PEACE DRONE SOUNDING LOUDER
The Peace Train has become the Peace Drone. A far better idea than the killer drones zipping through the air, right?
Axel Brechensbuaer’s Peace Drone is a conceptual machine that drops an Oxycontin bomb on violent enemies and hovers overhead, playing soothing music, while everyone calms down. Better still, it turns those enemy combatants into peace addicts.
The designer’s next Peace Drone model, will carry a set of kick-ass speakers that will attract enemies with awesome tunes.
Speaking of which, here are 10 beautiful songs about Peace -- including Peace Train, of course:
Photo: Gareth. Peace Train.
1) PEACE TRAIN
by Cat Stevens
Now I've been happy lately, thinking about the good things to come
And I believe it could be, something good has begun
Oh I've been smiling lately, dreaming about the world as one
And I believe it could be, some day it's going to come
Cause out on the edge of darkness, there rides a peace train
Oh peace train take this country, come take me home again
Now I've been smiling lately, thinking about the good things to come
And I believe it could be, something good has begun
Oh peace train sounding louder
Glide on the peace train
Come on now peace train
Yes, peace train holy roller
Everyone jump upon the peace train
Come on now peace train
Get your bags together, go bring your good friends too
Cause it's getting nearer, it soon will be with you
Now come and join the living, it's not so far from you
And it's getting nearer, soon it will all be true
Now I've been crying lately, thinking about the world as it is
Why must we go on hating, why can't we live in bliss
Cause out on the edge of darkness, there rides a peace train
Oh peace train take this country, come take me home again
Photo: Liz West. On the Wings of a Snow White Dove
2) MALI-KO (PEACE)
By Fatoumata Diawara
Malian singer, actress and dancer Fatoumata Diawara gathered together a posse of prominent Malian singers and musicians to create the song, "Mali-Ko [Peace]," in response to the major violence and crisis unfolding there right now.
As Tiken Jah, from Côte d’Ivoire, sings: Peace is priceless.
There is an English translation of the complete song's lyrics on the Soundcloud page. Watch the performance on YouTube. Download from iTunes.
Any revenue generated by ads on the video will be donated to a charity supporting refugees in Mali.
Photo: Courtesy of Hein Waschefort. Peace on Earth.
3) GIVE ME LOVE
By George Harrison
Give me love
Give me love
Give me peace on earth
Give me light
Give me life
Keep me free from birth
Give me hope
Help me cope, with this heavy load
Trying to, touch and reach you with,
Heart and soul
Om m m m m m m m m m m m m m
M m m my lord . . .
Please take hold of my hand, that
I might understand you
Won't you please
Oh won't you
Give me love
Give me love
Give me peace on earth
Give me light
Give me life
Keep me free from birth
Give me hope
Help me cope, with this heavy load
Trying to, touch and reach you with,
Heart and soul
Om m m m m m m m m m m m m m
M m m my lord . . .
Please take hold of my hand, that
I might understand you
Photo: Courtesy of The Factionist. Peace sign.
4) GIVE PEACE A CHANCE
By John Lennon
Ev'rybody's talkin' 'bout
Bagism, Shagism, Dragism, Madism, Ragism, Tagism
This-ism, that-ism, ism ism ism
All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance
(C'mon)
Ev'rybody's talkin' 'bout
Minister, Sinister, Banisters and Canisters,
Bishops, Fishops, Rabbis, and Pop Eyes, Bye bye, Bye byes
All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance
(Let me tell you now)
Ev'rybody's talkin' 'bout
Revolution, Evolution, Masturbation, Flagellation, Regulation,
Integrations, mediations, United Nations, congratulations
All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance
Ev'rybody's talkin' 'bout
John and Yoko, Timmy Leary, Rosemary,
Tommy Smothers, Bobby Dylan, Tommy Cooper,
Derek Taylor, Norman Mailer, Alan Ginsberg, Hare Krishna
Hare Hare Krishna
All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance
(Repeat 'til the tape runs out)
Photo: Victor Diaz Lamich. Elvis Costello.
5) (WHAT’S SO FUNNY ‘BOUT) PEACE LOVE AND UNDERSTANDING
By Elvis Costello
As I walk through
This wicked world
Searchin' for light in the darkness of insanity.
I ask myself
Is all hope lost?
Is there only pain and hatred, and misery?
And each time I feel like this inside,
There's one thing I wanna know:
What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding? Ohhhh
What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding?
And as I walked on
Through troubled times
My spirit gets so downhearted sometimes
So where are the strong
And who are the trusted?
And where is the harmony?
Sweet harmony.
'Cause each time I feel it slippin' away, just makes me wanna cry.
What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding? Ohhhh
What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding?
So where are the strong?
And who are the trusted?
And where is the harmony?
Sweet harmony.
'Cause each time I feel it slippin' away, just makes me wanna cry.
What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding? Ohhhh
What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding? Ohhhh
What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding?
Image: Courtesy of 177Aharba. Peace on Earth.
