By Seth Rogovoy January 29, 2026If you think you’ve heard Bruce Springsteen’s brand-new protest song before, you may not be far off base. Whether Springsteen consciously or unconsciously patterned his song after Dylan’s doesn’t really matter. In a statement released along with the new song, Springsteen said: “I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. If Springsteen’s melody owes something to Bob Dylan, the Boss favors a more direct lyrical approach than the more imagistic, poetic thought-dreams of the latter. Springsteen sings:King Trump’s private army from the DHSGuns belted to their coatsCame to Minneapolis to enforce the lawOr so their story goes.