Musical Worldview: Ned's Atomic Dustbin: "Kill Your Television"
“Kill
Your
Television
Sob your sore eyes”
Musical Worldview: the Clash, "Know Your Rights"
“This is a public service announcement
With guitar
Know your rights
All three of them
Number one
You have the right not to be killed
Murder Is a crime!
Unless it was done
By a policeman or an aristocrat
Know your rights
And number two
You have the right to food money
Providing of course
You don't mind a little
Investigation, humiliation
And if you cross your fingers
Rehabilitation
Know your rights
These are your rights
Hey, say what, hey
Know these rights
Number three
You have the right to free speech
As long as you're not
Dumb enough to actually try it
Know your rights
These are your rights
Know your rights
These are your rights
All three of 'em
And it has been suggested
In some quarters that this is not enough
Well
Get off the streets
Get off the streets
Run”
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Musical Worldview: Beauty Pill, "Dog with Rabbit in Mouth, Unharmed"
“You’ll find that money is noise, this, us, together, is wealth
The body’s just cosines and vectors, love is the real health
We walk in circles, we walk in circles and lie down”
Musical Worldview: Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros, "Johnny Appleseed"
“Lord, there goes Martin Luther King
Notice how the door closes when the chimes of freedom ring
I hear what you're saying, I hear what he's saying
Is what was true now no longer so
Hey, I hear what you're saying
Hey, I hear what he's saying
If you're after getting the honey, hey
Then you don't go killing all the bees”
Musical Worldview: Blue Scholars, "Blue School"
“Isn't it strange how we estrange ourselves from our neighbor?”
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Musical Worldview: Hiss Golden Messenger, "If It Comes in the Morning"
“hope is contagious”
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Musical Worldview: War, "There Must Be A Reason"
“Jesus gave my life to give
Not to you
Jesus gave my life to him
Not to you”
Musical Worldview: the Specials, "A Message To You Rudy"
“Stop your fooling around,
Time to straighten right out.
Better think of your future
Else you'll wind up in jail.
Rudy, A message to you you,
Rudy, A message to you.”
Musical Worldview: Beastie Boys, "It Takes Time To Build"
“it takes time to build
(It takes a second to wreck it)
it takes time to build”
Musical Worldview: James, "Zero"
“We're all gonna die
Prescriptions and pills
So live true your shine
Don't live unfulfilled
Life's a free climb
No ropes
Let go of the mind
Lie back and float”
Musical Worldview: Seryn, "Figuring Out"
“Find beauty in the mystery
there are some things we will never see
You don’t always have to have the answers to everything
Be still, you don’t always have to have an answer
Be still, you’ll be fine with a little bit of doubt.
Well, I’m figuring out you don’t always have to figure it out.”
Musical Worldview: Júníus Meyvant, "Neon Experience"
“Stay out of trouble if you can, boy
Don't let your mind set fool around
Don't let the whole world break you down
New day will come, around
Lay down your troubles if you can, girl
Don't let anybody steal your crown
Don't let the whole world break you down
New day will come, come around”
Musical Worldview: Five Man Electrical Band, 'Signs'
“And the sign said anybody caught trespassin' would be shot on sight
So I jumped on the fence and-a yelled at the house, "Hey! What gives you
the
right?"
"To put up a fence to keep me out or to keep mother nature in"
"If God was here he'd tell you to your face, Man, you're some kinda sinner"
Sign, sign, everywhere a sign
Blockin' out the scenery, breakin' my mind
Do this, don't do that, can't you read the sign?”
“And the sign said, "Everybody welcome. Come in, kneel down and pray"
But when they passed around the plate at the end of it all, I didn't have a
penny to pay
So I got me a pen and a paper and I made up my own little sign
I said, "Thank you, Lord, for thinkin' 'bout me. I'm alive and doin' fine."
