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

There is 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

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

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

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 ho hee up

Hut

Hut ho hee up

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

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 and differ from the hollow lies

This is the dawning of the rest of our lives

On holiday

Hear the drum pounding out of time

Another protester has crossed the line (Hey!)

To find, the money's on the other side

Can I get another Amen? (Amen!)

There's a flag wrapped around a score of men (Hey!)

A gag, a plastic bag on a monument

I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies

This is the dawning of the rest of our lives

On holiday

(Hey!)

(Say, hey!)

(3,4)

"The representative from California has the floor"

Sieg Heil to the president Gasman

Bombs away is your punishment

Pulverize the Eiffel towers

Who criticize your government

Bang bang goes the broken glass and

Kill all the fags that don't agree

Trials by fire, setting fire

Is not a way that's meant for me

Just cause, just cause, because we're outlaws yeah!

I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies

This is the dawning of the rest of our lives

I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies

This is the dawning of the rest of our lives

This is our lives on holiday

Artist: Green Day and U2

Song: The Saints Are Coming (Live From New Orleans)

Album: Single

Producer: Rick Rubin

Year: 2006

Label: Mercury

Genre: Rock

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seGhTWE98DU

Lyrics: http://www.metrolyrics.com/saints-are-coming-lyrics-u2.html

Intro (House of the Rising Sun):

There is a house in New Orleans, They call the Superdome (or the Rising Sun)

It's been the ruin of many a poor boy, and God, I know I'm one.

Verse 1:

I cry to my daddy on the telephone,

how long now?

Until the clouds unroll and you come down,

the line went.

But the shadows still remain since your descent,

your descent.

Verse 2:

I cry to my daddy on the telephone,

how long now?

Until the clouds unroll and you come home,

the line went.

But the shadows still remain since your descent,

your descent.

Chorus 1:

The saints are coming, the saints are coming.

I say no matter how I try, I realize there's no reply.

The saints are coming, the saints are coming.

[Saints Are Coming lyrics on http://www.metrolyrics.com]

I say no matter how I try, I realize there's no reply.

New birth, rebirth

Trombone Shorty

Living like birds in the Magnolia trees

Child on her rooftops

Mother on her knees

Her sign reads: I am an American

Verse 3:

A drowning sorrow floods the deepest grief,

how long now?

Until the weather change condemns belief,

how long now?

When the night watchman lets in the thief

Whats wrong now?

Chorus 2:

The saints are coming, the saints are coming

I say no matter how I try, I realize that there's no reply

The saints are coming, the saints are coming

I say no matter how I try, I realize there's no reply

Guns N’ Roses

Civil War

Artist: Guns N’ Roses

Song: Civil War

Album: Use Your Illusion II

Producer: Mike Clink, Guns N’ Roses

Year: 1993

Label: Geffen

Genre: Rock

URL: http://youtube.com/watch?v=E9VhD4SccSE

Lyrics:

http://www.lyrics007.com/Guns%20N'%20Roses%20Lyrics/Civil%20War%20Lyrics.html

"What we've got here is failure to communicate.
Some men you just can't reach...
So, you get what we had here last week,
which is the way he wants it!
Well, he gets it!
N' I don't like it any more than you men." *

Look at your young men fighting
Look at your women crying
Look at your young men dying
The way they've always done before

Look at the hate we're breeding
Look at the fear we're feeding
Look at the lives we're leading
The way we've always done before

My hands are tied
The billions shift from side to side
And the wars go on with brainwashed pride
For the love of God and our human rights
And all these things are swept aside
By bloody hands time can't deny
And are washed away by your genocide
And history hides the lies of our civil wars

D'you wear a black armband
When they shot the man
Who said "Peace could last forever"
And in my first memories
They shot Kennedy
I went numb when I learned to see
So I never fell for Vietnam
We got the wall of D.C. to remind us all
That you can't trust freedom
When it's not in your hands
When everybody's fightin'
For their promised land

And
I don't need your civil war
It feeds the rich while it buries the poor
Your power hungry sellin' soldiers
In a human grocery store
Ain't that fresh
I don't need your civil war

Look at the shoes your filling
Look at the blood we're spilling
Look at the world we're killing
The way we've always done before
Look in the doubt we've wallowed
Look at the leaders we've followed
Look at the lies we've swallowed
And I don't want to hear no more

My hands are tied
For all I've seen has changed my mind
But still the wars go on as the years go by
With no love of God or human rights
'Cause all these dreams are swept aside
By bloody hands of the hypnotized
Who carry the cross of homicide
And history bears the scars of our civil wars

"We practice selective annihilation of mayors
And government officials
For example to create a vacuum
Then we fill that vacuum
As popular war advances
Peace is closer" **

I don't need your civil war
It feeds the rich while it buries the poor
Your power hungry sellin' soldiers
In a human grocery store
Ain't that fresh
And I don't need your civil war
I don't need your civil war
I don't need your civil war
Your power hungry sellin' soldiers
In a human grocery store
Ain't that fresh
I don't need your civil war
I don't need one more war

I don't need one more war
Whaz so civil 'bout war anyway

Jimi Hendrix

1983… (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)

Machine Gun

Artist: Jimi Hendrix

Song: 1983… (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)

Album: Electric Ladyland

Producer: Jimi Hendrix

Year: 1968

Label: Reprise

Genre: Rock

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gTrEvJeq6U

Lyrics: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/j/jimi+hendrix/1983_10149596.html

Hurray i awake from yesterday
Alive but the war is here to stay
So my love catherina and me
Decide to take our last walk thru the noise to the sea
Not to die but to be reborn
Away from the lands so battred and torn
Forever forever

Oh say can you see it's really such a mess
Every inch of earth is a fighting nest
Giant pencil and lipstick-tube shaped things
Continue to rain and cause screamin' pain
And the arctic stains from silver blue to bloody red
As our feet find the sand
And the sea is straight ahad
Straight up ahead

Well it's too bad that our friends can't be with us today
Well it's too bad
The machine that we built
Would never save us that's what they say
That's why they ain't comin' with us today
And they also said it's impossible
For a man to live and breathe undrerwater
Forever was a main complaint
Yeah and they also threw this in my face they said
Anyway you know good and well
It would be beyond the will of god
And the grace of the king
Grace of the king
Yeah

Ooo

So my darling and i make love in the sand
To salute the last moment ever on dry land
Our machine it has done its work played its part well
Without a scratch on our body when we bid it farewell
Starfish and giant foams greet us with a smile
Before our heads go under we take our last look at the killing noise
Of the out of style
The out of style out of style oh yeah
Oooo

So down and down and down and down we go
Hurry my darlin' we mustn't be late
For the show
Neptune champion games to an aqua world is so my dear
Right this way smiles a mermaid
I can hear atlantis full of cheer
Atlantis full of cheer
I can hear atlantis full of cheer
Oh yeah

Artist: Jimi Hendrix

Song: Machine Gun

Album: Band of Gypsys

Producer: Heaven Research

Year: 1970

Label: MCA

Genre: Rock

URL: http://youtube.com/watch?v=475_Zzixj5M

Lyrics: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/j/jimi+hendrix/machine+gun_20071573.html

Machine gun
Tearing my body all apart

Machine gun, yeah
Tearing my body all apart

Evil man make me kill ya
Evil man make you kill me
Evil man make me kill you
Even though were only families apart

Well I pick up my axe and fight like a bomber
(you know what I mean)
Hey! and your bullets keep knocking me down

Hey, I pick up my axe and fight like a bomber now
Yeah, but you still blast me down to the ground

The same way you shoot me down, baby
Youll be going just the same
Three times the pain,
And your own self to blame
Hey, machine gun

I aint afraid of your mess no more, babe
I aint afraid no more
After a while, your, your cheap talk dont even cause me pain,
So let your bullets fly like rain

cause I know all the time youre wrong baby
And youll be going just the same
Yeah, machine gun
Tearing my family apart
Yeah, yeah, alright
Tearing my family apart

(dont you shoot him down)
(hes bout to leave here)
(dont you shoot him down)
(hes got to stay here)
(he aint going nowhere)
(hes been shot down to the ground)
(oh where he cant survive, no, no)

Yeah, thats what we dont wanna hear anymore, alright?
(no bullets)
At least here, huh huh
(no guns, no bombs)
Huh huh
(no nothin, just lets all live and live)
(you know, instead of killin)

May this be
Love or just
Confusion born out of
Frustration wracked
Feelings - of not
Being able to
Make true physical
Love to the
Universal gypsy queen
True, free expressed music
Darling guitar please
Rest. amen

Bruce Hornsby

The Way It Is

Artist: Bruce Hornsby

Song: The Way It Is

Album: The Way It Is

Producer: Paul Atkinson, Huey Lewis

Year: 1986

Label: RCA Records

Genre: Rock

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

Lyrics:

http://www.lyricsfreak.com/b/bruce+hornsby/the+way+it+is_20024963.html

Standing in line marking time--

Waiting for the welfare dime

cause they cant buy a job

The man in the silk suit hurries by

As he catches the poor old ladies eyes

Just for fun he says get a job

Thats just the way it is

Some things will never change

Thats just the way it is

But dont you believe them

They say hey little boy you cant go

Where the others go

cause you dont look like they do

Said hey old man how can you stand

To think that way

Did you really think about it

Before you made the rules

He said, son

Thats just the way it is

Some things will never change

Thats just the way it is

But dont you believe them

Well they passed a law in 64

To give those who aint got a little more

But it only goes so far

Because the law anothers mind

When all it sees at the hiring time

Is the line on the color bar

Thats just the way it is

Some things will never change

Thats just the way it is

But dont you believe them

Ill Wind

L.A.P.D.

Artist: Ill Wind

Song: L.A.P.D

Album: Flashes

Producer: Tom Wilson

Year: 1968

Label: ABC Records

Genre: Rock

URL: http://www.ill-wind.com/assets/tunes/Flashes/05-LAPD.mp3

Lyrics: http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=2277

Watch where you're going

If you don't want to fall

Seeds you've been sowing

Bearing fruit, growing tall

Like the bright scarlet blossom that erupts from the face of your enemy.

Clubs rise and fall

To the pulse of the hot surging blood in your heart.

Eyes that stare

As your brain splits apart

Like the egg of a cock that has lain in the sun for too long.

The air is heavy with the smell of fear

By your faces I can tell where you are

A thousand shining eyes will never shed a tear

And the man inside his fortress doesn't hear a sound.

Shadows are born,

And they crawl like the serpent that lives in your breast

Broken bodies

That lie on the ground

Like the discarded toys of an idiot child.

The air is heavy with the smell of fear

By your faces I can tell where you are

A thousand shining eyes will never shed a tear

And the man inside his fortress doesn't hear a sound.

Iron Maiden

2 Minutes to Midnight

Artist: Iron Maiden

Song: 2 Minutes to Midnight

Album: Powerslave

Producer: Martin Birch

Year: 1984

Label: EMI

Genre: Rock

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gpw7d1NV9w0

Lyrics: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/i/iron+maiden/2+minutes+to+midnight_20067954.html

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.

Chorus

Midnight...all night...

Billy Joel

Allentown

Artist: Billy Joel

Song: Allentown

Album: The Nylon Curtain

Producer: Phil Ramone

Year: 1982

Label: Columbia

Genre: Rock

URL: http://youtube.com/watch?v=K62DdoFoNeg

Lyrics: http://www.oldielyrics.com/lyrics/billy_joel/allentown.html

Well we're living here in Allentown
And they're closing all the factories down
Out in Bethlehem they're killing time
Filling out forms
Standing in line
Well our fathers fought the Second World War
Spent their weekends on the Jersey Shore
Met our mothers in the USO
Asked them to dance
Danced with them slow
And we're living here in Allentown

But the restlessness was handed down
And it's getting very hard to stay

Well we're waiting here in Allentown
For the Pennsylvania we never found
For the promises our teachers gave
If we worked hard
If we behaved
So the graduations hang on the wall
But they never really helped us at all
No they never taught us what was real
Iron and coke
And chromium steel
And we're waiting here in Allentown

But they've taken all the coal from the ground
And the union people crawled away

Every child had a pretty good shot
To get at least as far as their old man got
But something happened on the way to that place
They threw an American flag in our face

Well I'm living here in Allentown
And it's hard to keep a good man down
But I won't be getting up today

And it's getting very hard to stay
And we're living here in Allentown

John Kongos

He’s Gonna Step on You Again

Artist: John Kongos

Song: He’s Gonna Step on You Again

Album: Tokoloshe Man

Producer: Gus Dudgeon

Year: 1988

Label: See For Miles

Genre: Rock

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zslrb7O0-6g

Lyrics: http://lyricz.net/J/John+Kongos/113138/

Hey rainmaker come away

from that man you know

he's gonna take away your promised land.

Hey good lady

he just want what you got

you know he'll never stop

until he's taken the lot.

Gonna stamp out your fire

he can change your desire

don't you know that he can make

you forget you're a man

gonna stamp out your fire

he can change your desire

don't you know that he can make

you forget you're a man

you're a man. He's a man.

He's gonna step on you again.

Hey rainmaker he got golden plans

I tell you he make you

a stranger in your land.

Hey good lady

he got God on his side

he got a double tongue

you never think that he lie.

Gonna stamp out...

Hey rainmaker come away

from that man you know

he's gonna take away your promised land.

Hey good lady

he got God on his side

he got a double tongue

you never think that he lie.

