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Human Rights Music Bibliography by Artist- Rock


 

 

Artist

Audioslave

Beck

Black Sabbath

Bright Eyes

            Kate Bush

            Cardigans

            Carnivore

            Phil Collins

            Cowboy Mouth

            Creedence Clearwater Revival

Crosby, Stills & Nash

Decemberists

Dido

Dire Straits

Doors

Eric Burdon and the Animals

Europe

Frankie Goes to Hollywood

Foreigner

Godsmack

Green Day

Guns N’ Roses

Jimi Hendrix

Bruce Hornsby

Ill Wind

Iron Maiden

Billy Joel

John Kongos

John Lennon

Paul McCartney

Barry McGuire

Metallica

Morrissey

Sinead O’Connor

Original Caste

Paul Revere and the Raiders

Pearl Jam

Pink Floyd

The Police

Primal Scream

Rage Against the Machine

Rolling Stones

Rush

Paul Simon

Patti Smith

Bruce Springsteen

Sting

Cat Stevens

U2

Tom Waits

Roger Waters

The Who

Yes

Neil Young

Led Zeppelin

10cc

 

 

Audioslave

            Sound of a Gun

            Wide Awake

 

Artist:                                     Audioslave

Song:                                    Sound of a Gun

Album:                        Revelations

Producer:                        Brenan O’Briend

Year:                        2006

Label:                        Epic           

Genre:                                    Rock

URL:                                     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkCa5KFexAU

Lyrics:                                    http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/audioslave/soundofagun.html

 

In the here and the now I'll wait down among the young and the old

With the moon and the ground I play with my children in my home

This is for the daughters and sons of forgotten ones learning how to stand

This is for the innocent unknowns buried in the sand

 

All running from a sound of a gun

Running from the sound of a gun 'til you're weary

Running from the sound of a gun

Running from the sound of a gun

 

From the crack in the blackness I'll wake, it's getting closer every night

In my city the playground is a battleground between the wrong and the right

I could run free as a child I was safe and wild, naked, and unarmed

Now I'm gone and safe in my home but some will never stop

 

Running from the sound of a gun

Running from the sound of a gun 'til they're weary

Running from the sound of a gun

Running from the sound of a gun

 

The open mouth of the city swallowed up the town

On that same old concrete that I still walk down

And it seemed they put a shine on this place when I was young

Well maybe I just don't see it now

 

Running from the sound of a gun

Running from the sound of a gun 'til I'm weary

Running from the sound of a gun

Running from the sound of a gun

Hey!

 

I'm running from the sound of a gun

I'm running from the sound of a gun

I'm running from the sound of a gun

I'm running from, running from the sound of a

 

Artist:                                     Audioslave

Song:                                    Wide Awake

Album:                        Revelations

Producer:                        Brenan O’Briend

Year:                        2006

Label:                        Epic           

Genre:                                    Rock

URL:                                     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXLj7qHg0Jg

Lyrics:                                    http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/audioslave/wideawake.html

 

You can a look a hurricane right in the eye.

1200 people dead or left to die.

Follow the leaders, were it an eye for an eye we'd all be blind.

Deaf or murdered, and this I'm sure in this uncertain time.

 

So come pull the sheet over my eyes

So I can sleep tonight

Despite what I've seen today.

I found you guilty of a crime, of sleeping at a time

When you should have been wide awake.

 

Down on the road the world is floating by.

The poor and undefended left behind.

While you're somewhere trading lives for oil,

As if the whole world were blind, hey.

 

So come pull the sheet over my eyes

So I can sleep tonight

Despite what I've seen today.

I found you guilty of a crime of sleeping at a time

When you should have been wide awake.

 

Come pull the sheet over my eyes

So I can sleep tonight

Despite what I've seen today

I found you guilty of a crime of sleeping at a time

When you should have been wide awake

Wide awake! Wide awake! Wide awake! Wide awake!

