Springsteen, Bruce - War Lyrics

A Catharsis would require understanding. Understanding you avoid. That why you all yell a so called “fail”, because you didn’t push for understanding.

Because in 2020, blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.

People’s lies cause war, war is good for nothing, therefore people are nothing. Let their spirit’s wear masks.

People cause war, war is good for nothing, therefore, people are nothing. Until they choose something, that something, is peace.

If you can’t understand...you...can’t...win...anything, everything, and nothing. You’re simply lost!

Catharsis = understanding

...and...now...you...say...”fail”.

発表当時、ブルーススプリングスティーンのボーカルに度肝を抜かれたが、今見るとバンドが凄い！

With *Nils Lofgreen* on guitar - ex GREEN - band from early 70`s

Bruce did this song right! Mr. Edwyn Star would approve! PEACE NOW!

This song just got recommended... what does YouTube know

Brian Conuel That a lot of people are watching it.

Who is listening while WW3??

Here we are in 2020 and on the verge of WW3

I was 19 when this song came out. The world is a troubled place. It happened during my grandfather's time. It happened during my father's time. Now it's happening during my time. Will this gets passed on to my children's children?

Bruce was Right 35 Years Ago

Here we go again
War...huh
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing
Say it again

Relevant then, relevant now.

And Trump that imbecile of a US President takes us all closer to yet another war!

For all future VJs out there, treat each show construed by you as though each and every video were a building block in a story or a movement in a symphony....while looking for flowing, thematic unity (or at least structure) keep your listeners not only guessing but enthralled...Be the charming, mesmeric speaker when telling your tales. In other words NEVER SPEAK IN A MONOTONE BUT STRIVE FOR A SUPPLENESS SND AND SUBTLENESS IN YOUR SPEECH...MUSIC SHOULD NEVER BE BORING AND THE ONLY MUSIC THAT IS PERMITTED TO PUT YOUR AUDIENCE TO SLEEP IS THAT WHICH INDUCES HYPNOSIS...

You heard it from me...WHO SINCE 2013 HAS BEEN A DJ TO THE DOJ AND A VJ TO THE STARS...OF HOLLYWOOD....THE CELESTIAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY...

kids listen to your uncle Bruce We have a madman in the White House and hes looking at you not to defend the nation but to distract it Dont fall for it

bruce should do collaboration of this song with some well known people right now

Hier fängt man an, Budgets heraufsetzen zu wollen und man müsste doch ... danke, Bruce: This song's forever.

Edwin Starr sang it when I was a kid - the. Bruce when I was 30 years old. Now I’m a senior citizen and it’s still relevant.

I'm with you in this.

War is hell.

No More WAR. #WW3 #Iran #NoMoreWAR #戦争反対

Questo video e straziante!!😢e Bruce canta una canzone molto toccante!!😕🤔😍😍😘🎸🎷🌟🌟🎶💎

Now that's a godspell.

I love the song but I don't think serving is blind following the blind or your leaders. You fight for the guy next to you. My dad volunteered but was told no because he was not a citizen. He was born in Mexico. He ended up being drafted and was thankful and became a citizen. Where he was born was worse.

William Argyle purple heart...68-69 loving memory!

Mike Klenk, in country '67 - '68 dead from Agent Orange 2012 ..... 1944-2012

The price of freedom is never too high.

Get out of Syria and Yemen

He's gone all Jimmy Barns in this one - love it.

War benefits the rich and destroys the poor😣

EXCELLENT

Plenty of enough money for death, nothing for life

"You're gonna need a lot of information to know what you're gonna wanna do because in 1985 blind faith in your leaders or in anything will get you killed." That sentence had a HUGE impact on a lot of older Generation X and even some of the younger Baby Boomers.

Sadly if a country is perceived as weak its considered an invitation to a takeover, so a defense is always needed and to protect others. We can therefore be involved in a war as a third party.

Quanta passione in questa esibizione Bruce!!😕😕🤗🤗😍😍🎷🎸🎶💎

Hear, hear !!!

