What's So Funny...

sweetpotato
sweetpotato Posts: 1,278
edited April 2008 in A Moving Train
'Bout Peace, Love & Understanding?



As I walk through
This wicked world
Searchin' for light in the darkness of insanity.

I ask myself
Is all hope lost?
Is there only pain and hatred, and misery?

And each time I feel like this inside,
There's one thing I wanna know:
What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding? Ohhhh
What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding?

And as I walked on
Through troubled times
My spirit gets so downhearted sometimes
So where are the strong
And who are the trusted?
And where is the harmony?
Sweet harmony.

'Cause each time I feel it slippin' away, just makes me wanna cry.
What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding? Ohhhh
What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding?

So where are the strong?
And who are the trusted?
And where is the harmony?
Sweet harmony.

'Cause each time I feel it slippin' away, just makes me wanna cry.
What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding? Ohhhh
What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding? Ohhhh
What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding?



written by Nick Lowe
"Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States, Barack Obama."

"Obama's main opponent in this election on November 4th (was) not John McCain, it (was) ignorance."~Michael Moore

"i'm feeling kinda righteous right now. with my badass motherfuckin' ukulele!"
~ed, 8/7
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  • Commy
    Commy Posts: 4,984
    sweetpotato wrote:
    'Bout Peace, Love & Understanding?



    As I walk through
    This wicked world
    Searchin' for light in the darkness of insanity.

    I ask myself
    Is all hope lost?
    Is there only pain and hatred, and misery?

    And each time I feel like this inside,
    There's one thing I wanna know:
    What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding? Ohhhh
    What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding?

    And as I walked on
    Through troubled times
    My spirit gets so downhearted sometimes
    So where are the strong
    And who are the trusted?
    And where is the harmony?
    Sweet harmony.

    'Cause each time I feel it slippin' away, just makes me wanna cry.
    What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding? Ohhhh
    What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding?

    So where are the strong?
    And who are the trusted?
    And where is the harmony?
    Sweet harmony.

    'Cause each time I feel it slippin' away, just makes me wanna cry.
    What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding? Ohhhh
    What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding? Ohhhh
    What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding?



    written by Nick Lowe

    never heard the original, only the APC cover. Great lyrics.
  • Cosmo
    Cosmo Posts: 12,225
    Commy wrote:
    never heard the original, only the APC cover. Great lyrics.
    ...
    The song was made famous by Elvis Costello and The Attractions in 1977.
    Chris Cornell did an amazing acoustic version at the 'Audioslave' gigs.
    Allen Fieldhouse, home of the 2008 NCAA men's Basketball Champions! Go Jayhawks!
    Hail, Hail!!!
  • GauchoB
    GauchoB Posts: 224
    Commy wrote:
    never heard the original, only the APC cover. Great lyrics.

    Well Elvis Costello is still very much around and opening for Tom Petty on some selected dates on the West Coast. Broaden your musical horizons and check him out
  • Cosmo
    Cosmo Posts: 12,225
    GauchoB wrote:
    Well Elvis Costello is still very much around and opening for Tom Petty on some selected dates on the West Coast. Broaden your musical horizons and check him out
    ..
    Yeah... Elvis Costello is a pretty great songwriter. Not much of a fan of his new 'Burt Bacharach' style... but, his stuff from 1976-1985 if fucking GREAT.
    Allen Fieldhouse, home of the 2008 NCAA men's Basketball Champions! Go Jayhawks!
    Hail, Hail!!!
  • sweetpotato
    sweetpotato Posts: 1,278
    GauchoB wrote:
    Well Elvis Costello is still very much around and opening for Tom Petty on some selected dates on the West Coast. Broaden your musical horizons and check him out

    HEY! be NICE, or mama sweetpotato will spank you. :)
    "Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States, Barack Obama."

