Protest songs

[sakabatou]

Anyone want a running list?

This also includes anti-war songs, etc.

[JVS]

1. What more do I need than this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCP1si4X4aQ

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

2. You may be interested in this linked site

http://www.lacarte.org/songs/anti-war/

[sakabatou]

6. Thanks

[Forkboy]

3. Almost every song on Ministry's last three CDs

Rio Grande Blood

~And now a message from the President of the United States George W. Bush~
I've adopted sophisticated terrorist tactics
And I'm a dangerous, dangerous man
With dangerous, dangerous weapons
I want to drain the coal resources in America
And foreign sources of crude oil.
I'm a weapon of mass destruction
And I'm a brutal dictator
And I'm evil

I've got something that I must confess
I make a profit off people oppressed
I take the money 'til there's nothing left
And all I gotta say is Yippie Aye Yay

Rio Grande Blood

I want money
I want yer money
I want crude oil
It's the government's money
I'm an asshole

I can't remember the world such a mess
Not for the companies I like the best
Exxon and Conoco - fuck all the rest
And all I gotta say is Yippie Aye Yay

Rio Grande Blood

I want money
I want yer money
I want crude oil
It's the government's money

We went to war because of our dependence on foreign oil ~ Haliburton
We went to war because of money ~ Haliburton
We will settle for nothing less than victory, victory ~ Haliburton
We will settle for nothing less than crude oil ~ crude oil

Squeezing the working class whom I detest
Taxing the poor so the rich can invest
I know I'm an asshole, but aren't you impressed
And all I gotta say is Yippie Aye Yay

Rio Grande Blood
Rio Grande Blood
Rio Grande Blood
I want crude oil
Rio Grande Blood
I want money
Rio Grande Blood
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJrxzVxGqIQ



Paris - Sheep To The Slaughter
Easily I approach the microphone, in this land of jokes
Can't leave it alone, cause ya know, I could see right though
Corrupt plans and these bullshit scams and untruths
We livin' in a maze, different days and times
The world is a stage, most truth is a lie
In this propaganda matrix, the sheep just die
For these murderous conservatives with corporate ties
Deny knowledge of the truth, ignorin' the poor
They just human ammunition for these capital wars
Just human ammunition and collateral d
That's why millions of us holla risin' up in the streets
And when ya see me understand I'm representin' a voice
The majority would feel if ever given a choice
I don't need this seedy media they only annoy
Cause the only ones that wanna scrap ain't never deployed
Who do the fightin' for these rich white folks and they wars?
No it ain't Drew Carey, Dennis Miller or stars
Fox News, Mike Savage, Bruce Willis or Rush
Won't be MSNBC, CNN or a Bush
Never Toby Keith, Hannity, O'Reilly or Clint
Ain't ClearChannel - know they ain't supportin' dissent
Never Blair, Kid Rock, or Tom Cruise
James Woods, Rob Lowe, Tom Selleck or Powell
Not Arnold Schwarzenegger, he ain't gonna shoot, or
Ted Nuget cause in war the targets got weapons too
Ain't Cheney, Rumsfeld, Halliburton or Ridge
Or Ann Coulter, or Joseph Lieberman or the rich
Or any bitch up in congress, they just make laws
When it comes to fightin' - we the ones that end up in gauze
So when you say "support that murderer," I have no applause
Even if he got his jumpsuit on - we pay the cost
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAg1fTlkpkI


Michael Franti and Spearhead - Yell Fire
A revolution never come with a warning
A revolution never sends you an omen
A revolution just arrived like the morning
Ring the alarm, we come to wake up the snoring

They tellin' you to never worry about the future
They tellin' you to never worry about the torture
They tellin you that you'll never see the horror
Spend it all today and we will bill you tomorrow
Three piece suits and bank accounts in Bahamas
Wall street crime will never send you to the slammer
Tell all the children in the arms of their mommas
The F-15 is a homicide bomber

TV commercials for a popping pill culture
Drug companies circling like a vulture
An Iraqi babies with a G.I. Joe father
Ten years from now is anybody gonna bother

Yell Fire, yo, yo ,yo
Here we come, here we come
Fire, yo, yo, yo, yo
Revolution a comin'
Fire, yo, yo, yo, yo
Fire, yo, yo, yo, yo

Everyone addicted to the same nicotine
Everyone addicted to the same gasoline
Everyone addicted to a technicolour scream
Everybody trying to get their hands on same green
From the banks of the river to the banks of the greedy
All of the riches taken back by needy
We come from the country and we come from the city
You play us on the record, you can play us on the CD
All the shit you given us is fertilizer
The seeds that we planted you can brutalize them
Tell the corporation you can never globalize you
Like Peter Tosh said "Legalize It!"
Girls and boys hear the bass and treble
Rumble in the speakers and it make you wanna rebel
Throw your hands up, take it to another level
And you can never, ever, ever make a deal with the devil