Still watching in September 2019
Thank you for posting.
True Story:
Year: 1993
I'm an ex-Navy wife, stationed in Groton, Connecticut with my husband, (now ex).
I copied this version of this song on a cassette tape on the radio before moving away from home. 📻
(Generation X here)
One night, I decided to sit in my tiny car on the base, crappy speakers and listen to it alone. Seeing all these men do something that should have never been. 😪
If this made any difference in America today, or anywhere else, I hope to God so.
War solves nothing, neither side wins.
One World we need to share.
🌏
Love from 💜
Michigan
USA 🇺🇸
Peace ✌

If Patti does The Wild Thing like she plays the tambourine at 4m25s, Bruce is a lucky man.

it amazes me that ALL the technology that we use and enjoy everyday has come to all of us as a by product of the powers that be's preparation for WAR should the need arise .... We all live in a far from perfect world maybe put the same technologies into making it a better world and if that takes WAR then so be it.....

a classic! when MTV was worth watching.

_"War! What is it good for?!"_ After several decades of inquiry, I can unequivocally state, the Jews. That's not hate. That's a fact.

The use of violence, even legal, destroys the person who does it
There are some rare exceptions as the french general Jacques Pâris de Bollardière (1907 1986), a real hero of 2nd world war and Indochina war. He was sent in jail because he denouced the use of torture during the war in Algeria. He never lost his humanity and finally was part of peace movements. Honor to such men and examples. I know what i'm talking about, my father commited many crimes during the war in Algeria, some of them "legal", some of them illegals as a member of a terrorist organisation known as OAS "organisation of the secret army" and I still pay the heavy price of it, even if I practise Aïkido, a peaceful martial art since 1990 and became psychotherapist. What we do has a strong effect on our kids. Friendly greetings from south Britanny, France

Some wise person said that only soldiers know the value of peace and thus are staunchest guardians of it.

Glad to have him

if every soldier in this world put down their arms and went home, there would be no wars....

zedrick zedwick Most soldiers are at home or have been temporarily invited to another country. It's Americans that need to go home. Without stealing anything from other people's homes.

As John Lennon.....asked....why do we always have to declare war?.....why can't we declare peace....for a change?....

War is Over (If you want it) ~ John Winston Lennon

Powerful song !!with a *CLEAR* MESSAGE*

Jackie Chan in rush hour, kkkk

W/\R - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

War hu yeah what is it good for absolutely nothin.
war hu yeah what is it good for absolutely nothin say it again y'all.
war hu good god what is it good for absolutely nothin listen to me

war I despise cause it means destruction of innocent lives
war brings tears to thousands of mothers eyes
when their sons go to fight and lose their lives.

I said war hu good god y'all what is it good for absolutely nothin say it again

war hu oh oh oh lord what is it good for absolutely nothin
listen to me war it aint nothin but a heart breaker
war friend only to the undertaker oh war

is an enemy to all mankind the thought of war blows my mind
war has caused unrest within the younger generation induction then destruction
who wants to die

oh war good god (background hu) y'all what is it good for absolutely nothin
say it say it say it
war hu what is it good for absolutely nothin listen to me
war it aint nothin but a heart breaker
war it's got one friend thats the undertaker oh

war many young mans dreams made him disabled
bitter and mean life is much too short and precious to spend fighting wars
these days war cant give life it can only take it away oh

war hu good god y'all what is it good for absolutely nothin
say it again
war hu woah oh oh oh lord what is it good for absolutely nothin listen to me
war it aint nothin but a heart breaker war friend only to the undertaker

peace love and understand
tell me is there no place for the other day
they say we must fight to keep our freedom
but lord knows theres got to be better way oh

war (background good god yall) hu what is it good for do tell yes
say it say it say it war hu (background good god y'all)
what is good for stand up and shout it nothin

Dont make war!

Nothing ever changes. Fortunately neither do the goosebumps.

He is clearly THE BOSS, no doubt about it. damn good.

What is it good for? Getting rid of demoRats.

the meatgrinder has to be kept full with boys! we can't let people argue about the importance of war!

he never made war -he  dodged the draft and his duty-don't make cash out of something you didn't do...but should have

I LOVE this song...amazing version.


Those '80s fashion choices really crack me up though.

More relevant today than when I first heard it. You are a class act Mr Springsteen.

Cobra 1 millon de Dólares x si lo quieren contratar

It's good for the Military Industrial Complex

Can I play this in DC?

War should be the last resort, not the first! We are already in the longest war in American history and most don't even know why. I thought we had learned our lesson in Vietnam. We didn't ✌✌

Fabulous interpretation by Springsteen.

Edwin Starr’s song. Nice tribute but original better.

