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Some anti-war songs lament aspects of wars, while others patronize war.Most promote peace in some form, while others sing out against specific armed conflicts. Still others depict the physical and psychological destruction that warfare causes to soldiers, innocent civilians, and humanity as a whole.
"Lovers in a Dangerous Time" By Bruce Cockburn (1984) "M.A.D." by Hadouken!; lyrics and title refer to nuclear war; the whole album's and lyrics refer to atomic war "Man at C&A" By The Specials (1980) "Manhattan Project" By Rush (1985) "Maralinga" By Urban Guerrillas (1983) "Massive Retaliation" By Sigue Sigue Sputnik (1986) "Mediate" By INXS ...
A protest song on the futility of war, written in response to the Vietnam War. Later also covered by Edwin Starr and Bruce Springsteen. "We Didn't Start the Fire" Billy Joel (1989) – a cleverly structured list of historical events of the Cold War period from the 1950s–1980s, making special mention of the "communist bloc". "Weeping Wall ...
The songs here are lyrically explicit in their denunciation of a particular war or war in general. Songs here may also have been designated anti-war songs by their authors. See also: Category:Peace songs
"Draft Dodger Rag" is a satirical anti-war song by Phil Ochs, a U.S. protest singer from the 1960s known for being a harsh critic of the American military industrial complex. Originally released on his 1965 album, I Ain't Marching Anymore , "Draft Dodger Rag" quickly became an anthem of the anti-Vietnam War movement .
An anti-war song which speaks about how the events of 9/11 turned the "seemingly distant existence of war into the reality of now". [32] Scarling. "Alexander The Burn Victim" Sweet Heart Dealer: 2004: Tesla "Heaven Nine Eleven" Into the Now: 2004: Twista feat. Faith Evans "Hope" Kamikaze: 2004
"Seconds" is the second track on U2's 1983 album, War. The track, with its recurring lyric of "it takes a second to say goodbye", refers to nuclear proliferation.It is the first song in the band's history not sung solely by Bono, as the Edge sings the first two stanzas.
The advent of World War I (1914–1918) resulted in a great number of songs against the war in general, and specifically in America against the U.S.'s decision to enter the European war. One of the successful protest songs to capture the widespread American skepticism about joining in the European war was " I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier ...