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As of about April 15, 2003, every
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websites. Because these musicians were committed to getting
their antiwar messages out to the public, they provided free MP3
downloads from their websites or by links from their sites to other
websites. Most of these MP3s are now dropped from the
musicians' sites, but the song titles, the musicians, and the sites
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The Price of Oil -- Streaming
Audio
Music and Lyrics by Billy Bragg, 2002
Voices
on the radio
tell us that we're going to war
those brave men
and women in uniform
they want to know what they're fighting
for.
The generals want to hear the end game
the allies won't
approve the plan
but the oil men in the white house
they
just don't give a damn.
'Cause it's all about the price of oil
it's all about the price of oil
don't give me no shit
about blood, sweat, tears and toil
it's all about the price
of oil.
Now I ain't no fan of Saddam Hussein
oh, please don't
get me wrong
if it's freeing the Iraqi people you're after
then why have we waited so long.
Why didn't we sort this out
last time
was he less evil than he is now
the stock market
holds the answer
to why him, why here, why now.
'Cause it's
all about the price of oil
it's all about the price of oil
don't give me no shit
about blood, sweat, tears and toil
it's all about the price of oil.
Saddam killed his own people
just like general Pinochet
and once upon a time both these
evil men
were supported by the U.S.A.
And whisper it, even
Bin Laden
once drank from America's cup
just like that
election down in Florida
this shit doesn't all add up.
'Cause
it's all about the price of oil
it's all about the price of oil
don't give me no shit
about blood, sweat, tears and toil
it's all about the price of oil.
In a World Gone Mad -- Streaming
Audio
Beastie Boys
In a world gone mad it's hard to think right
So
much violence hate and spite
Murder going on all day and
night
Due time we fight the non-violent fight
Mirrors,
smokescreens and lies
It's not the politicians but their actions
I despise
You and Saddam should kick it like back in the
day
With the cocaine and Courvoisier
But you build more bombs
as you get more bold
As your mid-life crisis war unfolds
All
you want to do is take control
Now put that axis of evil bullshit
on hold
Citizen rule number 2080
Politicians are shady
So
people watch your back 'cause I think they smoke crack
I don't
doubt it look at how they act
In a world gone mad it's hard
to think right
So much violence hate and spite
Murder going on
all day and night
Due time we fight the non-violent
fight
First the 'War On Terror' now war on Iraq
We're
reaching a point where we can't turn back
Let's lose the guns and
let's lose the bombs
And stop the corporate contributions that
they're built upon
Well I'll be sleeping on your speeches 'til I
start to snore
'Cause I won't carry guns for an oil
war
As-Salamu alaikum, wa alaikum assalam
Peace to the Middle
East peace to Islam
Now don't get us wrong 'cause we love
America
But that's no reason to get hysterica
They're layin'
on the syrup thick
We ain't waffles we ain't havin' it
In
a world gone mad it's hard to think right
So much violence hate
and spite
Murder going on all day and night
Due time we fight
the non-violent fight
Now how many people must get
killed'
For oil families pockets to get filled'
How many oil
families get killed'
Not a damn one so what's the
deal'
It's time to lead the way and de-escalate
Lose the
weapons of mass destruction and the hate
Say ooh ah what's the
White House doin''
Oh no! Say, what they got
brewing''!!!!'''!!
Well I'm not pro Bush and I'm not pro
Saddam
We need these fools to remain calm
George Bush you're
looking like Zoolander
Trying to play tough for the
camera
What am I on crazy pills' We've got to stop it
Get your
hand out my grandma's pocket
We need health care more than going
to war
You think it's democracy they're fighting for'
In a
world gone mad it's hard to think right
So much violence hate and
spite
Murder going on all day and night
Due time we fight the
non-violent fight
In a world gone mad it's hard to think
right
So much violence hate and spite
Murder going on all day
and night
Due time we fight the non-violent fight
Self Evident -- Streaming
Audio
by ani difranco
2002 righteous babe music /
BMI
self evident yes,
us people are just
poems
we're 90% metaphor
with a leanness of
meaning
approaching hyper-distillation
and once upon a time we
were moonshine
rushing down the throat of a giraffe
yes,
rushing down the long hall
despite what the p.a. announcement
says
yes, rushing down the long hall
down the long
stairs
in a building so tall
that it will always be
there
yes, it's part of a pair
there on the bow of noah's
ark
the most prestigious couple
just kickin back
parked
against a perfectly blue sky
on a morning
beatific
in its indian summer breeze
on the day that america
fell to its knees
after strutting around for a century
without
saying thank you
or please
and the shock was subsonic
and
the smoke was deafening
