[2006]
Lyrics & Music by Eric Severson
Album: Gravity Waves

'August 6, 1945 (Black Rain)' is a requiem for the people who were killed and maimed in the bombing of Hiroshima at the end of World War II, and a tribute to the spirit of those who lived just long enough to drink the radioactive 'black rain'.

[2007]
Lyrics & Music by Eric Severson
Album: Gravity Waves

'Dying Down in Africa' is about innocent young children who are kidnapped in the night and forced to become child prostitutes and child soldiers. It is a heartfelt plea for help for the brave but besieged people of Africa.

[1968]
Lyrics & Music by Malvina Reynolds
Album: Sings the Truth

Renewed 1996, a.k.a. "If Peacetime Came". Malvina was poor for a time as a kid when her father lost his business, so she isn't making light of being poor here. Instead, she is riffing on the idea that war is good for business..

[2005]
Tekst en muziek van Doc Jazz
Album: Creative Resistance

Protest song against Bush, for his visit to the Netherlands in May 2005.

[1969]
Lyrics & Music by Malvina Reynolds
Album: Malvina

[2006]
Album: Billy Talent II

"Cannon fodder? Unthinking heads? Oh, no.. They're simply Worker-bees"

Album: They Don't Make Them Like They Used To - 1986

In the song, the narrator talks about visiting the old town where he grew up in and mentions how much more simple and possibly better life was back then. He mentions the old movie house and the drug store where he worked and his childhood friend who died in Vietnam in 1964.

"Born in East L.A." is a single by Cheech & Chong. It is a parody of Bruce Springsteen's "Born In The U.S.A.", with references to the song "I Love L.A." by Randy Newman.

Written by Cheech Marin, the song's lyrics deal with a Mexican-American man from East Los Angeles who is mistaken for an undocumented immigrant and deported. The song served as the basis for the film of the same name, directed by Marin.