Genius Lists - Songs of Protest and Politics lyrics

In alphabetical order by title: (Can't find your song? Please add it and link it!) A "Abraham, Martin and John" -- by Dion -- Summary "Alabama" -- by Neil Young -- Summary "Alright" -- by Kendrick Lamar -- Summary "American Idiot" -- by Green Day -- Summary "American Oxygen" -- by Rihanna -- Summary "American Skin (41 Shots)" -- by Bruce Springsteen -- Summary "American Tune" -- by Paul Simon -- Summary "AWOL" -- by Paris -- Summary B "Ballad of Accounting" -- By Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger -- Summary "Ball of Confusion (That's What the World is Today" -- By The Temptations -- Summary "Baltimore" -- by Prince ft. Eryn Allen Kane -- Summary "Beds Are Burning" -- by Midnight Oil -- Summary "Behind the Wall" -- by Tracy Chapman -- Summary "Beneath, Between, and Behind"--by Rush--Summary "Big Yellow Taxi" -- by Joni Mitchell -- Summary "Biko" -- by Peter Gabriel -- Summary "Birmingham Sunday" -- by Joan Baez -- Summary "Black Waters" -- by Jean Ritchie -- Summary "The Blacker the Berry" -- by Kendrick Lamar -- Summary "Blowin' in the Wind" -- by Bob Dylan -- Summary "Born in the U.S.A" -- by Bruce Springsteen -- Summary "Brother is Gone" -- by Ry Cooder -- Summary "Brothers In Arms" -- by Dire Straits -- Summary "B.Y.O.B." -- by System of a Down -- Summary C "A Change is Gonna Come" -- by Sam Cooke -- Summary "Changes" -- by 2Pac -- Summary "Cheney's Toy" -- by James McMurtry -- Summary "Clampdown" -- by The Clash -- Summary "Conservative Christian, Right-Wing Republican, Straight, White, American Males" -- by Todd Snider -- Summary "Cowboys" -- by Counting Crows -- Summary D "d**h To My Hometown" -- by Bruce Springsteen -- Summary "Democracy" -- by Leonard Cohen -- Summary "Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)" -- By Joan Baez -- Summary "Disorder in the House" -- By Warren Zevon and Bruce Springsteen -- Summary "Do You Hear the People Sing?" by Herbert Kretzmer for the musical Les Miserables -- Summary "Doctor My Eyes" -- by Jackson Brown -- Summary "Dogs" -- by Pink Floyd -- Summary "Don't k** the Whale" -- by Yes -- Summary "Don't Let it Bring You Down" -- by Neil Young -- Summary "(Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Below, We're All Going to Go" By Curtis Mayfield -- Summary "Draft Dodger Rag" -- by Phil Ochs -- Summary "Drums of War" -- by Jackson Browne -- Summary E "Empire" -- by Dar Williams -- Summary "Eve of Destruction" -- by Barry McGuire -- Summary F "Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag" -- By Country Joe and the Fish -- Summary "A Few Words in Defense of Our Country" -- By Randy Newman -- Summary "Fiddle and the Drum" -- by Perfect Circle -- Summary "Fight the Power" -- by The Isley Brothers -- Summary "Fight the Power" -- by Public Enemy -- Summary "Find the Cost of Freedom" -- By Crosby, Stills & Nash -- Summary "Follow the Flag" -- by Randy Newman -- Summary "Fortunate Son" -- by Creedence Clearwater Revival -- Summary "For What It's Worth" -- by Buffalo Springfield -- Summary "Freedom" -- by Richie Havens -- Summary "f** tha Police" -- by N.W.A. -- Summary G "Gasoline Dreams" -- by Outkast -- Summary "Get Up, Stand Up" -- by Bob Marley -- Summary "Gimme Shelter" -- by The Rolling Stones -- Summary "Give Peace a Chance" -- by John Lennon -- Summary "Give Me Back My Job" -- by Carl Perkins -- Summary "God Save the Queen" -- by The Sex Pistols -- Summary "Going Down to Cuba" -- by Jackson Browne -- Summary "The Great Compromise" -- by John Prine -- Summary H "Happiness is a Warm Gun" -- by The Beatles -- Summary "A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall" -- by Bob Dylan -- Summary "Harvest for the World" -- The Isley Brothers "Holy Wars...The Punishment Due" -- By Megad**h -- Summary 'How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?" -- By