The protest songs of the 1960s and 1970’s are part and parcel of what I and many of my contemporaries grew up embracing, even if we were too young to fully decipher the lyrics and understand their implications in our youth. I certainly didn’t fully understand, at a conscious level anyway, at age 11, when listening to this song. When I listened to these songs as a young adult though, I came to understand all too well how the same injustices have been plaguing modern society for decades.
In the past two years, I have learned more about the machinations of our world than in the prior 61 years, so now it makes sense why all that I see wrong with the world was allowed to continue, perpetuated by the powers that shouldn’t be.
Mother, mother
There’s too many of you crying
And brother, brother, brother
There’s far too many of you dying
You know we’ve got to find a way
To bring some loving here today
Heyyyyy
Father, father
We don’t need to escalate
You see, war is not the answer
For only love can conquer hate
You know we’ve got to find a way
To bring some loving here today
Ohhhhh
Picket lines (Sister) and picket signs (Sister)
Don’t punish me (Sister) with brutality (Sister)
Talk to me (Sister), so you can see (Sister)
What’s going on (What’s going on)…”
Which brings me to our current situation - a global democide; diabolically planned and executed with the precision of a Swiss clock, and which appears to have no endpoint as to the carnage and destruction it will be leaving in its path, as it now officially targets babies 6 months new, to children 5 years of age.
Please join me in praying for the souls of all the precious lives that have been and will continue to be lost to the harmful and deadly, experimental mRNA shots.
My favorite song that depicts our current global condition is: This Is A War
Normally not a fan of rap because much of it contains violent, profane and mysoginous lyrics, I love this song which I first heard when it premiered in 2021.
I often think in lyrics, due to my love of music, kindled since I was a young child of preschool age.
What are some of your favorite protest songs? Have any of you written one? I feel compelled to write one, even though I am not a songwriter and the song lyrics I have written, were not exactly embraced by my two youngest daughter, who proclaimed 10 years ago, “Mom, they’re not good!” I guess I will just have to keep trying.
1. Please keep trying. It took Lennon and McCartney years to get good.
2. 1971 -- what a year for music. Marvin Gaye (see also "Mercy Mercy Me [The Ecology]." "Theme From Shaft." "Imagine." "My Sweet Lord." "If You Could Read My Mind." "It Don't Come Easy." "Won't Get Fooled Again." "Riders on the Storm."