Musical Worldview: the Avett Brothers, "Bang Bang"

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“I live in the country because I love peace and quiet
But all of my neighbors have closets full of machine guns
And every Sunday they’re out there pretending to be Rambo
And I’m in here pretending like Sunday is still sacred

Conceal and carry your fear
don't need no weapons here
I've had all I can stand
Of the bloodthirsty leading man”


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Musical Worldview: Fred Locks, "Love And Harmony"

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“Let’s live in love and harmony”


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Musical Worldview: Wilco, 'Jesus, Etc.'

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“Our love
Our love
Our love is all we have
Our love
Our love is all of God's money
Everyone is a burning sun”


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Musical Worldview: Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, "Wake Up Everybody"

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“Wake up everybody no more sleepin in bed
No more backward thinkin time for thinkin ahead
The world has changed so very much
From what it used to be so
There is so much hatred war an' poverty

Wake up all the teachers time to teach a new way
Maybe then they'll listen to whatcha have to say
Cause they're the ones who's coming up and the world is in their hands
When you teach the children teach em the very best you can

The world won't get no better if we just let it be
The world won't get no better we gotta change it yeah, just you and me

Wake up all the doctors make the ol' people well
They're the ones who suffer an' who catch all the hell
But they don't have so very long before the Judgement Day
So won'tcha make them happy before they pass away

Wake up all the builders time to build a new land
I know we can do it if we all lend a hand
The only thing we have to do is put it in our mind
Surely things will work out they do it every time

The world won't get no better if we just let it be
The world won't get no better
We gotta change it yeah, just you and me (yeah, yeah)

Change it, yeah (change it, yeah) just you and me
Change it, yeah (change it, yeah) can't do it alone
Need some help, y'all (y'all)
Can't do it alone (can't do it alone)
Yeah (yeah)

Wake up, everybody
Wake up, everybody
Need a little help, y'all (yes I do)
Need a little help (say it, boy)
Need some help, y'all (uh-huh)
To change the world
From what it used to be

Can't do it alone
Can't do it alone
Need some help, yeah
Need some help, yeah

Wake up, everybody
Get up, get up
Get up, get up
Wake up, come on, come on

Wake up, everybody
Teach a new way
Maybe then they'll listen
To what you have to say

Wake up, everybody
No more sleepin' in bed
No more backward thinkin'
Time for thinkin' ahead
Come on

Wake up, everybody
I'm talking about the dope pusher
Stop pushin' that dope
Dope users
Stop usin' the dope

Wake up, yeah

False lyin'
False preachin'
False teachin'
Wake up, y'all
Come on

You preachers
Start preachin' what you teach
Teach the truth
Wake up, preachers

All liars (all liars)
Politicians
Stop lyin' (stop lyin')

Why don't somebody
Help the poor people
Help the babies

You businessmen
Start treatin' (start treatin')
Start treatin' (start treatin')
Start treatin' (start treatin')

Wake up, yeah
Wake up, yeah
Wake up, yeah
Wake up, yeah
Yeah, yeah

Ain't don't matter
What race, creed or color
Everybody we need each other

Wake up, everybody
Well, you see
We need
Wake up, everybody

We need
No more sleepin' in bed
No more backward thinkin'
Time for thinkin' ahead

Wake up, all you teachers
Time to teach a new way
They're the ones that suffer
Each and everyday

Teach the children
Teach the babies
Teach the children
Teach the babies
Teach the children

They are the ones who's coming out”


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Musical Worldview: Queen and David Bowie, "Under Pressure"

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“Why can't we give love that one more chance
Why can't we give love give love give love give love
Give love give love give love give love give love”


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Musical Worldview: Blue Scholars, "Solstice: Reintroduction"

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“The biggest hypocrites usually quote the most scriptures”


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Musical Worldview: Hiss Golden Messenger, "If It Comes in the Morning"

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“hope is contagious”


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Musical Worldview: War, "There Must Be A Reason"

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“Jesus gave my life to give
Not to you
Jesus gave my life to him
Not to you”


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Musical Worldview: Steve Miller Band, "Fly Like An Eagle"

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“Feed the babies
Who don't have enough to eat
Shoe the children
With no shoes on their feet
House the people
Livin' in the street
Oh, oh there's a solution”


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Musical Worldview: Tower of Power, "What Is Hip?"

