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Re: Political Music Thread [Re: Asclepius] 1
#25056055 - 03/11/18 11:30 AM (6 years, 2 months ago) |
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Not sure if this has been posted, but this is a classic.
Phil Ochs - Love me, I'm a liberal
I cried when they shot Medgar Evers Tears ran down my spine I cried when they shot Mr. Kennedy As though I'd lost a father of mine
But Malcolm X got what was coming He got what he asked for this time So love me, love me Love me, I'm a liberal
I go to civil rights rallies And I put down the old D.A.R. I love Harry and Sidney and Sammy I hope every colored boy becomes a star
But don't talk about revolution That's going a little bit too far So love me, love me Love me, I'm a liberal
I cheered when Humphrey was chosen My faith in the system restored And I'm glad the commies were thrown out Of the A.F.L. C.I.O. board
I love Puerto Ricans and Negros As long as they don't move next door So love me, love me Love me, I'm a liberal
The people of old Mississippi Should all hang their heads in shame I can't understand how their minds work What's the matter don't they watch Les Crain?
But if you ask me to bus my children I hope the cops take down your name So love me, love me Love me, I'm a liberal
Yes, I read New republic and Nation I've learned to take every view You know, I've memorized Lerner and Golden I feel like I'm almost a Jew
But when it comes to times like Korea There's no one more red, white and blue So love me, love me Love me, I'm a liberal
I vote for the democratic party They want the U.N. to be strong I attend all the Pete Seeger concerts He sure gets me singing those songs
And I'll send all the money you ask for But don't ask me to come on along So love me, love me Love me, I'm a liberal
Sure once I was young and impulsive I wore every conceivable pin Even went to the socialist meetings Learned all the old union hymns
Ah, but I've grown older and wiser And that's why I'm turning you in So love me, love me Love me, I'm a liberal
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Re: Political Music Thread [Re: tHEfLY] 2
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Re: Political Music Thread [Re: ballsalsa] 2
#25370339 - 08/06/18 02:29 PM (5 years, 9 months ago) |
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Dead Kennedys - California Über Alles
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^^^ might have been posted already, but a classic one to revisit anyway.
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Re: Political Music Thread [Re: ballsalsa] 2
#25395728 - 08/18/18 06:15 AM (5 years, 8 months ago) |
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Bad Religion - The Kids Are Alt-Right
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Re: Political Music Thread [Re: Tantrika]
#25411623 - 08/25/18 04:50 AM (5 years, 8 months ago) |
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Re: Political Music Thread [Re: ballsalsa]
#25435546 - 09/04/18 05:16 PM (5 years, 8 months ago) |
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[Hook] The system, the victims, the death so arbitrary The wealth lies deceitful religious hands that carry The crimes of the guilty, the coldest calculation No freedom, no disco for sovereign foreign nations
[Verse 1: Boots Riley] A pistol, a plan, a list of demands I hold onto shit my fist understands Lifted again, a fifth's in my hand Liquid to land for those ditched in the sand I'm socialistic, they so sadistic Flashing off they ring, don't go and kiss it Flashin' on our green when dough is minted Police after me, please know I sprinted Now dope is blended, it transported, vended Our notes, they spent it, we can't vote and end it 'til folks have risen, there's no decision We make the motor move, they chauffer driven Right now we can't shine right, like a broken prism I figured out the 14th is a broke amendment Take this to the office, tell 'em "up the offers" Cut us in on the profits or we suspend it
[Verse 2: Stza] It's a mark of the feds that all left us for dead Put a bullet in your body and another in your head They come up with excuses for all their abuses Cover up their corruption like they hide all your bruises Homogeny's a sign that you're doing something wrong So if you're banking on my misery, you best move along While you're counting on your stack, we'll be on the attack When it's boots from the coup with the stza of crack From the police state that macrocosm of hate To the kids yelling "peace" in the belly of the beast Broken mirrors in their eyes, hella blood on their breath Cuz they're praying to the bank and they're banking on your death Deception and doom we're all taught to consume The ghetto breeds revolt with a strong sense of doom Explosions at the airport pack a message and a boom 9/11 'til infinity from the dumpster to the mother-fucking tomb
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Re: Political Music Thread [Re: Tantrika] 1
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When the union's inspiration through the workers' blood shall run, There can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun; Yet what force on earth is weaker than the feeble strength of one, But the union makes us strong.
