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I love this song! The chorus is perfect... "we can bomb the world to pieces but we can't bomb it in to peace"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VILqFtrzBxA
Michael Franti - Bomb The World
Please tell me the reason
Behind the colors that you fly
Love just one nation
And the whole world we divide
You say you're "sorry"
Say, "there is no other choice"
But god bless the people them
Who cannot raise their voice
(chorus)
We can chase down all our enemies
Bring them to their knees
We can bomb the world to pieces
But we can't bomb it into peace
Whoa we may even find a solution
To hunger and disease
We can bomb the world to pieces
But we can't bomb it into peace
Violence brings one thing
More more of the same
Military madness
The smell of flesh and burning pain
So i sing out to the masses
Stand up if you're still sane!
To all of us gone crazy
I sing this one refrain
(chorus)
And i sing power to the peaceful
Love to the people y'all
Power to the peaceful
Love to the people y'all
Bomb the world (armageddon version)
I don't understand the whole reason why
You tellin' us all that we need to unify
Rally round the flag
And beat the drums of war
Sing the same old songs
Ya know we heard 'em all before
You tellin' me it's unpatriotic
But i call it what i see it
When i see it's idiotic
The tears of one mother
Are the same as any other
Drop food on the kids
While you're murderin' their fathers
But don't bother to show it on cnn
Brothers and sisters don't believe them
It's not a war against evil
It's really just revenge
Engaged on the poorest by the same rich men
Fight terrorists wherever they be found
But why you not bombing tim mcveigh's hometown
You can say what you want propaganda television
But all bombing is terrorism
(chorus)
We can chase down all our enemies
Bring them to their knees
We can bomb the world to pieces
But we can't bomb it into peace
Whoa we may even find a solution
To hunger and disease
We can bomb the world to pieces
But we can't bomb it into peace
911
Fire in the skies
Many people died
And no one even really knows why
They tellin' lies of division and fear
We yelled and cried
No one listened for years
But like, "who put us here?"
And who's responsible?
Well, there's no debatin'
Cause if they ask me i say
It's big corporations
World trade organization
Tri-lateral action
International sanctions, satan
Seems like it'll be an endless price tag
Of wars tremendous
And most disturbingly
The death toll is so horrendous
So i send this to those
Who say they defend us
Send us into harm's way
We should all make a rememberence that
This is bigger than terrorism
Blood is blood is blood and um
Love is true vision
Who will listen?
How many songs it takes for you to see
You can bomb the world to pieces
You can't bomb it into peace
(chorus)
Power to the peaceful
And i say, love to the people y'all
Power to the peaceful
And i say, love to the people y'all
I asked my Highschool 'Polisci' teacher (the class was mandated) why we only had 2 parties...he didnt have an answer.
Now I know after more than 20 years...so...'informed friends' wont let other friends vote for any rep/dem because they have
been compromised since before many of us were born.
Why are the police so aggressive toward the public?In part because their ranks attract bullies, sociopaths and psychopaths. Even normal cops are proud of their authority and expect deference. Even cops who are not primed to be set off can turn nasty in a heartbeat.In part because police are not accountable. The effort decades ago to have civilian police review boards was beat back by "law and order" conservatives.In part because the police have been militarized by the federal government, equipped with military weapons, and trained to view the public as the enemy. In part because the Bush/Cheney/Obama regimes have made every American a suspect. The only civil liberty that has any force in the U.S. today is the law against racial discrimination. This law requires that every American citizen be treated as if he were a Muslim terrorist. The Transportation Security Administration rigorously enforces the refusal to discriminate between terrorist and citizen at airports and is now taking its gestapo violations of privacy into every form of travel and congregation: trucking, bus and train travel, sports events, and, without doubt, shopping centers and automobile traffic.
Oh, man -- there are so many good ones. Let's start with the Decemberists' "Sons & Daughters"
Americans are an oppressed people.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Police-Brutality---Ameri-by-paul-craig-roberts-110203-658.html
The Green Fields of France...there are many versions by man artists:
John McDermott: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xa1nG4ezPQ0
Dropkick Murphys: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UvQ52A7ksM&feature=related
Citizen Radio theme song: http://wearecitizenradio.com/
The Thermals "Pillar of Salt": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4Iobo18U9w
Citizen Radio is a very anti-war, anti-authoritarian show... and very funny.
Is it inappropriate to submit my own music?
Necessary Casualties
You can check it out on my website andrewandersonmusic.com
Also, James Mc Murtry "We can't make is here anymore"
power to the people John lennon and down by the riverside Leadbelly
Ever heard Benjamin Britten's War Requiem-perhaps the greatest anti-war musical statement of all time
Bomb The World - Michael Franti & Spearhead
"You can bomb the world to pieces,
But you can't bomb it into peace."
