Album: American way by Sacred Reich (1990)

Crimes Against Humanity

Toxins, pollutants and poisonous gasses
without notice take their toll on the masses
air becomes thicker than the water we drink
people unaware of the spread of disease

smoke fills the sky and the sun disappears
rain from above is like acid filled tears
the fragile balance of sky and earth has been altered
forever harmony disturbed

Towering temples of modernization
megatropolis monument to civilization
pollution and waste is direct indication
to the growing problem of the world's situation

smoke fills the sky the sun disappears
rain from above is like acid filled tears
the fragile balance of sky and earth has been altered
forever harmony disturbed

What will it take to make us see
these are crimes against humanity
not only you, not only me but even our future society
these are crimes against humanity

Pain and suffering are what can be found
violence and hatred are what abound
building the weapons that we can't use
can't we see they have only one use

we need more compassion not more war planes
are we so blind uncaring insane
brought into this world with nothing
and with nothing we're destined to depart

What will it take to make us see
these are crimes against humanity
not only you, not only me but even our future society
these are crimes against humanity

Crimes against humanity


A great song that classifies the problems of devastating development, pollution and destruction of the environment and nuclear armament as crimes against humanity. Indeed. It's a war crime against nature and consequently against humanity because we both (ecosystems and humans) suffer.



The American Way

Truth and honor faith and pride
all convictions surely died
honesties time has passed
time for lies is here at last
truth is false I'm so fed up
how did we come to be so fucked
hate fear pain death
all our country has got left

Talk to children hear them say
daddy left again today
brother steals and mommy lies
future lost before their eyes
the sun was lost behind the clouds
they rapped it up and blacked it out
acid rain fell today
it came and washed our hopes away

This was once the land of dreams
now these dreams have turned to greed
in the midst of all this wealth
the poor are left to help themselves

a capitalist's democracy
no one said that freedom's free lady
liberty rots away no truth,
no justice the American way

Don't look past your t.v.
all of us are what you see
a looking glass into our lives
what we watch is what we buy
priorities are out of whack
who is next to stab our back
doesn't it make you mad
to have lost all that we've had

This was once the land of dreams
now these dreams have turned to greed
in the midst of all this wealth
the poor are left to help themselves

a capitalist's democracy
no one said that freedom's free lady
liberty rots away no truth,
no justice the American way

Doesn't it fill you with disgust
that there's no one left to trust
is this happening is this real
my body numb I cannot feel
are you happy are you sad
are emotions a thing of the past
I have no tears I cannot cry
no one mourns for a world that's died

This was once the land of dreams
now these dreams have turned to greed
in the midst of all this wealth
the poor are left to help themselves

a capitalist's democracy
no one said that freedom's free lady
liberty rots away no truth,
no justice the American way



A song that reveals the falsification of American dream: The king is nude, and hypocrisy prevails, plastic human relations, consumerism, social injustice, corruption, fake democracy and pollution are the main traits of american society.

You can hear these songs among others in myspace

Watchtower 1989, 1985

Album: Control and Resistance, 1989

Mayday In Kiev


"The unleashed power of the atom changed everything
save our mode of thinking, and we thus drift toward
unparalleled catastrophes." [- Albert Einstein]

In a nation for a dangerous penchant for secrecy
A dread disaster at Chernobyl was concealed

As a poisoning cloud spread over the Eastern Bloc
Alarming information was reluctantly revealed
An explosion in Reactor Four - a fire refusing to cease

No containment walls preventing radioactive release
Evidence that peaceful technology had gone awry
More catastrophically than Windscale or TMI

Alert - Celebration in Kiev
Under glowing skies - Soviet lies
Alert - In nearby Poland
A shower of radiation
Children iodized
Mayday - A day of rejoice
A cry of distress

Severe political fallout - toxic exchange of words
Soviet obscurantism under verbal attack
Abroad, outraged countries appeal for information

Met with grudging riposte, hesitant placation
At home, TASS reports no danger - nothing to fear
As deadly elemental isotopes spew into the biosphere

"The unleashed power of the atom..." - A warning from the past
The benefits of technology are reversed by careless human error
Science, once a saviour, now an effective destroyer
We must apply our knowledge with care

Entombed in concrete, Chernobyl will forever remain
A monument to the chilling effects of negligence


Another song about Chernobyl disaster which describes the events, the human factor, the misinformation, the use of scientific knowledge



Album: Energetic disassembly, 1985

Meltdown

Theres an air of urgency, the wail of sirens pierces the night
The damage has already been done, irreversible accidents, security's tight
This is not a drill, it's a drastic tragedy to cope with
Time is the worst enemy, to those who play with the fate of man

Breakdown, warning - Nuclear nightmare, reality
Breakdown, warning - Contaminates society
Breakdown, warning - Radioactive atmosphere
Breakdown, warning - Mistakes are now becoming clear

Meltdown - Becomes a word of panic
Meltdown - Radiation burns the skin
Meltdown - The public has yet to be informed
Meltdown - Invisible killer closing in...

Breakdown, warning - Nuclear nightmare, reality
Breakdown, warning - Contaminates society
Breakdown, warning - Radioactive atmosphere
Breakdown, warning - Mistakes are now becoming clear

Geiger counters crackle in a frenzy, useless meters to prove our danger
An enemy that man created, how ironic that he cannot fight
Technology beyond control, build up of waste, no safe disposal

Breakdown, warning - Nuclear nightmare, reality
Breakdown, warning - Contaminates society
Breakdown, warning - Radioactive atmosphere
Breakdown, warning - Mistakes are now becoming clear to us!


Another song about the consequences by a nuclear meltdown.



Violent Change

Oceans push forward - Oceans recede
Continually altering the masses of land
Continents shift with massive force
And spread chaos among our crumbling cities

In retaliation we reap the land clean
Of it's wealth and resource
Only to mask it with oceans of concrete
A better environment?

This world we inhabit is in constant motion
Natural changes on a grand scale
While we live our lives and petty matters
Of human interaction and social stupidity

Violent change

Blasting away the dust of this earth
Are the winds of majestic power
Smashing our dwellings with no regret
Unpredictable and merciless

Scarring the ground with our machines of steel
Our extensions - our weapons
The cycle is complete
The battle is constantly fought

Violent change
Violent change


A song about the power of nature that is used to be ignored by men who feel superior and safe under their technology. But nature may react extremely violently, especially if some limits are surpassed.

