The cover of Jake Clemons’ single, “Stop the Wars.”
Jake Clemons, currently on tour with The E Street Band, has released a video for his song “Stop the Wars.” The anthem was recorded live at The Stone Pony in Asbury Park, and the video features footage of Clemons and his band at the Pony; you can watch it below.
Clemons said in a press release: “In my writing process, I like to look at things as they are in reality. We are all connected. We are all brothers and sisters. We have one Earth, one place for all of us to live and make things work and we don’t have to fight. At the end of the day, we could all live for this higher purpose of caring for each other and for where we live. We can replace that insatiable hunger to tear things down and instead build our connections to be stronger and reinforce the beauty of who we are.
“I believe in making a musical offering that speaks on a spiritual level, and not just addressing the recognition of a problem. My hope is that ‘Stop the Wars’ connects with as many people as possible. I want this song to resonate with people in a way that compels them to attach their feelings to the intellectual aspect of it and motivates them to respond on a human level. At the end of the day, I believe in the light.
“Like most of my songs, ‘Stop the Wars’ speaks to the human condition, and the most tragic part of it is that it is constantly relevant. We’ve been watching over time how those dividing lines are always being placed as ‘us versus them’ and the divide has just been constantly driven deeper and deeper and deeper. So, I wrote this song from the perspective of the human condition of constant struggle that ranges from domestic fights and arguments with neighbors to politics and dropping bombs. Why does it keep happening?”
Clemons has some shows schedule for The Midwest and Canada following the end of the E Street Band tour, and plans to announce more 2025 shows later.
His last album, Eyes on the Horizon, came out in 2019.
For more about Clemons, visit jakeclemons.com.
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