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Come And See
Sep 15, 2008

We're all awash in a sea of blood, and the least we can do is wave to each other.


Theme: "It'll be alright..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kwyyj9X07sQ
Les Porte-mentaux - Ah Ça Ira

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF7eh1E2QzM
Barnaked Ladies - Shopping

Dishonorable mention:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8ftyVQM5FE
Buncha Tax-Dodging Movement-Appropriating Hacks - Revolution

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Come And See
Sep 15, 2008

We're all awash in a sea of blood, and the least we can do is wave to each other.


Bruce Springsteen's tribute to the late Pete Seeger the day after Pete passed away, January 28th in Cape Town:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJ6xXNwwLxc

Come And See
Sep 15, 2008

We're all awash in a sea of blood, and the least we can do is wave to each other.


This is a favorite of mine that I've never seen posted around these parts.

Tom Clay - What the World Needs Now Is Love/Abraham, Martin and John (1971)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y36L2EIYlMQ

The part with Ted's eulogy for his brother Bobby Kennedy is particularly emotional:

quote:

Like it or not, we live in times of danger and uncertainty. That is the way he lived, that is what he leaves us. My brother need not be idealized, or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life. Be remembered simply as a good and decent man, who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it.

Those of us who loved him, and who take him to his rest today, pray that what he was, to us, what he wished for others, will some day come to pass for all the world. As he said many times, in many parts of this nation, those he touched, and who sought to touch him.

"Some men see things as they are, and say Why; I dream things that never were, and say Why Not?"

Come And See
Sep 15, 2008

We're all awash in a sea of blood, and the least we can do is wave to each other.


Might as well make a theme of it.

Simon and Garfunkel - The Sound Of Silence (1965)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO_-esmcsv4

Living Colour - Cult Of Personality (1988)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xxgRUyzgs0

New Order – 1963 (1995)
(Which posits that Johnny was trying to kill his wife and the assassin missed)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBlxkdPPJ-c

Bonus:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A2BCykHesA

Come And See
Sep 15, 2008

We're all awash in a sea of blood, and the least we can do is wave to each other.


This morning I heard this song on the radio for the first time in three years:

Ten Years After - I'd Love To Change The World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7-8sCLWwLk

quote:

Everywhere is freaks and hairies
Dykes and fairies, tell me where is sanity
Tax the rich, feed the poor
Till there are no rich no more?

I'd love to change the world
But I don't know what to do
So I'll leave it up to you

Population keeps on breeding
Nation bleeding, still more feeding economy
Life is funny, skies are sunny
Bees make honey, who needs money, Monopoly

I'd love to change the world
But I don't know what to do
So I'll leave it up to you

World pollution, there's no solution
Institution, electrocution
Just black and white, rich or poor
Them and us, stop the war

I'd love to change the world
But I don't know what to do...
So I'll leave it up to you

And I've always thought this was a good companion song, answering the questions (in a hippy-dippy sort of way) posed by the first song:

England Dan & John Ford Coley - Love Is The Answer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QZjJU-mtFU

quote:

...

Who knows why
Someday we all must die
We're all homeless boys and girls
And we are never heard
It's such a lonely, lonely, lonely world
People turn their heads
And walk on by
Tell me is it worth just another try

...

And when you feel afraid
(Love one another)
When you've lost your way
(Love one another)
And when you're all alone
(Love one another)
And when you're far from home
(Love one another)
And when you're down and out
(Love one another)
And when your hopes run out
(Love one another)
And when you need a friend
(Love one another)
And when you're near the end
(Love)
(We've got to love)
(We've got to love one another)

And to round this post out:

Three Dog Night - Easy To Be Hard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeXcaRYNlSQ

quote:

How can people be so heartless
How can people be so cruel
Easy to be hard
Easy to be cold

How can people have no feelings
How can they ignore their friends
Easy to be proud
Easy to say no

Especially people who care about strangers
Who care about evil and social injustice
Do you only care about the bleeding crowd
How about a needing friend, I need a friend

How can people be so heartless
You know I'm hung up on you
Easy to be proud
Easy to say no

Especially people who care about strangers
Who care about evil and social injustice
Do you only care about the bleeding crowd
How about a needing friend, we all need a friend

How can people be so heartless
How can people be so cruel

Easy to be proud
Easy to say no
Easy to be cold
Easy to say no

(Come on)
Easy to give in
Easy to say no
Easy to be cold
Easy to say no
Much too easy to say no...

