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Bruce Springsteen Opens First Post-Election Show With ‘A Fighting Prayer For My Country’
Bruce Springsteen opened his first post-election show in Toronto on Wednesday night (Nov. 6) with what he called 'a fighting prayer for my country.'
“My father said ‘Son, we’re lucky in this town/ It’s a beautiful place to be born/ It just wraps its arms around you/ Nobody crowds you and nobody goes it alone,'” he sang, followed by another verse layered with Springsteen’s signature dream of a better tomorrow and faith in the resilience of the American spirit: “Your flag flyin’ over the courthouse/ Means certain things are set in stone/ Who we are, what we’ll do and what we won’t.” Springsteen had been all-in for Harris, throwing his weight behind the 11th-hour candidacy by filming the moving “ Hope and Dreams ” campaign video in which he said, “This election is about a group of folks who want to fundamentally undermine our American way of life. Springsteen was one of dozens of musicians, actors and other artists who threw in with the Harris campaign’s attempt to stop twice impeached Trump from being just the second man to serve non-consecutive White House terms, as well as the first convicted felon to ascend to the nation’s highest office.
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