The Very Best "Protest" Songs?

by hillary_step 122 Replies latest social entertainment

  • avishai
    avishai

    Gimme Shelter..

    Oh, a storm is threatning
    My very life today
    If I dont get some shelter
    Oh yeah, Im gonna fade away

    War, children, its just a shot away
    Its just a shot away
    War, children, its just a shot away
    Its just a shot away

    Ooh, see the fire is sweepin
    Our very street today
    Burns like a red coal carpet
    Mad bull lost its way

    War, children, its just a shot away
    Its just a shot away
    War, children, its just a shot away
    Its just a shot away

    Rape, murder!
    Its just a shot away
    Its just a shot away

    Rape, murder!
    Its just a shot away
    Its just a shot away

    Rape, murder!
    Its just a shot away
    Its just a shot away

    The floods is threatning
    My very life today
    Gimme, gimme shelter
    Or Im gonna fade away

    War, children, its just a shot away
    Its just a shot away
    Its just a shot away
    Its just a shot away
    Its just a shot away
    I tell you love, sister, its just a kiss away
    Its just a kiss away
    Its just a kiss away
    Its just a kiss away
    Its just a kiss away
    Kiss away, kiss away

    And here's a version by the lady that sang backup in the original stones version

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=XCyTqnizcvI

    Oh, just found this version... It kicks ass.

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=9aeWdTbjbx8

  • tijkmo
    tijkmo
  • avishai
    avishai

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=Rz_WqilPfwQ

    Marillion, forgotten sons..

    Armalite, street lights, nightsights
    Searching the roofs for a sniper, a viper, a fighter
    Death in the shadows hell maim you, hell wound you, hell kill you
    For a long forgotten cause
    On not so foreign shores
    Boys baptised in war
    Boys baptised in war

    Morphine, chill scream, bad dream
    Serving as numbers on dogtags, flakrags, sandbags
    Your girl has married your best friend, loves end, poison pen
    Your flesh will always creep, tossing turning sleep
    The wounds that burn so deep, burn so deep

    Your mother sits on the edge of the world when the cameras start to roll
    Panoramic viewpoint resurrect the killing fold
    Your father drains another beer, hes one of the few that cares
    Crawling behind a saracens hull from the safety of his living room chair
    Forgotten sons
    Forgotten sons
    Forgotten sons

    And so as I patrol in the valley of the shadow of the tricolour I must fear evil
    For I am but mortal and mortals can only die
    Asking questions, pleading answers from the nameless faceless watchers
    That parade the carpeted corridors of whitehall
    Who orders desecration, mutilation, verbal masturbation in the guarded bureaucratic wombs
    Minister, minister care for your children
    Order them not into damnation
    To eliminate those who would trespass against you
    For whose is the kingdom, the power, the glory for ever and ever
    Amen
    Amen
    Amen
    Amen
    Amen
    Amen
    Amen

    Halt who goes there! - death!!
    Approach ... friend
    Youre just another coffin on its way down the emerald aisle
    When your childrens stony glances mourn
    Your death in a terrorists smile
    The bombers arm placing fiery gifts on the supermarket shelves
    Alley sings with shrapnel detonate a temporary hell
    Forgotten sons
    Forgotten sons

    From the dolequeue to the regiment a profession in a flash
    But remember monday signings when from door to door you dash
    On the news a nation mourns you unknown soldier count the cost
    For a second youll be famous but labelled posthumous

    Ring-a-ring-o-roses, they all fall down
    Ring-a-ring-o-roses, they all fall down
    Ring-a-ring-o-roses
    Ring-a-ring-o-roses
    Ring-a-ring-o-roses, they all fall down

    Forgotten son
    Forgotten son
    Forgotten son
    Theyre still forgotten, theyre still still forgotten
    Peace on earth and mercy mild, mother brown has lost her child
    Just another forgotten son

  • purplesofa
    purplesofa

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OzkivWf78A

    Against Me! - White People For Peace

    East and west could not agree
    So their generals gave a call and gathered at the border
    With guns ready, drawn and aimed
    each side was praying to a god
    to bless them with strength and courage
    it was in his name that artillery lit the sky on fire
    the people sang protest songs to try and stop the soldier's gun

    Protest Songs in a response to Military Aggression
    Protest songs to try and stop the soldier's gun
    But the battle raged on......

    Sirens filled the air and the ground shook with war
    Civilian casualties has been a cost that was predetermined
    when interviewed for report victims pleaded in frustration
    Their claim: That this was a war without reason
    Bureacrats enraged in debate to try and reach a resolution
    the people sang protest songs to try and stop the soldier's gun

    Protest Songs in a response to Military Aggression
    Protest songs to try and stop the soldier's gun
    But the battle raged on......

    The Broadcast like their prayers went unanswered and ignored
    god, like the rest of the world, just watched in silence
    There was purpose to be served, there were fortunes to be earned
    before a peace could be called to stop a war

    Protest Songs in a response to Military Aggression
    Protest songs to try and stop the soldier's gun
    But the battle raged on......

  • TMS
    TMS

    Just noticed this thread. . . . thanks Hillary. . . . . I was really into this genre in the 60's as it synced w/my JW beliefs(I thought).

