DEMS and REPUBLICANS in SONG

[JayHawk]

I was on the lifecycle this morning and two songs played on my sony MP3 player. So it occurs to me that the two songs sum up DEM and REPUBLICAN thinking.

Democrat

Guns And Roses - Civil War

"What we've got here is failure to communicate.
Some men you just can't reach...
So, you get what we had here last week,
which is the way he wants it!
Well, he gets it!
N' I don't like it any more than you men."

Look at your young men fighting
Look at your women crying
Look at your young men dying
The way they've always done before

Look at the hate we're breeding
Look at the fear we're feeding
Look at the lives we're leading
The way we've always done before

My hands are tied
The billions shift from side to side
And the wars go on with brainwashed pride
For the love of God and our human rights
And all these things are swept aside
By bloody hands time can't deny
And are washed away by your genocide
And history hides the lies of our civil wars

D'you wear a black armband
When they shot the man
Who said "Peace could last forever"
And in my first memories
They shot Kennedy
I went numb when I learned to see
So I never fell for Vietnam
We got the wall of D.C. to remind us all
That you can't trust freedom
When it's not in your hands
When everybody's fightin'
For their promised land

And
I don't need your civil war
It feeds the rich while it buries the poor
Your power hungry sellin' soldiers
In a human grocery store
Ain't that fresh
I don't need your civil war


Look at the shoes your filling
Look at the blood we're spilling
Look at the world we're killing
The way we've always done before
Look in the doubt we've wallowed
Look at the leaders we've followed
Look at the lies we've swallowed
And I don't want to hear no more

My hands are tied
For all I've seen has changed my mind
But still the wars go on as the years go by
With no love of God or human rights
'Cause all these dreams are swept aside
By bloody hands of the hypnotized
Who carry the cross of homicide
And history bears the scars of our civil wars

"WE PRACTICE SELECTIVE ANNIHILATION OF MAYORS AND GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS
FOR EXAMPLE TO CREATE A VACUUM
THEN WE FILL THAT VACUUM
AS POPULAR WAR ADVANCES
PEACE IS CLOSER" **
I don't need your civil war
It feeds the rich while it buries the poor
Your power hungry sellin' soldiers
In a human grocery store
Ain't that fresh
And I don't need your civil war
I don't need your civil war
I don't need your civil war
Your power hungry sellin' soldiers
In a human grocery store
Ain't that fresh
I don't need your civil war
I don't need one more war

I don't need one more war
Whaz so civil 'bout war anyway

REPUBLICAN:

LIVE AND LET DIE

When you were young
And your heart was an open book
You used to say live and let live
You know you did
You know you did
You know you did
But if this ever changin world
In wich we live in
Makes you give in and cry
Say live and let die
Live and let die

What does it matter to you
When you got a job to do you got to do it well
You got to give the other fella hell

You used to say live and let live
You know you did
You know you did
You know you did
But if in this ever changin world
In wich we live in
Make you give in and cry
Say live and let die
Live and let die

Funny thing is I agree with both songs yet my business is War. Strange.


ALright like em up...............

or throw a song or two down yourself.

 

[Centexfarmer]

Actually, IMO, I see the Republicans representing the words of Guns and Roses - Civil War.



The Dems aren't necessarily saying it, but the Anti-War movement is:

[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Edwin Starr - War[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]War! - huh- yeah-[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]What is it good for?[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Absolutely nothing[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Uh-huh[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]War! – huh – yeah-[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]What is it good for?[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Absolutely nothing[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Say it again y’all[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]War! – huh – good God[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]What is it good for?[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Absolutely nothing[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Listen to me…[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Ohhh… War! I despise[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Because it means destruction’[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Of innocent lives[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]War means tears[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]to thousands of mothers eyes[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]When their sons go to fight[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]and lose their lives[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]I said - War! Huh – Good God y’all[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]What is it good for?[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Absolutely nothing[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Say it again[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]War! Whoa, Lord[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]What is it good for[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Absolutely nothing[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Listen to me…[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]War! It ain’t nothing but a heartbreaker[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]War! Friend only to the undertaker[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]War! It’s an enemy to all mankind[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]The thought of war blows my mind[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]War has caused unrest in the younger generation[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Induction then destruction-[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Who wants to die?[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Ohhh… War – Good God Y’all[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]What is it good for?[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Absolutely nothing[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Say it, Say it, Say it[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]War! Uh-huh – Yeah - Huh![/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]What is it good for?[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Absolutely nothing[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Listen to me…[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]War! It ain’t nothing but a heartbreaker[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]War! It’s got one friend, that’s the undertaker[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]War has shattered many a young mans dreams[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Made him disabled bitter and mean[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Life is much to precious to spend fighting wars these days[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]War can’t give life, it can only take it away[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]War! Huh – Good God y’all[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]What is it good for?[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Absolutely nothing[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Say it again[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]War! Whoa, Lord[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]What is it good for[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Absolutely nothing[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Listen to me…[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]War! It ain’t nothing but a heartbreaker[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]War! Friend only to the undertaker[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Peace Love and Understanding;[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]tell me, is there no place for them today?[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]They say we must fight to keep our freedom[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]But Lord knows there’s got to be a better way[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]War! Huh – Good God y’all[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]What is it good for?[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]You tell me[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Say it, Say it, Say it[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]War! Huh – Good God y’all[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]What is it good for?[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Stand up and shout it.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Nothing![/FONT]

