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  Sirius Dogma

  Bob Dylan -

  Masters of War

  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
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  xenawarrior

  It All Comes True

  Written by: John Mellencamp and George M. Green

  I stand here a black man I have no history
  I was brought up in East Chicago And I grew up on the streets
  The chains around the playground were the chains around my heart
  The brand upon my shoulder Well it reminds you who you are
  
  And it all comes true Yes it all comes true
  Like a wheel inside a wheel It turns on you
  And you think, What have I done? What can I do?
  What you believe about yourself
  It all comes true
  
  I was just a young girl My mother called me "Hon"
  My father was unhappy 'Cause I should have been his son
  They said, "Learn to be a waitress and learn to be a wife
  And be thankful for a chance to live an ordinary life"
  
  And it all comes true Yes it all comes true
  Like a wheel inside a wheel It turns on you
  And you think, What have I done? What can I do?
  What you believe about yourself
  It all comes true
  
  My life is a contradiction of sorrow and desire
  I drag my heart across the ash to throw it on the fire
  Maybe there's a reason and could there be a plan
  Or are we all just fools to think we'll understand
  
  And it all comes true Yes it all comes true
  Like a wheel inside a wheel It turns on you
  And you think, What have I done? What can I do?
  What you believe about yourself
  It all comes true
  
  And it all comes true Yes it all comes true
  Like a wheel inside a wheel It turns on you
  And you think, What have I done? What can I do?
  What you believe about yourself
  It all comes true

  Your Life Is Now

  Written by: John Mellencamp and George M. Green

  See the moon roll across the stars
  See the seasons turn like a heart
  Your father's days are lost to you
  This is your time here to do what you will do
  
  Your life is now your life is now your life is now
  In this undiscovered moment
  Lift your head up above the crowd
  We could shake this world
  If you would only show us how
  Your life is now
  
  Would you teach your children to tell the truth
  Would you take the high road if you could choose
  Do you believe you're a victim of a great compromise
  'Cause I believe you could change your mind and change our lives
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  xenawarrior

  The Logical Song- Supertramp

  
  

  When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful,
  a miracle, oh it was beautiful, magical.
  And all the birds in the trees, well they'd be singing so happily,
  joyfully, playfully watching me.
  But then they send me away to teach me how to be sensible,
  logical, responsible, practical.
  And they showed me a world where I could be so dependable,
  clinical, intellectual, cynical.
  
  There are times when all the world's asleep,
  the questions run too deep
  for such a simple man.
  Won't you please, please tell me what we've learned
  I know it sounds absurd
  but please tell me who I am.
  
  Now watch what you say or they'll be calling you a radical,
  liberal, fanatical, criminal.
  Won't you sign up your name, we'd like to feel you're
  acceptable, respecable, presentable, a vegtable!
  
  At night, when all the world's asleep,
  the questions run so deep
  for such a simple man.
  Won't you please, please tell me what we've learned
  I know it sounds absurd
  but please tell me who I am.

  "In America" The Charlie Daniels Band

  We'll the eagle's been flying slow, and the
  flag's been flying low, and a lot of people's
  saying that America's fixing to fall. But
  speaking just for me and some people from
  Tennessee, we got a thing or two to tell
  you all. This lady may have stumbled but she
  ain't never fell. And if the Russians don't
  believe that they can all go straight to hell.
  We're gonna put her feet back on the path
  of the righteousness and then God bless America
  again.

  And you never did think that it ever would
  happen again. In America, did you? You never
  did think that we'd ever get together again.
  Well we damn sure fooled you. We're walking
  real proud and we're talking real loud again in
  America. You never did think that it ever would
  happen again.

  From the sound up in Long Island out to San
  Francisco Bay, and ev'ry thing that's in between
  them is our home. And we may have done a little
  bit of fighting amongst ourselves, but you outside
  people best leave us alone. Cause we'll all stick
  together and you can take that to the bank.
  That's the cowboys and the hippies and the rebels
  and the yanks. You just go and lay your head on a
  Pittsburgh Steeler fan and I think you're gonna
  finally understand.

