Battle of the Bands
It's really starting to feel like the summer of '69, not that I have any nostalgic feelings for Woodstock nor was even born then. I'm taking about the music with a political message. In stark contrast to the Right Brothers (assuming they weren't ironic) now comes this protest song from Nerina Pallot.
With lyrics like this:
If love is a drug, i guess we're all sober
If hope is a song, i guess it's all over
How to have faith when faith is a crime?
I don't want to die
If God's on our side, then God is a joker
Asleep on the job, his children fall over
Running out through the door and straight to the sky
I don't want to die...
...who needs Joni Mitchell? However - and I do know it's a protest song - I think the chances of Nerina Pallet getting shot in her safe cozy living room in Jersey is highly unlikely, no matter how much it might worry her. Unless she goes on tour in Baghdad, which I can't see either.
More lyrics below...
I've got a friend, he's a pure-bred killing machine
He says he's waited his whole damn life for this
I knew him well when he was seventeen
Now he's a man, he'll be dead by Christmas, and...
So, everybody's going to war
But we don't know what we're fighting for
Don't tell me it's a worthy cause
No cause could be so worthy
(chorus)
If love is a drug, I guess we're all sober
If hope is a song, I guess it's all over
How to have faith when faith is a crime?
I don't want to die
If God's on our side, then God is a joker
Asleep on the job, his children fall over
Running out through the door and straight to the sky
I don't want to die
For every man who wants to rule the world
There'll be a man who just wants to be free
What do we learn but what should not be learnt?
Too late to find a cure for this disease
(chorus)
I
I-I-I-I etc.
I don't want to die
I-I-I-I-don't want to die
I-I-don't want to die
(chorus)
I
I-I-I-I etc.
I don't want to die
I-I-I-I-don't want to die
I-I-don't want to die
I've got a friend, he's a pure-bred killing machine
I think he might be dead by Christmas...
Comments
Re. your piece on Nerina Pallot, is it a protest song? Check out the more overt 'We All Die Here' on www.rwgrecords.co.uk
Posted by: Vicki | May 7, 2006 4:20 PM