Best Anti-War Video/Song EVER!!! (post'm, if you got'm)

[draft]

i'll kick it off with one i just stumbled upon today...
http://forwhatitsworth.cf.huffingtonpost.com

:hi:

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

1. Paul Hardcastle - 19

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9KTkjhKNsA

[blondeatlast]

58. An easily overlooked classic. Not the best, IMHO, but a great

tune.

[Brigid]

2. Mrs. McGrath

Recently made famous by Bruce Springsteen's recording of it on his "Seeger Sessions" album. This link isn't Bruce's recording, but has some great information on this traditional Irish song:

http://www.contemplator.com/ireland/mcgrath.html

[otherlander]

3. Eve of Destruction?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm2kF1v8y7c&search=Eve%20of%20Destruction

[Joanne98]

81. You can leave here, for four days in space.........

BUT WHEN YOU RETURN IT'S THE SAME OLD PLACE! Love this song. thankyou

[idgiehkt]

4. Born in the USA -- Springsteen

here's an acoustic version

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7XLeYMUZY4&search=Springsteen

[idgiehkt]

6. 99 Luft Ballons -- Nena

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngl7U-L3YLk&search=Nena%2099%20luftballons

[Joanne98]

52. I love that song. Do you have the english version?

[idgiehkt]

69. 99 Red Balloons (English)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEQSh2KcZcM&search=Nena%2099%20luftballons

[Joanne98]

77. Thank you!

[prettykitty]

96. thanks for the link!

:hi:

[AccessGranted]

5. War is Stupid

by Boy George and Culture Club....simple, but that about sums it up.

[idgiehkt]

7. Traveling Soldier -- Dixie Chicks (Live)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUBX9IqJmRQ&search=Dixie%20Chicks%20Traveling%20Soldier

[idgiehkt]

8. Wake Me Up When September Ends -- Green Day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfPJImiGV_Y&search=Green%20Day%20Wake%20me%20up%20when%20september%20ends

[otherlander]

14. Damn, that's moving...

I tried to tell myself, it's just greenday, they're just sellouts, but that video is just too touching... :-(

[Aristus]

72. Wow. I'd never seen it before.

I don't have the words.

[astro]

74. excellent video

:toast:

[txwhitedove]

13. Traveling Soldier , makes me cry everytime I hear it...

and hope Dixie Chicks play it at every concert on tour.

[Bossy Monkey]

9. Freda Payne, Bring the Boys Home

Lyrics here: http://www.mp3lyrics.org/f/freda-payne/bring-the-boys-home/
Hey! Freda did an "I Hate Barney" record (or maybe just appeared on it) in the '90s. Gotta love it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freda_Payne

[blondeatlast]

59. I LOVE "Bring the Boys Home." nt

[kwassa]

61. I love Freda Payne

Teenage crush

[idgiehkt]

10. Fortunate Son -- C.C.R.

This is a '69 performance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keARLWGGvl8&search=Fortunate%20Son%20Creedence%20Clearwater%20Revival

[idgiehkt]

12. Imagine -- John Lennon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj8LR25HeJA&search=John%20Lennon%20%27Imagine%22

[sakabatou]

11. More:

Cost of War
Requietum in Pace
In Memory of the Fallen

[ghostsofgiants]

15. "The Empire Strikes Iraq" by Closet Monster is a good one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u6Mu_AlIKk

http://www.plyrics.com/lyrics/closetmonster/theempirestrikesiraq.html

[AngryAmish]

16. Walk This Way by Run-DMC

[idgiehkt]

17. People are People -- Depeche Mode

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eif5j-uKhBI&search=People%20are%20People%20Depeche%20Mode

[idgiehkt]

104. my personal favorite.

of all the videos in this thread I have to say this is the one that I like the best...maybe it's just nostalgia for my teenage years or something, but I am so proud of Depeche Mode for what they said with this song and this video and for getting right to the core of the issue. I've watched this about 20 times since putting it up here...it blows me away just how much progressive alternative music there was during that time despite being the preppy/Reagan generation and so many of us likened to characters in books like 'Bright Lights Big City' and Less than Zero'.

[bridgit]

18. Melanie Safka & Edwin Hawkins Singers - Lay Down 1970...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0GZyF7vIow&search=melanie%20safka

[Joanne98]

80. This gave me chills.

[txwhitedove]

19. Something in the Air, by Thunderclap Newman....

please DU'er with YouTube account go see if there is a video.

