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

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  • Abookamongstthemany
    Abookamongstthemany Posts: 8,209
    War Pigs - Black Sabbath
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=gbxfe7DMxVo

    W.A.N.D - Flaming Lips
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=b3r46hDe6lI (great lyrics though the vid is not political
    If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

    Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
    -Oscar Wilde
  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,237
    Yes, Black Sabbath's "WAR PIGS" is a classic anti-war song! Here's 2 other videos of that song @ "WAR PIGS" LIVE with Robert Trujillo on bass and WAR PIGS...political.




    THOSE WHO START WARS NEVER FIGHT THEM,
    THOSE WHO FIGHT WARS NEVER LIKE THEM....M. Franti

    OZZY OSBOURNE
    War Pigs

    Generals gathered in their masses
    just like witches at black masses
    evil minds that plot destruction
    sorcerers of death's construction
    in the fields the bodies burning
    as the war machine keeps turning
    death and hatred to mankind
    poisoning their brainwashed minds, oh lord yeah!

    Politicians hide themselves away
    they only started the war
    Why should they go out to fight?
    They leave that role to the poor

    Time will tell on their power minds
    Making war just for fun
    Treating people just like pawns in chess
    Wait 'till their judgement day comes, yeah!

    Now in darkness, world stops turning
    ashes were the bodies burning
    No more war pigs of the power
    Hand of god has struck the hour
    Day of judgement, god is calling
    on their knees, the war pigs crawling
    Begging mercy for their sins
    Satan, laughing, spreads his wings

    OH LORD YEAH!

    Generals gathered in their masses
    Just like Witches at Black Masses
    In the fields their bodies burning
    As the war machine keeps turning

    Evil minds that plot destruction
    Sorcerer of death's construction
    It's the same wherever you go
    To the War Pigs people know

    OH LORD YEAH!

    Politicians hide themselves away
    They only started the war
    Treating people just like pawns in chess
    Wait till their judgement day comes ... Yeah!

    People running like they're sheep in fields
    People blowing out their minds
    Say that you're dying here ... I know it now
    Hey, you're the goner at the end ... Yeah!

    On the scene a priest appears
    Hell is falling at his knees
    Satan sends out funeral pyre
    Cast the priest into the fire

    It's the place for all bad sinners
    Watch them eating dead rat cinders
    It's the same wherever you go
    To Black Masses people go

    OH LORD YEAH!


    Shalom 'O Salaam
    Earle[/quote]
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • Austicman
    Austicman Posts: 1,328
    " All We Sayyyyying, Is Give Peace A Chance."
    I can't go the library anymore, everyone STINKS!!
  • Purple Hawk
    Purple Hawk Posts: 1,300
    Well she seemed alright by dawns early light
    Though she looked a little worried and weak
    She tried to pretend he wasn't drinkin' again
    But daddy left the proof on her cheek
    And I was only eight years old that summer
    And I always seemed to be in the way
    So I took myself down to the fair in town
    On Independence Day

    Well word gets around in a small, small town
    They said he was a dangerous man
    Mama was proud and she stood her ground
    But she knew she was on the losin' end
    Some folks whispered and some folks talked
    But everybody looked the other way
    And when time ran out there was no one about
    On Independence Day

    (CHORUS)
    Let freedom ring, Let the white dove sing
    Let the whole world know that today is a day of reckoning
    Let the weak be strong, let the right be wrong
    Roll the stone away, let the guilty pay
    It's Independence Day

    Well she lit up the sky that fourth of July
    By the time that the firemen come
    They just put out the flames, and took down some names
    And sent me to the county home
    Now I ain't sayin' it's right or it's wrong
    But maybe its the only way
    Talk about your revolution
    It's Independence Day

    (REPEAT CHORUS)

    Roll the stone away
    It's Independence day
    And you ask me what I want this year
    And I try to make this kind and clear
    Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
    Cuz I don't need boxes wrapped in strings
    And desire and love and empty things
    Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
  • Purple Hawk
    Purple Hawk Posts: 1,300
    qtegirl wrote:
    Imagine - John Lennon.

