Your Favorite Protest or Anti-War Songs

Masters Of War by Bob Dylan

Come you masters of war
You that build the big guns
You that build the death planes
You that build all the bombs
You that hide behind walls
You that hide behind desks
I just want you to know
I can see through your masks

You that never done nothin'
But build to destroy
You play with my world
Like it's your little toy
You put a gun in my hand
And you hide from my eyes
And you turn and run farther
When the fast bullets fly

Like Judas of old
You lie and deceive
A world war can be won
You want me to believe
But I see through your eyes
And I see through your brain
Like I see through the water
That runs down my drain

You fasten all the triggers
For the others to fire
Then you set back and watch
While the death count gets higher
Then you hide in your mansion
While the young people's blood
Flows out of their bodies
And is buried in the mud

You've thrown the worst fear
That can ever be hurled
Fear to bring children
Into the world
For threatening my baby
Unborn and unnamed
You ain't worth the blood
That runs in your veins

How much do I know
To talk out of turn
You might say that I'm young
You might say I'm unlearned
But there's one thing I know
Though I'm younger than you
Even Jesus would never
Forgive what you do

Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good
Will it buy you forgiveness
Do you think that it could
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul

And I hope that you die
And your death'll come soon
I will follow your casket
In the pale afternoon
And I'll watch while you're lowered
Down to your deathbed
And I'll stand o'er your grave
'Til I'm sure that you're dead

War
What is it good for
Absolutely nothing
War
What is it good for
Absolutely nothing
War is something that I despise
For it means destruction of innocent lives
For it means tears in thousands of mothers' eyes
When their sons go out to fight to give their lives

War
What is it good for
Absolutely nothing
Say it again
War
What is it good for
Absolutely nothing

War
It's nothing but a heartbreaker
War
Friend only to the undertaker
War is the enemy of all mankind
The thought of war blows my mind
Handed down from generation to generation
Induction destruction
Who wants to die

War
What is it good for
Absolutely nothing
Say it again
War
What is it good for
Absolutely nothing

War has shattered many young men's dreams
Made them disabled bitter and meanLife is too precious to be fighting wars
each day
War can't give life it can only take it away

War
It's nothing but a heartbreaker
War
Friend only to the undertaker
Peace love and understanding
There must be some place for these things today
They say we must fight to keep our freedom
But Lord there's gotta be a better way
That's better than
War

War
What is it good for
Absolutely nothing
Say it again
War
What is it good for
Absolutely nothing

1) Biko~Peter Gabriel
2) Ohio~Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
3) Dress Blues~Jason Isbel
4) The Man I Shot~Drive by-Truckers
5) Piece of Crap~Neil Young & Crazy Horse

Commando by The Ramones

They do their best, do what they can
To get them ready for Vietnam
From old Hanoi to East Berlin
Commando involved again

First rule is: the laws of Germany
Second rule is: be nice to mommy
Third rule is: don't talk to commies
Fourth rule is: eat kosher salami

Fields of Agony by No Use For A Name


How many people, how many have died?
I'm feeling lucky and afraid at the same time
How many times have you sat home and wondered why,
We always hear about the U.S.A. but not the other side?
In fields of agony everybody dies
How many humans, how many does it take?
We get a cedar box they get a body rake
How many lives does it take before we can end this war?
Bring Johnny home soon he forgot what it is they
were fighting for...
In fields of agony
I don't want to die and be sent home on a cargo plane
A tag on my toe without my name because I'm one of a million
A million…
How many weapons, how many do we need?
What about the economy, what about the economy…?
Won’t be the hero at the end of your catastrophe
It can be stopped with unity with collaboration of
you and me...and human decency...in fields of agony...



Killing Time by No Use for a Name


"Killing Time"

Not Knowing what he had got into, only following the sheep
The message sent for his deployment at only twenty-three
Promised to be there for a short time
His mother looks at photos
Passed down from a family tradition;
Her head lies on her lap...

I'll never be sure exactly what it means
To serve and protect us from "enemies"
They make sure we're scared
To justify this ugly, bloody mess
It's less than your pride, it's suicide at best

The waiting fills her with delusion and memories gone by
"How could I give life to my baby and then let him go die?"
But with this joke administration where no one is exempt
It's not your fault and never will be.
Don't hold love in contempt...