Bruce Springsteen-- Summary "How Come, How Long?' -- by Babyface -- Summary "Hurricane" -- by Bob Dylan -- Summary "Hurt Me Soul" -- by Lupe Fiasco -- Summary I "I Ain't Got No Home in this World Anymore" -- By Woody Guthrie -- Summary "I Ain't Marchin' Anymore" -- by Phil Ochs -- Summary "I Don't Care" -- by Fall Out Boy -- Summary "I Don't Want To Go To Vietnam'" -- By John Lee Hooker -- Summary "If I Had a Hammer" -- by Peter, Paul & Mary -- Summary "If I Had a Rocket Launcher" -- by Bruce co*kburn -- Summary "If White America Told the Truth For One Day, It's World Would Fall Apart" -- by Manic Street Preachers -- Summary "Imagine" -- by John Lennon -- Summary "Immigration Man" -- By Graham Nash and David Crosby -- Summary "Inner City Blues" -- by Marvin Gaye -- Summary "It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" -- By Bob Dylan -- Summary J "Joe Hill" -- by Joan Baez -- Summary K "Kent State Ma**acre" -- by Barbara Dane -- Summary "k**ing in the Name" -- By Rage Against the Machine -- Summary "k** the Poor" -- by Dead Kennedys -- Summary L "Lane Boy" -- by twenty one pilots -- Summary "Land Of Confusion" -- by Genesis -- Summary "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)" - by Melanie -- Summary "Let's Have a War" -- by Fear -- Summary "Lives in the Balance" -- by Jackson Browne -- Summary "Living With War" -- by Neil Young -- Summary "The Lonesome d**h of Hattie Carroll" -- By Bob Dylan -- Summary "Long Live Palestine" -- by Lowkey -- Summary "Long Road Out Of Eden" -- by The Eagles -- Summary "Louder Than a Bomb" -- by Public Enemy -- Summary "Ludlow Ma**acre" -- by Woody Guthrie -- Summary "Lyndon Johnson Told the Nation" -- By Tom Paxton -- Summary M "Machine Gun" -- by Jimi Hendrix -- Summary "Magic" -- by Bruce Springsteen -- Summary "March to the Witch's Castle" -- by Funkadelic -- Summary "The Marines Have Landed on the Shores of Santo Domingo" -- By Phil Ochs -- Summary "Masters of War" -- by Bob Dylan -- Summary "The Men Behind the Wire" -- by Paddy McGuigan -- Summary "Mercy, Mercy Me (The Ecology)" -- By Marvin Gaye -- Summary "The Message" -- By Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five -- Summary "Minority Report" -- by Jay Z ft. Ne-Yo -- Summary "Mississippi Goddamn" -- by Nina Simone -- Summary "The Motor City's Buring" -- by John Lee Hooker -- Summary "Mosh" -- by Eminem -- Summary "Mourning in America" -- by Brother Ali -- Summary "Move On Up" -- by Curtis Mayfield "Moving On" -- by Ewan MacColl -- Summary "M.T.A. -- by the Kingston Trio -- Summary "Mumia 911" -- by Unbound Allstars - Summary "My Brain is Hanging Upside Down (Bonzo Goes to Bitburg)" -- By The Ramones -- Summary "My Generation" -- by The Who -- Summary "My Uncle" -- by The Flying Burrito Brothers -- Summary "My Uzi" --Summary "My Youngest Son Came Home Today" -- By Billy Bragg -- Summary "Man in Black" -- by Johnny Cash -- Summary N "No Banker Left Behind" -- by Ry Cooder -- Summary "No More Auction Block" -- by Bob Dylan-- Summary "No More Weapons" -- by Steel Pulse-- Summary O "Ohio" -- by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young -- Summary "Only a Pawn in Their Own Game" -- by Bob Dylan -- Summary "Oxford Town" -- by Bob Dylan -- Summary P "Paradise" -- by John Prine -- Summary "Patriotism" -- by Company Flow -- Summary "Pen Or Sword" -- by Rusty Wright Band -- Summary "People Get Ready" -- by The Impressions -- Summary "People Have the Power" -- by Patti Smith -- Summary "Persons Unknown" -- by Poison Girls -- Summary "The Pledge of Resistance" -- by Saul Williams -- Summary "Peruvian Cocaine" -- by Immortal Technique -- Summary "Pink Houses" -- by John Melencamp -- Summary "Political Science" -- by Randy Newman -- Summary "The Poverty of Philosophy" -- By Immortal Technique -- Summary "Power to the People" -- by John Lennon -- Summary "The Prophetic Egg"--by Unknown--Summary Q R "Rappaport's Testament: I Never Gave Up" -- By Chumbawamba -- Summary "Reagan" -- by k**er Mike -- Summary "Redemption Song" -- by Bob Marley -- Summary "Rednecks" -- by Randy Newman -- Summary "Revolution" -- by The Beatles -- Summary "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" -- By Gil Scott-Heron -- Summary "Right to Remain Silent" -- by Moral Dilemma -- Summary "Run Through the Jungle" -- By Creedence Clearwater Revival -- Summary "Road to Peace" -- by Tom Waits -- Summary S "Same Love' -- by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis -- Summary "Save the Children" -- by Marvin Gaye -- Summary "Shame on You" -- by Indigo Girls -- Summary "Signs" -- by Five Man Electric Band -- Summary "The Sins of the Family" -- by P.F. Sloan -- Summary "Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves" -- By Annie Lennox and Aretha Franklin -- Summary "Slap Leather" -- by James Taylor -- Summary "Small Circles of Friends" -- by Phil Ochs -- Summary "Some Humans Ain't Human" -- by John Prine -- Summary "Southern Man" -- by Neil Young -- Summary "State of the Union" -- by Rise Against -- Summary "Strange Fruit" -- by Billie Holiday -- Summary "Street Fighting Man" -- by The Rolling Stones -- Summary "Streets of London" -- by Ralph McTell -- Summary "Subterranean Homesick Blues" -- by Bob Dylan -- Summary "Sunday, Bloody Sunday" -- by U2 -- Summary "Sunshine" -- by Jonathan Edwards -- Summary T "Take Back Your Atom Bomb" -- by Peter La Farge -- Summary "Take the Power Back" -- By Rage Against the Machine -- Summary "Takin' It to the Streets" -- by The Doobie Brothers -- Summary "Talkin' bout a Revolution" -- by Tracy Chapman -- Summary "Terrorist Threats" -- By Ab-Soul ft. Danny Brown & Jhene Aiko -- Summary "This Ain't No Picnic" -- by Minutemen -- Summary "This Land is Your Land" -- by Woody Guthrie -- Summary "The Times They Are A-Changin'" -- by Bob Dylan -- Summary "Tie My Hands" -- by Lil Wayne ft. Robin Thicke -- Summary "Tramp the Dirt Down" -- by Elvis Costello -- Summary "Trouble Every Day" -- by Frank Zappa -- Summary "Two Suns in the Sunset" -- Pink Floyd -- Summary U United--by Judas Priest -- Summary Universal Soldier-- by Buffy Sainte-Marie -- Summary V "Vietnam" -- by Jimmy Cliff -- Summary "Volunteers" -- by Jefferson Airplane-- Summary W "Waist Deep in the Big Muddy" -- by Pete Seeger-- Summary "War" -- by Bob Marley-- Summary "War" -- by Edwin Starr-- Summary "War Pigs' -- by Black Sabbath -- Summary "Wasted Life" -- by Stiff Little Fingers-- Summary "Wasteland of the Free" -- by Iris Dement-- Summary "The Way it Is" -- by Bruce Horsby-- Summary "We Are Here" -- by Alicia Keys -- Summary "We Gotta Pray" -- by Alicia Keys-- Summary "We Can't Make It Here Anymore" -- By James McMurtry-- Summary "We the People Who Are Darker Than Blue" -- By Curtis Mayfield-- Summary "We Shall Overcome" -- by Joan Baez-- Summary "We're Only Gonna Die For Our Own Arrogance" -- By Sublime -- Summary "What's Going On" -- by Marvin Gaye -- Summary "What's Happening Brother" -- by Marvin Gaye-- Summary "What Have They Done to the Rain?" -- By Joan Baez-- Summary "What Keeps Mankind Alive?" -- By Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weil -- Summary "Where Next Columbus?" -- by Cra**-- Summary "Which Way Are You Going?" -- by Jim Croce-- Summary "Whitey on the Moon" -- by Gill Scott-Heron-- Summary "Why Aye Man" -- by Mark Knopfler -- Summary "Wild and Free" -- by Curtis Mayfield-- Summary "Winter In America" -- by Gil Scott Heron-- Summary "Words I Never Said" -- By Lupe Fiasco ft. Skylar Grey -- Summary X Y "Yes Sir, I Will" by Cra** -- Summary Z "Zombie" -- The Cranberries-- Summary Numbers "1913 Ma**acre" -- by Woody Guthrie-- Summary "20 Dollar Nose Bleed" -- by Fall Out Boy -- Summary "99 Luftballons" -- by Nena-- Summary