John Lennon

Gimme Some Truth

Give Peace a Chance

Happpy Xmas (War is Over)

Imagine

Instant Karma

Artist: John Lennon

Song: Gimme Some Truth

Album: Imagine

Producer: John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and Phil Spector

Year: 1971

Label: Apple/EMI

Genre: Rock

URL: http://youtube.com/watch?v=fBpIfVt46Bk

Lyrics: http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=4039

I'm sick to death of hearing things
From uptight, short-sighted, narrow-minded hypocrites
All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth
I've had enough of reading things
By neurotic, psychotic, pig-headed politicians
All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth

No short-haired, yellow-bellied, son of Tricky Dicky
Is gonna Mother Hubbard soft soap me
With just a pocketful of hope
Money for dope
Money for rope

No short-haired, yellow-bellied, son of Tricky Dicky
Is gonna Mother Hubbard soft soap me
With just a pocketful of soap
Money for dope
Money for rope

I'm sick to death of seeing things
From tight-lipped, condescending, mama's little chauvinists
All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth now

I've had enough of watching scenes
Of schizophrenic, ego-centric, paranoiac, prima-donnas
All I want is the truth now
Just gimme some truth

No short-haired, yellow-bellied, son of Tricky Dicky
Is gonna Mother Hubbard soft soap me
With just a pocketful of soap
It's money for dope
Money for rope

Ah, I'm sick and tired of hearing things
From uptight, short-sighted, narrow-minded hypocrites
All I want is the truth now
Just gimme some truth now

I've had enough of reading things
By neurotic, psychotic, pig-headed politicians
All I want is the truth now
Just gimme some truth now

All I want is the truth now
Just gimme some truth now
All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth
All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth

Artist: John Lennon

Song: Give Peace a Chance

Album: Single

Producer: John and Yoko Ono Lennon

Year: 1969

Label: Apple

Genre: Rock

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-NRriHlLUk

Lyrics:

http://www.absolutelyrics.com/lyrics/view/john_lennon/give_peace_a_chance/

Ev'rybody's talkin' 'bout
Bagism, Shagism, Dragism, Madism, Ragism, Tagism
This-ism, that-ism, ism ism ism
All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance

(C'mon)

Ev'rybody's talkin' 'bout
Minister, Sinister, Banisters and Canisters,
Bishops, Fishops, Rabbis, and Pop Eyes, Bye bye, Bye byes
All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance

(Let me tell you now)

Ev'rybody's talkin' 'bout
Revolution, Evolution, Mastication, Flagellation, Regulation,
Integrations, mediations, United Nations, congratulations
All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance

Ev'rybody's talkin' 'bout
John and Yoko, Timmy Leary, Rosemary,
Tommy Smothers, Bobby Dylan, Tommy Cooper,
Derek Taylor, Norman Mailer, Alan Ginsberg, Hare Krishna
Hare Hare Krishna

All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance
(Repeat 'til the tape runs out)

Artist: John Lennon

Song: Happy Xmas (War is Over)

Album: Single by the Plastic Ono Band

Producer: Phil Spector, John Lennon, Yoko Ono

Year: 1971

Label: EMI, Parlophone, Apple

Genre: Rock

URL: www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8jw-ifqwkM

Lyrics: http://www.john-lennon.com/songlyrics/songs/Happy_Xmas_War_is_Over.htm

(Happy Xmas Kyoko
Happy Xmas Julian)

So this is Xmas
And what have you done
Another year over
And a new one just begun
And so this is Xmas
I hope you have fun
The near and the dear one
The old and the young

A very Merry Xmas
And a happy New Year
Let's hope it's a good one
Without any fear

And so this is Xmas
For weak and for strong
For rich and the poor ones
The world is so wrong
And so happy Xmas
For black and for white
For yellow and red ones
Let's stop all the fight

A very Merry Xmas
And a happy New Year
Let's hope it's a good one
Without any fear

And so this is Xmas
And what have we done
Another year over
A new one just begun
And so happy Xmas
We hope you have fun
The near and the dear one
The old and the young

A very Merry Xmas
And a happy New Year
Let's hope it's a good one
Without any fear
War is over, if you want it
War is over now

Happy Xmas

Artist: John Lennon

Song: Imagine

Album: Imagine

Producer: John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Phil Spector

Year: 1971

Label: Apple

Genre: Rock

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xjw-l673UI

Lyrics: http://www.lyrics007.com/John Lennon Lyrics/Imagine Lyrics.html

Imagine there's no Heaven

It's easy if you try

No hell below us

Above us only sky

Imagine all the people

Living for today

Imagine there's no countries

It isn't hard to do

Nothing to kill or die for

And no religion too

Imagine all the people

Living life in peace

You may say that I'm a dreamer

But I'm not the only one

I hope someday you'll join us

And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions

I wonder if you can

No need for greed or hunger

A brotherhood of man

Imagine all the people

Sharing all the world

You may say that I'm a dreamer

But I'm not the only one

I hope someday you'll join us

And the world will live as one

Artist: John Lennon

Song: Instant Karma (We All Shine On)

Album: Single

Producer: Phil Spector, John Lennon and Yoko Ono

Year: 1970

Label: Apple Records

Genre: Rock

URL: http://www.oldielyrics.com/lyrics/billy_joel/allentown.html

Lyrics: http://www.lyrics007.com/John%20Lennon%20Lyrics/Instant%20Karma%20Lyrics.html

Instant Karma's gonna get you,
Gonna knock you right on the head,
You better get yourself together,
Pretty soon you're gonna be dead,
What in the world you thinking of,
Laughing in the face of love,
What on earth you tryin' to do,
It's up to you, yeah you.

Instant Karma's gonna get you,
Gonna look you right in the face,
Better get yourself together darlin',
Join the human race,
How in the world you gonna see,
Laughin' at fools like me,
Who on earth d'you think you are,
A super star,
Well, right you are.

Well we all shine on,
Like the moon and the stars and the sun,
Well we all shine on,
Ev'ryone come on.

Instant Karma's gonna get you,
Gonna knock you off your feet,
Better recognize your brothers,
Ev'ryone you meet,
Why in the world are we here,
Surely not to live in pain and fear,
Why on earth are you there,
When you're ev'rywhere,
Come and get your share.

Well we all shine on,
Like the moon and the stars and the sun,
Yeah we all shine on,
Come on and on and on on on,
Yeah yeah, alright, uh huh, ah-.

Well we all shine on,
Like the moon and the stars and the sun,
Yeah we all shine on,
On and on and on on and on.

Well we all shine on,
Like the moon and the stars and the sun.
Well we all shine on,
Like the moon and the stars and the sun.
Well we all shine on,
Like the moon and the stars and the sun.
Yeah we all shine on,
Like the moon and the stars and the sun.

Paul McCartney

Give Ireland Back to the Irish

Artist: Paul McCartney

Song: Give Ireland Back to the Irish

Album: Single

Producer: Paul and Linda McCartney

Year: 1972

Label: Apple

Genre: Rock

URL:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8RHd1PDbjE&feature=related

Lyrics:

http://www.lyricsfreak.com/p/paul+mccartney/give+ireland+back+to+the+irish_20105826.html

Give Ireland back to the Irish

Don’t make them have to take it away

Give Ireland back to the Irish

Make Ireland Irish today

Great Britain you are tremendous

And nobody knows like me

But really what are you doin

In the land across the sea

Tell me how would you like it

If on your way to work

You were stopped by Irish soldiers

Would you lie down do nothing

Would you give in, or go berserk

Give Ireland back to the Irish

Don’t make them have to take it away

Give Ireland back to the Irish

Make Ireland Irish today

Great Britain and all the people

Say that all people must be free

Meanwhile back in Ireland

There’s a man who looks like me

And he dreams of God and country

And he’s feeling really bad

And he’s sitting in a prison

Should he lie down do nothing

Should give in or go mad

Give Ireland back to the Irish

Don’t make them have to take it away

Give Ireland back to the Irish

Make Ireland Irish today

Give Ireland back to the Irish

Don’t make them have to take it away

Give Ireland back to the Irish

Make Ireland Irish today

Barry McGuire

Eve of Destruction

Artist: Barry McGuire

Song: Eve of Destruction

Album: Single

Producer: Barry McGuire

Year: 1965

Label: One Way Records

Genre: Rock

URL: www.youtube.com/watch?v=39ESOKkU1ho

Lyrics: http://artists.letssingit.com/barry-mcguire-eve-of-destruction-s1m88lj

The eastern world, it is exploding

Violence flarin’, bullets loadin’

You’re old enough to kill, but not for votin’

You don’t believe in war, but what’s that gun you’re totin’

And even the Jordan River has bodies floatin’

But you tell me

Over and over and over again, my friend

Ah, you don’t believe

We’re on the eve

of destruction.

Don’t you understand what I’m tryin’ to say

Can’t you feel the fears I’m feelin’ today?

If the button is pushed, there’s no runnin’ away

There’ll be no one to save, with the world in a grave

[Take a look around ya boy, it's bound to scare ya boy]

And you tell me

Over and over and over again, my friend

Ah, you don’t believe

We’re on the eve

of destruction.

Yeah, my blood’s so mad feels like coagulatin’

I’m sitting here just contemplatin’

I can’t twist the truth, it knows no regulation.

Handful of senators don’t pass legislation

And marches alone can’t bring integration

When human respect is disintegratin’

This whole crazy world is just too frustratin’

And you tell me

Over and over and over again, my friend

Ah, you don’t believe

We’re on the eve

of destruction.

Think of all the hate there is in Red China

Then take a look around to Selma, Alabama

You may leave here for 4 days in space

But when you return, it’s the same old place

The poundin’ of the drums, the pride and disgrace

You can bury your dead, but don’t leave a trace

Hate your next-door neighbor, but don’t forget to say grace

And… tell me over and over and over and over again, my friend

You don’t believe

We’re on the eve

Of destruction

Mm, no no, you don’t believe

We’re on the eve

of destruction.

Metallica

Disposable Heroes

One

Artist: Metallica

Song: Disposable Heroes

Album: Master of Puppets

Producer: Metallica

Year: 1986

Label: Elektra

Genre: Rock

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKQjmc_9TQY

Lyrics: http://www.loglar.com/song.php?id=6254

Bodies fill the fields I see, hungry heroes end

No one to play soldier now, no one to pretend

Running blind through killing fields, bred to kill them all

Victims of what said should be

A servant `till I fall

Soldier boy, made of clay

Now an empty shell

Twenty one, only son

But he served us well

Bred to kill, not to care

Do just as we say

Finished here, greetings death

He's yours to take away

Back to the front

You will do what I say, when I say

Back to the front

You will die when I say, you must die

Back to the front

You coward

You servant

You blindman

Barking of machine gun fire, does nothing to me now

Sounding of the clock that ticks, get used to it somehow

More a man, more stripes you bare, glory seeker trends

Bodies fill the fields I see

The slaughter never ends

Soldier boy, made of clay

Now an empty shell

Twenty one, only son

But he served us well

Bred to kill, not to care

Do just as we say

Finished here, greetings death

He's yours to take away

Back to the front

You will do what I say, when I say

Back to the front

You will die when I say, you must die

Back to the front

You coward

You servant

You blindman

Why, am I dying?

Kill, have no fear

Lie, live off lying

Hell, hell is here

Why, am I dying?

Kill, have no fear

Lie, live off lying

Hell, hell is here

I was born for dying

Life planned out before my birth, nothing could I say

Had no chance to see myself, moulded day by day

Looking back I realize, nothing have I done

Left to die with only friend

Alone I clench my gun

Soldier boy, made of clay

Now an empty shell

Twenty one, only son

But he served us well

Bred to kill, not to care

Do just as we say

Finished here, greetings death

He's yours to take away

Back to the front

You will do what I say, when I say

Back to the front

You will die when I say, you must die

Back to the front

You coward

You servant

You blindman

Back to the front

Artist: Metallica

Song: One

Album: … And Justice for All

Producer: Metallica, Flemming Rasmussen

Year: 1988

Label: Elektra

Genre: Rock

URL: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwW9L_qzqp8

Lyrics: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/m/metallica/one_20092051.html

I cant remember anything
Cant tell if this is true or dream
Deep down inside I feel to scream
This terrible silence stops me

Now that the war is through with me
Im waking up I can not see
That there is not much left of me
Nothing is real but pain now

Hold my breath as I wish for death
Oh please god,wake me

Back in the womb its much too real
In pumps life that I must feel
But cant look forward to reveal
Look to the time when Ill live

Fed through the tube that sticks in me
Just like a wartime novelty
Tied to machines that make me be
Cut this life off from me

Hold my breath as I wish for death
Oh please god,wake me
Now the world is gone Im just one
Oh god,help me hold my breath as I wish for death
Oh please God help me

Darkness imprisoning me
All that I see
Absolute horror
I cannot live
I cannot die
Trapped in myself
Body my holding cell

Landmine has taken my sight
Taken my speech
Taken my hearing
Taken my arms
Taken my legs
Taken my soul
Left me with life in hell

Morrissey

America is Not the World

Irish Blood, English Heart

I Will See You In Far Off Places

Margaret on a Guillotine

Artist: Morrissey

Song: America is Not the World

Album: You Are the Quarry

Producer: Jerry Finn

Year: 2004

Label: Attack/Sanctuary

Genre: Rock

URL:

http://www.amazon.com/America-is-Not-The-World/dp/B000QOLPMW

Lyrics:

http://www.lyricsfreak.com/m/morrissey/america+is+not+the+world_10183666.html

America/your head's too big/because

America/your belly's too big

and I love you/I just wish you'd stay where

you is/in

America/the land of the Free, they said

and of opportunity/in a Just and a Truthful way

but where the President

is never black, female or gay

and until that day

you've got nothing to believe/in

America/you know where

you can shove your hamburger

and don't you wonder

why in Estonia they say

"hey you, you big fat pig"/"you big fat pig"

"you big fat pig"-?

Steely-blue eyes/ with no love in them

scan the world

and a humourless smile with no warmth

within/greets the world

and I/have got nothing/to offer you

just this heart deep and true

which you say you don't need

See with your eyes

touch with your hands - please

know in your soul

hear through your ears - please

for haven't you me with you now?

and I love you

I love you

Artist: Morrissey

Song: Irish Blood, English Heart

Album: You Are the Quarry

Producer: Jerry Finn

Year: 2004

Label: Attack/Sanctuary

Genre: Rock

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKoS5X4SMrY

Lyrics: http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/Morrissey/Irish-Blood-English-Heart.html

Irish blood, English heart,

This I'm made of

There is no one on earth I'm afraid of

And no regime can buy or sell me

I've been dreaming of a time when

To be English is not to be baneful

To be standing by the flag not feeling shameful, Racist or partial

Irish blood, English heart, This I'm made of

There is no one on earth I'm afraid of

And I will die with both of my hands untied

I've been dreaming of a time when

The English are sick to death of Labour, And Tories

And spit upon the name Oliver Cromwell

And denounce this royal line that still salute him

And will salute him forever

Artist: Morrissey

Song: I Will See You in Far Off Places

Album: Ringleader of the Tormentors

Producer: Tony Viconti

Year: 2005

Label: Sanctuary Records

Genre: Rock

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtGCOjSkf_0

Lyrics: click link for lyrics

Nobody knows what human life is.

Why we come, why we go.

So why then do I know

I will see you,

I will see you in far off places?

The heart knows why I grieve

And yes one day I will close my eyes forever

But I will see you

I will see you in far off places.

It's so easy for us to sit together

But it's so hard for our hearts to combine

And why?

Why? Why? Why? Why?

Destiny for some is to save lives

But destiny for some is to end lives

But there is no end

And I will see you in far off places.

If your god bestows protection upon you

And if the USA doesn't bomb you

I believe I will see you somewhere safe

Looking to the camera, messing around

and pulling faces.