You can hear some of the above songs among others in myspace

Album: New York by Lou Reed, 1989

Two great poetic and not-only-sheer environmental songs from this album:


Last Great American Whale

They say he didn't have an enemy
his was a greatness to behold

He was the last surviving progeny
the last one on this side of the world

He measured a half mile from tip to tail
silver and black with powerful fins
They say he could split a mountain in two
that's how we got the Grand Canyon

Last great American whale
last great American whale
Last great American whale
last great American whale

Some say they saw him at the Great Lakes
some say they saw him off of Florida
My mother said she saw him in Chinatown
but you can't always trust your mother

Off the Carolinas the sun shines brightly in the day
the lighthouse glows ghostly there at night
The chief of a local tribe had killed a racist mayor's son
and he'd been on death row since 1958

The mayor's kid was a rowdy pig
spit on Indians and lots worse
The old chief buried a hatchet in his head
life compared to death for him seemed worse

The tribal brothers gathered in the lighthouse to sing
and tried to conjure up a storm or rain
The harbor parted, the great whale sprang full up
and caused a huge tidal wave

The wave crushed the jail and freed the chief
the tribe let out a roar
The whites were drowned, the browns and reds set free
but sadly one thing more

Some local yokel member of the NRA
kept a bazooka in his living room
And thinking he had the chief in his sight
blew the whale's brains out with a lead harpoon

Last great American whale
last great American whale
Last great American whale
last great American whale

Well Americans don't care for much of anything
land and water the least
And animal life is low on the totem pole
with human life not worth more than infected yeast

Americans don't care too much for beauty
they'll shit in a river, dump battery acid in a stream
They'll watch dead rats wash up on the beach
and complain if they can't swim

They say things are done for the majority
don't believe half of what you see and none of what you hear
It's like what my painter friend Donald said to me
"Stick a fork in their ass and turn them over, they're done"


Sick Of You

I was up in the morning with the TV blarin'
brush my teeth sittin' watchin' the news
All the beaches were closed the ocean was a Red Sea
but there was no one there to part in two
There was no fresh salad because there's hypos in the cabbage
Staten Island disappeared at noon
And they say the midwest is in great distress
and NASA blew up the moon

The ozone layer has no ozone anymore
and you're gonna leave me for the guy next door
I'm Sick of You, I'm Sick of You

They arrested the Mayor for an illegal favor
sold the Empire State to Japan
And Oliver North married William Secord
and gave birth to a little Teheran
And the Ayatollah bought a nuclear warship
if he dies he wants to go out in style
And there's nothing to eat that don't carry the stink
of some human waste dumped in the Nile

We one thing is certainly true
no one here knows what to do
I'm Sick of You, I'm Sick of You

The radio said there were 400 dead
in some small town in Arkansas
Some whacked out trucker drove into a nuclear reactor
and killed everybody he saw
Now he's on Morton Downey and he's glowing and shining
doctors say this is a medical advance
They say the bad makes the good and there's something to be learned
in every human experience

Well I know one thing that really is true
This here's a zoo and the keeper ain't you
And I'm sick of it, I'm Sick of You

They ordained the Trumps and then he got the mumps
and died being treated at Mt. Sinal
And my best friend Bill died from a poison pill
some wired doctor prescribed for stress
My arms and legs are shrunk the food all has lumps
They discovered some animal no one's ever seen
It was an inside trader eating a rubber tire
after running over Rudy Giuliani

They say the President's dead but no one can find his head
It's been missing now for weeks
But no one noticed it he had seemed so fit
and I'm Sick of it

I'm Sick of You, I'm so Sick of You, bye, bye, bye
bye, bye, bye

We read in MIT’s newspaper “Tech” an article by Andrew Fish about this album and especially about these environmental songs (see text in bold below).

Lou Reed's New York is a depressing place, filled with poverty, bigotry, crime, drugs, and pollution. His most political album is like a musical Bonfire of the Vanities, examining people who live in the shadow of what Reed calls "the Statue of Bigotry."
…

Many of Reed's songs discuss the plight of the city's vast underclass, living in a world wrecked by the drug trade, racism, and broken homes. In "Romeo Had Juliet," Reed sings about a young man who has a girlfriend (of sorts), and little else in a cynical world filled with gun-toting crack dealers, who also populate his "Dirty Boulevard." Reed sees a world which dumps the downtrodden into ghettos and and abandons them. The poor in New York are trapped by the lure of the drug trade, the lack of parental guidance ("it's hard to run when a coat hanger beats you on the thighs"), and a city which just doesn't care.

"There's no such thing as human rights when you walk the New York streets," Reed declares. He sings about the casualties of the drug trade, but seems to feel there is no way to turn things around. This fatalism is prevalent throughout the album, tempered only by his look to the future in "There is No Time." Even when Reed sings of needing a "Busload of Faith," it is only because "you can depend on the worst always happening."

The best track on New York does not concern itself with the poor, but rather with a clever combination of racism, gun control, and environmental concerns. "Last Great American Whale" is a ballad about a mythical creature who came to the rescue of an Indian chief, who was jailed for killing a racist youth. The whale saves the chief and stops the racism ("the whites were drowned, blacks and reds set free"). But the great animal was then killed by a NRA member, who had been aiming for the chief. This is taken as a symbol of Americans lack of concern for the environment (They'll watch dead rats wash up on the beach and complain if they can't swim"). "Last Great American Whale" definitely contains Reed's most creative lyrics, and it provides an excellent bridge between the problems of the city and the country as a whole.

New York is not without humor. In "Sick of You," pollution makes the ocean a red sea, but there is no one to part it. The song moves on to talk about hypodermic needles in cabbage, the marriage of Oliver North and William Secord, and a radioactive trucker appearing on the Morton Downey Jr. Show. This song offers a more lighthearted look at the problems of pollution and corruption; it complements the album's more serious lyrics.

Reed also takes time to attack the Pope for his meeting with Austrian President Kurt Waldheim and Jesse Jackson for perceived anti-Semitism. He includes a song critical of the Vietnam War, and a tribute to those who have died of AIDS. But Reed also slams "self-righteous rock and roller singers" in "Straw Man." This is not hypocrisy. While New York does call attention to the multitude of problems facing society, is does not pretend to know the solutions.

you can hear sick of you in you tube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5te9f88LYuU

Album: Handle with care by Nuclear Assault, 1989

This album is dedicated to planet Earth. It calls us to be aware of its fragility so handle it with care.


Critical Mass

The bio-sphere, the place we live
It seems like we don't give a damn
Other species flushed down the tubes
We need another race to rape

The way we live we will destroy
Every other living thing
'Til none are left except our race
And then we will destroy ourselves

Another oil spill
Atomic waste displaced
Another forest dies
Bring on the acid rain

Slightly insane, the type of greed
That makes a world unfir for life
Toxic wastes destroy the seas
While poison gas pollutes the air

A waste of life, while no one cares
The earth becomes a giant tomb
Critical mass will be achieved
And ruins will be all that's left

Another oil spill
Atomic waste displaced
Another forest dies

A Hell on Earth, what we create
Dragging life to death with us
All living things destroyed or used
By shortsighted human beeings

We do these things, let them be done
Apathy creates despair
The damage done will be too great
The world wounded beyond repair

Another oil spill
Atomic waste displaced
Another forest dies


Inherited Hell

A time in the future, not too far away
The death of our world, we are told
Destroyed by neglect, now breeding despair
The home of mankind is despoiled

Polluted oceans, unbreathable air
The life of the land under siege
Cancer is spreading and wasting the world
And mankind is now the disease

Look upon the world you knew
And say goodbye, it dies with you
Those who live when we are dead
Will curse our names, they 've inherited Hell

The forests are gone and the ocean destroyed
The world we once knew now is dead
The animals slaughtered, wild life in its grave
The sun burns too bright overhead

