Anti War songs

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Icy Gull

Back on the rollercoaster
Jul 5, 2003
72,015
Which are the best?

Off the top of my head

Jackson Browne - Lives in the balance - anti American involvement in other countries

Bob Dylan - A hard rain's gonna fall - anti nuclear weapons

And a disco one - Edwin Star - WAR
 
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Marc

New member
Jul 6, 2003
25,267
War - by <insert artist I've forgotten> Bruce Springsteen also covered it


aahh you edited yours after I started writing mine! Edwin Starr of course!
 
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Superphil

Dismember
Jul 7, 2003
25,641
In a pile of football shirts
1916 - Motorhead
War Pigs - Black Sabbath
Why - Discharge

That lot will put you off signing up
 


REDLAND

Active member
Jul 7, 2003
9,443
At the foot of the downs
War All the Time - Thursday,

Standing on the edge of the palisades cliffs
In the shadow of the skyline very far away
A lightning rod that couldn’t pull the storm from me
I was 5 years old my best friends older brother died
He fell from these cliffs
The river washed him away the current pulled him downstream
And our lives float in the headlines, so we parked these cars
Parent’s garage
Listen to the lullaby
Of Carbon Monoxide

War all of the time
In the shadow of the New York skyline
We grew up too fast falling apart
Like the ashes of American flags
If the sun doesn't rise
We'll replace it with an H-bomb explosion
A painted jail cell of blood in the sky like Three Mile Island
Nightmares on TV they used to sing us to sleep
They burn on and on like an oil field
Or a memory of what it felt like
To burn on and on and not just fade away
All those nights in the basement the kids are still screaming
On and on and on and on

War all of the time
In the shadow of the New York skyline
We grew up too fast falling apart
Like the ashes of American flags
And we’re blowing in the wind
We don’t know where to land
So we kiss like little kids
We used to be very tall buildings
We’ve been falling for so long
Now your eyes follow the sign on the edge of town
They offer a welcome when you are leaving

War all of the time
In the shadow of the New York skyline
We grew up too fast falling apart
Like the ashes of American flags
The pieces fall it’s like a last day parade
And the fires in our streets start to rage,
so wave, to the people that long to wave back,
from the fabric of a flag that sang "love all of the time"

War all the time War all the time
All of the time
War all the time
War all the time
All of the time
All of the time
War all of the time
War all of the time
War all of the time
War all of the time
 






Tom Hark Preston Park

Will Post For Cash
Jul 6, 2003
72,093
Tom Hark by The Piranhas

Does anybody know how long to World War Three?
I wanna know, I've gotta book me holidee.
They want me in the army, but I just can't go,
I'm far too busy listening to the radio
 


On the Left Wing

KIT NAPIER
Oct 9, 2003
7,094
Wolverhampton
Don't get me started on this one!

Masters of War
Hard Rain's a Gonna Fall
Let Me Die in My Footsteps
Blowin in the Wind
Licence to Kill
.................................... all by Bob Dylan

Universal Soldier ........... Donovan

Tealeaf Prophecy ................ Joni Mitchell

The Butcher's Song .............. The Zombies

Vietnam Blues ....................... Phil Ochs
 


On the Left Wing

KIT NAPIER
Oct 9, 2003
7,094
Wolverhampton
Come you masters of war
You that build all the guns
You that build the death planes
You that build the big bombs
You that hide behind walls
You that hide behind desks
I just want you to know
I can see through your masks

You that never done nothin'
But build to destroy
You play with my world
Like it's your little toy
You put a gun in my hand
And you hide from my eyes
And you turn and run farther
When the fast bullets fly

Like Judas of old
You lie and deceive
A world war can be won
You want me to believe
But I see through your eyes
And I see through your brain
Like I see through the water
That runs down my drain

You fasten the triggers
For the others to fire
Then you set back and watch
When the death count gets higher
You hide in your mansion
As young people's blood
Flows out of their bodies
And is buried in the mud

You've thrown the worst fear
That can ever be hurled
Fear to bring children
Into the world
For threatening my baby
Unborn and unnamed
You ain't worth the blood
That runs in your veins