between the setup and the punch
line
cuz we were all on time for work that day
we all boarded
that plane for to fly
and then while the fires were raging
we
all climbed up on the windowsill
and then we all held
hands
and jumped into the sky
and every borough looked up when
it heard the first blast
and then every dumb action movie was
summarily surpassed
and the exodus uptown by foot and
motorcar
looked more like war than anything i've seen so
far
so far...so far
so fierce and ingenious
a poetic
specter so far gone
that every jackass newscaster was struck dumb
and stumbling
over 'oh my god' and 'this is unbelievable' and on
and on
and i'll tell you what, while we're at it
you can keep
the pentagon
you can keep the propaganda
you can keep each and
every tv
that's been trying to convince me to participate
in
some prep school punk's plan to perpetuate retribution
perpetuate
retribution
even as the blue toxic smoke of our lesson in
retribution
is still hanging in the air
and there's ash on our
shoes
and there's ash in our hair
and there's a fine silt on
every mantle
from hell's kitchen to brooklyn
and the streets
are full of stories
sudden twists and near misses
and soon
every open bar is crammed to the rafters
with tales of narrowly
averted disasters
and the whiskey is flowin'
like never
before
as all over the country
folks just shake their
heads
and pour
so here's a toast to all the folks that live in
palestine afghanistan iraq el salvador
here's a toast to all
the folks living on the pine ridge reservation
under the stone
cold gaze of mt. rushmore
here's a toast to all those nurses and
doctors
who daily provide women with a choice
who stand down a
threat the size of oklahoma city
just to listen to a young
woman's voice
here's a toast to all those folks on death row
right now
awaiting the executioner's guillotine
who are
shackled there with dread and can only escape into their heads
to
find peace in the form of a dream
peace in the form of a
dream
peace in the form of a dream
cuz take away our
playstations and we are a third world nation
under the thumb of
some blue blood royal son
who stole the oval office and that
phony election
i mean
it don't take a weatherman
to look
around and see the weather
jeb said he'd deliver florida, folks
and boy did he ever
and we hold these truths to be self
evident:
#1 george w. bush is not president
#2 america is not
a true democracy
#3 the media is not fooling me
cuz i am a
poem heeding hyper-distillation
and i've got no room for a lie so
verbose
yes i'm looking out over my whole human family
and i'm
raising my glass in a toast
here's to our last drink of fossil
fuels
may we vow to get off of this sauce
shoo away the swarms
of commuter planes
and find that train ticket we lost
cuz once
upon a time the line followed the river
and peeked into all the
backyards
and the laundry was waving
the graffiti was teasing
us
from brick walls and bridges
we were rolling over
ridges
through valleys
under stars
i dream of touring like
duke ellington
in my own railroad car
i dream of waiting on
the tall blonde wooden benches
in a grand station aglow with
grace
and then standing out on the platform
and feeling the
air
the air the air on my face
give back the night its
distant whistle
give the darkness back its soul
give the big
oil companies the finger finally
and relearn how to
rock-n-roll
yes, the lessons are all around us and the truth is
waiting there
so it's time to pick through the rubble, clean the
streets
and clear the air
get our government to pull its big
dick out of the sand
of someone else's desert
put it back in
its pants
and quit the hypocritical chants of
freedom
forever
cuz when one lone phone rang
in two thousand and
one
at ten after nine on nine one one
which is the number we
all called
when that lone phone rang right off the wall
right
off our desk and down the long hall
down the long stairs
in a
building so tall
that the whole world turned
just to watch it
fall
and while we're at it
remember the first time
around'
the bomb' the ryder truck' the parking garage'
the
princess that didn't even feel the pea'
remember joking around in
our apartment on avenue D'
can you imagine how many paper coffee
cups would have to change their design
following a fantastical
reversal of the new york skyline'!
it was a joke at the
time
and that was just a few years ago
so let the record
show
that the FBI was all over that case
that the plot was
obvious and in everybody's face
and scoping that scene
religiously
the CIA or is it KGB'
committing countless crimes
against humanity
with this kind of eventuality
as its
excuse
for abuse after expensive abuse
and it didn't have a
clue
look, another window to see through
way up here on the
104th floor
look another key another door
10% literal 90%
metaphor
3000 some poems disguised as people
on an almost too
perfect day
must be more than pawns
in some asshole's passion
play
so now it's your job
and it's my job
to make it that
way
to make sure they didn't die in vain
sshhhhhh....
baby
listen
hear the train...
We Want Peace -- Streaming
Audio
Lennie Kravitz
Come on people
It's time to get together
It's
time for the revolution!
