- StarGeezer
- Oct 28, 2007
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...timeless, formless...
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Enjoying the hardcore politics and music here and expanding my collection. Thanks, everyone.
On soldiers and the politics of peace...
from Dire Straits
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjZduiDfYT0
These mist-covered mountains
Are a home now for me
But my home is the lowlands
And always will be
Some day you'll return to
Your valleys and your farms
And you'll no longer burn
To be brothers in arms
Through these fields of destruction
Baptisms of fire
I've witnessed your suffering
As the battle raged high
And though they did hurt me so bad
In the fear and alarm
You did not desert me
My brothers in arms
There's so many different worlds
So many different suns
And we have just one world
But we live in different ones
Now the sun's gone to hell
And the moon riding high
Let me bid you farewell
Every man has to die
But it's written in the starlight
And every line in your palm
We're fools to make war
On our brothers in arms
from Crosby, Stills and Nash
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awZf2jdqmhk
Soldiers of peace are not fighting a war
Are not looking for enemies behind every door
Are not looking for people to kill or to maim.
Soldiers of peace are just changing the game.
Men who were fighting for all of our lives
Are now fighting for children, for homes and for wives,
Fighting for the memory of all who fell before,
But the soldiers of peace just can't kill any more.
So come all you warriors who live for the fight,
Come listen to somebody, somebody who might
Have been there before you and they have the right,
They've been dying to tell you the score.
The old warriors don't want you to hurt any more.
Soldiers of peace can still hear the cries
When the people were screaming and losing their lives,
When bodies were broken and spirits were torn
The soldiers of peace do not want you to mourn.
So come all you warriors who live for the fight,
Come listen to somebody, somebody who might
Have been there before you and they have the right,
They've been dying to tell you the score.
The old warriors don't want you to hurt any more.
Soldiers of peace are not fighting a war.
No more, no more, no more, no more.
On collective rebellion...
from Chumbawamba
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6WEZYNKXZg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0wDXD1LfQc
Pontius Pilate came to our town
Up to the dockyards to see the picket line
We asked him to help but he just turned around
He's the leader of the union now
Leader of the union, all of our questions he ignored
He washed his hands and he dreamt of his reward
A seat in the House Of Lords
One by one the ships come sailing in
One by one the ships go sailing out
We live for words and die for words, principles we can afford
When all our Brothers turn to Lords, whose side are you on?
You tell the world your hands are tied, history three times denied
A sea of changes three miles wide, whose side are you on?
One by one the ships come sailing in
One by one the ships go sailing out
This conspiracy of shame, murder by some other name
Play up and play the game, whose side are you on?
If any ask us why we died, we tell them that our leaders lied
Sold us out down the riverside, whose side are you on?
One by one the ships come sailing in
One by one the ships go sailing out
One by one the ships come sailing in
One by one the ships go sailing out...
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- Mr. Wiggles
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Eh, I don't know about that, Tupac's Changes was what got me into hip hop when I was a kid, and they played that video on MTV the entire summer.
True, but that was a long time ago.
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- Kopijeger
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Daniel Kahn's version of the "Unemployed march" was posted earlier, here's a recording in the original yiddish:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HSoMG_CGL0
Some more yiddish songs:
"Dos kelbl/The Calf"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZN80LDku2A
"Sog nischt kejnmol/Don't say never"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFBnxnSNXkc
Metal version of "Der Alefbeys" by the band Gevolt:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDH7B6CYmeg
On a different note, a Russian parody of "Sixteen tons":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO5X0wIJR8Q
A quick attempt at translation:
quote:
We sit in the bar at a late hour
And suddenly an order arrives from the boss
Run to your machines, your journey is long,
fly, lads, to the east!
Fly, lads, to the east,
to bomb a Soviet town.
Under the wing you will find sixteen "tonn"
Courtesy of the Pentagon!
A beauty flies above the ocean
at seven kilometres of altitude
Sixteen tons of dangerous cargo
And we fly to bomb the Union!
[something I can't make out]
On the horizon appears a Russian ace
His radar aquires us!
The first missile hit the radio
All gauges are suddenly at zero!
The second hit the toilet
The navigator was inside, now he is no more!
The third missile made us kaput
and took out the co-pilot!
The fourth missile messed up the wing
the Devil carried off the radioman.
A beauty flies above the ocean
at two metres of altitude.
Sixteen tons of dangerous cargo
And we fly to feed the jellyfish!
We sit in the bar at a late hour
in the transmission [something]
Thus inglouriously perished all!
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- im gay
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by Lowtax
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Denzel Curry - STRICTLY 4 MY R.V.I.D.X.R.Z. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-a7CzhjI1Ic
Went to school with Trayvon Martin.
quote:This is for America
Bout to put this poo poo in check
See me with my hoodie on
Just know these crackers wanna grab that TEC
Cause they feel a threat
Cock that beam and aim it at your chest
No I'm not wearin' a vest
Don't really care, cause this life is a test
My soul relieved
Nigga not trippin' I won't spaz
Remember Trayvon Martin
Then I blast on Zimmerman's rear end
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Jan 15, 2014 11:08
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- Antwan3K
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A friend of mine went to Scotland on exchange and attended some Celtic games. He taught me some of the great Irish republican songs they sing
My favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORifieiZiP4
quote:
I was born on a Dublin street where the Royal drums did beat,
And the loving English feet walked all over us;
And every single night, when me Da would come home tight,
He'd invite the neighbours outside with this chorus:
[Chorus:]
Oh, come out you Black and Tans;
Come out and fight me like a man;
Show your wife how you won medals down in Flanders;
Tell her how the I.R.A. made you run like hell away
From the green and lovely lanes in Killeshandra.
Come, tell us how you slew
Them ol' Arabs two by two;
Like the Zulus, they had spears and bows and arrows;
How you bravely faced each one,
With your sixteen pounder gun,
And you frightened them poor natives to their marrow.
[Chorus]
Come, let us hear you tell
How you slandered great Parnell,
When you thought him well and truly persecuted,
Where are the sneers and jeers
That you bravely let us hear,
When our heroes of sixteen were executed.
