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Music & politics are two of my favorite things. I've been posting some of my favorite songs with political meanings in the makeshift patriot thread, but I figured it was time to make a new thread for anyone whos music has political relevance.

So smoke one up ( :smoke: ) and let the music flow and inspire.

[ame][/ame]

Ah, the name of this song is Uncle Sam goddamn
It's a show tune but the show ain't been written for it yet
We're gonna see if Tony Jerome and the band can maybe work this shit out for
me
And straighten me out right quick
I like it so far man
...Yeah, come on, lets go

[Chorus] (#1}
Welcome to the United Snakes
Land of the thief home of the slave
Grand imperial guard where the dollar is sacred and proud
Lets do this shit for real, come on now

[Verse 1]
Smoke and mirrors, stripes and stars
Stolen for the cross in the name of God
Bloodshed, genocide, rape and fraud
Written to the pages of the law good lord
The Cold Continent latch key child
Ran away one day and started acting foul
King of where the wild things are daddy's proud
cos the Roman Empire done passed it down
Imported and tortured a work force
and never healed the wounds or shook the curse off
Now the grown up Goliath nation
Holdin open auditions for the part of David, can you feel it?
Nothing can save ya, you question the reign
You get rushed in and chained up
Fist raised but I must be insane
cos I can't figure a single goddamn way to change it

[Chorus] {x2}
Welcome to the United Snakes
Land of the thief home of the slave
The grand imperial guard where the dollar is sacred and power is God

[Verse 2]
All must bow to the fat were lazy
The fuck you obey me and why do they hate me (who me?)
Only two generations away
from the world's most despicable slavery trade
Pioneered so many ways to degrade a human being
that it can't be changed to this day
Legacy so ingrained in the way that we think we no longer need chains
to be slaves
Lord it's a shameful display
The overseers even got raped along the way
Cause the children cant escape from the pain
and they're born with poisoness hatred in their veins
Try n' separate a man from his soul
you only strengthen him and lose your own
But shoot that fucker if he walk near the throne
Remind him that this is my home (now I'm gone)

[Chorus] {x2}

Hold up give me one right here
Hold on

[Verse 3]
You don't give money to the bums
on a corner with a sign bleeding from their gums
Talking about you don't support a crackhead
What you think happens to the money from your taxes
Shit the governments an addict
With a billion dollar a week kill brown people habit
And even if you aint on the front line
when massah yell crunch time you right back at it
Plain look at how you hustling backwards
At the end of the year add up what they subtracted
Three outta twelve months your salary pays for that madness
Man, that's savage
What's left get a big ass plasma
To see where they made Dan Rather point the damn camera
Only approved questions get answered
Now stand your ass up for that national anthem

[Chorus] {x2}

[instrumental break]

Custom made
To consume the noose
Keep saying we're free
But we're all just loose



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Did you forget about that other thread called Makeshift Patriot?

Anyway, can't have this thread without:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8Y9-JlSRXw]YouTube - ‪2Pac - Changes‬‏[/ame]

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This is actually a collection of three songs. The first and third are political for sho, but the third one which starts around 6:11 is my contribution to the thread. This whole album is politically motivated and IMO kicks ass.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4yKx7FnG5w"]YouTube - ‪Minutemen - 1985 - 3-Way Tie (For Last) (1/4)‬‏[/ame]

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[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBkhXtgqyps]YouTube - ‪'Masters of War" Bob Dylan W/ Lyrics‬‏[/ame]

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[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7Y0ekr-3So&feature=player_detailpage]YouTube - ‪Country Joe's Anti Vietnam War Song Woodstock‬‏[/ame]

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[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YHq-SevTcQ]YouTube - ‪Immortal Technique- The 4th branch‬‏[/ame]

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[ame][/ame]

Saw a bird with a tear in his eye
Walking to New Orleans my oh my
Hey, now, Bird, wouldn't you rather die
Than walk this world when you're born to fly?

