What's Your Best anti-War/Protest Songs?

Abookamongstthemany

I posted The Gloaming last night and in a rush threw up a youtube link that doesn't do the song justice in my opinion so I'm going repost it now with a much better video from an actual protest in SF.

The Gloaming - Radiohead
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiGgKR9P0yg

Genie let out the bottle
It is now the witching hour
Genie let out the bottle
It is now the witching hour

Murderers you're murderers
We are not the same as you

Genie let out the bottle
Funny haha funny how

When the walls bend
When the walls bend
With your breathing
With your breathing

When the walls bend
When the walls bend
With your breathing
With your breathing
With your breathing

They will suck you down
To the otherside
They will suck you down
To the otherside
They will suck you down
To the otherside
They will suck you down
To the otherside

To the shadows blue and red
To the shadows blue and red
Your alarm bells
Your alarm bells

To the shadows blue and red
To the shadows blue and red

Your alarm bells
Your alarm bells
Should be ringing

This is the gloaming

Bu2

There are children standing here,
Arms outstretched into the sky,
Tears drying on their face.
He has been here.
Brothers lie in shallow graves.
Fathers lost without a trace.
A nation blind to their disgrace,
Since he's been here.

And I see no bravery,
No bravery in your eyes anymore.
Only sadness.

Houses burnt beyond repair.
The smell of death is in the air.
A woman weeping in despair says,
He has been here.
Tracer lighting up the sky.
It's another families' turn to die.
A child afraid to even cry out says,
He has been here.

And I see no bravery,
No bravery in your eyes anymore.
Only sadness.

There are children standing here,
Arms outstretched into the sky,
But no one asks the question why,
He has been here.
Old men kneel and accept their fate.
Wives and daughters cut and raped.
A generation drenched in hate.
Yes, he has been here.

And I see no bravery,
No bravery in your eyes anymore.
Only sadness.

g under p

DREAMTHEATER

Checkout their video @ PROPHETS OF WAR

Prophets Of War

[Music: Dream Theater / Lyrics: James LaBrie]

It burns deep down inside of me,
We have ourselves to blame.
Not questioning, accepted as the truth.

Debate this fight it's just cause
The facts do not support theirs
To liberate a people
And rid them of tyrant rule

Is it time to make a change?
Are we closer than before?
Can we help them break away?
Are we profiting from war?

It's time to make a change.

Intrigued
Got your attention - deceived
Since the inception - our brave
Fight for what reason

Compelled
Can we clean up this mess?
The loss of loved ones
A perverse request
They continue the same rhetoric
These derelicts that profit
Win or lose

Is it time to make a change?
Are we closer than before?
Can we help them break away?
Are we profiting from war?
It's time to make a change

Time for change
Fight the fear
Find the truth
Time for change

The only thing
That I believe
Will help us see this through is faith.
Pray they will forgive,
Forgive our arrogance,
So we can make it right,
Right what they have wronged.

See you sweat
Unexpected, controversial
Get used to it
Things are gonna get personal
Your sympathy
A pitiful display you stutter
Your empathy
Means nothing if there is no honor
Responsible
Of this you are incapable
We implicate
Incriminate - Exacerbate - Too much at stake

Our Fathers, Mothers
Sisters, Brothers
Sons and Daughters
Forced
Perpetuating their ideals
A mindless act
To stay the course

Is it time to make a change?
Are we closer than before?
Can we help them break away?
Are we profiting from war?

Is it time to make a change?
Are we closer than before?
Can we help them break away?
Are we profiting from war?
Is it time to make a change?
A change from what it's been
Can we help them break away?
Is our patience wearing thin?
It's time to make a change

Time for change
Fight the fear
Find the truth
Time for change

This video is from the movie "300" a great movie.

Peace
Earle

melodious

Crazy, Crazy, Crazy
Shine on
All my people, who been broken hearted
Shine on
From the place where all life has been started
When you need fresh air
Go beyond horizons, to your place in the sun
Shine on
Let your heart be boundless like your faith in the one

(chorus)
It's crazy, crazy, crazy
No stoppin' to this warfare
It's crazy, crazy
We're breathing in the same air
It's crazy, crazy, crazy
Don't tell me that you don't care....