Yell Fire, yo, yo, yo, yo
Here we come, here we come
Fire, yo, yo, yo, yo
Revolution a comin'
Fire, yo, yo, yo, yo
Fire, yo, yo, yo, yo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7WASrQFg8o

[hellbound-liberal]

4. Here are my first five-starting with Bob Dylan

Masters of War- Bob Dylan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muQRIUVd6Aw

For What it’s Worth-Buffalo Springfield

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g9PiEgYYUU

War Pigs-Black Sabbath

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

Let’s Impeach the President-Neil Young

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4kTnP5VJ1k

The Revolution Starts Now-Steve Earle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG8ZUaLACZ8

[bertha katzenengel]

5. Ohio. Best. Ever.

[mulsh]

7. All We Gotta Do Is...

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_SjBdVYG9ms

[electricmonk]

8. A few more for the list

Bomb. Repeat. Bomb- Ted Leo and the Pharmacists http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTqKxzMLFe0

State of Alert- Radio 4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVHsWfE1aJg

Combat Rock- Sleater-Kinney http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZw-m3cFH90

New Kicks- Le Tigre http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiwgR5Uy0Iw

Wasted Life- Stiff Little Fingers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3mqtXQAunw

Tin Soldiers- SLF http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--JTnwsSyeM

Renegades of Funk- Rage Against the Machine http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqWP1rsAMrw

Murder in a Foreign Place- MIA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44IrF1K-LFU

Last Night Another Soldier- Angelic Upstarts http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMRV-DA58rw

[Bennyboy]

9. Throwing Stones...... Grateful Dead.......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgHj4sFGGRc

Picture a bright blue ball just spinning, spinning free
Dizzy with eternity.
Paint it with a skin of sky, brush in some clouds and sea
Call it home for you and me.
A peaceful place or so it looks from space
A closer look reveals the human race.
Full of hope, full of grace, is the human face.
But afraid, we may our home to waste.
Theres a fear down here we cant forget hasnt got a name just yet
Always awake, always around singing ashes to ashes all fall down.
Now watch as the ball revolves and the nighttime calls
And again the hunt begins and again the bloodwind calls
By and by again, the morning sun will rise
But the darkness never goes from some mens eyes.
It strolls the sidewalks and it rolls the streets
Stalking turf, dividing up meat.
Nightmare spook, piece of heat, you and me, you and me.
Click, flashblade in ghetto night. rudies looking for a fight.
Rat cat alley roll them bones. need that cash to feed that jones
And the politicians throwing stones
Singing ashes, ashes all fall down.
Commissars and pin-striped bosses role the dice
Any way they fall guess who gets to pay the price.
Money green or proletarian gray, selling guns instead of food today.
So the kids they dance, they shake their bones
While the politicians throwing stones
Singing ashes, ashes all fall down.
Heartless powers try to tell us what to think
If the spirits sleeping, then the flesh is ink.
Historys page, it is thusly carved in stone
The futures here, we are it, we are on our own.
If the game is lost then were all the same
No one left to place or take the blame.
We will leave this place an empty stone
Or this shinning ball of blue we can call our home
So the kids they dance, they shake their bones
While the politicians are throwing stones
Singing ashes, ashes all fall down.
Shipping powders back and forth
Singing black goes south while white comes north
And the whole world full of petty wars
Singing I got mine and you got yours.
And the current fashions set the pace.
Lose your step, fall out of grace.
And the radical he rant and rage, singing someone got to turn the page
And the rich man in his summer home,
Singing just leave well enough alone
But his pants are down, his covers blown
And the politicians are throwing stones
So the kids they dance they shake their bones
Cause its all too clear were on our own
Picture a bright blue ball just spinning, spinning free
Its dizzying, the possibilities. ashes, ashes all fall down.

[Tikki]

10. This protest in words and music....

against another Republican Presidents' crappy economy...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NeKucb97EU

..."I'm out here fighting, hungry
The fish ain't biting
Life's so frightening
I'm out here stumbling
Broke and crumbling
And nothing's happening
And aye aye, captain......'Fish Ain't Bitin'...Lamont Dozier circa 1973




Tikki

[JTG of the PRB]

11. Handlebars - Flobots

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afX6VYn48KE

I can ride my bike with no handlebars
No handlebars
No handlebars
I can ride my bike with no handlebars
No handlebars
No handlebars