If I was the sun, I'd look for shade
If I was a bed, I would stay unmade
If I was a river I'd run uphill
If you call me you know I will
If you call me you know I will

Ooo, freedom
Ooo, liberty
Ooo, leave me alone
To find my own way home
To find my own way home

Say what I mean and I don't give a damn
I do believe and I am who I am
Hey now Mama come and take my hand
Whole lotta shakin' all over this land

If I was an eagle I'd dress like a duck
Crawl like a lizard and honk like a truck
If I get a notion I'll climb this tree
or chop it down and you can't stop me
Chop it down and you can't stop me

Ooo, freedom
Ooo, liberty
Ooo, leave me alone
To find my own way home
To find my own way home

Went to the well but the water was dry
Dipped my bucket in the clear blue sky
Looked in the bottom and what did I see?
The whole damned world looking back at me

If I was a bottle I'd spill for love
Sake of mercy I'd kill for love
If I was a liar I'd lie for love
Sake of my baby I'd die for love
Sake of my baby I'd die for love

Ooo, freedom
Ooo, liberty
Ooo, leave me alone
To find my own way home
To find my own way home
I'm gonna find my own way home


Edited by Norma Stits, 16 June 2011 - 09:36 PM.


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Anything by Immortal Technique honestly. His new album keeps getting pushed back due to the wars. I like him a lot because he's just...true.

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[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBZxtxd-3Hc]YouTube - ‪System of a Down--Soldier Side--Live @ Rogers Arena Vancouver 2011-05-12‬‏[/ame]

Dead man lying on the bottom of the grave
Wondering when Savior comes
Is he gonna be saved

Maybe you're a sinner into your alternate life
Maybe you're a joker maybe you deserve to die

They were crying when their sons left
God is wearing black
He's gone so far to find no hope
He's never coming back
They were crying when their sons left
All young men must go
He's come so far to find the truth
He's never going home

Young men standing on the top of their own graves
Wondering when Jesus comes
Are they gonna be saved

Cruelty to the winner, Bishop tells the King his lies
Maybe you're a mourner, maybe you deserve to die
They were crying when their sons left
God is wearing black
He's gone so far to find no hope
He's never coming back
They were crying when their sons left
All young men must go
He's come so far to find no truth
He's never going home

Welcome to the Soldier Side
Where there's no one here but me
People all grow up to die
There is no one here but me

Welcome to the Soldier Side
There is no one here but me
People on the soldier's side
There is no one here but me


System Of A Down is not that big on videos, so a crappy live-shoot have to do :)

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PS: OP, check my location. ;)

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Every time I see a thread about revolution in this section...

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrkwgTBrW78]YouTube - ‪Revolution - The Beatles‬‏[/ame]

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Anything by Immortal Technique honestly. His new album keeps getting pushed back due to the wars. I like him a lot because he's just...true.


Is he signed under a label pushing him to release a bunch of crap like most artists?
Or is he fully independant. I don't mind him pushing back his album. That just means he's making it better... or so I hope.

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[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV7u91A3KGQ]YouTube - Lindy: "No Knock Raid" - a song about the drug war's deadliest tactic.[/ame]

YouTube - Lindy: "No Knock Raid" - a song about the drug war's deadliest tactic.

Lindy: "No Knock Raid" - a Song About the Drug War's Deadliest Tactic - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine

"No Knock Raid," written and performed by Toronto-based musician Lindy, is a searing indictment of one of the most aggressive, ubiquitous, and mistaken tactics in the War on Drugs.

Consider only the most recent raid to cause a national outrage: On May 5, 2011, 26-year-old Jose Guerena, who survived two tours in the Iraq War, was shot and killed during a raid on his house by a Pima County, Arizona SWAT team that fired dozens of bullets through his front door. Guerena, married and a father of two, had just finished a 12-hour shift at a local mine. Law enforcement sources claim he was involved in narco-trafficking but have yet to produce any evidence supporting that claim. Officers involved in the death have been cleared of wrongdoing.

Guerena's death is not an isolated incident. As USA Today reports, an astonishing 70,000 to 80,000 militarized police raids take place on a annual basis in America, many of them on mistaken suspects and many of them ending with injury or death for police and citizens alike.