Sing on
From the language of your ancestors and
Sing on
Be playful in your innocence and
Lift your head up high
And rejoice for all you see without your eyes
Sing on
Like a bird that's makin' love in sunset skies

(chorus)

(bridge)
No life's worth more than any other
No sister worth less than any brother

(chorus)

...somebody please send us a prayer!

lucylespian

g under p wrote:

PINK FLOYD

I saw Roger Walters last year and what a truly amazing show and he played this song and it took me to another place. So here's the video @ US AND THEM and see the great pics, just sit back and chill.


Roger Waters’ dad died at the siege of Anzio in 1944 and he’s grappled with war’s futility ever since. Dark Side of the Moon's dreamy ode to battlefield confusion was originally called "The Violence Sequence."

Us and Them
(Waters, Wright) 7:40

Us, and them
And after all we're only ordinary men.
Me, and you.
God only knows it's noz what we would choose to do.
Forward he cried from the rear
and the front rank died.
And the general sat and the lines on the map
moved from side to side.
Black and blue
And who knows which is which and who is who.
Up and down.
But in the end it's only round and round.
Haven't you heard it's a battle of words
The poster bearer cried.
Listen son, said the man with the gun
There's room for you inside.

"I mean, they're not gunna kill ya, so if you give 'em a quick short,
sharp, shock, they won't do it again. Dig it? I mean he get off
lightly, 'cos I would've given him a thrashing - I only hit him once!
It was only a difference of opinion, but really...I mean good manners
don't cost nothing do they, eh?"

Down and out
It can't be helped but there's a lot of it about.
With, without.
And who'll deny it's what the fighting's all about?
Out of the way, it's a busy day
I've got things on my mind.
For the want of the price of tea and a slice
The old man died.

Peace
Earle

That's a cool sory. There is some stuff on TheFinal Cut about war too.


Metallica has a few more anti-war songs, For Whom the Bell Tolls

Ther is one on most albuims, usually told from a grunt's perspective of tactical futility.

IndianSummer

scorpions - white dove, under the same sun, wind of change

dire straits - brothers in arms, done with bonaparte (mark knopfler)

Chris1401

The one overlooked protest song is subtle, yet pretty insightful, coming from John Fogerty of Creedence Clearwater Revival fame and his 2004 Deja Vu Album. Some people forget he wrote some very catchy, yet very politically driven songs. This song is interesting because he was around both during Viet Nam and now the Iraq stuff and he is comparing the two.

Deja Vu

Did you hear 'em talkin' 'bout it on the radio
Did you try to read the writing on the wall
Did that voice inside you say I've heard it all before
It's like Deja Vu all over again

Day by day I hear the voices rising
Started with a whisper like it did before
Day by day we count the dead and dying
Ship the bodies home while the networks all keep score

Did you hear 'em talkin' 'bout it on the radio
Could your eyes believe the writing on the wall
Did that voice inside you say I've heard it all before
It's like Deja Vu all over again

One by one I see the old ghosts rising
Stumblin' 'cross Big Muddy
Where the light gets dim
Day after day another Momma's crying
She's lost her precious child
To a war that has no end

Did you hear 'em talkin' 'bout it on the radio
Did you stop to read the writing at The Wall
Did that voice inside you say
I've seen this all before
It's like Deja Vu all over again
It's like Deja Vu all over again

IndianSummer

green green grass of home by joan baez.

g under p

One of my favorite Canadian artists NEIL YOUNG who has been outspoken against war since the 60's. Well he came out with a classic album last year "LIVING WITH WAR" and he let this administration know he's mad as hell and he ain't gonna take it ANYmore.

Checkout the video Living With War and Rockin' In The Free World with Pearl Jam Live.



NEIL YOUNG lyrics - "Living With War"



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 in my 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 bursting 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 wat right now

Peace
Earle

gue_barium

lucylespian wrote:

That's a cool sory. There is some stuff on TheFinal Cut about war too.


Metallica has a few more anti-war songs, For Whom the Bell Tolls

Ther is one on most albuims, usually told from a grunt's perspective of tactical futility.

