Living With War - Neil Young

mookie blaylock 10mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
edited May 2006 in Other Music
i'm LIVING WITH WAR everyday
i'm LIVING WITH WAR in my heart everyday
i'm LIVING WITH WAR right now

and when the dawn breaks i see my fellow man
and on the flat screen we kill and we're killed again
and when the night falls, i pray for PEACE
try to remember PEACE...visualize...

i join the multitudes
i raise my hand in PEACE
i never bow to the laws of the thought police
i take a holy vow
to never kill again
to never kill again

i'm LIVING WITH WAR in my heart
i'm LIVING WITH WAR in my heart and mind
i'm LIVING WITH WAR right now

don't take no tidal wave
don't take no mass grave
don't take no smokin' gun
to show how the west was won

but when the curtain falls, i pray for PEACE
try to remember PEACE...visualize...

in the crowded streets
in the big hotels
in the mosques and the doors of the old museum
i take a holy vow
to never kill again

try to remember PEACE

the rocket's red glare, bombs burtsing in air
give proof through the night, that our flag is still there

i'm LIVING WITH WAR everyday
i'm LIVING WITH WAR in my heart everyday
i'm LIVING WITH WAR right now.
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  • anyone think there will be at least a small tour once "living with war" is released? neil seems to be healthy, with a lot of new material to play...i can only hope!

    ...found out last week that "heart of gold" is coming to halifax next week, so i'll have to settle for neil on the big screen for now...can't wait to see it!!!
  • intodeepintodeep Posts: 7,228
    It is hard to say. He is recording with CSN now as well or at least that is the rumor, and I think they will tour this summer... although i hope not to me CSN always bought neil down.

    I would love a neil tour this summer. Not sure if he is ready for the road though.
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  • i agree intodeep. if there's just a csn tour i'll be disappointed that's for sure.

    we will have to bide our time and see when he's ready for the road with the horse or solo i guess...
  • "living with war" available april 28th on neil's site for a free listen. on the internet for sale as of may 2nd...busy day! :)
  • Isn't Neil Young canadian?

    I understand war is a global problem.........but ...........still.
  • Isn't Neil Young canadian?

    I understand war is a global problem.........but ...........still.


    he's been living in the US for 40 years now, and his wife family and children are american.
  • track # 4 - "Shock and Awe"

    back in the days of shock and awe
    we came to liberate them all
    history was the cruel judge of overconfidence
    back in the days of shock and awe

    back in the days of "mission accomplished"
    our chief was landing on the deck
    the sun was setting on a golden photo op
    back in the days of "mission accomplished"

    thousands of bodies in the ground
    brought home in boxes to a trumpet's sound
    no one sees them coming home that way
    thousands of bodies in the ground
    thousands of children scarred for life
    millions of tears for a soldier's wife

    both sides are losing now
    heaven takes them in

    thousands of children scarred for life
    we had a chance to change out mind
    but somehow wisdom was hard to find
    we went with what we knew and now we can't go back
    but we had a chance to change our mind.
  • track # 5 - Families

    when you try to bring our spirit home
    won't you celebrate our lives in a way for our children
    and FAMILIES

    when you write your songs about us
    won't you try to do us justice
    because we want to be just like you
    and your FAMILIES

    i see a light ahead
    there's a chill wind blowin' in my head
    i wish that i was home instead
    with my FAMILY

    there's a universe between us now
    but i want to reach out and tell you how much you mean to me
    and my FAMILY

    i'm goin' back to the USA
    i just got my ticket today
    i can't wait to see you again
    in the USA.
  • track # 8 - Lookin' For A Leader

    lookin' for a leader
    to bring our country home
    re-unite the red white and blue
    before it turns to stone

    lookin' for somebody
    young enough to take it on
    clean up the corruption
    and make the country strong

    walkin' among our people
    there's someone who's straight and strong
    to lead us from desolation
    and a broken world gone wrong

    someone walks among us
    and i hope he hears the call
    and maybe it's a woman
    or a black man after all

    yeah maybe it's obama
    but he thinks that he's too young
    maybe it's colin powell
    to right what he's done wrong

    america has a leader
    but he's not in the house
    he's walkin' here among us
    and we've got to seek him out

    yeah we've got our election
    but corruption has a chance
    we got to have a clean win
    to regain confidence

    america is beautiful
    but she has an ugly side
    we're lookin' for a leader
    in this country far and wide

    we're lookin' for a leader
    with the great spirit on his side

    someone walks among us
    and i hope he hears the call
    and maybe it's a woman
    or a black man after all.
  • track # 3 - The Restless Consumer

    the people have heard the news
    the people have spoken
    you may not like what they said
    but they weren't jokin'

    way out on the desert sands
    lies a desperate lover
    the call her "the queen of oil"
    so much to discover

