Today is a bad day for humanity. I thought that after what has happened, we would not have to explain to our children what the word "war" means.
However, just when we claim that things will change and we will not repeat the mistakes of the past, history comes along and reminds us that it always repeats itself as tragedy (and sometimes as farce).
There is not much we can say at this time. I don't want to talk politics. I just wanna talk about peace. And Music has often expressed its anti-war messages.
Let it speak for us.
Masters of war - Bob Dylan
Masters of War” startles Dylan himself. “I’ve never really written anything like that before,” he recalls. “I don’t sing songs which hope people will die, but I couldn’t help it in this one. The song is a sort of striking out, a reaction to the last straw, a feeling of what can you do?”
From Freewheelin’ liner notes
***War-Bob Marley ***
That until that day
The dream of lasting peace...
Unknown soldier- Doors
Wait until the war is over
And we're both a little older
The unknown soldier
Breakfast where the news is read
Television children fed
Unborn living, living, dead
Bullet strikes the helmet's head
And it's all over
For the unknown soldier
It's all over...
Dogs of war - Pink Floyd
One world, it's a battleground
One world, and we will smash it down
One world, one world...
Give peace a chance_ John Lennon
Two, one-two-three-four!
Ev'rybody's talking 'bout
Bagism, Shagism, Dragism, Madism, Ragism, Tagism
This-ism, that-ism, is-m, is-m, is-m
All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance
Hit it
C'mon, ev'rybody's talking about
Ministers, sinisters, banisters and canisters
Bishops and Fishops and Rabbis and Popeyes and bye-bye, bye-byes
All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance
Let me tell you now
Ev'rybody's talking 'bout
Revolution, evolution, masturbation, flagellation, regulation, integrations
Meditations, United Nations, congratulations
All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance
Ev'rybody's talking 'bout
John and Yoko, Timmy Leary, Rosemary, Tommy Smothers, Bobby Dylan, Tommy Cooper
Derek Taylor, Norman Mailer, Alan Ginsberg, Hare Krishna, Hare, Hare Krishna
All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance
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No politics included. Just peace!
Thanks for reading!