Cities collapsing and famine runs rampant
A nightmare where once there was life
Radiation and toxins a part of the children
Who will hate us until they die

We never stopped to think or reflect
On what we have done to the world
The heritage we live our children is Hell
A short life in pain what we mold

We 've squandered resources and wasted the land
And left little for those to come
They will have nothing to claim for their own
Except for the Hell we have shown


Two songs about environmental destruction and their impacts to ecosystems and health in many details. It’s significant that the song “Critical Mass” talks about the possibility to exceed biosphere’s capacity to self-regulate our driven by greed polluting and destructive activities. The song “Inherited Hell” calls us to respect our children’s uncertain future, because they are doomed to live in a highly polluted and devastating environment. It recalls us the famous slogan: This planet is not ours. We borrowed it from the future generations”


Surgery

Wires drilled into my head
Tubes inserted in my neck
Toxins pumped into my veins
This treatments inhumane

Strapped to a table head and foot
Eyes blindfolded, I can't look
My life is all I've left to choose
As your scalpel makes its move

What have I done to deserve this?
Give up your cruel practices
When this nightmare runs it's course
You throw away my useless corpse


A song about the conventional medicine and its cruel and toxic methods to utilize than really cure illnesses (either mental or somatic) that our modern way of life (pollution, nutrition, work) produces. As we say in another similar song by Voivod (Ravenous medicine) alternative medicine is friendly and holistic, taking into account not only external intruders as cause of the disease, but also personality, relations, working conditions, pollution, etc. Disease is an inner imbalance caused by many factors and is treated in a way to restore this balance.


When Freedom Dies

United in a time, a time of need
Against a common foe, the enemy
The years of death endured, the years of pain
Against an evil force, a force not sane

We become the enemy
When freedom dies for security

And then the world endured, a victory won
Against an insane man and his cohorts
But once the war was done, blind fear prevailed
And years of darkness came, freedom was nailed

We become the enemy
When freedom dies for security

We let our freedom die, we let it wane
We feared an enemy's atomic rain
But what was on our minds, what we became
We and the enemy
We are the same

We become the enemy
When freedom dies for security

We become the enemy
When freedom dies for security


A very prophetic song about the well known policy of authorities to invoke the sense of security in order to restrict our freedom and human rights. We can see today this fact in the so-called war against terrorism which is in fact a war against people who resist in the socially and environmentally devastating policy of an uncontrolled economical system led only by greed. We become the enemy when freedom dies for security. We are the real enemy for the system, so we must be controlled and be recorded according to our biometric characteristics, according to our social behaviour, etc not only by local police but by Interpol, FBI, etc and these data can be transferred where is necessary (e.g. the place for G8 conference in order to prevent demonstrations)

You can hear some songs from this album in youtube:

Critical mass

When freedom dies

and Inherited Hell in myspace

The Whaler's Dues by Jethro Tull, Album: Rock island 1989

Money speaks. Soft hearts lose. The truth only whispers.
It's the whaler's dues.

I've been running on diesel. Been running on coal.
Running on borrowed time, if truth's to be told.
Two whales in the ocean, cruising the night
search for each other before we turn out their light.

Been accused of deep murder on the North Atlantic swell
but I have three hungry children and a young wife as well.
And behind stand generations of hard hunting men
who raised a glass to the living, and went killing again.
Are you with me?

Money speaks, soft hearts lose. The truth only whispers.
Now pay the whaler's dues.
Can you forgive me?

Now I'm old and I sit land-locked in a back-country jail
to reflect on all of my sins and the death of the whale.
Send me back down the ages. Put me to sea once again
when the oceans were full --- yes, and men would be men.
Can you forgive me?

A song about whale hunting which gives some points to the breadwinner whaler, not those of nowadays entrepreneurs who kill for profit and greed, but recalling to a past where seas were full of fish and whales and people hunt for surviving and have a morality of respect towards the hunted animal.

You can hear some Jethro Tull classics in youtube:

Aqualung

Thick as a brick

Heavy Horses

Sacred Reich 1987, 1988

Ignorance, Album: Ignorance, 1987

Evil minds bend on destruction
Ignoring the pleas of their race
The final chapter in humanic abduction
All signs of society erased
People asking fewer questions
Letting politicians do their thinking
Not questioning nuclear judgement
As warheads enter our space

Our atmosphere clouded with poison
We're killing ourselves to live
Filling the world with hate and dissention
We'll have only our lives to give
What we do now is the key to the future
We'll only have ourselves to blame
For arming the world with the tools of destruction
Our ignorance means death

Warring on opposite nations
Starvation amongst impoverished nations
Outlook bleak for the world residue
Ignorance of mankind
Clouding the world with residue
Of man's toxic industry
Slowly killing nameless victims
Whose ignorance leaves them dead

Our atmosphere clouded with poison
We're killing ourselves to live
Filling the world with hate and dissention
We'll have only our lives to give
What we do now is the key to the future
We'll only have ourselves to blame
For arming the world with the tools of destruction
Our ignorance means death

We're crowded with anger inventions of danger
From man's diabolical mind
Humanities dying no use in trying
It's only a matter of time
How long will it be before there's no air to breathe
And our water is polluted water
Ignorance runs rampant noone is caring
Suicide of the human race

Ignorance

A similar song with that of Ramones we have already presented: a more detailed accusation about the ignorance of people focusing mainly on environmental issues and health hazards.


One Nation, EP: Surf Nicaragua, 1988

A vision of unselfishness, a union of black and white
One nation of all races, it's clear within my sight
I see it clear, no hate, no fear, no soldiers sent to die
A state that's free and thrives on peace, no greed, no threat to life

We won't build the weapons of war which looms over your heads
We'll not feed the war machines that lead our youth to death
We won't close our eyes to the atrocities which abound

We won't stand and watch until we're six feet underground

The future is our burden, we can't stand and watch
As the world around crumbles, opposing armies march
We work towards our goal: one nation - unity
And you must be the convert who works towards world peace

Muthafuckers around us who stand and say no way
Opposing lessened armies, they say are here to stay
But no one knows until we try, what we all can do
I won't watch children die, it's up to me and you

Our world is divided, the boundaries have been drawn
Ideas are decided by where you have been born
You can't judge people by the government of their land
They're flesh and blood like us - why don't you understand?

The future is our burden, we can't stand and watch
As the world around crumbles, opposing armies march
We work towards our goal: one nation - unity
And you must be the convert who works towards world peace

A song that calls for stopping war conflicts, for abolishing the borders and for realising that all people, no matter race, religion, nationality are brothers: one humanity, one nation

You can hear these songs in you tube:

Ignorance

One Nation+Ignorance live

Ignorance Is Bliss by Ramones, Album: Brain Drain, 1989

Ignorance is bliss, ya know it's true
Ignorance is bliss, just look at you

Is it goin' anywhere?

Ignorance is bliss, ya know it's true
Ignorance is bliss, just look at you

I'm alive, I'm alive, I'm alive, yeah

What's happening to our society?
Disintegration of humanity
Destruction of the environment
(Cram that cop donation in your ass)

Is it goin' anywhere?