As Reason Contributing Editor Radley Balko and others have documented, the militarization of standard police practice is a direct consequence of the modern-day War on Drugs, started 40 years ago by President Richard Nixon - and perpetuated by every administration since. (For a comprehensive report on the failure of the drug war to achieve any of its stated goals, read "Ending the Drug War: A Dream Deferred," by Law Enforcement Against Prohibition.)

"No Knock Raid" written and performed by Lindy.

Produced and directed by Hawk Jensen.

Performance footage directed by Victor Tavares and Zachary Koski.



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[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5Y8IPIFbL8]YouTube - ‪"Zion Triad" - John Brown's Body *studio version‬‏[/ame]

Your boots kick up the dust / and they will for maybe a thousand days
But will never cover blood / it will remain
You have convicted us / but we’ve committed no crime that you say
And you cannot ever stop this flood I guarantee
You’re so predictable / but you make a critical mistake
Can’t allow the fear to be our fate
And you will feel the touch of the many who you incarcerate
They will come in greater number, can't you see?
So we come / we can take the battle on
Break the back of Babylon / children, won't you sing along?
Know the real criminal: they come to you and sell their smiling face
Together we will reveal and see
So won't you join to beat the bastards who betray
We can no more live in fear underground for better days
We make no noise to keep the dogs where they lay
We sing to meditate then lay your powers to waste
Ready or not, we come down from the mountain to investigate the story
Nothing shake the determination from
People bleeding for the zion nation / no, it never fall
They become the weaker state and so they call it radical
For the poor people / situation now critical
Ignorant speaking / still fighting in the media
What we’re all reaching for / something to deliver us
Righteous come to defeat all the beatings of the prisoner
Before it’s too late
We control the party / don’t forget the promise
This nation rise up and be ready for the challenge
Heaven put me here to chase away the disease
Tell the tyrannical we’ll send you down to hell on your knees
So don’t you belittle us / earn the trust
Or you will fall and return to dust
This Triad must rise / please realize
We’re giving you fair warning
Yes, we make the criminal retreat when beaten to their hiding place
See them crumble when they come to feel the pain
They turn the pressure up / so we keep a lower profile and wait
How much longer do we suffer underneath?
Who put the barrier in between us where the children play
We did / when they came we looked away
Are we a warrior? No, we know better than to go that way
For survival we make our own society
So you speak / shackled to your policy
Believe our conspiracy will soon see supremacy
So we gonna raise a cup and dedicate to your final days
The sun will set on the dreams you seek

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[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhJ0aNrYmbA]YouTube - ‪The Preacher And The Slave - Pete Seeger‬‏[/ame]
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osnjAb-hoPo]YouTube - ‪Talking Union‬‏[/ame]
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYiKdJoSsb8&feature=related]YouTube - ‪Solidarity Forever (Pete Seeger)‬‏[/ame]

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[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jnmv69lF6Aw]YouTube - ‪[SOJA] Soldiers of Jah Army - Peace in a Time of War‬‏[/ame]

They say that Bush could be my president,
but really InI don't care.
They say Cheney makes my decisions,
but he don't, so I'm just not there.
and I'm gonna see the same lies
coming in the next 4 years,
so pardon me if I don't cry when
your election goes the way it did.

Chorus
I need some peace in a time of war,
some peace in a time of political war.

they say that we elect our leaders
to lead forward and make decision.
but i never heard their policy on war
discussed during an election.
and it seem that war is something over which

[ From: SOLDIERS OF JAH ARMY - PEACE IN A TIME OF WAR LYRICS ]

people have no prevention.
but the people want it anyway and
so they elect some destruction.

Chorus

land of the free, and
foreign bullets never touch our pavement.
it seem to me, people know not
the extent of their involvement.
things are not as they seem,
underneath the beast is not clean.
but we support the leaders who use
media to make them seem so clean


SOJA

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Looks like a picture to me.
But hey, I'm no expert.

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Looks like a picture to me.
But hey, I'm no expert.


If you don't know it just by hearing the title

GET THE FUCK OUT MY COUNTRY!

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If you don't know it just by hearing the title

GET THE FUCK OUT MY COUNTRY!


I'm not in your country. Please never come to mine.




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