[RedStateGreen]

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.

[RedStateGreen]

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

[PenultimateManStanding]

here's your song Brace yourself.

[Plantagenet]

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

[RedStateGreen]

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

[RedStateGreen]

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

[cbxer55]

ELO - The Way Lifes Meant TO Be

[RedStateGreen]

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

[kublikhan]

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
Warren Zevon - Lawyers, Guns, And Money

[PenultimateManStanding]

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.

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', '[')url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzOb3UhPmig]here's your song[/url] Brace yourself.

[Pops]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8l87JpWkbI0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5axlwCBXC8

[RedStateGreen]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', '[')url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzOb3UhPmig]here's your song[/url] Brace yourself.

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pops', 'h')ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8l87JpWkbI0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5axlwCBXC8

[jasonraymondson]

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

[PenultimateManStanding]

$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

[Pops]

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

[PenultimateManStanding]

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

[PenultimateManStanding]

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.

[RedStateGreen]

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