The Democrats probably aren't ready to make nice.

DIXIE CHICKS LYRICS

"Not Ready To Make Nice"

Forgive, sounds good
Forget, I’m not sure I could
They say time heals everything
But I’m still waiting

I’m through with doubt
There’s nothing left for me to figure out
I’ve paid a price
And I’ll keep paying

I’m not ready to make nice
I’m not ready to back down
I’m still mad as hell and
I don’t have time to go round and round and round
It’s too late to make it right
I probably wouldn’t if I could
‘Cause I’m mad as hell
Can’t bring myself to do what it is you think I should

I know you said
Can’t you just get over it
It turned my whole world around
And I kind of like it

I made my bed and I sleep like a baby
With no regrets and I don’t mind sayin’
It’s a sad sad story when a mother will teach her
Daughter that she ought to hate a perfect stranger
And how in the world can the words that I said
Send somebody so over the edge
That they’d write me a letter
Sayin’ that I better shut up and sing
Or my life will be over

I’m not ready to make nice
I’m not ready to back down
I’m still mad as hell and
I don’t have time to go round and round and round
It’s too late to make it right
I probably wouldn’t if I could
‘Cause I’m mad as hell
Can’t bring myself to do what it is you think I should

I’m not ready to make nice
I’m not ready to back down
I’m still mad as hell and
I don’t have time to go round and round and round
It’s too late to make it right
I probably wouldn’t if I could
‘Cause I’m mad as hell
Can’t bring myself to do what it is you think I should

Forgive, sounds good
Forget, I’m not sure I could
They say time heals everything
But I’m still waiting

Good Thread! Let's have some fun with this!

 

[JayHawk]

I agree with you on Civil War but It is a song that does not celebrate such behaviour so I would push it DEmocratic....WAR is a good dem theme song. Bill made a wave with his musical stylings and his platform musical choices. I wonder what the future holds for our next two front runners, if any.

They should take a page from Bill, music connects

 

[JayHawk]

How about funky town for Hillary?

Gotta make a move to a
Town that's right for me
Town to keep me movin'
Keep me groovin' with some energy

Well, I talk about it
Talk about it
Talk about it
Talk about it
Talk about, Talk about
Talk about movin

Gotta move on
Gotta move on
Gotta move on

Won't you take me to
Funkytown
Won't you take me to
Funkytown
Won't you take me to
Funkytown
Won't you take me to
Funkytown

Gotta make a move to a
Town that's right for me
Town to keep me movin'
Keep me groovin' with some energy

Well, I talk about it
Talk about it
Talk about it
Talk about it
Talk about, Talk about
Talk about movin

Gotta move on
Gotta move on
Gotta move on

Won't you take me to
Funkytown
Won't you take me to
Funkytown
Won't you take me to
Funkytown
Won't you take me to
Funkytown

and for Rudy

KNOW YOUR ENEMY by RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE

Huh!
Yeah, we're comin' back then with another bombtrack
Think ya know what it's all about
Huh!
Hey yo, so check this out
Yeah!
Know your enemy!
Come on!

Born with insight and a raised fist
A witness to the slit wrist, that's with
As we move into '92
Still in a room without a view
Ya got to know
Ya got to know
That when I say go, go, go
Amp up and amplify
Defy
I'm a brother with a furious mind
Action must be taken
We don't need the key
We'll break in

Something must be done
About vengeance, a badge and a gun
'Cause I'll rip the mike, rip the stage, rip the system
I was born to rage against 'em

Fist in ya face, in the place
And I'll drop the style clearly
Know your enemy...Know your enemy!
Yeah!

