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All the songs portray oppression and a sense of betrayal. They seek certain truths and demand for justice for all the things they were wronged for.

The current generation will never be able to empathise with the past happenings of the society. The hardships one has faced to let us live in a democratic and free society will never be our headache but as a growing nation we should ponder upon all the challenges faced by our people in the past. The funniest part is that we live in a world where democracy is defined as ‘ a system run by the people, for the people and of the people’

But we were oppressed by our own people for years. The gratitude one should hold in regard to the society and its people should be expressed and the songs that have been written help us understand the impact of what the society has done for us.

Green Day - American Idiot (2004)

https://youtu.be/Ee_uujKuJMI?si=9jmpaA20AYx0Y-cj

Lyrics

Don't wanna be an American idiot
Don't want a nation under the new media
And can you hear the sound of hysteria?
The subliminal mindfuck America

Welcome to a new kind of tension
All across the alien nation
Where everything isn't meant to be okay
In television dreams of tomorrow
We're not the ones who're meant to follow
For that's enough to argue

Well, maybe I'm the faggot, America
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda
Now everybody, do the propaganda
And sing along to the age of paranoia

Don't wanna be an American idiot
One nation controlled by the media
Information age of hysteria
It's calling out to idiot America

Description

"American Idiot" is a song and an album by the American punk rock band Green Day, released in 2004. The album as a whole is a punk rock opera, telling the story of the disillusionment and frustration of American youth in the wake of the September 11 attacks and the subsequent political and social climate. The title track, "American Idiot," serves as a manifesto for this sentiment.

The song "American Idiot" specifically criticizes American society and politics, with lyrics that express frustration with consumerism, mass media, and the blind patriotism that emerged in the post-9/11 era. The term "American Idiot" is used to denote someone who blindly follows the ideologies and values imposed by society without questioning them.

The song's protagonist is a disillusioned youth who feels alienated and angry at the world around him. He rebels against the conformity and hypocrisy he sees, railing against the system and urging others to wake up and think for themselves. The lyrics reflect a sense of rebellion and defiance, with a call to arms for those who feel marginalized or oppressed by the status quo.

Overall, "American Idiot" captures the disillusionment and anger felt by many young people in the early 2000s, serving as a critique of American society and politics while also expressing a sense of defiance and resistance.

THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED- Gill Scott Heron https://youtu.be/vwSRqaZGsPw?si=oGpx26oTmNFrTJt- Lyrics You will not be able to stay home, brother You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and skip out for beer during commercials, because the revolution will not be televised. The revolution will not be televised the revolution will not be brought to you By Xerox in four parts without commercial interruptions The revolution will not show you pictures of Nixon blowing a bugle and leading a charge by John Mitchell, General Abrams, and Spiro Agnew to eat hog maws confiscated from a Harlem sanctuary The revolution will not be televised. The revolution will not be brought to you by the Schaefer Award Theatre And will not star Natalie Woods and Steve McQueen or Bullwinkle and Julia The revolution will not give your mouth sex appeal The revolution will not get rid of the nubs The revolution will not make you look five pounds thinner, because The revolution will not be televised, brother There will be no pictures of you and Willie Mae Pushing that shopping cart down the block on the dead run or trying to slide that colour TV into a stolen ambulance NBC will not be able predict the winner at 8:32 on report from twenty-nine districts The revolution will not be televised. There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down brothers on the instant replay There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down brothers on the instant replay There will be no pictures of Whitney Young Being run out of Harlem on a rail with a brand new process There will be no slow motion or still life of Roy Wilkins Strolling through Watts in a red, black, and green liberation jumpsuit That he has been saving for just the proper occasion Green Acres, Beverly Hillbillies, and Hooterville Junction Will no longer be so damn relevant and women will not care if Dick finally got down with Jane on Search for Tomorrow Because black people will be in the street looking for a brighter day The revolution will not be televised. There will be no highlights on the eleven o'clock news and no pictures of hairy armed women liberationists And Jackie Onassis blowing her nose The theme song will not be written by Jim Webb or Francis Scott Keys Nor sung by Glen Campbell, Tom Jones, Johnny Cash Engelbert Humperdinck, or The Rare Earth The revolution will not be televised. The revolution will not be right back After a message about a white tornado White lightning, or white people You will not have to worry about a dove in your bedroom The tiger in your tank, or the giant in your toilet bowl The revolution will not go better with Coke The revolution will not fight germs that may cause bad breath The revolution will put you in the driver's seat The revolution will not be televised Will not be televised Will not be televised Will not be televised the revolution will be no re-run, brothers The revolution will be live. Description This song shows us the reality of how the blacks living in America are oppressed compared to the whites. The media which put a false image on the blacks on their lifestyle, showing them of violent nature and degrading their image based on what the media projects about them.