Here it is once again in our
face
Why haven't we learned from our past
We're at the
crossroads of our human race
Why are we kicking our own
ass
We want peace, we want it yes
We want peace, we want
it yes
We want peace, and we want it fast
We want peace,
we want it yes
We want peace, we want it yes
We want peace,
and we want it fast
We're on the eve of destruction my
friends
We are about to go to far
Politicians think that war
is the way
But we know that love has the power
We want
peace, we want it yes
We want peace, we want it yes
We want
peace, and we want it fast
We want peace, we want it
yes
We want peace, we want it yes
We want peace, and we want
it fast
The solution is simple and fame
There won't be
peace if we don't try
In a war there is nothing to gain
When
so many people will die
We want peace, we want it yes
We
want peace, we want it yes
We want peace, and we want it
fast
We want peace, we want it yes
We want peace, we want
it yes
We want peace, and we want it fast
I Am Not At War With Anyone -- Streaming
Audio
Luka Bloom
I am not at War with
anyone
I am not at War with anyone
Go away war
planes
You bring fear and shame
I am not at War with
anyone
I give my love to Iraq, and to America
I give
my love to Israel, and to Palestine
We could live as
one
Between the sea and sun
I am not at War with anyone
I
don't need to be friends with everyone
But I'd like to live in
peace with everyone
This rush to war is wrong
And so I sing
this song
I am not at War with anyone
I am not at
War with anyone
I am not at War with anyone
I am not
at War with anyone
Go away war planes
You bring fear
and shame
I am not at War with anyone
I am not at
War with anyone
I am not at War with anyone
I am not
at War with anyone
I am not at War with anyone
Life During Wartime -- Streaming
Audio
Green Day
Yeah, we say making
changes
starts in the little things you do
"Revolution begins
at home"
But for most of us, it ends there too
We're doing
something
We're making changes
Like changing the brand of crap
we buy
We say it makes a difference
but that's just another
lie
It used to be "us" and "them"
And you and me
And now we
can't reach
our potential
without a common enemy
A real war
to fight against
Instead of our petty disagreements
How can I
rationalize
My life during wartime lie
A call to
action and a reaction
Taking our lives into our own
hands
Instead of sitting around talking
about the same old
shitty bands
But war is going on right now
and I'm not doing
anything about it
Without a crowd, I'm not so loud
I can't do
anything by myself
but that's just another lie
Jacob's Ladder (Not in My
Name) -- Streaming
Audio
by Chumbawamba
Jacob's ladder
Like the
Sermon on the mountain says dumber got dumb
Hellfire and
brimstone swapped for oil and guns
When we're pushing up daisies,
we all look the same
In the name of the Father maybe, but not in
my name
On this Jacob's ladder, the only way up is down
One
step from disaster, two to make the higher ground
Jacob's
ladder
And they sent him to the wars to be slain, to be
slain
And they sent him to the wars to be slain
A million
lifetimes left dying in the sun
In the streets down in Whitehall,
dogs pickin' at the bones
Nine eleven got branded, nine eleven
got sold
And there'll be no one left to water all the seeds you
sowed
On this Jacob's ladder, the only way up is down
One step
from disaster, two to make the higher ground
Jacob's
ladder
And they sent him to the wars to be slain, to be
slain
And they sent him to the wars to be slain
And they sent
him to the wars to be slain, to be slain
And they sent him to the
wars to be slain
On this Jacob's ladder, the only way up is
down
One step from disaster, two to make the higher ground
On
this Jacob's ladder, the only way up is down
One step from
disaster, two to make the higher ground
Jacob's ladder
Puppy
dog leader sooner or later
We'll dig up your cellar and try you
for murder
(Repeats)
FILLED WITH LOVE -- Streaming
Audio
by Joyce Andersen '2003
Men of anger,
men of war
My heart is filled with love
Tell me what you are
fighting for
My heart is filled with love
This death I see
won't make me numb
My heart is filled with love
Every boy a
mother's son
My heart is filled with love
Raise your
voices, spread the news
My heart is filled with love
Buddhist,
Christian, Moslem, Jew
My heart is filled with love
They all
teach the golden rule
My heart is filled with love
Do unto
others as you'd have them do
My heart is filled with
love
I will not fear these foreign tongues
My heart
is filled with love
There is a place for everyone
My heart is
filled with love
I cannot make their will my own
My heart is
filled with love
But fear can turn a heart to stone
My heart
is filled with love
I do not know my neighbor's
name
My heart is filled with love
I love that stranger just
the same
My heart is filled with love
Hope is rising from this
place
My heart is filled with love
Divine wisdom, amazing
grace
My heart is filled with love
Men of anger, men
of war
My heart is filled with love
Tell me what you are
fighting for
My heart is filled with love
Tell me what you are
fighting for
My heart is filled with love
My heart is filled
with love
My heart is filled with love
My heart is filled with
love
My heart is filled with love
War -- Streaming
Audio
Jonatha Brooke
Every
morning I get up and I watch the war, watch the war
And every
morning it upstages all my favorite shows