Hey yo, and dick with this...uggh!
Word is born
Fight the war, fuck the norm
Now I got no patience
So sick of complacence
With the D the E the F the I the A the N the C the E
Mind of a revolutionary
So clear the lane
The finger to the land of the chains
What? The land of the free?
Whoever told you that is your enemy?

Now something must be done
About vengeance, a badge and a gun
'Cause I'll rip the mike, rip the stage, rip the system
I was born to rage against 'em

Now action must be taken
We don't need the key
We'll break in

I've got no patience now
So sick of complacence now
I've got no patience now
So sick of complacence now
Sick of sick of sick of sick of you
Time has come to pay...
Know your enemy!

Come on!
Yes I know my enemies
They're the teachers who taught me to fight me
Compromise, conformity, assimilation, submission
Ignorance, hypocrisy, brutality, the elite
All of which are American dreams (8 times)
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams

 

[Centexfarmer]

I agree with you on Civil War but It is a song that does not celebrate such behaviour so I would push it DEmocratic....WAR is a good dem theme song. Bill made a wave with his musical stylings and his platform musical choices. I wonder what the future holds for our next two front runners, if any.

They should take a page from Bill, music connects

I hear ya.

Did you catch this thread: Help Choose Hillary Campaign Song.

I'm rooting for It's a Beautiful Day by U2 provided it's not any of the current stiffs on the GOP ticket.

January 9, 2009 should be a beautiful day indeed!

Beautiful Day

U2

The heart is a bloom
Shoots up through the stony ground
There's no room
No space to rent in this town
You're out of luck
And the reason that you had to care
The traffic is stuck
And you're not moving anywhere
You thought you'd found a friend
To take you out of this place
Someone you could lend a hand
In return for grace

It's a beautiful day - the sky falls
You feel like it's a beautiful day
Don't let it get away

You're on the road
But you've got no destination
You're in the mud
In the maze of her imagination
You love this town
Even if that doesn't ring true
You've been all over
And it's been all over you

It's a beautiful day
Don't let it get away
It's a beautiful day

Touch me, take me to that other place
Teach me, I know I'm not a hopeless case

See the world in green and blue
See China right in front of you
See the canyons broken by cloud
See the tuna fleets clearing the sea out
See the Bedouin fires at night
See the oil fields at first light
And see the bird with a leaf in her mouth
After the flood all the colours came out

It was a beautiful day
Don't let it get away
Beautiful day

Touch me - take me to that other place
Reach me - I know I'm not a hopeless case
What you don't have you don't need it now
What you don't know you can feel somehow
What you don't have you don't need it now
Don't need it now
It was a beautiful day

 

[JayHawk]

Nah I didn't see it. I don't get here as often anymore and of course I havent rogered up to read every single post for "nice" content. You guys, I dunno how ya do it.

I haven't really picked someone to cote for so I can not put what I feel about them in a song or attach it to a song I should say.

God only knows how the two parties will marginalize this election. Plus there is so much time between now and then that these guys going on the record with positions that they will have to stick to no matter the headlines. It will be a different politik in Amerika this next year and a half

 

[Centexfarmer]

Nah I didn't see it. I don't get here as often anymore and of course I havent rogered up to read every single post for "nice" content. You guys, I dunno how ya do it.

I haven't really picked someone to cote for so I can not put what I feel about them in a song or attach it to a song I should say.

God only knows how the two parties will marginalize this election. Plus there is so much time between now and then that these guys going on the record with positions that they will have to stick to no matter the headlines. It will be a different politik in Amerika this next year and a half

That description sounds more like a Green Day song - Holiday:

GREEN DAY LYRICS

"Holiday"

Say, hey!

Hear the sound of the falling rain
Coming down like an Armageddon flame (Hey!)
The shame
The ones who died without a name

Hear the dogs howling out of key
To a hymn called "Faith and Misery" (Hey!)
And bleed, the company lost the war today

I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies
This is the dawning of the rest of our lives
On holiday

Hear the drum pounding out of time
Another protester has crossed the line (Hey!)
To find, the money's on the other side

Can I get another Amen? (Amen!)
There's a flag wrapped around a score of men (Hey!)
A gag, a plastic bag on a monument

I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies
This is the dawning of the rest of our lives
On holiday

(Hey!)
(Say, hey!)

(3,4)

"The representative from California has the floor"

Sieg Heil to the president Gasman
Bombs away is your punishment
Pulverize the Eiffel towers
Who criticize your government
Bang bang goes the broken glass and
Kill all the fags that don't agree
Trials by fire, setting fire
Is not a way that's meant for me
Just cause, just cause, because we're outlaws yeah!