    don't need no ad machine
    telling me what i need
    don't need no madison avenue war
    don't need no more boxes i can't see
    covered in flags but i can't see them on tv

    don't need no more lies
    don't need no more lies
    don't need no more lies
    don't need no more lies

    the restless consumer flies
    around the world each day
    with such an appetite for taste and grace

    people from around the world
    need someone to listen
    we're starving and dying from our disease
    we need your medicine

    how do you pay for war
    and leave us dying?
    when you could do so much more
    you're not even tryin'

    don't need no tv ad
    tellin' me how sick i am
    don't want to know how many people are like me
    don't need no dizziness
    don't need no nausea
    don't need the side effects like diarrhea or sexual death

    don't need no more lies
    don't need no more lies
    don't need no more lies
    don't need no more lies

    the restless consumer lies
    asleep in her hotel
    with such an appetite
    for anything that sells

    a hundred voices from a hundred lands
    need someone to listen
    people are dying here and there
    they don't see the world the way you do
    there's no mission accomplished here
    just death to thousands

    a hundred voices from a hundred lands
    cry out in union
    don't need no terror squad
    don't need no damned jihad
    blowin' themselves away in my hood
    but we don't talk to them
    so we don't learn from them
    hate don't negotiate with good

    don't need no more lies
    don't need no more lies
    don't need no more lies
    don't need no more lies

    the restless consumer flies
    around the world each day
    with such an appetite for efficiency
    and pace
    don't need no more lies
  • merkinballmerkinball Posts: 2,262
    Won't need no shadow man
    Runnin'the government...
    Wont need no stinkin WAR...
    Wont need no haircut...
    Wont need no shoe shine.

    After the garden is gone...
    After the garden is gone...
    After the garden is gone.

    What will people do?
    After the garden is gone.
    What will people say?.
    After the garden...........

    Wont need no strong man
    Walkin' throught the night.
    To live a weak mans day.
    Wont need no sunshine...
    Wont need no purple haze.

    After the garden is gone...
    After the garden is gone...
    After the garden is gone.......

    Where will people go?
    after the garden is gone...
    What will people know?
    After the garden...................................

    After the garden is gone...
    After the garden is gone.
    "You're no help," he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.

    http://www.last.fm/user/merkinball/
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  • thanks merkinball, you beat me to it! :)
  • merkinballmerkinball Posts: 2,262
    thanks merkinball, you beat me to it! :)

    No problem, figured you were sleeping in. You deserved it.
    "You're no help," he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.

    http://www.last.fm/user/merkinball/
    spotify:user:merkinball
  • track # 6 - Flags of Freedom

    today's the day our youger son is goin' off to war
    fightin' in the age old battle
    we've sometimes won before
    flags that line old main street
    are blowin' in the wind

    these must be the flags fo freedom flyin'

    church bells are ringin'
    as the families stand and wave
    some of them are cryin'
    but the soldiers look so brave
    lookin' straight ahead
    like they know just where they're goin'

    past the flags of freedom flyin'

    sister has her headphones on
    she hears the music blasting
    she sees her brother marchin' by
    their bond is everlasting
    listening to bob dylan singin'
    in 1963

    watchin' the flags of freedom

    she sees the president speakin'
    on a flat screen tv
    in the window of the old appliance store
    she turns to see her brother again
    but he's already walkin' past

    the flags of freedom flyin'

    have you seen the flags of freedom?
    what color are they now?
    do you think that you believe in yours
    more than they do theirs somehow?

    when you see the flags of freedom flyin'

    today's the day our younger son
    is goin' off to war
    fightin' in the age old battle
    we've sometimes won before
    flags that line the old main street
    are blowin' in the wind

    these must be the flags of freedom flyin'
  • there's a cool scolling story about the writing and recording of "living with war" on neil's site today...no new song lyrics so far...

    a couple of songs written before the session...a couple in the morning, in the afternoon and evening...anyway, a good behind the scenes look at the record if you're a neil fan...
  • ...also going to be a "living with war" dvd...just read that part :)
  • track # 9 - Roger And Out

    trippin' down that old hippie highway
    got to thinkin' 'bout you again
    wonderin' how it really was for you
    and how it happened in the end

    but i guess i'll never know the truth
    if you were really all alone

    we were just a couple of kids then
    livin' each and every day
    when we both went down to the register
    we were laughin' all the way

    that's when we called it hippie highway
    i still call it that today

    roger and out good buddy
    i still call it that today
    two camaros racin' down the road
    feels just like yesterday

    roger and out good buddy
    i feel you in the air today
    i know you gave for your country
    i feel you in the air today

    roger and out good buddy.
  • bingerbinger Posts: 179
    I fucking laughed my ass off watching the female reporter interviewing him. She obviously didn't like his message. The very end cracks me up. I cant wait to hear this album.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhT6BIChuXw&search=The%20Peace%20Patriots
    I want to point out that people who seem to have no power, whether working people, people of color, or women -- once they organize and protest and create movements -- have a voice no government can suppress. Howard Zinn
  • he was in buffalo springfield first
    again" cd is good and "last time around"

    epeiletic candaian who liked reagan in 1980 but went back to dems i guess

    "out of my mind
    and i just cant take it anymore"
  • track # 10 - America The Beautiful

    O beautiful for spacious skies,
    For amber waves of grain,
    For purple mountain majesties
    Above the fruited plain!
    America! America!
    God shed his grace on thee
    And crown thy good with brotherhood
    From sea to shining sea!