 

Beck

            Tropicalia

 

Artist:                                    Beck                       

Song:                                    Tropicalia

Album:                        Mutations

Producer:                        Nigel Godrich and Beck Hansen

Year:                                    1998

Label:                                    Geffen

Genre:                                    Rock

URL:                                    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUiz5dE5oE4&feature=related           

Lyrics:                                    http://www.lyricsdepot.com/beck/tropicalia.html           

 

Oh, when they beat upon a broken guitar
And all the streets, they reek of tropical charms
The embassies lie in hideous shards
Where tourists snore and decay

When they dance in a reptile blaze
You wear a mask, an equatorial haze
Into the past, a colonial maze
Where there's no more confetti to throw

You wouldn't know what to say to yourself
Love is a poverty you couldn't sell
Misery waits in vague hotels
To be evicted

You're out of luck, you're singing funeral songs
To the studs, they're anabolic and bronze
They seem to strut in their millennial fogs
'Til they fall down and deflate

You wouldn't know what to say to yourself
Love is a poverty you couldn't sell
Misery waits in vague hotels
To be evicted

Oh, and now, you've had your fun
Under an air-conditioned sun
It's burned into your eyes
Leaves you plain and left behind
I'll see them rise and fall
Into the jaws of a pestilent love

You wouldn't know what to say to yourself
Love is a poverty you couldn't sell
Misery waits in vague hotels
To be a victim

 

Black Sabbath

            War Pigs

 

 

Artist:                                    Black Sabbath

Song:                                    War Pigs

Album:                        Paranoid

Producer:                        Rodger Bain

Year:                                    1970

Label:                                    Vertigo/Warner Bros.

Genre:                                    Rock

URL:                                    www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbxfe7DMxVo

Lyrics:                        http://www.lyricsfreak.com/b/black+sabbath/war+pigs_20019418.html

 

Generals gathered in their masses
Just like witches at black masses
Evil minds that plot destruction
Sorcerers of deaths 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 judgment day comes, yeah!

Now in darkness, world stops turning
As the war machine keeps burning
No more war pigs of the power
Hand of God has struck the hour
Day of judgment, God is calling
On their knees, the war pigs crawling
Begging mercy for their sins
Satan, laughing, spreads his wings
All right now!

 

Bright Eyes

            Easy/Lucky/Free

 

Artist:                                     Bright Eyes

Song:                                    Easy/Lucky/Free

Album:                        Digital Ash in a Digital Urn

Producer:                        Bright Eyes

Year:                        2005

Label:                        Saddle Creek           

Genre:                                    Rock

URL:                                    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7xtiRrthlo

Lyrics:                                    http://www.songmeanings.net/lyric.php?lid=3530822107858517917

 

Did it all get real? I guess it's real enough

They got refrigerators full of blood

Another century spent pointing guns

At anything that moves

Sometimes I worry that I've lost the plot

My twitching muscles tease my flippant thoughts

I never really dreamed of heaven much

Until we put him in the ground

But it's all I'm doing now

Listening for patterns in the sound

Of an endless static sea

But once the satellite's deceased

It blows like garbage through the streets

Of the night sky to infinity

 

But don't you weep

(Don't you weep for them)

Don't you weep

(Don't you weep)

There is nothing as lucky

Honey, don't you weep

(Don't you weep for them)

Don't you weep

(Don't you weep)

There is nothing as lucky

As easy

Or free

 

Don't be a criminal in this police state

You'd better shop and eat and procreate

You've got vacation days, then you might escape

To a condo on the coast

I set my watch to the atomic clock

I hear the crowd count down until the bomb gets dropped

I always figured there'd be time enough

I never let it get me down

But I can't help it now

Looking for faces in the clouds

I've got some friends I barely see

But we're all planning to meet

We'll lay in bags as dead as leaves

All together for eternity

 

But don't you weep

(Don't you weep for us)

Don't you weep

(Don't you weep)

There is no one as lucky

Honey, don't you weep

(Don't you weep for us)

Don't you weep

(Don't you weep)

There is nothing as lucky

As easy

Or free

 

Or free

Or free

Or free

 

There is nothing

There's nothing

There's nothing

 

 

Kate Bush

            Breathing

The Dreaming

 

Artist:                                    Kate Bush

Song:                                    Breathing

Album:                        Never For Ever

Producer:                        Kate Bush

Year:                                    1979

Label:                                    EMI

Genre:                                    Rock

URL:                                    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n2VSe_lja4

Lyrics:                                    http://www.lyricsfreak.com/k/kate+bush/breathing_20077207.html

 

Outside
Gets inside
Through her skin.
Ive been out before
But this time its much safer in.