    Does it qualify as a protest song??? I'll pretend it does.

    damn straight yo

    Imagine there's no Welfare
    Politicians have no votes to buy
    No government hand outs
    Where people work and thrive
    Imagine all the people
    Living to pay their way

    Imagine there's no liberals
    Pushing their agendas on you
    No confiscation of property
    This includes your income too
    Imagine all the people
    Respecting property

    You may say I'm a neo
    But I'm a Libertarian
    I hope some day you'll wake up
    So that liberalism is done

    Imagine no eminent domain
    Where your property remains
    No need for confiscation
    To make way for strip mall plans
    Imagine all the people
    Keeping what they own

    You may say I'm a neo
    But I'm a Libertarian
    I hope some day you'll wake up
    So that liberalism is done
    And you ask me what I want this year
    And I try to make this kind and clear
    Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
    Cuz I don't need boxes wrapped in strings
    And desire and love and empty things
    Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,237
    Purple Hawk wrote:
    qtegirl wrote:

    Imagine - John Lennon.

    Does it qualify as a protest song??? I'll pretend it does.

    Well it certainly is a anti-war song and that should be good enough.

    Peace
    Earle
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • Purple Hawk
    Purple Hawk Posts: 1,300
    g under p wrote:
    Well it certainly is a anti-war song and that should be good enough.

    Peace
    Earle

    good point earth, wind, and fire, but i always saw it more as an athiesm song..
    And you ask me what I want this year
    And I try to make this kind and clear
    Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
    Cuz I don't need boxes wrapped in strings
    And desire and love and empty things
    Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
  • hippiemom
    hippiemom Posts: 3,326
    you're too young to know
    that you're too young to go
    there's no freedom to be found
    lying face up in the ground

    ashes from an unfinished life
    are all that's left
    in a tear-drop-shaped locket
    hanging from his mother's chest

    you whip the back of freedom
    ‘till it bleeds an oil stream
    then you sail down upon it
    in your killing machine

    old men who send children
    off to die in vain
    they will hear death's constant whisper
    call remember my name

    gather 'round the stone
    "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." ~ MLK, 1963
  • Purple Hawk
    Purple Hawk Posts: 1,300
    hippiemom wrote:
    you're too young to know
    that you're too young to go
    there's no freedom to be found
    lying face up in the ground

    ashes from an unfinished life
    are all that's left
    in a tear-drop-shaped locket
    hanging from his mother's chest

    you whip the back of freedom
    ‘till it bleeds an oil stream
    then you sail down upon it
    in your killing machine

    old men who send children
    off to die in vain
    they will hear death's constant whisper
    call remember my name

    gather 'round the stone

    is that an actual song, or a glenn beck parody :) i'm hoping the latter, but fearing the former
    And you ask me what I want this year
    And I try to make this kind and clear
    Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
    Cuz I don't need boxes wrapped in strings
    And desire and love and empty things
    Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
  • hippiemom
    hippiemom Posts: 3,326
    Purple Hawk wrote:
    is that an actual song, or a glenn beck parody :)
    I have nothing but pity for those who aren't familiar with Ben Harper's music :)
    "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." ~ MLK, 1963
  • Purple Hawk
    Purple Hawk Posts: 1,300
    hippiemom wrote:
    I have nothing but pity for those who aren't familiar with Ben Harper's music :)

    so the song was serious?

    oooooooooookayyyyy
    And you ask me what I want this year
    And I try to make this kind and clear
    Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
    Cuz I don't need boxes wrapped in strings
    And desire and love and empty things
    Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
  • gue_barium
    gue_barium Posts: 5,515
    Purple Hawk wrote:
    so the song was serious?