ROCKIN’ IN THE FREE WORLD-Crazy horse and Neil Young

https://youtu.be/DvxxdZpMFHg?si=j6J7aEHJvAVwnt9s

Lyrics

There's colours on the street

Red, white and blue

People shufflin' their feet

People sleepin' in their shoes

but there's a warnin' sign on the road ahead

There's a lot of people sayin' we'd be better off dead

Don't feel like Satan, but I am to them,

So I try to forget it any way I can.

Keep on rockin' in the free world

I see a woman in the night

With a baby in her hand

There's an old street light (near a garbage can)

Near a garbage can (near a garbage can)

And now she put the kid away and she's gone to get a hit

She hates her life and what she's done to it

There's one more kid that'll never go to school

Never get to fall in love, never get to be cool

Keep on rockin' in the free world

Keep on rockin' in the free world.

We got a thousand points of light

for the homeless man

We got a kinder, gentler machine gun hand

We got department stores and toilet paper

Got Styrofoam boxes for the ozone layer

Got a man of the people, says keep hope alive

Got fuel to burn, got roads to drive.

Keep on rockin' in the free world

Keep on rockin' in the free world.

Description

The song was inspired by the political changes going on at the time and was highly critical of George H.W. Bush’s presidential administration. Some of the lyrics mock Bush's campaign speeches: "We got 1,000 points of light, for the homeless man/We got a kinder, gentler machine gun hand."

Though patriotic in concept, a deeper look into the lyrics of the song uncovers more of its deeper meaning. “Rockin’ in the Free World” is an honest look at American life and the state of the world and social commentary on poverty within the country-people sleeping in their shoes —rampant drug addiction and child welfare, and the environment.

Bono & The Edge – Sunday Bloody Sunday

https://youtu.be/_xHNDiZQv6w?si=FTylIoSl4N7cRAxn

Lyrics

I can't believe the news today

Oh, I can't close my eyes and make it go away

How long, how long must we sing this song?

How long? How long?

'Cause tonight

We can be as one

Tonight

Broken bottles under children's feet

Bodies strewn across the dead-end street

But I won't heed the battle call

It puts my back up, puts my back up against the wall

Sunday, Bloody Sunday

Alright, let's go

And the battle's just begun

There's many lost, but tell me who has won?

The trenches dug within our hearts

And mothers, children, brothers, sisters torn apart

Sunday, Bloody Sunday

How long, how long must we sing this song?

How long? How long?

'Cause tonight we can be as one, tonight

Tonight, tonight (Sunday, Bloody Sunday)

Alright, let's go

Wipe the tears from your eyes

Wipe your tears away

I'll wipe your tears away

I'll wipe your tears away (Sunday, Bloody Sunday)

I'll wipe your bloodshot eyes (Sunday, Bloody Sunday)

Sunday, Bloody Sunday

Yeah, let's go

And it's true we are immune

When fact is fiction and TV reality

And today the millions cry (Sunday, Bloody Sunday)

We eat and drink while tomorrow they die (Sunday, Bloody Sunday)

The real battle just begun (Sunday, Bloody Sunday)

To claim the victory Jesus won (Sunday, Bloody Sunday)

On Sunday, Bloody Sunday, yeah

Sunday, Bloody Sunday

Description: The song sunday Bloody Sunday is a protest song which provides a very strong emotion of violence and conflicts which are happening around the world. It tells how long we must sing this song which means for how long should we sing this song? This song highlights the pain and sufferings caused during the wars it also seeking the help of peace. It tells everybody to unite, join hands together and work towards a better and peaceful world.

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