Volunteers

[Joe Allonby]

"Volunteers" itself pushed the activist as militant soldier metaphor.

On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Robin Landseadel
<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> We can be together
> Ah you and me
> We should be together
> We are all outlaws in the eyes of america
> In order to survive we steal cheat lie forge fred hide and deal
> We are obscene lawless hideous dangerous dirty violent
> and young
> But we should be together
> Come on all you people standing around
> Our lifes too fine to let it die and
> We can be together
> All your private property is
> Target for your enemy
> And your enemy is
> We
> We are forces of chaos and anarchy
> Everything they say we are we are
> And we are very
> Proud of ourselves
> Up against the wall
> Up against the wall motherfucker
> Tear down the walls
> Tear down the walls
> Come on now together
> Get it on together
> Everybody together
> We should be together
> We should be together my friends
> We can be together
> We will be
> We must begin here and now
> A new continent of earth and fire
> Come on now gettin higher and higher
> Tear down the walls
> Tear down the walls
> Tear down the walls
> Wont you try
>
> We Can Be Together, Marty Balin and Paul Kantner
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWhWMYqDNtk
>
> We Can Be Together" is the B-side of the "Volunteers" 45 and
> the first track on Volunteers. The song's music and lyrics were
> written by Paul Kantner. Kantner was inspired by the Black
> Panther Party's use of the phrase "Up against the wall,
> motherfucker" and included it in the chorus. The Airplane
> performed "We Can Be Together" uncensored on The Dick
> Cavett Show on August 19, 1969, and this performance is
> purported to be the first time the word "fuck" was ever uttered on
> network television.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Can_Be_Together