Protest songs are sang in every part of the world, are all kinds of genres, and are about many issues. The year on the calendar is just a construct anyways.įirst, let’s talk a little bit about the history of protest songs and politics in music: Good music has no expiry date and you can always make good music.
Or if you’re musically inclined, start a rock band and speak your mind through your lyrics. Write to your MPs/representatives, sign petitions, go to protests, register to vote, vote in local elections and primaries, do your research on the candidates, volunteer for a candidate or cause you believe in, canvass, phone bank, heck – run for office! However, I think we can’t just be hippies and sit around talking about and wishing for change and not doing anything about it. “Rock n’ roll seems to have changed society much more than any politician, I think it really has.” The golden age of protests songs was the 60s with the folk scene and later with psychedelic and hard rock. When I think of the music from between 1965-1975, I think of optimistic songs to cheer people up and I think of protest songs. You had all kinds of songs then because music, like any other form of entertainment or art, is an escape from life. Historically, in times when governments are controlled by conservatives, I find that’s when the best music came out. Will we have to leave because the top 0.1% screwed up the planet? I doubt everyone will be able to leave because we don’t all have the means. While on the plane home, I watched Interstellar and I was thinking about if that could be our future. We are living in such a divided time with so much uncertainty. Australia is on fire and the Prime Minister doesn’t care and denies climate change is a thing. The US and UK are run by far right men who don’t care about the poor, racial minorities, or women. Lord until the sun goes down, 'till it goes down.Well… 2020 is starting off crazy, to say the least. It's all night pourin', pourin', pourin',
Ran into a rainstorm, I ducked back into Novato. That's why if you please, I am on my bendin knees, Heard a voice al callin', Lord you was commin' after me. I had a feelin' I was fallin', fallin', fallin', Try to see what's goin' down, try to read between the lines That's why if you please, I am on my bendin' knees,īertha don't you come around here anymore.ĭressed myself in green, I went down unto the sea. Run around the corner, corner, Lord run smack in to a tree. I had a run in, run around, and run down. I was all night running, running, Lord I wonder if you care, I had a hard run, runnin' from your window. I told Althea I'm a roving son, and I was born to be a bachelor.Īlthea told me, okay, that's fine, so now I'm trying to catch her.Ĭan't talk to you without talking to me, we're guilty of the same old thing.īeen talking alot about less and less and forgetting the love we bring. This space is getting hot, you know this space is getting hot. There are things you can replace, and others you cannot. Gonna want a bed to lay your head and a little sympathy. When the smoke has cleared, she said, that's what she said to me. Loose with the truth, baby, it's your fire, but baby don't get burned. Honest to the point of recklessness, self-centered in the extreme.Īin't nobody messing with you, but you, your friends are getting most concerned. You may meet the fate on Ophelia, sleeping and penchence to dream. You may be a clown in the burying ground, or just another pretty face. You may be Saturday's child, all alone, moving with a tinge of grace. I told Althea that treachery was tearing me limb from limb.Īlthea told me better cool down boy, settle back, easy Jim. I told Althea I was feeling lost, lacking in some direction.Īlthea told me upon scrutiny that my back might need protection.
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