Last night in the sky,
Such a bright light.
My radar send me danger
But my instincts tell me to keep

Breathing,
(out, in, out, in, out, in...)
Breathing,
Breathing my mother in,
Breathing my beloved in,
Breathing,
Breathing her nicotine,
Breathing,
Breathing the fall-out in,
Out in, out in, out in, out in.

Weve lost our chance.
Were the first and the last, ooh,
After the blast.
Chips of plutonium
Are twinkling in every lung.

I love my
Beloved, ooh,
All and everywhere,
Only the fools blew it.
You and me
Knew life itself is

Breathing,
(out, in, out, in, out...)
Breathing,
Breathing my mother in,
Breathing my beloved in,
Breathing,
Breathing her nicotine,
Breathing,
Breathing the fall-out in,
Out in, out in, out in, out in,
Out in, out in, out in, out...
(out!)

In point of fact it is possible to tell the
(out!)
Difference between a small nuclear explosion and
A large one by a very simple method. the calling
Card of a nuclear bomb is the blinding flash that
Is far more dazzling than any light on earth--brighter
Even than the sun itself--and it is by the duration
Of this flash that we are able to determine the size
(what are we going to do without? )
Of the weapon. after the flash a fireball can be
Seen to rise, sucking up under it the debris, dust
And living things around the area of the explosion,
And as this ascends, it soon becomes recognisable
As the familiar mushroom cloud. as a demonstration
Of the flash duration test lets try and count the
Number of seconds for the flash emitted by a very
Small bomb; then a more substantial, medium-sized
Bomb; and finally, one of our very powerful,
High-yield bombs

What are we going to do without?
Ooh please!
What are we going to do without?
Let me breathe!
What are we going to do without?
Ooh, quick!
We are all going to die without!
Breathe in deep!
What are we going to die without?
Leave me something to breathe!
We are all going to die without!
Oh, leave me something to breathe!
What are we going to do without?
Oh, god, please leave us something to breathe!
We are all going to die without
Oh, life is--breathing
.

 

Artist:                                     Kate Bush

Song:                                    The Dreaming

Album:                        The Dreaming

Producer:                        Kate Bush

Year:                        1982

Label:                        EMI

Genre:                                    Alternative

URL:                                     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wkkuaTvIso

Lyrics:                                    http://www.purelyrics.com/index.php?lyrics=vnkhkafs

 

'Bang!' Goes Another Kanga

On The Bonnet Of The Van.

'See The Light Ram Through The Gaps In The Land.'

Many An Aborigine's Mistaken For A Tree

'Til You Near Him On The Motorway

And The Tree Begin To Breathe.

'See The Light Ram Through The Gaps In The Land.'

 

('Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha')

 

Coming In With The Golden Light

In The Morning.

Coming In With The Golden Light

Is The New Man.

Coming In With The Golden Light

Is My Dented Van.

 

Woomera.

 

'Dree-Ee-Ee-Ee-Ee-

A-A-A-A-A-

M-M-M-M-M-

Ti-Ti-Ti-Ti-Ti-

I-I-I-I-I-

Me-Me-Me-Me-Me,'

 

'Dree-Ee-Ee-Ee-Ee-'

Woomera.

'A-A-A-A-A-

M-M-M-M-M-

Ti-Ti-Ti-Ti-Ti-

I-I-I-I-I-

Me-Me-Me-Me-Me.

 

'Dree-Ee-Ee-Ee-Ee-

A-A-A-A-A-

M-M-M-M-M-

Ti-Ti-Ti-Ti-Ti-'

 

The Civilised Keep Alive

The Territorial War.

'See The Light Ram Through The Gaps In The Land.'

Erase The Race That Claim The Place

And Say We Dig For Ore,

Or Dangle Devils In A Bottle

And Push Them From The Pull Of The Bush.

'See The Light Ram Through The Gaps In The Land.'

You Find Them In The Road.

'See The Light Bounce Off The Rocks To The Sand.'

In The Road.

 

Coming In With The Golden Light

In The Morning.

Coming In With The Golden Light

With No Warning.

Coming In With The Golden Light

We Bring In The Rigging.

