Top 50 Songs of the Decade, #16 - "We Take Care of Our Own," Bruce Springsteen

"Wrecking Ball" is probably Bruce Springsteen's most political album, even more so than "The Rising."  In his autobiography he called it "a shot of anger at the injustice that continues on and his widened with deregulation, dysfunctional regulatory agencies and capitalism gone wild at the expense of hardworking Americans."

"We Take Care of Our Own," much like "Born in the U.S.A." nearly three decades prior, was a widely misunderstood song - if you focus only on the chorus, it's hard to hear it as anything but an uplifting song.  But when you dive deeper into the verses, it's pretty clear that what Bruce is really saying is that all too often, we don't take care of our own.



It's a song that fits right in to any reasonable collection of his best. 

Top 50 Songs of the Decade, #16 - "We Take Care of Our Own," Bruce Springsteen.