POlitical

[stevGNR666]

now i KNOW that rumin will love this topic

What's your favorite political song?

i know half of you are gonna pick civil war

but c'mon people be creative here

for me: Masters of War

Come you masters of war

You that build the big guns

You that build the death planes

You that build all the bombs

You that hide behind walls

You that hide behind desks

I just want you to know

I can see through your masks

You that never done nothin'

But build to destroy

You play with my world

Like it's your little toy

You put a gun in my hand

And you hide from my eyes

And you turn and run farther

When the fast bullets fly

Like Judas of old

You lie and deceive

A world war can be won

You want me to believe

But I see through your eyes

And I see through your brain

Like I see through the water

That runs down my drain

You fasten the triggers

For the others to fire

Then you set back and watch

When the death count gets higher

You hide in your mansion

As young people's blood

Flows out of their bodies

And is buried in the mud

You've thrown the worst fear

That can ever be hurled

Fear to bring children

Into the world

For threatening my baby

Unborn and unnamed

You ain't worth the blood

That runs in your veins

How much do I know

To talk out of turn

You might say that I'm young

You might say I'm unlearned

But there's one thing I know

Though I'm younger than you

Even Jesus would never

Forgive what you do

Let me ask you one question

Is your money that good

Will it buy you forgiveness

Do you think that it could

I think you will find

When your death takes its toll

All the money you made

Will never buy back your soul

And I hope that you die

And your death'll come soon

I will follow your casket

In the pale afternoon

And I'll watch while you're lowered

Down to your deathbed

And I'll stand o'er your grave

'Til I'm sure that you're dead

by far the greatest fuck you for any politician

blowing in the wind comes close second

c'mon rumin...bring woody into play

[swlabr]

NIN - The Hand That Feeds

You're keeping in step

In the line

Got your chin held high and you feel just fine

Because you do

What you're told

But inside your heart it is black and it's hollow and it's cold

Just how deep do you believe?

Will you bite the hand that feeds?

Will you chew until it bleeds?

Can you get up off your knees?

Are you brave enough to see?

Do you want to change it?

What if this whole crusade's

A charade

And behind it all there's a price to be paid

For the blood

On which we dine

Justified in the name of the holy and the divine

Just how deep do you believe?

Will you bite the hand that feeds?

Will you chew until it bleeds?

Can you get up off your knees?

Are you brave enough to see?

Do you want to change it?

So naive

I keep holding on to what I want to believe

I can see

But I keep holding on and on and on and on

Will you bite the hand that feeds you?

Will you stay down on your knees?

Does that count?

Cream - Politician

Hey now baby, get into my big black car.

Hey now baby, get into my big black car.

I want to just show you what my politics are.

I'm a political man and I practice what I preach.

I'm a political man and I practice what I preach.

So don't deny me baby, not while you're in my reach.

I support the left, though I'm leaning, leaning to the right.

I support the left, though I'm leaning to the right.

But I'm just not there when it's coming to a fight.

Hey now baby, get into my big black car.

Hey now baby, get into my big black car.

I want to just show you what my politics are.

Edited October 24, 2005 by swlabr

[Rumin]

Hah! Yeah, I do love it! My favorite is one that you all should know:

The Times They Are A-Changin'

Come gather 'round people

Wherever you roam

And admit that the waters

Around you have grown

And accept it that soon

You'll be drenched to the bone.

If your time to you

Is worth savin'

Then you better start swimmin'

Or you'll sink like a stone

For the times they are a-changin'.

Come writers and critics

Who prophesize with your pen

And keep your eyes wide

The chance won't come again

And don't speak too soon

For the wheel's still in spin

And there's no tellin' who

That it's namin'.

For the loser now

Will be later to win

For the times they are a-changin'.

Come senators, congressmen

Please heed the call

Don't stand in the doorway

Don't block up the hall

For he that gets hurt

Will be he who has stalled

There's a battle outside

And it is ragin'.

It'll soon shake your windows

And rattle your walls

For the times they are a-changin'.

Come mothers and fathers

Throughout the land

And don't criticize

What you can't understand

Your sons and your daughters

Are beyond your command

Your old road is

Rapidly agin'.

Please get out of the new one

If you can't lend your hand

For the times they are a-changin'.

The line it is drawn

The curse it is cast

The slow one now

Will later be fast

As the present now

Will later be past

The order is

Rapidly fadin'.

And the first one now

Will later be last

For the times they are a-changin'.

[johnezz]

I agree Rumin, when it comes to Political songs, Bob is miles and miles ahead of anyone.

[The Third Man]

Neil Young - Ohio

Tin soldiers and Nixon 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 coming,

We're finally on our own.

This summer I hear the drumming,

Four dead in Ohio.