  And you never did think that it ever would
  happen again. In America, did you? You never
  did think that we'd ever get together again.
  Well we damn sure fooled you. We're walking
  real proud and we're talking real loud again in
  America. You never did think that it ever would
  happen again.

  We Didn't Start the Fire

  Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
  South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
  Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television
  North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe
  Rosenbergs, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
  Brando, "The King and I" and "The Catcher in the Rye"
  Eisenhower, vaccine, England's got a new queen
  Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye

  CHORUS

  We didn't start the fire
  It was always burning
  Since the world's been turning

  We didn't start the fire
  No we didn't light it
  But we tried to fight it

  Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
  Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc
  Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron
  Dien Bien Phu falls, "Rock Around the Clock"
  Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team
  Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland
  Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Krushchev
  Princess Grace, "Peyton Place", trouble in the Suez

  CHORUS

  Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
  Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, "Bridge on the River Kwai"
  Lebanon, Charlse de Gaulle, California baseball
  Starkweather homicide, children of thalidomide
  Buddy Holly, "Ben Hur", space monkey, Mafia
  Hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go
  U-2, Syngman Rhee, Payola and Kennedy
  Chubby Checker, "Psycho", Belgians in the Congo

  CHORUS

  Hemingway, Eichmann, "Stranger in a Strange Land"
  Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion
  "Lawrence of Arabia", British Beatlemania
  Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson
  Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex
  JFK blown away, what else do I have to say

  CHORUS

  Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
  Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock
  Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline
  Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan
  "Wheel of Fortune", Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide
  Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz
  Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law
  Rock and roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore

  CHORUS

  We didn't start the fire
  But when we are gone
  Will it still burn on, and on, and on, and on...
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  frenchbabyface

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  Nosferatu

  Artist	Glen Campbell Lyrics
  Album	Miscellaneous
  Title	Universal Soldier
  Song Lyrics	Written by Buffy St. Marie) (As recorded by Glen Campbell - 1965) He's five foot two and he's six feet four He fights with missiles and with spears He's all of thirty-one And he's only seventeen He's been a soldier for a thousand years He's a Catholic, a Hindu, an atheist, a Jain A Buddhist and a Baptist and a Jew He knows he shouldn't kill But he knows he always will Kill you, my friend, for me and me for you He's fighting for Canada, he's fighting for France He's fighting for the USA He's fighting for the Russians And he's fighting for Japan And he thinks he'll put an end to war that way He's fighting for democracy, he's fighting for the Reds He says it's for the peace of all He's the one who must decide Who's to live and who's to die But he never sees the writing on the wall But without him how would Hitler have condemned them at Dachau Without him Caesar would have stood alone He's the one who gives his body As the weapon of the war And without him all this killing can't go on He's the universal soldier and he really is to blame His orders come from far away no more They come from him, and you, and me And brother, can't you see This is not the way to put an end to war
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  FlyingHighNow

  They'll go far, she buys them toys to keep in practice waiting on the war
  Huxley

  I never did understand why parents would want to encourage their boys to play war. I wasn't raised a JW either.

  Invasion?s so succexxy
  Leolaia

  Yeah, they get really drunk on that power, don't they?

  Short People
  Randy Newman Mac

  Mac, I think this is the most consciousness raising song that has ever been written since the beginning of time.

  I thought we were the human race
  But we were just another border-line-case
  Corvin

  Yeah, I thought so, too. Just very bewildering the insane things people can think of to do to make the world a worse place.

  I stand here a black man I have no history
  I was brought up in East Chicago And I grew up on the streets XenaWarrior

  When I was 18 I moved to Chicago. I met a young black man who was also 18. Jerome had never ventured out of Chicago during his entire life. He hadn't even been as far as the suburbs. Such a different existence from my own was hard to fathom. I realized then how much our lives can differ.

  Good post idea Flyinghighnow. The recent arguments about Linda Ronstadt are just bizzare really, when you think about music and musicians long history of tackling the subject of war.
  SixofNine

  Yes, I was thinking: are we that far removed from the 1960s? That there should be such controversy?

  And I stuck them stickers all over my car
  And one on my wife's forehead."But your flag decal won't get you
  Into Heaven any more.
  We're already overcrowded
  From your dirty little war.
  Now Jesus don't like killin'
  No matter what the reason's for,

  John Prine's good and this is a good one from him.