[Chorus]
The day is coming fast
And the time is here at last,
When each shoneen will be cast aside before us;
And, if there be a need,
Sure my kids will sing "Godspeed!",
With a bar or two of Stephen Behan's chorus. Antwan3K fucked around with this message at 16:23 on Jan 15, 2014
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- TheJunkyardGod
- Sep 19, 2004
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Do not taunt the Octopus
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I've learned most of my politics from Boy Sets Fire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZEQ3sIx2p0
quote:
Sacrifice, did it really mean that much to them
As it was killing you
They've locked you out after all that you have done for them
You toil still they profit more
Save yourself today in tearing down the design that they built with our hands
Struggle by to feed your kids while theirs grow fat, privileged and disdained
They've bled you dry
Until all that's left of you is sold to build their paradise
What have we worked for we've been scraping by for all our lives
Only to find that we're left behind
We'll own our own time and give you nothing in return
Our next meal will come from your table
So our lives can become something more
Than what you buy and sell
America will be reborn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNOh7u1VdU4
quote:on shift from 9 to 5
and then from 6 to 3
steals the soul machine forever turning
class rebellion
under our noses
the boss is feeding on the living corpses
their broken backs call for us to rise
but for now we'll all just smile and sympathize
denied a movement now lost replaced by fear
we ask for nothing less then settle for nothing more
behold the capitalists
bathing in the blood
of the working class
martyrs bleed
until spoken to
vultures get fat from the harness coup
revolution
another empty promise
of the leftist elite
frustration
another soul is crushed
under the rulers feet
and as the boot is forced
into their teeth
our safety
is their defeat
your station has been assigned
your rebellion is well confined
your rebellion is well confined
your rebellion is well confined
your rebellion is well confined
tired doctrines
killing just as many
as the leaders that they decry
their backs all well patted
for a job well done
without the use of their spines
indentured servants
without the shackles
callused hands and drying hearts
rise up and destroy the disease that stole your soul
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- pangstrom
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I probably like these songs more than I like their politics per se but they're political songs.
Future of the Left - Arming Eritrea
quote:Come on, Rick, I'm not a prize.
I'm not a cynic or one of those guys.
Come on, Rick, I'm not a rope,
Now pull your socks up.
Come on, Rick, I'm not a child,
I'm not special or one of a kind.
Come on Rick, I'm not a drunk,
I know my own worth,
I'm an adult!
I'm an adult!
A common purpose,
A common goal.
Come on, Rick, I'm not a prize.
I'm not a cynic or one of those guys.
Come on, Rick, I'm not a rope,
Now pull your socks up.
Come on, Rick, I'm not a child,
I'm not special or one of a kind.
Come on Rick, I'm not a drunk,
I know my own worth.
I'm an adult!
I'm an adult!
A common purpose
Gains value as a common goal.
Let's flail together
If we must flail at all.
Deep in the heart of the battle,
Caught in the switch of the flow,
Freedom from notes, she sells freedom from songs,
She sells freedom and arms Eritrea.
I could have made these excuses in my sleep,
As if anyone had doubted them at all,
But if we arm Eritrea then we won't have to pay her
And everyone can go home.
I've got to seek paranoia where I find,
As if anyone had doubted it at all,
But if we arm Eritrea then we won't have to pay her
And everyone can go home.
Yeah.
The Pogues - The Sick Bed Of Cuchulainn
quote:McCormack and Richard Tauber are singing by the bed
There's a glass of punch below your feet and an angel at your head
There's devils on each side of you with bottles in their hands
You need one more drop of poison and you'll dream of foreign lands
When you pissed yourself in Frankfurt and got syph down in cologne
And you heard the rattling death trains as you lay there all alone
Frank Ryan brought you whiskey in a brothel in Madrid
And you decked some loving blackshirt who was cursing all the yids
At the sick bed of Cuchulainn we'll kneel and say a prayer
And the ghosts are rattling at the door and the devil's in the chair
And in the Euston tavern you screamed it was your shout
But they wouldn't give you service so you kicked the windows out
They took you out into the street and kicked you in the brains
So you walked back in through a bolted door and did it all again
At the sick bed of Cuchulainn we'll kneel and say a prayer
And the ghosts are rattling at the door and the devil's in the chair
You remember that foul evening when you heard the banshees howl
There was lousy drunken bastards singing billy is in the bowl
They took you up to midnight mass and left you in the lurch
So you dropped a button in the plate and spewed up in the church
Now you'll sing a song of liberty for blacks and paks and jocks
And they'll take you from this dump you're in and stick you in a box
Then they'll take you to Cloughprior and shove you in the ground
But you'll stick your head back out and shout "We'll have another round"
At the graveside of Cuchulainn we'll kneel around and pray
And god is in his heaven, and billy's down by the bay
R.E.M. - Bad Day
quote:A Public service announcement followed me home the other day
I paid it never mind. Go away.
poo poo's so thick you could stir it with a stick-free Teflon whitewashed presidency
We're sick of being jerked around
Wear that on your sleeve
Broadcast me a joyful noise unto the times, lord,
Count your blessings.
We're sick of being jerked around
We all fall down.
Have you ever seen the televised St. Vitus subcommittee prize
Investigation dance? Those-ants-in- pants glances.
Well, look behind the eyes
It's a hallowed, hollow anesthesized
"Save my own rear end, screw these guys"
smoke and mirror lock down
Broadcast me a joyful noise unto the times, lord,
Count your blessings.
The papers wouldn't lie!
I sigh. Not one more
It's been a bad day.
Please don't take a picture
Its been a bad day.
Please...
We're dug in the deep the price is steep.
The auctioneer is such a creep.
The lights went out, the oil ran dry
We blamed it on the other guy
Sure, all men are created equal.
Here's the church, here's the steeple
Please stay tuned--we cut to sequel
ashes, ashes, we all fall down.
Broadcast me a joyful noise unto the times, lord,
Count your blessings.
Ignore the lowest fears
Ugh, this means war.
It's been a bad day.
Broadcast me a joyful noise unto the times, lord,
Count your blessings.
We're sick of being jerked around
We all fall down.
It's been a bad day...
