Do you miss the inspiration of the 60's war protest songs? Check this out!

[BigBearJohn]

I've been asking for a long time now WHERE ARE OUR protest
songs? Check out Message #15

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3858688

[jojo54]

1. Yes, we should try to bring some of them back

but I like a lot of stuff by Jackson Browne, like Lives in the Balance. Here's the lyrics:

I've been waiting for something to happen
For a week or a month or a year
With the blood in the ink of the headlines
And the sound of the crowd in my ear
You might ask what it takes to remember
When you know that you've seen it before
Where a government lies to a people
And a country is drifting to war

And there's a shadow on the faces
Of the men who send the guns
To the wars that are fought in places
Where their business interest runs

On the radio talk shows and the T.V.
You hear one thing again and again
How the U.S.A. stands for freedom
And we come to the aid of a friend
But who are the ones that we call our friends--
These governments killing their own?
Or the people who finally can't take any more
And they pick up a gun or a brick or a stone

There are lives in the balance
There are people under fire
There are children at the cannons
And there is blood on the wire

There's a shadow on the faces
Of the men who fan the flames
Of the wars that are fought in places
Where we can't even say the names

They sell us the President the same way
They sell us our clothes and our cars
They sell us every thing from youth to religion
The same time they sell us our wars
I want to know who the men in the shadows are
I want to hear somebody asking them why
They can be counted on to tell us who our enemies are
But they're never the ones to fight or to die

And there are lives in the balance
There are people under fire
There are children at the cannons
And there is blood on the wire

[Mythsaje]

2. Green Day

American Idiot. The album kicks ass!

[BeTheChange]

3. There are lotsa new antiwar songs:

http://www.protest-records.com/mp3/index.html
http://www.newsongsforpeace.org/
http://polsong.gcal.ac.uk/songs.html
http://www.ocap.ca/lyrics.html
http://www.daveyd.com/commentarylantiwarsonglist.html
http://www.lacarte.org/songs/anti-war/index.html

I know I have more links around somewhere.

Off the top of my head:
Most anything by Ani
For hip hop lovers, check out Immortal Teknique, Franti, Saul Williams, Dead Prez, etc....

[ConsAreLiars]

4. Gigabytes of free pro-peace mp3's by today's musicians and poets are at:

http://www.benfrank.net/nuke/Free_Peace_mp3s.html

"Name Dropping- somewhere on this page you'll find: Bonnie Raitt, Eddie Vedder, Billy Bragg, Michael Franti, Greenday, REM, Ani Difranco, David Rovics, Greg Palast, Lenny Kravitz, Beastie Boys, John Mellencamp, Paula Cole, Public Enemy, Paris and many more. But don't stop there- these artists you've never heard before- absolutely rock!"

And more sites are linked at the bottom.

Our voices are out there, they just don't get played by the corporatist media.

Be sure to include Yikes McGee among those you download.

(edit to add the magic word "free" in the heading)

[4BunnyMon]

5. Jerusalem by Steve Earle

Jerusalem
(Steve Earle. Buy his CDs at Amazon.com)

I woke up this morning and none of the news was good
Death machines were rumblin' 'cross the ground where Jesus stood
And the man on my TV told me that it had always been that way
And there was nothin' anyone could do or say

And I almost listened to him
Yeah I almost lost my mind
Then I regained my senses again
And looked into my heart to find

That I believe that one find day all the children of Abraham
Will lay down their swords forever in Jerusalem

Well maybe I'm only dreamin' and maybe I'm just a fool
But I don't remember learning' how to hate in Sunday school
Somewhere along the way I strayed and I never looked back again
But I still find some comfort now and then.

Then the storm comes rumblin in
And I can't lay me down
And the drums are drummin' again
And I can't stand the sound

But I believe there'll come a day whent the lion and the lamb
Will lie down in peace together in Jerusalem.

And there'll be no barricade then
There'll be no wire or walls
And we can wash all this blood from our hands
And all this hatred from our souls....

And I believe that on that day all the children of Abraham
Will lay down their swords forever in Jerusalem.

[newyawker99]

7. Hi 4BunnyMon!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[BigBearJohn]

6. Thanks for all this info. I appreciate it!

[Squeech]

8. Here's one I wrote

It's called "Man Behind the Curtain," and I just go off on Commander Cuckoo Bananas as if I were half my age and had green hair.

http://www.thankyoudubya.com/media/curtain.mp3