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Green Grow The Rushes

Green Grow The Rushes
[1985]
Album "Fables of the Reconstruction"

Una canzone che con Flowers of Guatemala e Welcome To The Occupation costituisce una sorta di trilogia sulla politica statunitense verso i paesi del centro e sud America negli anni 80, in particolare rispetto alla questione dell'immigrazione, solo apparentemente contrastata con la forza (e con grande spargimento di sangue) ma tollerata, quando non incentivata, a seconda delle esigenze del mercato, che sempre predilige la manodopera a basso costo ("some surplus, cheaper hands") - in maggioranza clandestini ("Pay for your freedom, find another gate") sfruttati, ricattati, minacciati - per massimizzare i propri profitti ("The amber waves of gain")...

Il titolo si riferisce probabilmente alla canzone popolare religiosa di origine ebraica "Green Grow The Rushes, Ho", un brano molto noto nel mondo anglofono. Alcune fonti ritengono che gli immigrati... (Continues)
The wheelbarrow's fallen
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/19 - 13:07
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I Want to Be President

I Want to Be President
[2004]
We got arms
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/19 - 11:58
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Free World

Free World
[1989]
Album "Kite"

Una canzone dedicata alla vita della gente comune in Inghilterra negli anni del thatcherismo...
I thought of you when they closed down the school
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/19 - 11:26
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Old England

Old England
[1985]
Album "This Is the Sea"

"Old England" is a criticism of Thatcherism, blaming Margaret Thatcher's economic policies for what The Waterboys perceived to be an increase in desperation amongst the young and poor in the England of that time, and a rise in drug addiction, specifically to heroin. The refrain, Old England is dying is a quote from James Joyce, and the lines You're asking what makes me sigh now / What it is makes me shudder so are from W.B. Yeats' poem, Mad as the Mist and Snow.
(en.wikipedia)
Man looks up on a yellow sky
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/18 - 14:22
Song Itineraries: Miss Maggie Thatcher
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Pax Americana

Pax Americana
[2004]
Album "The Revolution of Species"

Testo trovato su archive.org
Bloody confrontations from
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/18 - 13:44
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Freedom is Humanity

[2004]
Album "The Revolution of Species"

Testo trovato su archive.org
Tolerance is key to dismantling oppression
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/18 - 13:43
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Forgotten Genocide

Forgotten Genocide
[2004]
Album "The Revolution of Species"

Testo trovato su archive.org
A trail of blood from sea to sea
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2010/2/18 - 13:41




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