– Throw Down Your Weapons Now (5:10) –
(Pietro Cottone)
This song is about how imperialism leads to armed conflicts. It speaks about how the greed for wealth and the selfishness of those in authorities in powerful, warmonger countries can initiate war. It speaks about how industries, that manufacture technologically advanced weapons, influence the engagement of wars to make profit. It speaks about propaganda used as a persuasion tool to justify war. “Throw down your weapons now” also speaks about the effects of war: destruction and desolation; famine and displacement of masses of people who die in their journey to find a better future; it speaks about traumatized children turned into orphans.
Lyrics:
Throw down your weapons now
Throw down your weapons now
Throw down your weapons now
Weapon industry lobbies politics
Profiting from death and misery
Politicians sat in the assembly
Vote to authorize their supremacy
Mass-destruction arms used to justify
Another oil-rich-country occupancy
Rifles, troops and ships, military aircrafts
All is ready to begin to hit
War,
The evil face of human beings
A senseless spill of blood and tears
A raging flood of pain and grief
War,
No proper reason justifies
This foolish failure of mankind
The countless tears are shed behind
Throw down your weapons now
Throw down your weapons now
Throw down your weapons now
Victims slaughtered by sophisticated drones
Crafted to export democracy
Remnants leave their homes flattened by the bombs
Drowning in the abyss of the Aegean Sea
Children terrorized, orphaned, amputees
Freezing on a camp of refugees
A soldier traumatized, homeless, drug addict
Waves the bloody flag of death and fibs
War,
The evil face of human beings
A senseless spill of blood and tears
A raging flood of pain and grief
War,
No proper reason justifies
This foolish failure of mankind
The countless tears are shed behind
“…Indeed, the facts and Iraq’s behavior show that Saddam Hussein and his regime are concealing their efforts to produce more weapons of mass destruction…” [Colin Powell, 1983]
Famine, displacement, pain and misery
Destruction, desolation, poverty
Bloodspilling generates more bloodshed and violence
Lower your weapons, the enemy’s your madness
Throw down your weapons now
Throw down your weapons now
Throw down your weapons now
Throw down your weapons now