    One of my personal favorites:

    Sky Pilot (The Animals)

    He blesses the boys as they stand in line
    The smell of gun grease and the bayonets they shine
    He's there to help them all that he can
    To make them feel wanted he's a good holy man
    Sky pilot.....sky pilot
    How high can you fly
    You'll never, never, never reach the sky

    He smiles at the young soldiers
    Tells them its all right
    He knows of their fear in the forthcoming fight
    Soon there'll be blood and many will die
    Mothers and fathers back home they will cry
    Sky pilot.....sky pilot
    How high can you fly
    You'll never, never, never reach the sky

    He mumbles a prayer and it ends with a smile
    The order is given
    They move down the line
    But he's still behind and he'll meditate
    But it won't stop the bleeding or ease the hate
    As the young men move out into the battle zone
    He feels good, with God you're never alone
    He feels tired and he lays on his bed
    Hopes the men will find courage in the words that he said
    Sky pilot.....sky Pilot
    How high can you fly

    You'll never, never, never reach the sky
    You're soldiers of God you must understand
    The fate of your country is in your young hands
    May God give you strength
    Do your job real well
    If it all was worth it
    Only time it will tell

    In the morning they return
    With tears in their eyes
    The stench of death drifts up to the skies
    A soldier so ill looks at the sky pilot
    Remembers the words
    "Thou shalt not kill"
    Sky pilot.....sky pilot
    How high can you fly
    You never, never, never reach the sky

  • SirNose586
    SirNose586
  • JK666
    JK666

    How about War Pigs by Black Sabbath:

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

    Generals gathered in their masses
    Just like witches at black masses
    Evil minds that plot destruction
    Sorcerers of deaths construction
    In the fields the bodies burning
    As the war machine keeps turning
    Death and hatred to mankind
    Poisoning their brainwashed minds, oh lord yeah!

    Politicians hide themselves away
    They only started the war
    Why should they go out to fight?
    They leave that role to the poor

    Time will tell on their power minds
    Making war just for fun
    Treating people just like pawns in chess
    Wait till their judgement day comes, yeah!

    Now in darkness, world stops turning
    As the war machine keeps burning
    No more war pigs of the power
    Hand of God has sturck the hour
    Day of judgement, God is calling
    On their knees, the war pigs crawling
    Begging mercy for their sins
    Satan, laughing, spreads his wings
    All right now!

  • frankiespeakin
    frankiespeakin

    Fernando by ABBA:

    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2123328610209825238&q=fernando&total=68943&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_(song) The English version, with re-written lyrics by Ulvaeus, present a vision of nostalgia for presumably two veterans reminiscing in old age about some unspecified war of liberation or national defense that they participated in during their younger days. Their reference to "the fateful night we crossed the Rio Grande" would appear to tie the setting to the Mexican Revolution, which began when Francisco Madero led an armed band across the border from Texas on November 20, 1910, to overthrow the 34 year dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz. Though unlikely, some have been speculated that this song refers to the role of the International Brigade volunteers in the Spanish Civil War. The composers claim that they did not mean "Fernando" to refer to any specific war or period.:
  • cognizant dissident
    cognizant dissident

    Just felt like resurrecting this thread for some reason.

    Here's Bob Marley's "Get Up Stand Up"

    Musically, I don't think it's the best or even his best but I reallly like the lyrics. They are so apropos for an ex JW.

    GET UP, STAND UP [Bob Marley; Peter Tosh] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKCyLtM5Bis

    Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
    Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
    Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
    Get up, stand up: don't give up the fight!

    Preacherman, don't tell me,
    Heaven is under the earth.
    I know you don't know
    What life is really worth.
    It's not all that glitters is gold;
    'Alf the story has never been told:
    So now you see the light, eh!
    Stand up for your rights. Come on!

    Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
    Get up, stand up: don't give up the fight!
    Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
    Get up, stand up: don't give up the fight!

    Most people think,
    Great God will come from the skies,
    Take away everything
    And make everybody feel high.
    But if you know what life is worth,
    You will look for yours on earth:
    And now you see the light,
    You stand up for your rights. Jah!

    Get up, stand up! (Jah, Jah!)
    Stand up for your rights! (Oh-hoo!)
    Get up, stand up! (Get up, stand up!)
    Don't give up the fight! (Life is your right!)
    Get up, stand up! (So we can't give up the fight!)
    Stand up for your rights! (Lord, Lord!)
    Get up, stand up! (Keep on struggling on!)
    Don't give up the fight! (Yeah!)

    We sick an' tired of-a your ism-skism game -
    Dyin' 'n' goin' to heaven in-a Jesus' name, Lord.
    We know when we understand:
    Almighty God is a living man.
    You can fool some people sometimes,
    But you can't fool all the people all the time.
    So now we see the light (What you gonna do?),
    We gonna stand up for our rights! (Yeah, yeah, yeah!)

    So you better:
    Get up, stand up! (In the morning! Git it up!)
    Stand up for your rights! (Stand up for our rights!)
    Get up, stand up!
    Don't give up the fight! (Don't give it up, don't give it up!)
    Get up, stand up! (Get up, stand up!)
    Stand up for your rights! (Get up, stand up!)
    Get up, stand up! ( ... )
    Don't give up the fight! (Get up, stand up!)
    Get up, stand up! ( ... )
    Stand up for your rights!
    Get up, stand up!
    Don't give up the fight! /fadeout/

  • Tatiana
    Tatiana

    Tie My Pecker to My Leg(sorta a protest song protesting lily white lyrics):

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=OF1dzGWYU_U&feature=related

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