Song Lyrics--Relevant then and today

"And when you trust your television
What you get is what you got
Cause when they own the information, oh
They can bend it all they want"

An even better Zevon selection:

Send lawyers, guns, and money
the s*** has hit the fan.

The soul of a woman was created below

Led Zeppelin

let the Franklin flow
let the wild lands be
the wilderness should be strong and free
from Kuta Kina to the south-west shore
has to be something worth fighting for

we fell the forests and we scar the land
has to be something worth fighting for
and desecrate it with greedy hands
destroy the beauty that nature planned

a thousand people arrested and bailed
has to be something worth fighting for
voices crying in the wilderness
saying this is something worth fighting for

You had to be dazed and confused to post that. but then again, lots of people talk, and few of them know.

Still as inspirational today as it was when the video below was made.


I am woman, hear me roar
In numbers too big to ignore
And I know too much to go back an' pretend
'Cause I've heard it all before
And I've been down there on the floor
No one's ever gonna keep me down again


Yes, I am wise
But it's wisdom born of pain
Yes, I've paid the price
But look how much I gained
If I have to, I can do anything
I am strong
I am invincible
I am woman


You can bend but never break me
'Cause it only serves to make me
More determined to achieve my final goal
And I come back even stronger
Not a novice any longer
'Cause you've deepened the conviction in my soul


Yes, I am wise
But it's wisdom born of pain
Yes, I've paid the price
But look how much I gained
If I have to, I can do anything
I am strong
I am invincible
I am woman


I am woman watch me grow
See me standing toe to toe
As I spread my lovin' arms across the land
But I'm still an embryo
With a long, long way to go
Until I make my brother understand

Oh yes, I am wise
But it's wisdom born of pain
Yes, I've paid the price
But look how much I gained
If I have to, I can face anything
I am strong
I am invincible
I am woman

A stark and blistered Alice Springs And a river runs with shame
And you wipe the sheets of bulldust from your eyes
Another country's uniform And the mirage it falls apart
To the open gap between the truth and lies

Go and see your country, mate The travel agents scream
Politicians sell it's hard to score a pasttime
Signs and high-wire fences Hold the land where I belong
It's as if I'm in the outback for the last time

A long white car out of Tullamarine
A government member to the Carribean
And a man with a broom
Yells across the room
Where ya gonna run to now?

Will you have to tell lies when the kids ask you why
The horizon's a blanket of gloom
When the battle lines draw
Which way will you turn

Terania Creek's got a dozer track
And we'll never ever get Lake Pedder back
A director and a graph
And a million dollar laugh
Where ya gonna run to now?

Enrich the oxide out of Port Pirie
And the toxic gases they won't even see
But where ya gonna go
When the North wind blows
Where ya gonna run to now?

And your loungeroom is screening Nationwide
And you've just given blood to the bank
And the books on your shelves
Are a measure of all that you've earned
Will you have to tell lies when the kids ask you why
The horizon's a blanket of gloom
When the battle lines draw
Which way will you turn

Shake me, wake me, tell me it's a dream
I've got a B-52 on my tv screen
And a man in a tie
Pointing to the sky
Where ya gonna run to now

I could post dozens of these. Honest... I really could....


She is Lilith born with Adam
and she stood there at his side
She would not be subjugated
She would not be denied
They consigned her to the underworld
for she would not be his bride
But there's life in the old girl yet.

She has struggled through the centuries
to make her voice be heard
she was burned alive and tortured
for the meaning of the word
When they called her witch and heretic
she spoke on undeterred
And there's life in the old girl yet.

There's life in the old girl yet
And sister you'd better bet
We can't afford not to remember
what the world wants to forget
There's life in the old girl yet.


When she wrote her stories down
she had to change her woman's name
But the spirit deep inside her
was never to be tamed
Even in the darkest mills she felt
the rising of the flame
And there's life in the old girl yet.

When she fought and died for franchise
she was ridiculed and scorned
But the day of a woman voted first
she knew the tide had turned
And while celluloid and sentiment
would like her to return
There's life in the old girl yet.

Now they tell us it's all over
and the battle has been won
That it's only for the history
that this song should be sung
But the spirit of young Lilith lives
and she'll outlast the sun
For there's life in the old girl yet

She lives in every woman
who will no more bear the blame
For the violence she suffers
in the patriarchy's name
She lives in every young girl
who will never wear the shame
For there's life in the old girl yet.

There's life in the old girl yet
And sister you'd better bet
We can't afford not to remember
what the world wants to forget
There's life in the old girl
life in the old girl
life in the old girl yet.



And I haven't even started on the LGBT anthems yet..!!