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The imagery in this song shows injustice, suffering, pollution and warfare. This is about the Cuban missile crisis in the Cold War. It is one of the most iconic songs from this time period of fear and war.
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Protest song that became an anthem of the civil rights movement. It was sang at Martin Luther King Jr.'s funeral and the title originated from the phrase that President Lyndon Johnson used.
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This song is about the radicals protesting the war. Protests became too extreme to the point of being destructive. John Lennon's purpose of this song was not to have violence as a solution to avoid being like the system the public was protesting against.
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This song spoke out against the war in Vietnam but was supportive of the soldiers fighting there. The song speaks more to the unfairness of social class than war itself. Many protested the fact that rich men were in charge making poor men have to fight.
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This song shows the hard time America was going through during the Vietnam War and the assassination of President Kennedy
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This song was written to give attention to generations of poverty. In the song the boy grows up hungry, steals and fights, steals a car. etc but is shot and killed just as his own child is born. The song implies that the newborn will meet the same fate, continuing the cycle of poverty and violence.