  An original (sung in a choppy simple cadence)HELP! Suddenly my house is surrounded by US special forces and I can't seem to.....[post deleted].....Confusedjw
  Confused JW

  Are you sure they aren't aided by Brit forces as well?

  FrenchBabyFace

  jgnat Hmmmm, I wonder if mine will fit with the recurring theme here?

  Sure, these lyrics are consciousness raising: I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean.

  I'm a Little Tea Pot Alfalfa

  Is that the toughest thing you can sing?

  And if you ever get a war without blood and gore
  Well I'll be the first to go

  Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die Rag
  Country Joe and the Fish
  For What It's Worth
  Buffalo Springfield seven of nine

  They make me feel 10 years old again.

  I'm the first mammal to wear pants, yeah Roybatty

  Yes, and that makes us well qualified to blow the place up doesn't it? Good one. Never heard that one before.

  Masters of War You that never done nothin'
  But build to destroy
  You play with my world
  Like it's your little toy Sirius Dogma

  It's very sobering when you realize that this is true.

  Universal Soldier Nosferatu

  One of my 1960s memories.

  These are great songs. Thank you all for sharing them. I read them all. I hope to see more lyrics posted. Please do share. I feel like music can help take the sting out of the painful reality of war, racism and other sadness that we all live with. It's bolsters our spirit and helps us remember that there is more to life than pain.

  Flyin'
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  xenawarrior

  Yes, I was thinking: are we that far removed from the 1960s? That there should be such controversy?

  Yes, we are that far removed from the 60's By like 44 years. As nostalgic as we might feel for that era it stands alone. We aren't reliving the 60's. It's 2004 and we have much greater problems and concerns to deal with.

  As much as songs and the lyrics they carry may make us feel better at the moment they will not solve anything. And I don't know that any of us really know what the true answer is to what will solve it all right now.

  I think that we are all singing out of the same hymnal - things are pretty screwed up in our world. We are spending so much time (and money) trying to figure out who is to blame for it that we lose track of the fact that it's still screwed up and we have to find a way to fix it. And we have to do that together.

  We are divided. As a country and as a globe. Parties against parties and countries against countries. And maybe that is part of some master plan-divide and conquer- who knows? What I do know is that I'm tired of living in a world fraught with blame seeking and no resolution to anything and the whole thing causing hatred and a loss of hope.

  Jgnat had it right in this thread. How good do you feel about yourself? What you believe about yourself and the world around you is crucial and the more we can uplift each other, no matter what our differences are and who is to blame for all of what ails us now- the better we'll all be.

  Consciousness raising at this point isn't going back and re-living the 60's and the idealogy of that era. We have to forge ahead and make this world right again and we have to find the things that we have in common in order to achieve that.

  We can't live in the past. It might teach us a great deal, but to live in the blame of it all is fruitless and will destroy us more than any war in Iraq ever will. There is no hope in that.

  Just late night musings- if there are typos- uh-oh

  XW

  Jethro Tull

  Living In The Past

  Happy and I'm smiling,
  walk a mile to drink your water.
  You know I'd love to love you,
  and above you there's no other.
  We'll go walking out
  while others shout of war's disaster.
  Oh, we won't give in,
  let's go living in the past.
  
  Once I used to join in
  every boy and girl was my friend.
  Now there's revolution, but they don't know
  what they're fighting.
  Let us close out eyes;
  outside their lives go on much faster.
  Oh, we won't give in,
  we'll keep living in the past.
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  frenchbabyface

  We should forget about talking politic for good ... cause as a matter of fact we get to the point where justice have to take place (too much victimes 75 % for a few 25 % actually for less than that 10 % - the 15 % - us - whish are only standing against the 75 in knowing that we are susceptible to fall in the same hole as victimes as the time is running against us) Maybe it is time to considare all of us (90 %) as victimes. 75 % as first hand victimes et 15 % (us) as second hand victimes.
  

  Can we blame a country ?
  Yes of course we can ...

  Can we blame an individual ?
  Yes of course if he is responsible ...

  Now what is our personnal level of responsability ?

