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Trigger Happy

Trigger Happy
[2003]
Lyrics and Music by Sara Marlowe
Album: Times Like These...

"About the irony of the claims of the US to be fighting to protect themselves and the world from "weapons of mass destruction", when THEY are the only country to have dropped the "Bomb".
I'm not the one who's crazy in this world gone mad
(Continues)
Contributed by giorgio 2010/5/29 - 16:41
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Nothing At All

Nothing At All
[2002]
Lyrics & Music by Sara Marlowe
Album: A World to Win: Songs from the Struggle for Global Justice

A song about the 'growing gap' between rich and poor…
Emperors, black suits, princes and kings,
(Continues)
Contributed by giorgio 2010/5/29 - 13:20
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Capitalism Kills

Capitalism Kills
[2002]
Lyrics and Music by Sara Marlowe
Album: A World to Win: Songs from the Struggle for Global Justice

This song is written in memory of different victims of the same system - capitalism; Otto Vass, murdered by 4 Toronto Police officers, the homeless who die on our streets every year, the Palestinians and the new Intifada and Africans dieing from AIDS and prevented from accessing affordable medication.
Four to one, not even counting the weapons
(Continues)
Contributed by giorgio 2010/5/29 - 12:43
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This Is What Democracy Looks Like

This Is What Democracy Looks Like
[2002]
Lyrics & Music by Sara Marlowe
Album: A World to Win: Songs from the Struggle for Global Justice

"A song about the resistance to the IMF, World Bank, WTO & FTAA,… a song about OUR version of democracy and the strength of the Teamster Turtle Alliance as a force to create the better world that we know is possible".
Now we're raging on the front lines, 50,000 strong this time
(Continues)
Contributed by giorgio 2010/5/29 - 12:08
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When Will The Madness End?

When Will The Madness End?
[2002]
Lyrics & Music by Sara Marlowe
Album: A World to Win: Songs from the Struggle for Global Justice

An anti-war song specifically about the about 'war on terror' - also included on the "ONE BIG NO" CD compilation released by Artists Against War
(This song was written just after George Bush started to bomb Afghanistan, in "retaliation" for the attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon on September 11th. It is also about how other struggles, such as the Intifada in Palestine and imperialism in Africa are all connected and a struggle against the same system - capitalism)
"Operation Enduring Freedom" AKA more war!
So the bombs are dropping once again
(Continues)
Contributed by giorgio 2010/5/29 - 11:00
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Not in Our Name

Not in Our Name
[2003]
Lyrics and Music by Sara Marlowe
Album: Times like these...

Kind of self explanatory, this song was inspired by the massive anti-war protests and world-wide opposition to the war on Iraq, with the major theme of "Not in our Name". It exposes the real "Axis of evil - Tony Blair and George Bush.
It's a summer's day followed by a winter storm
(Continues)
Contributed by giorgio 2010/5/29 - 10:44
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This Time

This Time
[2003]
Lyrics and Music by Sara Marlowe
Album: Times Like These...

"About the illegal War on Iraq, the continuing occupation of Iraq and 'War Criminal' George Bush's arrogant declaration of victory last May".
After the story's told for the thousandth time
(Continues)
Contributed by giorgio 2010/5/29 - 10:23
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Blood On Your Hands

Blood On Your Hands
[2002]
Lyrics and Music by Sara Marlowe
Album: A World to Win: Songs from the Struggle for Global Justice

The United Nations approved sanctions on Iraq and the continued bombing - for over 10 years prior to the latest attack.

(This song was originally written for Bill Clinton and Madeleine Albright who are responsible for the death of over half a million children because of the sanctions they imposed on Iraq. And now George Bush is threatening to spread his "War on Terror" into Iraq...)
How can you sit there and look us in the eye
(Continues)
Contributed by giorgio 2010/5/29 - 09:14
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Worthless

Worthless
[2009]
Lyrics & Music by Sara Marlowe
("dedicated to my uncle Ray, and all others injured on the job")
Album: True Stories

A memorial for injured workers. It was written specifically for Sara's uncle who got cancer because of an unsafe work environment and who along with his co-workers had to fight for compensation.
I'm a simple man,
(Continues)
Contributed by giorgio 2010/5/29 - 09:05
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CCRAP

CCRAP
[2000]
Lyrics and Music by Sara Marlowe
Album: A World to Win: Songs from the Struggle for Global Justice [2002]

The Canadian Conservative Reform Alliance Party, founded on March 2000, was quickly renamed to the Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance when all its opponents pointed out that its initials spelled CCRAP (crap:-))). The satirical magazine Frank proposed alternatives to CCRAP, namely SSHIT and NSDAP.
The 10 Year anniversary edition of the song written when CCRAP party formed - now the Conservative Party. Different name, but same old crap!

(a brief biography of Stockwell Day)
I'd like to tell a story, 'bout some thugs and all their glory
(Continues)
Contributed by giorgio 2010/5/29 - 08:18
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End of War

End of War
(2008)

The idea for this song came about after reading Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax to my son and wishing the story offered a more hopeful lesson than the “if only” written on the rock at the end. Around the same time, I was watching Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s seven-part PBS documentary, “The War.” The film’s personal narratives moved me deeply and left me astonished at the senseless destruction of so many lives. I imagined how wonderful it would be if I could respond to my son’s questions about war by explaining that it was a terrible thing of the past rather than something my own country was waging in a growing number of places. With all this fresh in my consciousness, I somehow arrived at three chords that were hopeful and uplifting, and I found myself singing “the end of war” as I played them.

In writing the song, I couldn’t help but be influenced by John Lennon, to whom I pay tribute... (Continues)
We used to believe it was all human nature
(Continues)
Contributed by alexandra stella d'maris 2010/5/28 - 22:02
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Wavin' Flag

Wavin' Flag
2009

Un bel messaggio per le persone nate in paesi poveri, sottosviluppati, sottomessi che devono affrontare i problemi della guerra, la fame, la disperazione...un bel messaggio di incoraggiamento alla lotta, a non arrendersi, a migliorare sempre e comunque per se stessi ma anche per il proprio paese...
Una canzone che ci invita a credere ma soprattutto a sperare in un futuro migliore nonostante sembri che nulla sia cambiato o che si torni indietro o semplicemente che si rimanga sempre fermi allo stesso punto.

È la lotta o la resistenza l'unica cosa che non fa morire la speranza ed è importante che le nuove generazioni siano fiduciose e pronte a cambiare la realtà e le ingiustizie di un paese e perché no del mondo intero...
Da non tralasciare anche l'aspetto critico di questo testo verso i potenti che manovrano i fili accecati dalla sete di potere e dalla avidità.
When I get older, I will be stronger
(Continues)
Contributed by Marcia 2010/5/28 - 19:25
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The People's Money - Part 2

[2008]
Lyrics by Chemical Mike.

"This is part two of "The People's Money". Hope you all like it. I went more a more electronic sound this time, so no guitar in this one. I mixed it all down on a laptop, with some cheap headphones and a very low grade sound card, so the sound levels.
The story is quite simple really. You just gotta watch the news and go online. Besides it's all in good fun anyways, so you right wingers lighten up okay?
Peace."
(Money… money … money)
(Continues)
Contributed by giorgio 2010/5/28 - 13:02




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