Johnny Boy - You are the Generation that Bought More Shoes and You Get What You Deserve
quote:I just can't help believing
though believing sees me cursed
For belief ignores the heathen's
day by day sigh 'even worse'
But for all we are receiving
there's an evens key to turn
You are the generation that bought more shoes and you get what you deserve
Winter sweeps the streets of evening,
this frequency my universe To reel a deep or meaning feeling in seas where schools of fools be first But for all we are receiving
there's an evens key to turn
You was the generation that snorts for tunes and you get what you deserve
Burberry Beamer Beakheads
leaving Adidas sleek mystique reversed
Without a dream or scream between 'em.
Believing time does reimburse
Suffer all we are receiving
there's an evens key to turn
You are the generation that bought more shoes and you get what you deserve
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- alice_practice
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I can't believe more bad religion hasnt been posted
All Good Soldiers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev3-nQIP99o
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Jan 29, 2014 19:44
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- The New Black
- Oct 1, 2006
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Had it, lost it.
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I'm not so into Against Me's newer stuff (though I've not heard the new album), but I will always love Baby, I'm an Anarchist:
quote:Through the best of times, through the worst of times.
Through Nixon and through Bush
Do you remember '36, we went our separate ways.
You fought for Stalin and I fought for freedom.
You believe in authority, I believe in myself.
I'm a molotov cocktail, you're the Dom Perignon.
Baby, what's that confused look in your eye?
What i'm trying to say is that
i'll burn down buildings while you sit on a shelf inside of them.
You call the cops on the looters and pie-throwers.
They call it class war, I call them co-conspirators.
'Cause baby, I'm an anarchist and you're a spineless liberal.
We marched together for the 8-hour day
and held hands in the streets of Seattle.
But, when it came time to throw bricks
through that Starbucks window
you left me all alone.
You watched in awe at the red, white and blue on the 4th of July.
While those fireworks were exploding
I was burning that fucker and stringing my black flag high.
Eating the peanuts that the parties have tossed you
in the back seat of your father's new Ford.
You believe in the ballot, believe in reform.
You have faith in the elephant and jackass.
To you solidarity is a four-letter word.
We're all hypocrites, but you're a patriot.
You thought I was only joking
when I was screaming, "KILL WHITEY!!!"
at the top of my lungs, at the cops in their cars
and the men in their suits.
No, I won't take your hand and marry the state
I also like Rise Against but I suspect that might be Wrong.
letlive. has fairly political themes if you're into post-hardcore.
Much of the other stuff I can think of was already posted, but I did find a bunch of cool new music so thanks all!
E: Oh, man P.O.S. (and all of Doomtree)
The New Black fucked around with this message at 09:19 on Jan 30, 2014
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- The Real Paddy
- Aug 21, 2004
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by FactsAreUseless
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Does anyone remember a video from 2008, I (think) produced by a member of SA (LF, probably), of Obama, with "the billfold picture," Obama looking exhausted with a cigarette, Obama with Jay-Z...an atomic explosion...uh, lyrics about "gettin' money," maybe around the concluding portion of the primaries? I have been looking for that forever - thanks. Pretty sure it was on YouTube.
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- The Real Paddy
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by FactsAreUseless
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That's it! Thank you for the fast response.
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- Okuteru
- Nov 10, 2007
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Choose this life you're on your own
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Does anyone remember the band Molotov? They were a Mexican rock band who were big in the 90's and the early 00's who were once called "the Mexican Rage Against the Machine". You may have heard this song in the first epidode of Breaking Bad. Well, they also sing about some political things too.
http://youtu.be/hfmY9Wlxx0o
Gimme the power - A general rant about the power structure in Mexico in the 90's, mostly about the Institutional Revolutionary Party, a party who was in power until the 2000 election of Vicente Fox.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iJMOBcPQyg
Frijolero - This one is about border issues.
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- Math Debater
- May 6, 2007
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Hi alice_practice! I'm extremely flattered and think it's super amazingly cool and awesome that your first ever post on these forums has been in the D&D Music Thread!
Your post has inspired me to make a video of myself singing "Drunk Sincerity", from the underrated 1996 Bad Religion album titled The Gray Race.
I think "Drunk Sincerity" is very catchy and has some fabulous lyrics that seem to be psychological and sociological and political all at once! Here is the video of myself singing this splendiferously superb song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln7Qy08hD3E
And here are the lyrics:
The smell of virgin pages wafted through the swinging doors
And the croaking speech he'd heard from countless counselors before
They said "We all care for you, we know how you suffer
But I know you can succeed, I used to have it so much rougher"
There's hope in the words and emotion in the eyes
It's so easy to be misled by the savvy gentle guise
And like fools we trust the delivery
But it's all just drunk sincerity
In maternal family assembly poised regarding the blue tube
The numbers crept up higher and the hawks stayed out of view
Then the generals said "We don't want our boys dead
Your sons and your husbands will be coming back heroes soon"
There's hope in the words and emotion in the eyes
It's so easy to be misled by the savvy gentle guise
And like fools we trust the delivery
But it's all just drunk sincerity
With steam, heat, and rhythm in the back seat of the car
And adolescent perspective projecting life's forecast to the stars
You heard love from the lips and you were rapt by the hips
And the promise was eternal but you couldn't see that far
There's hope in the words and emotion in the eyes
It's so easy to be misled by the savvy gentle guise
And like fools we trust the delivery
But it's all just drunk sincerity
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- Nckdictator
- Sep 8, 2006
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Derek Webb's abit odd in that he's a very Christian, but very Left leaning singer and his music is some of the most critical of the established church I've heard in a while. He's also something of an anarchist which is always refreshing to see.