[Alty]

stiff little fingers are pretty political:

suspect device

nflammable material is planted in my head

It's a suspect device that's left 2000 dead

Their solutions are our problems

They put up the wall

On each side time and prime us

And make sure we get fuck all

They play their games of power

They mark and cut the pack

They deal us to the bottom

But what do they put back?

[Chorus:]

Don't believe them

Don't believe them

Don't be bitten twice

You gotta suss, suss, suss, suss, suss out

Suss suspect device

They take away our freedom

In the name of liberty

Why don't they all just clear off

Why won't they let us be

They make us feel indebted

For saving us from hell

And then they put us through it

It's time the bastards fell

[Chorus]

Don't believe them

Don't believe them

Question everything you're told

Just take a look around you

At the bitterness and spite

Why can't we take over and try to put it right

[Chorus]

We're a suspect device if we do what we're told

But a suspect device can score an own goal

I'm a suspect device the Army can't defuse

You're a suspect device they know they can't refuse

We're gonna blow up in their face

[Alty]

"Alternative Ulster" stiff little fingers

Nothin' for us in Belfast

The Pound's so old it's a pity

OK, there's the trident in Bangor

Then walk back to the city

We ain't got nothin' but they don't really care

They don't even know you know

Just want our money

And we can take it or leave it

What we need

[Chorus] An Alternative Ulster

Grab it and change it it's yours

Get an Alternative Ulster

Ignore the bores and their laws

Get an Alternative Ulster

Be an anti-security force

Alter your native Ulster

Alter your native land

Take a look where you're livin'

You got the Army on your street

And the RUC dog of repression

Is barking at your feet

Is this the kind of place you wanna live?

Is this where you wanna be?

Is this the only life we're gonna have?

What we need is

[Chorus]

They say they're a part of you

But that's not true you know

They say they've got control of you

And that's a lie you know

They say you will never be

Free free free

Get an

Alternative Ulster

Alternative Ulster

Alternative Ulster

[Esylirus]

Anthem for the Year 2000

We are the youth

We'll take your fascism away

We are the youth

Apologise for another day

We are the youth

And politicians are so sure

We are the youth

And we are knocking on death's door

Never knew we were living in a world

With a mind that could be so sure

Never knew we were living in a world

With a mind that could be so small

Never knew we were living in a world

And the world is an open court

Maybe we don't want to live in a world

Where innocence is so short

We'll make it up to you

in the year 2000 with...

Never knew we were living in a world

With a mind that could be so sure

Never knew we were living in a world

With a mind that could be so small

Never knew we were living in a world

And the world is an open court

Maybe we don't want to live in a world

Where innocence is so short

We'll make it up to you

In the year 2000

Build it up for you

In the year 2000

Make it up to you

In the year 2000

Build it up for you

In the year 2000 with you

Never knew we were living in a world

With a world that could be so sure

Never knew we were living in a world

With a mind that could be so small

Never knew we were living in a world

And the world is an open court

Maybe we don't want to live in a world

World who cares at all

We'll make it up to you

In the year 2000

Build it up for you

In the year 2000

Make it hard for you

In the year 2000

Build it up for you

In the year 2000

Make it hard for you

In the year 2000

Build it up for you

In the year 2000 with you

Slightly outdated but you get the point.

[Alty]

LOVE this song

"Each Dollar A Bullet" stiff little fingers

Oh it must be so romantic

When the fighting's over there

And they're passing round the shamrock

And you're all filled up with tears

"For the love of dear old Ireland"

That you've never even seen

You throw in twenty dollars

And sing "Wearing of the Green

[Chorus:]

Each dollar a bullet

Each victim someone's son

And Americans kill Irishmen

As surely

As if they fired the gun

Now you've never stood on Belfast's streets

And heard the bombs explode

Or hid beneath the blankets

When there's riots down the road

No you've never had your best friend die

Or lost a favorite son

But you'll stand there and tell us

Just what we're doing wrong

Each false word a bullet

Each victim someone's son

And Englishmen kill Irishmen

As surely

As if they fired the gun

From the minute that you're born you're told

To hate the other side

"They're not like us, they're not the same

We know because we're right"

But can't you see we're all the same

There is no right and wrong

Why can't we stop and realize

Just what we're doing wrong

We've hated too much too long

Each old lie a bullet

Each victim someone's son

And Irishmen kill Irishmen

As surely

As if they fired the gun

How can you convince yourself

That what you do is right?

When people are dying there

Night after night

Don't you ever wonder

Why it still goes on?

The hopes and fears and all the tears

Are buried in your ground

Buried in your ground

Each rumour a bullet

Each victim someone's son

And careless talk kills Irishmen

As surely

As if words fired the gun

Well it's lasted for so long now

And so many have died

It's such a part of my own life

Yet it leaves me mystified

How a people so intelligent

Friendly, kind and brave

Can throw themselves so willingly

Into an open grave

Each new day a bullet

Each victim someone's son

And ignorance kills Irishmen

As surely

As if we fired the gun

[Wildrose]

Dont have one.