[ghostsofgiants]

21. Here you go...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDoJtu-aX1w

You don't need an account for YouTube though unless the video has been flagged for inappropriate content.

[idgiehkt]

22. here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDoJtu-aX1w&search=Thunderclap%20Newman

wow, I love this song, haven't heard it in forever.

lol, great minds!

[txwhitedove]

24. Thanks to Primate1 and Idgiehkt....

I love this song too.  Heard it about 1-month ago and believe
it should be the song for now and for Democratics leading to
2008 elections.

[Jade Fox]

20. Masters of War--Bob Dylan n/t

[idgiehkt]

30. here's Pearl Jam doing it live:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8GHBk_HSXg&search=Masters%20of%20War%20

[idgiehkt]

23. I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing -- The New Seekers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t9lxvSy_HY&search=%22I%27d%20like%20to%20teach%20the%20world%20to%20sing%22

here's the coke commercial for nostaligia's sake:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdPdzEg9X2E&search=%22I%27d%20like%20to%20teach%20the%20world%20to%20sing%22

[idgiehkt]

25. Lost in the Flood -- Springsteen (lyrics, no video)

This is about a Vietnam veteran returning home...

"The ragamuffin gunner is returnin' home like a hungry runaway
He walks through town all alone--"He must be from the fort," he hears the high school girls say
His countryside's burnin' with wolfman fairies dressed in drag for homicide
The hit-and-run plead sanctuary, 'neath a holy stone they hide
They're breakin' beams and crosses with a spastic's reelin' perfection
Nuns run bald through Vatican halls, pregnant, pleadin' immaculate conception
And everybody's wrecked on Main Street from drinking unholy blood
Sticker smiles sweet as Gunner breathes deep, his ankles caked in mud
And I said, "Hey, gunner man, that's qucksand, that's quicksand, that ain't mud
Have you thrown your senses to the war, or did you lose them in the flood?"

That pure American brother, dull-eyed and empty-faced
Races Sundays in Jersey in a Chevy stock super eight
He rides 'er low on the hip, on the side he's got "Bound for Glory" in red, white and blue flash paint
He leans on the hood telling racing stories, the kids call him Jimmy the Saint
Well, that blaze-and-noise boy, he's gunnin' that bitch loaded to blastin' point
He rides head first into a hurricane and disappears into a point
And there's nothin' left but some blood where the body fell, that is, nothin' left that you could sell
Just junk all across the horizon, a real highwayman's farewell
And I said, "Hey kid, you think that's oil? Man, that ain't oil, that's blood"
I wonder what he was thinking when he hit that storm, or was he just lost in the flood?..."

[idgiehkt]

27. Blowin in the Wind -- Dylan

performed live by Dylan and Baez
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsih09y8XdM&search=Joan%20Baez

[draft]

26. No Bravery - James Blunt 2005

http://nobravery.cf.huffingtonpost.com
wow - another powerful video by the same people that I found on their site... get your hankie ready :cry:

[txwhitedove]

28. OMG, winner, stop, crying so can't even write....

James Blunt's song is emotional enough, but the video....  HE
has been here, been here too long.  We have shamed oursleves
as a nation.

[ornotna]

33. Great one

DUer bpilgrim created that fine piece of work.

[txwhitedove]

35. A DUer created video No Bravery??? Bravo!

[draft]

50. ditto

bpilgrim, great job :toast:

[Evergreen Emerald]

48. "A nation blind to their disgrace"

That was certainly a powerful piece. Just wow.

[Xithras]

102. Love that song, but it's about Kosovo, not Iraq (a link to the REAL video)

It was one of the first songs he wrote, and he penned it while in the British Army stationed in Kosovo. The song has been released a couple times, most recently as a single in France. This is the official French music video for the song (it's in english, but subtitled in French).

http://videos.tf1.fr/video/musique/clips/clips_w/0,,3293662-e3BsYXllciBxdWFsaXR5IFVOVl9JRH0gezIwMiAyMDEgMX0=,00.html#

[idgiehkt]

29. War Pigs -- Black Sabbath

kicks ass!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnfhzWk8rys&search=Masters%20of%20War

[otokogi]

97. thanks for all the links

:toast:

[proud2BlibKansan]

31. Political Science by Randy Newman - the best ever, IMO

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/political.php

No one likes us-I don't know why
We may not be perfect, but heaven knows we try
But all around, even our old friends put us down
Let's drop the big one and see what happens