The Great Mandella -- PP&M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpIh68Kh_-s&playnext=1&list=PLA247D08CC6B...
Lives In The Balance Jackson Brown
..."factory farms" = nightmares. If those who eat meat would become willing to look at what is done in their name, with their dollar -- factory farms would end. Respect for the animal is respect for the Creator.
Blindly allowing these torture factories to exist is a part of allowing mega-corps to walk all over us.
Right on Thom; Re: the grotesque trophy hunter. New ugly twist: restaurants for the super greedy that serve up endangered "game" -- including Gorilla -- here -- yes, HERE, and in Europe, to the super greedy so they can feel like Nero. Go to http://www.janegoodall.org/action. It is served under the name of "bushmeat".
It is the world divide between the cruel and those who believe that cruelty is a necessary survival skill -- and compassion and those who believe that compassion is a necessary spiritual skill and the foremost skill needed to build successful, long-lasting, thriving communities.
Some are anti-war, some are just positive. We need to get Mr. Hartmann some soul. I submit my resume to be Hartmania's DJ
Where are we going?Marvin Gaye
Dear Mr. Man and Party Up/Prince
Seconds/U2
You Haven't Done Nothing/Stevie Wonder
Respect Yourself/The Staple Singers
Peace Frogs/The Doors
Funky President/James Brown
Fight The Power Parts 1 and 2/The Isley Brothers
Think and Move On Up/Curtis Mayfield
Keep Ya Head Up/2pac
Wake Up Everybody, Part 1/Harold Melvin and The Blue Notes
Wish Someone Would Care/Irma Thomas
Feeling Good/Nina Simone
The Roots/Why
Billy Bragg - 'Like Soldiers Do' -Back to Basics
Propagandhi - 'And we thought Nation States were a bad idea' -Less Talk More Rock
Stand or Fall by The Fixx. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HRUSX-XW0s
Cheesy 80s video but the words still ring true.
Crying parents tell their children
If you survive don't do as we did
A son exclaims there'll be nothing to do to
Her daughter says she'll be dead with you
While foreign affairs are screwing us rotten
Line morale has hit rock bottom
Dying embers stand forgotten
Talks of peace were being trodden
Stand or fall state your peace tonight
Stand or fall state your peace tonight
Is this the value of our existence
Should we proclaim with such persistence
Our destiny relies on conscience
Red or blue what's the difference
Stand or fall state your peace tonight
Stand or fall state your peace tonight
An empty face reflects extinction
Ugly scars divide the nation
Desecrate the population
There will be no exaltation
Its the euro theatre
Its the euro theatre
Its the euro theatre
Stand or fall state your peace tonight
Stand or fall state your peace tonight
Its the euro theatre
Its the euro theatre
Its the euro theatre
Its the euro theatre
"Stick Magnetic Ribbons on Your SUV"
Asylum Street Spankers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmsOIjzQ1V8
Barry McGuire - Eve of Destruction
Youngbloods Get together http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cw2ze1Iw9d0
Sure I'd sleep with Boehner for $350K. But anything more than "sleeping" might prove deleterious to John's health!
We're getting screwed anyway, so why not take $350,000 in the process.
Q: Why do scientists say it's good for girls to get dirty?
A: Because most scientists are still guys...
You pick the bumper music all next week! What's your favorite anti-war/peace song? Post them here! Here are some more I've been given hopefully these will spark more posts....John Lennon- Give Peace A Chance, Creedence Clearwater Revival- Fortunate Son, Neil Young - Ohio, Buffalo Springfield- For What It's Worth, Bob Dylan- Masters Of War, Marvin Gaye - What's Going On, Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens) Peace Train....
Keep them coming!
-Jacob
Thanks. It is good to finally find a like mind. At least no one here is calling me a liberal puke or suggesting that I might gain an education by reading Milton Friedman's crap. I edit business and econ textbooks for a living, at least I did until Bush and his thugs cut almost all education funding and created All Children Left Behind, For the past 15 years, I have read about the bad/destructive practices being taught in our high schools, colleges/universities, and business schools. It is a shame.
Now if we can get at least 60 percent of the population on the same page. I talk to people about this all the time. People have fear about losing their jobs or standing up to corporations. I keep trying to tell them that they are an important and powerful 2/3 of business. Without the consumer and the worker, all business has is ideas; it has nothing to sell and no one to purchase it.
We, as consumers, can be very powerful. In my house, we don't give our money to bad companies like BP and Valero (Koch Brothers) or to Red Lobster, a past favorite, because of its advertising with Fox and who most likely doen't care that much about bad industrial fishing practices. Instead we eat at the excellent local Mexican eatery, which employes hard-working immigrants. We don't feel deprived; we feel empowered by our thoughtful and reseached choices. Democracy is not a spectator sport.