[kevdo242]

The Beatles - Revolution

You say you want a revolution

Well you know

We all want to change the world

You tell me that it's evolution

Well you know

We all want to change the world

But when you talk about destruction

Don't you know you can count me out in

Don't you know it's gonna be alright

Alright Alright

You say you got a real solution

Well you know

we'd all love to see the plan

You ask me for a contribution

Well you know

We're doing what we can

But if you want money for people with minds that hate

All I can tell you is brother you have to wait

Don't you know it's gonna be alright

Alright Alright

You say you'll change the constitution

Well you know

we all love to change your head

You tell me it's the institution

Well you know

You better free your mind instead

But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao

You ain't going to make it with anyone anyhow

Don't you know know it's gonna be alright

Alright Alright

[Rumin]

I agree Rumin, when it comes to Political songs, Bob is miles and miles ahead of anyone.

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Chuch! People that don't listen to Dylan make me sad.

[stevGNR666]

I agree Rumin, when it comes to Political songs, Bob is miles and miles ahead of anyone.

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Chuch! People that don't listen to Dylan make me sad.

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me too

i was just listening to freewheelin'

girl from the north country makes me smile even with strep throat

such a pretttty song

Back on topic...I'm not sure if politician really counts as a political song swabr7

and kevdo...awesome song dude...it's the song that birthed heavy rock

Edited October 24, 2005 by stevGNR666

[Slaughter]

I dunno if you really want to consider this political or not, but two years ago my teacher used "Zombie" by The Cranberries for WWI, I think it was, and we had this big presentation put together by two of the social studies teachers in our auditorium where they played this song and showed us all kinds of pictures and shit from back then...it was really pretty fucked up, and the song does actually have a message, i remember this one chick flipped out at these kids because they were making fun of it.

Another head hangs lowly,

Child is slowly taken.

And the violence caused such silence,

Who are we mistaken?

But you see, it's not me, it's not my family.

In your head, in your head they are fighting,

With their tanks and their bombs,

And their bombs and their guns.

In your head, in your head, they are crying...

In your head, in your head,

Zombie, zombie, zombie,

Hey, hey, hey. What's in your head,

In your head,

Zombie, zombie, zombie?

Hey, hey, hey, hey, oh, dou, dou, dou, dou, dou...

Another mother's breakin',

Heart is taking over.

When the vi'lence causes silence,

We must be mistaken.

It's the same old theme since nineteen-sixteen.

In your head, in your head they're still fighting,

With their tanks and their bombs,

And their bombs and their guns.

In your head, in your head, they are dying...

In your head, in your head,

Zombie, zombie, zombie,

Hey, hey, hey. What's in your head,

In your head,

Zombie, zombie, zombie?

Hey, hey, hey, hey, oh, oh, oh,

Oh, oh, oh, oh, hey, oh, ya, ya-a...

[Nightrain_Kid]

Masters of war

[stevGNR666]

Masters of war

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YESSSS...i win

[Yamisonic]

STREET FIGHTING MAN

HURRICANE

[Rumin]

I agree Rumin, when it comes to Political songs, Bob is miles and miles ahead of anyone.

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Chuch! People that don't listen to Dylan make me sad.

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me too

i was just listening to freewheelin'

girl from the north country makes me smile even with strep throat

such a pretttty song

Back on topic...I'm not sure if politician really counts as a political song swabr7

and kevdo...awesome song dude...it's the song that birthed heavy rock

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Have you heard the duet of that song with Dylan and Cash? It's amazing.

[Guest Ohdistortedsmile1789]

Incubus-megalomaniac

[stevGNR666]

I agree Rumin, when it comes to Political songs, Bob is miles and miles ahead of anyone.

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Chuch! People that don't listen to Dylan make me sad.

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me too

i was just listening to freewheelin'

girl from the north country makes me smile even with strep throat

such a pretttty song

Back on topic...I'm not sure if politician really counts as a political song swabr7

and kevdo...awesome song dude...it's the song that birthed heavy rock

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Have you heard the duet of that song with Dylan and Cash? It's amazing.

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of course!

but the melody and the playing is far superior in the freewheelin' version

altho...both their voice are awesssome in the nashville version

you know they're making a movie about cash? walk the line!

can't wait to check it out

R.I.P. Johnny

[J.T]

Bad Religion "Punk Rock Song"

have you been to the desert?

have you walked with the dead?

there's a hundred thousand children being killed for their bread

and the figures don't lie they speak of human disease

but we do what we want and we think what we please

have you lived the experience?

have you witnessed the plague?

people making babies sometimes just to escape

in this land of competition the compassion is gone

yet we ignore the needy and we keep pushing on

we keep pushing on

this is just a punk rock song

written for the people who can see something's wrong

like ants in a colony we do our share

but there's so many other fuckin' insects out there

and this is just a punk rock song

(like workers in a company we do our share

but there's so many other fuckin' robots out there)

have you visited the quagmire?

have you swam in the shit?

the party conventions and the real politik

the faces always different, the rhetoric the same

but we swallow it, and we see nothing change

nothing has changed...

