i need help choosing a song for government pleas help?

Question

i have a government class right now and my teacher wants us to get a song that has a political view point in it and i don't know what song to pick so if u guys can help me out i would really appreciate it

Answer 1

You didn't say it needed to be a newer song. So, how about from the 80's. Everyone does the ones from the vietnam war era. So, be different. And there is one from the 80's that I really like.

"When The Children Cry" by White Lion

Here are the lyrics:

Little child
Dry your crying eyes
How can I explain
The fear you feel inside
Cause you were born
Into this evil world
Where man is killing man
And no one knows just why
What we have become
Just look what we have done
All that we destroyed
You must build again
Chorus:
When the children cry
Let them know we tried
Cause when the children sing
Then the new world begins
Little child
You must show the way
To a better day
For all the young
Cause you were born
For all the world to see
That we all can live
With love and peace
No more Presidents
And all the wars will end
One united world
Under God
Chorus:
When the children cry
Let them know we tried
Cause when the children sing
Then the new world begins
What we have become
Just look what we have done
All that we destroyed
You must build again
No more Presidents
And all the wars will end
One united world
Under God
When the children cry
Let them know we tried
When the children fight
Let them know it ain't right
When the children pray
Let them know the way
Cause when the children sing Then the new world begins

Answer 2

i would choose...we didnt start the fire...its very catchy and my sister used it once.
Lyrics:
49 harry truman, doris day, red china, johnnie ray
South pacific, walter winchell, joe dimaggio

50 joe mccarthy, richard nixon, studebaker, television
North korea, south korea, marilyn monroe

51 rosenbergs, h-bomb, sugar ray, panmunjom
Brando, the king and I and the catcher in the rye

52 eisenhower, vaccine, englands got a new queen
Marciano, liberace, santayana goodbye

Chorus
We didnt start the fire
It was always burning
Since the worlds been turning
We didnt start the fire
No we didnt light it
But we tried to fight it

53 joseph stalin, malenkov, nasser and prokofiev
Rockefeller, campanella, communist bloc

54 roy cohn, juan peron, toscanini, dacron
Dien bien phu falls, rock around the clock

55 einstein, james dean, brooklyns got a winning team
Davy crockett, peter pan, elvis presley, disneyland

56 bardot, budapest, alabama, krushchev
Princess grace, peyton place, trouble in the suez

Chorus

57 little rock, pasternak, mickey mantle, kerouac
Sputnik, chou en-lai, bridge on the river kwai

58 lebanon, charles de gaulle, california baseball
Starkweather, homicide, children of thalidomide

59 buddy holly, ben hur, space monkey, mafia
Hula hoops, castro, edsel is a no-go

60 u-2, syngman rhee, payola and kennedy
Chubby checker, psycho, belgians in the congo

Chorus

61 hemingway, eichmann, stranger in a strange land
Dylan, berlin, bay of pigs invasion

62 lawrence of arabia, british beatlemania
Ole miss, john glenn, liston beats patterson

63 pope paul, malcolm x, british politician sex
Jfk, blown away, what else do I have to say

Chorus

64 - 89 birth control, ho chi minh, richard nixon back again
Moonshot, woodstock, watergate, punk rock
Begin, reagan, palestine, terror on the airline
Ayatollahs in iran, russians in afghanistan

Wheel of fortune, sally ride, heavy metal, suicide
Foreign debts, homeless vets, aids, crack, bernie goetz
Hypodermics on the shores, chinas under martial law
Rock and roller cola wars, I cant take it anymore

Chorus

We didnt start the fire
But when we are gone

...you probably already have the lyrics but just in case

Answer 3

Try "Shadow of a Man" Les Claypool

"Billy was just a shadow, just a shadow of a man
When he came back from Viet Nam, he was a shadow of a man.
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