Artist: Morrissey

Song: Margaret on the Guillotine

Album: Viva Hate

Producer: Stephen Street

Year: 1988

Label: HMV

Genre: Rock

URL: http://music.yahoo.com/release/32938

Lyrics: http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/Morrissey/Margaret-On-The-Guillotine.html

The kind people

have a wonderful dream

Margaret on the guillotine

because people like you

make me feel so tired

when will you die?

because people like you

make me feel so old inside

please die

and kind people

do not shelter this dream

make it real

make the dream real

make it real

Let The Right One Slip In

Let the right one in

Let the old dreams die

Let the wrong ones go

They cannot

They cannot do what you want them to

Oh ...

Let the right one in

Let the old dreams die

Let the wrong ones go

They do not

They do not see what you want them to

Oh ...

Let the right one in

Let the old things fade

Put the tricks and schemes forward

Away

Ah ... I will advise

Ah ... Until my mouth dries

Ah ... I will advise you to ...

Ah ... let the right one slip in

Slip in

And when at last it does

I'd say you were within your rights to write

The right one and say, "what kept you so long?"

"What kept you so long?"

Oh ...

Artist: Morrissey

Song: This is Not Your Country

Album: Rare Tracks (Import)

Producer: Danton Supple, Steve Lillywhite

Year: 1997

Label: Mercury

Genre: Rock

URL:

http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,1107082,00.html

Lyrics:

http://www.lyricsfreak.com/m/morrissey/this+is+not+your+country_20096100.html

Road blocks and fire

Barb wire upon barb wire

This is not your country

Armoured cars, corrugated scars

Grafitti scrawls:

"This is not your country"

Home sweet fortress

Gunshot - we hate your kind

Get back !

This is not your country

I need some air

And I'm stopped and repeatedly questioned:

"Born and raised ?"

But this is not my country

We're old news

All's well

Say BBC scum

One child shot, but so what ?

Laid my son

In a box, three feet long

And I still don't know why

A short walk home becomes a run

And I'm scared

In my own country

We're old news

All's well

Say BBC scum

Everybody's under control

Of our surveillance globes

We're old news

All's well

And thirty years could be a thousand

And this Peugeot ad

Spins round in my head

British soldier pointing a gun

And I'm only trying to post a letter

A short walk home becomes a run

And I'm scared, and I'm scared, I am scared

Old news

All's well

BBC scum

You've got more than the dead, so zip up your mouth

Zip up your mouth

You've got more than the dead, so zip up your mouth

Zip up your mouth

You've got more than the dead, so zip up your mouth

Zip up your mouth

You've got more than the dead, so zip up your mouth

Sinead O’Connor

Black Boys on Mopeds

Artist: Sinead O’Connor

Song: Black Boys on Mopeds

Album: I Don’t Want What I Haven’t Got

Producer: Nellee Hooper, Sinéad O'Connor, Chris Birkett, Sean Devitt

Year: 1990

Label: Asylum

Genre: Rock

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n14lwdpYkAA

Lyrics: http://www.lyrics007.com/Sinead O'Connor Lyrics/Black Boys on Mopeds Lyrics.html

Margareth Thatcher on TV

Shocked by the deaths that took place in Beijing

It seems strange that she should be offended

The same orders are given by her

I've said this before now

You said I was childish and you'll say it now

"Remember what I told you

If they hated me they will hate you"

England's not the mythical land of Madame George and roses

It's the home of police who kill black boys on mopeds

And I love my boy and that's why I'm leaving

I don't want him to be aware that there's

Any such thing as grieving

Young mother down at Smithfield

5 am, looking for food for her kids

In her arms she holds three cold babies

And the first word that they learned was "please"

These are dangerous days

To say what you feel is to dig your own grave

"Remember what I told you

If you were of the world they would love you"

England's not the mythical land of Madame George and roses

It's the home of police who kill blacks boys on mopeds

And I love my boy and that's why I'm leaving

I don't want him to be aware that there's

Any such thing as grieving.

Original Caste

One Tin Solider

Artist: Original Caste

Song: One Tin Solider

Album: Single

Producer: Dennis Lambert, Brain Potter

Year: 1969

Label: n/a

Genre: Rock

URL: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI9rwH4lDDk

Lyrics: http://www.lyricsdownload.com/the-original-caste-one-tin-soldier-lyrics.html

Listen people to a story
that was written long ago,
'bout a kingdom on a mountain
And the valley folks below.
On the mountain was a treasure
Hidden deep beneath a stone,
And the valley people swore
They'd have it for their very own.

Go ahead and hate your neighbor,
go ahead and cheat a friend.
Do it in the name of heaven,
you can justify it in the end.
There won't be any trumpets blowing,
come the judgement day,
On the bloody morning after.............
One Tin Soldier rides away.

So the people of the valley
sent a message up the hill,
Asking for the buried treasure
Tons of gold for which they'd kill.
Came the answer from the kingdom,
With our brothers we will share,
All the riches of the mountain,
All the treasure buried there.

Now the valley cried with anger,
Mount your horses, draw your swords
And they killed the mountain people,
So they won their just rewards
Now they stood before the treasure
On the mountain dark and red
Turned the stone and looked beneath it ...................
Peace On Earth, was all it said.

Go ahead and hate your neighbor,
Go ahead and cheat and friend,
Do it in the name of heaven,
You can justify it in the end.
There won't be any trumpets blowing
Come the judgement day,
On the bloody morning after..................
One Tin Soldier rides away.

Paul Revere and the Raiders

Indian Reservation

Artist: Paul Revere and the Raiders

Song: Indian Reservation (The Lament of the Cherokee Reservation Indian)

Album: Indian Reservation

Producer: Paul Revere and the Raiders

Year: 1971

Label: Columbia

Genre: Rock

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsMQbedCZj0

Lyrics: http://www.lyricsdownload.com/raiders-indian-reservation-the-lament-of-the-cherokee-reservation-lyrics.html

They took the whole Cherokee nation

Put us on this reservation

Took away our ways of life

The tomahawk and the bow and knife

Took away our native tongue

And taught their English to our young

And all the beads we made by hand

Are nowadays made in Japan

Cherokee people, Cherokee tribe

So proud to live, so proud to die

They took the whole Indian nation

Locked us on this reservation

Though I wear a shirt and tie

I'm still part redman deep inside

Cherokee people, Cherokee tribe

So proud to live, so proud to die

But maybe someday when they learn

Cherokee nation will return, will return, will return, will return, will return

Pearl Jam

Do the Evolution

Insignificance

World Wide Suicide

Artist: Pearl Jam

Song: Do the Evolution

Album: Yield

Producer: Brendon O’Brian, Pearl Jam

Year: 1998

Label: Epic

Genre: Rock

URL: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS69fuCOhTM

Lyrics: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/p/pearl+jam/do+the+evolution_20106325.html

Woo..
Im ahead, Im a man
Im the first mammal to wear pants, yeah
Im at peace with my lust
I can kill cause in God I trust, yeah
Its evolution, baby

Im at piece, Im the man
Buying stocks on the day of the crash
On the loose, Im a truck
All the rolling hills, Ill flatten em out, yeah
Its herd behavior, uh huh
Its evolution, baby

Admire me, admire my home
Admire my song, heres my coat
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
This land is mine, this land is free
Ill do what I want but irresponsibly
Its evolution, baby

Im a thief, Im a liar
Theres my church, I sing in the choir:
(hallelujah hallelujah)

Admire me, admire my home
Admire my song, admire my clothes
cause we know, appetite for a nightly feast
Those ignorant indians got nothin on me
Nothin, why?
Because, its evolution, baby!

I am ahead, I am advanced
I am the first mammal to make plans, yeah
I crawled the earth, but now Im higher
Twenty-ten, watch it go to fire
Its evolution, baby (2x)
Do the evolution
Come on, come on, come on

Artist: Pearl Jam

Song: Insignificance

Album: Binaural

Producer: Tchad Blake Pearl Jam

Year: 2000

Label: Epic

Genre: Rock

URL: www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1OLyRSMch0

Lyrics: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/p/pearl+jam/insignificance_20106299.html

All in all its no ones fault. excuses turn to carbon walls.
Blame it all on chemical intercourse.
The swallowed seeds of arrogance breeding in the thoughts of ten-thousand fools that fight
Irrelevance.

The full moon is dead skin. the one down heres wearing thin.
So set up the ten pins as the human tide rolls in.
Like a ball thats spinning.

Bombs dropping down overhead. on the ground.
Its instilled to want to live.
Bombs dropping down. please forgive our hometown in our insignificance.

turn the jukebox up, he said. dancing in irreverence.
Play c-3. let the song protest.

The plates began to shift. perfect lefts come rolling in.
I was alone and far away, hey. when I heard the band start playing.
On the lip they take off.

Bombs dropping down overhead. underground.
Its instilled to want to live.
Bombs dropping down. please forgive our hometown in our insignificance.

Feel like resonance of distance. in the blood the iron lies.

Its instilled to want to live.
Bombs dropping down. please forgive our hometown in our insignificance.
Oh, in our insignificance, oh.

Artist: Pearl Jam

Song: World Wide Suicide

Album: Pearl Jam

Producer: Adam Kasper, Pearl Jam

Year: 2006

Label: J Records

Genre: Rock

URL: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAY-4V_DdsM

Lyrics: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/pearljam/worldwidesuicide.html

I felt the earth on Monday. It moved beneath my feet.
In the form of a morning paper. Laid out for me to see.

Saw his face in a corner picture. I recognized the name.
Could not stop staring at the. Face I'd never see again.

It's a shame to awake in a world of pain
What does it mean when a war has taken over

It's the same everyday in a hell manmade
What can be saved, and who will be left to hold her?

The whole world...World over.
It's a worldwide suicide.

Medals on a wooden mantle. Next to a handsome face.
That the president took for granted.
Writing checks that others pay.

And in all the madness. Thought becomes numb and naive.
So much to talk about. Nothing for to say.

It's the same everyday and the wave won't break
Tell you to pray, while the devils on their shoulder

Laying claim to the take that our soldiers save
Does not equate, and the truth's already out there

The whole world,... World over.
It's a worldwide suicide.

The whole world,... World over.
It's a worldwide suicide.

Looking in the eyes of the fallen
You got to know there's another, another, another, another
Another way

It's a shame to awake in a world of pain
What does it mean when a war has taken over

It's the same everyday and the wave won't break
Tell you to pray, while the devils on their shoulder

The whole world,... World over.
It's a worldwide suicide.

The whole world,... World over.
It's a worldwide suicide.

Pink Floyd

Dogs of War

Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert

The Fletcher Memorial Home

The Gunner’s Dream

Two Suns in the Sunset

Us and Them

Waiting for the Worms

Artist: Pink Floyd

Song: Dogs of War

Album: Momentary Lapse of Reason

Producer: Bob Ezrin and David Gilmour

Year: 1987

Label: EMI, Columbia

Genre: Rock

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

Lyrics:

Dogs of war and men of hate

With no cause, we don't discriminate

Discovery is to be disowned

Our currency is flesh and bone

Hell opened up and put on sale

Gather 'round and haggle

For hard cash, we will lie and deceive

Even our masters don't know the web we weave

One world, it's a battleground

One world, and we will smash it down

One world ... One world

Invisible transfers, long distance calls,

Hollow laughter in marble halls

Steps have been taken, a silent uproar

Has unleashed the dogs of war

You can't stop what has begun

Signed, sealed, they deliver oblivion

We all have a dark side, to say the least

And dealing in death is the nature of the beast

One world, it's a battleground

One world, and we will smash it down

One world ... One world

The dogs of war won't negotiate

The dogs of war don't capitulate,

They will take and you will give,

And you must die so that they may live

You can knock at any door,

But wherever you go, you know they've been there before

Well winners can lose and things can get strained

But whatever you change, you know the dogs remain.

One world, it's a battleground

One world, and we will smash it down

One world ... One world

Artist: Pink Floyd

Song: Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert

Album: The Final Cut

Producer: Roger Waters, James Guthrie, Michael Kamen

Year: 1983

Label: Capitol Records

Genre: Rock

URL:

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

Lyrics:

http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/Pink-Floyd/Get-Your-Filthy-Hands-Off-My-Desert.html

brezhnev took afghanistan

begin took beirut

galtieri took the union jack

and maggie over lunch one day

took a cruiser with all hands

apparently to make him give it back

Artist: Pink Floyd

Song: The Fletcher Memorial Home

Album: The Final Cut

Producer: Roger Waters, James Guthrie and Michael Kamen

Year: 1983

Label: Capitol Records

Genre: Rock

URL: http://www.amazon.com/Final-Cut-Pink-Floyd/dp/B000002C1V

Lyrics: http://www.pinkfloyd-co.com/disco/etbopf/etbopf_songs.html

Take all your overgrown infants away somewhere
And build them a home
A little place of their own
The fletcher memorial home for incurable tyrants and kings
They can appear to themselves every day
On closed circuit tv
To make sure they're still real
It's the only connection they feel
"Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome Reagan and Haig, Mr. Begin and friend Mrs. Thatcher and Paisley, Mr. Brezhnev and party
The ghost of McCarthy
And the memories of Nixon
And now adding colour a group of anonymous Latin American
meat packing glitterati"
Did they expect us to treat them with any respect They can polish their medals and sharpen their smiles And amuse themselves playing games for a while
Boom boom, bang bang lie down you're dead Safe in the permanent gaze of a cold glass eye
Their favourite toy
They'll be good girls and boys
In the fletcher memorial home for colonial wasters of life and limb Is everyone in?
Are you having a nice time?
now the final solution can be applied

Artist: Pink Floyd

Song: The Gunner’s Dream

Album: The Final Cut

Producer: Roger Waters, James Guthrie and Michael Kamen

Year: 1983

Label: Capitol Records

Genre: Rock

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97LL7WuXFk8

Lyrics: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/pinkfloyd/gunnersdream.html

floating down through the clouds

memories come rushing up to meet me now

in the space between the heavens

and in the corner of some foreign field

i had a dream

goodbye max

goodbye ma

after the service when you're walking slowly to the car

and the silver in her hair shines in the cold november air

you hear the tolling bell

and touch the silk in your lapel

and as the tear drops rise to meet the comfort of the band

you take her frail hand

and hold on to the dream

a place to stay

enough to eat

somewhere old heroes shuffle safely down the street

where you can speak out loud

about your doubts and fears

and what's more no-one ever disappears

you never hear their standard issue kicking in your door

you can relax on both sides of the tracks

and maniacs don't blow holes in bandsmen by remote control

and everyone has recourse to the law

and no-one kills the children anymore

night after night

going round and round my brain

his dream is driving me insane

in the corner of some foreign field

the gunner sleeps tonight

what's done is done

we cannot just write off his final scene

take heed of the dream

take heed

Artist: Pink Floyd

Song: Two Suns in the Sunset

Album: The Final Cut

Producer: Roger Waters, James Guthrie and Michael Kamen

Year: 1983

Label: Capitol Records

Genre: Rock

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ox2B0VLXPQs

Lyrics: http://www.pink-floyd-lyrics.com/html/two-suns-final-lyrics.html

In my rear view mirror the sun is going down
Sinking behind bridges in the road
And I think of all the good things
That we have left undone
And I suffer premonitions
Confirm suspicions
Of the holocaust to come.