Chorus: Solidarity forever, Solidarity forever, Solidarity forever, For the union makes us strong.
Is there aught we hold in common with the greedy parasite, Who would lash us into serfdom and would crush us with his might? Is there anything left to us but to organize and fight? For the union makes us strong.
Chorus
It is we who plowed the prairies; built the cities where they trade; Dug the mines and built the workshops, endless miles of railroad laid; Now we stand outcast and starving midst the wonders we have made; But the union makes us strong.
Chorus
All the world that's owned by idle drones is ours and ours alone. We have laid the wide foundations; built it skyward stone by stone. It is ours, not to slave in, but to master and to own. While the union makes us strong.
Chorus
They have taken untold millions that they never toiled to earn, But without our brain and muscle not a single wheel can turn. We can break their haughty power, gain our freedom when we learn That the union makes us strong.
Chorus
In our hands is placed a power greater than their hoarded gold, Greater than the might of armies, multiplied a thousand-fold. We can bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old For the union makes us strong.
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Here's a modern day rewrite: Solidarity Forever (Illegal Version)
When the bosses' sanguination through the city streets does run There can be no power greater than the barrel of a gun And when the bourgeoisie protests expropriate their tongue For the black bloc makes us strong
Solidarity forever
The fuck we got in common with the greedy parasite Who would kill a union activist to give their cola bite The pigs work for the bosses so get strapped in for a fight For the black bloc makes us strong
Solidarity forever
It's we who run the weapons plants and fight the wars they wage And who work consumer hotlines from the inside of a cage It's we who sweep the stock exchange where it's our lives they trade But the black bloc makes us strong
Solidarity forever
All the world that pigs patrol is ours and ours alone All their deeds have the authority of workers' crunching bone But when their city hall explodes, it's we who owned that drone For the black bloc makes us strong
Solidarity forever
Their dollars are our labor when we overwork they earn But without our brains and muscle there's no treatment for a burn No one to put out mansion fires where charring bodies turn While the black bloc makes us strong
Solidarity forever
They come pollute our neighborhoods and privatize the grass They exploit our race and gender to divide the working class Because they know united that we'd rise to kick their ass For the black bloc makes us strong
Solidarity forever
They racketeer, enslave and murder, gas us while we grieve They cut off our public services and raise rent till we leave But we'll burn every yogurt shop until the pigs believe That the black bloc makes us strong
Solidarity forever
If you protest a pay cut then you're fired on the spot Then they throw you in a jail cell if you sell all that you got So all sex workers take up arms and take the money shot For the black bloc makes us strong
Solidarity forever
We're told of all the progress that democracy has made But the myth of meritocracy don't match what we get paid There's no hope in a ballot box but on a barricade For the black bloc makes us strong
Solidarity forever
They tell us job security will come to us with time While our kin retire homeless at the age of 89 With theft and solidarity it's our assembly line For the black bloc makes us strong
Solidarity forever
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Best of the best.
O say can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming, Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming? And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there; O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses? Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam, In full glory reflected now shines in the stream: 'Tis the star-spangled banner, O long may it wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion, A home and a country, should leave us no more? Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave: And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave, O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
O thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand Between their loved homes and the war's desolation. Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the Heav'n rescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation! Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto: 'In God is our trust.' And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
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Re: Political Music Thread [Re: XUL] 1
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I guess "O'er the land of the worlds highest incarceration rate and the home of the people who need to always possess guns to feel safe!" doesn't sound quite as good.
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shivas.wisdom said: I guess "O'er the land of the worlds highest incarceration rate and the home of the people who need to always possess guns to feel safe!" doesn't sound quite as good.
Do you hate America?
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Re: Political Music Thread [Re: XUL] 1
#25529296 - 10/11/18 09:33 AM (5 years, 7 months ago) |
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Yeah Oklahoma has the most people in prison in the whole world percentage wise 
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Re: Political Music Thread [Re: XUL] 1
#25529356 - 10/11/18 09:57 AM (5 years, 7 months ago) |
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XUL said:
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shivas.wisdom said: I guess "O'er the land of the worlds highest incarceration rate and the home of the people who need to always possess guns to feel safe!" doesn't sound quite as good.
Do you hate America?
Why would it be hateful to point out things that are true?
Edit: also, hbdbb
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