MIDDLETOWN — Gov. Chris Christie said he holds out hope that one day Bruce Springsteen will be his friend.

At a town hall meeting in Port Monmouth today, a member of a local VFW stood up and told Christie he had an important request: “When you go home tonight would you please destroy all of your Bruce Springsteen CDs? He’s not a friend of yours.”

“The CDs could be destroyed. I have it all on my iPhone now,” Christie said.

Springsteen recently song a parody of "Born to Run" with Jimmy Fallon.

The song, called "Governor Chris Christie's Fort Lee, New Jersey Traffic Jam,” mocked the controversial lane closures at the George Washington Bridge.

"You're killing the working man/who's stuck in Governor Christie's Fort Lee, New Jersey traffic jam," Fallon and Springsteen sung during the duet on late night television.

“I don’t think I ever been under the illusion as a Bruce fan, of his music, that that meant that he and I were necessarily simpatico on a number of other issues,” Christie said.

Christie said, “I still live in hope that someday, even as he gets older and older, he’s going to wake up and go, ‘Yeah, maybe he’s a good guy. He’s alright, you know. We can be friends.’”

“I think we get attached to certain people as youngsters, which I did, it's hard to kind of let that go," Christie said. "So you are probably giving me wise, sage counsel that I should accept but my heart keeps telling me not to."

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