The wire that holds the cork
That keeps the anger in
Gives way
And suddenly it's day again.
The sun is in the east
Even though the day is done.
Two suns in the sunset
Hmmmmmmmmmm
Could be the human race is run.

Like the moment when the brakes lock
And you slide towards the big truck
"Oh no!"
"[scream] Daddy, Daddy!"
You stretch the frozen moments with your fear.
And you'll never hear their voices
And you'll never see their faces
You have no recourse to the law anymore.

And as the windshield melts
My tears evaporate
Leaving only charcoal to defend.
Finally I understand the feelings of the few.
Ashes and diamonds
Foe and friend
We were all equal in the end.

"...and now the weather. Tomorrow will be cloudy with scattered showers
spreading from the east ... with an expected high of 4000 degrees
Celsius

Artist: Pink Floyd

Song: Us and Them

Album: Us and Them: Symphonic Pink Floyd

Producer: Martin Glover

Year: 1995

Label: Philips

Genre: Rock

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biCG_5qvyfM

Lyrics: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/p/pink+floyd/us+them_20108709.html

Us, and them
And after all were only ordinary men.
Me, and you.
God only knows its 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 its only round and round.
Havent you heard its a battle of words
The poster bearer cried.
Listen son, said the man with the gun
Theres room for you inside.

I mean, theyre not gunna kill ya, so if you give em a quick short,
Sharp, shock, they wont do it again. dig it? I mean he get off
Lightly, cos I wouldve given him a thrashing - I only hit him once!
It was only a difference of opinion, but really...i mean good manners
Dont cost nothing do they, eh?

Down and out
It cant be helped but theres a lot of it about.
With, without.
And wholl deny its what the fightings all about?
Out of the way, its a busy day
Ive got things on my mind.
For the want of the price of tea and a slice
The old man died.

Artist: Pink Floyd

Song: Waiting for the Worms

Album: The Wall

Producer: Bob Ezrin, David Gilmour, James Guthrie and Roger Waters

Year: 1979

Label: Columbia

Genre: Rock

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bDY0DfEjmo

Lyrics: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/pinkfloyd/waitingfortheworms.html

Ooooh you cannot reach me now

Ooooh no matter how you try

Goodbye cruel world it's over

Walk on by

Sitting in a bunker here behind my wall

Waiting for the worms to come

In perfect isolation here behind my wall

Waiting for the worms to come

Waiting to cut out the deadwood

Waiting to clean up the city

Waiting to follow the worms

Waiting to put on a black shirt

Waiting to weed out the weaklings

Waiting to smash in their windows

And kick in their doors

Waiting for the final solution

To strengthen the strain

Waiting to follow the worms

Waiting to turn on the showers v And fire the ovens

Waiting for the queers and the coons

And the reds and the Jews

Waiting to follow the worms

Would you like to see Britannia

Rule again my friend

All you have to do is follow the worms

Would you like to send our coloured cousins

Home again my friend

All you need to do is follow the worms.

The Police

Murder by Numbers

Artist: The Police

Song: Murder by Numbers

Album: Synchronicity

Producer: Hugh Padgham

Year: 1983

Label: A&M

Genre: Rock

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDx6YmUx9uc

Lyrics: http://www.sing365.com/music/Lyric.nsf/Murder-By-Numbers-lyrics-Sting-Police/9952844A4DD62BDD48256874003498B0

Once that you've decided on a killing
First you make a stone of your heart
And if you find that your hands are still willing
Then you can turn a murder into art

There really isn't any need for bloodshed
You just do it with a little more finesse
If you can slip a tablet into someone's coffee
Then it avoids an awful lot of mess

It's murder by numbers, one, two, three
It's as easy to learn as your ABC
Murder by numbers, one, two, three
It's as easy to learn as your ABC

Now if you have a taste for this experience
And you're flushed with your very first success
Then you must try a twosome or a threesome
And you'll find your conscience bothers you much less

Because murder is like anything you take to
It's a habit-forming need for more and more
You can bump off every member of your family
And anybody else you find a bore

Because it's murder by numbers, one, two, three
It's as easy to learn as your ABC
Murder by numbers, one, two, three
It's as easy to learn as your ABC

Now you can join the ranks of the illustrious
In history's great dark hall of fame
All our greatest killers were industrious
At least the ones that we all know by name

But you can reach the top of your profession
If you become the leader of the land
For murder is the sport of the elected
And you don't need to lift a finger of your hand

Because it's murder by numbers, one, two, three
It's as easy to learn as your ABC
Murder by numbers, one, two, three
It's as easy to learn as your A, B, C, D, E

Primal Scream

Rise

Artist: Primal Scream

Song: Rise

Album: Live in Japan

Producer: n/a

Year: 2005

Label: Sony

Genre: Rock

URL: n/a

Lyrics: http://www.actionext.com/names_p/primal_scream_lyrics/rise.html

A life of work, is a life of crime
You pay your taxes, you serve your time
All that money, where does it go?
Schools, prisons, hospitals, roads
Government funding of military science
Genetically engineered ultraviolent
DNA, killer genes
To program microchips, marines
See stealth bombers and tomahawks
On CNN, pay-per-view war

RISE, RISE
RISE, RISE

Hey wage slave where's your profit share?
They got ya down they're gonna keep you there
Freeze your mind, metamorphose
Cocaine karma in the heroin zone
Multinational life is cheap
Soldiers, workers, maggots meat
Get on up, protest riot
Are you collateral damage or a legitimate target?

RISE, RISE
RISE, RISE

Sweet sixteen dehumanized
Deaths head factory suicide
Sweet sixteen dehumanized
Deaths head factory suicide
Sweet sixteen dehumanized
Deaths head factory suicide
Sweet sixteen dehumanized
Deaths head factory suicide

RISE, RISE
RISE, RISE

Rage Against the Machine

Maria

People of the Sun

Vietnow

Artist: Rage Against the Machine

Song: Maria

Album: Battle of Los Angeles

Producer: Brenden O’Brien, Rage Against the Machine

Year: 1998

Label: Epic

Genre: Rock

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eL7vQ4lDVY

Lyrics: click link for lyrics

Tha sun ablaze as Maria's foot

Touches tha surface of sand

On northern land

As human contraband

Some rico from Jalisco

Passed her name to tha boss

She stuffed ten to a truckbed

She clutches her cross

Here comes tha exhaust

And it rips through her lungs

She's off fast to tha pasture

Like cattle she'll cross

Degree 106

Sweat and vomit are thrown

And she prays and suffocates

Upon tha memories of home

Of Yanqui guns for blood debts on tha loans

Of smoldering fields rape rubble and bones

Of graves hidden trapped up in visions of war

Of nothing no one nobody no more

These are her mountains and skies and she radiates

And through history's rivers of blood she regenerates

And like tha sun disappears only to reappear

She's eternally here

Her time is near

Never conquered but here

To tear away at tha mask

And now she got a quota

Tha needle and thread crucifixion

Sold and shipped across tha new line of Mason Dixon

Rippin' through denim

Tha point an inch from her vein

Tha foreman approach

His steps now pound in her brain

His presence it terrifies

And eclipses her days

No minutes to rest

No moment to pray

And with a whisper

He whips her

Her soul chained to his will

"My job is to kill if you forget to take your pill"

Her arms jerks

Tha sisters gather round her and scream

As if in a dream

Eyes on tha crimson stream

Numb as her wrists spit shots of blood to tha floor

Of nothing no one nobody no more

These are her mountains and skies and she radiates

And through history's rivers of blood she regenerates

And like tha sun disappears only to reappear

Maria she's eternally here

Her time is near

Never conquered but here

Artist: Rage Against the Machine

Song: People of the Sun

Album: Evil Empire

Producer: Brenden O’Brien

Year: 1996

Label: Sony

Genre: Rock

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hQgCJGNspI

Lyrics: http://www.ratm.net/lyrics/peo.html

Yeah people come up

Yeah, we better turn tha bass up on this one

Check it, since 1516 minds attacked and overseen

Now crawl amidst the ruins of this empty dream

Wit their borders and boots on top of us

Pullin' knobs on the floor of their toxic metropolis

But how you gonna get what you need ta get?

Tha gut eaters, blood drenched get offensive like Tet

Tha fifth sun sets get back reclaim

Tha spirit of Cuahtemoc alive an untamed

Now face tha funk now blastin' out ya speaker, on tha one Maya, Mexica

That vulture came ta try and steal ya name

But now you got a gun, yeah this is for the people of the sun

It's comin' back around again!

This is for the people of the sun!

It's comin' back around again! Uh!

It's comin' back around again!

This is for the people of the sun!

It's comin' back around again! Uh!

Yeah, neva forget that tha wip snapped ya back

Ya spine cracked for tobacco, oh I'm the Marlboro man, uh

Our past blastin' on through the verses

Brigades of taxi cabs rollin' Broadway like hearses

Troops strippin' zoots, shots of red mist,

Sailors blood on tha deck, come sista resist

From tha era of terror check this photo lens,

Now tha city of angels does the ethnic cleanse

Uh, heads bobbin' to tha funk out ya speaker, on tha one Maya, Mexica

That vulture came to try and steal ya name

But now you found a gun, you're history, this is for the people of the sun

It's comin' back around again!

This is for the people of the sun!

It's comin' back around again! Yeah!

It's comin' back around again!

This is for the people of the sun!

It's comin' back around again!

This is for the people of the sun!

It's comin' back around again!

This is for the people of the sun!

It's comin' back around!

Of the sun

Artist: Rage Against the Machine

Song: Vietnow

Album: Evil Empire

Producer: Brenden O’Brien

Year: 1996

Label: Sony

Genre: Rock

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkJzXLL4890

Lyrics:

http://www.lyricsfreak.com/r/rage+against+the+machine/vietnow_20113437.html

(ch) turn on tha radio, nah fuck it

Turn it off, fear is your only god

On tha radio, na fuck it, turn it off

Turn on tha radio, nah fuck it

Turn it off, fear is your only god

On tha radio, nah fuck it

Your saviors my guillotine, crosses

And kerosine

Merge on tha networks, slangin nerve gas

Up jump tha boogie then bang,

Let em hang

While the paranoid try to stuff tha void

Lets capture this am mayhem

Undressed, and blessed by tha lord

Tha power pendulum swings by thaumbilical cord

Shcok around tha clock, from noon

til noon

Men grabbin they mics, and stuff em into tha

Womb

Terror tha product ya push

Well Im a truth addict, ioh shit I got a head

Rush

Tha sheep tremble an here come tha votes

Thrown from tha throat, new cages an scapegoats

Undressen and blessed by tha lord

Tha same devil that ran around managua wit a

Sword

Check tha new style that ollie found

I tune in wit a bullet ta shut down

Tha devil sound

Tha program of vietnow

Flex tha cerebellum fire

Somebody gotta shell em

Those evil angels lists, hittin tha am

Playlist, paid ta say this

That one inhuman, illegal, single woman, tha one

Wit out a room

The transmissions wippin our backs

Comin down like bats from stacy coon

Terror, tha product you push

Well I am a truth addict, oh shit I got a head

Rush

Tha sheeps tremble an here come tha votes

Thrown from tha troat, new cage and scapegoats

One caution tha mics a detonator unwound ta

Shutdown tha devil sound

Check tha heads bow in vietnow

Is all tha world jails and churches?

Rolling Stones

Gimme Shelter

Artist: Rolling Stones

Song: Gimme Shelter

Album: Let It Bleed

Producer: Jimmy Miller

Year: 1969

Label: Decca Records/ABKCO

Genre: Rock

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsFKbKk22SU

Lyrics:

http://www.lyricsfreak.com/r/rolling+stones/gimme+shelter_20117862.html

Oh, a storm is threatning
My very life today
If I dont get some shelter
Oh yeah, Im gonna fade away

War, children, its just a shot away
Its just a shot away
War, children, its just a shot away
Its just a shot away

Ooh, see the fire is sweepin
Our very street today
Burns like a red coal carpet
Mad bull lost its way

War, children, its just a shot away
Its just a shot away
War, children, its just a shot away
Its just a shot away

Rape, murder!
Its just a shot away
Its just a shot away

Rape, murder!
Its just a shot away
Its just a shot away

Rape, murder!
Its just a shot away
Its just a shot away

The floods is threatning
My very life today
Gimme, gimme shelter
Or Im gonna fade away

War, children, its just a shot away
Its just a shot away
Its just a shot away
Its just a shot away
Its just a shot away
I tell you love, sister, its just a kiss away
Its just a kiss away
Its just a kiss away
Its just a kiss away
Its just a kiss away
Kiss away, kiss away

Rush

Heresy

Manhattan Project

Peaceable Kingdom

Artist: Rush

Song: Heresy

Album: Roll the Bones

Producer: Rupert Hine and Rush

Year: 1991

Label: Atlantic

Genre: Rock

URL: http://www.amazon.com/Roll-Bones-Rush/dp/B000002IRM

Lyrics: http://www.asklyrics.com/display/Rush/Heresy_Lyrics/174736.htm

All around that dull gray world

From moscow to berlin

People storm the barricades

Walls go tumbling in

The counter-revolution

People smiling through their tears

Who can give them back their lives

And all those wasted years?

All those precious wasted years --

Who will pay?

All around that dull gray world

Of ideology

People storm the marketplace

And buy up fantasy

The counter-revolution

At the counter of a store

People buy the things they want

And borrow for a little more

All those wasted years

All those precious wasted years

Who will pay?

Do we have to be forgiving at last?

What else can we do?

Do we have to say goodbye to the past?

Yes I guess we do

All around this great big world

All the crap we had to take

Bombs and basement fallout shelters

All our lives at stake

The bloody revolution

All the warheads in it’s wake

All the fear and suffering

All a big mistake

All those wasted years

All those precious wasted years

Who will pay?

Artist: Rush

Song: Manhattan Project

Album: Power Windows

Producer: Peter Collins, Rush

Year: 1985

Label: Mercury Records

Genre: Rock

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4zP7l2NFKs

Lyrics: http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/Rush/Manhattan-Project.html

Imagine a time when it all began
In the dying days of a war
A weapon that would settle the score
Whoever found it first would be sure to do their worst
They always had before...

Imagine a man where it all began
A scientist pacing the floor
In each nation, always eager to explore
To build the best big stick
To turn the winning trick
But this was something more...

[Chorus:]
The big bang took and shook the world
Shot down the rising sun
The end was begun and it hit everyone
When the chain reaction was done
The big shots tried to hold it back
Fools tried to wish it away
The hopeful depend on a world without end
Whatever the hopeless may say

Imagine a place where it all began
Gathered from across the land
To work in the secrecy of the desert sand
All of the brightest boys
To play with the biggest toys
More than they bargained for...

