In 1973, Springsteen released his first two albums, Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. and The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle, neither of which earned him a large audience. He changed his style and reached worldwide popularity with Born to Run in 1975. It was followed by Darkness on the Edge of Town (1978) and The River (1980), which topped the US Billboard 200 chart. After the solo recording, Nebraska (1982), he reunited with the E Street Band for Born in the U.S.A. (1984), his most commercially successful album and one of the best-selling albums of all time. Seven of its singles reached the Top Ten of the Billboard Hot 100, including the title track. Springsteen recorded his next three albums, Tunnel of Love (1987), Human Touch (1992), and Lucky Town (1992) using mostly session musicians. He reassembled the E Street Band for 1995's Greatest Hits, then recorded the sparse acoustic The Ghost of Tom Joad, followed by the EP Blood Brothers (1996), his last release of the decade.
Springsteen dedicated his 2002 album The Rising to the victims of the September 11 attacks. He released two more folk albums, Devils & Dust (2005) and We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions (2006), followed by two more albums with the E Street Band: Magic (2007) and Working on a Dream (2009). The next two, Wrecking Ball (2012) and High Hopes (2014), topped album charts worldwide. His latest releases include the solo Western Stars (2019), the E Street Band-featuring Letter to You (2020) and a solo cover album Only the Strong Survive (2022). When Letter to You went to No.2 in the US, Springsteen became the first artist to score a Top Five hit across six consecutive decades.
Among the album era's prominent acts, Springsteen has sold more than 140 million records worldwide and more than 71 million in the United States, making him one of the world's best-selling music artists. He has earned numerous awards for his work, including 20 Grammy Awards, two Golden Globes, an Academy Award, and a Special Tony Award (for Springsteen on Broadway). Springsteen was inducted into both the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1999, received the Kennedy Center Honors in 2009, named MusiCares person of the year in 2013, and awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama in 2016. He ranked 23rd on Rolling Stone's list of the Greatest Artists of All Time, which described him as being "the embodiment of rock & roll".
Full Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Springsteen
Studio albums
Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. (1973)
The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle (1973)
Born to Run (1975)
Darkness on the Edge of Town (1978)
The River (1980)
Nebraska (1982)
Born in the U.S.A. (1984)
Tunnel of Love (1987)
Human Touch (1992)
Lucky Town (1992)
The Ghost of Tom Joad (1995)
The Rising (2002)
Devils & Dust (2005)
We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions (2006)
Magic (2007)
Working on a Dream (2009)
Wrecking Ball (2012)
High Hopes (2014)
Western Stars (2019)
Letter to You (2020)
Only the Strong Survive (2022)
bring them home
Bruce Springsteen Lyrics
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Bring 'em home, bring 'em home
Bring them back from overseas
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home
It will make the politicians sad, I know
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home
They wanna tangle with their foe
They wanna test their grand theories
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home
With the blood of you and me
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home
We'll give no more brave young lives
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home
For the gleam in someone's eyes
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home
The men will cheer and the boys will shout
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home
And we will all turn out
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home
The church bells will ring with joy
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home
To welcome our darling girls and boys
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home
We will lift their voice in song
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home
When Johnny comes marching home
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home
Bring them back from the overseas
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home
If you love this land of free
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home
Bring them back from the overseas
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home
In "Bring 'Em Home," Bruce Springsteen laments the waste of human life in war and he calls on Americans to demand that their leaders end the war and bring the countrymen home from overseas. The song is a persuasive call to action, urging listeners to "bring 'em home" and put an end to the pointless deaths of young men fighting a war that many people want to see come to an end. Throughout the song, Springsteen underscores the idea that the young soldiers who are fighting and dying in the war are not abstract soldiers, but real people who are beloved daughters and sons, brothers and sisters, and mothers and fathers.
He asserts that when the war finally ends and the soldiers come home, the joy will be palpable. The men will cheer, the boys will shout, and the church bells will ring with joy. The song reminds listeners that when people love their country, they should work to bring their fellow citizens home from war rather than justify sending them into battle at great personal cost.
Overall, Bruce Springsteen's "Bring 'Em Home" seeks to bring attention to the painful realities of war and underscore the need for ending the war and bringing soldiers home to their loved ones.
