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In reply to the discussion: In honor of an 8th grade English assignment, name some protest songs [View all]OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)71. Nearly every Napalm Death song is a protest song
protesting religion here in 1990ish:
Your unflappable conceptions
Moralistic views
Never open to criticism
Your overpowering ruse
Promises of sanctuary
In eternal bliss
With starry eyes and cash in hand
Pledge all to the master plan
Just face the truth or fund the farce
At one with your god
Your sole intent
Your treasured place assured
For a substantial rent
Global lunacy
Death threats for supposed blasphemy
No room for free thought
All non believers pushed to the floor
Aggressive tyrants
Supposed saints for the cause
Judgement through force
Faith a fuel for pointless wars
When all is done
Who shall benefit? who is the one?
Not to those who pass on
But those dictators divine waving their deceitful wand
protesting screwing up the eart in 2009:
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Born between chaos and hatred
A lottery of fate
We sit on the brink of extinction
The world lies in wait
Just a scratch on the surface
Of time that will wash away
We delude ourselves with the notion
That we are here to stay
As life starts to shrink
An impending state of neurosis
Will we awake from
This negligent narcosis?
On the brink
The brink of extinction
We're on the brink
The brink of extinction
Locked together in a mindless campaign
It's only now we see
Appreciation is the one redemption
For all that lives and breathes
Like a virus it's conscious impure
We have farmed disease
It's time now to step back
And find an inner peace
As life starts to shrink
An impending state of neurosis
Will we awake from
This negligent narcosis?
On the brink
The brink of extinction
We're on the brink
The brink of extinction
Brink of extinction
Will we avoid a natural selection?
Do we have the right to survive the failures?
Nature, its force, the scales unbalanced
What's the next step? How do we evolve?
The brink of extinction
On the brink of extinction
Can we avoid a natural selection?
Do we have the right to survive the failures?
Nature, its force, the scales unbalanced
What's the next step? What can we resolve?
On the brink of extinction
As life starts to shrink
An impending state of neurosis
Will we awake from
This negligent narcosis?
On the brink
The brink of extinction
We're on the brink
The brink of extinction
They even cover protest songs!
I figure she can't report on that one but if I was her teacher I'd give her an A for the rest of the year if she did.
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In honor of an 8th grade English assignment, name some protest songs [View all]
Momgonepostal
Mar 2014
OP
... Well, the only chains that we can stand are the chains of hand in hand
struggle4progress
Mar 2014
#6
Dear Mister Editor if you choose please send me a copy of the labor news
struggle4progress
Mar 2014
#14
Whenever somebody tells me that "May you live in interesting times" is an old Chinese curse,
struggle4progress
Mar 2014
#49
Don't forget the Pete Seeger song that got the Smothers Brothers in hot water with CBS
kath
Mar 2014
#30
And one from the '80's (not strictly protest in the sense of the others posted)
Adsos Letter
Mar 2014
#46
Gorillaz - Dirty Harry "The war is over So said the speaker with the flight suit on"
azurnoir
Mar 2014
#51
Fogerty also wrote an Iraq War protest song in 2004: Deja Vu (All Over Again)
pinboy3niner
Mar 2014
#55
This one is very recent (last summer) from a young band called The Orwells:
Arugula Latte
Mar 2014
#65