    "Obama's main opponent in this election on November 4th (was) not John McCain, it (was) ignorance."~Michael Moore

    "i'm feeling kinda righteous right now. with my badass motherfuckin' ukulele!"
    ~ed, 8/7
  • sweetpotato
    sweetpotato Posts: 1,278
    since we've had lots of threads in the past dedicated to war and/protest tunes.

    here's another that comes to mind:


    Mother, mother
    There's too many of you crying
    Brother, brother, brother
    There's far too many of you dying
    You know we've got to find a way
    To bring some lovin' here today

    Father, father
    We don't need to escalate
    You see, war is not the answer
    For only love can conquer hate
    You know we've got to find a way
    To bring some lovin' here today

    Picket lines and picket signs
    Don't punish me with brutality
    Talk to me, so you can see
    Oh, what's going on
    What's going on
    Yeah, what's going on
    Ah, what's going on

    Father, father, everybody thinks we're wrong
    Oh, but who are they to judge us
    Simply because our hair is long?
    Oh, you know we've got to find a way
    To bring some understanding here today
    Oh

    Picket lines and picket signs
    Don't punish me with brutality
    Talk to me
    So you can see
    What's going on
    Ya, what's going on
    Tell me what's going on
    I'll tell you what's going on -

    Right on baby
    Right on baby...     ;)
    "Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States, Barack Obama."

    "Obama's main opponent in this election on November 4th (was) not John McCain, it (was) ignorance."~Michael Moore

    "i'm feeling kinda righteous right now. with my badass motherfuckin' ukulele!"
    ~ed, 8/7
  • Cosmo
    Cosmo Posts: 12,225
    LA BOMBA
    (Tonio K.)

    (sung--more or less--in spanish)

    Por los gringos: la bomba
    Por los russians: la bomba (the solution)
    both countries are crazy, stupid or both
    i don't know...and why not?

    i'm not a coward
    i'm not a woman
    i ain't no termite
    no idiot, no homo, no burro
    i'm the comico atómico

    ay la bomba

    for the chinese: la bomba
    the french: la bomba (and the english)
    the jews and the indians
    everybody's crazy but me...

    where's my bomb
    i want a bomb of my own
    a small bomb
    a handsome bomb for me
    for me...
    ay la bomba
    Allen Fieldhouse, home of the 2008 NCAA men's Basketball Champions! Go Jayhawks!
    Hail, Hail!!!
  • GauchoB
    GauchoB Posts: 224
    sweetpotato wrote:
    HEY! be NICE, or mama sweetpotato will spank you. :)

    How do you know I wont like that...?
  • my2hands
    my2hands Posts: 17,117
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=NS9s-k6iBik
  • Open
    Open Posts: 792
    sweetpotato wrote:
    'Bout Peace, Love & Understanding?



    As I walk through
    This wicked world
    Searchin' for light in the darkness of insanity.

    I ask myself
    Is all hope lost?
    Is there only pain and hatred, and misery?

    And each time I feel like this inside,
    There's one thing I wanna know:
    What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding? Ohhhh
    What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding?

    And as I walked on
    Through troubled times
    My spirit gets so downhearted sometimes
    So where are the strong
    And who are the trusted?
    And where is the harmony?
    Sweet harmony.

    'Cause each time I feel it slippin' away, just makes me wanna cry.
    What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding? Ohhhh
    What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding?

    So where are the strong?
    And who are the trusted?
    And where is the harmony?
    Sweet harmony.

    'Cause each time I feel it slippin' away, just makes me wanna cry.
    What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding? Ohhhh
    What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding? Ohhhh
    What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding?



    written by Nick Lowe

    Images of Scarlett Johansen(sp?) in a pink wig come to mind.
  • sweetpotato
    sweetpotato Posts: 1,278
    Open wrote:
    Images of Scarlett Johansen(sp?) in a pink wig come to mind.

    HA! great movie, off-key singing. ;)
    "Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States, Barack Obama."

    "Obama's main opponent in this election on November 4th (was) not John McCain, it (was) ignorance."~Michael Moore

    "i'm feeling kinda righteous right now. with my badass motherfuckin' ukulele!"
    ~ed, 8/7

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