Come And See
Sep 15, 2008

We're all awash in a sea of blood, and the least we can do is wave to each other.


Tomero_the_Great posted:

Three Dog Night - Easy To Be Hard
Y'know, the more I think on the lyrics to this song, the less it becomes about caring about the people around you in your everyday life and bringing that worldly compassion home, and the more it becomes about the singer asking a liberal to have sex with him.

---

I was planning on putting together a Neil Young themed post, but I think this one deserves to stand alone. When I first heard this in concert I instantly fell in love with it. In many ways it reminds me of Hunter S. Thompson's "Wave Speech."

Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Walk Like A Giant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ub1qw2MmVOM

quote:

I used to walk like a giant on the land,
Now I feel like a leaf floating in a stream.
I wanna walk like a giant,
I wanna walk like a giant on the land.

Me and some of my friends,
We were gonna save the world.
We were trying to make it better,
We were ready to save the world.

But then the weather changed,
And the white got stained,
And it fell apart.
And it breaks my heart.

To think about how close we came...


I wanna walk like a giant on the land.
I wanna walk like a giant on the land.

The tracks ahead were long and straight.
We were riding on The Desert Wind.
We were pullin' into Spiritual,
Ridin' on The Desert Wind.

We could see it in the distance,
Getting closer every minute.
We saw the lights of Spiritual shining,
Getting closer every minute.

Then we skipped the rails,
And we started to fail,
And we folded up,
And it's not enough.

To think about how close we came...

I wanna walk like a giant on the land.
I wanna walk like a giant on the land.

Whenever I see the big fire coming,
Coming to burn down all my ideas.
I try to hold on to my thinking,
And remember how it feels.


When I'm looking right in your eyes
And hearing your happy laughing.
When I'm seeing your blue eyes shining,
And hear your happy laughing.

So the moment came,
And the big sky rained,
And it put out the fire,
Except in my desire.

When I think about how good it feels.

I wanna walk like a giant on the land.
I wanna walk like a giant on the land.

I used to walk like a giant on the land,
Now I feel like a leaf floating in a stream.
I wanna walk like a giant,
I wanna walk like a giant on the land.

Come And See fucked around with this message at 04:05 on Apr 29, 2014

Come And See
Sep 15, 2008

We're all awash in a sea of blood, and the least we can do is wave to each other.


You know what day it is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POH14-HMGFc

Come And See
Sep 15, 2008

We're all awash in a sea of blood, and the least we can do is wave to each other.


Have a bunch of Neil Young songs.

Let's Impeach the President

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtjQNWr9tjA
(Watch for all the wonderful first reactions. Bittersweet like a black comedy.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3_cS_iQ-w0

quote:

Who's the man who hired all the criminals,
The White House shadows who hide behind closed doors?
They bend the facts to fit with their new stories,
Of why we have to send our men to war.

Let's impeach the President for spying,
On citizens inside their own homes.
Breaking every law in the country,
By tapping our computers and telephones.

Alabama

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD3bGEFxGC0

quote:

Oh Alabama
The devil fools with the best laid plan.
Swing low Alabama.
You got the spare change, you've got to feel strange,
And now the moment is all that it meant.

Ohio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkg-bzTHeAk

quote:

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?