King and a Kingdom
quote:
Who's your brother, who's your sister
You just walked passed him
I think you missed her
As we're all migrating to the place where our father lives
'Cause we married in to a family of immigrants
My first allegiance is not to a flag, a country, or a man
My first allegiance is not to democracy or blood
It's to a king & a kingdom
There are two great lies that I've heard:
"the day you eat of the fruit of that tree, you will not surely die"
And that Jesus Christ was a white, middle-class republican
And if you wanna be saved you have to learn to be like Him
But nothing unifies like a common enemy
And we've got one, sure as hell
But he may be living in your house
He may be raising up your kids
He may be sleeping with your wife
Oh no, he may not look like you think
What Matters More
quote:You say always treat people like you'd like to be
I guess you love being hated for your sexuality
You love when people put words in your mouth
About what you believe
Make you sound like a freak
'Cause if you really believed
What you say you believe
You wouldn't be so damned reckless
With the words you speak
You wouldn't silently consent
When the liars speak
Denying all the dying of the remedy
(Chorus)
Tell me, brother what matters more to you
Tell me, sister what matters more to you
If I can see what's in your heart
By what comes out of your mouth
Then it sure looks to me like being straight
Is all it's about
It looks like being hated
For all the wrong things
Like chasing the wind
While the pendulum swings
'Cause we can talk and debate
Till we're blue in the face
About the language and tradition
That He's coming to save
And meanwhile we sit
Just like we don't have give a poo poo about
Fifty thousand people who are dying today
American Flag Umbrella
quote:I'm building a house on the limb
I need something that could stop a war
But I'm beset on all sides
By extremists with eyes on my heart
So I lie to everyone
I've lied to so many lovers
I've gotten away with it too
But if God is against us
Then who can be for us my friends
There's justice for everyone
Please take your hands off my brother
Please take your laws off my lover
The agents of law
Should always be blind and on time
Till there's freedom for everyone
Where are your american brothers
American before they were named
They're a huddling mass
With no oceans to cross for our shores
Where there's fortune for everyone
Oppression is always oppression
No matter the reasons or means
For skin or for sex,
By stares or by fists it's the same
There are blinders on everyone
I've looked through the eyes of my father
I've walked through lincoln's backyard
And there's still a backseat
When you ride on the bus through this town
There's color on everyone
So we lie beneath a tree of no color
Like an american flag umbrella
It keeps the elements out
And it's stuck to the ground in this place
But there's room for everyone
I know a way out of hell
We raise all our enemies' children
After they've murdered ours
We affix all their scars to our walls
So there's heartbreak for everyone
In the end it will all be ok
That's what the wise men tell us
So if it's not ok then it's not the end, oh my friends
There's hope for everyone.
My Enemies Are Men Like Me.
quote:I have come to give you life
And to show you how to live it
I have come to make things right
To heal their ears and show you how to forgive them
Because I would rather die
I would rather die
I would rather die
Than to take your life
How can I kill the ones I'm supposed to love
My enemies are men like me
I will protest the sword if it's not wielded well
My enemies are men like me
Peace by way of war is like purity by way of fornication
It's like telling someone murder is wrong
And then showing them by way of execution
When justice is bought and sold just like weapons of war
The ones who always pay are the poorest of the poor.
Savior on Capitol Hill
quote:I’m so tired of these mortal men
with their hands on their wallets and their hearts full of sin
scared of their enemies, scared of their friends
and always running for re-election
so come to DC if it be thy will
because we’ve never had a savior on Capitol Hill
You can always trust the devil or a politician
to be the devil or a politician
but beyond that friends you’d best beware
’cause at the Pentagon bar they’re an inseparable pair
and as long as the lobbyists are paying their bills
we’ll never have a savior on Capitol Hill
All of our problems gonna disappear
when we can whisper right in that President’s ear
he could walk right across the reflection pool
in his combat boots and ten thousand dollar suit
You can render unto Caesar everything that’s his
you can trust in his power to come to your defense
it’s the way of the world, the way of the gun
it’s the trading of an evil for a lesser one
so don’t hold your breath or your vote until
you think you’ve finally found a savior up on Capitol Hill.
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- Blood Magnet
- Nov 25, 2010
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American Steel
Sons of Avarice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzYwzvXD2kU
American Steel posted:
Speak of heroes
You're swift to nominate them
Oh, darling be a sacrificial lamb
Oh, poor boys fighting peasants in foreign lands
How loudly you praise them
Oh, but where were you then?
Off dancing with your debutante
Her skin is soft and warm
But her eyes are cold and dead
It serves the greedy well
To say men's hearts are dark
But I believe there'll be a light that shines
Which now is just a spark
No gods, no masters
No kings nor their court jesters
No gods, no masters
No kings nor their court jesters
Bury the last
Sons of avarice
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- duck monster
- Dec 15, 2004
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I stumbled across this, and I have no idea what to make of it, other than its pretty ancient.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u08mTCy80aI
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- Malmesbury Monster
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Found this song today while researching for an essay on evangelicalism in the U.S. Written by Joe Hill, who's been mentioned in the thread before, mocking religious opposition to unionization:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8qoB1XwtHM
The Preacher and the Slave (Pie in the Sky) posted:
Long-haired preachers come out every night,
Try to tell you what's wrong and what's right;
But when asked how 'bout something to eat
They will answer with voices so sweet:
Main Chorus:
You will eat, bye and bye,
In that glorious land above the sky;
Work and Pray, live on hay,
You'll get pie in the sky when you die. (That's a lie)
And the starvation army they play,
And they sing and they clap and they pray.
Till they get all your coin on the drum,
Then they tell you when you are on the bum:
Holy rollers and jumpers come out
And they roll and they jump and they should
Give your money to Jesus, they say,
And you'll eat on that glorious day
Working folks of all countries unite,
Side by side we for freedom will fight;
When the world and its wealth we have gained
To the grafters we'll sing this refrain:
Last Chorus:
You will eat, bye and bye,
When you've learned how to cook and to fry
Chop some wood, 'twill do you good
And you'll eat in the sweet bye and bye. (That's no lie)
Also wouldn't be a political music thread without Nina Paley's "This Land Is Mine." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-evIyrrjTTY
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ASK ME ABOUT BEING A SHITTY POSTER
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Ya Zainab
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hv5BzovaaHo
Really nothing like it to pump yourself up for the day.
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- SnakePlissken
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I've got some mixed feelings about Bad Religion, but here is one of their good ones. And if they had one outstanding album to me it was Recipe for Hate.