10 million dollars on a losing campaign

20 million starving and writhing in pain

big strong people unwilling to give

small in vision and perspective

one in five kids below the poverty line

one population runnin' out of time

[The Volitan]

Cream - Politician

Hey now baby, get into my big black car.

Hey now baby, get into my big black car.

I want to just show you what my politics are.

I'm a political man and I practice what I preach.

I'm a political man and I practice what I preach.

So don't deny me baby, not while you're in my reach.

I support the left, though I'm leaning, leaning to the right.

I support the left, though I'm leaning to the right.

But I'm just not there when it's coming to a fight.

Hey now baby, get into my big black car.

Hey now baby, get into my big black car.

I want to just show you what my politics are.

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damn you. I knew you were gonna say that one. But there's a verse that oyu forgot

"I run this country, and I run that country over there too

I run this country, and I run that country over there too

Now come here babv, and let me show you how I'm gonna run you"

[johnezz]

Black Sabbath - War Pigs

[New Rose]

I have two from the same band, Corrosion of Conformity which is a highly political southern metal band. The lyrics are great

(This first one is about Vietnam)

Corrosion of Conformity - Long Whip/Big America

Saw the news today, some D.C. suit trying to break away,

said he lost another million

just another old man trying to pass the buck with a dirty hand

good thing he knows his bible

Stick his ass in hell ever better in in this tiny cell

make him understand the meaning

of these words they try to preach just to keep them out of the nations reach

I guess it's all for the better

Take it all away

take me

won't you take me far away

Hey, hey, hey, what's that game you play

will it make me richer?

cause I do not have a dime and I hate to waste your time

maybe I'm wrong but I think this whip is too long

Now I was barely 21 lying in a ditch with a loaded gun

so I gave my heart away

but I got it back today in a velvet box stamped USA

now all the neighbors call me hero.

I was about to lose my mind so I buckled down and did some crime

but it wasn't what they taught me

hit the road in high pursuit now I'm on the run just like a suit

didn't know it was this easy

Take it all away

take me

won't you take me far away

Hey, hey, hey what's that game you play

will it make me a poor man?

cause I got an extra dime and I lose it every time

maybe I'm wrong but I think this whip is too long

Hey, hey, hey, what's that game you play

will it make me richer?

cause I do not have a dime and I hate to waste your time

maybe I'm wrong but I think this whip is too long

No more, no more

see I can't find the time to crawl across the line

but I can't stay here...

No more, no more

see I can't find the time to crawl across the line

but I can't stay here till I die

Then another one from the same band

Corrosion of Conformity - Damned for All Time

They Say They Live Their Lives With Purity

Only Looking Through The Whites Of Their Eyes

One Nation Under God, Just Like Protectory

Are They Really Hearing The Third World Cries?

History Repeats Itself

Self-Emulation Breeding Prosperity

As The Nation Grows, The Brotherhood Dies

"Free As A Bird" Are Words Meant For You And Me

Words That Never Fit Between The Lies

History Repeats Itself

I Was Born In A Nightmare - Dont Have A Choice

No One Seems To Listen 'Cos No One Seams To Hear My Voice

I Am But One Of Billions - Teaming Faceless Legions

Damned To Repeat The Crimes Of Those Who Went Before

[Chorus]

The Teeth In The Gears Of The Killing Machine

Are Getting Sharper As Time Moves On

As The Politician's Wingtip Presses On The Gas

A Thousand Soldiers Will Soon Be Gone

Plowing Through The Land To Annihilate For Peace

Another War Child Is Spawned

Sowing Seeds Of Destruction In The Name Of The Beast

Damned For All Time

Burning Future Remembers The Smoldering Past

Just A Cruel Lesson - Chalked-Up Experience

Life Is A Sin When It Begins In An Iron Mask

Die If You Try Using Your Biased Sense

History Repeats Itself

Rivers Of Corruption Flowing Way Too Fast

Racing To Pollute For Their Own Greed

Malnutritioned Wings Don't Have The Strength To Last

Fight To The Death Over One Last Seed

History Repeats Itself

I Am A Witness To All That Is And All That Should Not Be

I Am Cursed With A Vision That Forces Me To See

Sometimes I Pray To An Unmoving Void

For The Day That I May Close My Eyes To The Horror Which Fills Inside Me

Edited October 25, 2005 by New Rose

[matt_barker]

pennywise- god save the usa