We give them money-but are they grateful?
No, they're spiteful and they're hateful
They don't respect us-so let's surprise them
We'll drop the big one and pulverize them

Asia's crowded and Europe's too old
Africa is far too hot
And Canada's too cold
And South America stole our name
Let's drop the big one
There'll be no one left to blame us

We'll save Australia
Don't wanna hurt no kangaroo
We'll build an All American amusement park there
They got surfin', too

Boom goes London and boom Paris
More room for you and more room for me
And every city the whole world round
Will just be another American town
Oh, how peaceful it will be
We'll set everybody free
You'll wear a Japanese kimono
And there'll be Italian shoes for me

They all hate us anyhow
So let's drop the big one now
Let's drop the big one now

[idgiehkt]

32. related: Ohio -- Neil Young

photo collage

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvg4n8Txgdc&search=Ohio%20Neil%20Young

[idgiehkt]

34. Ball of Confusion -- covered by Love and Rockets

(orig. Temptations)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKTXi1fNCyA&search=Ball%20of%20Confusion

[idgiehkt]

36. What's Going On -- Marvin Gaye

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9KC7uhMY9s&search=%22What%27s%20Going%20On%22%20%20Marvin%20Gaye

Amazing...

[Radical Activist]

37. No Shelter by Rage Against the Machine

http://www.ratm.net/lyrics/nos.html

One verse and the chorus line...

Cinema, simulated life, ill drama
Fourth Reich culture - Americana
Chained to the dream they got ya searchin for
Tha thin line between entertainment and war

There be no shelter here
The frontline is everywhere

American eyes, American eyes....
View the world from American eyes
Bury the past, rob us blind
And leave nothin behind

[idgiehkt]

38. Worldwide Suicide -- Pearl Jam

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9KC7uhMY9s&search=%22What%27s%20Going%20On%22%20%20Marvin%20Gaye

[idgiehkt]

39. Games Without Frontiers -- Peter Gabriel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcET22g6In0&search=Games%20without%20frontiers

[flvegan]

40. "The Price of Oil" by Billy Bragg

Live version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjAhlh23zPM&search=billy%20bragg

[idgiehkt]

41. Peace Train Cat Stevens

Yusuf Islam singing a cappella
very nice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7wEctHyuc0&search=Peace%20Train

[GCP]

42. Johnny Got His Gun - Metallica

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR84U_8ikNM&search=Johnny%20got%20his%20gun

[Downtown Hound]

66. That's a great song and video

FYI, the song is actually called "One." The movie and book its based on is Johnny Got His Gun. Thanks for posting that. That's my favorite also.

[Blue_Tires]

91. that's what i was going to mention

i remember watching that in 5th grade and feeling that sad impression it left on me....for a real tear-jerker, try reading the book (or as much of it as you can stand)

[idgiehkt]

43. Zombie -- Cranberries

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyp5we2ySDo&search=Cranberries

[idgiehkt]

44. Holiday -- Green Day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plhrPAuyf2c&search=Holiday%20Green%20Day

[gordontron]

45. lives in the balance

http://videos.digett.net/jacksonbrowne/lives/lives_in_the_balance.mov

[hippywife]

46. I have to second that!

So totally moving! :hi:

[Left_Winger]

47. Edwin Starr - War

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRtEYWRCC1I

[blondeatlast]

60. Finally! nt

[likesmountains 52]

49. No video, but Cops of the World still rings true 40 years later...

[u4ic]

51. Universal Soldier - Buffy Ste Marie

There's even a video! :bounce:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5FcPpHbIKg&search=universal%20soldier

[Onlooker]

55. Great song

Also Donovan's version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxbvJyYb2eI&search=universal%20soldier

[u4ic]

63. Thanks

I'd never heard the Donovan version before.

[Maestro]

53. Here are a few of my iTunes mixes.

[otokogi]

107. cool

thanks for sharing :hi:

[Joanne98]

54. Doors "Unknown Soldier" (video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpEhCHjTT3Y&search=The%20Doors

[Joanne98]

56. Country Joe and the Fish..............(audio)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30raYQT9754&search=Country%20Joe%20and%20the%20Fish

[Joanne98]

57. Here's the Phelps family singing "God hates America" (really)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTcXCCiG21g&search=war%20protests

[blondeatlast]

62. Fishbone--Party at Ground Zero

"This is not a charade..."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrONIb9gQ-k

[Onlooker]

64. Wonder how this thread would do in Freeperland?

Have those creeps ever been against a war?

