Elvis Costello adds anti-war lyrics to song

[RebelOne]

NEW YORK (Billboard) -- He had a 4 a.m. wakeup call, but it wasn't necessary because Elvis Costello couldn't sleep the night before his recent appearance on NBC's "Today" with his band the Imposters and guest Emmylou Harris.

It was then that the additional lyrics to his 2004 Academy Award-nominated song "The Scarlet Tide" from the movie "Cold Mountain" came to him: "I thought I heard a black bell toll up in the highest dome/Admit you're wrong/And bring the boys back home."

He repeated this portion of the first verse of the anti-war song, which he wrote with T-Bone Burnett, with a second revision: "You know you lied/Just bring the boys back home."

http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Music/08/15/music.antiwar.reut/index.html

[Oreo]

1. I've always loved Elvis

I was lucky enough to meet him before his show a few years back.

"Everything that I have ever loved about America is rapidly being eroded -- the unspoiled vastness, that, at its best, can absorb such cultural, religious and regional diversity, and the basic decency -- when it isn't tainted by one or other corruption of a belief inspired by a government intent on establishing some freakish hybrid: a spin-controlled theocracy."

Elvis gets it.

[redqueen]

6. Thanks for the quote...

I love him as well... he's spot on there.

[IndyOp]

2. Wonderful, wonderful news...

Getting the young 'uns to sing along with anti-war lyrics will drive down recruitment numbers.

:kick:

[lynettebro440]

7. My kids turned me on to Jack Johnson

Here is his song titled: Crying Shame: It's about the war.

"Crying Shame"

Its such a tired game
Will it ever stop
How will this all play out
Upside out of my mouth

By now we should know
How to communicate instead of coming to blows
We're on a roll
And there ain't no stopping us now
We're burning under control
Isn't it strange how
We're all burning under the same sun
By now we say its a war for peace
Its the same old game
But do we really want to play?
We could close our eyes its still there
We could say its us against them
We can try but nobody wins
Gravity has got a hold on us all
We try to put it out
But its a growing flame
Using fear as fuel
Burning down our name
And it wont take too long
Cause words are burning same
And who we gunna blame now?

And oh, Its such a crying crying crying shame
Its such a crying crying crying shame
Its such a crying crying crying shame, shame, shame

By now
Its starting to show
A number of people are numbers who aint coming home
I can close my eyes its still there
Close my mind be alone
Close my heart and not care
But gravity has got a hold on us all
Its a terrific price to pay
But in the true sense of the word
Are we using what we've learned?
In the true sense of the word
Are we losing what we were?
Its such a tired game
Will it ever stop?
Is not for me to say
And is it in our blood?
Or is it just our fate?
And how will this all play out
Upside out of my mouth
And who we gunna blame?
On and on
Its such a crying crying crying shame
Its such a crying crying crying shame

[IndyOp]

10. Who/When is Jack Johnson?

Is he new/young? Or someone I missed?

Great song. I get SOOOOO weary hearing on AAR and reading on DU that we must thank our troops for their service when their service is just as misused & abused as was the service of generations past. I want this whole da** war mythology revealed so it can self-destruct when the sunshine hits it.

[lynettebro440]

11. Here is his website

He has a lot of really cool songs. He's new, or at least newer. Take a look, I love his lyrics, he says a lot and he can sing too:)

http://www.jackjohnsonmusic.com/

[lynettebro440]

12. Here is another one of his songs

Jack Johnson: Good People. This one says it all.

Good People"

You win
Its your show, now
So whats it gunna be
Cause people
Will tune in
How many train wrecks do we need to see?
Before we lose touch of
We thought this was low
It's bad gettin worse so


Whered all the good people go
Ive been changin channels
I dont see them on the tv shows
Whered all the good people go
We got heaps and heaps of what we sow

They got this and that and
With a rattle a tat
Testing one two,
Now whatcha gunna do?
Bad news, misused,
Got too much to lose
Gimme some truth
Now whos side are we on?
Whatever you say
Turn on the boob tube
Im in the mood to obey
So lead me astray by the way, now

Where'd all the good people go?
I've been changin channels
I dont see them on the tv shows
Whered all the good people go
We got heaps and heaps of what we sow

Sitting round feeling far away
So far away but I can feel the debris
Can you feel it?
Yo interrupt me from a friendly conversation
To tell me how great its all gunna be
You might notice some hesitation
Cause whats important to you is not important to me
Way down by the edge of your reasons
Its beginning to show
And all I wanna know is..

Whered all the good people go
Ive been changin channels
I dont see them on the tv shows
Whered all the good people go
We got heaps and heaps of what we sow

They got this and that
With a rattle a tat
Testing one, two
Now what you gonna do?
Bad news, misused, gimme some truth
You got too much to lose
Whose side are we on?
Whatever you say
Run the resolut but in the mood to obey
Station to station desensitizing the nation

[Kolesar]

3. "Oliver's Army" was always one of my fav anti war songs

"anti-militarist" would be a good word for it.

[ET Awful]

4. What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding?

:)

[Minstrel Boy]

5. Goon Squad

seems sadly appropriate, too:


Mother, father, I’m here in the zoo
I can’t come home ’cause I’ve grown up too soon
I got my sentence
I got my command
They said they’d make me major if I met all their demands

I could be a corporal into corporal punishment
Or the general manager of a large establishment
They pat some good boys on the back and put some to the rod
But I never thought they’d put me in the...Goon squad

The goons who work you over and are giving you the eye
Goon squad
They want you to come out to play
You’d better say goodbye

Some grow just like their dads
And some grow up too tall
Some go drinking with the lads
Some don’t grow up at all

And you must find the proper place
For everything you see
But you’ll never get to make a lampshade out of me

I could join a chain of males or be the missing link
Looking for a lucky girl to put me in the pink
They pat some good boys on the back and put some to the rod
But I never thought they’d put me in the...Goon squad

Mother, father, I’m doing so well
I’m making such progress now that you can hardly tell
I fit in a little dedication
With one eye on the clock
They caught you under medication
You could be in for a shock

Thinking up the alibis that everyone’s forgotten
Just another mama’s boy gone too rotten
They pat some good boys on the back and put some to the rod
But I never thought they’d put me in the...Goon squad

[peekaloo]

8. That entire album is awesome. 'Green Shirt' is a fave of mine.

There’s a smart young woman on a light blue screen
Who comes into my house every night.
And she takes all the red, yellow, orange and green
And she turns them into black and white.

But you tease, and you flirt
And you shine all the buttons on your green shirt
You can please yourself but somebody’s gonna get it

Better cut off all identifying labels
Before they put you on the torture table

’cause somewhere in the quisling clinic
There’s a shorthand typist taking seconds over minutes
She’s listening in to the venus line
She’s picking out names
I hope none of them are mine

But you tease, and you flirt...

Never said I was a stool pigeon
I never said I was a diplomat
Everybody is under suspicion
But you don’t wanna hear about that

’cause you tease, and you flirt...

Better send a begging letter to the big investigation
Who put these fingerprints on my imagination?

You tease, and you flirt...

You can please yourself but somebody’s gonna get it
You can please yourself but somebody’s gonna get it

[Imagevision]

9. Jackson Browne where are you??

[crikkett]

13. "running on empty" ??

(tee hee) ;)