 

Cardigans

            War

 

Artist:                                    Cardigans                                   

Song:                                    War (First Try)

Album:                        Other Side of the Moon

Producer:                        Tore Johansson

Year:                                    1998

Label:                                    Polygram Intl, Stockholm Records

Genre:                                    Rock           

URL:                                    n/a

Lyrics:                                    http://www.mp3lyrics.org/c/cardigans/war/

Oh, come crush me now
Don't leave
No one has won this war
This time

No, don't sleep tonight
I'm hurt and ready for fire
Don't leave me up
Alarmed and ready to die

Come on, it's war, come on
Come on, come on, come on
Come on, it's war, come on

Please, I'm almost done
Don't you treat
I've loaded my gun
With love, with...
Hear the dust roll over the floor
Why must you sleep?
Come crush me now
I'm armed
And ready to die

Come on, it's war, come on
Come on, come on, come on
Come on, it's war, come on
Come on, fight me, come on
Come on, it's war, come on

You look so peaceful
when you sleep
Beautifully
It's such an easy way to choose
You loose

Come on, it's war, come on
Come on, come on, come on
Come on, fight me, come on
Come on, come on, come on
Come on, it's war, come on
Come on, come on, come on
Come on, it's war, come on

You look so peaceful
when you sleep
Beautifully
It's such an easy way to choose
You loose

 

Carnivore

            Race War

 

Artist:                                    Carnivore                       

Song:                                    Race War

Album:                        Carnivore/Retaliation                       

Producer:                        Alex Perialas

Year:                                    1987

Label:                                    Roadrunner Records

Genre:                                    Rock           

URL:                                    http://youtube.com/watch?v=MOLH8Eq1vuw                        

Lyrics:                                    http://www.lyricsdir.com/carnivore-race-war-lyrics.html

 

Black against white
yellow versus red
the fighting won't stop
until we're all dead

Burning, looting, riots destroy the masses
Nightfall, brings death, city reduced to ashes

Don't call me your brother
'cause I ain't your fucking brother
we fell from different cunts
and your skins an ugly color

Race War
we're going to a race war
Hate War
we're going to a hate war

Bloodshed, rampage, torture is not subsiding
Chaos, bedlam, violent ethnic uprising

Moslems against Christians
and the Arabs versus Jews
the Catholic and Protestants
no one wins we all lose

Everybody's gonna die

Xenophobic tendencies
instilled in us at birth
are misabled racism
hostilities getting worse
accept the fact my distant cousin
we cannot live in peace
isolated environments
may just be the key

Human beings suspicious
soon fear grows to hate
we'll have each other by the throat
when forced to integrate
mothers watch their children die
at each other's hand
Cain and Able set the course
ethnocentric command

Race War
Hate War

 

Phil Collins

            Another Day in Paradise

 

Artist:                                    Phil Collins

Song:                                    Another Day in Paradise

Album:                        . . . But Seriously

Producer:                        Phil Collins, Hugh Padgham

Year:                                    1989

Label:                                    Atlantic Records, Virgin Records, WEA

Genre:                                    Rock

URL:                                    http://youtube.com/watch?v=ftlYLcEW_I4

Lyrics:

http://www.lyrics007.com/Phil%20Collins%20Lyrics/Another%20Day%20In%20Paradise%20Lyrics.html

 

She calls out to the man on the street
"Sir, can you help me?
It's cold and I've nowhere to sleep,
Is there somewhere you can tell me?"

He walks on, doesn't look back
He pretends he can't hear her
Starts to whistle as he crosses the street
Seems embarrassed to be there

Oh think twice, it's another day for
You and me in paradise
Oh think twice, it's just another day for you,
You and me in paradise

She calls out to the man on the street
He can see she's been crying
She's got blisters on the soles of her feet
Can't walk but she's trying

Oh think twice...

Oh lord, is there nothing more anybody can do
Oh lord, there must be something you can say

You can tell from the lines on her face
You can see that she's been there
Probably been moved on from every place
'Cos she didn't fit in there

Oh think twice...

