pan6467

I'll start with Eve of Destruction by Barry McGuire because I truly find it more relevant today than it was in 1965.

Why? There's an oil slick that is encapsulating the whole freaking Gulf an may get out to the Atlantic, we are at war but 50% of our troops are on anti-depressants and sleep aids, we over medicate and then our waste containing the meds contaminate the fish and from there the eco system, families are falling apart, but we aren't on the Eve of Destruction. The world's economy is falling a part, there's violence in our streets, our schools and our homes, there's politicians and talking heads telling us to hate the other side because they break their egg on the wrong side.... But you tell me over and over and over and over and over again how ya don't believe we're on the eve of destruction




My blood's so mad it feels like coagulating, I'm sitting here just contemplating, I can't twist the truth it knows no regulation.... when human respect is disintegratin, this whole crazy world is just too frustrating

And you tell me over and over and over and over and over again how ya don't believe we're on the eve of destruction

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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"

Baraka_Guru

This is just one aspect, but here it is:

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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot

snowy

I don't really feel that there's a song that captures my political beliefs, per se, but this is one of my favorite spiritual songs. It represents my endless quest for knowledge and understanding of myself, of others, and of the world around me (including politics).

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If I am not better, at least I am different. --Jean-Jacques Rousseau

DaveOrion

Seriously, this is the closest I could find.

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Syriana...have you ever tried liquid MDMA?....Liquid MDMA? No....Arash, when you wanna do this?.....After prayer...

Manic_Skafe

Burnt By The Sun - Boston Tea Bag Party

"Yeah, we've got it figured out this time, we're sure.
Indecision blessed.
Put our minds to rest, onto the next term.
November 7th was just another day for the world to laugh.
It was just more of the same....
Let's look at the facts: we're sidetracked by how much we're being taxed.
What little regard we have for human life.
We fight for the scraps and blame the poor.
All the while our future is bought and paid for.
Who manipulates the economy?
And so the story goes.
Don't let your mind be guided by who you vote for,
because chances are you don't know what's in store.
Whats in store?"

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Idyllic

Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)
by Green Day

Yes, I know about his girlfriend, I know about the interpretations, but this song, to me, represents living and enjoying the unpredictable, to make memories, to "Have The Time Of Your Life."

All to soon time (youth) will past you by and all you will be left with is the memories, make some good ones to last you the rest of your life, everyday. They will also give you lots to enjoy when you get older.

Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road
Time grabs you by the wrist, directs you where to go
So, make the best of this test and don't ask why
It's not a question but a lesson learned in time
It's something unpredictable but, in the end, is right
I hope you had the time of your life

So, take the photographs and still-frames in your mind
Hang it on a shelf in good health and good time
Tattoos of memories and dead skin on trial
For what it's worth, it was worth all the while
It's something unpredictable but, in the end, is right
I hope you had the time of your life

INSTRUMENTAL INTERLUDE

It's something unpredictable but, in the end, is right
I hope you had the time of your life

It's something unpredictable but, in the end, is right
I hope you had the time of your life

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you can tell them all you want but it won't matter until they think it does

p.s. I contradict my contradictions, with or without intention, sometimes.

roachboy

there's a few songs that speak to aspects of my politics but none that sums it all up really.

my position on conservatives since reagan:


there are so many great lines in this song.
i like to think that if folk hadnt slept on this in 1980 that we would be in a more sane present reality. have a listen.

gang of four: 5:45


but most of the music i think of as being something like radical pays no particular attention to the crushing stupidity that is all around and just does something else, another way. of this there's many many examples but here's one i like

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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear

it make you sick.

-kamau brathwaite

Plan9

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Whatever you can carry.

"You should not drink... and bake."

FelixP

Man in Black --Johnny Cash, of course.

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Free will lies not in the ability to craft your own fate, but in not knowing what your fate is. --Me

"I have just returned from visting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world." --Douglas MacArthur

pan6467

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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"

uncle phil

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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
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"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
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never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.

FuglyStick

Seeing as how unfounded rhetoric, half-truths and proselytizing have replaced logical, reasonable debate when it comes to political issues, I'm gonna say this sums it up--

Pogue Mahone

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I still wave at the dots on the shore
And I still beat my head against the door
I still rage and wage my little war
I'm a shade and easy to ignore

powerclown

RUSH - WORKING MAN

CinnamonGirl

I'm kind of a hippie...what did you expect?

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"...for though she was ordinary, she possessed health, wit, courage, charm, and cheerfulness. But because she was not beautiful, no one ever seemed to notice these other qualities, which is so often the way of the world."


"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"

Willravel

I can't believe nobody has posted Bob Dylan yet. Standing in somber defiance of the status quo and warning the powers that be of a coming revolution, Dylan quietly sings his lyrics as both warning and prophesy.

Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone
If your time to you
Is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon
For the wheel's still in spin
And there's no tellin' who
That it's namin'
For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside
And it is ragin'
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is
Rapidly agin'
Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin'.

The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is
Rapidly fadin'
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'.

Spuddeeez

bit folky but a great song. I'm pretty sure this reflects the sentiments of a lot of people in the western world today. especially those with big mortgages, big debts and NO JOBS!!!! I would appreciate your opinion.....can't post link so please search UT for.... Ordinary man - Christy Moore

Willravel

It represents the ignored, the repressed, and the downtrodden.

Lucifer

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
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
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
That gives us hope when the whole day's done

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I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
- Job 30:29

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Strange Famous

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"Do not tell lies, and do not do what you hate,
for all things are plain in the sight of Heaven. For nothing
hidden will not become manifest, and nothing covered will remain
without being uncovered."

The Gospel of Thomas

MSD

I'm not into the whole shadow government conspiracy, but this covered the Bush presidency pretty well and Obama has turned out to be another typical stooge of a politician

streak_56

I second Imagine and raise a white flag warrior by the flobots featuring tom from rise against!

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Working Class Hero is also a good one, John lennons and green days version

remy1492

I was thinking Billy Joel, We Didn't Start the Fire.

Strange Famous

Which side are you on, boys? Which side are you on?!

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"Do not tell lies, and do not do what you hate,
for all things are plain in the sight of Heaven. For nothing
hidden will not become manifest, and nothing covered will remain
without being uncovered."

The Gospel of Thomas

boink

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when you believe in things that you don't understand, then you suffer. Superstition ain't the way.

FoolThemAll

Eh... I wish I could contribute, but conservatives make awful political music.

My favorite political songs are typically Ted Leo and the Pharmacists songs and I rarely feel a whole lot of common ground with them. Pearl Jam is sometimes good, too.

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