Oh shit!
My favourite fucking band is a protest band, and I don't think of them? The best would probably be:
Skyclad - Still Spinning Shrapnel
"Pictures of the crippled, wounded on the frontline
Someone else's problem: you're sitting on a landmine.
When will we see reason? Sometimes I think we'll never
Learn that children have the right to laugh, and dying is forever
All I hear are peace talks and battle cries.
No time for laughter, we're too busy dying,
In this Devil's Playground bullets are flying.
There's another star in heaven, and footprints on the moon
So ignore the reign of terror: the bloody red monsoon.
Neighbour fighting neighbour, oh see how quick they run
To tear down the white flag and pick up the gun.
Peace talks and battle cries, apathy can kill!
Put a price on human life, pay 'the butcher's bill'.
Everybody's losing, nobody's winning,
Run for your lives when the shrapnel's spinning!
Hear my prayer from the Valley of the Shadow,
For a child in an unmarked grave.
Take my hand in the hour of darkness,
While there's someone left to save."
Amazing song. Other tracks of theirs that might work:
A Good Day To Bury Bad News (specifically about 9/11 amongst other things, but from their cruddy last album without Martin)
The Antibody Politic
On With Their Heads! (A general anti-authority piece. The best line from this perspective: "If there's a world left for the meek to inherit/These bastards would bomb it the moment they get it!")
Salt on the Earth (Another Man's Poison)
Terminus
There's also 'Tunnel Visionaries' which would make a great intro piece. It's a spoken word narration in the same tone and style as the intro to War of the Worlds:
"Nobody could have conceived in the final decade of the 20th century
That our humble affairs were being manipulated by computer interface.
Not a soul could have summised that the lives of billions were of
Less consequence than a decimal point in the stock exchanges of the world.
Rare few even questioned the relentless exploitation of our rapidly
Dwindling natural resources. And yet across the polished boardroom tables,
Beings immensely more devious than ourselves surveyed this defiled planet
With jaundiced eyes, and swiftly and ruthlessly, they hatched foul plots
Against us."
You could also try 'Media' by Sol Invictus, although that isn't so much anti-bush or anti-war as anti-capitalism in it's entirety:
Here we go again
The same old lies again
The empty words again
The pigs can fly again
From Wall Street to your heart
Neon Hollywood lights the dark
Hear the bleating of the sheep
As the jokes of the media creak
And there's nothing I can say
No there's nothing I can say
And there's nothing I can say
No there's nothing nothing nothing
See a world of tanks
Ruled by a world of banks
Turn off your TV set!
Forget the chains of debt!
See it all go down the drain
Switch channels, do you think it will change?
Lapping prolefood in the sun
Hail the masses, ugly and dumb
And there's nothing I can say
No there's nothing I can say
And there's nothing I can say
No there's nothing nothing nothing
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