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Music and lyrics that resonate in today's hungry, war-torn world: Marvin Gaye, Joni Mitchell, U2

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Today was a rough day; witnessed a horrible car accident down the street from my home in rural Maine, news of non-stop wars, endless violence...These excerpts couldn't better describe what is happening today, for good or bad.

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MARVIN GAYE album - WHAT'S GOING ON

Song:  What's Going On

Mother, mother - There's too many of you crying - Brother, brother, brother - There's far too many of you dying - You know we've got to find a way - To bring some lovin' here today - Ya

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 lovin' here today

Picket lines and picket signs - Don't punish me with brutality - Talk to me, so you can see - Oh, what's going on - What's going on - Ya, what's going on - Ah, what's going on

Song:  Save the Children

I just want to ask a question - Who really cares? - To save a world in despair - There'll come a time, when the world won't be singin' - Flowers won't grow, bells won't be ringin' - Who really cares? - Who's willing to try to save a world - That's destined to die.

When I look at the world it fills me with sorrow - Little children today are really gonna suffer tomorrow - Oh what a shame, such a bad way to live - All who is to blame, we can't stop livin'

Live, live for life - But let everybody - Live life for the children - Oh, for the children - Let's save the children

Song: What's Happening Brother

Hey baby, what'cha know good - I'm just gettin' back, but you knew I would - War is hell, when will it end - When will people start gettin' together again - Are things really gettin' better, like the newspaper said - What else is new my friend, besides what I read

Money is tighter than it's ever been - Say man, I just don't understand - What's going on across this land - Ah what's happening brother - Oh ya, what's happening my man...

Song: Mercy Mercy Me

Ah, mercy, mercy me - Ah, things ain't what they used to be, no, no, no - Where did all the blue skies go? - Poison in the wind that blows from the north and south and east

Oh, mercy, mercy me - Ah, things ain't what they used to be - Oil wasted on the ocean and upon our seas - Fish full of mercury

Oh, mercy, mercy me - Ah, things ain't what they used to be, no, no, no - Radiation underground and in the sky; animals and birds who live nearby are dying

Oh, mercy, mercy me - Ah, things ain't what they used to be - What about this overcrowded land? - How much more abuse from man can she stand?

JONI MITCHELL album - DOG EAT DOG

Song: Ethiopia

Hot winds and hunger cries - Ethiopia - Flies in your babies' eyes - Ethiopia - Walking sticks on burning plains - Betrayed by politics - Abandoned by the rains

On and on - the human need - On and on - the human greed, profanes

...Every Sunday on t.v. - Ethiopia - You suffer with such dignity - Ethiopia - A T.V. star with a P.R. smile calls your baby "It" while strolling through your trials 

On and on - stupidity

U2 album - ACHTUNG BABY

Song: One

...You say - love is a temple - Love a higher law - Love is a temple - Love the higher law - You ask me to enter - Then you make me crawl - And I can't be holding on - To what you got - When all you got is hurt

One love - One blood - One life - You got to do what you should 

One life - With each other - Sisters - Brothers

One life - But we're not the same - We get to carry each other - Carry each other

One

One 

 

  

  

 

 

A native Californian, Jan Baumgartner is a writer and book editor dividing her time between Maine, Mexico, and California. Her essays on Mexico are included in two anthologies, Solamente en San Miguel Volume II (Parroquia Press, November 2010) (more...)
 

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Beautiful article by Kamala Sarup on Thursday, Jun 14, 2007 at 7:41:49 PM
"Save the Children...Save the babies" by judeedee on Saturday, Jun 16, 2007 at 8:57:24 PM
Hi Judy, by Jan Baumgartner on Saturday, Jun 16, 2007 at 9:34:54 PM
Great by Muhammad Khurshid on Friday, Jun 22, 2007 at 12:03:19 AM