Just added Davey D‘s new song Down w/U.S. to my peace song archive.

I was just transcribing the lyrics so a friend and I can perform this song at an upcoming peace rally, and I just realized, again, what a nice piece of songwriting Green Day’s “Life During Wartime” is.
MP3 of Life During Wartime (5 MB) (Or download it from my archive.)
Sorry ahead of time for not being able to make out a few words of the lyrics…
(Can anybody help out with those?) Think we got ’em now..:-)

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Life During Wartime
Music and Lyrics by 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 in our own hands
instead of sitting around and talking bout
the same old shitty bands
the war’s 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

I should have put this up a while ago. It was actually one of the first to come out:
JACOB’S LADDER (NOT IN MY NAME)
(requires Flash)

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Free Peace, Love and Hip Hop/Rock and Roll/Dance/Country/Folk/Punk Rock Baby!
This collection of peace songs is growing larger every day.
Please spread the word by downloading these songs and sharing them with your friends.
Call your local radio stations and demand that they play these songs.
And when these artists come out with their next album for sale or come to play live in your town, show them your support!

As in the foreign policy that’s biting us in our own ass.
Here are a few kind words that were sent to me by the

Compassionate Conservatives.
(Lyrics)

Please don’t be fooled by our name… we bear no resemblance to the frauds currently inhabiting the White House. Our mission is to uncover the deception, hypocrisy, and arrogance of the court-appointed Bush Administration through our music and wit. We release all songs in MP3 format for free download… no strings attached. We are not in this for the money…
1. Another War
Set to the tune of the Beatles’ “Drive My Car”, Bush and Cheney are overjoyed at the prospect of — you guessed it — another war. Featuring a special excerpt from Bush’s March 19th speech introducing the Iraqi war.

Dubya wants another war
Dubya’s just a corporate whore
Dubya wants another war
’cause Dubya’s a Nazi
Ask Dick Cheney what’s he going to do
He starts a-sneering, you know you’re screwed
He’s been known to keep a secret or two
And now he’s keeping them all from you
Cheney wants another war
Halliburton’s gonna score
Cheney wants another war
’cause Cheney’s a Nazi
Jawohl Mein Fuehrer Ja!

2. Midnight Confessions (of Emperor G.W. Bush)
This is a remake of the Grass Roots song on the same name, circa 1968. Featured commentator is, of course, George W. Bush, who comes off sounding every bit the buffoon that he is.
3. In The Garden of Eden (war crimes/DC rally mix)
This is a remake of Iron Butterfly’s “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida”, which we chose in light of Iraq’s geographical location. We have added some commentary, including unintentional Bush irony from the State of the Union address, comments from Francis Boyle on how the Iraq war violates the Nuremberg Charter, and numerous commentators from the January 18th anti-war rally held in Washington DC.

Here’s the Zinn/Fisk/Nader remix of the same “Garden of Eden” song.

Anti-Flag has released it’s own protest song and the band is encouraging others to perform it freely.

They worked on this song with the guys from DONOT’s.
This song and their great idea about giving songs to people to play at protests gave me the idea of learning a bunch of these songs and playing them for crowds during the next protest here in San Francisco (April 4, 2003).
Perhaps some of you could do the same in your cities across the world?
That ought to liven things up a bit!
A lot of these songs are pretty easy, I’ve been figuring out the chords for them and I’ll be posting the info here on this topic.
Lyrics forthcoming. (Can’t seem to find them on the site anymore…)

Congrats to Lenny Kravitz for finding a way to both express himself while reminding us of the single thing we can do together as a united community against the WAR that will have a direct effect on our country’s future in the years ahead:
vote him out of office in 2004!
(And by voting as many of “his people” out in all the little elections at every step along the way. )
(Um. When’s that next election again?:)
WE WANT PEACE
Here’s what this is all about.

Rock the Vote and Lenny Kravitz today announced a new song by Kravitz called “We Want Peace,” which is available exclusively at Rock the Vote’s website, http://www.rockthevote.org.
The song, which says, “There won’t be peace if we don’t try” is an urgent call from Kravitz for America to be a peaceful leader in the world. Kravitz wrote the song and performed it with Kazem Al Sahir, Iraq

And gives it away for free.

The Final Straw (Streaming Tracks and Lyrics)
MP3 of Final Straw (MP3 – 5 MB) (In 2005, this link was requested to be removed. Thanks again guys for helping to spread the word when it really mattered!)

This is the strongest voice I could think of to send out there.
We had to send something out there now.
We are praying and hoping for the lives of all people involved,
the troops, the Iraqi civilians, refugees, pow’s, families of troops, the innocents–
that they are safe and okay. Safe home, all. –Michael Stipe

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And gives it away for free:
Green Day – Life During Wartime – messages from the band, etc. (Mike sez: “Fuck this war!”)
MP3 of Life During Wartime (5 MB)
Or download it from my archive.
Sorry ahead of time for not being able to make out a few words of the lyrics… A reader has kindly helped me complete the lyrics 🙂

Here are the tabs

Life During Wartime
Music and Lyrics by 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 in our own hands
instead of sitting around and talking bout
the same old shitty bands
the war’s 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