Lyrics to
War Movie

This version of War Movie was released by Jefferson Airplane in 1971.

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In nineteen hundred and seventy-five all the
people rose from the countryside to move against
you government man d’you understand locked
together hand in hand all thru this unsteady land–
gonna roll roll roll the rock around roll roll roll the rock
around lift the rock out of the ground

at the Battle of Forever Plains all my people hand
in hand in hand in the rain the laser way won the day
without one single living soul going down the government
troops were circled in the sun gun found themselves on the
run… from our nation the rock is raised no need to hide from
the other side now… transformation

call high to the constellation headquarters call high to the
most high directors send out the transporting systems and
send out the sun finders
thirteen battalion of mind raiders three hundred master
computer killers from great platforms in the mountains
twenty mile lasers & great giant trackers… twenty miles
south now in 1975 all my people rose from the countryside until we
meet again and touch our hands together in another land
until we meet again & see each others minds we
three have met again and touched our hands talking of
Napoleon in the garden we will muffle the drums tomorrow
mornin gonna roll roll roll the rock around gonna roll roll
roll the rock around lift the rock out of the ground

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About Lyrics and War Movie by Jefferson Airplane

When you decide to study the lyrics to War Movie, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1971 song by Jefferson Airplane. Some of the lyrics to War Movie have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Jefferson Airplane and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to War Movie if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to War Movie" means the words set to the music of War Movie, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Jefferson Airplane. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to War Movie and the lyrics to War Movie are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Jefferson Airplane who came here looking just for the lyrics to War Movie, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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