Bad Religion posted:
Watch It Die
I was born on planet earth
a rotating ball where man comes first
it's been around for a long, long time
but now it's time to watch it die
I saw a man on my big blue screen
he ruled the world economy
he said the rich would never concede
but some day soon he'll be put to sleep
I've seen the life of the forest green
and adaptations of the deep blue seas
and who knows who is the fittest
they will all soon be put to rest
(Refrain:)
On a plunging flight
and we're sitting in the pilots seat
in the midst of life
people on a dark horizon praying
somebody will save their lives
I was born on planet earth
at a drastic time full of plastic mirth
and everyday I've seen increasing signs
and you would too if you'd opened your eyes
you had a chance you did not try
so now it's time to watch it die
Anybody besides me remember an unknown folk singer back in the 80s-90s, think his name might have even been something like Robert Johnson, drove around to coffee houses around the country in his pickup playing his songs? I can only remember a scrap or two of them but I felt they were pretty powerful. I lost his cassette in a move years ago, it seems.
Bottom line
Midnight fires are burning,
Poison faucets flow.
Workers dying slowly
of what they don't know.
Give me something for my money,
Something I don't need.
Throw in a little planned obsolescence,
For this, it's guaranteed.
Laissez faire isn't
your responsibility.
Is that mission
on which you're hellbent
Your sole morality?
Your bottom line?
... and I can't remember the rest. I can't find him anywhere.
Also did one called "One of ours" and all I can remember off the top of my head is the chorus:
It's one of ours.
It's one of ours.
Keeps us clothed and fed,
And a roof above our head.
Something that big
Belongs to a superpower.
Don't be afraid,
It's one of ours.
Another thing I remember about him is he had a cat that he took around the country in his truck. It had had it's back broken, and couldn't walk.
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Feb 11, 2014 07:07
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- nagel
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We formed a wall once.
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Sweden has some good political hip hop, Looptroop gained fame when they released a song where they claimed that they shot Olof Palme, former PM who was shot out in the open in '86, and that they framed Christer Pettersson, the main suspect.
Looptroop feat Timbuktu - Hurricane George
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXTVsvL1RvM
quote:It's just another four more years for me to pour more tears
And watch my people suffer daily for your foreign affairs
I was born in a war torn area
Lord knows where, and my shoulders
have bore no more terror than all of theirs
It's sad to see the person you gave mandate
greet my folks with a surface-to-air handshake
All because the gipper wants to cash in a check
while Europeans are occupied with Bachelorette !
I woke up to 4 more years of state funded terrorism
In the name of Jesus straight fundamentalism
Message on my t-shirt screaming out my activism but nobody listens
And it feel like I got nothing but an empty page to empty out my rage
And emcee out on stage for an empty Mtv raised generation
while three generations of bushes are pushers and pimps - stifling
my petty attempts to make my people think...
Looptroop Rockers - Fort Europa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvCOVDdzrCU
quote:Yo we try to live our lives in protected homes
Don't worry 'bout no one and get your own
The weak people are just a stepping stone
On the road to the riches we hitting for
Anybody coming my way I'm gunning my way
Whoever got something to say better be runnin away
But I stay to see through the peep holes
Cause people like that is all we know, and
All of these lies and false promises
That poo poo will come back with the God nemesis, you
Whoever pick up this, a hundred years from now
Here's the last song before we all go down
The revolution is a moment away
The tensions in the air, that is coming our way, but
Powerful forces do they best
They count they're raps so they'll suite the west
Temperatures rising ain't no turnin back
At this point where this world is at
Hate'em for a cross-road which way to go
Heaven or hell only you can say you know
Promoe is one of the guys from Looptroop, and definitely the most famous one.
Promoe - White man's burden.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3FcH0DBrXo
quote:I grew up on some hardcore rap poo poo battle
spit, back to back - gently caress the wack poo poo
it was all gangsta rap and political black power
once a week i'd tape radio's rap hour
way before i thought about a hidden agenda
i was hatin my white skin and hatin my gender
didn't wanna represent rapists and murderers
the white man's burden is not what you heard it is
it ain't about a mission to christian the heathens
but it's connected to that vision of us as superior beings
and the world's darkest history
his story is my story it ain't no mystery
why our children seeking chemical relief
infected by our parents' old cynical beliefs
inherited like a genetical disease
somebody help me please man i wanna be released!
Gojira is a french metal band that often have environmentally aware lyrics, they are also really loving good.
Gojira - A sight to behold
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7CATnVT7Cs
quote:The way we all behave is not understandable
It is so sad to see the wealth of our planet fade away
We all behave like children, taking off the head of our teddy bear
To see what's inside, taking, not giving back
We drain the oceans and suck all the blood out of the soil
We spend the time we have left fighting and killing each other
Lust for comfort, entertainment becomes an obsession
And there is so much time to kill
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Feb 11, 2014 08:35
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- Ork of Fiction
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I love how, out of everything Crass did or said, this was the one thing that the courts couldn't stand to see in the light of day.
After all the obscenity charges and trials, it was this song that stuck in their throats.
You could say gently caress church and state, and they could just write it off as opposition and rebellion. They understood that.
But making those wrinkled old fucks confront the institutional subjugation of women just broke them.
It was a part of who they were, at their core, and they couldn't defend or accept it. They had to make it go away.
loving marvelous work.
Take that you shits.
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Feb 12, 2014 12:29
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Here's a Finnish rock band singing with the Red Army Choir in front of a whole downtown's worth of people, it's pretty awesome.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maOtX4tXyb4 Those Were The Days
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jrg0X9H6FGU Sweet Home Alabama
agarjogger fucked around with this message at 07:23 on Feb 14, 2014
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Feb 14, 2014 07:21
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- Seagull Fiasco
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If this was already posted I apologise for failing at reading comprehension, but I feel this song belongs in this thread:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HH_JAhhQKZE
Flogging Molly posted:From the town of Detroit where my job is secure yeah
Secure in the fact now that it's gone for good yeah
So I'll scrimp and I'll scrape at this pension I saved
So it should be gone by the end of the day
Yeah the power's out
Is there no luck in sight?
Yeah the power's out
Hope it's just for the night
Yeah the power's out
Another kick in the head
I'm so poor at this living I'd be richer off...
Wrap me up in your silver then roll me gold yeah
Then ice up this whiskey 'til it's nice and cold yeah
Forgive me for dreaming it's all I have left
Except this pending foreclosure and mountains of debt
Yeah the power's out
Well there's gently caress all to see
Yeah the power's out
Like this economy
Yeah the power's out
Guess it's par for the course
Unless you're a blood sucking leech CEO, CEO
So I guess the good lord has forgotten about me
And me like himself my old trade's carpentry
I could build him a cross with one hand behind back
And the other three nails 'case he gives me the sack
Yeah the power's out
The poor dog has left home
Yeah the power's out
Couldn't 'ford him a bone
Yeah the power's out
It's the trickle effect
Today it's just me but tomorrow ye rest
...
