Bruce Springsteen stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live! Thursday night to offer some much-needed words of hope — and also talk about the one time he tried doing karaoke.

Near the end of the interview — which was conducted alongside Bruce biopic star Jeremy Allen White — Kimmel asked Springsteen if he would mind sharing a few thoughts about the state of the country and the world. Springsteen obliged, with a statement that was at once concise and powerful.

“Fifty years, I’ve been kind of a musical ambassador for America around the world,” he said. “I have this song, ‘Land of Hope and Dreams,’ which is kind of a prayer to the country, and we play it every night. I know for a fact that that’s how many people around the world still see our country. Not as a land of fear, not as a divisiven

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