The Final Cut is one of the most overlooked albums...of all time. Even if you put the lyrics aside, it contains some of the best studio experimental sonics ever laid down on tape.

Drowned Out

Up the irons! \m/


Kill for gain or shoot to maim
But we dont need a reason
The golden goose is on the loose
And never out of season
Some blackened pride still burns inside
This shell of bloody treason
Heres my gun for a barrel of fun
For the love of living death.

Chorus
The killers breed or the demons seed,
The glamour, the fortune, the pain,
Go to war again, blood is freedoms stain,
But dont you pray for my soul anymore.
2 minutes to midnight
The hands that threaten doom.
2 minutes to midnight
To kill the unborn in the womb.

The blind men shout let the creatures out
Well show the unbelievers
The napalm screams of human flames
Of a prime time belsen feast...yeah!
As the reasons for the carnage cut their meat and lick the gravy,
We oil the jaws of the war machine and feed it with our babies.

Chorus

The body bags and little rags of children torn in two
And the jellied brains of those who remain to put the finger right on you.
As the madmen play on words and make us all dance to their song,
To the tune of starving millions to make a better kind of gun.

lucylespian

gue_barium wrote:

The Final Cut is one of the most overlooked albums...of all time. Even if you put the lyrics aside, it contains some of the best studio experimental sonics ever laid down on tape.

Yeah, I don't have it now, but I had the tape when it first came out, and I could play every song and knew all the lyrics. The tape died, and the only lyrics I remember are..........


through the fish-eyed lens
of tear-stained eye..

i can barely perceive
the shape of this moment in time...


that's it, that's all I remember.

parel jam

keeponrockin wrote:

Masters Of War - Bob Dylan

Seeing him play it live was absolutely amazing.

That's my #1.

Unfortunately Dylan didn't play when I caught him live :(

E.Bloom

I have to major favorite anti-war songs.
The first one is probably the "deepest":
I love the second verse.

Neil Young - 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 buried in the grund

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 our 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.

The other one is a beautiful song, performed and written by Bobby Darin.

SIMPLE SONG OF FREEDOM

Come and sing a simple song of freedom
Sing it like you've never sung before
Let it fill the air
Tell the people everywhere
We, the people here, don't want a war

Hey there, Mister Black Man can you hear me?
I won't dig your diamonds or hunt your game
I just want to be, someone known to you as me
and I will bet my life you want the same

So come and sing a simple song of freedom
Sing it like you've never sung before
Let it fill the air
Tell the people everywhere
We, the people here, don't want a war

Seven hundred million are you listening?
Most of what you read is made of lies
But speaking one to one, ain't it everybody's sun
To wake to in the morning when we rise?

So come and sing a simple song of freedom
Sing it like you've never sung, never sung, before
Let it fill the air
Tell the people everywhere
We, the people here, don't want a war

Brother Yareshenko are you busy?
If not would you drop a friend a line?
Tell me if the man, who is plowing up your land
has got the war machine upon his mind

Come and sing a simple song of freedom
Sing it like you've never sung before
Let it fill the air
Tell the people everywhere
Taht we, the people here, don't want a war

Now no doubt some folks enjoy doin' battle
Like presidents and ministers and kings
But let us build them shelves where they can fight among themselves
and leave the people be who like to sing

Come and sing a simple song of freedom
Sing it like you've never sung before
Let it fill the air
Tell the people everywhere
That we the people here, don't want a war

Let it fill the air
Tell the people everywhere
That we the people here, don't want a war

melodious

lucylespian wrote:

Yeah, I don't have it now, but I had the tape when it first came out, and I could play every song and knew all the lyrics. The tape died, and the only lyrics I remember are..........


through the fish-eyed lens
of tear-stained eye..

i can barely perceive
the shape of this moment in time...


that's it, that's all I remember.

The Final Cut (Waters)

Through the fish-eyed lens of tear stained eyes
I can barely define the shape of this moment in time
And far from flying high in clear blue skies
I'm spiraling down to the hole in the ground where I hide.

