Vietnam Song Analysis
In your post today, please title the post or begin it with the title and artist of your song you picked. In your post, be sure to address specific lyrics that speak to and about the Vietnam War. Explain if your song is in support or against the War. Give your commentary along with the lyrics to help your classmates understand what should be understood with your song.
Bob Dylan's 'With God on Our Side,' is a song that addresses the notion that a higher power sides with each person and likewise opposes those who disagree with them, which is enough justification for the wars and other horrifying things that people do to one another. Lyrics like," In the nineteen-sixties came the Vietnam War / Can somebody tell me what we're fightin' for? / So many young men died / So many mothers cried / Now I ask the question / Was God on our side?,"
ReplyDeleteYesterday-The Beetles says,
ReplyDeleteYesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away
Now it looks as though they're here to stay
Oh, I believe in yesterday
Suddenly, I'm not half the man I used to be
There's a shadow hanging over me.
Oh, yesterday came suddenly
Why she had to go I don't know she wouldn't say
I said something wrong, now I long for yesterday
Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play
Now I need a place to hide away
Oh, I believe in yesterday
Why she had to go I don't know she wouldn't say
I said something wrong, now I long for yesterday
Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play
Now I need a place to hide away
Oh, I believe in yesterday
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to me its seems as if he had to go to the war and he can no longer see the love of his life and later on he states theres a shadow over him which seems as if he remembers all the people he had to kill and it haunts him.
The Doors - Unknown Soldier
ReplyDelete"Wait until the war is over
And we're both a little older
The unknown soldier "
The song is against the war, talking about how soldiers are not done until the war is over, and lives never stop ending until it's over.
ReplyDeleteYou gave a gift to me
In my young age
You sent me overseas
And put the fear in me
And I ask what for now
Why me, why war?
And I ask what for now
Vietnam War?
Spent my time there by the shore
Oh we got off that boat
Charlies everywhere
A lotta killin' and dyin'
And no one seems to care
I ask what for now
We say hell no
And I ask what for
Why me, why war?
And I spent my time there by the shore
This was against the Vietnam War, they're telling how they feel about It. & they're questioning why do we have to have war. & I agree because I wouldn't want war either, I would want peace.