[txwhitedove]

65. Ooohh, most excellent question, Onlooker.

[Downtown Hound]

67. Many of them were against Kosovo

because Clinton was running it. They have no problem bringing up war crimes Saddam committed over a decade ago to justify their war against Iraq, but the current genocide at the time being committed by Serbia apparently wasn't a good enough reason for them to go war because a Democrat was running it.

[otherlander]

99. Kinda ironic...them getting so pissed about the Kosovo intervention,

us going ahead with it, and helping form a new goveernment there,
and now Kosovo's new government is assisting the B*sh administration in rendition.

[Initech]

68. Queensryche - Speak

They've given me a mission
I don't really know the game yet
I'm bent on submission
Religion is to blame
I'm the new Messiah
Death angel with a gun
Dangerous in my silence
Deadly to my cause

{Chorus}:
Speak to me the pain you feel
Speak the word
The word is all of us

I've given my life to
Becoming what I am
To preach the new beginning
To make you understand
To reach some point of order
Utopia in mind
You've got to learn
To sacrifice
To leave what's now behind

{Chorus}

Speak the word
The word is all of us

Seven years of power
The corporation claw
The rich control the government
The media, the law
To make some kind of difference
Then everyone must know
Eradicate the fascists
Revolution will grow

The system we learn
Says we're equal under law
But the streets are reality
The weak and the poor will fall
Let's tip the power balance
And tear down their crown
Educate the masses
We'll burn the White House down

Speak to me the pain you feel
Speak to me the pain you feel
Speak the word (revolution)
The word is all of us
Speak the word (revolution)
The word is all of us
Speak the word
The word is all of us
Speak the word
The word is all of us

[idgiehkt]

70. Brothers in Arms -- Dire Straits

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeh6hSzlVRk&search=%22Brothers%20in%20Arms%22%20Dire%20Straits

[Joanne98]

79. OMG! I LOVE this video.

[draft]

71. 1974 - Terry Jacks - Seasons In The Sun

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qITVBLzfvxo&search=seasons%20in%20the%20sun

here is a lip-sync by two young kids who are popular on the www...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW6UOI3AowM&search=seasons%20in%20the%20sun

[idgiehkt]

73. Bob Marley -- War (Haile Selassie speech)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkadztlVtxA&search=Bob%20Marley%20War

this video gives some background before the performance

[tjwash]

75. The Who's...

...We won't get fooled again.

[Deep13]

76. "One" Metallica

[idgiehkt]

78. It's the End of the World as we know it and I feel fine -- REM

and a government for hire in a combat site...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhjWB3sqjAo&search=R.E.M.

[Joanne98]

82. Dear Mr. President...... Pink

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eDJ3cuXKV4

[idgiehkt]

92. DUH

I cannot believe everyone forgot about Pink when that was just, like, last month. lol.

[Joanne98]

83. Wooden Ships.... CS&N

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0rG2ME4sAc&search=wooden%20ships

[Benfea]

84. "Let's Have a War" by Fear

http://www.lyricscafe.com/f/fear/letshaveawar.html

Although I really prefer the cover by Course of Emprie.

[Joanne98]

85. Best love song between two anti-war protesters.......

Diamonds and Rust.......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2iJ4MnnbFM&search=Joan%20Baez

[Joanne98]

86. Civil War by Guns and Roses............

What we have here is a FAILURE to communicate.......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9GqwxdcsLc&search=Civil%20War%2BAxel%20Rose

[Joanne98]

87. Don Henley's "All She Wants to do is Dance"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifz3Yb5evaQ&search=All%20She%20Wants%20to%20do%20is%20Dance

[Joanne98]

88. Generation Landslide..... Alice Cooper.....video 2006

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWGV-S3uAPk&search=Alice%20Cooper%20Generation%20Landslide

[LSK]

89. Travelin' Soldier - Dixie Chicks

Two days past eighteen
He was waiting for the bus in his army green
Sat down in a booth in a cafe there
Gave his order to a girl with a bow in her hair
He's a little shy so she gives him a smile
And he said would you mind sittin' down for a while
And talking to me,
I'm feeling a little low
She said I'm off in an hour and I know where we can go

So they went down and they sat on the pier
He said I bet you got a boyfriend but I don't care
I got no one to send a letter to
Would you mind if I sent one back here to you