[Chorus]

Imagine a man when it all began
The pilot of 'Enola Gay'
Flying out of the shockwave on that August day
All the powers that be, and the course of history
Would be changed forevermore...

Artist: Rush

Song: Peaceable Kingdom

Album: Vapor Trails

Producer: Rush, Paul Northfield

Year: 2002

Label: Anthem/Atlantic Records

Genre: Rock

URL: http://www.amazon.com/Vapor-Trails-Rush/dp/B000065DTE

Lyrics: http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/Rush/Peaceable-Kingdom.html

A wave toward the clearing the sky

All this time we're talking and sharing our rational view
A billion other voices are spreading other news
All this time we're living and trying to understand
Why a billion other choices are making their demands

Talk of a peaceable kingdom
Talk of a time without fear
The ones we wish would listen
Are never going to hear

Justice against the hanged man
Knight of Wands against the hour
Swords against the kingdom
Time against the tower

All this time we're shuffling and laying out all our cards
While a billion other dealers are slipping past our guards
All this time we're hoping and praying we all might learn
While a billion other teachers are teaching them how to burn

Dream of a peaceable kingdom
Dream of a time without war
The ones we wish would hear us
Have heard it all before

A wave toward the clearing sky
A wave toward the clearing sky

The hermit against the lovers
Or the devil against the fool
Swords against the kingdom
The wheel against the rules

All this time we're burning like bonfires in the dark
A billion other blazes are shooting off their sparks
Every spark a drifting ember of desire
To fall upon the earth and spark another fire

A homeward angel on the fly
A wave toward the clearing sky

Paul Simon

Homeless

Artist: Paul Simon

Song: Homeless

Album: Graceland

Producer: Roy Halee, Paul Simon

Year: 1986

Label: Warner Bros/Wea

Genre: Rock

URL: http://www.amazon.com/Graceland-Paul-Simon/dp/B000002NBY

Lyrics: http://www.lyricsdepot.com/paul-simon/homeless.html

Emaweni webaba
Silale maweni
Webaba silale maweni
Webaba silale maweni
Webaba silale maweni
Webaba silale maweni
Webaba silale maweni
Webaba silale maweni
Webaba silale maweni
Webaba silale maweni
Webaba silale maweni

Homeless, homeless
Moonlight sleeping on a midnight lake
Homeless, homeless
Moonlight sleeping on a midnight lake
We are homeless, we are homeless
The moonlight sleeping on a midnight lake
And we are homeless, homeless, homeless
The moonlight sleeping on a midnight lake

Zio yami, zio yami, nhliziyo yami
Nhliziyo yami amakhaza asengi bulele
Nhliziyo yami, nhliziyo yami
Nhliziyo yami, angibulele amakhaza
Nhliziyo yami, nhliziyo yami
Nhliziyo yami somandla angibulele mama
Zio yami, nhliziyo yami
Nhliziyo yami, nhliziyo yami

Too loo loo, too loo loo
Too loo loo loo loo loo loo loo loo loo
Too loo loo, too loo loo
Too loo loo loo loo loo loo loo loo loo

Strong wind destroy our home
Many dead, tonight it could be you
Strong wind, strong wind
Many dead, tonight it could be you

And we are homeless, homeless
Moonlight sleeping on a midnight lake
Homeless, homeless
Moonlight sleeping on a midnight lake
Homeless, homeless
Moonlight sleeping on a midnight lake

Somebody say ih hih ih hih ih
Somebody sing hello, hello, hello
Somebody say ih hih ih hih ih
Somebody cry why, why, why?
Somebody say ih hih ih hih ih
Somebody sing hello, hello, hello
Somebody say ih hih ih hih ih
Somebody cry why, why, why?
Somebody say ih hih ih hih ih

Yitho omanqoba (ih hih ih hih ih) yitho omanqoba
Esanqoba lonke ilizwe
(ih hih ih hih ih) Yitho omanqoba (ih hih ih hih ih)
Esanqoba phakathi e England
Yitho omanqoba
Esanqoba phakathi e London
Yitho omanqoba
Esanqoba phakathi e England

Somebody say ih hih ih hih ih
Somebody sing hello, hello, hello
Somebody say ih hih ih hih ih
Somebody cry why, why, why?
Somebody say ih hih ih hih ih
Somebody sing hello, hello, hello
Somebody say ih hih ih hih ih
Somebody cry why, why, why?

Kuluman
Kulumani, Kulumani sizwe
Singenze njani
Baya jabula abasi thanda yo
Ho

Patti Smith

Qana

Without Chains

Artist: Patti Smith

Song: Qana

Album: Single

Producer: Patti Smith

Year: 2006

Label: N/A

Genre: Rock

URL: http://www.pattismith.net/audio/qana.mp3

Lyrics: http://www.lyricstime.com/patti-smith-qana-lyrics.html

There's no one

In the village

Not a human

Nor a stone

There's no one

In the village

Children are gone

And a mother rocks

Herself to sleep

Let it come down

Let her weep

The dead lay in strange shapes

Some stay buried

Others crawl free

Baby didn't make it

Screaming debris

And a mother rocks

Herself to sleep

Let it come down

Let her weep

The dead lay in strange shapes

Limp little dolls

Caked in mud

Small, small hands

Found in the road

Their talking about

War aims

What a phrase

Bombs that fall

American made

The new middle east

The rice woman squeaks

The dead lay in strange shapes

Little bodies

Tied head and feet

Wrapped in plastic

Laid out in the street

The new middle east

The rice woman squeaks

The dead lay in strange shapes

Water to wine

Wine to blood

Ahh qana

The miracle

Is love

Artist: Patti Smith

Song: Without Chains

Album: Single

Producer: Patti Smith

Year: 2006

Label: N/A

Genre: Rock

URL: http://pattismith.net/audio/Without_Chains.mp3

Lyrics: http://www.pattismith.net/news.html

For four long years

I wasn't a man

dreaming chained

with the lights on

in another world

a netherworld

four long years

with nothing

to say

thoughts impure

at Guantanamo Bay

now I'm learning

to walk

without chains

I'm learning

to walk

without chains

learning to walk

without chains

born in bremen

played guitar

a young apprentice

building ships

loved and married

heard the call

is attaining wisdom

a pursuit of fools

journeyed to Pakistan

to breathe the Koran

taken in custody

no reason why

then a prison camp

as an enemy

Combatant

(Chorus)

Languished in a cell

Four years and a day

Then flown home

A version of free

Chained to the floor

With eyes bound

One last humiliation

left to endure

they say I walk

strange

that may be so

its been a long time

since I walked at all

now I'm learning

to walk

without chains

to talk

without chains

to breathe

without chains

to love etc...

without chains

Bruce Springsteen

41 Shots/American Skin

Born in the USA

Empty Sky

Into the Fire

Murder Incorporated

Nebraska

The Rising

We Shall Overcome

Artist: Bruce Springsteen

Song: American Skin (41 Shots)

Album: The Essential Bruce Springsteen

Producer: Bruce Springsteen

Year: 2003

Label: Columbia Records

Genre: Rock

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jc-0aqVfrE

Lyrics: http://www.brucespringsteen.net/songs/AmericanSkin.html

41 shots
41 shots
41 shots
41 shots
41 shots
41 shots
41 shots
41 shots....
and we'll take that ride
'cross this bloody river
to the other side
41 shots... cut through the night
You're kneeling over his body in the vestibule
Praying for his life

Is it a gun, is it a knife
Is it a wallet, this is your life
It ain't no secret
It ain't no secret
No secret my friend
You can get killed just for living
In your American skin

41 shots
Lena gets her son ready for school
She says "on these streets, Charles
You've got to understand the rules
If an officer stops you
Promise you'll always be polite,
that you'll never ever run away
Promise Mama you'll keep your hands in sight"

Is it a gun, is it a knife
Is it a wallet, this is your life
It ain't no secret
It ain't no secret
No secret my friend
You can get killed just for living
In your American skin

Is it a gun, is it a knife
Is it in your heart, is it in your eyes
It ain't no secret

41 shots... and we'll take that ride
'Cross this bloody river
To the other side
41 shots... got my boots caked in this mud
We're baptized in these waters and in each other's blood

Is it a gun, is it a knife
Is it a wallet, this is your life
It ain't no secret
It ain't no secret
No secret my friend
You can get killed just for living
In your American skin

Artist: Bruce Springsteen

Song: Born in the USA

Album: Born in the USA

Producer: Jon Landau, Chuck Plotkin, Bruce Springsteen, Steve Van Zandt

Year: 1984

Label: Columbia

Genre: Rock

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPudiBR15mk

Lyrics: http://www.brucespringsteen.net/songs/BornInTheUSA.html

Born down in a dead man's town

The first kick I took was when I hit the ground

You end up like a dog that's been beat too much

Till you spend half your life just covering up

Born in the U.S.A.

I was born in the U.S.A.

Born in the U.S.A.

Got in a little hometown jam

So they put a rifle in my hand

Sent me off to a foreign land

To go and kill the yellow man

Born in the U.S.A.

I was born in the U.S.A.

Born in the U.S.A.

Come back home to the refinery

Hiring man says "Son if it was up to me"

Went down to see my V.A. man

He said "Son, don't you understand"

I had a brother at Khe Sahn fighting off the Viet Cong

They're still there, he's all gone

He had a woman he loved in Saigon

I got a picture of him in her arms now

Down in the shadow of the penitentiary

Out by the gas fires of the refinery

I'm ten years burning down the road

Nowhere to run ain't got nowhere to go

Born in the U.S.A.

I was born in the U.S.A.

Born in the U.S.A.

I'm a long gone Daddy in the U.S.A.

Born in the U.S.A.

I'm a cool rocking Daddy in the U.S.A.

Artist: Bruce Springsteen

Song: Empty Sky

Album: The Rising

Producer: Brendan O’Brien

Year: 2002

Label: Columbia

Genre: Rock

URL: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI2_NPG58Vw

Lyrics: http://www.actionext.com/names_b/bruce_springsteen_lyrics/empty_sky.html

I woke up this morning
I could barely breathe
Just an empty impression
In the bed there you used to be
I want a kiss from your lips
I want an eye for an eye
I woke up this morning to an empty sky

Empty sky, empty sky
I woke up this morning to an empty sky
Empty sky, empty sky
I woke up this morning to an empty sky

Blood on the streets
Blood flowin' down
I hear the blood of my blood
Cryin' from the ground

Empty sky, empty sky
I woke up this morning to an empty sky
Empty sky, empty sky
I woke up this morning to an empty sky

On the plains of Jordan
I cut my bow from the wood
Of this tree of evil
Of this tree of good
I want a kiss from your lips
I want an eye for an eye
I woke up this morning to the empty sky

Artist: Bruce Springsteen

Song: Into the Fire

Album: The Rising

Producer: Brendan O’Brien

Year: 2002

Label: Columbia

Genre: Rock

URL: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AduIo0iHGDE

Lyrics: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/b/bruce+springsteen/into+the+fire_20025188.html

The sky was falling and streaked with blood
I heard you calling me, then you disappeared into the dust
Up the stairs, into the fire
Up the stairs, into the fire
I need your kiss, but love and duty called you someplace higher
Somewhere up the stairs, into the fire

May your strength give us strength
May your faith give us faith
May your hope give us hope
May your love give us love

May your strength give us strength
May your faith give us faith
May your hope give us hope
May your love give us love

You gave your love to see, in fields of red and autumn brown
You gave your love to me and lay your young body down
Up the stairs, into the fire
Up the stairs, into the fire
I need you near, but love and duty called you someplace higher
Somewhere up the stairs, into the fire

May your strength give us strength
May your faith give us faith
May your hope give us hope
May your love give us love

May your strength give us strength
May your faith give us faith
May your hope give us hope
May your love give us love

May your strength give us strength
May your faith give us faith
May your hope give us hope
May your love give us love

It was dark, too dark to see, you held me in the light you gave
You lay your hand on me
Then walked into the darkness of your smoky grave
Up the stairs, into the fire
Up the stairs, into the fire
I need your kiss, but love and duty called you someplace higher
Somewhere up the stairs, into the fire

May your strength give us strength
May your faith give us faith
May your hope give us hope
May your love give us love

May your strength give us strength
May your faith give us faith
May your hope give us hope
May your love give us love

May your strength give us strength
May your faith give us faith
May your hope give us hope
May your love give us love

May your strength give us strength
May your faith give us faith
May your hope give us hope
May your love give us love

May your love bring us love

Artist: Bruce Springsteen

Song: Murder Incorporated

Album: Greatest Hits

Producer: Bruce Springsteen

Year: 1995

Label: Columbia Records

Genre: Folk

URL: www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6Ri8nKwUmM

Lyrics: http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/Bruce-Springsteen/Murder-Incorporated.html

Bobby's got a gun that he keeps beneath his pillow (oh yeah)
Out on the street your chances are zero (oh yeah)
Take a look around you (come on down)
It ain't too complicated
You're messin' with Murder Incorporated

Now you check over your shoulder everywhere that you go (oh yeah)
Walkin' down the street, there's eyes in every shadow (oh yeah)
You better take a look around you (come on down)
That equipment you got's so outdated
You can't compete with Murder Incorporated
Everywhere you look now there's Murder Incorporated

So you keep a little secret down deep inside your dresser drawer
From dealing with the heat you're feelin' down on the killin' floor
No matter where you step you feel you're never out of danger
So the comfort that you keep's a gold-plated snub-nose thirty-two
I heard that you

You got a job downtown, man it leaves your head cold (oh yea)
And everywhere you look life ain't got no soul (oh yeah)
That apartment you live in feels like it's just a place to hide
When your walkin' down the streets you won't meet no one eye to eye
Now the cops reported you as just another homicide
I can tell that you was just frustrated
from livin' with Murder Incorporated

Incorporated
Everywhere you look now
Murder Incorporated
Down on your knees
Murder Incorporated
Everywhere that you turn it's murder Incorporated

Artist: Bruce Springsteen

Song: Nebraska

Album: Nebraska

Producer: Bruce Springsteen

Year: 1982

Label: Columbia Records

Genre: Folk

URL: http://www.amazon.com/Nebraska-Bruce-Springsteen/dp/B0000025T6

Lyrics: http://www.xs4all.nl/~maroen/engels/lyrics/nebraska.htm

I saw her standin' on her front lawn just twirlin' her baton
Me and her went for a ride sir and ten innocent people died

From the town of Lincoln Nebraska with a sawed off .410 on my lap
Through to the badlands of Wyoming I killed everything in my path

I can't say that I'm sorry for the things that we done
At least for a little while sir me and her we had us some fun