  That is when we get in trouble even in talking (nobody wants to be responsible of this mess) and nobody is for real just because the troubles was there way before us and they are conséquences of what others did way before them.

  Still does that mean that we should forget about blaming (them or ourselfs) ? We will be able to forget about that only if we agree together about who are the biggest victimes. And go further on the why's.

  Now is your country and mine the biggest victimes ? NOOOOOOOOOO
  Now is your citizens and mine the biggest victimes ? NOOOOOOOOOO

  What would it cost us (15 %) to react with the 75 % (90%) against those 10 % (what would they be alble to do ? THEY NEED US ... MORE THAN WE NEED THEM. (they don't like to use their own hands - they use ours - that is when we are responsible and need to defend them)

  Can we now talking about the real troubles ? And give us a chance to get a better world in reacting for justice and not for the confort of money or not being blamed. Again are we the biggest victimes? How much does it hurt to be just blamed ?

  Now how much does it cost to not acting for more justice and fair business in globalisation. In knowing that the rich people (10%) took 60 % of the benefits of the world product and left 40 % for those who really producted (90%) ... what about sharing together at least 50 % with those who deserved it ? (which is the easyest thing to do ... just being fair)

  Does a few (10%) need to be multimillionnaires (how does that help all of us for real ?) in knowing that if we left even only 10 % for them they will still be multimillionnaires with this rate ?

  Maybe you think that because they are americain or french we have a benefit out of that ? NO ... they do invest where the monney is, and CHINA is about to take over (for instance) and délocalisation is already well advanced.
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  frenchbabyface

  As we can't tell who did what for good without getting in trouble ourself even if not concerned or directly responsible. what about only taking care of the monney as it is for real a simple database ! (guess why some accounts needs to be hidded - a number instead of a name - this is something that we should NOT ADMIT - who needs to hide what he earns ?)

  We don't need money to live a nice life BTW - we only need to be fair in sharing (that is the base of the ECONOMY) getting as much as you give : simple

  Capitalisme is a way to make money with money (and we know that only sharing is important) FUCK THE MONEY ! don't [edit] those who share and give (even their lives without their consent of course).

  The rules :

  Not fair = not paid : simple (what is this excess all about ... it just gives "somebody" too much power - we don't need that to feel good)
  
  Too much money here = ok not needed, so let use it for something fair : simple (it does creat jobs too you know)
  
  NOW YOU KNOW EVERYONE (you included for good) IS PROTECTED FOR THE BEST and the MOST IMPORTANT THINGS ... and it won't hurt those who have too much already !

  Too much frustrated people in this world ... guess why they need to tell and to fight OR DYING ANYWAY (and why God became the only solution to bear it) loosing everything from their soil to their lifes ... for who ? Really ? Not for you ... not for me ... for those who just don't need it !
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  frenchbabyface

  Our first faillure is to think that we are alone (we are not, on different scale) as a human, as a familly, as a state, as country ... we are the world and everything we do as it's little effect ... but more we act together and more we give power to what we do ... it is a choice ... are we going to acte for the best or for the worse ... TOGETHER ?

  Again 90 % against 10 % in knowing that we are those who give them power and ACT FOR THEM !!!this rate talks by itself we just need to be conscient about THAT. WE'VE GOT THE POWER (cause we act for them)

  Can't we just admit that we are wrong when we are wrong ? (Moroveore when it is about DEATH) Can't we just see where our best interest is.
  
  Can't we ask for istance for an INTERNATIONAL UNION OF FAIRNESS ? out of the gov's hands with transparency !

  Now IF YOU WANT TO BE THE WORLD SAVIOUR, that would be a good start ! to let people know where you stand (AS A CITIZEN) and to let them know Who in their Country are screwing them and to applie those rules : Not fair = not paid (NO excess) / Too much money here = let use it for something fair (Justice)

  Of course we need to talk before to act, but it doesn't help to just say, there is nothing we can do ... WE CAN ... again we the 90 % of world and you've got the MIC, and we can talk together (If we are able to admit our own failures) and we have the right to constitut any kind of organisation by ourselves (instead of building churchs and pray gods) ... CAN WE GIVE THIS KIND OF SOLUTION A TRY ... at least