I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies
This is the dawning of the rest of our lives
I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies
This is the dawning of the rest of our lives

This is our lives on holiday

 

[White Eagle]

How about one for all of us:

WHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOWERS GONE

Where have all the flowers gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the flowers gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the flowers gone?
Girls have picked them every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?

Where have all the young girls gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the young girls gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the young girls gone?
Taken husbands every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?

Where have all the young men gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the young men gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the young men gone?
Gone for soldiers every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?

Where have all the soldiers gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the soldiers gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the soldiers gone?
Gone to graveyards every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?

Where have all the graveyards gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the graveyards gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the graveyards gone?
Covered with flowers every one
When will we ever learn?
When will we ever learn?

©1961 (Renewed) Fall River Music Inc
All Rights Reserved.

words and music by Pete Seeger
performed by Pete Seeger and Tao Rodriguez-Seeger

I got thru Nam with this one.

 

[Centexfarmer]

^ I Love that Song.

I found a version of it being sung by Marlene Dietrich of all people at a Royal Performance in London in 1963, on YouTube.com

 

[JayHawk]

Well Toodles Boys, I am going to the Butchershop for dinner to celebrate my boy closing a particularly sweet realestate deal.

SO I will depart with a song for him from me but keep it goin:

ELTON JOHN LYRICS

"Tiny Dancer"

Blue jean baby, L.A. lady, seamstress for the band
Pretty eyed, pirate smile, you'll marry a music man
Ballerina, you must have seen her dancing in the sand
And now she's in me, always with me, tiny dancer in my hand

Jesus freaks out in the street
Handing tickets out for God
Turning back she just laughs
The boulevard is not that bad

Piano man he makes his stand
In the auditorium
Looking on she sings the songs
The words she knows the tune she hums

But oh how it feels so real
Lying here with no one near
Only you and you can hear me
When I say softly slowly

Hold me closer tiny dancer
Count the headlights on the highway
Lay me down in sheets of linen
you had a busy day today

Blue jean baby, L.A. lady, seamstress for the band
Pretty eyed, pirate smile, you'll marry a music man
Ballerina, you must have seen her dancing in the sand
And now she's in me, always with me, tiny dancer in my hand

 

[texpatriot]

This song could apply to this forum.

For What It's Worth (Words and Music by Buffalo Springfield)

There's something happening here
What it is ain't exactly clear
There's a man with a gun over there
Telling me I got to beware
I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
There's battle lines being drawn
Nobody's right if everybody's wrong
Young people speaking their minds
Getting so much resistance from behind
I think it's time we stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
What a field-day for the heat
A thousand people in the street
Singing songs and carrying signs
Mostly say, hooray for our side
It's time we stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you're always afraid
You step out of line, the man come and take you away
We better stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, now, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down

 

[White Eagle]

Thanks Centex. Who woulda thot.
Marlene did that with such emotion, I loved it

 

[JayHawk]

First, Mazda, I have something to say: GET OUTSIDE! IT'S SUMMER, IT'S TOO NICE TO BE ON THE LIFECYCLE! Okay, I feel better. I just have one more thing to say to you and Centex:

I am a news junkie and a music fiend. I usually lift on M - W - F so just walking over to the treadmill or eliptical works for me.

I do run outside alot too though just not so much during pollen season. After the real heat hits the pollen will die out and I will be fine. I am doing the road warrior series around here. July 5K - August 5Mi - Sep 10k - Oct 10Mi and Nov 1/2 Marathon. But the pollen will be under control then.

 

[JayHawk]

Ok not really for any party but seeing as we are all dems or republicans or somewhere inbetween left or right then this song applies to all this weekend while we try to convince each other to play nice.

People Puttin' People Down
John Prine

People who are sad - sometimes they wear a frown
And people who are kings - sometimes they wear a crown
But all the people who don't fit
Get the only fun they get
From people puttin' people down
People puttin' people down

People without love - sometimes build a fence around
The garden up above - that makes the whole world go 'round
But all the people who don't fit
Get the only fun they get
From people puttin' people down
People puttin' people down

So cold, sometimes it gets so cold

You may love your wife - you may lose your family
You may lose you mind - just to keep your sanity
But the people who don't fit
Get the only fun they get
From people puttin' people down
People puttin' people down

People that are glad - sometimes they wear a smile
And people without dreams they walk the extra mile
But all the people who don't fit
Get the only fun they get
From people puttin' people down
People puttin' people dwn
From people puttin' people down
People puttin' people down

So cold, sometimes it gets so cold