Song Break, [any war].

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brianlux said:

^^^ Another great one, Nancy. excellent!

Phil Ochs- I Ain't Marchin' Anymore

Oh I marched to the battle of New Orleans
At the end of the early British war
The young land started growing
The young blood started flowing
But I ain't marchin' anymore

For I've killed my share of Indians
In a thousand different fights
I was there at the Little Big Horn
I heard many men lying
I saw many more dying
But I ain't marchin' anymore

It's always the old to lead us to the war
It's always the young to fall
Now look at all we've won with the sabre and the gun
Tell me is it worth it all

I also had not heard that song before, excellent! I like the lines hi lighted...in that we've won with a sabre and a gun next we'll win with rockets and chemicals......will it be worth it all?

Peace

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"Sympathy For The Devil"

Please allow me to introduce myself
I'm a man of wealth and taste
I've been around for a long, long year
Stole many a man's soul and faith
And I was 'round when Jesus Christ
Had his moment of doubt and pain
Made damn sure that Pilate
Washed his hands and sealed his fate
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name
But what's puzzling you
Is the nature of my game
I stuck around St. Petersburg
When I saw it was a time for a change
Killed the czar and his ministers
Anastasia screamed in vain
I rode a tank
Held a general's rank
When the blitzkrieg raged
And the bodies stank
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name, oh yeah
Ah, what's puzzling you
Is the nature of my game, oh yeah
I watched with glee
While your kings and queens
Fought for ten decades
For the gods they made
I shouted out,
"Who killed the Kennedys?"
When after all
It was you and me
Let me please introduce myself
I'm a man of wealth and taste
And I laid traps for troubadours
Who get killed before they reached Bombay
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name, oh yeah
But what's puzzling you
Is the nature of my game, oh yeah, get down, baby
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name, oh yeah
But what's confusing you
Is just the nature of my game
Just as every cop is a criminal
And all the sinners saints
As heads is tails
Just call me Lucifer
Cause I'm in need of some restraint
So if you meet me
Have some courtesy
Have some sympathy, and some taste
Use all your well-learned politesse
Or I'll lay your soul to waste, um yeah
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name, um yeah
But what's puzzling you
Is the nature of my game, um mean it, get down
Woo, who
Oh yeah, get on down
Oh yeah
Oh yeah!
Tell me baby, what's my name
Tell me honey, can ya guess my name
Tell me baby, what's my name
I tell you one time, you're to blame
Ooo, who
Ooo, who
Ooo, who
Ooo, who, who
Ooo, who, who
Ooo, who, who
Ooo, who, who
Oh, yeah
What's me name
Tell me, baby, what's my name
Tell me, sweetie, what's my name
Ooo, who, who
Ooo, who, who
Ooo, who, who
Ooo, who, who
Ooo, who, who
Ooo, who, who
Ooo, who, who
Oh, yeah

brianlux

Here's one "we don't wanna hear any more, right?" (Jimi's words):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEFrvBSk5kw

Drowned Out

How about most songs from Ministry's anti-Bush trilogy? Lies Lies Lies, Death and Destruction, The Great Satan? Not the most poetic, but so awesomely angry. All killer industrial metal tunes.

4 other favs...
Last one is kinda fun



And now a message from the President of the United States George W. Bush
(Bush voice) "I've adopted sophisticated terrorist tactics
And I'm a dangerous, dangerous man
With dangerous, dangerous weapons
I want to drain the coal resources in America
And foreign sources of crude oil.
I'm a weapon of mass destruction
And I'm a brutal dictator
And I'm evil"

[Verse 1]
I've got something that I must confess
I make a profit off people oppressed
I take the money 'til there's nothing left
And all I gotta say is Yippie Aye Yay

[Chorus]
Rio Grande Blood

I want money
I want yer money
I want crude oil
It's the government's money
I'm an asshole

[Verse 2]
I can't remember the world such a mess
Not for the companies I like the best
Exxon and Conoco - fuck all the rest
And all I gotta say is Yippie Aye Yay

[Chorus]
Rio Grande Blood

I want money
I want yer money
I want crude oil
It's the government's money

Breakdown
We went to war because of our dependence on foreign oil Haliburton
We went to war because of money
Haliburton
We will settle for nothing less than victory, victory
Haliburton
We will settle for nothing less than crude oil -crude oil

[Verse 3]
Squeezing the working class whom I detest
Taxing the poor so the rich can invest
I know I'm an asshole, but aren't you impressed
And all I gotta say is Yippie Aye Yay

[Chorus]
Rio Grande Blood

Rio Grande Blood
Rio Grande Blood
I want crude oil
Rio Grande Blood
I want money
Rio Grande Blood

Ministry - Rio Grande Blood


Señor Peligro
Bush's alter ego
A family of danger
And that's his middle name
Invasion is imminent
Keeping down the dissidents
Killing is his business
And business is game

[Chorus]
Justification
To Cross the Border
Justification
For Law and Order
Justification
To Cross the Rio
Señor Peligro

Señor Peligro
Lost all his amigos
From Chile to Panama
And all points in between
Exploitation
To feed the Corporations
The driving force of any war
Is always based in Greed

Venezuela
Watch your Back
Señor Peligro is on the attack

[Voice Over (Isa Martinez - signed release):]
El Presidente Bush es un Asesino
No cambiaremos sangre por aceite
Gente muriendo por el amor del dinero

Soportarlo es mas gas para el fuego
Preparate para el Señor Peligro

[English translation:
The President is an assassin
We will not exchange blood for oil
People dying for the love of money

