I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.Stay free
— Bruce Springsteen (@brucespringsteen.net) January 28, 2026 at 9:02 AM
You can also listen to it here.
Music has played an integral part in protest movements, galvanizing and energizing people as we saw most memorably during the civil rights and Vietnam turbulence. I hope this becomes a protest anthem that is blasted through speakers whenever Trump and his thugs including ICE appear in public, and that it inspires other artists to do the same.
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
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
chorus
Oh Minneapolis, I hear your voice
Singing through the bloody mist
We’ll take our stand for this land
And the stranger in our midst
Here in our home they killed and roamed
In the winter of ’26
We’ll remember the names of those who died
On the streets of Minneapolis
Trump’s federal thugs beat up on
His face and his chest
Then we heard the gunshots
And Alex Pretti lay in the snow, dead
Their claim was self defense, sir
Just don’t believe your eyes
It’s our blood and bones and these whistles and phones
Against Miller and Noem’s dirty lies
chorus
Oh Minneapolis, I hear your voice
Crying through the bloody mist
We’ll remember the names of those who died
On the streets of Minneapolis
Now they say they’re here to uphold the law
But they trample on our rights
If your skin is black or brown my friend
You can be questioned or deported on sight
In our chants of “ICE out now”
Our city’s heart and soul persists
Through broken glass and bloody tears
On the streets of Minneapolis
chorus
Oh Minneapolis, I hear your voice
Singing through the bloody mist
Here in our home they killed and roamed
In the winter of ’26
We’ll take our stand for this land
And the stranger in our midst
We’ll remember the names of those who died
On the streets of Minneapolis
We’ll remember the names of those who died
On the streets of Minneapolis
Good on Bruce Springsteen! He got this out quicker than “Ohio” after the Kent State massacre. And that song had a huge impact galvanizing the resistance to the Vietnam War.
Before anyone corrects my ambiguous wording, I know that Springsteen did not write “Ohio”. Neil Young wrote the song and it was performed by CSNY.
Oops, ICE agent tried to force his way into Equador’s consulate. But who needs international “laws” anyway.
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Greg Bovino is out, and so is his Hitler Youth-sized coat, respectfully …
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As for his replacement Homan, I will spell his name ‘Hooman’ because he looks like the bug monster in Men In Black # 1 masquerading as human. (Yes, I will mock his appearence. Blame Trump for picking minions that look like comic book villains.)
Yeah, good old Bruce.
Remember when one of the proto-fascists (Reagan?) started blasting Springsteen’s “Born in the USA” at rallies, and Springsteen had to strongly point out that 1) they can’t use his copyrighted song with his permission, and 2) if they’d read or listened past the title, they would have found it a *very* inappropriate anthem for their American-superiority and patriotism pitch.