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No Politics, but Protest and Satire songs
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I think that Bruck Cockburn's If I Had a Rocket Launcher could be construed as a protest song. 
It's actually not one of my favorite songs of his, but it is a good one, it got more airplay in the US than almost any of his music, and this does give me an excuse to post a Bruce Cockburn song -- so there's that.
It's actually not one of my favorite songs of his, but it is a good one, it got more airplay in the US than almost any of his music, and this does give me an excuse to post a Bruce Cockburn song -- so there's that.
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Satire?
The late, great Professor (!) Tom Lehrer -- 'nuff said.
I'll just drop one and run -- for now.
The late, great Professor (!) Tom Lehrer -- 'nuff said.
I'll just drop one and run -- for now.
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What has happened is that in the last 20 years, America has changed from a producer to a consumer. And all consumers know that when the producer names the tune, the consumer has got to dance.
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What’s the point of a protest song thread if no political songs allowed?
Anyway,
Here’s Fontaines D.C. - I Love You.
Written with Irelands dark history in mind
[Verse 1]
I love you, I love you, I told you I do
It's all I've ever felt, I've never felt so well
And if you don't know it, I wrote you this tune
To be here loving you when I'm in the tomb
I've eddied the heart now, from Dublin to Paris
And if there was sunshine, it was never on me
So close, the rain, so pronounced is the pain, yeah
[Verse 2]
Well, I love you, imagine a world without you
It's only ever you, I only think of you
And if it's a blessing, I want it for you
If I must have a future, I want it with you
Systеm in our hearts, you only had it before
You only opеn the window, never open up the door
And I love you, I love you, told you I do
[Bridge]
Selling genocide and half-cut pride, I understand
I had to be there from the start, I had to be the fucking man
It was a clamber of the life, I sucked the ring off every hand
Had 'em plying me with drink, even met with their demands
When the cherries lined up I kept the spoilings for myself
'Til I had thirty ways of dying looking at me from the shelf
Cloud-parting smile I had, a real good child I was
But this island's run by sharks with children's bones stuck in their jaws
Now the morning's filled with cokey's tryna talk you through it all
Is their mammy Fine Gael and is their daddy Fianna Fáil?
And they say they love the land but they don't feel it go to waste
Hold a mirror to the youth and they will only see their face
Makes flowers read like broadsheets, every young man wants to die
Say it to the man who profits and the bastard walks by
And the bastard walks by and the bastard walks by
Say it to him fifty times and still the bastard won't cry
Would I lie?
Anyway,
Here’s Fontaines D.C. - I Love You.
Written with Irelands dark history in mind
[Verse 1]
I love you, I love you, I told you I do
It's all I've ever felt, I've never felt so well
And if you don't know it, I wrote you this tune
To be here loving you when I'm in the tomb
I've eddied the heart now, from Dublin to Paris
And if there was sunshine, it was never on me
So close, the rain, so pronounced is the pain, yeah
[Verse 2]
Well, I love you, imagine a world without you
It's only ever you, I only think of you
And if it's a blessing, I want it for you
If I must have a future, I want it with you
Systеm in our hearts, you only had it before
You only opеn the window, never open up the door
And I love you, I love you, told you I do
[Bridge]
Selling genocide and half-cut pride, I understand
I had to be there from the start, I had to be the fucking man
It was a clamber of the life, I sucked the ring off every hand
Had 'em plying me with drink, even met with their demands
When the cherries lined up I kept the spoilings for myself
'Til I had thirty ways of dying looking at me from the shelf
Cloud-parting smile I had, a real good child I was
But this island's run by sharks with children's bones stuck in their jaws
Now the morning's filled with cokey's tryna talk you through it all
Is their mammy Fine Gael and is their daddy Fianna Fáil?
And they say they love the land but they don't feel it go to waste
Hold a mirror to the youth and they will only see their face
Makes flowers read like broadsheets, every young man wants to die
Say it to the man who profits and the bastard walks by
And the bastard walks by and the bastard walks by
Say it to him fifty times and still the bastard won't cry
Would I lie?
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Satire (with some language) from "Big Bill [Billy] Connolly, the man who put the C**t in Country/Western music." 
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A little light music...
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In the context of The Graduate, I'd opine that Mrs. Robinson fits this thread. 
Like Gumby with that stretchIn the context of The Graduate, I'd opine that Mrs. Robinson fits this thread.
Robin L
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Weird Al at his most inspired. "Mission Statement" is in the style of a "Whiteboard" business meeting video. The music sounds just like Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young but is 100% original. Wonderful demonstration of "whatever happened to those hippies?":