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“You done even went and found you a guru
In your effort to find you a new you
And maybe even managed
To raise your conscious level
As you striving to find the right road
There's one thing you should know
What's hip today
Might become passe”


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Musical Worldview: Marvin Gaye, "Inner City Blues (Make Me Holler)"

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“Rockets, moon shots
Spend it on the have nots
Money, we make it
Fore we see it you take it”


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Musical Worldview: the Specials, "A Message To You Rudy"

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“Stop your fooling around,
Time to straighten right out.
Better think of your future
Else you'll wind up in jail.

Rudy, A message to you you,
Rudy, A message to you.”


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Musical Worldview: Gift of Gab (feat. R.A. The Rugged Man and A-F-R-O), "Freedom Form Flowing"

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“I hang with the laws of receiving and giving and living
if y'all are believing and evident knowledge is breathing,
inhale and out and topple the greedy.”


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Musical Worldview: Plastic Ono Band, 'Give Peace a Chance'

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“Ev'rybody's talking about
Bagism, Shagism, Dragism, Madism, Ragism, Tagism
This-ism, that-ism, is-m, is-m, is-m

All we are saying is give peace a chance”


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Musical Worldview: Derek Webb, "A King and A Kingdom"

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“Who's your brother? Who's your sister?
You just walked passed him
I think you missed her
As we're all migrating to a place where our father lives
Because we married into a family of immigrants

So my first allegiance is not to a flag, a country or a man
No, my first allegiance is not to democracy or blood
It's to a King and a kingdom

There are two great lies that I've heard
"The day you eat of the fruit of that tree, you will not surely die"
And that Jesus Christ was a white, middle-class republican
And if you wanna be saved, you have to learn to be like Him

So my first allegiance is not to a flag, a country or a man
No, my first allegiance is not to democracy or blood
It's to a King and a kingdom

But nothing unifies like a common enemy
And we've got one, sure as hell
He may be living in your house
He may be raising up your kids
He may be sleeping with your wife
Oh no, he may not look like you think”


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Musical Worldview: Public Enemy, 'Fight The Power'

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“Our freedom of speech is freedom or death
We got to fight the powers that be
Lemme hear you say

Fight the power”


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Musical Worldview: the Linda Lindas, 'No Clue'

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“I just wanna see
'Cause I cant feel a thing around me
I'll tell you how to fly
If you wanna soar high and be free
Don't tell me what to say
'Cause I will find a way to be seen

Don’t leave me alone
'Cause we’ve only just begun”


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Musical Worldview: Five Man Electrical Band, 'Signs'

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“And the sign said anybody caught trespassin' would be shot on sight
So I jumped on the fence and-a yelled at the house, "Hey! What gives you
the
right?"
"To put up a fence to keep me out or to keep mother nature in"
"If God was here he'd tell you to your face, Man, you're some kinda sinner"

Sign, sign, everywhere a sign
Blockin' out the scenery, breakin' my mind
Do this, don't do that, can't you read the sign?”

“And the sign said, "Everybody welcome. Come in, kneel down and pray"
But when they passed around the plate at the end of it all, I didn't have a
penny to pay
So I got me a pen and a paper and I made up my own little sign
I said, "Thank you, Lord, for thinkin' 'bout me. I'm alive and doin' fine."


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Musical Worldview: the Linda Lindas, 'Never Say Never'

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“Imagine the world has gone insane
And nothing we know has stayed the same
So everything else beside us has changed

But that’s not what is in our fate
And it won’t always be that way
Cause if tomorrow’s like today
Should we just wish for yesterday

For worse or for better
I've put myself back together
I know nothing lasts forever
But never say never”


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