If you negotiate the minefield in the drive
And beat the dogs and cheat the cold electronic eyes
And if you make it past the shotgun in the hall,
Dial the combination, open the priesthole
And if I'm in I'll tell you what's behind the wall.

There's a kid who had a big hallucination
Making love to girls in magazines.
He wonders if you're sleeping with your new found faith.
Could anybody love him
Or is it just a crazy dream?

And if I show you my dark side
Will you still hold me tonight?
And if I open my heart to you
And show you my weak side
What would you do?
Would you sell your story to Rolling Stone?
Would you take the children away
And leave me alone?
And smile in reassurance
As you whisper down the phone?
Would you send me packing?
Or would you take me home?

Thought I oughta bare my naked feelings,
Thought I oughta tear the curtain down.
I held the blade in trembling hands
Prepared to make it but just then the phone rang
I never had the nerve to make the final cut.

"Hello? Listen, I think I've got it. Okay, listen its a HaHa!"

g under p

I'll go for the obscure that I sometimes prefer, like this one by reggae star: PETER BROGGS



Cease the War....album Cease The War, '87

The people in the world don't want no war,
I heard them talk about this every day now.
The people in the world don't want no war,
I heard them talk about this every day now.

They say they want equal rights and justice,
People need equal rights and their freedom.
But the hijackers and the road blockers who are heads of this world,
Just keep on storing up this dreadful war, just keep on storing up this brutal war,
Just keep on storing up this dreadful war.

They say they're fighting to control the world.
Ah…..terrorists, terrorists, terrorists, terrorism.
Destroying the people.
With their guns and their bombs,
Nuclear weapons,
You are heads of this world - I'm begging you please to cease the war,
I'm begging you please to cease the war,
I'm begging you please to cease the war.

The people in the world don't want no war,
I heard them talk about this every day now.
The people in the world don't want no war,
I heard them talk about this every day now.
People don't want no war,
Please cease the war.
People don't want no war,
Please cease the war.
Cease the war.
Cease the war.

They say they're fighting to control the world.
Ah…..terrorists, terrorists, terrorists, terrorism.
Destroying the people.
With their guns and their bombs,
Nuclear weapons,
You are heads of this world - I'm begging you please to cease the war,
I'm begging you please to cease the war,
I'm begging you please to cease the war.

The people in the world don't want no war,
I heard them talk about this every day now.
The people in the world don't want no war,
I heard them talk about this every day now.
People don't want no war,
Please cease the war.
People don't want no war,
Please cease the war.
Cease the war.
Cease the war.
Cease the war.
Cease the war.
Cease the war.
Cease the war.
Cease the war.
Cease the war.

Shalom
Earle

melodious

g under p wrote:

I'll go for the obscure that I sometimes prefer, like this one by reggae star: PETER BROGGS



Cease the War....album Cease The War, '87

Please cease the war.
Cease the war.
Cease the war.
Cease the war.
Cease the war.
Cease the war.
Cease the war.
Cease the war.
Cease the war.

http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/speech/albums/album/15451053/the_vagabond?source=speech_rssfeed..

Here is something I like to listen to g under p. I already sent it to a friend, so no need to post anywhere else...stopped in at home and saw you up and on board; thought I would send a note of support...peace....

Gotta get back to workin' now....Hope your day is wonderful...Thank you for being a light in the dark.

g under p

Here's the Peter Broggs song CEASE THE WAR.

PeacePlease
Earle

emily18

"masters of war" -bob dylan
"war pigs" -black sabbath
"imagine" -john lennon


wow i had a lot more but i can't think now...:eek:

Jeanwah

Mother Earth - Neil Young

Oh, mother earth,
With your fields of green
Once more laid down by the hungry hand
How long can you give and not receive
And feed this world ruled by greed
And feed this world ruled by greed.

Oh, ball of fire
In the summer sky
Your healing light, your parade of days
Are they betrayed by the men of power
Who hold this world in their changing hands
They hold the world in their changing hands.

Oh, freedom land
Can you let this go
Down to the streets where the numbers grow
Respect mother earth and her giving ways
Or trade away our childrens days
Or trade away our childrens days.

Respect mother earth and her giving ways
Or trade away our childrens days.