Line by Line Meaning
If you love this land of the free
If you truly love this country and everything it stands for
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home
Bring our soldiers back home where they belong
Bring them back from overseas
Bring our troops back from their current location outside of the country
It will make the politicians sad, I know
Politicians may not like the idea of bringing soldiers back home
They wanna tangle with their foe
Politicians may want to continue fighting with the enemy
They wanna test their grand theories
Politicians may want to test their theories about war and foreign policy
With the blood of you and me
Their theories are being tested with the blood of innocent soldiers and civilians
We'll give no more brave young lives
We cannot sacrifice any more brave young lives for this cause
For the gleam in someone's eyes
We cannot risk the lives of our soldiers for the fleeting prospect of success
The men will cheer and the boys will shout
When soldiers return home, men and young boys will celebrate their safe return
And we will all turn out
The community will come together to welcome our soldiers back home
The church bells will ring with joy
Churches will ring their bells to celebrate the safe return of our troops
To welcome our darling girls and boys
We will welcome our soldiers, both men and women, back home with open arms
We will lift their voice in song
We will sing songs of joy and happiness for their safe return
When Johnny comes marching home
We will celebrate when our soldiers return home safely
Bring them back from the overseas
Reiterating that our goal is to bring our soldiers back home
Bring them back from the overseas
Reiterating that our goal is to bring our soldiers back home
If you love this land of free
Again, emphasizing that the desire to bring our soldiers back home is rooted in love for our country
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home
Repeating the chorus to further drive home the message of the song
Bring 'em home, bring 'em home
Repeating the chorus to further drive home the message of the song
Lyrics © CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
Written by: PETER SEEGER
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
John Hocking
There have been many moments when I have been enormously proud of the political/anti-war stands Bruce Springsteen has taken. He did so at the cost of the losing many fans.
I had attended at least two concerts on every tour beginning with Darkness on the Edge of Town in 1978. He didn't play many Seeger Sessions shows and apparently none within driving distance of Athens, GA, where I lived (and live). It looked for a while that I was going to miss the Seeger Sessions tour entirely. However, I'm originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, specifically, Concord, in the East Bay, which was the location of this concert, and was able to arrange to fly out.
Bruce had opposed the war in Iraq since late 2002, well before the invasion and occupation in March 2003. I don't know if I've ever been prouder than when sitting in about Row 10 as he sang this variation on the Pete Seeger classic written about the Vietnam War.
The video of this great performance disappeared from YouTube shortly after appearing. I'm delighted to see it again, ten years later. (This concert was on June 6, 2006, 10 years ago, tomorrow). Many thanks for uploading. I hope it stays forever.
Thank you, Bruce, and thank you, especially, President Obama, for bringing (almost all of them) home.
John Hocking
I perhaps have an explanation for your confusion. You label President Obama and Hillary Clinton, "the worst warmongers." Worse than whom? Surely not his predecessor.
I can only assume you are ignorant of the fact that George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and a neo-con cabal, using false claims that Saddam Hussain had Weapons of Mass Destruction, and (implying) he was behind the 9/11 atrocities (80% of Republican voters who reelected them in 2004 believed that lie), invaded, first Afghanistan, and then Iraq, killing 10,000 American and allied soldiers (kids), hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis, while rendering over four million homeless, at a cost of at least two Trillion dollars. Bush then handed the whole chaotic, completely de-stabilized, Middle Eastern mess (along with the worst economic crisis in 70 years) to Obama.
Obama did his best to extricate the US from war. He has been mercilessly criticized by the Right for supposedly lowering America's credibility by not using the military - to defeat the Taliban in Afghanistan; ISIS in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and wherever the hell else they might be; to blockade and/or bomb, rather than negotiate with Iran; to fix Egypt and Turkey; to remove Kim Jong-un from North Korea; to have prevented Russia's annexation of the Crimea peninsula in the Ukraine, etc., and so on.
Could Obama have done all these things? Sure, and if he had we would see wars everywhere you turned that would make the status quo look like Sunday school, and the "warmonger" label would be accurate.
You trivialize war and the carnage and cruelty it creates by calling a President who showed enormous restraint a warmonger. The United States is full of "warmongers." Thank god President Obama was not among them.
Trump? The verdict, vis a' vis American use of the military, is still out - but I, and most of the world, including I'm sure, Mr. Springsteen - are holding our breath.