Southern Man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVRxdPWV3RM

quote:

I saw cotton,
And I saw black.
Tall white mansions,
And little shacks.
Southern man,
When will you
pay them back?
I heard screamin',
And bullwhips cracking,
How long? How long?

American Dream

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBIEjt5yz8A

quote:

Reporters crowd around your house,
Going through your garbage like a pack of hounds,
Speculating what they may find out.
It don't matter now, you're all washed up.

Don't know when things went wrong,
Might have been when you were young and strong.
American dream, American dream.

Rockin' In The Free World

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGTzMvXTUiY

quote:

There's colors on the street,
Red, white and blue.
People shufflin' their feet,
People sleepin' in their shoes.
But there's a warnin' sign on the road ahead.
There's a lot of people sayin' we'd be better off dead.
Don't feel like Satan, but I am to them.
So I try to forget it any way I can.

Keep on rockin' in the free world.
Keep on rockin' in the free world.
Keep on rockin' in the free world.
Keep on rockin' in the free world.

I see a woman in the night with a baby in her hand,
Under an old street light near a garbage can.
Now she puts the kid away, and she's gone to get a hit.
She hates her life and what she's done to it.
There's one more kid that will never go to school,
Never get to fall in love, never get to be cool.

Keep on rockin' in the free world.
Keep on rockin' in the free world.
Keep on rockin' in the free world.
Keep on rockin' in the free world.

We got a thousand points of light for the homeless man.
We got a kinder, gentler, machine gun hand.
We got department stores and toilet paper.
Got styrofoam boxes for the ozone layer.
Got a man of the people, says keep hope alive!
Got fuel to burn, got roads to drive!

Keep on rockin' in the free world.
Keep on rockin' in the free world.
Keep on rockin' in the free world.
Keep on rockin' in the free world.

Come And See fucked around with this message at 02:11 on Jun 10, 2014

Come And See
Sep 15, 2008

We're all awash in a sea of blood, and the least we can do is wave to each other.


Here's two that I think make a good combo:

The Godfathers - Birth, School, Work, Death

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO5dcW0P75M

quote:

I've been abused and I've been confused,
And I've kissed Margaret Thatcher's shoes.
And I been high and I been low,
And I don't know where to go.

Birth, school, work, death.
Birth, school, work, death.

I cut myself but I don't bleed,
'Cause I don't get what I need.
Doesn't matter what I say,
Tomorrow's still another day.

Birth, school, work, death.
Birth, school, work, death.

I'll live and die don't ask me why,
I wanna go to paradise.
And I don't need your sympathy,
There's nothing in this world for me.

The Replacements - Unsatisfied

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU6IndADEWI

quote:

Look me in the eye,
Then, tell me that I'm satisfied.
Was you satisfied?
Look me in the eye,
Then, tell me that I'm satisfied.
Hey, are you satisfied?

And it goes so slowly on,
Everything I've ever wanted...
Tell me what's wrong.

Everything goes,
Well, anything goes all of the time.
Everything you dream of,
Is right in front of you.
And everything is a lie...

Come And See
Sep 15, 2008

We're all awash in a sea of blood, and the least we can do is wave to each other.


A few pages back someone mentioned that political songs don't get much airplay (other than maybe 2Pac's Changes). Canadian content laws dictate that popular radio be at least 35% Canadian, so in addition to all the Neil Young we also get to hear songs like these:

Bruce Cockburn - If I Had A Rocket Launcher
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1kbqtoiYqs

quote:

Here comes the helicopter, second time today.
Everybody scatters and hopes it goes away.
How many kids they've murdered only God can say.
If I had a rocket launcher,
If I had a rocket launcher
If I had a rocket launcher, I'd make somebody pay.

I don't believe in guarded borders and I don't believe in hate.
I don't believe in generals or their stinking torture states.
And when I talk with the survivors of things too sickening to relate,
If I had a rocket launcher,
If I had a rocket launcher
If I had a rocket launcher, I would retaliate.

