Drop Beats Not Bombs (A Music Discussion)

[Noah]

Hello,
as most of you know, I am working on getting some peaceful music together to be used on the Beyond War Site, as well as on our Facebook and MySpace pages.

So far it seems like the best place to create a playlist of full songs is on YouTube. I started a new account over there with a music playlist - We will probably merge the playlist with the Original Beyond War You Tube Account.


I'd love to hear some ideas from you all, I'm sure we can come up with some great ideas - many of you have already sent some great ones already.

If you can respond with the song/artist you are thinking of, and if possible a link to the YouYube video, as well as the lyrics. I think this will be a great way for us to vote together on which songs should be included on our various social networking sites.

I also created a Last FM and iLike, and Jango account but it seems that they only offer clips of songs - does anyone know of a free site where we can create playlists of music?

I will be posting lots of music over the course of the next few days - I look forward to hearing your feedback.

My number one choice for music is the song "Bomb The World" by Michael Franti and Spearhead.

BOMB THE WORLD lyrics SPEARHEAD
Please tell me the reason 
behind the colors that you fly 

love just one nation 

and the whole world we divide 

you say you’re “sorry” 

say, “there is no other choice” 

but god bless the people them 

who cannot raise their voice 



(chorus) 

we can chase down all our enemies 

bring them to their knees 

we can bomb the world to pieces 

but we can’t bomb it into peace 

whoa we may even find a solution 

to hunger and disease 

we can bomb the world to pieces 

but we can’t bomb it into peace 



violence brings one thing 

more more of the same 

military madness 

the smell of flesh and burning pain 

so I sing out to the masses 

stand up if you’re still sane! 

To all of us gone crazy 

I sing this one refrain 



(chorus) 



and I sing power to the peaceful 

love to the people y’all 

power to the peaceful 

love to the people y’all

LyricsBay | BOMB THE WORLD lyrics SPEARHEAD

[Debbie Kaufman]

I love the "this is what democracy looks like" lines. Reminds me of the people protesting the election in Iran - and gives me a feeling of solidarity with them. I also like the "means are the ends in the making" parts of advocating for building something different and that we need health care and education. Debbie

[Anne Millhollen]

That is a powerful song. No wonder it is your favorite. Gorgeous song.

[Libby and Len Traubman]

Wow. Yes. The arts, especially music, have such power to make us want to engage to become closer and more human together. We're part of a 17-year-old Jewish-Palestinian Living Room Dialogue preparing for our 208th meeting. We use music a LOT. To learn about HeartBeat Jerusalem and other musical powers that help move people beyond war, go to our site - http://traubman.igc.org/ and search for MUSIC

Libby and Len Traubman ([e-mail])

[Noah]

My newest music for you all - My Stuff. It's all instrumental, but there's always room for instrumental stuff - right?

http://myspace.com/synchronicwave