 

Cowboy Mouth

            The Avenue

Home

 

Artist:                                    Cowboy Mouth

Song:                                    The Avenue

Album:                        Voodoo Shoppe

Producer:                        Russ-T Cobb

Year:                                    2006

Label:                                    Eleven Thirty

Genre:                                    Rock

URL:                                    www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MNE5mTkGhs

Lyrics:                                    n/a

 

Artist:                                    Cowboy Mouth

Song:                                    Home

Album:                        Voodoo Shoppe

Producer:                        Russ-T Cobb

Year:                                    2006

Label:                                    Eleven Thirty

Genre:                                    Rock

URL:                        http://www.amazon.com/Voodoo-Shoppe-Cowboy-Mouth/dp/B000E5KQR8

Lyrics:                         http://www.metrolyrics.com/home-lyrics-cowboy-mouth.html

 

It's hard in St. Bernard there's tears in Algiers
If you're calling for New Orleans
There's nobody here
So fix yourself a drink
Pack your things and go
Last one out turn off the lights and board up the doors
I want to go home whatever it takes
I want to go home when the levee breaks
I want to go home where the streets have holes
I want to go home where the good times roll
The Ninth Ward's disappeared the Treme's overflowed
It's Dante's Inferno
In the Superdome
The inhumanity of this insanity
Could have been prevented
Oh so easily
[Home lyrics on http://www.metrolyrics.com]

My heart is heavy feet everywhere it seems
This time even fats ain't walking back to New Orleans
I want to go home whatever it takes
I want to go home when the levee breaks
I want to go home where the streets have holes
I want to go home where the good times roll
The world is gonna pay 'cause we'll be everywhere
There'll be dancing in your streets
Music in your air
But when that water starts to fall you won't see us around
Unles you're buying drinks for us in our home town
I want to go home whatever it takes
I want to go home when the levee breaks
I want to go home where the streets have holes
I want to go home where the good times roll

 

 

Creedence Clearwater Revival

            Fortunate Son

 

Artist:                                    Creedence Clearwater Revival

Song:                                    Fortunate Son

Album:                        Willy and the Poor Boys

Producer:                        John Fogerty

Year:                        1969

Label:                        Fantasy

Genre:                                    Rock

URL:                                    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X90T5sY5c2o&feature=related

Lyrics:                                    http://www.metrolyrics.com/fortunate-son-lyrics-ccr.html

 

Some folks are born made to wave the flag,

Ooo, they’re red, white and blue.

And when the band plays hail to the chief,

Ooo, they point the cannon at you, y’all!

 

It ain’t me, it ain’t me, I ain’t no senator’s son, Son.

It ain’t me, it ain’t me; I ain’t no fortunate one. No.

 

Some folks are born silver spoon in hand,

Lord, don’t they help themselves, y’all!

But when the taxman comes to the door,

Lord, the house looks like a rummage sale.

 

It ain’t me, it ain’t me, I ain’t no millionaire’s son. No, no.

It ain’t me, it ain’t me; I ain’t no fortunate one. No.

 

Some folks inherit star spangled eyes,

Ooo, they send you down to war, y’all.

And when you ask them, how much should we give?

Ooo, they only answer more! More! More! Y’all.

 

It ain’t me, it ain’t me, I ain’t no military son, Son.

It ain’t me, it ain’t me; I ain’t no fortunate one, one.

 

It ain’t me, it ain’t me, I ain’t no fortunate one. No, no, no.

It ain’t me, it ain’t me, I ain’t no fortunate son. No, no, no.

 

Crosby, Stills & Nash

            Ohio

            Wooden Ships

 

Artist:                                    Crosby, Stills & Nash

Song:                                    Ohio

Album:                        Single

Producer:                        written by Neil Young

Year:                                    1970

Label:                                    Atlantic

Genre:                                    Rock

URL:                                    www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfESON74GKA

Lyrics:                                    http://www.geocities.com/bennies12/CSNY.html

 

Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming, we're finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drumming, four dead in Ohio.
Gotta get down to it, soldiers are cutting us down. Should have been done long ago.
What if you knew her and found her dead on the ground?
How can you run when you know?

Gotta get down to it, soldiers are cutting us down. Should have been done long ago.
What if you knew her and found her dead on the ground?
How can you run when you know?

Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming, we're finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drumming, four dead in Ohio,
four dead in Ohio, four dead in Ohio, four dead in Ohio, how many more?
Four dead in Ohio, four dead in Ohio, four dead in Ohio, home many more?

