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Bruce Springsteen Opens First Post-Election Concert With ‘A Fighting Prayer for My Country’
At his first post-election concert, Bruce Springsteen opened with a song he called 'a fighting prayer for my country': 'Long Walk Home.'
But for his concert in that city on Wednesday night, his reaction to Donald Trump ’s victory was similarly subtle, at least early in the show. After apologizing to the audience for the show’s late start (due to a flight delay that left them “sitting on our asses” for hours), he changed the subject quickly and said, “This is a fighting prayer for my country,” and launched into “Long Walk Home,” another song he rarely chooses to open a show. The song, from his 2007 album “Magic,” is about familiar Springsteen themes — hometown, a woman, family, freedom, summer — but the relevance of it on this night came in the third verse:
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