Real Life In Songs

[DFreshZ]

Anybody know any song that are about real life events. War songs, songs about tragedy, songs about triumph. Any song which lyrics can be correlated with an actual event.

Thanks if you can think of any.

[GGGG]

Titanic / Celine Dion.... sink!!!!!

[cg124]

Bob Dylan is where it's at

"Blowin' In The Wind"-Bob Dylan(the answer to the war is there)

"How many roads most a man walk down
Before you call him a man ?
How many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand ?
Yes, how many times must the cannon balls fly
Before they're forever banned ?
The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind.

Yes, how many years can a mountain exist
Before it's washed to the sea ?
Yes, how many years can some people exist
Before they're allowed to be free ?
Yes, how many times can a man turn his head
Pretending he just doesn't see ?
The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind.

Yes, how many times must a man look up
Before he can see the sky ?
Yes, how many ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry ?
Yes, how many deaths will it take till he knows
That too many people have died ?
The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind."



"The Times They Are A-Changin'"- Bob Dylan(pretty self explainatory)

"Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone
If your time to you
Is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon
For the wheel's still in spin
And there's no tellin' who
That it's namin'
For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside
And it is ragin'
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is
Rapidly agin'
Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin'.

The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is
Rapidly fadin'
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'."

[GGGG]

ohhh I wanted to make fun of this .... but lets get serious

Candle in the wind(Diana version) by Elton John
Sunday Bloody Sunday by U2

[cg124]

here's another one

"stop breathin"-pavement(from reading their book in the CD it's about the civil war)

"got struck by the first volley
of the war in the corps
never held my service
send em a wire, give em my best
this ammunition never rests
no one serves coffee, no one wakes up

stop breathin'
stop breathin'
breathin' for me now
write it on a postcard:
dad they broke me.
dad they broke me.
[repeat]

i can see the lines open shutters
and the leaves flocked on a grid
that's what they made my hero say
but nothing gets me off so completely
but when you put it down
ten feet down in the ground
call and response in the negative home

stop breathin'
stop breathin'
breathin' for me now
write it on a postcard:
dad they broke me.
dad they broke me.
[repeat]"


"butterfly"-weezer(not a real even in history,but more about tragic events in life and wanting to be forgiven)

""Butterfly"

Yesterday I went outside
With my momma's mason jar
Caught a lovely Butterfly
When I woke up today
Looked in on my fairy pet
She had withered all away
No more sighing in her breast
I'm sorry for what I did
I did what my body told me to
I didn't mean to do you harm
Everytime I pin down what I think I want
It slips away - the ghost slips away
I smell you on my hand for days
I can't wash away your scent
If I'm a dog then you're a *****
I guess you're as real as me
Maybe I can live with that
Maybe I need fantasies
A life of chasing butterfly

I'm sorry for what I did
I did what my body told me to
I didn't mean to do you harm
Everytime I pin down what I think I want
It slips away - the ghost slips away

I told you I would return
When the robin makes his nest
But I ain't never coming back
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry"

[DFreshZ]

If they're about a certain event could you please list the event next to them. I can pertty much figure out most of them, but some I'm not quite sure.

[GGGG]

In 1968, there was a civil rights march held in Londonderry. The majority of these protestors were Catholics with some Protestant supporters. This march was to make people aware that Catholics should have more rights (the UK is mainly Protestant). As it was a massive demonstration, the police and army were called in because there was a tip that the IRA a terrorist group who thought they could get a United Ireland through violence - would hijack the demonstration and cause some sort of trouble. Tensions were high when the march took place and it is still not clear to date who fired the first shot but mayhem broke out, and the British Army went mad and killed 11 innocent people. It was the catalyst; that day is now referred to as Bloody Sunday.

[ZombieMan]

"In This River" by Black Label Society
It is about Zakk Wylde's (guitarst) best friend Dimebag Darrell that was recently shot and killed. Its sort of a tribute song saying how much he misses his friend and that there is no coming back again.

"Soul One" by Blind Melon
This song was from the singer Shannon Hoon to his wife and little girl named Nico Blue Hoon. The guy obviously knew when he wrote this song that he was going to overdose and die someday. Its pretty sad to listen to, but its a beautiful song.

[JBond]

"When the Tiger's Broke Free" - Pink Floyd (Roger Waters)
A song about how the writer ROger Water's father died in WWII.

I'm going to have to move this to the music forum though.