Bruce Springsteen was many things on Saturday night.  Among them was his love for a band of fifty years:

The heart-stopping, pants-dropping, house-rocking, earth-quaking, booty-shaking, Viagra-taking, love-making, legendary … E Street Band

He also spoke for his country (and all countries), saying something like this:

The only difference between democracy and authoritarianism is you and me

And he sang of America’s present and future in “Long Walk Home”:

My father said “Son, we’re lucky in this town
It’s a beautiful place to be born
It just wraps its arms around you
Nobody crowds you and nobody goes it alone
You know that flag flying over the courthouse
Means certain things are set in stone
Who we are, what we’ll do and what we won’t”

It’s gonna be a long walk home
Hey, pretty darling, don’t wait up for me
Gonna be a long walk home

Then Donald Trump was centre stage in “House of a Thousand Guitars”:

The criminal clown has stolen the throne
He steals what he can never own
May the truth ring out from every small town bar
We’ll light up the house of a thousand guitars

Well it’s alright, yeah it’s alright
Meet me darlin’ come Saturday night
All good souls from near and far
Will meet in the house of a thousand guitars

Here come all the good souls