On the Rio Lacantun, one hundred thousand wait,
To fall down from starvation, or some less humane fate.
Cry for Guatemala, with a corpse in every gate.
If I had a rocket launcher,
If I had a rocket launcher
If I had a rocket launcher, I would not hesitate

I want to raise every voice, at least I've got to try.
Every time I think about it water rises to my eyes.
Situation desperate. Echoes of the victims cry:
If I had a rocket launcher,
If I had a rocket launcher
If I had a rocket launcher, some son of a bitch would die.

Five Man Electrical Band - I'm A Stranger Here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUHXXai0Drg

quote:

Well, I'm a stranger here in this place called Earth,
And I was sent down here to discover the worth,
Of your little blue planet, third from the sun.
Come on and show me what you've done.

We got the aero plane, we got the automobile,
We got sky scraper buildings made of glass and steel.
We've got synthetic food that nearly tastes real,
And a little white pill that makes you feel
A whole lot better when you get out of bed.
You take one in the morning for the long day ahead.
We got everything everybody needs to survive,
Surely the good life has arrived!


I think your atmosphere is hurting my eyes,
And your concrete mountains are blacking out the skies.
Now I don't say that you've been telling me lies,
But why do I hear those children's cries!

I'm a stranger here, I'm just looking around.

I see the aero planes carrying the bombs,
Why, you've even found people to drop them on!
You know you can't keep what you take by force,
But it's only my first impression of course.

And I'm a stranger here on your planet Earth.

We got the rivers and the mountains and the valleys and the trees
We got the birds in the sky, we got the fish in the sea
We got the --


Oh you crazy fools don't you know you had it made!
You were living in paradise...
But take it from one who knows,
Who knows the gates of Heaven can close.
I only pray that you take my advice,
'Cause paradise won't come twice!

Well I'm a stranger here in this place called Earth,
And I was sent down here to discover the worth,
Of your little blue planet third from the sun.
I think I'll go back home where I come from.

The Band - Shape I'm In
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHCVTM6obmo

quote:

Go out yonder, peace in the valley,
Come downtown, have to rumble in the alley.
Oh, you don't know the shape I'm in...

Has anybody seen my lady?
This living alone will drive me crazy.
Oh, you don't know the shape I'm in...

I'm gonna go down by the water,
But I ain't gonna jump in, no, no.
I'll just be looking for my mak-er,
And I hear that that's where she's been? Oh!

Out of nine lives, I spent seven.
Now, how in the world do you get to Heaven?
Oh, you don't know the shape I'm in...

I just spent sixty days in the jailhouse,
For the crime of having no dough.
Now here I am back out on the street,
For the crime of having nowhere to go!

Save your neck or save your brother.
Looks like it's one or the other.
Oh, you don't know the shape I'm in...

Now two young kids might start a ruckus,
You know they feel you trying to shuck us.
Oh, you don't know the shape I'm in...

The Guess Who - American Woman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl4GWOkvDeM

quote:

American woman, gonna mess your mind.
American woman, she gonna mess your mind.
American woman, gonna mess your mind.
American woman, gonna mess your mind.

Say A,
Say M,
Say E,
Say R,
Say I - C,
Say A - N.

American woman, gonna mess your mind.
American woman, gonna mess your mind.
American woman, gonna mess your mind.

American woman, stay away from me.
American woman, mama let me be.
Don't come a hangin' around my door,
I don't want to see your face no more.
I got more important things to do,
Than spend my time growin' old with you.
Now woman, I said stay away,
American woman, listen what I say.

American woman, get away from me.
American woman, mama let me be.
Don't come a knockin' around my door,
Don't want to see your shadow no more.
Colored lights can hypnotize,
Sparkle someone else's eyes.
Now woman, I said get away.
American woman, listen what I say.

