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Give Blood

Give Blood
(1985)
Album: White City: A Novel


David Gilmour - guitar
Pino Palladino - bass
Simon Phillips - drums

To read: Anti-War, Anti-Establishment, Anti-Hero: The Meaning Behind Pete Townshend’s “Give Blood”
Give blood
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1/1/2024 - 23:30
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There's Something in the Air (But it's not on the Airwaves)

There's Something in the Air (But it's not on the Airwaves)
Lyrics by Chris Chandler and Anne Feeney
Tune: "Something’s in the Air", Thunderclap Newman/Pete Townshend, 1969

Una spoken song che analizza perchè il movimento contro la guerra in Vietnam ebbe più attenzione di quanta non ne abbia oggi il "movimento" (?!?) contro la guerra in Iraq...
Ya know, we have GOT it together. There ARE people in the streets — at the very onset of Oil War Two there were already more people on the streets protesting than there were at the height of the Vietnam war. There is something in the air, but it is not on the airwaves If there are a half a dozen Jaycees in Cincinnati on a street corner waving yellow ribbons Fox news acts like it’s A Republican Woodstock. “By the time we got to Fallujah we were half a million strong.” But put a million people on the street and they build a fence around you and call it a protest zone. We like to look at Vietnam through the soft focus of Hollywood — which took the blood of war and turned it into rose-colored glasses. We see 1000s of beautiful semi-naked 20 somethings putting daises in the barrels of M16s all to... (continuer)
envoyé par Alessandro 9/1/2009 - 10:36




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