Musical Worldview: Bob Weir, 'Black-Throated Wind'
“What's to be found, racing around
You carry your pain wherever you go
Full of the blues and trying to lose
You ain't gonna learn what you don't want to know
So I give you my eyes, and all of their lies
Please help them to learn as well as to see
Capture a glance and make it a dance
Of looking at you looking at me”
Musical Worldview: Common Market 'G'Dang Diggy'
Yeah, I got desires, but above those are standards
So I ain't always trynna do exactly what the next man does
They say I come across a little self-righteous
But when it's said and done,
I'll be the first one to step up in the cipher
For real - talk of let's build,
but materials are concrete
Ideals are ethereal
I process thoughts outside the 'cattle run'
Musical Worldview: Grateful Dead, "Help On The Way"
“Without love in the dream it'll never come true”
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Musical Worldview: Yo La Tengo, "Ohm"
“Sometimes the bad guys go right on top
Sometimes the good guys lose
We try not to lose our hearts, not to lose our minds
Sometimes the bad days may take their grip
Sometimes the good days fade
But the rain today hurts the drink to drink”
Musical Worldview: Grateful Dead, "Throwing Stones"
“Picture a bright blue ball just spinning, spinning free
Dizzy with eternity
Paint it with a skin of sky, brush in some clouds and sea
Call it home for you and me
A peaceful place, or so it looks from space
A closer look reveals the human race
Full of hope, full of grace, is the human face
But afraid we may lay our home to waste
There's a fear down here we can't forget
Hasn't got a name just yet
Always awake, always around
Singing ashes, ashes, all fall down
Ashes, ashes, all fall down
Now watch as the ball revolves and the night-time falls
And again the hunt begins and again the blood wind calls
By and by, again, the morning sun will rise
But the darkness never goes from some men's eyes
(Well I know)
It strolls the sidewalk and it rolls the streets
Staking turf, dividing up meat
Nightmare spook, piece of heat
It's you and me, you and me
Click flash blade in ghetto night
Rudy's looking for a fight
Rat cat alley, roll them bones
Need that cash to feed that Jones
And the politicians throwing stones
Singing ashes, ashes, all fall down
Ashes, ashes, all fall down
Commissars and pinstripe bosses roll the dice
Anyway they fall, guess who gets to pay the price?
Money green, or proletarian gray
Selling guns instead of food today
So the kids they dance and shake their bones
And the politicians throwing stones
Singing ashes, ashes, all fall down
Ashes, ashes, all fall down
Heartless powers try to tell us what to think
If the spirit's sleeping then the flesh is ink
History's page will be neatly carved in stone
The future's here, we are it, we are on our own
On our own, on our own, we are on our own
If the game is lost, then we're all the same
No one left to place or take the blame
We will leave this place an empty stone
Or that shining ball of blue we call our home
So the kids, they dance, they shake their bones
And the politicians throwing stones
Singing ashes, ashes, all fall down
Ashes, ashes, all fall down
Shipping powders back and forth
Singing black goes south and white comes north
And the whole world full of petty wars
Singing I got mine and you got yours
While the current fashions set the pace
Lose your step, fall out of grace
The radical, he rant and rage
Singing someone got to turn the page
And the rich man in his summer home
Singing just leave well enough alone
But his pants are down, his cover's blown
And the politicians throwing stones
So the kids, they dance, they shake their bones
'Cause it's all too clear we're on our own
Singing ashes, ashes, all fall down
Ashes, ashes, all fall down
Picture a bright blue ball just spinning, spinning free
It's dizzying, the possibilities
Ashes, ashes, all fall down”
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Musical Worldview: Billy Bragg and Wilco, "All You Fascists"
“I'm gonna tell you fascists
You may be surprised
The people in this world
Are getting organized
You're bound to lose
You fascists bound to lose
Race hatred cannot stop us
This one thing we know
Your poll tax and Jim Crow
And greed has got to go
You're bound to lose
You fascists bound to lose.
All of you fascists bound to lose:
I said, all of you fascists bound to lose:
Yes sir, all of you fascists bound to lose:
You're bound to lose! You fascists:
Bound to lose!
People of every color
Marching side to side
Marching âcross these fields
Where a million fascists dies
You're bound to lose
You fascists bound to lose!
I'm going into this battle
And take my union gun
We'll end this world of slavery
Before this battle's won
You're bound to lose
You fascists bound to lose!”
Musical Worldview: Grateful Dead, "Days Between"
“There were days
And there were days
And there were days I know
When all we ever wanted
Was to learn and love and grow”
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