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Human Rights Music Bibliography by Artist S-Z


 

 

 

Artist

Santana

Paul Simon

Patti Smith

Buffalo Springfield

Bruce Springsteen

Staple Singers

Edwin Starr

Sting

Steely Dan

Cat Stevens

Style Council

System of a Down

The Tears

Temple of the Dog

            Tom Robinson Band

            Peter Tosh

            Total Chaos

            Tupac

            U2

            Ultravox

            Tom Waits

            The Wailers

            The Wallflowers

            Roger Waters

            The Who

            “Weird Al” Yankovic

            Yellowcard

            Neil Young

            Led Zeppelin

            10cc

           

 

Santana

            It’s A Jungle Out There

            Songs of Freedom

 

Artist:                                    Santana

Song:                                    It’s A Jungle Out There

Album:                        Spirits Dancing in the Flesh

Producer:                        Peter Wolf, Carlos Santana, Chester Thompson, Jim Gaines, Vernon Reid

Year:                                    1990

Label:                                    Sony

Genre:                                    Soul

URL:                                    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5N_bndfAGU            

Lyrics:             http://www.metrolyrics.com/its-a-jungle-out-there-lyrics-santana.html

 

(scream) I just gotta get away
Can't stand it
Children suffer every day

Tell me baby
What's it for
Fighting daily
For the turf

We're still killing each other
In the name of the lord
There's a brand new graffiti
With blood on the walls

Peace... are you that far away?

Now you can feel it
Other people's pain
Love can heal it
Gentle as the rain

Oh, the united nations drag their feet on the floor
All they do is spend your money
They don't tell you what for

Peace... what price we have to pay
Peace... there's gotta be a better way

People tell me it's useless to look for a way
I believe that tomorrow starts right here, today

Peace... are you that far away
Peace... there's gotta be a better way

Peace... are you that far away
Peace... there's gotta be a better way
Peace, peace
There's gotta be a better way
Peace, peace oh oh oh peace

 

Artist:                                    Santana

Song:                                    Songs of Freedom

Album:                        Freedom

Producer:                        Jeffrey Cohen, Carlos Santana, Chester Thompson

Year:                                    1987

Label:                                    Columbia

Genre:                                    Soul

URL:                                    http://www.amazon.com/Freedom-Santana/dp/B000002668

Lyrics:                         http://www.mp3lyrics.org/s/santana/songs/

 

Everybody tells me, we love your songs
Your soul is precious, but it
just ain't good enough
You need a single to help you through
Program directors, they all make the rules
I said, you're kidding, you're putting me on
What about the Constitution, freedom of expression
Listen to the music, just feel the sound
Love is the motion, that's what
makes the world go around

Sing, Songs of Freedom
Bring joy to the world
Sing, Songs of Freedom
Bring joy to the world

Everybody listen, stop and take some time
To understand the world situation
There is no meaning in fighting the way we do
Let's come together and forgive each other

Sing, Songs of Freedom
Bring joy to the world
Sing, Songs of Freedom
Bring joy to the world

 

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

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

without chains

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

without chains

without chains

 

Buffalo Springfield

            For What It’s Worth

 

Artist:                                    Buffalo Springfield

Song:                                    For What It’s Worth

Album:                        Buffalo Springfield

Producer:                        Charles Green, Brian Stone

Year:                        1967

Label:                        Atco

Genre:                                    Folk

URL:                                     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm6NeM-6vBE

Lyrics:                         http://www.lyricsdownload.com/the-buffalo-springfield-for-what-its-worth-lyrics.html

 

There's something happening here

What it is ain't exactly clear

There's a man with a gun over there

Telling me I got to beware

I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound

Everybody look what's going down

There's battle lines being drawn

Nobody's right if everybody's wrong

Young people speaking their minds

Getting so much resistance from behind

I think it's time we stop, hey, what's that sound

Everybody look what's going down

What a field-day for the heat

A thousand people in the street

Singing songs and carrying signs

Mostly say, hooray for our side

It's time we stop, hey, what's that sound

Everybody look what's going down

Paranoia strikes deep

Into your life it will creep

It starts when you're always afraid

You step out of line, the man come and take you away

We better stop, hey, what's that sound

Everybody look what's going down

Stop, hey, what's that sound

Everybody look what's going down

Stop, now, what's that sound

Everybody look what's going down

Stop, children, what's that sound

Everybody look what's going down

 

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.

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.

I was 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.