 

Artist:                                    Crosby, Stills & Nash

Song:                                    Wooden Ships

Album:                        Crosby, Stills & Nash

Producer:                        Bill Halverson, David Crosby, Graham Nash, Stephen Stills

Year:                                    1969

Label:                                    Atlantic

Genre:                                    Rock

URL:                                    www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0P_cviczko

Lyrics:            www.lyrics007.com/David%20Crosby%20Lyrics/Wooden%20Ships%20Lyrics.html

 

One, two (Yeah) ... One, two, three ...

Intro. (Electric Guitars and Organ)
Nash: If you smile at me I will understand
'cause that is something
Everybody everywhere does in the same language, yeah
Crosby: I can see by your coat, my friend you're from the other side
There's just one thing I would like to know
Can you tell me please who won the war?
Nash: Say can I have some of your purple berries?
Crosby: Yes, I've been eating them
For six or seven weeks now I haven't got sick once
Crosby & Nash: Probably keep us all alive here we go

Wooden ships on the water very free and easy
Easy, you know the way it's supposed to be
Silver people on the shoreline let us be
Talkin' very free and easy

Instrumental (Organ)
Horror grips us as we watch you die
All we can do is echo your anguished cries
Stare as all your human feelings die
We are leaving, you don't ...

Instrumental (Organ + Electric Guitar)
Go take your sister then by the hand
(Lead her) Lead her out of this foreign land
Far away where we might laugh again
We are leaving, you don't need us
You don't, you don't ...

Instrumental (Electric Guitar)
And it's a fair wind
Blowin' warm out of the south o'er my shoulder
I guess I am going to set a course
And you know we will surely, surely go

 

Decemberists

            When the War Came

 

Artist:                                     Decemberists

Song:                                    When the War Came

Album:                        The Crane Wife

Producer:                        Tucker Martine and Chris Walla

Year:                        2006

Label:                        Capitol           

Genre:                                    Rock

URL:                                     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnMXsIATURE

Lyrics:                                    http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/decemberists/whenthewarcame.html

 

With all the grain of babylon

To cultivate to make us strong

And hidden here behind the walls

Are shoulders wide and timber on

'Til the war came

'Til the war came

 

A terrible autonomy

Is grafted onto you and me

A trust put in the government

Is all their lies are heaven sent

'Til the war came

'Til the war came

 

And the war came with a curse and a caterwaul

And the war came with all the poise of a cannonball

And they're picking out a rise by coal and candlelight

When the war came, the war came hard

 

We made our huts of avaram

We'd not betray the sole Ledum

The acres of hysterisy

To our own pangs of starvation

When the war came

When the war came

 

And the war came with a curse and a caterwaul

And the war came with all the poise of a cannonball

And they're picking out a rise by coal and candlelight

When the war came, the war came hard

 

With all the grain of Babylon

 

Dido

            Life for Rent

 

Artist:                                    Dido

Song:                                    Life for Rent

Album:                        Life for Rent

Producer:                        Mike Hedges; Rollo; Dido

Year:                                    2003

Label:                                    Arista           

Genre:                                    Rock           

URL:                                    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D80B0HCyQpQ

Lyrics:                        http://www.lyrics007.com/Dido%20Lyrics/Life%20For%20Rent%20Lyrics.html

 

I haven't really ever found a place that I call home
I never stick around quite long enough to make it
I apologize that once again I'm not in love
But it's not as if I mind
that your heart ain't exactly breaking

It's just a thought, only a thought

But if my life is for rent and I don't lean to buy
Well I deserve nothing more than I get
Cos nothing I have is truly mine

I've always thought
that I would love to live by the sea
To travel the world alone
and live my life more simply
I have no idea what's happened to that dream
Cos there's really nothing left here to stop me

It's just a thought, only a thought

But if my life is for rent and I don't learn to buy
Well I deserve nothing more than I get
Cos nothing I have is truly mine

While my heart is a shield and I won't let it down
While I am so afraid to fail so I won't even try
Well how can I say I'm alive

If my life is for rent...

