there in the mix, taking that sense of responsibility between two people national.
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Springsteen now has made a music video for the song. It's a "sing-along" version in which the words are on the screen (this will help for hearing impaired folks) and background pictures of all kinds of folks affected by the Great Recession
I've been knockin' on the door that holds the throne
I've been lookin' for the map that leads me home
I've been stumblin' 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 Superdome
We yelled "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 the eyes, the eyes with the will to see
Where the hearts, that 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 that'll reign, reign 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
We take care of our own
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We take care of our own! This is the New Patriotism.
From Barack Obama's speech accepting the nomination of the Democratic Party for President:
That promise is our greatest inheritance. It's a promise I make to my daughters when I tuck them in at night, and a promise that you make to yours - a promise that has led immigrants to cross oceans and pioneers to travel west; a promise that led workers to picket lines, and women to reach for the ballot.
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That's the promise of America - the idea that we are responsible for ourselves, but that we also rise or fall as one nation; the fundamental belief that I am my brother's keeper; I am my sister's keeper.
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We take care of our own.