Do we need a WrongPlanet Anthem?

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"Mama Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKv171MzvSc

Mama don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
Don't let 'em pick guitars and drive them old trucks
Make 'em be doctors and lawyers and such
Mama don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
They'll never stay home and they're always alone
Even with someone they love

Cowboys ain't easy to love and they're harder to hold
And they'd rather give you a song then diamonds or gold
Lonestar belt buckles and old faded Levi's each night begins a new day
And if you don't understand him and he don't die young
He'll probly just ride away

Mama don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
Don't let 'em pick guitars and drive them old trucks
Make 'em be doctors and lawyers and such
Mama don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
They'll never stay home and they're always alone
Even with someone they love

Cowboys like smokey old pool rooms and clear mountian moringin's
Little warm puppies and children and girls of the night
And them that don't know him won't like him
And them that do sometimes won't know how to take him
He ain't wrong he's just different
but his pride won't let him do things to make you think he's right

Mama don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
Don't let 'em pick guitars and drive them old trucks
Make 'em be doctors and lawyers and such
Mama don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
They'll never stay home and they're always alone
Even with someone they love
Mama don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
Don't let 'em pick guitars and drive them old trucks
Make 'em be doctors and lawyers and such

Bit of an obscure one (to the extent that I can't find her on YouTube), but it came first to mind.

Margo Hennebach
"I Don't Sing."

I don't sing, I only move my,
Lips in sync with the music,
I don't think it's any big deal,
If I sing or not.
I don't dream, I only worry,
Bills unpaid, they get me worried,
Close my eyes, in comes a jury,
Faces looking down.

I do not sing this song,
I do not right this wrong,
I do not sing this song,
I do not sing.

Who's the singer, who's the dreamer,
What's her name?
Who's the jury, who's the judge,
Who's to blame?
These are places that,
We all were born to name,
Turning outside in and inside out,
We feel ourselves again.

Crazy feet, they're walking under,
Bones and meat, I often wonder,
Where's the seat of all this thunder,
Raging deep inside.
May it rip and crack me open,
Maybe then I'll feel some hope, then,
I will know that it's a big deal,
If I sing or not.

I do not sing this song,
I do not write this wrong,
I do not sing this song,
I do not sing.

House of anger, house of doubt,
House of shame,
I have been there,
I have seen the lives they've claimed,
Still I know that we were,
Born to name these names,
Turning outside in and inside out,
We heal ourselves again.

Is it getting better?
Or do you feel the same?
Will it make it easier on you now?
You got someone to blame
You say
One love
One life
When it's one need
In the night
One love
We get to share it
Leaves you baby if you
Don't care for it

Did I disappoint you?
Or leave a bad taste in your mouth?
You act like you never had love
And you want me to go without
Well it's

Too late
Tonight
To drag the past out into the light
We're one, but we're not the same
We get to
carry each other
carry each other
One

Have you come here for forgiveness?
Have you come to raise the dead?
Have you come here to play Jesus?
To the lepers in your head

Did I ask too much?
More than a lot.
You gave me nothing,
Now it's all I got
We're one
But we're not the same
See we
Hurt each other
Then we do it again
You say
Love is a temple
Love a higher law
Love is a temple
Love is a higher law
You ask me to enter
But then you make me crawl
And I can't keep holding on
To what you got
When all you've got is hurt

One love
One blood
One life
You got to do what you should
One life
With each other
Sisters and my
Brothers
One life
But we're not the same
We get to
Carry each other
Carry each other

The Autumn Shade (get it? AS?) series by The Vines is good: the lead singer/guitarist has AS. Also, "Outtatheway" by the same band expresses the feeling of being different pretty well, I thought. Look up the lyrics.

"Communication"

For 27 years I've been trying to believe and confide in
Different people I've found.
Some of them got closer then others
Some wouldn't even bother and then you came around
I didn't really know what to call you, you didn't know me at all
But I was happy to explain.
I never really knew how to move you
So I tried to intrude through the little holes in your veins

And I saw you
But that's not an invitation
That's all I get
If this is communication
I disconnect
I've seen you, I know you
But I don't know
How to connect, so I disconnect

You always seem to know where to find me and I'm still here behind you
In the corner of your eye.
I'll never really learn how the love you
But I know that I love you through the hole in the sky.

Where I see you
And that's not an invitation
That's all I get
If this is communication
I disconnect
I've seen you, I know you
But I don't know
How to connect, so I disconnect

Well this is an invitation
It's not a thread
If you want communication
That's what you get
I'm talking and talking
But I don't know
How to connect
And I hold a record for being patient
With your kind of hesitation

Out of the ruins
Out from the wreckage
Can't make the same mistake this time
We are the children
The last generation
We are the ones they left behind
And i wonder when we are ever gonna change it
Living under the fear till nothing else remains

We don't need another hero
We don't need to know the way home
All we want is life beyond the thunderdome

Looking for something we can rely on
There's got to be something better out there
Love and compassion, their day is coming
All else are castles built in the air
And i wonder when we are ever gonna change it
Living under the fear till nothing else remains
All the children say

We don't need another hero
We don't need to know the way home
All we want is life beyond the thunderdome

What do we do with our lives
We leave only a mark
Will our story shine like a life
Or end in the dark
Give it all or nothing

Merle, that first song you posted is one of my favorites!

It's called One, by U2. I was reading some commentary on it now on the web. Seems U2 said in some interview that it's about the brotherhood of man.

The Song to Freedom, of course!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9w1lCmXblKQ[/youtube]

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Du är min tro, mitt hopp, min kärlek.
Du är mitt blod
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Vänskapen är din stolta moder.
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Framtiden ditt ansvar.

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Du är som stjärnorna,
som vindarna,
som vågorna,
som fåglarna,
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