6) PEACE ON EARTH
By U2
Heaven on earth
We need it now
I'm sick of all of this
Hanging around
Sick of sorrow
I'm sick of the pain
I'm sick of hearing
Again and again
That there's gonna be
Peace on earth
Where I grew up
There weren't many trees
Where there was, we tear them down
And use them on our enemies
They say that what you mock
Will surely overtake you
And you become a monster
So the monster will not break you
And it's already gone too far
You said that if you go in hard
You won't get hurt
Jesus can you take the time
To throw a drowning man a line
Peace on earth
Tell the ones who hear no sound
Whose sons are living in the ground
Peace on earth
No who's or why's
No one cries like a mother cries
For peace on earth
She never got to say goodbye
To see the color in his eyes
Now he's in the dirt
Peace on earth
They're reading names out
Over the radio
All the folks the rest of us
Won't get to know
Sean and Julia
Gareth, and Andrea
Their lives are bigger than
Any big idea
Jesus can you take the time
To throw a drowning man a line
Peace on earth
To tell the ones who hear no sound
Whose sons are living in the ground
Peace on earth
Jesus in the song you wrote
The words are sticking in my throat
Peace on earth
Hear it every Christmas time
But hope and history won't rhyme
So, what's it worth?
This peace on earth
Peace on earth
Peace on earth
Peace on earth
Image: Courtesy of Reguly. Various Religion Symbols.
7) ONE LOVE
By Bob Marley & The Wailers.
One Love!
One Heart!
Let's get together and feel all right.
Hear the children cryin'
(One Love!)
Hear the children cryin'
(One Heart!)
Sayin' give thanks and praise
To the Lord and I will feel all right;
Sayin' let's get together
And feel all right.
Wo wo-wo wo-wo!
Let them all pass all their dirty
Remarks
(One Love!)
There is one question
I'd really love to ask
(One Heart!)
Is there a place for the hopeless sinner,
Who has hurt all mankind just
To save his own beliefs?
One Love! What about the one heart?
One Heart!
What about?
Let's get together and feel all right
As it was in the beginning
(One Love!)
So shall it be in the end
(One Heart!)
All right!
Give thanks and praise to the Lord
And I will feel all right;
Let's get together
And feel all right.
One more thing!
Let's get together to fight
This Holy Armagiddyon
(One Love!)
So when the Man comes there will be no,
No doom
(One Song!)
Have pity on those whose
Chances grows t'inner;
There ain't no hiding place
From the Father of Creation.
Sayin' One Love!
What about the One Heart?
(One Heart!)
What about the?
Let's get together and feel all right.
I'm pleadin' to mankind!
(One Love!)
Oh, Lord!
(One Heart)
Wo-ooh!
Give thanks and praise to the Lord
And I will feel all right;
Let's get together and feel all right.
Give thanks and praise to the Lord
And I will feel all right
Let's get together and feel all right.
Photo: James Wheeler. Moving Milky Way.
8) GIMME SHELTER
By The Rolling Stones.
Oh, a storm is threat'ning
My very life today
If I don't get some shelter
Oh yeah, I'm gonna fade away
War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
Ooh, see the fire is sweepin'
Our very street today
Burns like a red coal carpet
Mad bull lost your way
War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
Rape, murder!
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
Rape, murder!
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
Rape, murder!
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
The floods is threat'ning
My very life today
Gimme, gimme shelter
Or I'm gonna fade away
War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
I tell you love, sister, it's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
Kiss away, kiss away
Photo: Richard Jackstone. Peace on Earth.
9) WE WANT PEACE LYRICS
By Lenny Kravitz
Come on people
It's time to get together
It's time for the revolution!
Here is once again in our face
Why haven't we learn from our past
We're at the crossroads of our human race
Why are we kicking our own ass
We want peace
We want it yes
We want peace
We want it yes
We want peace
And We want it fast
We want peace
We want it yes
We want peace
We want it yes
We want peace
And We want it fast
We're on the eve of destruction my friends
We are about to go to far
Politicians think that war is the way
But we know that love has the power
We want peace
We want it yes
We want peace
We want it yes
We want peace
And We want it fast
We want peace
We want it yes
We want peace
We want it yes
We want peace
And We want it fast
The solution is simple and plain
There won't be peace if we don't try
In a war there is nothing to gain
When so many people will die
We want peace
We want it yes
We want peace
We want it yes
We want peace
And We want it fast
We want peace
We want it yes
We want peace
We want it yes
We want peace
And We want it fast
Photo: Courtesy of United Nations Photo. Libyan Refugees.
10) WAR NO MORE
By Wyclef Jean
Light is in the air right now
Two thousand and two rebel music
The saga continues
Listen, children
What's the problem in Manhattan
Every ten men they look like Bin Laden
So I have problems when I go to the airport
First thing they do they wanna ask me for my passport
The said Wyclef we love the Fugees the score
But did anybody give you any strange package to bring on board
I was like 'no'
Here comes your national guards
This look like a scene from the movie Star Wars
One foot in, one foot out standing in the airplane
I'm on tour
I'm on my way to Japan
First class, dark shades
Let the fuschia out bed
I want to sleep but keep my eyes on the cock pit
Why just think they stay target- the pilot
We gonna take over the plane
Like the Los Angeles riot
Riot
Riot
The Middle East
The Middle East
The street pack more heat than the Middle East
The Middle East
The Middle East
When will the violence sleep in the Middle East
The Middle East
The street pack more heat than the Middle East
The Middle East
The Middle East
When will the violence
Say peace
Say peace
We don't want no war no more
Let me hear the streets
Peace, oh peace
We don't want no war no more
Let me hear the Middle East now
Peace, now peace, oh peace, oh peace
We don't want no war no more
Let me hear the USA say peace
Say peace
Lord, peace
We don't want no war no more
We don't want no war no more
We don't want no war no more
We don't want no war no more
We don't want no war no more
We don't want no war no more
We don't want no war no more
Ay, peace
Oh peace
We don't want no war no more
No, no let me hear you say
Peace, peace,
Say peace, say peace
We don't want no war no more
No, no, no, no
Say peace, oh peace
We don't want no war no more
No more riots
Riots
Riots
Riots
Riots
Riots
Riots
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