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Songs for a declining world

Unread postby RedStateGreen » Tue 03 Mar 2009, 22:27:55

I got this idea from Cid's post here to post songs whose lyrics seem appropriate to what's happening in the world.

Don't post the whole song, or embed the 'watch' video ... just link to the song.
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Re: Songs for a declining world

Unread postby RedStateGreen » Tue 03 Mar 2009, 22:53:41

A Prayer for the Dying

(it cuts off before the end, but you get most of it)

Been crossin' that bridge,
With lessons I've learned.
Playing with fire,
And not getting burned.
I may not know what you're going through,
But time is the space,
Between me and you.
There is a light through that window
Hold on say yes, while people say no
Life carries on


-- Seal
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Re: Songs for a declining world

Unread postby PenultimateManStanding » Tue 03 Mar 2009, 23:07:00

here's your song Brace yourself.
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Re: Songs for a declining world

Unread postby Plantagenet » Tue 03 Mar 2009, 23:18:39

So come all you fine young fellows who've been beaten to the ground.
This western life's no paradise, but it's better than lying down.
Oh, the streets aren't clean, and there's nothing green, and the hills are dirty brown,
But the government Dole will rot your soul back there in your home town.

---Stan Rogers
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Re: Songs for a declining world

Unread postby RedStateGreen » Tue 03 Mar 2009, 23:37:34

Well we’re waiting here in Allentown
For the Pennsylvania we never found
For the promises our teachers gave
If we worked hard
If we behaved

So the graduations hang on the wall
But they never really helped us at all
No they never taught us what was real
Iron and coke(not coal)
Chromium Steel

And we’re waiting here in Allentown
But they’ve taken all the coal from the ground
And the union people crawled away

Every child had a pretty good shot
To get at least as far as their old man got
But something happened on the way to that place
They threw an American flag in our face


-- Billy Joel
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Re: Songs for a declining world

Unread postby RedStateGreen » Tue 03 Mar 2009, 23:46:09

Every time I want to feel sorry for myself I listen to this song, and remember that people live this way right now:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqPVn7cgy6I

Now that the war is through with me
I'm waking up, I cannot see
That there's not much left of me
Nothing is real but pain now

Hold my breath as I wish for death
Oh please God, wake me


-- Metallica
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Re: Songs for a declining world

Unread postby cbxer55 » Wed 04 Mar 2009, 00:06:08

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Re: Songs for a declining world

Unread postby RedStateGreen » Wed 04 Mar 2009, 00:06:32

You take a mortal man,
And put him in control
Watch him become a god,
Watch peoples heads a'roll
A'roll, A'roooooooollll

Just like the Pied Piper
Led rats through the streets
We dance like marionettes,
Swaying to the Symphony
Of Destruction


-- Megadeth
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Re: Songs for a declining world

Unread postby kublikhan » Wed 04 Mar 2009, 00:06:51

I was gambling in Havana
I took a little risk
Send lawyers, guns and money
Dad, get me out of this

I'm the innocent bystander
Somehow I got stuck
Between the rock and the hard place
And I'm down on my luck

Now I'm hiding in Honduras
I'm a desperate man
Send lawyers, guns and money
The shit has hit the fan
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The oil barrel is half-full.
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Re: Songs for a declining world

Unread postby PenultimateManStanding » Wed 04 Mar 2009, 01:36:47

We're not talking blues songs, or down and out stuff. Penderecky is the real thing: terror. As far as I know, it has never been conveyed in art so forcefully.
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Re: Songs for a declining world

Unread postby PenultimateManStanding » Wed 04 Mar 2009, 20:57:07

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', '[')url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzOb3UhPmig]here's your song[/url] Brace yourself.
Note how at the end there are vague sounds of dogs barking and things falling apart. It's painful to listen to. Believe me, I'd much rather we had a Star Trek future.
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Re: Songs for a declining world

Unread postby Pops » Wed 04 Mar 2009, 21:27:22

The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can not, so well do, for themselves -- in their separate, and individual capacities.
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Re: Songs for a declining world

Unread postby RedStateGreen » Wed 04 Mar 2009, 22:16:43

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', '[')url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzOb3UhPmig]here's your song[/url] Brace yourself.
Note how at the end there are vague sounds of dogs barking and things falling apart. It's painful to listen to. Believe me, I'd much rather we had a Star Trek future.

I thought it was good, PMS.

I think it's better to let the songs speak for themselves rather than commenting, though. ymmv :)
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Re: Songs for a declining world

Unread postby PenultimateManStanding » Wed 04 Mar 2009, 22:18:39

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pops', 'h')ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8l87JpWkbI0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5axlwCBXC8
I like John Prine. But this isn't a thread for feel-good songs, for pleasing finger picking and nice vocals.
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Re: Songs for a declining world

Unread postby jasonraymondson » Wed 04 Mar 2009, 22:22:39

Seriously those are your responses. This is the song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5BjIVS04jk

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'L')iving easy, living free
Season ticket on a one-way ride
Asking nothing, leave me be
Taking everything in my stride
Dont need reason, dont need rhyme
Aint nothing I would rather do
Going down, party time
My friends are gonna be there too
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Re: Songs for a declining world

Unread postby PenultimateManStanding » Wed 04 Mar 2009, 22:27:32

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('RedStateGreen', 'I') thought it was good, PMS. I think it's better to let the songs speak for themselves rather than commenting, though. ymmv :)
Well I don't see the harm of making a comment or two. But sure, it's pretty intense. I think it's safe to say that most will turn it off within 30 seconds.
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Re: Songs for a declining world

Unread postby Pops » Wed 04 Mar 2009, 22:49:45

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', ' ')But this isn't a thread for feel-good songs, for pleasing finger picking and nice vocals.

Come on P, you know I'm not this kind, more one of these...
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Re: Songs for a declining world

Unread postby PenultimateManStanding » Wed 04 Mar 2009, 23:13:07

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pops', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', ' ')But this isn't a thread for feel-good songs, for pleasing finger picking and nice vocals.

Come on P, you know I'm not this kind, more one of these...
You ready to make your own trout lines, your own ammo, your own knives, you ready for when the bucks are all gone? You got the raw materials to make gun powder? guns? Do you even know how to make a gun if you had the materials? Country folks can't survive. It takes a functional system for that. Hank II is just an entertainer. Penderecky was a real artist. He told us 49 years ago that we have serious problems.
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Re: Songs for a declining world

Unread postby PenultimateManStanding » Wed 04 Mar 2009, 23:56:17

BTW, you have to admit that Pendercky used 52 stringed instruments to great effect. The idea was to convey the horror of the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima. I think he accomplished that and more.
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Re: Songs for a declining world

Unread postby RedStateGreen » Thu 05 Mar 2009, 12:37:19

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pops', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', ' ')But this isn't a thread for feel-good songs, for pleasing finger picking and nice vocals.

Come on P, you know I'm not this kind,


I cried for ten minutes after watching that ... still kind of teary-eyed. Damn. And I don't even like country music.
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