Genius Lyrics
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Bob Dylan – Only a Pawn in Their Game
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The song describes the oppression of lower class southern whites. While the civil rights movement soars, they are simply used as manipulation by “the man” to continue racial
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Morrissey (Ft. Petra Haden) – Only a Pawn in Their Game
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[Verse 1] / A bullet from the back of the bush / Took Medgar Evers' blood / A finger fired the trigger to his name / A handle hid out in the dark / A hand set the spark / Behind
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Public Enemy – The Long and Whining Road
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Littered with many references to Bob Dylan, Chuck D gives a recollection of Public Enemy’s then-twenty year history in hip-hop, rephrasing The Beatles “The Long And Winding Road
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Elio e le Storie Tese – Gimmi I Interpolations
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See all of “Gimmi I” by Elio e le Storie Tese’s interpolations
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Elio e le Storie Tese – Gimmi I Samples
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See all of “Gimmi I” by Elio e le Storie Tese’s samples, covers, remixes, interpolations and live versions
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Genius Lists – Songs of Protest and Politics
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Political and protest songs have a long history in music, and some of them are great music as well as political commentary or plea for social change.
This list covers all music
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Bob Dylan – One Too Many Mornings
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Bob Dylan is said to have written this song about the ending of his realtionship with Suze Rotolo and the start of his new relationship with Joan Baez.
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Ira Robbins (Ft. The Last Asiatic Disciples, Professor Griff & Public Enemy) – Public Enemy: Fear of a Black Planet; Professor Griff and the Last Asiatic Disciples: Pawns in the Game
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In the 1960s, youthful poets, inspired by radical politics and Woody Guthrie, took up acoustic guitars to deliver topical commentary in a folk music setting. The great protest
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Bob Dylan – Boots of Spanish Leather
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From The Times They Are A-Changin', “Boots of Spanish Leather” takes the form of a dialogue between two lovers, one of whom is going away on a long journey. The theme of a
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Bob Dylan – The Times They Are A-Changin'
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In the liner notes for his album Biograph, written by Cameron Crowe, Bob Dylan said the following about this song:
This was definitely a song with a purpose. It was influenced of
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Bob Dylan – North Country Blues
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North Country Blues is written from the perspective of a woman who grew up in a town where the only industry was mining. She documents her life to others, telling of her troubled
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Bob Dylan – The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
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[Verse 1] / William Zanzinger killed poor Hattie Carroll / With a cane that he twirled around his diamond ring finger / At a Baltimore hotel society gatherin' / And the cops was
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Bob Dylan – When the Ship Comes In
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[Verse 1] / Oh, the time will come up / When the winds will stop / And the breeze will cease to be breathin' / Like the stillness in the wind / Before the hurricane begins / The
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Howard Zinn – Chapter 19: Surprises
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Helen Keller had said in 1911: "We vote? What does that mean?" And Emma Goldman around the same time: "Our modern fetish is universal suffrage." After 1920, women were voting, as
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Bob Dylan – Ballad of Hollis Brown
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A folk blues telling the grim and dramatic story of a poor and despaired man on the edge of nothingness, set in what can be imagined as a skeletal, dusty and rural South Dakota.
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Wale – Chess
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In this song off of his collaborative mixtape with A-Track “Festivus”, Wale compares the struggles of life to a game of chess, describing different situations to chess moves
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Bob Dylan – Murder Most Foul
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At midnight on March 27, 2020, Bob Dylan released “Murder Most Foul”—his first studio release since March 2017’s Triplicate and first original song release since September 2012’s
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Chris Ray Gun – The Times They Are A-Changing
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[Verse 1] / Come gather round skeptics, wherever you roam / Cuz it seems ideology's taken it's toll / Now that diverse opinions give way to control / And the words that we are
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Bob Dylan – The Times They Are A-Changin’ (Live at Sony Music Studios, New York, NY - November 1994)
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[Verse 1] / 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
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Me First and the Gimme Gimmes – The Times They Are A-Changin'
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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
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Neil Young – The Times They Are A-Changin'
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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
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The Seekers – The Times They Are a Changin’
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[Verse 1] / 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
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Tracy Chapman – The Times They Are A-Changin'
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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
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