Current Anti-War Songs

[bohonato]

A while ago, there was a post regarding the lack of anti-war songs for the current war(s), etc. So in the general defense of my generation, and in no particular order, I present the following (the links are for the full lyrics):

System of a Down : Boom!

Why do we kill our own child?

Boom. Boom. Boom.
Everytime you drop a bomb
You kill the God your child has born.

http://www.systemofadownonline.com/lyrics/0304.htm

Anti-Flag: 911 For Peace

I don’t wanna die
(I don’t wanna kill)
I don’t wanna kill
(I don’t wanna die)
We are all human
It’s time to prove it

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/antiflag ... peace.html


Dopkick Murphys: Far Away Coast (This is more of a “We support our troops, but war still sucks)

Sail away to a place that’s alone
Taken away from my friends and my home
To a place they call sacred
A place I call hell
I long for that corner I once knew so well

http://www.plyrics.com/lyrics/dropkickm ... coast.html


The Redwalls: The Glory of War

I guess some men been born to die
cause livin' wasnt up to them

So though we're all born as brothers
living just to kill each other
This is the glory of war...

http://www.lyricsmania.com/lyrics/redwa ... 60738.html

Flogging Molly: Screaming At The Wailing Wall

So God how come every wrong's been done?
With deals no Christ should allow
Once the communist now the terrorist
With blood as thick as yours
Now a caravan of clouds
Warns us all of winter showers
Then rattle comes the rain
With each bullet screams your name

So how come this gatherin' storm
Pours little on the truth?
Where the smokin' gun's a familiar
song let loose
With the bombed out cars
Come the falling stars
From a heaven we'll never know
And the nameless names
On the misspelled graves grow tall
We're still screamin' at the Wailing Wall

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/flogging ... gwall.html

The Killers: All These Things That I've Done

I've got soul, but I'm not a soldier

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/killers/ ... edone.html

Angels and Airwaves: The War

And the houses
Laid out like targets
With the deafening sound
We watched them all go down
And the families
Now useless bodies
They lay still black and blue
A gift from us to you

http://www.plyrics.com/lyrics/angelsand ... hewar.html

John Mayer: Waiting On The World To Change

Now if we had the power
To bring our neighbors home from war
They would have never missed a Christmas
No more ribbons on their door
And when you trust your television
What you get is what you got
Cause when they own the information, oh
They can bend it all they want

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/johnmaye ... hange.html

Jurassic 5 featuring Dave Matthews: Work It Out

Just watch the music video. You won’t regret it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_maHggUq ... ed&search=

There are, of course, a lot more, but I think that this is a sufficient amount to show that the tradition of the anti-war song is alive and well.

[Arcadia]

welll.......IIIIIIIIIII... I don't wanna be a soldier mamma
I don't wanna dieeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!

thanks for the links!!
To sing is great!. I remember when almost everybody I knew in the eighties also knew more or less the same songs!. That was great, and maybe a teenage phenomeno too.
Some songs very popular among young people about war and militares from that ages:

Botas locas (Sui Generis)

Yo forme parte de un ejercito loco
tenia veinte años y el pelo muy corto
pero, mi amigo, hubo una confusion
porque para ellos el loco era yo.

Solo le pido a Dios (Leon Gieco)

Solo le pido a Dios
que la guerra no me sea indiferente
que la reseca muerte no me encuentre
vacio y solo sin haber hecho lo suficiente.

I love direct songs, but sometimes literature/songs lyrics use the not too conscious indirect way, that's great too!!!

saludos,

Arcadia

[mnaz]

good stuff...

flogging molly.... says it well.

[Artguy]

Roger Waters has got a new one...He's singing it on his new tour ...It's not recorded yet....Titled; Leaving Beirut