Really good song for Ron Paul/ Revolution

[sirachman]

I know this doesn't go here but I am in a hurry. I just heard this song and I think it goes really good with the Ron Paul Revolution. Maybe someone would like to make a video using it or something because it really fits.
Track: Oxygen
Artist: Willy Mason
Album: Where the humans eat

~Adam

[Knightskye]

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

^You know, for people who actually wanted to listen to the song before making a decision.

Anyway, I don't like the song. It's monotone, sounds unusual, and I'm not sure what the lyrics have to do with the Ron Paul Revolution. I think it'd be more suited for use in the '60s. We need a song for a modern revolution. My two cents.

[PRIEST]

I suggest "Underdog" by Spoon.

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

[hrdman2luv]

I like Pat Greens "Who's to say"

I don't wear my shirt tucked in
I like a little bar-B-que on sunday
Well I hang out with the rougher crowd
Drink too much and talk to loud
But don't you know thats alright with me
And I don't go to church too much
But I know that Jesus really loves me
And if he was here I'd be drinkin beer
hangin out and saving all of my friends....Amen...

Who's to say.... Who are you to judge me anyway.
This is my road.. I'll Take the corners as fast as I can go.
Who's to say..How I got so lucky anyway
I am my own.. At least until the man comes to take me home.

Well I got my moma's features and my daddies fixtures.
All day long I've been lookin at picture
Wonderin how in the heck they come up with me.
Yes I'm crazy as a loon, I'm howlin at the moon.
My baby she don't know what to do.
She's wonderin how in the heck she's gonna stay with me.
She's been to church more than Billy Graham
She knows the Bible like the back of her hand
But she drinks gin like it's going out of style....Oh makes me smile......

But who's to say...Who are you to judge her anyways.
This old world spins...Never gonna take that chance again.
Who's to say.. How we got so lucky anyways.
We have a home... And neither one of us will ever be alone...

(Spoken)
It's a lesson of survival.
To ride out every trial.
Secret of forgiveness..
Way down deep inside......
Repeat Chorus #1.

Pat Green has a huge following in Texas, and all over. His music is labeled Country, but is far from it. With the exceptions of a few songs. Youtube doesn't have a good video of this. The origanal audio is much better.

[noztnac]

I like the song. Go make a video.

We all have different tastes. I think it's cool that there are so many different kinds of people who like Ron Paul. I've even seen some rap songs for Ron Paul...probably the first rap I've ever thought tolerable.

[noztnac]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87yq372R4Ts

This one's cool. Maybe you've heard of the band.

They were quite popular in their day.

and here's an acoustic version

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqJLtMEdkK8&feature=related

[noztnac]

HENDRIX

FREEDOM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qezM-Ly5dYM

[ladyliberty]

I am still waiting for someone to do a Ron Paul video of Woody Guthrie's This Land is Your Land - oh and BTW it is not "long haired hippy crap" music as someone once described it - Woody wrote that song while he was hitchhiking across the country during the Dust Bowl Depression Days. He wrote it to remind people who this country REALLY belongs to - it belongs to you and me - not the Big Government!

[JAYCEE]

Beethoven is music of revolution. There is plenty of good classical music in the public domain (no copyright issues). I say stick with classical and leave the rock n roll to Huckabee.

[FreeTraveler]

Where could I find an audio track of "This Land"? Also, I've had trouble finding music in general; can anybody recommend a good source of public domain music? I've been to the Archive.org and they have some, but I need more sources.

[andreww]

We're not gonna take it

Twisted Sister.

this verse especially:

We've Got The Right To Choose And
there Ain't No Way We'll Lose It
this Is Our Life, This Is Our Song
We'll Fight The Powers That Be
don't Pick Our Destiny 'cause
You Don't Know Us, You Don't Belong

[drexhex]

For the younger generation, Linkin Park's "Hands Held High" is perfect.
Here's a youtube (only music, no video): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kiR5ZXWm-A



Turn my mike up louder I got to say something
Light weights step to the side when we come in

Feel it in your chest the syllables get pumping
People on the street they panic and start running

Words on loose leaf sheet complete coming
I jump in my mind and summon the rhyme, I'm dumping

Healing the blind I promise to let the sun in
Sick of the dark ways we march to the drum and

Jump when they tell us that they wanna see jumping
Fuck that I wanna see some fists pumping

Risk something, take back what's yours
Say something that you know they might attack you for

Cause I'm sick of being treated like I have before
Like it's stupid standing for what I'm standing for

Like this war's really just a different brand of war
Like it doesn't cater the rich and abandon poor

Like they understand you in the back of the jet
When you can't put gas in your tank

These fuckers are laughing their way to the bank and cashing the check
Asking you to have compassion and have some respect

For a leader so nervous in an obvious way
Stuttering and mumbling for nightly news to replay

And the rest of the world watching at the end of the day
In their living room laughing like "what did he say?"

