His newly released anti-ICE song arrives squarely in that tradition, explicitly linking itself to his 1993 masterpiece ‘Streets of Philadelphia' and standing as a once-in-a-generation protest song in the oldest, most classical sense of the word. Like ‘Streets of Philadelphia,' which humanised the AIDS crisis by focusing on isolation, dignity and quiet endurance, this new song resists easy outrage in favour of solemn witness. Where Philadelphia mourned a man disappearing from public life, this song memorialises lives violently erased in full view of the state. The refrain, “We’ll remember the names of those who died; On the streets of Minneapolis,” echoes the geography-as-conscience framing that made Streets of Philadelphia so enduring. Springsteen’s song does not attempt to lead this movement or summarise it.