Uploaded by JBraden on Dec 17, 2007
from their third album, War (1983)
...I've been reminded that the images and text move too fast in some places to catch them all, so here's a (nearly?) comprehensive list of references- (more or less in order of appearance)
Pretenders Police Gang of Four Clash Bruce Springsteen Jackson Browne Disarmament Rally Midnight Oil Alarm Talking Heads Red Rocks Falklands Argentina Lebanon Israel Northern Ireland UK South Africa Border War Mutually Assured Destruction Cold War USA Soviet Union UN Iran Iraq Afghanistan Thatcher Brezhnev Reagan Walesa Solidarity Poland Space Shuttle SDI Star Wars Samantha Smith Koppel Andropov Gorbachev Live Aid Geldof Neil Young Self Aid Perestroika Glasnost Chernobyl Enniskillen Rushdie Mandela De Klerk Nobel Gulf War Bush Saddam Clinton Sarajevo Pavarotti Bosnia Serbia Rwanda USSR West East Germany Berlin Reunification Hume Trimble Belfast Agreement International Space Station 46664 Beyonce Dave Stewart HIV AIDS Education Darfur Sudan Paul Rusesabagina Vertigo Love Peace Drums!
Like A Song
Like a song I have to sing
I sing it for you.
Like the words I have to bring
I bring it for you.
And in leather, lace and chains we stake our claim.
Revolution once again
No I won't, I won't wear it on my sleeve.
I can see through this expression and you know I don't believe.
Too old to be told, exactly who are you?
Tonight, tomorrow's too late.
And we love to wear a badge, a uniform
And we love to fly a flag
But I won't let others live in hell
As we divide against each other
And we fight amongst ourselves
Too set in our ways to try to rearrange
Too right to be wrong, in this rebel song
Let the bells ring out
Let the bells ring out
Is there nothing left?
Is there, is there nothing?
Is there nothing left?
Is honesty what you want?
A generation without name, ripped and torn
Nothing to lose, nothing to gain
Nothing at all
And if you can't help yourself
Well take a look around you
When others need your time
You say it's time to go... it's your time.
Angry words won't stop the fight
Two wrongs won't make it right.
A new heart is what I need.
Oh, God make it bleed.
Is there nothing left?
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U2 wrote most of the best songs of the past 30 years...no band. group, singer or songwriter will ever nor has ever come close in their type of music....amen
2 years ago 15
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U2 !!! Another classic
3 years ago 8
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Yes, it's true!!! U2= best group
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@JBraden oh!! i like the riff
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Phenomenal editing. I love how the passage of time accelerated. As someone old enough to have lived through all of it, that really is how it feels.
10 months ago 2
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Great job on the video editing... I like the fact that it is moving so fast it's hard to catch anything... a true reflection of our society.
1 year ago 2
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amen to that, my friend!
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i think that you did a great job putting this together
really created a rock'n'roll feel with the crowd noises at the begining
interesting images that moved well with the banging on Larry's drum
good job! good job!
:)
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i think that you did a great job putting this together
really created a rock'n'roll feel with the crowd noises at the begining
interesting images that moved well with the banging on Larry's drum
good job! good job!
:)
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war was a great, and timely record
1 year ago 2
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Hey please who knows the name of the intro song mtv?
nemotemi 6 months ago
@nemotemi i'm not sure that it has a name..
JBraden 6 months ago
hi 2 any one this song was never on under a blood red sky ....it is off the war album only ..this an an made up vertion...and vid..
someblokecalledchris 2 years ago
thanks, i'm glad you thought there was a need to even point that out to people. this video is not intended to mislead anyone, just a few ideas on what it might have been like if they'd put this song more in their rotation.
JBraden 2 years ago
Thanks, you' re a genius.
The Clash and Reagan didn't play on the song either -- how'd they get in the video?
CarMoves 2 years ago
It was fun making the video. Don't know who the genius comment was directed to, but thanks for the comment. The Clash and Reagan are there just to show/ remind people of the zeitgeist of the early 80s...
JBraden 2 years ago