American woman, said get away.
American woman, listen what I say.
Don't come a hangin' around my door,
Don't want to see your face no more.
I don't need your war machines,
I don't need your ghetto scenes!
Colored lights can hypnotize,
Sparkle someone else's eyes.
Now woman, get away from me,
American woman, mama let me be.

Go, gotta get away, gotta get away now go, go, go
I'm gonna leave you woman
Gonna leave you woman
Bye-bye bye-bye, bye-bye, bye-bye
You're no good for me.
I'm no good for you.
Gonna look you right in the eye,
Tell you what I'm gonna do.
You know I'm gonna leave,
You know I'm gonna go.
You know I'm gonna leave,
You know I'm gonna go, woman.
I'm gonna leave you woman
Goodbye American woman!

Tom Cochrane & Red Rider - Calling America (Couldn't find the studio version so this will have to do)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-Idg_qFnd0

quote:

I dreamt I was a refugee,
Who lived outside of town.
My family in a barria shack,
Battered and run down.

We had a friend from America,
Helped out, we took him in.
Like my brother he disappeared,
They said he was with him.

There we were far out at sea,
Somehow we got lost.
Then we landed hard on shore,
There upon the rocks.

While celebration shook the air,
We turned to hear some shots.
There's ones that have been here far too long,
We think they've lost the plot.

Here I go again,
Leaving things out while I'm leaving things in.
Where, where should I begin,
Feeling so full, or feeling so thin?

Calling America,
Man I know you're out there,
Sisters are you breathing?

Calling America,
This thing they call America,
It really is a dream.

Then I stood face to face,
With a girl that I once knew.
She was dressed in gingham there,
In colors red, white and blue.

The more I spoke, the less she heard,
And then she slipped away.
I just stood there sinking,
Far beneath the waves.

Here we go again,
Leaving things out while we're leaving things in.
Where, where should we begin?
Feeling so full, or feeling so thin?

Calling America,
Man I know you're out there,
Sister are you breathing?

Calling America,
This thing they call America,
Really what does it mean?

Calling America,
Man I know you're out there,
Sister are you breathing?

Calling America,
This thing they call America,
It really is a dream.

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Come And See
Sep 15, 2008

We're all awash in a sea of blood, and the least we can do is wave to each other.


The 80's were a strange time.

Mel Brooks - It's Good To Be The King
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8SDOwpENyg

quote:

Now get down people and listen to me
Gonna tell you how I made history
You can call me Louis, I'm the king of France
Check out my story while you do your dance
Now in seventeen hundred and eighty-nine
The peasants were starving, but I was fine
We were hanging out, down in old Versailles
That's the week end pad of my Queen and I
In the alleys of Paris they was eating rats
But it was filet mignon for the aristocrats
There were Dukes and Counts and Barons and Earls
I gave them the titles but I kept the girls
Blondes, red heads, wild brunettes
Ladies-in-waitin', I didn't wait to get
There was truffles for breakfast, toast for brunch
The line of the Folies Bergère for lunch

(Ooh yes, it's good to be the King)
(Ooh La La)
(Gee, but it's good to be the King)
Say it girls
(You can be sure about one thing)
(Ooh La La)
(Mais oui, it's good to be the king)
It's good to be the king

(Ah Ooh Ah Ooh)

Well the palace was rockin', we were doing it good
When we heard there was some trouble in the neighborhood
I wasn't too worried, no big deal
You step out the line, Jack, you're in the Bastille
The party kept swinging all day and all night
The champagne was flowing, we was feeling all right
They were screaming for bread, things started to shake
But Marie-Antoinette said (Well let 'em eat cake!)
Now the rabble wouldn't have it, they was angry with me
They built a big old razor called the guillotine
Then the people all shouted, "We'll have our day"
"Down with dirty water, give us Perrier!"
I said the more you want, things might get screwy
But they'll never lay a finger on good King Louis
Just keep your cool, don't fret, don't freak
I say Hey!
(Say what?)
C'est magnifique!

