Bruce Springsteen releases Minnesota protest song

Bruce Springsteen has long been a voice of reason in an unjust world.

Rock legend Bruce Springsteen released a new protest song in the wake of the shooting deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti at the hands of President Donald Trump’s Immigration thugs in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

“Streets of Minneapolis” is as blunt a statement as one can make, with the opening:

Through the winter’s ice and cold 

Down Nicollet Avenue 

A city aflame fought fire and ice 

’Neath an occupier’s boots 

King Trump’s private army from the DHS 

Guns belted to their coats 

Came to Minneapolis to enforce the law 

Or so their story goes.

Springsteen, a longtime critic of Trump, finishes the first stanza of the song by name-checking the dead:

Against smoke and rubber bullets 

In the dawn’s early light 

Citizens stood for justice 

Their voices ringing through the night 

And there were bloody footprints 

Where mercy should have stood 

And two dead left to die on snow-filled streets 

Alex Pretti and Renee Good

The Boss remains a steadfast voice against the tyranny of small-minded men like Trump.