Donahue, and Hogan's
Heroes
Every morning I get up and I raise the flag,
salute the monument
Of those who gave their lives
And I guess
war's ok, it's just a little inconvenient
But it's better than a
video game, and it's better than the movies
It's the
American way
The new world order
We hold these truths to be
self-evident, well this is evident
In the American way
You
must give and I shall take
And I will tell you what is moral and
what's just
Because I want
Because I will
Because
I can
So will I
Because I want
Because I will
Because I
can
Oh, so will I kill
Every morning I get up and I
watch the war, watch the war
And every morning it upstages
everything I know, everything I know
But it's the
American way
The new world order
We hold these truths to be
self-evident
Well this is evident, yeah
In the American
way
You must give and I shall take
And I will tell you what is
moral and what's just
Because I want
Because I
will
Because I can and
So will I
Because I want
Because
I will
Because I can
So will I
Because I
want
Because I will
Because I can
So will I
Oh say can
you see
Because I can and
So will I kill
Donots and Anti-Flag
Anti-War Song -- Streaming
Audio
Lyrics by Justin Sane
And so the time has finally come
The bourgeoisie
have signed the war decree with proletariat blood
And that blood
which flows from their pen
Is the closest that they're ever been
to the people
You've been to our shows, you've sung our songs
Now we are asking you to add to each chorus you've sung
and
Protest against: injustice, state terror
On the streets
of the world for the disempowered
You've sung at our shows,
cheered right over wrong
Now its time to hit the streets back up
those words you've sung
'cause our voices alone this time will
not get it done
Looking to stop a rogue regime'
Well the first
one that we must confront is
WASHINGTON DC!
The Bush Terror
War
UNCONSTITUTIONAL
UNCONSCIONABLE
We refuse to let him
kill in our name for oil
We know their game, know they're
corrupt
It's up to hit the streets and take our country back!!!
Protest against injustice, state terror
On the
streets of the world for the disempowered
You've sung at our
shows, cheered right over wrong
Now it's time to hit the streets
back up those words you've sung
'cause our voices alone this
time will not get it done
Because the people united will get it
done!
Protest against injustice, state terror
On the
streets of the world for the disempowered
Repeats
We Don't Want Your War -- Streaming
Audio
Words and music by Jynkz
When you can't believe a word they say
And you're
haunted by the swords they raise
Like a rabid dog we've seen
before
They refuse to hear the world pounding, pounding down
their door
We don't want your war
Let's all yell a little
louder now
We don't want your war
All stand together
tall
We don't want your war
But you keep telling us, you keep
telling us we do
The king has no clothes so he leads by
fear
We must challenge all the lies we hear
The devil's bombs
has an oily smell
Frames a legacy with infamy and he burns it, he
burns it into hell
We don't want your war
Let's all yell a
little louder now
We don't want your war
All stand together
tall
We don't want your war
But you keep telling us, you keep
telling us we do
Try to turn us into lemmings with their magic on
TV
Leaking military secrets is one of their specialties
To
reporters hanging on their words like schoolgirls in love
They've
got the scoop, but we're no closer to the truth
If we raise our
flag on a million graves
Will we all be proud or will we be
ashamed'
Of our leadership, greedy and arrogant
And we'll all
be judged by the choices, the choices that we made
We don't want
your war
Let's all sing a little louder now
We don't want your
war
All stand together tall
We don't want your war
But you
keep telling us we do
We don't want your war
All stand
together and yell
We don't want your war
All stand together
tall
We don't want your war
So stop telling us...stop telling
us we do
Final Straw -- Streaming
Audio
Michael Stipe
As I raise my head to
broadcast my objection
As your latest triumph draws the final
straw
Who died and lifted you up to perfection'
And what
silenced me is written into law
I can't believe where
circumstance has thrown me
And I turn my head away
If I look
I'm not sure that I could face you
Not again...not today...not
today
If hatred makes a play on me tomorrow
And
forgiveness takes a back seat to revenge
There's a hurt down deep
that has not been corrected
There's a voice in me that says you
will not win
And if I ignore the voice inside
Raise
a half glass to my home
But it's there that I am most
afraid
And forgetting doesn't hold
It doesn't
hold...now I don't believe and I never did
That two wrongs make a
right
If the world were filled with the likes of you
Then I'm
putting up a fight...putting up a fight
Putting up a fight...make
it right...make it right
Now love cannot be called into
question
Forgiveness is the only hope I hold
And love...love
will be my strongest weapon
I do believe that I am not
alone
For this fear will not destroy me
And the
tears that have been shed
It's knowing now where I am
weakest
And the voice in my head...in my head
Then I
raise my voice up higher
And I look you in the eye
And I offer
love with one condition
With conviction...tell me why
Tell me
why
Tell me why
Look me in the eye
Tell me why
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