I need songs about GOVERNMENT LIES and KILLS ITS PEOPLE?

Question

so any ideas?

Answer 1

I've been waiting for something to happen

For a week or a month or a year

With the blood in the ink of the headlines

And the sound of the crowd in my ear

You might ask what it takes to remember

When you know that you've seen it before

Where a government lies to a people

And a country is drifting to war

And there's a shadow on the faces

Of the men who send the guns

To the wars that are fought in places

Where their business interest runs

On the radio talk shows and the T.V.

You hear one thing again and again

How the U.S.A. stands for freedom

And we come to the aid of a friend

But who are the ones that we call our friends

These governments killing their own?

Or the people who finally can't take any more

And they pick up a gun or a brick or a stone

There are lives in the balance

There are people under fire

There are children at the cannons

And there is blood on the wire

There's a shadow on the faces

Of the men who fan the flames

Of the wars that are fought in places

Where we can't even say the names

They sell us the President the same way

They sell us our clothes and our cars

They sell us every thing from youth to religion

The same time they sell us our wars

I want to know who the men in the shadows are

I want to hear somebody asking them why

They can be counted on to tell us who our enemies are

But they're never the ones to fight or to die

And there are lives in the balance

There are people under fire

There are children at the cannons

And there is blood on the wire

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Jackson Browne

or you might try... the resentments..it's a richman's war...but a poorman's fight

Answer 2

Go back to the 60's

"Wooden Ships"   Jefferson Airplane/Crosby Stills and Nash

"Fixin to die rag"  Country Joe and the Fish

"Alice's Restaurant"  Arlo Guthrie

"Mau Mau" Jefferson Starship

"Morning Dew" Grateful Dead

"Pride of Man" Quicksilver Messenger Service

I could go on all day......

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"Machine Gun"  Jimi Hendrix

"Ohio" Neil Young

"Peace Frog" the Doors

"Chicago" Crosby&Nash

Answer 3

Go to Burma or Irag if you want these kind of songs.

Answer 4

"Masters of War" by Bob Dylan

... or if you want something a little more recent, "Holiday" by Green Day

Answer 5

feel like im fixing to die rag by country joe and the fish

Answer 6

Volunteers by Jefferson Airplane

Answer 7

Boom - system of a down

(this was made in the lead up to Iraq, before the US actually went in btw)

Answer 8

Killing In the Name- Rage Against the Machine

Killing in the name of!

Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses

Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses

Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses

Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses

Huh!

Killing in the name of!

Killing in the name of

And now you do what they told ya

And now you do what they told ya

And now you do what they told ya

And now you do what they told ya

And now you do what they told ya

And now you do what they told ya

And now you do what they told ya

And now you do what they told ya

And now you do what they told ya

And now you do what they told ya

And now you do what they told ya

But now you do what they told ya

Well now you do what they told ya

Those who died are justified, for wearing the badge, they're the chosen whites

You justify those that died by wearing the badge, they're the chosen whites

Those who died are justified, for wearing the badge, they're the chosen whites

You justify those that died by wearing the badge, they're the chosen whites

Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses

Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses

Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses

Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses

Uggh!

Killing in the name of!

Killing in the name of

And now you do what they told ya

And now you do what they told ya

And now you do what they told ya

And now you do what they told ya

And now you do what they told ya, now you're under control (7 times)

And now you do what they told ya, now you're under control

And now you do what they told ya, now you're under control

And now you do what they told ya, now you're under control

And now you do what they told ya, now you're under control

And now you do what they told ya, now you're under control

And now you do what they told ya, now you're under control

And now you do what they told ya!

Those who died are justified, for wearing the badge, they're the chosen whites

You justify those that died by wearing the badge, they're the chosen whites

Those who died are justified, for wearing the badge, they're the chosen whites

You justify those that died by wearing the badge, they're the chosen whites

Come on!

Yeah! Come on!

**** you, I won't do what you tell me

**** you, I won't do what you tell me

**** you, I won't do what you tell me

**** you, I won't do what you tell me

**** you, I won't do what you tell me

**** you, I won't do what you tell me

**** you, I won't do what you tell me

**** you, I won't do what you tell me

**** you, I won't do what you tell me!

**** you, I won't do what you tell me!

**** you, I won't do what you tell me!

**** you, I won't do what you tell me!

**** you, I won't do what you tell me!

**** you, I won't do what you tell me!

**** you, I won't do what you tell me!

**** you, I won't do what you tell me!

************!

Uggh!

Note: This song makes the point that some members of the US police force were, and possibly still are, members of the Ku Klux Klan ("Some of those who wear forces are the same that burn crosses"). How legitimate can a power structure or a religion be when the people that compose the operation are in a dark, warped mindset?

Answer 9

Fortunate Son, War, Deja Vu All Over Again, Where Have All the Young Men Gone, Billy Don't Be a Hero.