??
Politicians (to confuse you)
What's good for them, now it ain't good for you
But there ain't nothing that you can do

I'm alive, I'm alive, I'm alive, yeah

Ignorance is bliss, ya know it's true
Ignorance is bliss, just look at you
Hey!

Ignorance is bliss, ya know it's true
Ignorance is bliss, just look at you

I'm alive, I'm alive, I'm alive, yeah


Ramones tell us in this song that in a world that produces war, pollution and misery, only if you are ignorant of the real causes (and a-political person) you can be blissful and happy. But that’s the way the system tries to keep us in ignorance and confusion through Mass Media fake plastic world, spectacles, athletics and false statements and ideologies (ethnic, religious, etc).

You can hear this song in youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u1ecNECz1M

Album: Annihilation of Civilization by Evildead, 1989

Annihilation of Civilization

Christian mind control, brainwashing innocent souls,
Teaching their own twisted fears,
Baptism is final, confirming denial, of the reality
We must deal with today,
No one on this Earth can save us from this hell,
We're only destroying ourselves,
Religion gets its way, so God has his say,
And the Holy propaganda is free...

He WHO IS! WHO IS! and is coming
He shall put an end to your fear,
On Earth, THE LIVING! THE DYING!
Attain the destiny they've awaited for years.
The death plague wreaks havoc on Earth,
A life put to death before birth,
Deserts grow where Cities once thrived,
No one on this Earth left alive...
The Rain that falls from the sky, turning toxic,
The atmosphere is melting away,
Disposing of nuclear waste in the sea,
Children dying of starvation in the streets,
APOCALYPSE....REVELATIONS...
HUMAN RACE...ENDANGERED KIND...
He WHO IS! WHO WAS! not a saviour
No one can control this disease
MESSIAH, BEHOLD! THE CHOSEN!
Welcome to the world of the dead!!!

SPECULATION! not needed the answer is here
ANNIHILATION! Countries put to death by their fears
CIVILIZED NATION! this is what we create
TERMINATION! designed to Annihilate

We're killing ourselves, there's no need for help
From Satan, of from God, or the tomb,
The acid pollution, there is no solution
The greenhouse effect taking place.
And wars will arise, the beast in disguise
Necronomicon prophecies apply,
An one civilized nation, now God's abomination
Annihilating the entire Human race.

Hypocritical factions deny, as the truth stares them right in the eye,
The powers we once fought to possess, destroy us in the final test...
THE LORD WHO HAS GIVEN HAS NOW ALSO TAKEN AWAY!!!


An interesting song that calls us to be free from religious beliefs that blind us and to realize that the major problem today was not about life after death, but about our existence in a polluted and toxic environment.

Future Shock

Fighting for what cause? To them it's unknown
The sixties brought peace and love, with homage to Vietnam
The seventies was Watergate, three-mile island the tragic fate
The eighties we build our A.R.M.S., public scandals in Iran
The nineties you can be assured, bombshelters for the weak and strong.

Another bomb bang, another hijack,
We'll never get our hostages back, brutal murders 'til the end
Atomic safety, non-existant, Chernobyl's burning,
We won't miss it...radioactivity in their brains
Dumping toxics in the sea, Governmental hierarchy,
Killing creatures, extinct breed...
No emotions we must face, rise of the synthetic race
Building empires - demonic power...

The social class claims Democratic, slowly fading to phlegmatic
Computers rule, now we panic...
Prepared for battle, been sold for slaughter,
Say goodbye to Son and Daughter, The Future; a dying matter...
Want to live?
The choice not yours,

You've become prisoners of war, Apocalypse is now at hand...
Inflicting torture unjust to Man, merciless killings,
Throughout the Land, the holocaust - alive again...
A CALL TO ARMS
WON'T HAPPEN HERE
WITH AFGANISTAN
AND LYBIA
nuke'em all, make'em glow!

The whore of the beast, ten horns from the East,
Hail from the skies, cracking the Earth,
The walls of the Cities, crumble to dust,
The nations witness the final blast,
Prophets of rage, in the last age,
Maybe we'll learn from Human remains...

The politicians' dug our grave, for mocking war our lives we gave,
The time has passed to make some peace, the guilty minds now ruled by beasts',
The World we know, does not exist, no sign of life, THE FUTURE SHOCK
In Armageddon none survive, the Human race can't be revived.


Another song that expresses great anxiety about the continuous wars of those states that have the power through the decades and about the destruction of environment.

You can hear songs from this album in you tube:

Annihilation of civilization

FCI/The Awakening/Paracide

Greenhouse Effect by Testament, Album: Practice What You Preach 1989

Fools the ones who stray, the rain forest burns away
Know what to believe, this is the air we breathe
So the world we know is dying slow in South America
Flames are burning down, all the trees to the ground

Time is running low, we can't stay no more
Wealth these people see, fight for eternity
Lies they televise paid by their government
There on! It's lingers on
And they don't even care in they...

Seal the Planet's fate
Crimes they perpetrate
Wasting precious land
It's time to take a stand

Our only hope to breathe again
To stop the madness closing in
What will we do when all is lost?
Environmental holocaust... repeat

Foes, these people go, someone destroyed their home
Plagued with disease, left praying on their knees
Laws protect the land, social justice in demand
Smoke it fills the air into the atmosphere
Now it's time to see a cycle of a tragedy
On! It lingers on, and they don't even care if they

Seal the Planet's fate
Crimes they perpetrate
Wasting precious land
It's time to take a stand

Our only hope to breathe again
To stop the madness closing in
What will we do when all is lost?
Environmental holocaust...


Included in Testament's most sociopolitically orientated album, Greenhouse Effect expresses a strong accuse and concern about, not only the destruction of rainforests and the consequent enhancement of global warming caused by “development” and by greed, but also about social issues they create concerning the destruction of natives' lands and traditional societies.

You can hear this song in youtube

Sting and the Rainforest Foundation

Sting as an activist
Sting was one of the most famous rock singers and one of those who are also famous about their activism for human rights, third world poverty and environmentalism. We read in wikipedia:

