'bastian and salinn said: When you see this, post an anti-war song in your journal.

[kuangning]

I've had this stuck in my head off and on for days anyway.

Gulf War Song -- Moxy Früvous

We got a call to write a song about the war in the Gulf
But we shouldn't hurt anyone's feelings
So we tried, then gave up, 'cause there was no such song
But the trying was very revealing
What makes a person so poisonous righteous
That they'd think less of anyone who just disagreed?
She's just a pacifist, he's just a patriot
If I said you were crazy, would you have to fight me?

Fighters for liberty, fighters for power
Fighters for longer turns in the shower
Don't tell me I can't fight, 'cause I'll punch out your lights
And history seems to agree that I would fight you for me

So we read and we watched all the specially selected news
And we learned so much more 'bout the good guys
Won't you stand by the flag? Was the question unasked
Won't you join in and fight with the allies?
What could we say ... we're only 25 years old?
With 25 sweet summers, and hot fires in the cold
This kind of life makes that violence unthinkable
We'd like to play hockey, have kids and grow old

Fighters for Texaco, fighters for power
Fighters for longer turns in the shower
Don't tell me I can't fight 'cause I'll punch out your lights
And history seems to agree that I would fight you for me
That us would fight them for we

He's just a peacenik and she's just a warhawk
That's where the beach was, that's where the sea
What could we say ... we're only 25 years old?
And history seems to agree
that I would fight you for me
That us would fight them for we

Is that how it always will be?

Comments

[gramcracker.livejournal.com]

I hate that a song written about the first Iraq war is so painfully relevant again. Blargh.

[kuangning]

They're all relevant again, sadly, and probably always will be.

[tyratae.livejournal.com]

hi. i followed your link to your journal from a comment you made at for sarahsmiles, really just because i liked your icon & was intrigued by your unpronounceable gaelic name (best i can come up with is "evil," but that seems so wrong alongside its translation!). i'm intrigued by your page. then i see you're listening to dougie & quoting fruvous & i'm "this is someone i could really like being friends with." mind if i friend your page & occasionally comment?

[tyratae.livejournal.com]

(even if i leave the word "thinking" out of my comment so part of it doesn't make any sense at all?)

[kuangning]

Hi. :) And no, of course I don't mind. (The pronunciation, according to Cherryh, is closer to "ah-oh-vell". Since she appears to have made the name up, I believe her. ;) )