Urban
Guerillas
Welcome students of song
These pages explore the reasons and concerns that inspire me to write songs.
Some of the following songs are direct and intense while other songs use humour and sarcasm to make their point.
The style of music is aimed at intensifying the mood while the melody and dynamics aid and abett the lyric line in
a passionate attempt at a balanced combination of physical and intellectual communication.
Any songwriter will tell you that soon after it's initial idea the song
becomes an entity unto itself and all
who attempt to play it find themselves it's willing servant desperately
trying to do it justice.
Some songwriters become so removed from their own songs that they attribute
them to divine intervention.
That is a simplistic and populurist explanation that doesn't work for
me.
I believe that songs are simply manifestations of good intention intensified
by the will to be understood clearly.
Learning From Lyrics
There is no doubt that music is prominent in all cultures. There are
official and unofficial national anthems.
Australians have adopted a pop song 'I come from a land down-under'
by Men at Work as it's sporting
anthem and 'Beds are Burning' by Midnight Oil as it's cultural
anthem. Songs are an alternative media
giving rise to a variety of role models and moral leadership.
Much was learnt about the Vietnam War and corrupt governments from
Bob Dylan and Donovan songs.
Much is learnt today from Billy Bragg songs about the invasion of Iraq
by the 'coalition of the killing'
who blatantly dis-obeyed international rulings laid down by the security
council of the United Nations.
The internet is a vehicle for the truth and songs can deliver versions
of the truth coded for an open minded
audience similar to the way minstrals sang 'nursery rymes' against
the corrupt kings in medieval times.
"Only the needle has been changed to protect
the record" Stan Freberg
The Urban Guerillas songs are set up in categories below consistent
with ......
Learning
from Lyrics Second Edition
Business, Economy and Government
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