Mar 17, 2024 – willowdot21

Jim Adams is the host for Song Lyric Sunday. The theme is a song about war and/or peace, suggested by Nancy, aka The Sicilian Storyteller.

This week’s prompt has been done before, under different titles but it all means the same. So to be honest I have found it hard not to repeat my self. Really there are so many songs about war and peace that we could do this prompt every week and not run out of material. I have included two videos I have done before because they are so spot on .”No bravery”

and “Singing a song” By James Blunt. James Blunt was a serving soldier so he knows what he is talking about and both videos are powerful! I have talked about these before so I am not going to now. These two videos are not my featured ones.

I have to mention a few that break my heart though that I have chosen them before. Kate Bush, Army dreamers a song about a mother’s loss.
Zombie and War Child by the Cranberries, Say Goodbye to them all by Chris DeBurgh, War Pigs Black Sabbath, Dogs of War Pink Floyd, I could go on and on but I won’t.

War sad always was always is …just look at the world today, and sadly always will be. Okay I must not get on my soapbox this is a music prompt.

So here are my two picks for today firstly War.

“Silent Running (On Dangerous Ground)” is a song performed by Mike + The Mechanics. Written by Mike Rutherford and B. A. Robertson, it was the first track on the 1985 self-titled debut album of Mike + the Mechanics. It was also released as the band’s first single, peaking at number 6 on 8 March 1986 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and number 1 on Billboard‘s Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, where it stayed for five weeks. It reached No. 21 in the band’s native United Kingdom.

Paul Carrack provided lead vocals on the song. Alan Murphy was hired as a session guitarist and provided lead guitar on the track. The song’s original title was simply “Silent Running”; the name extension was given when the song was chosen to appear in the 1986 movie On Dangerous Ground, which was titled Choke Canyon in the United States.

The song was banned by the BBC during the Gulf War due to its address of war, nationalism and religion, as well as a direct reference to weaponry in the line, “There’s a gun and ammunition just inside the doorway.”

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Take the children and yourself
And hide out in the cellar
By now the fighting will be close at hand
Don’t believe the church and state
And everything they tell you
Believe in me, I’m with the high command
Can you hear me, can you hear me running?
Can you hear me running, can you hear me calling you?
Can you hear me, can you hear me running?
Can you hear me running, can you hear me calling you?
There’s a gun and ammunition
Just inside the doorway
Use it only in emergency
Better you should pray to God
The Father and the Spirit
Will guide you and protect from up here
Can you hear me, can you hear me running?
Can you hear me running, can you hear me calling you?
Can you hear me, can you hear me running?
Can you hear me running, can you hear me calling you?
Swear allegiance to the flag
Whatever flag they offer
Never hint at what you really feel
Teach the children quietly
For some day sons and daughters
Will rise up and fight while we stood still
Can you hear me, can you hear me running?
Can you hear me running, can you hear me calling you?
Can you hear me, can you hear me running?
Can you hear me running, can you hear me calling you?
Can you hear me, can you hear me running?
Can you hear me running, can you hear me calling you?
Can you hear me running (can you hear me calling you?)
(Can you hear me) hear me calling you?
(Can you hear me running) hear me running babe?
(Can you hear me running) hear me running?
Calling you, calling you

Source: Musixmatch

Songwriters: Ba Robertson / Michael Rutherford

Silent Running lyrics © Michael Rutherford Publishing Ltd., R And Ba Music Ltd

And now to Peace

“Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)” is a song by English musician George Harrison, released as the opening track of his 1973 album Living in the Material World. It was also issued as the album’s lead single, in May that year, and became Harrison’s second US number 1, after “My Sweet Lord“. In doing so, the song pushed Paul McCartney and Wings‘ “My Love” from the top of the Billboard Hot 100, marking the only occasion that two former Beatles have held the top two chart positions in America. The single also reached the top ten in Britain, Canada, Australia, and Holland.

I want to be God-conscious. That’s really my only ambition, and everything else in life is incidental.

– George Harrison, speaking in early 1971 about his plans following the success of All Things Must Pass

As with most of the songs on his Living in the Material World album, George Harrison wrote “Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)” over 1971–72. During this period, he dedicated himself to assisting refugees of the Bangladesh Liberation War, by staging two all-star benefit concerts in New York and preparing a live album and concert film for release. In addition, much of his time was spent occupied with the business and legal problems afflicting the humanitarian aid project. Author Andrew Grant Jackson writes that Harrison’s frustration with this last issue resulted in a sombre quality pervading much of Material World, yet he “pushed his disillusionment aside for the lead single [‘Give Me Love’]”.

The same period coincided with the height of Harrison’s devotion to Hindu spirituality. As with his religious-themed 1970–71 hit, “My Sweet Lord“, and his subsequent singles “What Is Life” and “Bangla Desh“, Harrison wrote “Give Me Love” very quickly. Author Alan Clayson describes it as having “flowed from George with an ease as devoid of ante-start agonies as a Yoko Ono ‘think piece'”. In his autobiography, I, Me, Mine, Harrison recalls of the writing process:

Sometimes you open your mouth and you don’t know what you are going to say, and whatever comes out is the starting point. If that happens and you are lucky, it can usually be turned into a song. This song is a prayer and personal statement between me, the Lord, and whoever likes it.
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Give me love
Give me love
Give me peace on earth
Give me light
Give me life
Keep me free from birth
Give me hope
Help me cope with this heavy load
Trying to touch and reach you with
Heart and soul

Om
My Lord
Please take hold of my hand
That I might understand you
Won’t you please
Oh, won’t you?

Give me love
Give me love
Give me peace on earth
Give me light
Give me life
Keep me free from birth
Give me hope
Help me cope with this heavy load
Trying to touch and reach you with
Heart and soul

Om
My Lord

Won’t you please
Oh, won’t you?

Give me love
Give me love
Give me peace on earth
Give me light
Give me life
Keep me free from birth
Give me hope
Help me cope with this heavy load
Trying to touch and reach you with
Heart and soul
Give me love
Give me love
Give me peace on earth
Give me light
Give me life
Keep me, keep me free from birth
Now give me hope
Help me cope with this heavy load
Trying to touch and reach you with
Heart and soul