Chorus: I cried
Never gonna hold the hand of another guy
Too young for him they told her
Waitin' for the love of a travelin' soldier
Our love will never end
Waitin' for the soldier to come back again
Never more to be alone when the letter said
A soldier's coming home

So the letters came from an army camp
In California then Vietnam
And he told her of his heart
It might be love and all of the things he was so scared of
He said when it's getting kinda rough over here
I think of that day sittin' down at the pier
And I close my eyes and see your pretty smile
Don't worry but I won't be able to write for awhile

Chorus

One Friday night at a football game
The Lord's Prayer said and the Anthem sang
A man said folks would you bow your heads
For a list of local Vietnam dead
Crying all alone under the stands
Was a piccolo player in the marching band
And one name read and nobody really cared
But a pretty little girl with a bow in her hair

Chorus

Chorus

[prettykitty]

90. Billy Don't Be A Hero

http://users.cis.net/sammy/bllyhero.htm

( Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods )

The marchin' band came down along Main Street
The soldier blues fell in behind
I looked across and there I saw Billy
Waiting to go and join the line
And with her head upon his shoulder
His young and lovely fiancee
From where I stood I saw she was cryin'
And through her tears I heard her say

Billy, don't be a hero, don't be a fool with your life
Billy, don't be a hero, come back and make me your wife
And as he started to go she said, Billy, keep your head low
Billy, don't be a hero, come back to me

The soldier blues were trapped on a hillside
The battle raging all around
The sergeant cried, We've got to hang on, boys!
We've got to hold this piece of ground
I need a volunteer to ride up
And bring us back some extra men
And Billy's hand was up in a moment
Forgettin' all the words she said

She said
Billy, don't be a hero, don't be a fool with your life
Billy, don't be a hero, come back and make me your wife
And as he started to go she said, Billy, keep your head low
Billy, don't be a hero, come back to me

I heard his fiancee got a letter
That told how Billy died that day
The letter said that he was a hero
She should be proud he died that way
I heard she threw that letter away ...

[Godhumor]

93. AMAZING SONG

Moxy Fruvous wrote a song called "Gulf War Song" about the 1991 invasion.

Audio is here - http://saturn5.com/darwin/beef/MP3/98-moxy_fruvous-gulf_war_song.mp3

Lyrics are here - http://www.fruvous.com/barglyr.html#gulf

A sample

"So we read and we watched all the specially selected news
And we learned so much more 'bout the good guys
Won't you stand by the flag? Was the question unasked
Won't you join in and fight with the allies?
What could we say...we're only 25 years old?
With 25 sweet summers, and hot fires in the cold
This kind of life makes that violence unthinkable
We'd like to play hockey, have kids and grow old"

[Kajsa]

94. Again, Alice In Chains

Rooster

http://youtube.com/watch?v=c_O0e43UBBY&search=Alice%20I...

I posted this in the 90's video thread first,
but it really fits in here.

[carpetbagger]

95. "Untitled Protest" Country Joe McDonald

www.countryjoe.com/col15.ram

Another anti-war song that doesn't get much exposure is "Harold Land", off an early Yes Album.

[Joanne98]

98. Life During Wartime.........

http://youtube.com/watch?v=bt9mhERWyd4&search=talking%20heads

[WoodyTobiasJr]

100. Three from the great Bruce Cockburn

If A Tree Falls

http://youtube.com/watch?v=bQl77Jr3Xzg&search=bruce%20cockburn

I couldn't find videos for the next two so here are the lyrics


CALL IT DEMOCRACY

padded with power here they come
international loan sharks backed by the guns
of market hungry military profiteers
whose word is a swamp and whose brow is smeared
with the blood of the poor

who rob life of its quality
who render rage a necessity
by turning countries into labour camps
modern slavers in drag as champions of freedom

sinister cynical instrument
who makes the gun into a sacrament--
the only response to the deification
of tyranny by so-called "developed" nations'
idolatry of ideology

north south east west
kill the best and buy the rest
it's just spend a buck to make a buck
you don't really give a flying fuck
about the people in misery

IMF dirty MF
takes away everything it can get
always making certain that there's one thing left
keep them on the hook with insupportable debt

see the paid-off local bottom feeders
passing themselves off as leaders
kiss the ladies shake hands with the fellows
open for business like a cheap bordello

and they call it democracy
and they call it democracy
and they call it democracy
and they call it democracy

see the loaded eyes of the children too
trying to make the best of it the way kids do
one day you're going to rise from your habitual feast
to find yourself staring down the throat of the beast
they call the revolution


---------------------------------------------------------------


IF I HAD A ROCKET LAUNCHER

Here come the helicopter -- second time today
Everybody scatters and hopes it goes away
How many kids they've murdered only God can say
If I had a rocket launcher...I'd make somebody pay.

