REVIEW

PROTEST SONG '68 (REFUSED)

To sing you must first open your mouth. 
You must have a pair of lungs and a little knowledge of music. 
It is not necessary to have an accordion, or a guitar.
The essential thing is that I want to sing. 
Then this is a song, I'm singing." 
[-H. Miller]

I breathe in & I, I create
Rewoke the spirit '68
Fresh meaning to torn ideas
Let's bring life to old clichés
Punch a hole in tradition, yeah!
Let's listen to the songs of discontent
To the chords & the movement
To the chords & the movement

It could all be so simple
We would all stand baffled by the precision & accuracy
Our jaws would hurt from dropping so hard, fast & unexpectedly
It would be the perfect metaphor
Be the perfect song we'd be singing

I breathe out & I scream
Rewoke Malatesta's dream
Inspiration from the past
Focus to the future at last
Fixed dogmas can't substitute
Creative thought & action

It could be dangerous
Art as a real threat

All it is it words
Words said a million time before
All it is is a song
A song sung a million times before

I breathe in, I create
Rewoke the spirit '68
I breathe out, I scream
Rewoke Malatesta's dream

I’m going to talk about the “protest song ‘68” from refused.
As we can see in the title of this song, it had being created to complain about something, in this case about political ideas. The singer is completely against pure syndicalism like Errico Malatesta mentioned here (Malatestas dream). He was an anarchist who wrote and edited a number of radical newspapers.
Just at the very first lyrics of the song (after the instrumental part), the singer argued about liberty of expression, and about what was he going to do. For example, he said that for singing you only need your lungs, some little knowledge of music and attitude; it`s easy if the government policy lets you. Following this same idea (almost at the end) we have that he didn’t like at all fixed dogmas, he wanted to be creative and do what he thought.
After that there’s a hard-core part where he talked about bringing year’s ’68 ideas with a “fresh” meaning, I mean, to follow or find inspiration in those ideas with the advantages that we have nowadays like social medias, etc.
Finally, he repeated the idea of that past time. He conclude saying that he had only sang “a song sung a million times ago”.
After talking about the content, I want to say that I’ve chosen this song because I think it expresses very well the feelings of the author and also because he had transmitted greatly his idea and his opinion. I’m not anarchist but I think that everybody can think whatever they want, always respecting the rest’s ideas.