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Black and white flashes on a Tuesday outside Easter:

The nearby streets, urban lights, avenues dressed in a winter that never ends. Rain, the humidity that shakes the foundations of this city that raises its walls and from which no one escapes. In a retreating Palace of Sports the Boss sings an old Woody Guthrie song: My land is your land. You immediately feel the need to be adopted by that legion of misfits who, like you, are looking for a sign, a song, a flash.

You have it in front of you, its lyrics tell what you are not able to express, dreams, desires, great hopes, the desire not to look back. Decibels get you, the E Street Band is an all-or-nothing bet. You live in a Tourneur film. You behave like a caged panther, you are a zombie trapped between two worlds and you are haunted by a past from which you do not finish escaping.

The protagonist of the song 'The Promised Land' shouts to the sky in a scene that takes me to 'The Last picture show' by Peter Bogdanovich but without a dog: 'Lord, I am no longer a boy, I am a man and I believe in the promised land'

42 years later we headed straight to the Olympic Stadium in BCN to see Bruce again. This time Sabino Méndez and a server will not be late because of a "move" to our appointment with the Chief.

That April 21, 1981 I went to his first concert in Spain with a battery of questions, he was a few weeks away from military service in the Navy. Today, April 28, 2023, I come with the intention of finding answers once I understand that the world we knew more than fading away, is going to shit and does not invite us to have many expectations. Global war, climate change and a crisis of values of my Western world at the doorstep. As our friend Lapuente says in a laconic tone: we deserve to become extinct.

A helping hand slips me a Jack through the old days while the stadium roars with the departure of the musicians to the stage. Behind them Bruce appears, the collective delirium contracts, as if everyone present is waiting for the same thing as me, an answer and, in an endless second everything happens.

Max Weinberg's drummer initiates the ritual and the Boss responds to us all equally: No Surrender.

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