While with the Police, Sting wrote "Driven to tears," an angry indictment of apathy in the face of world hunger, and it preceded his work on Sir Bob Geldof's "Feed The World" project. Sting sang on "Do They Know It's Christmas?" -- a hit single from Geldof's pop music super-group called "Band Aid" which eventually led to the Live Aid Concert in July of 1985, in which Sting also took part, performing with Branford Marsalis, Phil Collins, and with the group Dire Straits.
Throughout the 1980s, Sting strongly supported environmentalism and humanitarian movements, such as Amnesty International. In 1986 he was interviewed by the BBC about the origins of his support for Amnesty International and he stated: "I've been a member of Amnesty and a support member for five years, due to an entertainment event called The Secret Policeman's Ball and before that I did not know about Amnesty, I did not know about its work, I did not know about torture in the world."
…..
The summit of his many contributions to the human-rights cause came in 1988, when he joined a team of other major musicians - including Peter Gabriel and Bruce Springsteen - assembled under the banner of Amnesty International for the six-week world tour Human Rights Now! Tour celebrating the 40th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
In 1988, he released the single "They Dance Alone" which chronicled the plight of the mothers, wives and daughters of the "disappeared", the innocent victims of the Pinochet regime in Chile. Unable to publicly voice their grievances to the government about their missing loved ones, for fear that they would "go missing" too, the women of Chile would pin photos of their "disappeared" relatives on their clothing, and dance in silent outrage against the government in public places.
With his wife Trudie Styler and Raoni Metuktire, a Kayapó Indian leader in Brazil, Sting founded the Rainforest Foundation (see details below) to help save the rainforests. His support for these causes continues to this day, and includes an annual benefit concert held at New York's Carnegie Hall with Billy Joel, Elton John, James Taylor and other music superstars. A species of Colombian tree frog, Dendropsophus stingi, was named after him in recognition of his "commitment and efforts to save the rain forest" (see details below)
Sting and his wife Trudie Styler were awared the Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience award in Sherborn Mass on June 30th, 2000. Singer/song writer, documentary film producers for their commitment to the environment through the establishment of the Rainforest Foundation; to human rights in China through the documentary film on Tiananmen Square; and to peace and social justice through the powerful gift of song.
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Sting is known to support cannabis reclassification in the United Kingdom. Following Tony Blair's intention to revoke the rescheduling of cannabis executed in January 2006, he has joined a list of prominent figures who have written to the Prime Minister urging him to keep cannabis as a class C drug.

The Rainforest Foundation

We read in Rainforest Foundation homepage:

The Rainforest Foundation supports people living in and around the world's rainforests to protect the environment and fulfil their rights to land, life and livelihood. The work of the Rainforest Foundation spans all major tropical rainforest regions with projects in 18 countries.
The Rainforest Foundation provides financial support for practical projects run by local organisations and indigenous peoples' associations. These projects aim to secure forest peoples' rights and livelihoods, and to protect and sustainbly manage tropical rainforests.
We also provide help in identifying, developing and fundraising for projects, and helping local organisations to manage their work once they get started.
All the projects supported by the Rainforest Foundation aim to help local organisations in tropical countries become more indepedent and self-sustaining.
In 15 years the Rainforest Foundation has already protected over 115,000 sq km. Current projects aim to save nearly 1million sq km of rainforest - an area the combined size of UK, France and Ireland.

We also read in the police webpage:

When Sting and Trudie Styler first met Chief Raoni Mentuktire, a leader of Brazil’s Kayapo Indians, he talked about his dream to save his people and their land from being devastated. As a result of this meeting, Sting and Trudie founded the Rainforest Foundation in 1988. After five years of work, the Menkragnoti Territory in the Amazon, an area the size of Switzerland (17,000 square miles), was finally granted full legal protection.
Since its creation, The Rainforest Foundation has worked in partnership with indigenous communities throughout Brazil to develop such projects as education, border protection, and medical programs. Each project helps those who have lived in the rainforests since time immemorial in their efforts to protect their environment and fulfill their rights by assisting them in:
Securing and controlling the natural resources necessary for their long-term well-being, and managing these resources in ways that do not harm their environment, violate their culture, or compromise their future.
Developing the means to protect their individual and collective rights and obtain, shape, and control basic state services.
There is no simple short-term solution to the problems facing the indigenous rainforest cultures. In Brazil alone, there are 500 indigenous territories, of which more than half still need to be protected; 30% have been entered by gold miners, 40% are threatened by hydroelectric projects, and 50% are crossed by roads that facilitate the disruption of indigenous territories.
Building on our past successes, we will expand our work outside Brazil to identify and cooperate in strategic alliances with organizations that share our objectives. It is our goal to ensure that governments meet their obligations by launching programs and projects that give indigenous peoples a realistic opportunity to recover and defend their resources.
Sting and Trudie have fulfilled their original promise to Chief Raoni Mentuktire with the successful demarcation of Menkragnoti, but with each new gain we are faced with new challenges. The Rainforest Foundation is now a worldwide alliance, with offices in Brasilia, London, New York, and Oslo. We continue to spread global awareness of the issues, increase political pressure to halt this senseless destruction, and inspire participation of individuals to help protect the rainforest and its peoples.

Dendropsophus stingi

Dendropsophus stingi is a species of frog in the Hylidae family. It is endemic to Colombia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, swamps, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marches, pastureland, and heavily degraded former forest.
The species was renamed in 2005 after celebrity musician Sting in recognition of his "commitment and efforts to save the rain forest" (Kaplan 1994). It’s said that this species is chosen exactly for renaming because the voice of that frog sounds like Police’s classic song’s verse “De Doo Doo Doo, De Da Da Da.”


References:

http://en.wikipedia.org
http://www.rainforestfoundationuk.org
http://www.scarlet.nl/~gugten/rainforest.html
www.timeout.com

we present here our favourite Sting’s song "Fragile", who reminds us not only our fragile existence but also the fragility of ecological balances that support life on our planet.

On and on the rain will fall
Like tears from a star like tears from a star
On and on the rain will say
How fragile we are how fragile we are
How fragile we are how fragile we are

You can hear it in youtube:
Fragile

you can also hear the following songs by Police, or Sting about poverty, human rights, etc
Driven to tears
They Dance Alone

Album: Keeper of the 7th key part 2 by Helloween– 1988

Eagle fly free

People are in big confusion
They don’t like their constitutions
Everyday they draw conclusions
And they’re still prepared for war

Some can say what’s ineffective
Some make up themselves attractive
Build up things they call protective
Well your life seems quite bizarre

In the sky a mighty eagle
Doesn’t care ‘bout what’s illegal
On its wings the rainbow’s light
It’s flying to eternity

Eagle fly free
Let people see
Just make it your own way
Leave time behind
Follow the sign
Together we’ll fly someday

Hey, we think so supersonic
And we make our bombs atomic
Or the better neutronic
But the poor don’t see a dime

Nowadays the air’s polluted
Ancient people persecuted
That’s what mankind contributed
To create a better time

In the sky a mighty eagle
Doesn’t care ‘bout what’s illegal
On its wings the rainbow’s light
It’s flying to eternity

Eagle fly free
Let people see
Just make it your own way
Leave time behind
Follow the sign
Together we’ll fly someday

A song that notifies human-made problems and disasters (war, nuclear weapons and environmental pollution). The solution is the return to nature (pictured as a free flying eagle) where, according to the singer, there were no repressive constitutions, no passions that led to wars, no pollution, no stress and anxiety...

You can hear this song in youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jc2ksJoVmVQ


Thank's to one of our visitors, we post another song from this album "Dr Stein" which has to do with cloning and genetic engineering, but presenting in a humoristic way like Frankenstein parody by Mel Brukes.

Dr Stein

Once they killed his monster when it went into a trap
now he's making better ones on a higher step

On a warm summer day the doctor went away
to a place where he could make it real
his assistant's hips were nice
so he cloned her once or twice
now his hips are aching what a deal

[Chorus:]
Dr. Stein grows funny creatures
lets them run into the night
they become
[1] great rock musicians
[2] great politicians
[3] a great possession
[4] a great oppression

Sometimes when he's feeling bored
he's calling it a day
he's got his computers and they do it their own way

They mix some DNA, some skina and a certain spray
you can watch it on a laser screen
and the fellow's blue and grey
or sometimes pink and green
just check it out on Halloween

[Chorus:]
Dr. Stein grows funny creatures. . .