So don't spend your taxes on men on the moon yeah
We've been there before and we left pretty soon yeah
The grass will be greener one day I expect
When the earth will catch fire then replenish itself
From the town of Detroit where we fight 'til we drop yeah
We don't want your pity we just want a job yeah
There's no shame in us asking with some self-respect
But don't leave it much longer; we're human at best
Yeah the power's out
Well there's gently caress all to see
Yeah the power's out
Like this economy
Yeah the power's out
Guess it's par for the course
Unless you're a blood sucking leech CEO, CEO, CEO, CEO
The CEO must go
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Feb 14, 2014 23:45
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- Ork of Fiction
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Jello Biafra was always a visionary, and NoMeansNo had a talent for attacking concepts at an elemental level.
Together, they made a pretty decent album.
quote:BRUCE'S DIARY
On the top floor, from my penthouse
I survey what I rule
High rises
Thin curtains
All lights go out by two
No one ever sees me
Yet I know all of you
It's sort of like a small town
When your whole lives are on my computer
Ah... Ah...
All the power, none of the stress
So much better being hatchet man
Than a henpecked attention-starved target
Like the big man himself
Our goal is perpetual economic victory
We play with you to amuse ourselves
Our motives are personal
Our motives are political
Our motives are sexual
I know
Hi Ho Hi Ho Hi Ho
The laws we make for others
Don't apply to us
We do what we want
A lethargic population is the key to our control
Who'd rather watch someone's life on tv
Than participate in their own
Mentally they feel helpless
Physically they just give up
We priced the healthy food so high
They can only buy soda pop
A house broken bee colony
That goes home after 5
Too burnt and glazed to threaten us
With purpose in their lives
Ah... Ah...
Ha Ha Ha
We drug their snacks at work
Mix hormones in kids lunch at school
Don't be a pill, it's good for you
The men grow up muscular
Short tempered and kinda dumb
The women develop those outrageous curves
The kind you only used to see
In the movies and magazines
We banned and rounded up for ourselves
Hi-Ho
Hi-Ho
It's off to do our work you go
We melt you with acid rain
Keep you poor for economic gain
Convince you your biggest threat
Is drugs and terrorists
They don't even have to be real
Just find a face, make up a crime
Run sensational headlines
Works every time
The people must not realize
They are being manipulated
For them to be manipulated effectively
We give 'em things to worry about
Buying clothes and losing weight
Your lack of curiosity
Is the key to our success
Your lack of curiosity is the key to our success
Hi Ho
Hi Ho
Hi Ho
Life's so simple and happy
When everything's clear.
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Feb 15, 2014 01:47
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- xthnru
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FUCK YOU GUYS. I'm out.
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Can't stop posting Utah Phillips:
Partial quote:
Lucy Parsons through Utah Phillips posted:
One time, she was speaking at a big May Day rally back in the Haymarket in the middle 1930s; she was incredibly old. She was led carefully up to the rostrum, a multitude of people there. She had her hair tied back in a tight white bun, her face a mass of deeply incised lines, deep-set beady black eyes. She was the image of everybody’s great-grandmother. She hunched over that podium, hawk-like, and fixed that multitude with those beady black eyes, and said:
“What I want is for every greasy, grimy tramp to arm himself with a knife or a gun, and stationing himself at the doorways of the rich, shoot or stab them as they come out.”
Well, she was just pissed. She was just pissed. Now, you see, I'm no pacifist, but I admire her spunk, by God!
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Feb 15, 2014 09:52
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- Volkerball
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One of my favorites. Takin our country back by Hank Jr.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY-Z1hjquqo
quote:I'll go find a network 'wants to treat me right
Y'all can take the change and stick it out of sight
Don't tread on me, don't you tread on me
Hey are you ready for some good news
We're gonna take back our country
Well it used to be easy, get a place, build a house
Now the EPA said no, that's the home of the blue mouse
Don't tread on me, don't you tread on me
We're gonna use some common sense
And we're gonna take back our country
Well they've beaten to death that poll race horse
This politically correct thing has run it's course
Don't tread on me, don't you tread on me
Hey are you ready for some good news
We're gonna take back our country
Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Bing
Lots of divorces from showing them things
Why don't you mind your own business
That's good advice
Mind your own business
Dad got it right
'Cause if you mind your business
Then you won't be mindin' mine
Every sign says for sale, for lease
Price reduced, make an offer please
Don't tread on me, don't you tread on me
Hey are you ready for some good news
We're gonna take back our country
There's no way today we could build Boulder Dam
There'd be way too many government permits down
Don't tread on me, don't you tread on me
Hey are you ready for the good news
We're gonna take back this country
Hey Barack pack your bags, head to Chicago
Take your teleprompter with you so you'll know where to go
Go move it on over (move it on over)
Move it on over (move it on over)
Move over little dog 'cause the big dog's movin' in
Hey! Hey! Hey!
Move it on over (move it on over)
Slide it on over (move it on over)
Hey are you ready for some good news
Are you ready for some good news
We're gonna take back our country
That's what I'm talking about, baby
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- kustomkarkommando
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I'm a pretty rabid record collector and have a big collection of political folk LP's so I'm gonna dump a bunch of stuff I haven't seen in this thread yet.
Harry "Haywire Mac" McClintock was a drifter and musician probably most famous for writing "Big Rock Candy Mountain" and recording "Hallelujah I'm a Bum". The guy lead an absolutely fascinating life; He was in the Philippines during the Spanish-American war, was in China during the Boxer rebellion and was a life-long Wobblie and one of the first musicians to perform the songs of Joe Hill. Back in 1951 Sam Eskin recorded an interview with him that was released as an LP on Folkways. It's a treasure trove for anyone interested in American folk.