TheAutographShow
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September 28 — New York, NY @ Barnes & Noble Union Square
September 29 — Philadelphia, PA @ Free Library of Philadelphia
October 1 — Seattle, WA @ Elliott Bay Book Company
October 3 — Los Angeles, CA @ Barnes & Noble at The Grove
October 4 — Portland, OR @ Powell’s City of Books
October 5 — San Francisco, CA @ City Arts & Lectures
October 7 — New York, NY @ The New Yorker Festival
October 10 — Cambridge, MA @ The Harvard Coop
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John Hocking
There have been many moments when I have been enormously proud of the political/anti-war stands Bruce Springsteen has taken. He did so at the cost of the losing many fans.
I had attended at least two concerts on every tour beginning with Darkness on the Edge of Town in 1978. He didn't play many Seeger Sessions shows and apparently none within driving distance of Athens, GA, where I lived (and live). It looked for a while that I was going to miss the Seeger Sessions tour entirely. However, I'm originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, specifically, Concord, in the East Bay, which was the location of this concert, and was able to arrange to fly out.
Bruce had opposed the war in Iraq since late 2002, well before the invasion and occupation in March 2003. I don't know if I've ever been prouder than when sitting in about Row 10 as he sang this variation on the Pete Seeger classic written about the Vietnam War.
The video of this great performance disappeared from YouTube shortly after appearing. I'm delighted to see it again, ten years later. (This concert was on June 6, 2006, 10 years ago, tomorrow). Many thanks for uploading. I hope it stays forever.
Thank you, Bruce, and thank you, especially, President Obama, for bringing (almost all of them) home.
John Hocking
26,000 pounds, kilos, tons? Regardless, how about a source?
Any number is meaningless without an answer to the implied question, "as compared to what," or in this case, "whom?" Bush I (4 years), Clinton (8), Bush II (8), Trump (in 11 months).
darkbasex3
Never closed Guantanamo Bay
darkbasex3
John Hocking obama dropped 26.000 bombs in 2016 ;)
John Hocking
I perhaps have an explanation for your confusion. You label President Obama and Hillary Clinton, "the worst warmongers." Worse than whom? Surely not his predecessor.
I can only assume you are ignorant of the fact that George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and a neo-con cabal, using false claims that Saddam Hussain had Weapons of Mass Destruction, and (implying) he was behind the 9/11 atrocities (80% of Republican voters who reelected them in 2004 believed that lie), invaded, first Afghanistan, and then Iraq, killing 10,000 American and allied soldiers (kids), hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis, while rendering over four million homeless, at a cost of at least two Trillion dollars. Bush then handed the whole chaotic, completely de-stabilized, Middle Eastern mess (along with the worst economic crisis in 70 years) to Obama.
Obama did his best to extricate the US from war. He has been mercilessly criticized by the Right for supposedly lowering America's credibility by not using the military - to defeat the Taliban in Afghanistan; ISIS in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and wherever the hell else they might be; to blockade and/or bomb, rather than negotiate with Iran; to fix Egypt and Turkey; to remove Kim Jong-un from North Korea; to have prevented Russia's annexation of the Crimea peninsula in the Ukraine, etc., and so on.
Could Obama have done all these things? Sure, and if he had we would see wars everywhere you turned that would make the status quo look like Sunday school, and the "warmonger" label would be accurate.
You trivialize war and the carnage and cruelty it creates by calling a President who showed enormous restraint a warmonger. The United States is full of "warmongers." Thank god President Obama was not among them.
Trump? The verdict, vis a' vis American use of the military, is still out - but I, and most of the world, including I'm sure, Mr. Springsteen - are holding our breath.
Mark HALLFORD
John Hocking ......Really confused here.....Obhama was at war his whole 2 terms of office, a complete war monger like Hilary Clinton. Trump is not much better, all talk but still bombing people.
Bit confused Bruce was on the same sude of the fence as the worst war mongers.
percy 12/37
I really love this man and His music!
Albanita Lyra Oliveira
Fantático,eu amo sua voz de todas as maneiras,pra mim é unico!!!!!!!
A Persian Nihilist
We'll give no more brave young lives
For the gleam in someone's eyes
Bring em home 🇺🇸❤️
Mitch Weiner
I've seen him in concert twice and he's the best I've ever seen in concert !