One night he cloned himself
put his brother on a shelf
but when he fell asleep that night
it crept up from behind and thought "well never mind"
took a syringe and blew out his life

You can hear it in youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeqLenHDbzg

Blackened by Metallica, Album: And Justice for all, 1988

Blackened Is the End
Winter it Will Send
Throwing All You See
Into Obscurity
Death of Mother Earth
Never a Rebirth
Evolution's End
Never Will it Mend
Never

Fire
To Begin Whipping Dance of the Dead
Blackened Is the End
To Begin Whipping Dance of the Dead
Color Our World Blackened

Blistering of Earth
Terminate its Worth
Deadly Nicotine
Kills What Might Have Been
Callous Frigid Chill
Nothing Left to Kill
Never Seen Before
Breathing Nevermore
Never

Fire
To Begin Whipping Dance of the Dead
Blackened Is the End
To Begin Whipping Dance of the Dead
Color Our World Blackened

Blackened

Opposition...Contradiction...Premonition...Compromise
Agitation...Violation...Mutilation...Planet Dies
Darkest Color
Blistered Earth
True Death of Life
Termination....Expiration...Cancellation...Human Race
Expectation...Liberation...Population...Lay to Waste
See Our Mother
Put to Death
See Our Mother Die
Smouldering Decay
Take Her Breath Away
Millions of Our Years
In Minutes Disappears
Darkening in Vain
Decadence Remains
All Is Said and Done
Never Is the Sun
Never

Fire
To Begin Whipping Dance of the Dead
Blackened Is the End
To Begin Whipping Dance of the Dead
Fire
Is the Outcome of Hypocrisy
Darkest Potency
In the Exit of Humanity
Color Our World Blackened
Blackened

A song about the fear of a nuclear holocaust in coldwar era. In the most dramatic verse of the song , the mention of earth as our mother is striking, thus making it an important ecological song.

you can hear this song in youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJoVhkJNdhU

and in live performance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FkJIlCBoZI

oi polloi, 1986

Resist the atomic menace, Album: Resist the atomic menace, 1986


In March 1984 an old age pensioner by the name of Hilda Murrell was stabbed to death when she surprised an Intruder at her home In Shrewsbury.

The Police treated the Incident as If It was just an ordinary burglary that had gone wrong - but it was not and they knew It. Hilda Murrell was murdered by the British Nuclear Industry.

A World famous rose grower, Hilda Murrell had been a campaigner for ecological sanity for many years and was In the process of writing a paper on the dangers of nuclear power to be presented at the Inquiry Into the proposed building of a pressurized water reactor at Sizeweil. This was vital evidence for those opposing the P.W.R. but after the break-in her final dart was strangely found to be missing. Is It your ordinary burglar that steals that sort of thing and yet leaves money and other valuables untouched? She died because she saw through their lies

Yet another victim of Britain's nuclear power program the truth behind nuclear power Is grim and stark so they weave a web of lies to keep us In the Dark British nuclear fuels and the U.K.A.E.A will do anything to silence those who stand in their way

There can be no justification for the use of nuclear power. It leads to widespread contamination of the environment, numerous deaths from cancer and leukemia and unacceptable restrictions on our few remaining civil liberties - while all the lime cheaper and safer alternatives exists.

Because she realized this and decided to make her stand Hilda Murtefi became the target for a particularly foul and vicious attack. A frail old lady, she was repeatedly stabbed then dumped In the woods and left to bleed to death.

Are there no depths to which they will not stoop?
If she was not to die in vain
We must resist this atomic menace

Resist this atomic menace
Resist this atomic menace

No comments, this song speaks about all the problems, social and environmental nuclear energy creates. The song is in an alternating narrative/singing form.




Album Unlimited Genocide (split with AOA) 1986


Go Green

Governments and multinationals
Corrupt and twisted women and men
Are going to bring this planet
To a premature end

With their selfishness and greed
They destroy anything of worth
Are you just going to sit and watch
Their rape of mother earth?

They just could't care less
About the ecological devastation
Inflicted by their insane striving
For profit maximisation

We've got to fight back
We've got to give resistance
Or they'll pollute and exploit
Our world out of existance

Industrial accidents and radiation leaks
So babies are born as freaks
Like the Re-Chen babies with one eye
Or those who Windscale called before their time

And the petrol is full of lead
So kids grow up wrong in the head
And aerosols destroy the ozone layer
No protection - no we're layed bare

And nuclear waste is dumped into the sea
A slow poison for you and me
And what was once fertile land
Has now turned to desert sand

And acid rain pours from the sky
So whole forests wither and die
And dirty cities grey and drab
Cover theyland like concrete scabs

And toxic chemicals are pumped into streams
Death where once life would have been
The whole situation has got out of hand
So go green and make your stand

And it seems you couldn't care less
That our earth is in such a mess
It makes me wonder how long it will take
Before you finally awake

Please, please you got to open your eyes
'Cos you've got to realise
Exactly what those in power got planned
This is the last chance to make your stand

Now that we see what's going on
We've got to stop them and we aint got long
This isn't something just to sing about
'Cos our time is running out...

A call to action, to become “green” activist against the destruction of nature, health and society by those who have the power to use the planet and its sources with devastating ways as disposable items for their own sakes and profits


Nuclear Waste

Nuclear energy is a con
It's just a cover for making their bombs
And it sends people to an early grave
So we want the power of the wind and the waves

[Chorus:]
Harness the wind
Harness the waves
We don't need this filthy nuclear waste
Solar power - yet another alternative
Think of the boundless energy the sun has to give
Then there's hydro-electricity with turbines and dams
And we can out our consumption with conservation programmes

[Chorus:]
Harness the wind
The sun the waves
We don't need this filthy nuclear waste
The civil atomic energy programmes
is nothing but an elaborate cover-up for the real use of nuclear power
namely the production of fissile materials for nuclear weapons
We call for an end to the nuclear power programmes and properly
funded research into renewable sources of energy

[chorus:]
Harness the wind
The sun the waves
We don't need this filthy nuclear waste

Reject dangerous and dirty nuclear power, the solution is in the clean alternative and sustainable solar, wind or wave power.

You can hear “Nuclear waste” in you tube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foNzCPH2a2I

R.E.M. 1986, 1987

fall on me, Album: Lifes rich peasant 1986

There's a problem, feathers iron
Bargain buildings, weights and pullies
Feathers hit the ground before the weight can leave the air

Buy the sky and sell the sky and tell the sky and tell the sky
Don't fall on me (what is it up in the air for) (it's gonna fall)
Fall on me (if it's there for long)(it's gonna fall)
Fall on me(it's over it's over me) (it's gonna fall)

There's the progress we have found (when the rain)
A way to talk around the problem (when the children reign)
Building towered foresight (keep your conscience in the dark)
Isn't anything at all (the statues in the park)

Buy the sky and sell the sky and bleed the sky and tell the sky...
Don't fall on me....