Here he is being interviewed about Joe Hill and performing "The Preacher and The Slave":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19JlRFdQifk
And "Casey Jones (Union Scab)":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G4MxlQ098Q
For the historical side of things the LP also has an unusual version of "The Unreconstructed Rebel/Good Old Rebel", one of the more infamous post-Civil War political songs. It doesn't have some of the more controversial verses so instead here's a version that includes some of the more bitter verses (there are loads of different versions of this tune, some of them try to sanitize it a bit).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roVjjvUGoTA
The Unreconstructed Rebel posted:
Oh, I'm a good old Rebel,
Now that's just what I am;
For this "fair land of Freedom"
I do not care a drat.
I'm glad I fought against it-
I only wish we'd won.
And I don't want no pardon
For anything I've done.
I hates the Constitution,
This great Republic too;
I hates the Freedmen's Bureau,
In uniforms of blue.
I hates the nasty eagle,
With all his brag and fuss;
But the lyin', thievin' Yankees
I hates' em even worse
I hates the Yankee nation
And everything they do;
I hates the Declaration
Of Independence too;
I hates the glorious union
Tis dripping with our blood;
I hates the strip-ed banner
I fought it all I could
Three hundred thousand Yankees
Lie stiff in southern dust;
We got three hundred thousand
Before they conquered us.
They died of Southern fever
And Southern steel and shot;
And I wished it was three million
Instead of what we got.
I can't take up my musket
And fight' em now no more,
But I ain't a-goin'to love' em,
Now that is sartin sure;
And I don't want no pardon
For what I was and am;
And I won't be reconstructed,
And I do not give a drat.
To counter that here's a campaign tune for Rutherford B Hayes from the 1876 presidential election called "Republicans Remember" that pulls no punches in it's stance on ex-Confederates:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nt7e-D1ltLw
Republicans Remember/The Bloody Hand of Treason posted:
Republicans remember, how in eighteen sixty-one,
The fight for human liberty at Sumpter was begun,
And rebels thought, the Union then its race of life had run,
When stricken by the bloody hand of treason.
Refrain --
Hurrah! hurrah! the Union still remains--
Hurrah! hurrah! the black man wears no chains--
The will of Loyal millions now the Government sustains
Against the foul and bloody hand of treason.
"The war is all a failure," Slippery Tilden loudly cried,
But the valor of our Soldiers gave the answer that he lied,
When Hayes and all the Boys in Blue were fighting side by side
Against the foul and bloody hand of treason.
Refrain.--Hurrah! hurrah! the Union still remains, &c.
We can, and will, forgive the wrong, when rebels do repent;
When they will act like honest men, and show a pure intent;
But Uncle Sam their necks will break, when they will not be bent,
But show the foul and bloody hand of treason.
Refrain.--Hurrah! hurrah! the Union still remains, &c.
We see the men who drew the sword against their native land
In Congress, as a unit, still the foes of freedom stand;
To rout the ex-confederates, honest Hayes must take command,
And paralize the bloody hand of treason.
Refrain--Hurrah! hurrah! the Union still remains, &c.
This is a Peggy Seeger song, its on her 1979 LP "Different Therefore Equal". Here's a clip of her singing her protest song "Reclaim the Night" at the Greenham Common Peace Camp:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JedwFmwM0-c
Speaking of Peggy Seeger I'm really surprised no-one has posted anything by her husband Ewan MacColl, the man was a god-damned titan of the British radical folk scene. Here's my favorite song they recorded together "Legal, Illegal", this may be one of my favorite political folk songs ever recorded:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeG2BK_J40I
Legal Illegal posted:
Every time you pick up a newspaper
Every time you turn on the TV
You can bet your old boots that at some point you'll see
A high ranking copper or else an MP
Calling on all who are British and free
To stand up and defend law and order
It's illegal to rip off a payroll
It's illegal to hold up a train
But it's legal to rip off a million or two
That comes from the labour that other folks do
To plunder the many on behalf of the few
Is a thing that is perfectly legal
It's illegal to kill off a landlord
Or to trespass upon his estate
But to charge a high rent for a slum is OK
To condemn 2 adults and 3 children to stay
In a hovel that's rotten with damp and decay
Is a thing that is perfectly legal
If your job turns you into a zombie
Then it's legal to feel some despair
But don't be aggressive that is if you're smart
And for Christ's sake don't upset the old apple cart
Remember the boss has your interests at heart
And it grieves him to see you unhappy
If you fashion a bomb in your kitchen
You're guilty of breaking the law
But a bloody great nuclear plant is OK
Though plutonium processing hastens the day
When this tiny little isle may be blasted away
Nonetheless it is perfectly legal
It's illegal if you are a Gypsy
To camp by the side of the road
But it's proper and right for the rich and the great
To live in a mansion or own an estate
That was got from the people by pillage and rape
That's what they call a tradition
It's illegal to carve up your missus
Or put poison in your old man's tea
But poison the rivers, the seas and the skies
And poison the mind of a nation with lies
If it's done in the interest of free enterprise
Then it's proper and perfectly legal
It's legal to join a trade union
And to picket is one of your rights
But don't be offensive when scabs cross the line
Be nice to the coppers and keep this in mind
To picket effectively that is a crime
Worse than if you had murdered your mother
It's legal to sing on the telly
But they make bloody sure that you don't
If you sing about racists and fascists and creeps
And thieves in high places that live off the weak
And those who are selling us right up the creek
The twisters, the takers, the conmen, the fakers
The whole bloody gang of exploiters
I've got plenty more I might post later on when I have time.
kustomkarkommando fucked around with this message at 20:58 on Feb 15, 2014
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- SnakePlissken
- Dec 31, 2009
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More Bad Religion:
"American Jesus"
I don't need to be a global citizen
'cause I'm blessed by nationality
I'm a member of a growing populace
We enforce our popularity
There are things that seem to pull us under
And there are things that drag us down
But there's a power and a vital presence
That's lurking all around
We've got the American Jesus
See him on the interstate
We've got the American Jesus
He helped build the president's estate
I feel sorry for the earth's population
'Cause so few live in the USA
At least the foreigners can copy our morality
They can visit but they cannot stay
Only precious few can garner the prosperity
It makes us walk with renewed confidence
We've got a place to go when we die
And the architect resides right here
We've got the American Jesus
Bolstering national faith
We've got the American Jesus
Overwhelming millions every day
He's the farmer's barren fields
The force the army wields
The expression on the faces of the starving millions
The power of the man
He's the fuel that drives the Klan
He's the motive and conscience of the murderer
He's the preacher on TV
The false sincerity
The form letter that's written by the big computers
The nuclear bombs
The kids with no moms
And I'm fearful that he's inside me
Yeah, we've got the American Jesus
See him on the interstate
We've got the American Jesus
Exercising his authority
We've got the American Jesus
Bolstering national faith
We've got the American Jesus
Overwhelming millions every day
One nation
Under God (Repeat and rinse)
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Feb 18, 2014 09:00
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bArpUFdXc8w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq7mNzY5lT8
Both local bands to me, featuring a guy Al Boyd who I personally think is one of the best political poets I've ever come across. (Jennifa is more notable in the context here for its video clip and its comment on 'boat people' refugees in australia.