I feel like I'm lost, drowning out at sea
Surrounded by space with no regard for sympathy
She sees the parade of victory and war that wasn't won
"I'm not coming home." "He's my only son."

If an angel earns its wings every time somebody dies
Then todays the angels black out the blue sky


Insecurity Alert by No Use For A Name

emergency dispatch i think something's wrong
with words its so hard to construe
the images follow a dream through a song
the nightmare has finally come true

rhetorical speeches are made on the screen
to shut us up and rest assure
an obviously panicked media machine
is testing the will of a country so unsure

mission complete we lost control
suddenly frightened by it all
to put it simply we will never be the same
there is no redemption in this war
so please don't forget what this is for
cause that's how our history is made

security cop with their hands in the air
the lock on the gate was destroyed
now everyone rises from the lassiez faire
we can empty the cup but we cannot fill the void

without an enemy to kill
the blood of the innocent is spilled
to put it lightly we are not wanting to see
prepare yourself for disaster now
so few are sane here anyhow
i realize that words don't justify the pain

set up the guillotine
and televise the execution
we have to ask ourselves, can we feel safe?

you can't spell believe without lie

Ohio - CSNY

While gobshites like Paul McCartney who don't understand what doesn't affect them were singing 'Give Ireland back to the Irish' some Irish bands took it upon themselves to recognise that there was actually human beings involved in what was happening in Northern Ireland rather than looking at it in terms of good guys versus bad guys.

Bono was one of the few people in the 1980's who had the guts to speak out against the IRA and in doing so speak what most people were thinking especially on the Rattle and Hum performance of Sunday Bloody Sunday in New York http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9c4lLnY0rA

He speaks out against the type of bullshit stated by Paul McCartney and others when he says:

'Let me tell you something.I've had enough of Irish-Americans who haven't been back to their country in twenty or thirty years and come up to me and talk about the resistance....the revolution back home...and the glory of the revolution....and the glory of dying for the revolution....Fuck the revolution. They don't talk about the glory of killing for the revolution. What's the glory in taking a man from his bed and gunning him down in front of his wife and his children? Where's the glory in that? Where's the glory in bombing a remembrance day parade of old age pensioners,their medals taken out and polished up for the day?where's the glory in that? To leave them dying or crippled for life or dead under the rubble of a 'revolution' that the majority of the people in my country don't want.'

Zombie by the Cranberries was kind of along the same lines,just about being sick to death of how braindead Irish people can be about the never ending violence in the North.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJEySrDerj0&feature=related

''Another head hangs lowly,
Child is slowly taken.
And the violence caused such silence,
Who are we mistaken?

But you see, it's not me, it's not my family.
In your head, in your head they are fighting,
With their tanks and their bombs,
And their bombs and their guns.
In your head, in your head, they are crying...

In your head, in your head,
Zombie, zombie, zombie,
Hey, hey, hey. What's in your head,
In your head,
Zombie, zombie, zombie?

Another mother's breakin',
Heart is taking over.
When the violence causes silence,
We must be mistaken.

It's the same old theme since nineteen-sixteen.
In your head, in your head they're still fighting,
With their tanks and their bombs,
And their bombs and their guns.
In your head, in your head, they are dying''

Michael Franti And Spearhead - Time To Go Home l
Those who start wars, never fight them
And those who fight wars, they never like them
And those who write laws, can recite them
And those who fight laws, they live and die by them

But I know its time
Yes I know its time
It's time to go home
It's time to go home
It's time to go home
It's time to go home

Don't take our boys away
Don't take our girls away
Don't take our boys away
Don't take our girls away

Those who build walls are pretending
That forever they can defend them
Those who dam streams can build fountains
Those of us who just let them run free
Can move mountains

But I know its time
Yes I know its time
It's time to go home
It's time to go home
It's time to go home
It's time to go home

And I say, you whoooo
you whoooo who who who, you whoooo who who who

Doves fly by in the morning light
Leaves fall down on a passer by
Phone call comes and a mamma cries
Tears stream down from a daddy's eyes(X2)

But I know its time
Yes I know its time
It's time to go home
It's time to go home
It's time to go home
It's time to go home


Not complete so here is the vid

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSeuLsNV4CA

Master of War by Dylan is an amazing anti war song.