Born 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

Staple Singers

            When Will We Be Paid For the Work We’ve Done

 

Artist:                                    Staple Singers

Song:                                    When Will We Be Paid For the Work We’ve Done

Album:                        Ultimate Staple Singers: A Family Affair

Producer:                        N/A

Year:                        2004

Label:                        Kent Soul

Genre:                                    Jazz

URL:                                     http://contreinfo.info/article.php3?id_article=480           

Lyrics:                                    http://contreinfo.info/article.php3?id_article=480

 

When will we be paid for the work we’ve done

When will we be paid for the work we’ve done

 

We worked this country

From shore to shore

Our women cooked all your food

And washed all your clothes

We picked cotton and laid the railroad steel

Worked our hands down to the bone at your lumber mill

 

When will we be paid for the work we’ve done

When will we be paid for the work we’ve done

 

Fought in your wars, in every land

To keep this country free, y’all

For women, children, and men

But anytime we ask for pay or a loan

That’s when everything seems to turn out wrong

We’ve been beat up, called name, shot down, and stoned

Every time we do right, somebody say we’re wrong

When will we be paid for the work we’ve done

When will we be paid for the work we’ve done
Oh, oh when, when will we be paid ?
We’ve given up our sweat, now
And all of our tears
Stumbled through this life
For more than 300 years I,
I wanna know, the work we’ve done
When will be paid for the work we’ve done

Tell me
When will we be paid for the work we’ve done
When will we be paid for the work we’ve done

Will we ever be proud

Of "My country, tis of thee"

Will we ever sing out loud

Sweet land of Liberty

 

When will we be paid

For the work we’ve done

 

When will we be paid for the work we’ve done

When will we be paid for the work we’ve done

 

Edwin Starr

            War

 

Artist:                                    Edwin Starr

Song:                                    War

Album:                        War and Peace

Producer:                        Norman Whitfield

Year:                                    1970

Label:                                    Gordy

Genre:                                    Pop

URL:                                    http://youtube.com/watch?v=-_tBDk4SuvA

Lyrics:                                    http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1029

 

War, huh yeah
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing.
War huh yeah
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing.
Say it again y'all
War, huh good god
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing. Listen to me

War-I despise
'Cause it means destruction
Of innocent lives
War means tears to thousands of mothers' eyes
When their sons go off to fight
And lose their lives

War, huh good god y'all
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing. say it again
War whoa lord
What is it good for?

Absolutely nothing. listen to me
It ain't nothin but a heartbreaker
Friend only to the undertaker

Oh war, is an enemy to all mankind
The thought of war blows my mind
War has caused unrest in the younger generation
Induction, then destruction who wants to die

War, good god y'all
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing. say it say it say it
War uh huh yeah huh
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing. listen to me
It ain't nothin but a heartbreaker
Got one friend that's the undertaker

Oh war has shattered many young man's dreams
Made him disabled bitter and mean
Life is much to short and precious to spend fighting wars these days
War can't give life it can only take it away oooooh

War, huh good god y'all
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing. say it say again
War whoa lord
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing. listen
It ain't nothin but a heartbreaker
Friend only to the undertaker

Peace love and understanding tell me
Is there no place for them today
They say we must fight to keep our freedom
But lord knows there's got to be a better way

 

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

Sooner or later we learn to throw the past away

 

History will teach us nothing

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

Sooner or later

Sooner or later

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

Sooner or later we learn to throw the past away

 

History will teach us nothing

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

They dance alone

 

Steely Dan

            King of the World

 

 

Artist:                                    Steely Dan

Song:                                    King of the World

Album:                        Countdown to Ecstasy

Producer:                        n/a

Year:                                    1973

Label:                                    Mca

Genre:                                    Blues

URL:                        http://www.amazon.com/Countdown-Ecstasy-Steely-Dan/dp/B00000DI0J

Lyrics:             http://www.mondaypapers.com/summerinthecity/kingoftheworld.html

 

Hello one and all
Was it you I used to know
Can't you hear me call
On this old ham radio
All I got to say I'm alive and feeling fine
If you come my way
You can share my poison wine

No marigolds in the promised land
There's a hole in the ground
Where they used to grow
Any man left on the Rio Grande
Is the king of the world
As far as I know

I don't want your bread
I don't need your helping hand
I can't be no savage
I can't be no highwayman
Show me where you are
You and I will spend this day
Driving in my car
Through the ruins of Santa Fe

No marigolds in the promised land
There's a hole in the ground
Where they used to grow
Any man left on the Rio Grande
Is the king of the world
As far as I know

I'm reading last year's papers
Although I don't know why
Assassins cons and rapers
Might as well die

If you come around
No more pain and no regrets
Watch the sun go brown
Smoking cobalt cigarettes
There's no need to hide
Taking things the easy way
If I stay inside
I might live til Saturday

No marigolds in the promised land
There's a hole in the ground
Where they used to grow
Any man left on the Rio Grande
Is the king of the world
As far as I know

 

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...

 

Style Council

            Walls Come Tumbling Down

 

Artist:                                     Style Council           

Song:                                    Walls Come Tumbling Down

Album:                        Our Favourite Shop

Producer:                        Paul Weller

Year:                        1985

Label:                        Polydor                       

Genre:                                    Pop

URL:                                    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I29aPBkEc0Y

Lyrics:           

http://www.lyricsfreak.com/s/style+council/walls+come+tumbling+down_20132778.html

 

You dont have to take this crap

You dont have to sit back and relax

You can actually try changing it

I know weve always been taught to rely

Upon those in authority -

But you never know until you try

How things just might be -

If we came together so strongly

 

Are you gonna try to make this work

Or spend your days down in the dirt

You see things can change -

Yes an walls can come tumbling down!

 

Governments crack and systems fall

cause unity is powerful -

Lights go out - walls come tumbling down!

 

The competition is a colour tv

Were on still pause with the video machine

That keep you slave to the h.p.