Spike Lee Directs The Killers Protest Song - Land of The Free -

[tulipsandroses]

[flibbitygiblets]

1. Bout time we got some protest songs! This is a good one!

[mtngirl47]

2. Thanks for posting this!

A tear in my eye!

[emulatorloo]

3. I posted lyrics in the Lounge last night. Here they are again. Amazingly powerful song

Land of the Free


Can't wipe the wind-blown smile from across my face
It's just the old man in me
Washing his truck at the Sinclair station
In the land of the free (Ooh)
His mother, Adeline's family, came on a ship
Cut coal and planted a seed
Down in them drift mines of Pennsylvania
In the land of the free

Land of the free, land of the free
In the land of the free
Land of the free, land of the free
Land of the free, land of the free
In the land of the free
(I'm standing crying)

When I go out in my car, I don't think twice
But if you're the wrong color skin (I'm standing, crying)
You grow up looking over both your shoulders
In the land of the free

And we got more people locked up than the rest of the world
Right here in red, white and blue (I'm standing, crying)
Incarceration's become big business
It's harvest time out on the avenue

Land of the free, land of the free
In the land of the free
Land of the free, land of the free
Move on there's nothing to see
Land of the free, land of the free
In the land of the free

Oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh
I'm standing crying (Oh-oh-oh-oh)
I'm standing crying (Oh-oh-oh-oh)

So how many daughters, tell me, how many sons
Do we have to have to put in the ground
Before we just break down and face it:
We got a problem with guns? (Oh-oh-oh-oh)
In the land of the free

Down at the border, they're gonna put up a wall
Concrete and Rebar Steel beams (I'm standing crying)
High enough to keep all those filthy hands off
Of our hopes and our dreams (I'm standing crying)
People who just want the same things we do
In the land of the free

Land of the free, land of the free
In the land of the free
Land of the free, land of the free
Land of the free, land of the free
In the land of the free

Land of the free, land of the free
Land of the free, land of the free
Land of the free, land of the free
In the land of the free (I'm standing crying)

[tulipsandroses]

4. Amazing song. Are we really free?

The country that locked a US citizen out of his chosen profession for silently protesting the deaths of fellow citizens? The same country not up in arms about the deaths of its citizens? But somehow are triggered and appalled by the silent protest of a citizen that dared to take a knee in protest? The land of the Free huh?

Love the song.

[ancianita]

5. All due respect it's truly beautiful, but it's got no anthem-like fight. It's more a giving up song

than a protest song.

It reminds me of Springsteen's "My Home Town."

[DemocracyMouse]

6. Good point! But it complements the booster protest songs

Write one!

(I encourage everyone to take a break from Trump Workd noise and write protest songs (lyrics at least)... then post them on social media.

It will be heard. Someone may even turn it into music. We must all do our part.