    oooooooooookayyyyy

    maybe you should toke one down, feel the soul.
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  • Purple Hawk
    Purple Hawk Posts: 1,300
    gue_barium wrote:
    maybe you should toke one down, feel the soul.

    i'm not being a sarcastic dick here...i wish i could...don't agree with me :) funny how some shit calms some people down makes other people go nuts, and how god's greatest creation: bourbon, makes me calm down, but others nuts!
    And you ask me what I want this year
    And I try to make this kind and clear
    Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
    Cuz I don't need boxes wrapped in strings
    And desire and love and empty things
    Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,237
    Easy everybody, it's like we're startng our own war here. The goal here should be about sharing our musical tastes on anti-war and protest songs. We'll can learn more by sharing in this way.

    So I'll continue with Ben Harper whose music has great soul and power. Also, totally awesome LIVE!

    BOTH SIDES OF THE GUN

    Living these days is making me nervous
    Archaic doctrine no longer serve us
    Now we're left as silent witnesses
    We don't know quite what this is
    Other than a war that can't be won

    I feel like i'm crowded, i can't get out
    World keeps on filling me up with doubt
    When you're trapped you got no voice
    Where you're born you got no choice
    Other than to go and take you some

    One dimensional fool
    In a three dimensional world

    Politics, it's a drag
    They put one foot in the grave
    And the other on the flag
    Systems rotten to the core
    Young and old deserve much more
    Than struggling every day until you're done

    Tension
    Too much to mention
    Living on both sides of the gun

    Peace
    Earle
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • Abookamongstthemany
    Abookamongstthemany Posts: 8,209
    Self Evident - Ani Difranco
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=IJcOWQ1rym8
    If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

    Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
    -Oscar Wilde
  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,237
    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.

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    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
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • brain of c
    brain of c Posts: 5,213
    brand new key
    d'oh!!!!!!

    http://www.myspace.com/brain_of_c
  • Collin
    Collin Posts: 4,931
    Bomb The World - Michael Franti And Spearhead
    THANK YOU, LOSTDAWG!


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  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,237
    Michael Franti is the man when it comes to PEACE. A man who actually went to Baghdad and Israel/Palestine and twice to the latter. Being 6ft 6 above sea level, dreadlocks and toting a guitar he stood out in Iraq.

    So here's a video clip of Bomb the World @ Armageddeon-Bomb the World and Bomb the World 2 with graphic images.

    I was trying to save Spearhead for later but you peeps are on it like hot butter on pancakes. I'll post the lyrics later.

    Peaceful day everybody
    Earle
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • Abookamongstthemany
    Abookamongstthemany Posts: 8,209
    I just checked this song out based on a mention in the Other Music forum...and I must say, I am impressed! I had written John Mayer off as just another pretty boy who writes pops songs. I really liked this one....incredible lyrics!

    Waiting On The World To Change - John Mayer
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BodyfJ8M6Oc

    me and all my friends
    we're all misunderstood
    they say we stand for nothing and
    there's no way we ever could
    now we see everything that's going wrong
    with the world and those who lead it
    we just feel like we don't have the means
    to rise above and beat it

    so we keep waiting
    waiting on the world to change
    we keep on waiting
    waiting on the world to change

    it's hard to beat the system
    when we're standing at a distance
    so we keep waiting
    waiting on the world to change
    now if we had the power
    to bring our neighbors home from war
    they would have never missed a Christmas
    no more ribbons on their door
    and when you trust your television
    what you get is what you got
    cause when they own the information, oh
    they can bend it all they want

    that's why we're waiting
    waiting on the world to change
    we keep on waiting
    waiting on the world to change

    it's not that we don't care,
    we just know that the fight ain't fair
    so we keep on waiting
    waiting on the world to change

    and we're still waiting
    waiting on the world to change
    we keep on waiting waiting on the world to change
    one day our generation
    is gonna rule the population
    so we keep on waiting
    waiting on the world to change

    we keep on waiting
    waiting on the world to change
    If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

    Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
    -Oscar Wilde

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