I done wrote me a protest song

Gyrate · February 12, 2003, 2:19am

Well butter mah overalls and call me Arlo, I gotta get me a gee-tar.

This is to the tune of that song that goes “ba-RUM-ty tum-ty tum-ty tum…”

Some folks from Al Quaeda, they dealt us quite a blow;
They killed a lot of people, and laid the Towers low.
We’ve got to find bin Laden, and hit him with a bomb…
…but if we can’t find him, we’ll just go drop it on Saddam!

Hooray! Hoorah!
We’re going off to war!
Even though we’re not exactly certain what it’s for:
Is it truth and peace and freedom, or power, guns and oil?
Either way, our troops are landing on Iraqi soil.
Saddam, he has some nasty weapons hidden in his land.
He’s not supposed to have 'em, 'cause we’ve told him they were banned.
Saddam denies that they exist, and that’s why all the fuss:
We know he’s got the weapons, 'cause he bought them all from us!

Hooray! Hoorah!
We’re going off to war!
What will happen if we win? Nobody’s really sure.
There needs to be some changes – on that we can agree –
So we’ll stage a coup d’etat to bring Iraq democracy!
Now gather 'round and listen to our President, George Bush,
Who says, “Saddam’s a bad guy and he needs to get the push.
He bombed and gassed his people, and you haven’t heard the worst:
He went and bombed his people before we could bomb them first!”

Hooray! Hoorah!
We’re going off to war!
With the folks from CNN along to keep the score.
Let’s try to win this quickly, and welcome home our men –
And maybe in ten years we’ll get to do it all again!

– John B. Russell

Your turn.

Johnny_L.A · February 12, 2003, 2:41am

It was hijacked right off the bat (and I assisted), but here it is.

Zoe · February 12, 2003, 2:43am

Sorry, but I must protest!

Gyrate · February 12, 2003, 2:48am

Oh bollocks. And I did a search and everything…

If you must.

Seven · February 12, 2003, 8:58am

I wrote three “anti-war” songs for the Decomputerization CD.

I tried to give them a slightly different twist to your average anti-war track.

The Overpressure
C 2001 - The Tic Tok Men

It keeps walking and it won’t look forward.
It seeks the cracks in complacently.
It’s cold fingers grip on the human emotion.
The Overpressure - The Overpressure

It sparks terror on the would around it
It calls vengeance a legitimate thing
The People pray to their new false idol.
The Overpressure - The Overpressure.

STOP! Stop shouting
STOP! Stop fighting
STOP! Stop advancing
The Overpressure
The Overpressure wants us all

The people bring it all their sacrifices
It swallows up everything it can see
The faithful blind to it’s final solution
The Overpressure - The Overpressure.

STOP! Stop shouting
STOP! Stop fighting
STOP! Stop advancing
The Overpressure
The Overpressure wants us all

You won’t see it ‘till it comes down on you.
Pneumatic soul crushing fighting machines.
Summoned from the well of our human desires.
The Overpressure - The Overpressure

STOP! Stop pushing
STOP! Stop shooting
STOP! Stop hating
STOP! Stop killing
STOP! Stop shooting.
STOP! Stop fighting
STOP! Stop advancing
The Overpressure
The Overpressure wants us all

Apart
C 2001 - The Tic Tok Men

Hot metal and burning oil
A million moving machines
Angry youth leaves 20 dead
A semi-automatic routine

Crack babies and crackwhores
Another car bomb downtown
The politicians are still smiling
With anthrax letters floating around

The Christian army kills the Muslim
While the Muslim kills jew
The leaders of this world are dropping bombs because they’ve
Got nothing better to do

-We’re on the redline. No turning. Until we tear it apart.
-We’re on the redline. No stopping. Until we tear it apart.

Crossfire in a playground
Killed a mother and son
But everyone’s distracted
With the war that’s begun

They fortified the borders
Airlifted in troops
Reprogrammed all the missiles
To take off in groups.

The Christian army kills the Muslim
While the Muslim kills jew
The leaders of this world are dropping bombs because they’ve
Got nothing better to do

-We’re on the redline. No turning. Until we tear it apart.
-We’re on the redline. No stopping. Until we tear it apart.
-We’re on the redline, No Stopping!

Overpopulation
Domination
Evil corporation
No stimulation
Public sedation
Failing education
No cooperation
Fighting nations
Misinformation
Student demonstration
Infant mutilation
No vaccination
Police investigations
Military operations
Guilt by association
Your eternal damnation
No salvation of frustration in the legal litigation
Civilization desperation
Taxation irritation
Inflation of mutation
Deviation
Regulation
Violation
Starvation
Radiation and contamination
Humiliation
Inebriation
Assassination
Deforestation
Eradication
Abomination
Realization of this revelation

-We’re on the redline. No turning. Until we tear it apart.
-We’re on the redline. No stopping. Until we tear it apart.

There are mp3’s of them over at www.ampcast.com/tictok