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Feb 19, 2014 02:59
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- King of Hamas
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDS00Pnhkqk
Woody Guthrie - Jesus Christ Lyrics:
Jesus Christ was a man who traveled through the land
A hard-working man and brave
He said to the rich, "Give your money to the poor,"
But they laid Jesus Christ in His grave
Jesus was a man, a carpenter by hand
His followers true and brave
One dirty little coward called Judas Iscariot
Has laid Jesus Christ in His Grave
He went to the preacher, He went to the sheriff
He told them all the same
"Sell all of your jewelry and give it to the poor,"
And they laid Jesus Christ in His grave.
When Jesus come to town, all the working folks around
Believed what he did say
But the bankers and the preachers, they nailed Him on the cross,
And they laid Jesus Christ in his grave.
And the people held their breath when they heard about his death
Everybody wondered why
It was the big landlord and the soldiers that they hired
To nail Jesus Christ in the sky
This song was written in New York City
Of rich man, preacher, and slave
If Jesus was to preach what He preached in Galilee,
They would lay poor Jesus in His grave.
Woody Guthrie is p much Socialist.mp3
King of Hamas fucked around with this message at 17:37 on Feb 19, 2014
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- Pope Guilty
- Nov 6, 2006
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The human animal is a beautiful and terrible creature, capable of limitless compassion and unfathomable cruelty.
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Jello Biafra was right, Hank Williams Jr. is a disgrace to both his father and his son.
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Feb 20, 2014 06:55
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- King of Hamas
- Nov 25, 2013
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by XyloJW
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M.I.A. can perform at the super bowl with fellow pop star Madonna but her lyrics are pretty, uh, political at times:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT4UpNkTPpM
Fire Fire, MIA posted:
Growin up, Brewin Up
Guerilla gettin trained up
Look out look out
From over the Rooftop
Growin up, Brewin Up
Guerilla gettin trained up
Look out Look out
From over the rooftop
Competition coming up now
Load up,
Aim,
Fire Fire,
Pop
...
Row Da Boat - Straight to da ocean
Give 'im a run - A run at his own game
Signal the plane - An' I landed on the runway
A survivor, independant foreigner
First your beats had me running to the running man
Then your chat had me wanna do the bogie man
Click suits and booted in the timberland
Freakin out to Missy on a Timbaland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySm46x00oQ0
Pull Up the Poor, MIA posted:
Pull up the people, pull up the poor
Pull up the people, pull up the poor
Pull up the people, pull up the poor
Pull up the people, pull up the poor
Pull up the people, pull up the poor
Pull up the people, pull up the poor
Pull up the poor, pull up the poor
Slang tang
That's the M.I.A. thang
I've got the bombs to make you blow
I got the beats to make it bang
[X2]
Yeah,me got God and me got you
Every day thinking bout how me get through
Everything i own is on I.O.U.
But i'm here to bringing you
Someting new
You no like the people,they no like you
Then they go and set it off
With a big Boom
Every gun in a battle is a
Son and daughter too
So why you wanna talk about
Who done who?
Why you wanna talk about
(chorus)
I'm a fighter, fighter God
I'm a soldier on that road
I'm a fighter, a nice nice fighter
I'm a soldier on that road
You can bring me the reaper
Bring me the lawyer
I'm a fighter, i'll take em on
You treat me like a killer
I ain't hate ya.
I'm a fighter, fighter God
I'm a soldier on that road
I'm a fighter, a nice nice fighter
I'm a soldier on that road
Slang tang
That's the M.I.A. thang
I've got the bombs to make you blow
I got the beats to make it bang bang bang (repeat 4x)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jakQrN_lgk
Born Free, MIA posted:
Whooo!
Yeah men made powers
Stood like a tower higher and higher hello
And the higher you go you feel lower, oh
I was close to the end staying undercover
Staying undercover
With a nose to the ground I found my sound
Got myself an interview tomorrow
I got myself a jacket for a dollar
And my nails are chipped but I'm eager
And the car doesn't work so I'm stuck here
Yeah I don't wanna live for tomorrow
I push my life today
I throw this in your face when I see ya
I got something to say
I throw this poo poo in your face when I see ya
Cause I got something to say
I was born free (born free)
I was born free (born free)
(bo-bo-born free ....)
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Who has two thumbs and craves a return to the glorious days of Hohenzollern rule? It's been a whole hundred years; I think more than enough time has passed for deformed, angry German monarchs to be given another chance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWJOkzLBPak
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We want to have the old Emperor Wilhelm back
We want to have the old Emperor Wilhelm back
The one with the beard, the long beard
The one with the beard, the long beard
We want to have the old Emperor Wilhelm back
We want to have the old Emperor Wilhelm back
But the one with the beard, the long beard
But the one with the beard, the long beard
Our parents rave about the good old times
It's so far away, The old Imperial Era
But they were really better, The good old times
When Grandpa courted Grandma
My Grandpa swore that, just a hundred years ago
The Rhine was still crystal-clear, The air still unpolluted
And Grandma without joking, Said that when she was a young girl
She could still drink from the Elbe, without getting sick
Yes, with hunting songs and horn sounds
Wandering through the forests around Berlin
Yes with hunting chants and horn sounds
... Grandma with Grandpa
But they stopped and shared a kiss
Otherwise we wouldn't be here today
We want to have the old Emperor Wilhelm back
We want to have the old Emperor Wilhelm back
The one with the beard, the long beard
The one with the beard, the long beard
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