The jury brought in a guilty verdict and the judge he sentenced me to death
Midnight in a prison storeroom with leather straps across my chest

Sheriff when the man pulls that switch sir and snaps my poor head back
You make sure my pretty baby is sittin' right there on my lap

They declared me unfit to live said into that great void my soul'd be hurled
They wanted to know why I did what I did
Well sir I guess there's just a meanness in this world

Artist: Bruce Springsteen

Song: The Rising

Album: The Rising

Producer: Brendan O’Brien

Year: 2002

Label: Columbia

Genre: Rock

URL: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QdQ2SgfyeI

Lyrics: http://www.lyred.com/lyrics/Bruce+Springsteen/The+Rising/The+Rising/

Can't see nothin' in front of me
Can't see nothin' coming up behind
I make my way through this darkness
I can't feel nothing but this chain that binds me
Lost track of how far I've gone
How far I've gone, how high I've climbed
On my back's a sixty pound stone
On my shoulder a half mile of line

Come on up for the rising
Come on up, lay your hands in mine
Come on up for the rising
Come on up for the rising tonight

Left the house this morning
Bells ringing filled the air
Wearin' the cross of my calling
On wheels of fire I come rollin' down here

Come on up for the rising
Come on up, lay your hands in mine
Come on up for the rising
Come on up for the rising tonight

Li,li, li,li,li,li, li,li,li

There's spirits above and behind me
Faces gone black, eyes burnin' bright
May their precious blood bind me
Lord, as I stand before your fiery light

Li,li, li,li,li,li, li,li,li

I see you Mary in the garden
In the garden of a thousand sighs
There's holy pictures of our children
Dancin' in a sky filled with light
May I feel your arms around me
May I feel your blood mix with mine
A dream of life comes to me
Like a catfish dancin' on the end of my line

Sky of blackness and sorrow ( a dream of life)
Sky of love, sky of tears (a dream of life)
Sky of glory and sadness ( a dream of life)
Sky of mercy, sky of fear ( a dream of life)
Sky of memory and shadow ( a dream of life)
Your burnin' wind fills my arms tonight
Sky of longing and emptiness (a dream of life)
Sky of fullness, sky of blessed life

Come on up for the rising
Come on up, lay your hands in mine
Come on up for the rising
Come on up for the rising tonight

Li,li, li,li,li,li, li,li,li

Artist: Bruce Springsteen (performing Pete Seeger)

Song: We Shall Overcome

Album: We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions

Producer: Bruce Springsteen, Jon Landau

Year: 2006

Label: Columbia

Genre: Folk

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

Lyrics: www.lyricsmania.com

We shall overcome

We shall overcome some day

Oh, deep in my heart

I do believe

We shall overcome some day

We'll walk hand in hand

We'll walk hand in hand some day

Oh, deep in my heart

I do believe

We shall overcome some day

We shall all be free

We shall all be free some day

Oh, deep in my heart

I do believe

We shall overcome some day

We are not afraid

We are not afraid some day

Oh, deep in my heart

I do believe

We shall overcome some day

We are not alone

We are not alone some day

Oh, deep in my heart

I do believe

We shall overcome some day

The whole wide world around

The whole wide world around some day

Oh, deep in my heart

I do believe

We shall overcome some day

We shall overcome

We shall overcome some day

Oh, deep in my heart

I do believe

We shall overcome some day

Artist: Bruce Springsteen

Song: You’re Missing

Album: The Rising

Producer: Brendan O’Brien

Year: 2002

Label: Columbia

Genre: Rock

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

Lyrics: http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/You're-Missing-lyrics-Bruce-Springsteen/C6F38558C33AAC4248256C0E000975E3

Shirts in the closet, shoes in the hall
Mama's in the kitchen, baby and all
Everything is everything
Everything is everything
But you're missing

Coffee cups on the counter, jackets on the chair
Papers on the doorstep, but you're not there
Everything is everything
Everything is everything
But you're missing

Pictures on the nightstand, TV's on in the den
Your house is waiting, your house is waiting
For you to walk in, for you to walk in
But you're missing, you're missing
You're missing when I shut out the lights
You're missing when I close my eyes
You're missing when I see the sun rise
You're missing

Children are asking if it's alright
Will you be in our arms tonight?

Morning is morning, the evening falls I got
Too much room in my bed, too many phone calls
How's everything, everything?
Everything, everything
but you're missing, you're missing

God's drifting in heaven, devil's in the mailbox
I got dust on my shoes, nothing but teardrops

Sting

History Will Teach Us Nothing

Russians

They Dance Alone

Artist: Sting

Song: History Will Teach Us Nothing

Producer: Sting, Hugh Padgham, Bryan Loren, Neil Dorfsman

Year: 1987

Label: A&M

Genre: Rock

URL:

http://www.amazon.com/History-Will-Teach-Us-Nothing/dp/B000W23878

Lyrics:

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/sting/historywillteachusnothing.html

If we seek solace in the prisons of the distant past

Security in human systems we're told will always always last

Emotions are the sail and blind faith is the mast

Without a breath of real freedom we're getting nowhere fast

If God is dead and an actor plays his part

His words of fear will find their way to a place in your heart

Without the voice of reason every faith is its own curse

Without freedom from the past things can only get worse

Sooner or later just like the world first day

Sooner or later we learn to throw the past away

Sooner or later just like the world first day

Sooner or later we learn to throw the past away

History will teach us nothing

Our written history is a catalogue of crime

The sordid and the powerful, the architects of time

The mother of invention, the oppression of the mild

The constant fear of scarcity, aggression as its child

Sooner or later

Convince an enemy, convince him that he's wrong

Is to win a bloodless battle where victory is long

A simple act of faith

In reason over might

To blow up his children will only prove him right

History will teach us nothing

Sooner or later the world first day

Sooner or later we learn to throw the past away

Sooner or later the world first day

Sooner or later we learn to throw the past away

History will teach us nothing

Know you human rights

Be what you come here for

Know your human rights

Be what you come here for

Know your human rights

Be what you come here for

Know your human rights

Be what you come here for

Artist: Sting

Song: Russians

Album: The Dream of the Blue Turtles

Producer: Sting, Peter Smith

Year: 1985

Label: A&M Records

Genre: Rock

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rk78eCIx4E

Lyrics: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/s/sting/russians_20132086.html

In europe and america, theres a growing feeling of hysteria
Conditioned to respond to all the threats
In the rhetorical speeches of the soviets
Mr. krushchev said we will bury you
I dont subscribe to this point of view
It would be such an ignorant thing to do
If the russians love their children too

How can I save my little boy from oppenheimers deadly toy
There is no monopoly in common sense
On either side of the political fence
We share the same biology
Regardless of ideology
Believe me when I say to you
I hope the russians love their children too

There is no historical precedent
To put the words in the mouth of the president
Theres no such thing as a winnable war
Its a lie that we dont believe anymore
Mr. reagan says we will protect you
I dont subscribe to this point of view
Believe me when I say to you
I hope the russians love their children too

We share the same biology
Regardless of ideology
What might save us, me, and you
Is that the russians love their children too

Artist: Sting

Song: They Dance Alone

Album: Nothing Like the Sun

Producer: Sting, Hugh Padgham, Bryan Loren, Neil Dorfsman

Year: 1987

Label: A&M

Genre: Rock

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

Lyrics: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/sting/theydancealone.html

Why are there women here dancing on their own?

Why is there this sadness in their eyes?

Why are the soldiers here

Their faces fixed like stone?

I can't see what it is that they dispise

They're dancing with the missing

They're dancing with the dead

They dance with the invisible ones

Their anguish is unsaid

They're dancing with their fathers

They're dancing with their sons

They're dancing with their husbands

They dance alone They dance alone

It's the only form of protest they're allowed

I've seen their silent faces scream so loud

If they were to speak these words they'd go missing too

Another woman on a torture table what else can they do

They're dancing with the missing

They're dancing with the dead

They dance with the invisible ones

Their anguish is unsaid

They're dancing with their fathers

They're dancing with their sons

They're dancing with their husbands

They dance alone They dance alone

One day we'll dance on their graves

One day we'll sing our freedom

One day we'll laugh in our joy

And we'll dance

One day we'll dance on their graves

One day we'll sing our freedom

One day we'll laugh in our joy

And we'll dance

Ellas danzan con los desaparecidos

Ellas danzan con los muertos

Ellas danzan con amores invisibles

Ellas danzan con silenciosa angustia

Danzan con sus pardres

Danzan con sus hijos

Danzan con sus esposos

Ellas danzan solas

Danzan solas

Hey Mr. Pinochet

You've sown a bitter crop

It's foreign money that supports you

One day the money's going to stop

No wages for your torturers

No budget for your guns

Can you think of your own mother

Dancin' with her invisible son

They're dancing with the missing

They're dancing with the dead

They dance with the invisible ones

They're anguish is unsaid

They're dancing with their fathers

They're dancing with their sons

They're dancing with their husbands

They dance alone

Cat Stevens

Peace Train

Artist: Cat Stevens

Song: Peace Train

Album: Teaser and the Firecat

Producer: Paul Samwell-Smith

Year: 1971

Label: A&M Records

Genre: Rock

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sjSHazjrWg

Lyrics: http://www.lyricsdepot.com/cat-stevens/peace-train.html

Now I've been happy lately
Thinking about the good things to come
And I believe it could be
Something good has begun
I've been smiling lately
Dreaming about the world as one
And I believe it could be
Something good's bound to come

For out on the edge of darkness
There runs the peace train
Peace train take this country
Come take me home again

Peace train sounding louder
Ride on the peace train
Hoo-ah-eeh-ah-hoo-ah
Come on the peace train
Peace train's a holy roller
Everyone jump upon the peace train
Hoo-ah-eeh-ah-hoo-ah
This is the peace train

Get your bags together
Come bring your good friends too
Because it's getting nearer
Soon it will be with you
Come and join the living
It's not so far from you
And it's getting nearer
Soon it will all be true

Peace train sounding louder
Ride on the peace train
Hoo-ah-eeh-ah-hoo-ah
Come on the peace train

I've been crying lately
Thinking about the world as it is
Why must we go on hating?
Why can't we live in bliss?

For out on the edge of darkness
There rides the peace train
Peace train take this country
Come take me home again

Peace train sounding louder
Ride on the peace train
Hoo-ah-eeh-ah-hoo-ah
Come on the peace train

Come on, come on, come on the peace train...

U2

Freedom for My People

Miss Sarajevo

One

Peace on Earth

Seconds

Sunday Bloody Sunday

The Refugee

Artist: U2

Song: Freedom for My People

Album: Rattle and Hum

Producer: Jimmy Iovine

Year: 1988

Label: Island

Genre: Rock

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDy-QI78mLI

Lyrics: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/u/u2/freedom+for+my+people_20141505.html

I need some freedom

Freedom for my people

I want some freedom

Freedom

Freedom, freedom for my people

Id like some freedom

I need some freedom for my people

Freedom

Freedom, freedom for my people

Artist: U2

Song: Miss Sarajevo

Album: Single by Passengers (renamed U2)

Producer: Brian Eno

Year: 1995

Label: Island

Genre: Rock

URL: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wX6c5als1lk

Lyrics: http://www.mp3lyrics.org/u/u2/miss-sarajevo/

Is there a time for
keeping a distance
A time to turn your eyes away
Is there a time for
keeping your head down
For getting on with your day

Is there a time for
kohl and lipstick
A time for cutting hair
Is there a time for high
street shopping
To find the right dress to wear

Here she comes
Heads turn around
Here she comes
To take her crown

Is there a time to walk for cover
A time for kiss and tell
Is there a time for
different colors
Different names you find
it hard to spell

Is there a time for
first communion
A time for east 17
[ Lyrics provided by www.mp3lyrics.org ]
Is there a time to turn the mecca
Is there a time to be
a beauty queen

Here she comes
Beauty plays the crown
Here she comes
Surreal in her crown

[ Pavarotti ]
Dici che il fiume
trova la via al mare
E come il fiume
giungerai a me
Oltre i confini
e le terre assetate
Dici che come fiume
come fiume
L'amore giunger
L'amore
E non so pi pregare
E nell'amore non so pi sperare
E quell'amore non so pi aspettare

[ English translation: ]

You say that the river
finds the way to the sea
And as the river
you'll come to me
Beyond the borders
and the thirsty lands
You say that as river
As river
Love will come
Love
And I cannot pray anymore
And I cannot hope in love anymore
And I cannot wait for love anymore

[ Bono ]
Is there a time for tying ribbons
A time for Christmas trees
Is there a time for laying tables
When the night is set to freeze

Artist: U2

Song: One

Album: Achtung Baby

Producer: Daniel Lanois, Brian Eno

Year: 1992

Label: Island

Genre: Rock

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFWPeVfWB9o

Lyrics: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/u/u2/one_20141388.html

Is it getting better

Or do you feel the same

Will it make it easier on you

Now you got someone to blame

You say

One love

One life

When its one need

In the night

Its one love

We get to share it

It leaves you baby

If you dont care for it

Did I disappoint you?

Or leave a bad taste in your mouth?

You act like you never had love

And you want me to go without

Well its too late

Tonight

To drag tha past out

Into the light

Were one

But were not the same

We get to carry each other

Carry each other

One

Have you come here for forgiveness

Have you come tor raise the dead

Havew you come here to play jesus

To the lepers in your head

Did I ask too much

More than a lot

You gave me nothing

Now its all I got

Were one

But were not the same

We hurt each other

Then we do it again

You say

Love is a temple

Love a higher law

Love is a temple

Love the higher law

You ask me to enter

But then you make me crawl

And I cant be holding on

To what you got

When all you got is hurt

One love

One blood

One life

You got to do what you should

One life

With each other

Sisters

Brothers

One life

But were not the same

We get to carry each other

Carry each other

One

One.

Artist: U2

Song: Peace On Earth

Album: All That You Can’t Leave Behind

Producer: Daniel Lanois, Brian Eno

Year: 2000

Label: Interscope Records

Genre: Rock

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBwrX1MingU

Lyrics: http://www.allspirit.co.uk/peaceonearth.html

Heaven on Earth, we need it now

I'm sick of all of this hanging around

Sick of sorrow, sick of the pain

I'm sick of hearing again and again

That there's gonna be peace on Earth

Where I grew up there weren't many trees

Where there was we'd tear them down

And use them on our enemies

They say that what you mock

Will surely overtake you

And you become a monster

So the monster will not break you

And it's already gone too far

Who said that if you go in hard

You won't get hurt?