Well I could keep it above
But then it wouldn't be sky anymore
So if I send it to you you've got to promise to keep it whole
Buy the sky and sell the sky and lift your arms up to the sky
And ask the sky and ask the sky...


We read in wikipedia about this song:

Though Stipe described the song once as "pretty much a song about oppression," the song is about acid rain and its effects on the environment, hence the first line of the chorus, "Don't fall on me."

It's The End Of The World, Album: Document 1987

That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes,
an aeroplane - Lenny Bruce is not afraid.
Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn,
world serves its own needs, dummy serve your own needs.

Feed it off an aux speak,, grunt, no, strength,
The ladder starts to clatter with fear fight down height.
Wire in a fire, representing seven games, a government for hire and a combat site.
Left of west and coming in a hurry with the furies breathing down your neck.

Team by team reporters baffled, trumped, tethered cropped.
Look at that low playing! Fine, then.
Uh oh, overflow, population, common food, but it'll do.
Save yourself, serve yourself. World serves its own needs, listen to your heart bleed dummy with the rapture and the revered and the right - right.
You vitriolic, patriotic, slam, fight, bright light, feeling pretty psyched.

It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.

Six o'clock - TV hour. Don't get caught in foreign towers.
Slash and burn, return, listen to yourself churn.
Locking in, uniforming, book burning, blood letting.
Every motive escalate. Automotive incinerate.

Light a candle, light a votive. Step down, step down.
Watch your heel crush, crushed. Uh-oh, this means no fear cavalier.
Renegade steer clear! A tournament, a tournament, a tournament of lies.
Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives and I decline.

It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it. (It's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it (It's time I had some time alone) and I feel fine.
(I feel fine)

The other night I dreamt of knives, continental drift divide. Mountains sit in a line
Leonard Bernstein. Leonid Brezhnev. Lenny Bruce and Lester Bangs.
Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, boom!
You symbiotic, patriotic, slam book neck, right? Right.

It's the end of the world as we know it. (It's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it. (It's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it (It's time I had some time alone) and I feel fine.


A song with flashes the turbulent politics and everyday life as watched in TV news. There is a sense that we are in front of dramatic changes in global level, but the artist is ironically optimist about the oncoming order. He was quite prophetic, because there were dramatic global sociopolitical changes 4-5 years later by the collapse of communist regimes. But things didn't get any better either in social justice terms or environmental.

you can hear these songs in youtube:

Fall on me

It's the end of the world

Where The Streets Have No Name by U2, Album:The Joshua Tree 1987

I want to run
I want to hide
I want to tear down the walls
That hold me inside
I want to reach out
And touch the flame
Where the streets have no name

I want to feel sunlight on my face
I see the dust cloud disappear
Without a trace
I want to take shelter from the poison rain
Where the streets have no name

Where the streets have no name
Where the streets have no name
We're still building
Then burning down love
Burning down love
And when I go there
I go there with you
It's all I can do

The city's aflood
And our love turns to rust
We're beaten and blown by the wind
Trampled in dust
I'll show you a place
High on a desert plain
Where the streets have no name

Where the streets have no name
Where the streets have no name
We're still building
Then burning down love
Burning down love
And when I go there
I go there with you
It's all I can do
Our love turns to rust
We're beaten and blown by the wind
Blown by the wind
Oh, and I see love
See our love turn to rust
We're beaten and blown by the wind
Blown by the wind
Oh, when I go there
I go there with you
It's all I can do


an escape song from the under control and polluted manmade environment to the natural freedom and purity.

you can hear this song in youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpVbLm4TN3g

Voivod, Album: Killing Technology, 1987

Killing Technology

Thinking about another project
How the hell are they gonna make it
Anyway nobody's gonna object
Even if they make shit

Now you better get wise
Lasers passing through the sky
For me there's no alternative
This sphere is a bad place to live

Growing technology
Fooling technology
Killing technology!!!

The star wars have started up
The new invention is coming out
Making a spider web over the atmosphere
To make them sure that we can't get out of here

Computers controlling your functions
Seems like we got electronic alienation
Trading children for a new kind of robot
Waiting for the old people to disappear

Growing technology
Fooling technology
Killing technology!!!

Use the killing technology
How can I destroy the enemy
Security plans are not easy to find
That's my generation, the nonsense time

You lose your function
You're just a substitute
You lose your function
Glad to see you change

You've got automatic moves
Take your pills to have energy
And sit down in your robotic living room
People are gonna progress

Who knows whether we'll get more or less
Some say it's the beginning of the end
Some say they've got our lives in their hands

Growing technology
Fooling technology
Killing technology!!!

Look at the chaos, how much does it cost
The circuits gleam
Push this buttom, memory runs
You're gonna pay for this

Ready or not, ready or not !!!
Tomorrow is the fear
The fear will come from the sky, from behind!
Tomorrow disappears

The fear will come from the sky, from behind!
Tomorrow is the fear
The fear will come from the sky, from behind!
We are connected...

Canadian Voivod are famous about the futuristic nightmares they describe about the complete domination of technology in humanity. Hmm! We think that today are quite prophetic concerning the use of electronics, satellites, cameras, net, etc in order to manipulate us and to restrict our rights under the alibi of war against terrorism.



Overreaction

It's coming over you!!
Can you see the phosphorescence of the factory
Moving away, out of this territory
The systems became overload
The warning lights were on that night
Nobody knew what was going on
But it will be here for months
Or even years

It's coming over me !!
The ugly underside of the nuclear energy
Brings us today this atomic calamity
The malfunction of the instruments
For this blunders we have to go to hell

It's coming over us
Don't be scared, the engines exploded
But it's just a technological risk
And this thing will continue throughout the ages,
the evolution can't run without damage

Mother nature can't hear you
The China Syndrome will die much later than you....
The China Syndrome...
In the air, it smells bad,
Feel the disease, the nuclearchy
We're lucky, we'll die young
It's hard to endure, to be a mutant
The transformation, is almost complete

Research has no end, containing the power
The dangerous results, it's not our fault
Create the force, we got no fear
Lock the doors, we're engineers
Awaiting to suffocate, purchasing the program
Vomiting the pollution, of energy games
Create the force, we got no fear
Lock the doors, we're engineers
Welcome to the China Syndrome
It's an over...Overreaction !!!


The description of people’s agony (either nuclear plant’s staff, or nearby residents) after they realize that a meltdown is took place in the nuclear reactor. Nuclear energy is a Damocles’ sword under our heads. No matter the nuclear lobby’s claims that now is safe and “clean”, if an accident occurs, the disaster will be forever. And what about the nuclear waste? What, about the restrictions of our lives and rights to prevent a terrorist’s attack? Nuclear energy? No, Thanks!



