Oooh. That reminds me, what about that "Ain't Gonna go to Sun City" song that had a lot of artists on it?
Oh yes. It had Peter Garrett too, now an MP in Australia's federal parliament.
And don't you ever stand for that sort of thing. Someone ever tries to kill you, you try to kill 'em right back! ... You got the right same as anyone to live and try to kill people.
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Buffista Music II: Wrath of Chaka Khan
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
billytea - Nov 05, 2004 7:19:56 am PST #5765 of 10003
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
lisah - Nov 05, 2004 7:22:32 am PST #5766 of 10003
Punishingly Intricate
The first verse of Invisible Sun
I don't want to spend the rest of my life/Looking at the barrel of an Armalite/I don't want to spend the rest of my days/Keeping out of trouble like the soldiers say/ I don't want to spend my time in hell/Looking at the walls of a prison cell/I don't ever want to play the part/Of a statistic on a government chart
(aaaaghh why can't i format this right?!?! eta and i'm redundant anyway...)
tommyrot - Nov 05, 2004 7:22:53 am PST #5767 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I don't want to spend the rest of my life
Looking at the barrel of an Armalite
I don't want to spend the rest of my days
Keeping out of trouble like the soldiers say
I don't want to spend my time in hell
Looking at the walls of a prison cell
I don't ever want to play the part
Of a statistic on a government chart
There has to be an invisible sun
It gives its heat to everyone
There has to be an invisible sun
That gives us hope when the whole day's done
It's dark all day, and it glows all night
Factory smoke and acetylene light
I face the day with me head caved in
Looking like something that the cat brought in
There has to be an invisible sun
It gives its heat to everyone
There has to be an invisible sun
That gives us hope when the whole day's done
And they're only going to change this place by
Killing everybody in the human race
And they would kill me for a cigarette
But I don't even wanna die just yet
There has to be an invisible sun
It gives its heat to everyone
There has to be an invisible sun
It gives us hope when the whole day's done
Gandalfe - Nov 05, 2004 7:26:59 am PST #5768 of 10003
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
I think it's an old celtic folk song called "Fields of Athenry".
Connie, does the version start out with some rockin' guitars, have some bagpipes in the middle, and a male lead singer, dueting with a female during the chorus? If so, it's likely Dropkick Murphys.
tommyrot - Nov 05, 2004 7:30:24 am PST #5769 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Curious - in my post of the Police lyrics - do you see the whole post in the "quote" font (looks like a typwriter font) or just the first paragraph? Because my browser (Firefox on XP) has shown it both ways.
Alicia K - Nov 05, 2004 7:32:25 am PST #5770 of 10003
Uncertainty could be our guiding light.
Ooh, "Sun City!" I loved that song and video, and not just because Bono looked really hawt in his beard.
There was a full album spun off from that, which included a U2 song "Silver and Gold," later to be found live on "Rattle and Hum." So there's another one.
Daisy Jane - Nov 05, 2004 7:36:58 am PST #5771 of 10003
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
My Levellers cds are pretty much all protest songs, with pretty fiddles.
Gandalfe - Nov 05, 2004 7:39:08 am PST #5772 of 10003
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
Surely if you're gonna have one Costello, it's Shipbuilding. If 2, Shipbuilding and Tramp the Dirt Down. If 3, actually, Oliver's Army, Shipbuilding and Tramp the Dirt down.
What about Radio Radio?
Jon B. - Nov 05, 2004 7:39:50 am PST #5773 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Curious - in my post of the Police lyrics - do you see the whole post in the "quote" font (looks like a typwriter font) or just the first paragraph? Because my browser (Firefox on XP) has shown it both ways.
Only the first paragraph is the fixed-width font. The rest is the standard font. The t p tags you've embedded in the post close the t tt tag on most browsers (I'm using IE).
Daisy Jane - Nov 05, 2004 7:41:03 am PST #5774 of 10003
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
What about "Elvis Costello Totally Wants to Make Out With Heather Alayne"?
Or does that one not really count as a "protest song"?