Jesus can you take the time

To throw a drowning man a line

Peace on Earth

Tell the ones who hear no sound

Whose sons are living in the ground

Peace on Earth

No whos or whys

No one cries like a mother cries

For peace on Earth

She never got to say goodbye

To see the color in his eyes

Now he's in the dirt

Peace on Earth

They're reading names out over the radio

All the folks the rest of us won't get to know

Sean and Julia, Gareth and Ann and Breda

Their lives are bigger than any big idea

Jesus can you take the time

To throw a drowning man a line

Peace on Earth

To tell the ones who hear no sound

Whose sons are living in the ground

Peace on Earth

Jesus sing a song you wrote

The words are sticking in my throat

Peace on Earth

Hear it every Christmas time

But hope and history won't rhyme

So what's it worth

This peace on Earth

Peace on Earth

Artist: U2

Song: Seconds

Album: War

Producer: Steve Lillywhite

Year: 1982

Label: Island Records

Genre: Rock

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae1ZO1VhV1k

Lyrics: http://www.songmeanings.net/lyric.php?lid=36782

Takes a second to say goodbye

Say goodbye, oh, oh, oh

It takes a second to say goodbye

Say goodbye, oh, oh, oh, say bye bye

Where you going to now?

Lightning flashes across the sky

East to west, do or die

Like a thief in the night

See the world by candlelight

Fall, rise and

In an apartment on Time Square

You can assemble them anywhere

Held to ransom, hell to pay

A revolution everyday

USSR, GDR, London, New York, Peking

It's the puppets

It's the puppets who pull the strings

Fall, rise and

Say goodbye, say goodbye

Say goodbye

It takes a second to say goodbye

Say goodbye, oh, oh, oh

Push the button and pull the plug

Say goodbye, oh, oh, oh

Fall, rise and

And they're doing the atomic bomb

Do they know where the dance comes from?

Yes, they're doing the atomic bomb

They want you to sing along

Say goodbye, say goodbye

Artist: U2

Song: Sunday Bloody Sunday

Album: War

Producer: Steve Lillywhite

Year: 1982

Label: Island

Genre: Rock

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBit83NpvN0

Lyrics: http://www.metrolyrics.com/sunday-bloody-sunday-lyrics-paramore.html

I can't believe the news today

Oh, I can't close my eyes and make it go away

How long, how long must we sing this song?

How long, how long?

Tonight, we can be as one tonight

Broken bottles under children's feet

And bodies strewn across the dead end street

But I won't heed the battle call

It puts my back up

Puts my back up against the wall

Sunday, bloody Sunday

And the battle's just begun

There's many lost, but tell me who has won

The trench is dug within our hearts

And mothers, children, brothers, sisters torn apart

Sunday, bloody Sunday

How long, how long must we sing this song?

[Sunday Bloody Sunday lyrics on http://www.metrolyrics.com]

How long, how long?

And it's true we are immune

When fact is fiction and TV reality

And today the millions cry

We eat and drink while tomorrow they die, yeah

I wipe the tears from your eyes

I wipe your tears away

(Tonight, tonight)

I wipe your tears away

(Tonight, tonight)

I wipe your tears away

(Tonight, tonight)

I wipe your bloodshot eyes

(Tonight, tonight)

Sunday, bloody Sunday

(The real battle just begun)

Sunday, bloody Sunday

(To claim the victory Jesus won on...)

Sunday, bloody Sunday

Artist: U2

Song: The Refugee

Album: War

Producer: Steve Lillywhite

Year: 1982

Label: Island Records

Genre: Rock

URL: http://www.amazon.com/War-U2/dp/B000001F3C

Lyrics: http://www.macphisto.net/u2lyrics/The_Refugee.html

Oh, Oh

She's the refugee.

I see your face,

I see you staring back at me.

Oh, Oh

She's the refugee

Her mama say one day she's gonna

live in America.

In the morning,

She is waiting,

Waiting for the ship to sail,

Sail away.

Her papa go to war.

He gonna fight,

But he don't know what for.

Her papa go to war

Her mama say one day he's

gonna come back from far away.

Help me.

How can you help me?

In the evening,

She is waiting,

Waiting for her man to come.

And take her by her hand.

And take her to this promise land.

She's a pretty face,

But at the wrong time and at the wrong place.

She's a pretty face.

Her mama say one days she's gonna live in America.

Yeah, America.

She's a refugee.

She's coming amn, she's coming for company.

She's a refugee.

Her mama say one day she's gonna live in America.

Tom Waits

On the Road to Peace

The Day After Tomorrow

Artist: Tom Waits

Song: On the Road to Peace

Album: Orphans

Producer: Kathleen Brennan, Tom Waits

Year: 2006

Label: ANTI-

Genre: Rock

URL: http://www.amazon.com/Orphans-Deluxe-Limited-Bound-booklet/dp/B000ICLHIE/ref=pd_bxgy_m_img_a

Lyrics: http://www.oldielyrics.com/lyrics/tom_waits/road_to_peace.html

Young Abdel Mahdi (Shahmay) was only 18 years old,

He was the youngest of nine children, never spent a night away from home.

And his mother held his photograph, opening the New York Times

To see the killing has intensified along the road to peace

There was a tall, thin boy with a whispy moustache disguised as an orthodox Jew

On a crowded bus in Jerusalem, some had survived World War Two

And the thunderous explosion blew out windows 200 yards away

With more retribution and seventeen dead along the road to peace

Now at King George Ave and Jaffa Road passengers boarded bus 14a

In the aisle next to the driver Abdel Mahdi (Shahmay)

And the last thing that he said on earth is "God is great and God is good"

And he blew them all to kingdom come upon the road to peace

Now in response to this another kiss of death was visited upon

Yasser Taha, Israel says is an Hamas senior militant

And Israel sent four choppers in, flames engulfed, tears wide open

And it killed his wife and his three year old child leaving only blackened skeletons

It's found his toddlers bottle and a pair of small shoes and they waved them in front of the cameras

But Israel says they did not know that his wife and child were in the car

There are roadblocks everywhere and only suffering on TV

Neither side will ever give up their smallest right along the road to peace

Israel launched it's latest campaign against Hamas on Tuesday

Two days later Hamas shot back and killed five Israeli soldiers

So thousands dead and wounded on both sides most of them middle eastern civilians

They fill the children full of hate to fight an old man's war and die upon the road to peace

"And this is our land we will fight with all our force" say the Palastinians and the Jews

Each side will cut off the hand of anyone who tries to stop the resistance

If the right eye offends thee then you must pluck it out

And Mahmoud Abbas said Sharon had been lost out along the road to peace

Once Kissinger said "we have no friends, America only has interests"

Now our president wants to be seen as a hero and he's hungry for re-election

But Bush is reluctant to risk his future in the fear of his political failures

So he plays chess at his desk and poses for the press 10,000 miles from the road to peace

In the video that they found at the home of Abdel Mahdi (Shahmay)

He held a Kalashnikov rifle and he spoke with a voice like a boy

He was an excellent student, he studied so hard, it was as if he had a future

He told his mother that he had a test that day out along the road to peace

The fundamentalist killing on both sides is standing in the path of peace

But tell me why are we arming the Israeli army with guns and tanks and bullets?

And if God is great and God is good why can't he change the hearts of men?

Well maybe God himself is lost and needs help

Maybe God himself he needs all of our help

Maybe God himself is lost and needs help

He's out upon the road to peace

Well maybe God himself is lost and needs help

Maybe God himself he needs all of our help

And he's lost upon the road to peace

Out upon the road to peace.

Artist: Tom Waits

Song: The Day After Tomorrow

Album: Real Gone

Producer: Kathleen Brennan, Tom Waits

Year: 2004

Label: ANTI-

Genre: Rock

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odLFic4rNp4

Lyrics:

http://www.oldielyrics.com/lyrics/tom_waits/day_after_tomorrow.html

I got your letter today

And I miss you all so much, here

I can't wait to see you all

And I'm counting the days, dear

I still believe that there's gold

At the end of the world

And I'll come home

To Illinois

On the day after tomorrow

It is so hard

And it's cold here

And I'm tired of taking orders

And I miss old Rockford town

Up by the Wisconsin border

But I miss you won't believe

Shoveling snow and raking leaves

And my plane will touch tomorrow

On the day after tomorrow

I close my eyes

Every night

And I dream that I can hold you

They fill us full of lies

Everyone buys

About what it means to be a soldier

I still don't know how I'm supposed to feel

About all the blood that's been spilled

Look out on the street

Get me back home

On the day after tomorrow

You can't deny

The other side

Don't want to die

Any more than we do

What I'm trying to say,

Is don't they pray

To the same God that we do?

Tell me, how does God choose?

Whose prayers does he refuse?

Who turns the wheel?

And who throws the dice

On the day after tomorrow?

Mmmmmmm...

I'm not fighting

For justice

I am not fighting

For freedom

I am fighting

For my life

And another day

In the world here

I just do what I've been told

You're just the gravel on the road

And the one's that are lucky

One's come home

On the day after tomorrow

And the summer

It too will fade

And with it comes the winter's frost, dear

And I know we too are made

Of all the things that we have lost here

I'll be twenty-one today

I've been saving all my pay

And my plane will touch down

On the day after tomorrow

And my plane it will touch down

On the day after tomorrow

Roger Waters

Amused to Death

Leaving Beirut

To Kill the Child

Artist: Roger Waters

Song: Amused to Death

Album: Watching TV

Producer: Roger Waters, Nick Griffiths, Patrick Leonard

Year: 1992

Label: Columbia

Genre: Rock

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpz102bDzH4

Lyrics: http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=4282

We were watching TV

In Tiananmen Square

Lost my baby there

My yellow rose

In her bloodstained clothes

She was a short order pastry chef

In a Dim Sum dive on the Yangtze tideway

She had a shiny hair

She was a daughter of an engineer

Won't you shed a tear

For my yellow rose

My yellow rose

In her bloodstained clothes

She had a perfect breasts

She had high hopes

She had almond eyes

She had yellow thighs

She was a student of philosophy

Won't you grieve with me

For my yellow rose

Shed a tear

For her bloodstained clothes

She had shiny hair

She had perfect breasts

She had almond eyes

She had yellow thighs

She was a daughter af an engineer

So get out your pistols

Get out your stones

Get out your knives

Cut them to the bone

They are the lackeys of the grocer's machine

They built the dark satanic mills

That manufacture hell on earth

They bought the front row seats on Calvary

They are irrelevant to me

And I grieve for my sister

People of China

Do not forget do not forget

The children who died for you

Long live the Republic

Did we do anything after this

I've feeling we did

We were watching TV

Watching TV

We were watching TV

Watching TV

She wore a white bandanna that said

Freedom now

She thought the Great Wall of China

Would come tumbling down

She was a student

Her father was an engineer

Won't you shed a tear

For my yellow rose

My yellow rose

In her bloodstained clothes

Her grandpa fought old Chiang Kai-shek

That no-good low-down dirty rat

Who used to order his troops

To fire on women and children

Imagine that imagine that

And in the spring of'48

Mao Tse-tung got quite irate

And he kicked that old dictator Chiang

Out of the state of China

Chiang Kai-shek came down in Formosa

And they armed the island of Quemoy

And the shells were flying across the China Sea

And they turned Formosa into a shoe factory

Called Taiwan

And she is different from Cro-Magnon man

She's different from Anne Boleyn

She is different from the Rosenbergs

And from the unknown Jew

She is different from the unknown Nicaraguan

Half superstar half victim

She's a victor star conceptually new

And she is different from the Dodo

And from the Kankabono

She is different from the Aztec

And from the Cherokee

She's everybody's sister

She's a symbolic of our failure

She's the one in fifty million

Who can help us to be free

Because she died on TV

And I grieve for my sister

Artist: Roger Waters

Song: Leaving Beirut

Album: Single

Producer: Roger Waters and Nick Griffiths

Year: 2004

Label: Sony

Genre: Rock

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwDzATryei8

Lyrics:

http://www.oldielyrics.com/lyrics/roger_waters/leaving_beirut.html

So we left Beirut Willa and I

He headed East to Baghdad and the rest of it

I set out North

I walked the five or six miles to the last of the street lamps

And hunkered in the curb side dusk

Holding out my thumb

In no great hope at the ramshackle procession of home bound traffic

Success!

An ancient Mercedes 'dolmus '

The ubiquitous, Arab, shared taxi drew up

I turned out my pockets and shrugged at the driver

" J'ai pas de l'argent "

" Venez! " A soft voice from the back seat

The driver lent wearily across and pushed open the back door

I stooped to look inside at the two men there

One besuited, bespectacled, moustached, irritated, distant, late

The other, the one who had spoken,

Frail, fifty five-ish, bald, sallow, in a short sleeved pale blue cotton shirt

With one biro in the breast pocket

A clerk maybe, slightly sunken in the seat

"Venez!" He said again, and smiled

"Mais j'ai pas de l'argent"

"Oui, Oui, d'accord, Venez!"

Are these the people that we should bomb

Are we so sure they mean us harm

Is this our pleasure, punishment or crime

Is this a mountain that we really want to climb

The road is hard, hard and long

Put down that two by four

This man would never turn you from his door

Oh George! Oh George!

That Texas education must have fucked you up when you were very small

He beckoned with a small arthritic motion of his hand

Fingers together like a child waving goodbye

The driver put my old Hofner guitar in the boot with my rucksack

And off we went

" Vous etes Francais, monsieur? "

" Non, Anglais "

" Ah! Anglais "

" Est-ce que vous parlais Anglais, Monsieur? "

"Non, je regrette"

And so on

In small talk between strangers, his French alien but correct

Mine halting but eager to please

A lift, after all, is a lift

Late moustache left us brusquely

And some miles later the dolmus slowed at a crossroads lit by a single lightbulb

Swung through a U-turn and stopped in a cloud of dust

I opened the door and got out

But my benefactor made no move to follow

The driver dumped my guitar and rucksack at my feet

And waving away my thanks returned to the boot

Only to reappear with a pair of alloy crutches

Which he leaned against the rear wing of the Mercedes.

He reached into the car and lifted my companion out

Only one leg, the second trouser leg neatly pinned beneath a vacant hip

" Monsieur, si vous voulez, ca sera un honneur pour nous

Si vous venez avec moi a la maison pour manger avec ma femme "

When I was 17 my mother, bless her heart, fulfilled my summer dream

She handed me the keys to the car

We motored down to Paris, fuelled with Dexedrine and booze

Got bust in Antibes by the cops

And fleeced in Naples by the wops

But everyone was kind to us, we were the English dudes

Our dads had helped them win the war

When we all knew what we were fighting for

But now an Englishman abroad is just a US stooge

The bulldog is a poodle snapping round the scoundrel's last refuge

"Ma femme", thank God! Monopod but not queer

The taxi drove off leaving us in the dim light of the swinging bulb

No building in sight

What the hell

"Merci monsieur"

"Bon, Venez!"