 

Dire Straits

            Brothers In Arms

 

Artist:                                    Dire Straits

Song:                                    Brothers In Arms

Album:                        Brothers In Arms

Producer:                        n/a

Year:                                    1985

Label:                                    Vertigo

Genre:                                    Rock

URL:                                    www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M9U1OU0MzU

Lyrics:             http://www.lyricsfreak.com/d/dire+straits/brothers+in+arms_20040736.html

 

These mist covered mountains
Are a home now for me
But my home is the lowlands
And always will be
Some day youll return to
Your valleys and your farms
And youll no longer burn
To be brothers in arms

Through these fields of destruction
Baptisms of fire
Ive watched all your suffering
As the battles raged higher
And though they did hurt me so bad
In the fear and alarm
You did not desert me
My brothers in arms

Theres so many different worlds
So many differents suns
And we have just one world
But we live in different ones

Now the suns gone to hell
And the moons riding high
Let me bid you farewell
Every man has to die
But its written in the starlight
And every line on your palm
Were fools to make war
On our brothers in arms

 

Doors

            The Unknown Soldier

 

Artist:                                     The Doors

Song:                                    The Unknown Soldier

Album:                        Waiting for the Sun

Producer:                        Paul Rothchild

Year:                        1968

Label:                        Elektra

Genre:                                    Rock

URL:                                     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdfkYe3c5XI

Lyrics:                                    http://www.metrolyrics.com/unknown-soldier-lyrics-the-doors.html

 

Wait until the war is over

And we're both a little older

The unknown soldier

Breakfast where the news is read

Television children fed

Unborn living, living, dead

Bullet strikes the helmet's head

And it's all over

For the unknown soldier

It's all over

For the unknown soldier

Hut

Hut

Hut ho hee up

Hut

Hut

Hut ho hee up

Hut

Hut

Hut ho hee up

Comp'nee

Halt

Preeee-zent!

 

Arms!

Make a grave for the unknown soldier

Nestled in your hollow shoulder

The unknown soldier

Breakfast where the news is read

Television children fed

Bullet strikes the helmet's head

And, it's all over

The war is over

It's all over

The war is over

Well, all over, baby

All over, baby

Oh, over, yeah

All over, baby

Wooooo, hah-hah

All over

All over, baby

Oh, woa-yeah

All over

All over

Heeeeyyyy           

 

Eric Burdon and the Animals

            Sky Pilot

 

Artist:                                    Eric Burdon and the Animals

Song:                                    Sky Pilot

Album:                        The Twain Shall Meet

Producer:                        Eric Burdon

Year:                                    1968

Label:                                    MGM Records

Genre:                                    Rock

URL:                                    n/a

Lyrics:                        http://www.lyricsdownload.com/eric-burdon-sky-pilot-part-1-lyrics.html

 

He blesses the boys as they stand in life
The smell of gun grease and their bayonets they shine
He's here to help them all that he can
To make them feel wanted he's a good holy man.
Sky pilot, sky pilot, how high can you fly
You'll never never never reach the sky.
He smiles at the young soldiers
Tells them it's all right
He knows of their fears in the forthcoming fight
Soon there'll be blood and many will die
Mother and fathers back home they will cry.
Sky pilot, sky pilot, how high can you fly
You'll never never never reach the sky.
He humbles a prayer and it ends with a smile
The order is given they move down the line
But hell stay behind and he'll meditate
But it won't stop to bleeding or is the hate.
As the young men move out into the battle zone
He feels good with god you're never alone
He feels so tired and he lays on his bed
Hopes the men will find courage
In the words that he's said.
Sky pilot, sky pilot, how high can you fly
You'll never never never reach the sky.
You're soldiers of god you must understand
The fate of your country is in your young hands
May god give you strength do your job really well
If it all was worth in only time it will tell.
In the morning they returned with tears in their eyes
The stench of death drifts up to the skies
A young soldier so it looks at the sky bright
Remember the words thou shalt not kill.

 

Europe

            Cherokee

 

Artist:                                     Europe

Song:                                    Cherokee

Album:                        The Final Countdown

Producer:                        Kevin Elson

Year:                        1986

Label:                        Epic            

Genre:                                    Rock

URL:                                     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZn4S4y4NII

Lyrics:                                    http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/Europe/Cherokee.html

 

They lived in peace, not long ago

A mighty Indian tribe

But the winds of change,

Made them realize, that the promises were lies.

 

The white man's greed, in search of gold

Made the nation bleed

They lost their faith

And now they hade to learn

There was no place to return

Nowhere they could turn.

 

Cherokee - marching on the trail of tears.

 

They were driven hard, across the plains

And walked for many moons

Cause the winds of change,

Had made them realize, that the promises were lies.

