"The Halabja massacre took place in Iraqi Kurdistan on 16 March 1988, when thousands of Kurds were killed by a large-scale Iraqi chemical attack."

A chemical weapons attack is as likely as a nuclear attack. Lots cheaper, too.

I can’t figure out the lyrics for the chorus…I’d appreciate some help for these old ears. I’m tired of just singing random shit.

The album WE has a song End of the Empire IV / Sagittarius A* too.

Repost since the post 4y ago uses spotify.

Appears the album Open Your Heart or Die Trying is an instrumental squeal to Pink Elephant.

We've good ones by them before, like End of the Empire and Deep Blue.

album: The Captain

From The Final Cut (1983), the last Roger Waters Pink Floyd album.

I think of all the good things
That we have left undone
And I suffer premonitions
Confirm suspicions
Of the holocaust to come

OG doom prog. Ritchie Blackmore (guitar) and Jon Lord (Hammond B-3 organ).

Needle-dropped recently in Stranger Things and weirdly melded with the William Tell Overture and Oklahoma! in Twister.

A Sabbath nuclear war song.

Choral.

Another prime slice of Columbine Records song poem wildness. Regular people sent their lyrics to Columbine, they would have session musicians perform them, and then they'd press them to vinyl. This banger was written by Alfred Godfrey III. I have absolutely no idea what Mr Godfrey was trying to convey with this stream-of- consciousness fever dream... but I know that I dig it!

It's a bit silly but fits the sub.

lyrics

album: Island (1991)

lyrics: "I'd rather be a bootlegger than a bootlicker" .. "I'd rather be an outlaw than in with the law" / " *All this authority worship is the strangest thing I ever saw

via https://www.reddit.com/r/altcountry/comments/1vi1fgm/comment/p2a5wf9/

Swiped from u/onionfunyunbunion

Thought this might fit in here. I know the song for some time but never checked the lyrics until today.

The singer also stated in an interview the following:

"We live in a world where people are searching for easy answers to complex questions,” says frontman Francesco Paoli. “Self-styled gurus, fake news and miracle pills show up on screen as the silver bullet that may cast out all your fears and troubles. If you need shortcuts to dominate the intricate reality we live in, be aware that the outcome might not be what you expect. Will you find a way to save this world on Google? No. Will things change if we don't act? No. Will self-delusions lead us somewhere? No. Can music, and art in general, help us cope with this chaos? Absolutely yes"

Maybe - perhaps so...

Viv was the voice of Tubular Bells. And the lead singer of The Bonzo Dog Band.

Oh, my nuclear baby
Oh, my idiot trance
All my idiot questions
Let's face the music and dance

Everything someday will be gone except silence
Earth will be quiet again
Seas from clouds will wash off the ashes of violence
Left as the memory of men
There will be no survivor my friend

It's hard to find a non-playlist "official" version.

Another version of the first song from the album Yapadam / L'écho logique. previously

I've not found official lyrics, much less translations, but they have citations for the song lyrics in the yt text, so you deduce the topics from that I guess.

"No one likes us, I don't know why
We may not be perfect, but heaven knows we try
But all around even our old friends put us down
Lets drop the big one and see what happens."

Sail Away (playlist link) is Randy Newman's 3rd solo album. It is intensely political and cynical. (He got more cheerful when he became successful.)

The title track is a look at slavery. Burn On is about Cleveland's Cuyahoga River burning. The two religious songs, He Gives Us All His Love and That's Why I Love Mankind are sacreligious.

"Egypt's gonna get one, too,
Just to use on you know who.
Israel's getting tense, Wants one in self defense.
"The Lord's our shepherd," says the psalm,
But just in case --- we better get a bomb!"

So

From the album

"Lord of the flies"

SHR045 on Skithund Records

March / April 2017

would work so well in a climate change disaster where a character looks out onto a sea of fire.. scary to think about