(Ooh yes, it's good to be the king)
(Ooh La La)
(Gee, but it's good to be the king)
Your fantasy is my reality
(You can be sure about one thing)
(Ooh La La)
(Mais oui, it's good to be the king)
It's good to be the king

(Ooh)
Night and day comme vous voulez
(Ooh)

Well they broke down the gate in one massive assault
And the party came to a grinding halt
They took the midgets and the freakies with the girls and all
And the boys said, "Louis, it's time to go"
They put my neck on the block, they took off my wig
And It occurred to me this was the end of the gig
They asked me did I have any last words to say
Well, I raised my head and I hollered "Hey!"

(Ooh yes, it's good to be the king)
(Ooh La La)
(Gee, but it's good to be the king)
Well c'est la vie, make that la mort
(You can be sure about one thing)
(Ooh La La)
(Ooh yes it's good to be the king)
Well it was good while it lasted
(We can be sure about one thing)
(Ooh La La)
(Mais oui, it's good to be the king)
It's good to be the king!

Come on, you'd do it, you know you'd do it
Everybody does it
I just did it, I'm ready to do it again!

Mel Brooks - To Be Or Not To Be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbKTdVpnGj8

quote:

(Heil! Siegety Heil! Heil! Siegety Heil! Heil!)
Heil myself!
(Siegety Heil! Heil! Siegety Heil!)

Well, hi there people, you know me
I used to run a little joint called Germany
I was number one, the people's choice
And everybody listened to my mighty voice
My name is Adolf, I'm on the mic
I'm gonna hit you with the story of the New Third Reich:
Well, it all began down in Munich town
And pretty soon the word started getting around
So I said to Martin Bormann, I said "Hey Marty
Why don't we throw a little Nazi party?"
So we had an election, well, kinda sorta
And before you knew it, hello new order!
To all the little mothers in the Fatherland
I said "Achtung baby! I got me a plan."
They said "What you got, Adolf? What you gonna do?"
I said "How about this one? World War Two."

To be or not to be
Oh baby, can't you see
We're gonna take it to the top
You're making history
And it feels so good to me
Ooh darling, please don't ever stop

Don't be stupid, be a smarty
Come on and join the Nazi party!
(Party!)

Like Humpty Dumpty over that wall
All the little countries they began to fall:
Holland, Belgium, Denmark, Poland
The troops were rockin' and the tanks were rollin'
We were swinging along with a song in our hearts
And Deutschland über Alles was making the charts:
We had a new step called the goosestep we were marching to
Well, it's sorta kinda like a German boogaloo;
I was getting what I wanted but it wasn't enough
So I called the boys, I said "Boys, get tough!"
And I surrounded myself with some unusual cats:
There was skinny little Goebbels, and Göring, Mr. Fats
Let's not forget old Himmler and Hess
You'd better believe we made a hell of a mess
Saying "Heil! Heil! Siegety Heil!
We're gonna rip it on the people Teutonic-style!"

To be or not to be
Oh baby, can't you see
We're gonna make it to the top
You are our destiny
This thing was meant to be
Why don't we do it till we drop?

Say, your boots ain't black and your shirt ain't brown
Get back, Jack, you can't get down!

(Do it Adolf, do it!)

I drank wine from the Rhine with the finest ladies
And we did it in the back of a black Mercedes
I was on a roll, I couldn't lose
Then came D-day, depression and blues
The Yanks and the Brits started raising Cain
Those guys were the pits, drove me insane;
People all around me started swallowing pills
Let's face it folks, we was going downhill
Berlin was crumbling, we was under the gun
Time to look out for number one
So I grabbed a blonde and a case of beer
Said "The Russians are coming, let's get outa here!"

To be or not to be
Oh honey, can't you see
We had to take it to the top
You sure made history
And it felt so good to me
Ooh scheisse, please don't ever stop

Auf Wiedersehen, good to see ya
Got a one-way ticket to Argentina!

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