[Chorus:]
Amen
Amen
Amen
Amen
Amen

In my living room watching but I am not laughing
Cause when it gets tense I know what might happen

World is cold the bold men take action
Have to react or get blown into fractions

Ten years old it's something to see
Another kid my age drugged under a jeep

Taken and bound and found later under a tree
I wonder if he had thought the next one could be me

Do you see the soldiers they're out today
They brush the dust from bullet proof vests away

It's ironic at times like this you pray
But a bomb blew the mosque up yesterday

There's bombs in the buses, bikes, roads
Inside your market, your shops, your clothes

My dad he's got a lot of fear I know
But enough pride inside not to let that show

My brother had a book he would hold with pride
A little red cover with a broken spine

On the back, he hand-wrote a quote inside
When the rich wage war it's the poor who die

Meanwhile, the leader just talks away
Stuttering and mumbling for nightly news to replay

And the rest of the world watching at the end of the day
both scared and angry like "what did he say?"

[Chorus x6]

[x6]
With hands held high into the sky so blue,
As the ocean opens up to swallow you.

[CelestialRender]

Intolerance, by Tool methinks.

There's no digging around for appropriate lyrics in this one:

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

I don't want to be hostile.
I don't want to be dismal.
But I don't want to rot in an apathetic existance either.
See
I want to believe you,
and I want to trust
and I want to have faith to put away the dagger.

But you lie, cheat, and steal.
And yet
I tolerate you.
Veil of virtue hung to hide your method
while I smile and laugh and dance
and sing your praise and glory.
Shroud of virtue hung to mask your stigma
as I smile and laugh and dance
and sing your glory
while you
lie, cheat, and steal.
How can I tolerate you.

Our guilt,our blame ,
I've been far too sympathetic.
Our blood, our fault.
I've been far too sympathetic.

I am not innocent.
You are not innocent.
Noone is innocent.

[RPFTW!]

Hallowed Be Thy Name by Iron Maiden

[malibu]

for our troops, I like . . . Ozzy Osbourne "Mama I'm Comin' Home"


in concert (511,000 hits) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol0U7quGYCA

VH1 video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxIRNBqGMjw

[RegularRon]

Hallowed Be Thy Name by Iron Maiden

Take a look at my avatar. Huge Maiden fan here. For a Maiden song, I'd have to go with "The clansman (http://youtube.com/watch?v=LrUu8ls3qmg)" With lyrics like this....

"Ancestors could hear.
What is happening now
They would turn in their graves
They would all be ashamed
That the land of the free
Has been written in chains
And I know what I want

For a song, "We're not gonna take it" is as a good one. But being the metal fan that I am (i'm in my 30s and my g/f thinks I need to grow up) I think the song from Helloween "I want out (http://youtube.com/watch?v=FjV8SHjHvHk)" is perfect.....

"People tell me a and b
They tell me how I have to see
Things that I have seen already clear
So they push me then from side to side
Theyre pushing me from black to white
Theyre pushingtil theres nothing more to hear

But dont push me to the maximum
Shut your mouth and take it home
cause I decide the way things gonna be

I want out... to live my life alone
I want out... leave me be
I want out... to do things on my own
I want out... to live my life and to be free"

And since most of us are for returning to the Gold Standard, Why in the Good Lords name hasn't someone done something with the song "The Ecstasy of Gold (http://youtube.com/watch?v=GdNh9f2Wwm0)" ??

[bbartlog]

All good suggestions. But no folk music yet! Though the lyrics aren't about liberty per se, I think this song is very evocative of the spirit of the Revolution (substitute 'Republic' for 'Mary Ellen Carter' if you miss the point):
The Mary Ellen Carter (http://www.chivalry.com/cantaria/lyrics/mary-ellen-carter.html)