Supporting him is fuel to the fire
Prepare for Mr. Danger]

Ministry - Señor Peligro


Greed
Power
Corruption

One thing's for certain
We fucking work for Haliburton
One thing is clear
They're the fucking reason why were here
Who the fuck's in charge?
Cause no one seems to want the job
Haliburton soldiers
Overrun by angry mobs

Our Deaths Our Guts No Glory! No Glory

Greed
Power
Corruption

Blackwater and Bechtel
Taking us down a path to hell
Dying for nothing
Except to make their pockets swell
Mission accomplished
Bush is having fun again
The only thing accomplished
Is making money for his friends

Our Deaths, Our Guts, No Glory! No Glory

Greed
Power
Corruption

The congress, the senate
I guess they just don't get it
An act of war was signed
And no one even read it
The public, the papers
We're on to all your schemes
So's the Army, the Air Force,
The Navy and Marines

Our Deaths Our Guts No Glory! No Glory

Greed
Power
Corruption


Ministry - No Glory




I've got something to get off my chest
I've got a person that scares me to death
First name is Dick and you know the rest

Well I've got something I just got to say
This vice president will make us pay
We're inching closer to judgment day

My name is Cheney I got no remorse (run run run Cheney's got a gun)
I get my way or I get to use force - on anyone!
You know he's evil, he's not of this race.
(run run run Cheney's having fun)
He used a shotgun to blow off a face
He's still not done!

Dick Cheney Son of Satan
He is the Chosen One

He's starting wars at the drop of a hat (run run run Cheney's got a gun)
He says he's certain he's driving them back
Were almost done!
Let's have another let's fuck with Iran. (run run run Cheney's having fun)
It pleases Satan
When there's blood on the hands
Of his Number One

Dick Cheney Son of Satan
He is the Chosen One

The smell of money keeps him alive (run run run Cheney's got a gun)
He thinks it's funny when the bodies arrive
What's done is done

The occupation of Satan is near
(run run run Cheney's having fun)
Now Revelations is oh so near
For everyone
Dick Cheney Son of Satan
He is the chosen one

Ministry - The dick Song

Aafke

Here is one of a British band, but the lyrics are easily to be made universal anti- war...

Levellers - Another Man's Cause

Gunshots shatter the peace of night
it's just another fire fight
for the people of this little town
but for the dying soldier
well, he's feeling ten years older
as he's lying face down on the ground
all the words that are in his head
are all the words his mother said
as she would put him to bed back home

CHORUS:
your daddy, well he died in the falklands
fighting for another man's cause
and your brother he was killed in the last war
now your mother's , well she's lying home alone

Every day she sees your face
on the picture on the fireplace
with your brother as he was leaving school
then a day came five years ago
you said "mother, i need to know"
and you spoke the words your brother spoke before
"I've seen the things my daddy's done
and I've seen the medals that he's won
and i know this is what he would have wanted-for me"
but

CHORUS

Now she wonders at it all
Just in his name did he break, your heroes fall
And how many more are gonna answer the call
They're gonna fight, fight and die in another country's war
They're gonna die for religion, they didn't believe in at all
They're gonna die in a place, they should never been at all
Oh, never been at all
'Cos

CHORUS

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For the new year may we ALL remember to STAY HUMAN (All The Freaky People)

Michael Franti & Spearhead...

http://youtu.be/1CoC3HEcRQk


Starvation is the creation of the devil, a rebel
I'm bringin' food to the people like a widow
Bringin' flowers to a grave in the middle
Of the city isolation is a riddle
To be surrounded by a million other people
But to feel alone like a tree in a desert
Dried up like the skin of a lizard
But full of colour like the spots of a leopard
Drum and bass pull me in like a shepherd
Scratch my itch like a needle on a record
Full of life like a man gone to Mecca
Sky high like an eagle up soaring
I speak low but I'm like a lion roaring
Baritone like a Robeson recordin'
I'm givin' thanks for bein' human every morning

Because the streets are alive with the sound of Boom Bap
Can I hear it once again
Boom Bap tell your neighbour tell afriend
Every box gotta right to be bomin'
Because the streets are alive with the sound of Boom Bap
Can I hear it once again
Boom Bap tell your neighbour tell a friend
Every flower got a right to be boomin'

Be resistant
The negativity we keep it at a distance
Call for backup and I'll give you some assistance
Like a lifesaver deep in the ocean
Stay afloat here upon the funky motion
Rock and roll upon the waves of the season
Hold your breath and your underwater breathin'

To be rhymin' without a real reason
Is to claim but not to practice a religon
If television is the drug of the nation
Satellite is immaculate reception
Beaming in they can look and they can listen
So you see don't believe in the system
To legalize you or give you your freedom
You want rights ask em', they'll read em'
But every flower got a right to be bloomin'
Stay human

All the freaky people make the beauty of the world

You see Y2K ya know is a moment
In time we find that we can open
Up a heart that's locked or been broken
By the pain of words not spoken
Or shot by guns a still smokin'
Cartwrights out on the Ponderosa
Or drive by bang in Testarossa
We need to heed the words of Dalai Lama
Or at least the words of yo mama
Take a mental trip to the Bahamas
Steam your body in a stereo sauna, sauna, comma

]

Peace

Thirty Bills Unpaid

The General (Dispatch):
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q3JjlkfX5Gk

A less frightful and more optimistic song (I think?).

FinsburyParkCarrots

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RDbIGl03JM