Streets of Minneapolis

Bruce Springsteen fills our souls with a ballad for the resistance

My Fellow Democracy Defenders,

Bruce Springsteen is fighting fascism with music. He released a song to commemorate nurse Alex Pretti and the brave Minnesotans who are battling Trump’s Gestapo. Let’s keep singing this song and the NO KINGS ANTHEM as we protest in the streets. On Sundays, we should do what Don Lemon did by disrupting Christofascists in church.

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[Verse 1]

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

[Verse 2]

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, our 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 ‘2
We’ll remember the names of those who died
On the streets of Minneapolis

[Verse 3]

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, our Minneapolis, I hear your voice
Crying through the bloody mist
We’ll remember the names of those who died
On the streets of Minneapolis

[Bridge]

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