His faced creased in pleasure, he set off in front of me

Swinging his leg between the crutches with agonising care

Up the dusty side road into the darkness

After half an hour we'd gone maybe half a mile

When on the right I made out the low profile of a building

He called out in Arabic to announce our arrival

And after some scuffling inside a lamp was lit

And the changing angle of light in the wide crack under the door

Signalled the approach of someone within

The door creaked open and there, holding a biblical looking oil lamp

Stood a squat, moustached woman, stooped smiling up at us

She stood aside to let us in and as she turned

I saw the reason for her stoop

She carried on her back a shocking hump

I nodded and smiled back at her in greeting, fighting for control

The gentleness between the one-legged man and his monstrous wife

Almost too much for me

Is gentleness too much for us

Should gentleness be filed along with empathy

We feel for someone else's child

Every time a smart bomb does its sums and gets it wrong

Someone else's child dies and equities in defence rise

America, America, please hear us when we call

You got hip-hop, be-bop, hustle and bustle

You got Atticus Finch

You got Jane Russell

You got freedom of speech

You got great beaches, wildernesses and malls

Don't let the might, the Christian right, fuck it all up

For you and the rest of the world

They talked excitedly

She went to take his crutches in routine of care

He chiding, gestured

We have a guest

She embarrassed by her faux pas

Took my things and laid them gently in the corner

"Du the?"

We sat on meagre cushions in one corner of the single room

The floor was earth packed hard and by one wall a raised platform

Some six foot by four covered by a simple sheet, the bed

The hunchback busied herself with small copper pots over an open hearth

And brought us tea, hot and sweet

And so to dinner

Flat, unleavened bread, + thin

Cooked in an iron skillet over the open hearth

Then folded and dipped into the soft insides of female sea urchins

My hostess did not eat, I ate her dinner

She would hear of nothing else, I was their guest

And then she retired behind a curtain

And left the men to sit drinking thimbles full of Arak

Carefully poured from a small bottle with a faded label

Soon she reappeared, radiant

Carrying in her arms their pride and joy, their child.

I'd never seen a squint like that

So severe that as one eye looked out the other disappeared behind its nose

Not in my name, Tony, you great war leader you

Terror is still terror, whosoever gets to frame the rules

History's not written by the vanquished or the damned

Now we are Genghis Khan, Lucretia Borghia, Son of Sam

In 1961 they took this child into their home

I wonder what became of them

In the cauldron that was Lebanon

If I could find them now, could I make amends?

How does the story end?

And so to bed, me that is, not them

Of course they slept on the floor behind a curtain

Whilst I lay awake all night on their earthen bed

Then came the dawn and then their quiet stirrings

Careful not to wake the guest

I yawned in great pretence

And took the proffered bowl of water heated up and washed

And sipped my coffee in its tiny cup

And then with much "merci-ing" and bowing and shaking of hands

We left the woman to her chores

And we men made our way back to the crossroads

The painful slowness of our progress accentuated by the brilliant morning light

The dolmus duly reappeared

My host gave me one crutch and leaning on the other

Shook my hand and smiled

"Merci, monsieur," I said

" De rien "

" And merci a votre femme, elle est tres gentille "

Giving up his other crutch

He allowed himself to be folded into the back seat again

"Bon voyage, monsieur," he said

And half bowed as the taxi headed south towards the city

I turned North, my guitar over my shoulder

And the first hot gust of wind

Quickly dried the salt tears from my young cheeks.

Artist: Roger Waters

Song: To Kill The Child

Album: Single

Producer: Roger Waters and Nick Griffiths

Year: 2004

Label: Sony

Genre: Rock

URL: http://www.rhapsody.com/rogerwaters/tokillthechildleavingbeirut

Lyrics:

http://www.oldielyrics.com/lyrics/roger_waters/to_kill_the_child.html

The child lay

In the starlit night

Safe in the glow of his Donald Duck light

How strange to choose to take a life

How strange to choose to kill a child

Hoover, Blaupunkt, Nissan Jeep

Nike, Addidas, Lacoste and cheaper brands

Cadillac, Amtrak, gasoline, diesel

Our standard of living, could this be a reason

That we would choose to kill the child

Allah, Jehovah, Buddah, Christ

Confucius and Kali and reds, beans and rice

Goujons of sole, ris de veau, ham hocks

Lox bagels and bones and commandments in stone

The Bible, Koran, Shinto, Islam

Prosciutto, risotto, falafel and ham

Is it dogma, doughnuts, ridicule faith

Fear of the dark, or shame or disgrace

That we would choose to kill the child

It's cold in the desert

And the space is too big

The rope is too short

And the walls are too thick

I will show you no weakness

I will mock you in song

Berate and deride you

Belittle and chide you

Beat you with sticks

And bulldoze your home

You can watch my triumphant procession to Rome

Best seat in the house

Up there on the cross

Is it anger or envy, profit or loss

That we would choose to kill the child

Take this child and hold him closely

Keep him safe from the holy reign of terror

Take this child hold him closely

Take this child to the moral high ground

Where he can look down on the bigots and bully boys

Slugging it out in the yard

The Who

I’ve Known No War

Artist: The Who

Song: I’ve Known No War

Album: It’s Hard

Producer: Glyn Johns

Year: 1982

Label: Polydor Records/Warner Bros.

Genre: Rock

URL: http://www.amazon.com/Its-Hard-Who/dp/B000002P6S

Lyrics: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/w/who/ive+known+no+war_20146498.html

Ive known no war
Ive known no war
And if I ever do I wont know for sure
And if I ever do I wont know for sure
Wholl be fighting whom
Wholl be fighting whom
For the soldiers lonely tomb
For the soldiers lonely tomb
Now opens as soon as the referees gun starts to roar
Now opens as soon as the referees gun starts to roar
Ill know no war
Ill know no war

Galbraith took his pen
Galbraith took his pen
To break down the men
To break down the men
Of the german army defeated
Of the german army defeated
On the nineteenth day
On the nineteenth day
Of a spring day in may
Of a spring day in may
Albert speer was deleted
Albert speer was deleted
And as soon as the battle was over
And as soon as the battle was over
I was born in victorious clover
I was born in victorious clover
And Ive never been shot at or gassed
And Ive never been shot at or gassed
Never tortured or stabbed
Never tortured or stabbed
And Im sure - Ill never know war
And Im sure - Ill never know war

I know Ill never know war
I know Ill never know war
And if I ever do
And if I ever do
The glimpse will be short
The glimpse will be short
Fireball in the sky
Fireball in the sky
No front line battle cries
No front line battle cries
Can be heard and the button is pushed
Can be heard and the button is pushed
By a soul thats been bought
By a soul thats been bought
Ill know no war
Ill know no war

In and out of reach loft
In and out of reach loft
The medals are lost
The medals are lost
They belong to a lone broken sailor
They belong to a lone broken sailor
His provinces now
His provinces now
Are the bars of the town
Are the bars of the town
His songs and his poems of failure
His songs and his poems of failure
For his grandchildren cant see the glory
For his grandchildren cant see the glory
And his own kids are bored with the story
And his own kids are bored with the story
But for him theyd have burned behind netting
But for him theyd have burned behind netting
]from the brink they were grabbed
>from the brink they were grabbed
And Im sure
And Im sure
Ill never know war
Ill never know war

Ive known no war
Ive known no war
And if I ever do I wont know for sure
And if I ever do I wont know for sure
Wholl be fighting whom
Wholl be fighting whom
For the soldiers lonely tomb
For the soldiers lonely tomb
Now opens as soon as the referees gun starts to roar
Now opens as soon as the referees gun starts to roar
Ill know no war
Ill know no war

War - Ive known no war
War - Ive known no war
Ill never know war
Ill never know war
And if I ever know it
And if I ever know it
The glimpse will be short
The glimpse will be short
Fireball in the sky
Fireball in the sky
No front line battle cries
No front line battle cries
Can be heard as the button is pushed by a soul thats been bought
Can be heard as the button is pushed by a soul thats been bought
And the armies remaining will judge without people or courts
And the armies remaining will judge without people or courts
And theres no point pretending that knowing will help us abort
And theres no point pretending that knowing will help us abort
Ill know no war
Ill know no war

Yes

Shoot High, Aim Low

Artist: Yes

Song: Shoot High, Aim Low

Album: Big Generator

Producer: Yes, Trevor Horn, Trevor Rabin, Paul DeVilliers

Year: 1987

Label: Atco Records

Genre: Rock

URL: n/a

Lyrics: http://lyrics.rare-lyrics.com/Y/Yes/Shoot-High-Aim-Low.html

We hit the blue fields
In the blue sedan we didn't get much further
Just as the sun was rising in the mist
We were all alone we didn't need much more
So fast this expidition
So vast this heavy load
With a touch of luck and a sense of need
Seeing the guns and their faces
We look around the open shore
Waiting for something
Shoot high break low
Aim high shoot low
Break high let go
Shoot high aim low
This was to be our last ride
With the steel guitar and the love you give me
Underneath the skin a feeling, a breakdown
Well we sat for hours on the crimson sand
Exchanges in the currency of humans bought and sold
And the leaders seem to lose control
Shall we lose ourselves for a reason
Shall we burn ourselves for the answer
Have we found the place that we're looking for
Someone shouted "open the door"
Lookout
Shoot high break low
Aim high shoot low
Feeling of imagination
Break high let go
Shoot high aim low
Shoot high aim low
Nothing you can say
Shoot high let go
Takes me by surprise
Shoot high aim low
Who says's there's got to be a reason
Shoot high let go
Who says there's got to be an answer
We were all alone, we didn't need much more
Shoot high aim low
The sun's so hard on this endless highway
Shoot high let go
Shoot high aim low
I've heard the singers, who sing of love
Shoot high let go
In the blue sedan we never got much further
Shoot high aim low

Neil Young

Let’s Roll

Cortez the Killer

Artist: Neil Young

Song: Let’s Roll

Album: Are You Passionate?

Producer: Neil Young, Booker T. Jones, Duck Dunn, Poncho Sampedro

Year: 2002

Label: Reprise/Wea

Genre: Rock

URL: http://www.amazon.com/Are-You-Passionate-Neil-Young/dp/B00005Y4A2

Lyrics: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/neilyoung/letsroll.html

I know I said I love you,
I know you know it's true,
I've got to put the phone down,
and do what we got to do.

One's standing in the iselway,
Two more at the door,
We've got to get inside there,
Before they kill somemore.

Time is runnin' out,
Let's roll.
Time is runnin' out,
Let's roll.

No time for indecision,
We've got to make a move,
I hope that were foregiven,
For what we got to

How this all got started,
I'll never understand,
I hope someone can fly this thing,
And get us back to land.

Time is runnin' out,
Let's roll.
Time is runnin' out,
Let's roll.

No one has the answer,
But one thing is true,
You've got to turn on evil,
When it's coming after you,
You've gota face it down,
And when it tries to hide,
You've gota go in after it,
And never be denied,
Time is runnin' out,
Let's roll.

Let's roll for freedome,
Let's roll for love,
We're going after satan,
On the wings of a dove,
Let's roll for justice,
Let's roll for truth,
Let's not let our children,
Grow up fearfull in there youth.

Time is runnin' out,
Let's roll.
Time is runnin' out,
Let's roll.
Time is runnin' out,
Let's roll.

Artist: Neil Young

Song: Cortez the Killer

Album: Zuma

Producer: Neil Young, David Briggs, Tim Mulligan

Year: 1975

Label: Reprise

Genre: Rock

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-wHzlfLKbM

Lyrics:

He came dancing across the water

With his galleons and guns

Looking for the new world

In that palace in the sun.

On the shore lay Montezuma

With his coca leaves and pearls

In his halls he often wondered

With the secrets of the worlds.

And his subjects

gathered 'round him

Like the leaves around a tree

In their clothes of many colors

For the angry gods to see.

And the women all were beautiful

And the men stood

straight and strong

They offered life in sacrifice

So that others could go on.

Hate was just a legend

And war was never known

The people worked together

And they lifted many stones.

They carried them

to the flatlands

And they died along the way

But they built up

with their bare hands

What we still can't do today.

And I know she's living there

And she loves me to this day

I still can't remember when

Or how I lost my way.

He came dancing across the water

Cortez, Cortez

What a killer.

Led Zeppelin

When the Levee Breaks

Artist: Led Zeppelin

Song: When the Levee Breaks

Album: Led Zeppelin IV

Producer: Jimmy Page, Peter Grant

Year: 1971

Label: Atlantic

Genre: Rock

URL:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTV8xBoAWK0&feature=related

Lyrics:

http://www.lyricsfreak.com/l/led+zeppelin/when+the+levee+breaks_20082208.html

If it keeps on rainin, levees goin to break,

When the levee breaks Ill have no place to stay.

Mean old levee taught me to weep and moan,

Lord, mean old levee taught me to weep and moan,

Got what it takes to make a mountain man leave his home,

Oh, well, oh, well, oh, well.

Dont it make you feel bad

When youre tryin to find your way home,

You dont know which way to go?

If youre goin down south

They go no work to do,

If you dont know about chicago.

Cryin wont help you, prayin wont do you no good,

Now, cryin wont help you, prayin wont do you no good,

When the levee breaks, mama, you got to move.

All last night sat on the levee and moaned,

Thinkin bout me baby and my happy home.

Going, gon to chicago,

Gon to chicago,

Sorry but I cant take you.

Going down, going down now, going down.

10cc

Rubber Bullets

Artist: 10cc

Song: Rubber Bullets

Album: 10cc

Producer: 10cc

Year: 1973

Label: UK

Genre: Rock

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dM7j9LkpYGw

Lyrics: http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/10cc/Rubber-Bullets.html

I went to a party at the local county jail

All the cons were dancing and the band began to wail

But the guys were indiscreet

They were brawling in the street

At the local dance at the local county jail

Well the band were playing

And the booze began to flow

But the sound came over on the police car radio

Down at Precinct 49

Having a tear-gas of a time

Sergeant Baker got a call from the governor of the county jail

Load up, load up, load up with rubber bullets

I love to hear those convicts squeal

It's a shame these slugs ain't real

But we can't have dancin' at the local county jail

Sergeant Baker and his men made a bee-line for the jail

And for miles around

You could hear the sirens wail

There's a rumor goin' round death row

That a fuse is gonna blow

At the local hop at the local county jail

Whatcha gonna do about it, whatcha gonna do

Sergeant Baker started talkin'

With a bullhorn in his hand

He was cool, he was clear

He was always in command

He said "Blood will flow;

Here Padre

Padre you talk to your boys..."

"Trust in me -

God will come to set you free"

Well we don't understand

Why you called in the National Guard

When Uncle Sam is the one

Who belongs in the exercise yard

We all got balls and brains

But some's got balls and chains

At the local dance at the local county jail

Load up, load up, load up with rubber bullets

Is it really such a crime

For a guy to spend his time

At the local dance at the local county jail

Whatcha gonna do about it, whatcha gonna do

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