Ravenous Medicine

Another emergency truck keeps rolling fast
Two lane highway and they run on the wrong track
You still don't know that you're never going back
You're going to the science hospital
You guess that your body is still alive
They estimate you're in pretty good health
Good shape for some of our sadistic tests
Doctor said you must stay in bed
Surgical scourge on you
Surgical scourge on you
Electric shock through you
Electric shock through you
Feel the scalpel they cut you with
Going into the experimental room
How much radiation can your body stand?
You did very well, you'll feel better soon
The red cross is turning black
Wake up in another department
You see the nurse with blood on her clothes
They got another experience for today
Maybe the worst of them
Diagnosing the pain, the ravenous medicine
Discovering the cure, the ravenous medicine
Died through illness, the ravenous medicine
Don't care how many organs you gave
Injecting the drugs
'Till you become the slave
Turn off the machine that keeps your heart beating
They're gonna do it to you

A song that accuses the conventional medicine methods of cure, in an extreme way, but they have a point as we see below. Also we think that they refer mainly to the violent and dehumanizing manipulation of mental disorders.
Alternative medicine and non-drug anti-psychiatric treatment are friendly to patient because they work under different concepts of health and disease, either somatic or mental: that of the respect of the dignity of the patient and a complete different view of what is health and disease, the so called “holistic approach”: An inner imbalance caused not only by pathogens, but by bad quality of life, relations etc which must be repaired and regulated …
…and not in “war terms” as conventional medicine uses to work: an invasion of a pathogen which must be exterminated by chemical methods/antibiotics with numerous and unknown subside effects.
But conventional medicine prevails because of the control of health system by multinational drug corporations and their scientific personnel who abuses alternative ways of cure as crank and pseudoscience.

You can hear some songs in you tube:


Ravenous medicine

Forgotten in space

And an interesting Pink Floyd cover: Astronomy Domine

Indians by Anthrax, Album: Among the living, 1987

We all see black and white
When it comes to someone else's fight
No one ever gets involved
Apathy can never solve

FORCED OUT - Brave and mighty
STOLEN LAND - They can't fight it
HOLD ON - To pride and tradition
Even though they know how much their lives are really missin'
WE'RE DISSIN' THEM ...

On reservation
A hopeless situation

Respect is something that you earn
Our Indian brother's getting burned
Original American
Turned into, second class citizen

Cry for the Indians
Die for the Indians
Cry for the Indians
Cry, Cry, Cry for the Indians

Love the land and fellow man
Peace is what we strive to have
Some folks have none of this
Hatred and prejudice

TERRITORY, It's just the body of the nation
The people that inhabit it make its configuration
PREJUDICE, Something we all can do without
Cause a flag of many colors is what this land's all about


Another song about the Indian problem, their loss of territories, traditions and their way of life, the racism against them and their transformation into touristic ethic spectacle

yoy can hear this song in youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm4ohAcGJWg

Album: Diesel & Dust, by Midnight oil, 1987

Beds are burning

Out where the river broke
The bloodwood and the desert oak
Holden wrecks and boiling diesels
Steam in forty five degrees

The time has come to say fair's fair
To pay the rent to pay our share
The time has come a fact's a fact
It belongs to them let's give it back

How can we dance when our earth is turning
How do we sleep while our beds are burning
How can we dance when our earth is turning
How do we sleep while our beds are burning

The time has come to say fairs fair
to pay the rent, now to pay our share

Four wheels scare the cockatoos
From Kintore East to Yuendemu
The western desert lives and breathes
In forty five degrees

The time has come to say fair's fair
To pay the rent to pay our share
The time has come a fact's a fact
It belongs to them let's give it back

How can we dance when our earth is turning
How do we sleep while our beds are burning
How can we dance when our earth is turning
How do we sleep while our beds are burning

The time has come to say fair's fair
To pay the rent, now to pay our share
The time has come, a fact's a fact
It belongs to them, let's give it back

How can we dance when our earth is turning
How do we sleep while our beds are burning

A call to action! How can be complacent when everything around us is on fireq (wars, exploitation of people, environmental threats, etc)



The Dead Heart

We don't serve your country
Don't serve your king
Know your custom don't speak your tongue
White man came took everyone

We don't serve your country
Don't serve your king
White man listen to the songs we sing
White man came took everything

We carry in our hearts the true country
And that cannot be stolen
We follow in the steps of our ancestry
And that cannot be broken

We don't need protection
Don't need your land
Keep your promise on where we stand
We will listen we'll understand

Mining companies, pastoral companies
Uranium companies, collected companies
Got more right than people
Got more say than people

Forty thousand years can make a difference to the state of things
The dead heart lives here


A call to refuse to serve the western civilization and to support and going back to lost traditions and way of life



Dreamworld

The breakfast creek hotel is up for sale
The last square mile of terra firma gavelled in the mail
So farewell to the norfolk island pines
No amount of make believe can help this heart of mine

End - your dreamworld is just about to end
Fall - your dreamworld is just about to fall
Your dreamworld will fall

So shut that buckle and turn that key again
Take me to a place they say the dreaming never ends
Open wide drive that mystery road
Walk through edens garden and then wonder as you go

Sign says honeymoon to rent
Cloudland into dreamland turns
The sun comes up and we all learn
Those wheels must turn


Western culture destroys natural landscapes for touristic accommodations which calls them Dreamlands. But the real dreamland is the natural environment and not the full of cement and artificial gardens. This song reminds us Joni Mitchel’s Big Yellow Taxi


Warakurna

There is enough for everyone
In Redfern as there is in Alice
This is not the Buckingham Palace
This the crown land
This is the brown land
This is not our land

Some folks live in water tanks
Some folks live in red brick flats
There is enough, the law is carved in granite
It's been shaped by wind and rain

White law could be wrong
Black law must be strong
Warakurna, cars will roll
Don't drink by the water hole
Court fines on the shopfront wall
Beat the grog and save your soul

Some people laugh, some never learn
This land must change or land must burn
Some people sleep, some people yearn
This land must change or land must burn

Diesel and dust is what we breathe
This land don't change and we don't leave
Some people live, some never die
This land don't change this land must lie
Some people leave, always return
This land must change or land must burn

Warakurna, camels roam
Fires are warm and dogs are cold
Not since Lassiter was here
Black man's got a lot to fear

Some people laugh, some never learn
This land must change or land must burn
Some people leave, always return
This land must change or land must burn


Another call to refuse western domination and authorities, indigenous people work like slaves under bad and unhealthy conditions. The call maybe violent: This land must change or land must burn



Sell my soul

Lets begin, I am ready, lets begin
Sell my soul to him
Shed my skin, I just wanna shed my skin
I dont wanna sell my soul to him
Mechanize, city bursts and farmers die
They cry
Sleep face down in a goods train heading south in the rain

In this world I often think you understand me
In these words I often think youd recognise me
cos I just wanna swim with the fish in the sea
And I want faith to heal so that I can be clean

Americas great now
If you dont talk back
You hide your face
Crawl in rubble and smile and scorn
At that snail-paced creature
Going up and down walls

Celebrate, I just want to celebrate
Im not going to sell my soul to him
When you look right in

Midnight oil is an activistic band from Australia which gave us great accusing songs concerning ecological and socio-political aspects about racism and exploitation of indigenous people in Australia. We present here some songs from their masterpiece Diesel and Dust.

You can hear some songs in youtube:


Beds are burning

Dead Heart

Dreamworld

warakurna