    Words by Katharine Lee Bates,
    Melody by Samuel Ward
  • WindNoSailWindNoSail Posts: 580
    binger wrote:
    I fucking laughed my ass off watching the female reporter interviewing him. She obviously didn't like his message. The very end cracks me up. I cant wait to hear this album.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhT6BIChuXw&search=The%20Peace%20Patriots


    Yeah she didn't seem to want to do the interview at first, but I kinda think she warmed up to him after he explained his thoughts. He is very well spoken, I was impressed with what he said. Not that I agree with the impeachment bit, bwtf.

    All this about him being Canadian is insulting. If he has lived here for 40 years he has a right to say whatever he wants. Canada and the US are the same country anyway.
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  • ledveddermanledvedderman Posts: 7,761
    I can't wait until tomorrow when this hits the net, or has it already and I am missing something
  • I can't wait until tomorrow when this hits the net, or has it already and I am missing something

    very excited!!!
  • "after the garden" is up! i'm liking this sound...all those voices sound amazing!! guitar is cool as always with neil...oh yeah this is a good tune...can't wait to hear the rest! :)
  • "living with war" now...this sounds so raw! i love it!...and the voices are still amazing! another great tune...i guess i know what i'm doing for the next hour or so...:D
  • merkinballmerkinball Posts: 2,262
    "after the garden" is up! i'm liking this sound...all those voices sound amazing!! guitar is cool as always with neil...oh yeah this is a good tune...can't wait to hear the rest! :)

    Yeah, this sounds great. The chorus is really well done, doesn't cover Neil up at all, but totally emphasizes the message. It seems to be only the one song now though, it goes silent for me after the song is over.
    "You're no help," he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.

    http://www.last.fm/user/merkinball/
    spotify:user:merkinball
  • merkinball wrote:
    Yeah, this sounds great. The chorus is really well done, doesn't cover Neil up at all, but totally emphasizes the message. It seems to be only the one song now though, it goes silent for me after the song is over.

    living with war came up for me right after "after the garden"...you can still only click for song lyrics...hoping they do the same thing they did with prairie wind, where you could listen to any tune by clicking on it...wow, i really can't get over how nice it is to hear something like this...
  • track # 7 - Let's Impeach the President

    Let’s impeach the president for lying
    And leading our country into war
    Abusing all the power that we gave him
    And shipping all our money out the door

    He’s the man who hired all the criminals
    The White House shadows who hide behind closed doors
    And bend the facts to fit with their new stories
    Of why we have to send our men to war

    Let’s impeach the president for spying
    On citizens inside their own homes
    Breaking every law in the country
    By tapping our computers and telephones

    What if Al Qaeda blew up the levees
    Would New Orleans have been safer that way
    Sheltered by our government’s protection
    Or was someone just not home that day?

    Let’s impeach the president
    For hijacking our religion and using it to get elected
    Dividing our country into colors
    And still leaving black people neglected

    Thank god he’s cracking down on steroids
    Since he sold his old baseball team
    There’s lot of people looking at big trouble
    But of course the president is clean

    Thank God
  • merkinballmerkinball Posts: 2,262
    living with war came up for me right after "after the garden"...you can still only click for song lyrics...hoping they do the same thing they did with prairie wind, where you could listen to any tune by clicking on it...wow, i really can't get over how nice it is to hear something like this...

    It looks like it was a Mac issue. The Safari browser I was using would only play the first track. Tried it with Internet Explorer, and I'm now grooving on Living With War. That guitar lead tied in with the trumpet is really cool.

    The lyrics on their own were heavy enough, but the album itself, man...
    "You're no help," he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.

    http://www.last.fm/user/merkinball/
    spotify:user:merkinball
  • merkinball wrote:
    It looks like it was a Mac issue. The Safari browser I was using would only play the first track. Tried it with Internet Explorer, and I'm now grooving on Living With War. That guitar lead tied in with the trumpet is really cool.

    The lyrics on their own were heavy enough, but the album itself, man...

    it comes to life in a big way, eh? this sounds fantastic...just saw heart of gold tonight, and now new neil! and it's phenomenal! :D
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