How much do I know
To talk out of turn
You might say that I'm young
You might say I'm unlearned
But there's one thing I know
Though I'm younger than you
Even Jesus would never
Forgive what you do

Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good
Will it buy you forgiveness
Do you think that it could
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul

And I hope that you die
And your death'll come soon
I will follow your casket
In the pale afternoon
And I'll watch while you're lowered
Down to your deathbed
And I'll stand o'er your grave
'Til I'm sure that you're dead
 




REDLAND

Active member
Jul 7, 2003
9,443
At the foot of the downs
Not exactly anti-war but a great summary of society in these troubled times, shame its based on America because its true for over here,

Green Day

Don't wanna be an American idiot.
Don't want a nation that under the new media.
And can you hear the sound of hysteria?
The subliminal mindfuck America.

Welcome to a new kind of tension.
All across the alien nation.
Everything isn't meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tomorrow.
We're not the ones who're meant to follow.
Convincing them to walk you.

Well maybe I'm the faggot America.
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda.
Now everybody do the propaganda.
And sing along in the age of paranoia.

Welcome to a new kind of tension.
All across the alien nation.
Everything isn't meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tomorrow.
We're not the ones who're meant to follow.
Convincing them to walk you.

Don't wanna be an American idiot.
One nation controlled by the media.
Information nation of hysteria.
It's going out to idiot America.

Welcome to a new kind of tension.
All across the alien nation.
Everything isn't meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tomorrow.
We're not the ones who're meant to follow.
Convincing them to walk you.
 










zefarelly

Well-known member
NSC Patron
Jul 7, 2003
22,679
Sussex, by the sea
Country Joe and the fish . . . . .cant remember whats its called but it goes something like . . . . . .

and its 1, 2, 3 what are we fighting for, don't ask me I don't give a damn, next stop is vietnam

and its 5, 6, 7 open up the pearly getes, I aint got time to wonder why, whooppee we're all gonna die
 


Icy Gull

Back on the rollercoaster
Jul 5, 2003
72,015
zefarelly said:
Country Joe and the fish . . . . .cant remember whats its called but it goes something like . . . . . .

and its 1, 2, 3 what are we fighting for, don't ask me I don't give a damn, next stop is vietnam

and its 5, 6, 7 open up the pearly getes, I aint got time to wonder why, whooppee we're all gonna die

I have been trying to work out who sang that since I posted this thread

It's called Fixing to die rag
 
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Jul 20, 2003
20,571
Culture Club:


"war, war is stoopid
and people are stoopid"


Profound
 


Mr Popkins

New member
Jul 8, 2003
1,458
LIVING IN SIN
19... Paul Hardcastle

Has to be the best ever


Or Enola Gay..OMD, not really anti war but makes you think about the atomic bombs devistation
 


"Another mans cause" by the Levellers and the soon to be released "Not in my name" by the same group. :salute:

I want no part of your new crusade, I want no part of the deals you've made.
 








Titanic

Super Moderator
Helpful Moderator
Jul 5, 2003
39,816
West Sussex
The Jam - A bomb in Wardour Street

Where the streets are paved with blood,
with cataclysmic overtones,
Fear and hate linger in the air,
A strictly no-go deadly zone.
I don't know what I'm doing here
'cause it's not my scene at all
There's an 'A' bomb in Wardour Street
They've called in the Army, they've called in the police to.

I'm stranded on the vortex floor,
My head's been kicked in and blood's started to pour
Through the haze I can see my girl
15 geezers got her pinned to the door
I try to reach her but fall back to the floor
'A' bomb in Wardour Street
It's blown up the West End, now it's spreading throughout the City,

'A' bomb in Wardour Street, it's blown up the City
Now it's spreading through the country.

Law and order take a turn for the worst,
In the shape of a size 10 boot.
Rape and murder throughout the land,
and they tell you that you're still a free man.
If this is freedom I don't understand
'cause it seems like madness to me.
'A' bomb in Wardour Street, Hate Bomb,
Hate Bomb, Hate Bomb, Hate Bomb.

A Phillistine nation, of degredation,
And hate and war. There must be more
It's Doctor Martin's A,P,O,C,A,L,Y,P,S,E,
Apocalypse!
 


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