NO MORE WAR

They killed six of our men so it's an eye for an eye

War will never stop because we dont live in a perfect world people ,people will always kill for 1 reason or another !!

May all victims of war REST IN PEACE.

When Edward Star was performing it he was preaching it's not about anger it's about are you listening

War is old men talking and young men dying......

Today in 2019 I feel like we are repeating the Rambo Reagan years

Can anyone write the Bruce's speech before he starts to sing? I wasn't able to understand all the words

..."Friend only to the undertaker"... Non . L'argent n'a pas d'odeur , pourtant , il est comme l'air que nous respirons , indispensable mais chargé de miasmes . Just how many since Tom Engelhardt , Edwin Star , Holly Johnson , Bruce etc. put these words to recollect are they , who made money out of blood ( ... there is the Red Cross in Switzerland , Nestlé one of the big agribusinesses ... and bullion banks ...) , collected as in the adoration of the Golden Veal to melt/mold a false idol ?
Blood , except blood diamonds ( ... of engagement rings fame ! ) has strictly no value ... In all wars it runs freely :(

When I looked at this I know what it means to anyone who has served for there country. And yet I see 207 pieces of ungrateful arseholes give this song a thumbs down seriously why let's just hope war doesn't come to your door step I'd hate to be the soldier that takes a bullet for you's

War is comming. It's the only solution.

Quienes vivimos estas épocas PRESENTE

Powerful - and having seen Bruce (live) singing this I can tell you it is so, so emotional.

I despise it when people say the two words "draft dodger". This song is the reason why people say no, and you *can* say "no". It's allowed.
Peace!

I have a close friend who plays the violin. her favorite instrument is the human voice. Springsteen's is very distinctive. I believe Sting called it a "fog horn." I'm not sure that does it justice. But it puts us on the right track.

2:12 Song start

Never seen the boss in concert always wanted to if i did I would probably be passionately and emotionally going nuts to certain songs he's amazing i get so into his songs especially 2012s We take care of our own he's awesome

AOC dancing to War took me to Wikipedia page, where I learned about Bruce cover - released in '86. This is a powerful performance - Bruce rocks! Delighted to find bootleg video of Edwin Starr and Bruce in War duet performance.

"war can't give life, it can only take it away".....how a single sentence can mean so much, but does anyone listen!!!!!

Вы че там все, по русски не знаете ???

Una auch heute noch verdammt aktuell.

Song start at 2:12
Just telling in case someone think there’s no song.

Star was more singing hopefully that the war should end and help everyone see how useless it is while springsteen sang it like its gonna happen again and the callousness of it all but more like screaming for the end

Yeah...that last part of the video tore my heart out.... FUCK

+Bruce Springsteen, it's 2018 this song is needed played loudly this sociopath, is killing the whole world our poor country looks awful I was attacked in Scandinavia at the most peaceful festiville forced to drink my perfume due to being American burned with cigarettes also, disowned by my father and his family because this leader is a living nightmare, :( I may not be down with war lost a husband at 25 in gulf, but I wouldn't ever turn my back on a vet I even visit them in VA hospitals, wtf is wrong with people being brainwashed by this fool? Hitler is alive and well run like hell is all I can think, I remember being 2 3 years old, seeing some coming back in Bay Ridge Brooklyn I get sad, I would cry or I even remember running to some of them just to give them a hug, This fool has also brainwashed my son who refuses to take his medicine almost killed me we were so close, married or not you don't hit your mom because of this jack ass people are calling a leader, I never in my life thought I be ashamed of saying American good god add another date in NY or NJ omg TO ALL THE VET'S HERE TY! THAT FOOL DOESN'T SPEAK FOR ME, Chances Springsteen see's this? None, but I remember seeing him twice, and once with fake ID on the boardwalk at a bar him walking in and playing think omg Im drunk or Im just lucky as hell? One of the most real people around is Bruce

Woodstock check it out

Paz en Siria YA.

The Six-Day War was a bad idea #whatisitgoodfor

It's not you all its y'all

If wasn’t for war 🇺🇸 would still belong to 🇬🇧. Slave wouldn’t have been freed.

WAR FREE US

No war in Syria ✌

8N1 where u at

Starts with father and son, ends with a lone father...

One of his most intense and hard rock songs, I just wish it was more well known. Someone needs to remind Trump and his warmongering administration

Xennial Hipster Sing it/play it/teach it to the youngsters.