 

So much to bear, all that pain

Left them in despair

They lost their faith

And now they hade to learn

There was no place to return

Nowhere they could turn.

 

Frankie Goes to Hollywood

            Two Tribes

 

Artist:                                    Frankie Goes to Hollywood

Song:                                    Two Tribes

Album:                        Welcome to the Pleasuredome

Producer:                        Trevor Horn

Year:                                    1984

Label:                                    ZTT

Genre:                                    Rock

URL:                                    http://youtube.com/watch?v=RTOQUnvI3CA

Lyrics:                                    http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/frankiegoestohollywood/twotribes.html

 

Ladies and gentlemen, let me present-
FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD
Possibly the most important thing.
This side of the world........

Oh yeah, well I........

Let's go

[1]-When two tribes go to war
A point is all you can score
When two tribes go to war
A point is all you can score

Cowboy No. 1
A born-again poor man's son
On the air America
I modelled shirts by Van Heusen-yeah

You know

[Repeat 1]

Working on the black gas

Switch off your shield
Switch off and feel
I'm working on loving-yeah
Giving you back the good times
Ship it out-out
I'm working for the black gas

[Repeat 1]

We got two tribes
We got the bomb
We got the bomb-yeah
Sock it to me biscuits-now

Are we living in a land
Where sex and horror are the new Gods?
Yeah

When two tribes go to war
A point is all you can score

 

Foreigner

            At War With the World

 

Artist:                                    Foreigner

Song:                                    At War With the World

Album:                        Foreigner

Producer:                        Gary Lyons, John Sinclair

Year:                                    1977

Label:                                    Atlantic

Genre:                                    Rock

URL:                                   

http://www.google.com/musics?lid=txjTXFk2AVH&aid=MMBetqLYSnC&sid=tfI9xXS3-VK

Lyrics:                                    http://www.mp3lyrics.org/f/foreigner/at-war-with-the-world/

 

Never had no need
For any military aid
And I never took charge of
the light brigade
I got no castle to defend or attack
But still I seem to be picking up flack

I am the captain of this body of mine
I'll send fear into the enemy lines
On the ground, in the air or at sea
They're all pointing a finger at me

I'm at war with the world
That's the way it must be
I'll fight while I can
To put an end to this misery

I'm at war with the world
I'll have to fight to be free
Yes I'm at war with the world
Nobody's capturing me

Never have no need
For any military aid
Never took charge of the light brigade
I got no castle to defend or attack
But still I seem to be picking up flack

War with the world, with the world
I'll have to fight to be be free
Yes I'm at war with the
world, with the world
Nobody's capturing me

War with the world
What do they want from me?
War with the world
Why don't they let me be?

 

Godsmack

            Greed

 

Artist:                                    Godsmack

Song:                                    Greed

Album:                        Awake

Producer:                        Sully Erna, Mudrock

Year:                                    2000

Label:                                    Republic/Universal

Genre:                                    Rock           

URL:                                    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDIguDs5i6w

Lyrics:                                    http://www.elyrics.net/read/g/godsmack-lyrics/greed-lyrics.html

 

Two faced! I feel you crawling under my skin.
Sickened by your face.
By the way, to think that you're so fucking kind?
You ain't!

Hard to find how I feel, especially when you're smothering me.
Hard to find how I feel, please someone help me!

I knew when an angel whispered into my ear,
You gotta get him away.
Hey little bitch! Be glad you finally walked away or
you may have not lived another day.

Hard to find how I feel, especially when you're smothering me.
Hard to find how I feel, please someone help me.
Hard to find how I feel, controlling me every step of the way.
Hard to find how I feel, you greedy little baby!!

 

Green Day

            Holiday

            The Saints are Coming

 

Artist:                                     Green Day

Song:                                    Holiday

Album:                        American Idiot

Producer:                        Rob Cavallo, Green Day

Year:                        2004

Label:                        Reprise           

Genre:                                    Rock

URL:                                    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRc_9wxniAY

Lyrics:                                    http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/greenday/holiday.html

 

Say, hey!

 

Hear the sound of the falling rain

Coming down like an Armageddon flame (Hey!)

The shame

The ones who died without a name

 

Hear the dogs howling out of key

To a hymn called "Faith and Misery" (Hey!)

And bleed, the company lost the war today

 

I beg to dream