Look at me, look at me
hands in the air like it's good to be
ALIVE
and I'm a famous rapper
even when the paths're all crookedy
I can show you how to do-si-do
I can show you how to scratch a record
I can take apart the remote control
And I can almost put it back together
I can tie a knot in a cherry stem
I can tell you about Leif Ericson
I know all the words to "De Colores"
And "I'm Proud to be an American"
Me and my friend saw a platypus
Me and my friend made a comic book
And guess how long it took
I can do anything that I want cuz, look:

I can keep rhythm with no metronome
No metronome
No metronome
And I can see your face on the telephone
On the telephone
On the telephone

Look at me
Look at me
Just called to say that it's good to be
ALIVE
In such a small world
All curled up with a book to read
I can make money open up a thrift store
I can make a living off a magazine
I can design an engine sixty four
Miles to a gallon of gasoline
I can make new antibiotics
I can make computers survive aquatic conditions
I know how to run a business
And I can make you wanna buy a product
Movers shakers and producers
Me and my friends understand the future
I see the strings that control the systems
I can do anything with no assistance
I can lead a nation with a microphone
With a microphone
With a microphone
I can split the atoms of a molecule
Of a molecule
Of a molecule

Look at me
Look at me
Driving and I won't stop
And it feels so good to be
Alive and on top
My reach is global
My tower secure
My cause is noble
My power is pure
I can hand out a million vaccinations
Or let'em all die in exasperation
Have'em all grilled leavin lacerations
Have'em all killed by assassination
I can make anybody go to prison
Just because I don't like'em and
I can do anything with no permission
I have it all under my command
I can guide a missile by satellite
By satellite
By satellite
and I can hit a target through a telescope
Through a telescope
Through a telescope
and I can end the planet in a holocaust
In a holocaust
In a holocaust
In a holocaust
In a holocaust
In a holocaust
In a holocaust

I can ride my bike with no handlebars
No handle bars
No handlebars
I can ride my bike with no handlebars
No handlebars
No handlebars

[khashka]

17. I LOVE That song! n/t

Khash,

[nomorenomore08]

12. Not a huge NIN fan, but this is a pretty intense protest against religious repression.

"Heresy": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DmGJrrLCQE&feature=related

he sewed his eyes shut because he is afraid to see
he tries to tell me what I put inside of me
he got the answers to ease my curiosity
he dreamed a god up and called it christianity

god is dead and no one cares
if there is a hell I'll see you there

he flexed his muscles to keep his flock of sheep in line
he made a virus that would kill off all the swine
his perfect kingdom of killing, suffering, and pain
demands devotion, atrocities done in his name

god is dead and no one cares
if there is a hell I'll see you there

your god is dead and no one cares
if there is a hell I'll see you there

god is dead and no one cares
if there is a hell I'll see you there

(your god is dead) god is dead
(and no one cares) and no one cares
(drowning in his own hypocrisy) if there is a hell
(see you) I'll see you there (you there)

[asteroid2003QQ47]

13. Sam Stone

Sam Stone
©John Prine

Sam Stone came home,
To his wife and family
After serving in the conflict overseas.
And the time that he served,
Had shattered all his nerves,
And left a little shrapnel in his knee.
But the morphine eased the pain,
And the grass grew round his brain,
And gave him all the confidence he lacked,
With a Purple Heart and a monkey on his back.

Chorus:
There's a hole in daddy's arm where all the money goes,
Jesus Christ died for nothin' I suppose.
Little pitchers have big ears,
Don't stop to count the years,
Sweet songs never last too long on broken radios.
Mmm....

Sam Stone's welcome home
Didn't last too long.
He went to work when he'd spent his last dime
And Sammy took to stealing
When he got that empty feeling
For a hundred dollar habit without overtime.
And the gold rolled through his veins
Like a thousand railroad trains,
And eased his mind in the hours that he chose,
While the kids ran around wearin' other peoples' clothes...

Repeat Chorus:

Sam Stone was alone
When he popped his last balloon
Climbing walls while sitting in a chair
Well, he played his last request
While the room smelled just like death
With an overdose hovering in the air
But life had lost its fun
And there was nothing to be done
But trade his house that he bought on the G. I. Bill
For a flag draped casket on a local heroes' hill.

Repeat Chorus

[Mojambo]

14. See Ochs, Phil. n/t

[Benfea]

15. Rage Against the Machine

All of it. Every single song is basically a protest song.

I believe Le Tigre billed themselves as the rock band you want to listen to coming home from a feminist protest, but I never quite bought into that idea.

[Benfea]

16. Oh, I hate country music but....

...you can't have a thread like this without mentioning Not Ready To Make Nice by the Dixie Chicks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwc5YSAc-7g

[Eagle_Eye]

18. Charlie on the MTA

It is not about war, but it is about the Government taking advantage of the powerless.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VMSGrY-IlU