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Death to My Hometown (3:25)

Cover of Wrecking Ball

From Wrecking Ball and 1 other release

The Death To My Hometown Songfacts says the Celtic-fuelled song finds the narrator describing the way the recession is destroying all he has ever known. It serves as an update of My Hometown.
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No cannonballs did fly
No rifles cut us down
No bombs fell from the sky
No blood soaked the ground

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  • FIL1994

    great song! This one shakes the ground! [5]

    4 May 1:01am Reply

  • surrendertoalex

    Why does it take a 62-year-old to write a song like this?

    24 Apr 1:33pm Reply

  • Fabio001

    Best on Wrecking Ball.

    22 Jan 5:48pm Reply

  • Metal-Kathy86

    my favourite one from his new album

    7 Dec 2012 Reply

  • zimmerman6290

    This one shakes the ground! [4]

    30 Nov 2012 Reply

  • asmackofham

    This song is made of truth.

    15 Nov 2012 Reply

  • spacefaceinfurs

    great song, bruce's still got it

    19 Aug 2012 Reply

  • exeter232

    This song is instantly added to the great American Song Book. What Woody Guthrie was to the last depression, Springsteen is to this one.

    29 Jul 2012 Reply

  • BornToRun1975

    Best song to start Last FM again after a three years hiatus... and I was lucky to hear this one live twice. Instant classic. Wonderful.

    17 Jul 2012 Reply

  • Re-Kramer

    This one shakes the ground! [3] Oh how I wish to hear it live!

    17 Jul 2012 Reply

  • rockandrolljoe

    Be ready for when they come.

    12 Jul 2012 Reply

  • ilovestarburst

    Unsurprisingly, this sounds AMAZING live.

    22 Jun 2012 Reply

  • victoria1908

    VERY GOOD and so true all over the world

    13 Jun 2012 Reply

  • nick_honest

    a new masterpiece; The Boss is still the BOSS after all this years!

    23 May 2012 Reply

  • Oasis01

    Bruce's "Death to My Hometown" is so factual. Take a look at Flint, Michigan, Saginaw, Michigan, Highland Park, Michigan, and even Detroit, Michigan. GM, Ford, and many other global corporations closed offices, and factories moved to outlining areas and out of the country. These companies have forsaken Michigan and the very communities that gave them tax breaks and other incentives for them to stay. Pfizer refurbished facilities in Ann Arbor, Michigan and Ann Arbor gave it a whopping tax incentive for it to stay in Ann Arbor. Wouldn't you know it? Immediately after Pfizer got these tax breaks and other incentives it closed its Ann Arbor and Michigan offices and moved to Connecticut. What a slap in the face to Ann Arbor. Those "robber barons' pillaged these communities all for profits. Right ON Bruce for throwing those punches to the robber barons. I hope I can see Bruce Springteen live some day soon and cheer Bruce and the E-Street Band on.

    11 May 2012 Reply

  • FearOfSatan

    Need to see this one live.

    27 Apr 2012 Reply

  • CidaDuarteF

    Nice!!!!!!!

    3 Apr 2012 Reply

  • annihiluzz

    :)

    26 Mar 2012 Reply

  • Pusteblumme

    :-))))))

    19 Mar 2012 Reply

  • Zook024

    This one shakes the ground! [2]

    17 Mar 2012 Reply
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