I don't believe in guarded borders and I don't believe in hate
I don't believe in generals or their stinking torture states
And when I talk with the survivors of things too sickening to relate
If I had a rocket launcher...I would retaliate

On the Rio Lacantun one hundred thousand wait
To fall down from starvation -- or some less humane fate.
Cry for Guatemala, with a corpse in every gate
If I had a rocket launcher...I would not hesitate

I want to raise every voice -- at least I've got to try.
Every time I think about it water rises to my eyes.
Situation desperate echoes of the victims cry
If I had a rocket launcher...some sonofabitch would die



BRUCE COCKBURN TOTALLY KICKS ASS!!

[idgiehkt]

103. rocket launcher was great

thanks for posting that one, I thought about it but didn't know the artist

[WoodyTobiasJr]

101. Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy

Easily the most intelligent song ever written

TELEVISION (THE DRUG OF THE NATION)

One nation
under God
has turned into
one nation under the influence
of one drug

Television the drug of the Nation
Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation

T.V. it's
satellite links
our United States of Unconsciousness
Apathetic therapeutic and extremely addictive
The methadone metronome pumping out
150 channels 24 hours a day
you can flip through all of them
and still there's nothing worth watching

T.V. is the reason why less than 10 per cent of our
Nation reads books daily
Why most people think Central Amerika
means Kansas
Socialism means unamerican
and Apartheid is a new headache remedy

absorbed in it's world it's so hard to find us
It shapes our mind the most
maybe the mother of our Nation
should remind us
that we're sitting too close to...

Television, the drug of the Nation
Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation

T.V. is
the stomping ground for political candidates
Where bears in the woods
are chased by Grecian Formula'd
bald eagles
T.V. is mechanized politic's
remote control over the masses
co-sponsored by environmentally safe gases
watch for the PBS special

It's the perpetuation of the two party system
where image takes precedence over wisdom
Where sound bite politics are served to
the fastfood culture

Where straight teeth in your mouth
are more important than the words
that come out of it
Race baiting is the way to get selected
Willie Horton or
Will he not get elected on...

Television, the drug of the Nation
Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation

T.V., is it the reflector or the director ?
Does it imitate us
or do we imitate it
because a child watches 1500 murders before he's
twelve years old and we wonder why we've created
a Jason generation that learns to laugh
rather than to abhor the horror

T.V. is the place where
armchair generals and quarterbacks can
experience first hand
the excitement of warfare
as the theme song is sung in the background

Sugar sweet sitcoms
that leave us with a bad actor taste while
pop stars metamorphosize into soda pop stars
You saw the video
You heard the soundtrack
Well now go buy the soft drink
Well, the only cola that I support
would be a union C.O.L.A.(Cost Of Living Allowance)
On television

Television, the drug of the Nation
Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation

Back again, "New and improved"
We return to our irregularly programmed schedule
hidden cleverly between heavy breasted
beer and car commercials

CNNESPNABCTNT but mostly B.S.
Where oxymoronic language like
"virtually spotless", "fresh frozen"
"light yet filling" and "military intelligence"
have become standard

T.V. is the place where phrases are redefined
like "recession" to "necessary downturn"
"Crude oil" on a beach to "mousse"
"Civilian death" to "collateral damages"
and being killed by your own Army
is now called "friendly fire"

T.V. is the place where the pursuit
of happiness has become the pursuit of
trivia
Where toothpaste and cars have become
sex objects
Where imagination is sucked out of children
by a cathode ray nipple
T.V. is the only wet nurse
that would create a cripple

Television, the drug of the Nation
Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation


http://youtube.com/watch?v=qmdXvgA5I5I&search=disposable%20heroes%20of%20hiphoprisy

[Joey Liberal]

105. This Video Rocks!

http://forwhatitsworth.cf.huffingtonpost.com

[otokogi]

106. Cindy Sheehan and Medea! WOW!!! Must See!!! forwarding to everyone i know!

thanks for the link :toast: