Project Immigration Tracklisting 3. Migra – Santana (1999) (PIT) 4. Miss Little Havana ‐ Gloria Estefan Music and dance united us. Join and (2011) listen to music and know you are not 5. Movin' Out (Anthony's Song) ‐ Billy alone. Joel (1977) Here you are welcome! 6. My People ‐ The Presets (2007)

7. One In A Million ‐ Guns N' Roses CD1 (17 November 2011) (1988) 1. America ‐ Neil Diamond (1980) 8. Without A Face ‐ Rage Against The Machine (1996) 2. Americano ‐ Lady Gaga (2011) 3. Beneath, Between and Behind – Rush (1975) CD3 (17 November 2011) 4. British Intelligence ‐ Jamie T (2009) 1. Prayer Of The Refugee ‐ Rise Against (2006) 5. Deportees ‐ Woody Guthrie (1948) 6. Icky Thump ‐ The White Stripes 2. Refugee ‐ Lostboy! AKA (2010)

(2007) 3. Sign In Stranger ‐ Steely Dan (1976) 7. Illegal Alien – Genesis (1983) 4. The Immigrant ‐ Neil Sedaka (1974) 8. Who's Gonna Build Your Wall? ‐ Tom 5. The Refugee ‐ U2 (1983) Russell (2007) 6. The Royal Scam ‐ Steely Dan (1976) 7. Waving Flags ‐ British Sea Power CD2 (17 November 2011) (2008) 1. Laugh and Be Happy ‐ Randy Newman (2008)

2. Matamoros Banks ‐ Bruce Springsteen (2005) CD1, song 1 song was "fueled creatively by my In the eye of the storm America ­ Neil Diamond (1980) massive hatred of immigrants." In the eye of the storm Songfacts: Songlyrics:

This is a tribute to immigration in Far America, where people from all over the Home, to a new and a shiny place We've been traveling far world were welcome to come and seek Make our bed, and we'll say our grace opportunity. Diamond grew up in Without a home Brooklyn, New York, where many Freedom's light burning warm Europeans arrived. His grandparents But not without a star were immigrants: on his father's side Freedom's light burning warm they came from Poland, and on his Free mother's side from Russia. (thanks to Only want to be free David Wild, author of He Is...I Say: How I Everywhere around the world Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Neil We huddle close Diamond) They're coming to America Hang on to a dream Michael Dukakis used this as his theme Every time that flag's unfurled song in his failed 1988 Presidential campaign to emphasize his own ethnic They're coming to America On the boats and on the planes origins as a third‐generation American. They're coming to America Diamond wrote this for the 1980 movie Got a dream to take them there The Jazz Singer, where he starred as a Never looking back again young Jewish man who must defy his They're coming to America father to follow his dreams of becoming They're coming to America a singer. Got a dream they've come to share

Will Ferrell used to impersonate They're coming to America Diamond on Saturday Night Live. In one Home, don't it seem so far away bit where they did a fake Behind The Oh, we're traveling light today Music, Ferrell (as Diamond) said this They're coming to America They're coming to America

They're coming to America

They're coming to America Today, today, today, today, today

My country 'tis of thee Today Sweet land of liberty Today

Of thee I sing Today Of thee I sing

Today

CD1, song 2 Fernando to tone down his Mexican Songlyrics: Americano ­ Lady Gaga (2011) influences, but here we rally brought them out.” I met a girl in east L.A. Songfacts: The song’s pro immigrants message is In floral shorts as sweet as May Lady Gaga debuted this Mexican‐themed told via a love story between Gaga and a She sang in eights in two‐barrio chords footstomper about immigrants at the girl in LA. The Mother Monster Estadio Tres de Marzo in Guadalajara, explained to NME: “It was when Prop 9 We fell in love, but not in court Mexico on May 3, 2011. She performed was overturned in California. The an acoustic version of the tune in both immigration law was passed in Arizona, Spanish and English. Note that Gaga isn’t houses were being raided for La‐la‐la‐la‐la‐la‐la the first with a song called Americano: immigrants, some of whom had been Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers here for 20 years. America was once the La‐la‐la‐la‐la‐la‐la released their Americano! In 2004. land of the free, and now we’re telling La‐la‐la‐la‐la‐la‐la Speaking with Vogue magazine, Gaga everyone to get the f‐‐‐ out.” explained the song is: “a big mariachi Garibay told MTV News how the song La‐la‐la‐la‐la‐la‐la techno‐house record, where I am singing was written. “I remember her saying, about immigration law and gay marriage ‘Yes, I want mariachi, I want Latin La‐la‐la‐la‐la‐la‐la and all sorts of things that have to do percussions. I want to go big.’ I’m so La‐la‐la‐la‐la‐la‐la with disenfranchised communities in used to people in the industry saying, America. It sounds like a pop record, but ‘Latin: It’s a little bit cheesy,’ “ he when I sing it, I see Edith Piaf in a recalled. “But she was like, ‘F that! Let’s spotlight with an old microphone.” go full Mexicano.’ We started with me on I don’t sp‐, I don’t sp‐ guitar and her on piano, kind of wrote Mexican music producer Fernando Garibay and DJ White Shadow produced the lyric on the spot, and she sang it all this mariachi‐influenced track. It was the way through, and that’s how the Ah ah America Americano one of several contributions they made song was born.” Ah ah ah ah ah America Americano to Born This Way. Gaga told the UK In a posting on her Facebook wall, Gaga magazine NME: “This was my first wrote that his song is about “what the Ah ah ah ah ah America Americano proper collaboration with Fernando and American dream means to me.” White Shadow. Labels had been telling Ah ah ah ah ah America Americano Mis canciones son de la re‐revolucion Todos los chicos (chicas) y los chicos I’m living on the edge of (chicas) eston besando Mi corazon me duele por mi generacion Living on the edge of the law, law, law, (La‐la‐la‐la‐la‐la‐la) law If you love me we can marry on the west coast On a Wednesday en el verano en agosto I don’t speak your, I don’t speak your Don’t you try to catch me language, oh no (la‐la‐la‐la‐la‐la‐la) Don’t you try to catch me I don’t speak your, I won’t speak your I don’t speak your, I don’t speak your Jesos Cristo (la‐la‐la‐la‐la‐la‐la) No, no, no, no language, oh no (la‐la‐la‐la‐la‐la‐la)) I don’t speak your, I don’t speak your Don’t you try to catch me I don’t speak your, I won’t speak your, Americano (la‐la‐la‐la‐la‐la‐la) won’t speak Living on the edge of the law, law, law, I don’t speak your, I won’t speak your law Your Jesos Cristo (la‐la‐la‐la‐la‐la‐la) Jesos Cristo (la‐la‐la‐la‐la‐la‐la)

Ah ah ah ah ah America Americano Ah ah ah ah ah America Americano Ah ah ah ah ah America Americano Ah ah ah ah ah America Americano

Ah ah ah ah ah America Americano I will fight for, I have fought for how I Ah ah ah ah ah America Americano love you (la‐la‐la‐la‐la‐la‐la)

I have cried for, I will die for how I care (la‐la‐la‐la‐la‐la‐la) Don’t you try to catch me

In the mountains, las campanas eston Don’t you try to catch me sonando (la‐la‐la‐la‐la‐la‐la) No, no, no, no CD1, Song3 They sang out to the sky Beneath, Between and Behind – Rush (1975) Why do their shadows bow in fear?

Songfacts: This is about the discovery of America Watch the cities rise and the birth of the nation. It refers to Another ship arrives the rapid growth, immigration, wars, and American dream. Earth's melting pot and ever growing Fantastic dreams come true Songlyrics: Inventing something new Ten score years ago, defeat the kingly The greatest minds, and never knowing foe

A wondrous dream came into being [Chorus] Tame the trackless waste, no virgin land left chaste All shining eyes, but never seeing The guns replace the plow, facades are tarnished now

The principles have been betrayed [Chorus:] The dreams's gone stale, but still, let Beneath the noble bird hope prevail

Between the proudest words History's debt won't be repaid

Behind the beauty, cracks appear

Once with heads held high CD1, song 4 This is for the cold concreate sold by the British Intelligence there on your back British Intelligence ­ Jamie T (2009) feet? And they wont catch no one so they Songfacts: Taxed by a man that I'm yet to meet wont catch me This angry track is from British hip‐hop Pay an army I'm hardly ready to speak 3, 4's and right up your back artist Jamie T (aka Jamie Treays)''s second album, Kings and Queens. Memorys start in 93 And you just got sacked now your moneys not free Treays told The Daily Telegraph And? came round last week Taking time has never won enough September 2, 2009 that this was And told me she's sick and tired of inspired by "a mate, whose girlfriend women? And 3 to the 4 when your really wired couldn't get a visa to live here, so he married her." To much never, enough now your fired. I'm still travelling trains, delayed in the rain on a monday morning Songlyrics: The 501's a selfious son Watched by survailance teams British Intelligence there on your back Travel down the inner to the suburn Business men live out their dreams and And they wont catch no one so they sleep with secreteries He's lurking, burning cigrettes on wont catch me In stockrooms over flowed with coffee We'll be on the bar that his lover works 3, 4's and right up your back and the? in And you just got sacked now your While were still riding, And and a legal lay in the end moneys not free Trying to find a place where their not Jessie from the west said marry up quick Taking time has never won enough watching Get lost in the system And 3 to the 4 when your really wired Called her up in the end With a BCG and a finger print scan To much never, enough now your fired. To apologise for being so drunk and Well the stuborn. Man I was outisde calling a friend He said could we, would we get him in trouble Trying to save claim on the money I lent So woulda should we better get him in While were still riding trying to find a trouble place where their not watching 3 weeks down and now youve burst Called her up again indentity cards and youre... camera men.

British Intelligence there on your back British Intelligence there on your back And they wont catch no one so they And they wont catch no one so they wont catch me wont catch me 3, 4's and right up your back 3, 4's and right up your back And you just got sacked now your And you just got sacked now your moneys not free moneys not free Taking time has never won enough Taking time has never won enough And 3 to the 4 when your really wired And 3 to the 4 when your really wired To much never, enough now your fired. To much never, enough now your fired.

He said suzie would you lose me in trouble He said suzie lets move on the double

Would we, please get him in trouble CD1, song 5: History in Song and Picture of the wages? The Los Gatos air crash resulted Deportees ­ Woody Guthrie (1948) Working Men and Women of America, in thirty‐two deaths, including twenty‐ by Pete Seeger and Bob Reiser where the eight Mexican nationals. There was Songfacts: credits were given as Words by Woody nothing sinister or oppressive about the This song is also known as "Deportee" Guthrie, Music by Marty Hoffman, way the victims were treated; they and more fully as "Deportee (Plane Copyright 1961, 1963, Ludlow Music Inc simply died in a tragic accident. It is Wreck At Los Gatos)" or "Plane Wreck At of New York. likely Guthrie read the news report which appeared in the press the Los Gatos (Deportees)." Guthrie's Seeger and Reiser added, "The plane was biographer Joe Klein said of its following day, so it is hardly surprising flying home a group of Mexican workers the names of all the victims were not composition: "He was writing as many who had entered the United States songs as ever, but few of any listed; in any case it is standard practice illegally, prompted by promises of high‐ for the authorities to withhold releasing consequence. His children's songs paying jobs from unscrupulous growers continued to be charming... and his other the names of fatalities until their families in the California orchards. The have been informed. songs remained perfunctory, with the newspaper didn't bother listing the notable exception of 'Plane Wreck at Los names of those killed. Like surplus Gatos (Deportees),' which he composed crops, they were just to get rid of." after reading, early in 1948, that a plane Songlyrics: deporting migrant farm workers back to Undoubtedly Guthrie shared these Mexico had crashed. It was the last great sentiments, but exactly why Joe Klein The crops are all in and the peaches are song he would write, a memorial to the and apparently both Pete Seeger and rott'ning, nameless migrants 'all scattered like dry Bob Reiser consider this to be a great The oranges piled in their creosote leaves' in Los Gatos Canyon, where the song remains to be seen; the mere fact dumps; plane crashed... The song, as he wrote it, that a song bashes the capitalist system was virtually without music ‐ Woody or the US Government does not make it They're flying 'em back to the Mexican chanted the words ‐ and wasn't great. In any case, Uncle Sam is not the border performed publicly until a decade later bad guy here, and neither are the when a schoolteacher named Martin orchard owners. People who enter a To pay all their money to wade back Hoffman added a beautiful melody and country illegally are by definition illegal again Pete Seeger began singing it in concerts." immigrants; every sovereign nation has CHORUS: a right to deport illegal immigrants. And "Deportee" was published in the 1986 don't unscrupulous employers pay low Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye, Rosalita, Blandford Press book Carry It On!: A Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria; We died in your valleys and died on your plains. You won't have your names when you ride the big airplane, We died 'neath your trees and we died in your bushes, All they will call you will be "deportees" Both sides of the river, we died just the My father's own father, he waded that same. river,

They took all the money he made in his life; The sky plane caught fire over Los Gatos Canyon, My brothers and sisters come working the fruit trees, A fireball of lightning, and shook all our hills, And they rode the truck till they took down and died. Who are all these friends, all scattered like dry leaves? Some of us are illegal, and some are not wanted, The radio says, "They are just deportees"

Our work contract's out and we have to move on; Is this the best way we can grow our big Six hundred miles to that Mexican orchards? border, Is this the best way we can grow our They chase us like outlaws, like rustlers, good fruit? like thieves. To fall like dry leaves to rot on my

topsoil

We died in your hills, we died in your And be called by no name except deserts, "deportees"? CD1, song 6: White Stripes use only these colors Ah well Icky Thump ­ The White Stripes (often in stripes) and black in their sets (2007) and costumes. What a chump

Songfacts: The "Dry Ice" mentioned in the lyrics Well my head got a bump refers to solid carbon dioxide, which is When I hit it on the radio. On the UK music show Later With Jools typically used in horror films to create Holland (June 1, 2007), Jack White artificial fog. explained that he had heard his British wife, model Karen Elson, use the This was voted by the Rolling Stone Redhead señorita expression "Ecky Thump," a Northern magazine readers as their favorite song English phrase that means "What The of 2007. Looking dead Heck." He changed it to the more Came and said American sounding "Icky" (meaning This won a Grammy for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group With disgusting) so that teenagers would get "Need a bed?" it, citing how Led Zeppelin dropped the Vocals. The album won for Best "A" in "Lead" for the same reason. Jack Alternative Music Album. En Español. liked the expression and wrote the song Jack White mentions all three of the around it with his bandmate Meg White. band's colors in this song: Redhead The song is a commentary on Senorita, One White Eye, and Black Rum. I said immigration, and how immigrants are "Gimme a drink of water treated unfairly in America. Songlyrics: I'm gonna 'sing around the collar' The lyrics, "I'm gonna sing around the collar" is a play on "Ring around the Iiiiiiiieeeeee And I don't need a microphone." collar," which refers to the tough‐to‐ remove sweat and dirt stains on the Icky thump inside of shirt collars. It is typically used Who'da thunk? Icky thump in laundry detergent commercials. Sittin' drunk on a wagon to Mexico. With a lump in my throat Candy cane is a traditional American red and white striped Christmas candy. The Grabbed my coat And I was freaking White Americans, what? To clean up after myself.

I was ready to go Nothing better to do?

Why don't you kick yourself out? And I swear You're an immigrant, too. Besides the hair

She had one white eye, Who's using who? One blank stare What should we do? Lookin' up Well, you can't be a pimp Lyin' there. And a prostitute too.

On the stand Icky thump Near her hand Handcuffed to a bunk

Was a candy cane Robbed blind Black rum, sugar cane Looked around Dry ice something strange. And there was nobody else.

La la‐la la la‐la Left alone La la‐la la la la I hit myself with a stone

Went home and learned how CD1, song 7: With my wallet and my passport, a new A pink one, a red one, the colours you Illegal Alien – Genesis ( 1983) pair of shoes choose, Songfacts: The sun is shining so I head for the park, Up to the counter to see what they think You can leave comments about the song With a bottle of Tequila, and a new pack They said 'It doesn't count man, it ain't at the bottom of the page. of cigarettes written in ink'. This is a light‐hearted, humorous look at Don't trust anybody least not around the frustrations an illegal immigrant here, cause Mexican faces when attempting to I got a cousin and she got a friend, illegally enter the United States. Even Who thought that her aunt knew a man though the lyrics are satirical, some who could help It's not fun being an illegal alien, listeners perceived it to be racially offensive. Phil Collins' phony Mexican At his apartment I knocked on the door, It's not fun being an illegal alien, accent doesn't help matters. He wouldn't come out until he got paid. It's not fun being an illegal alien, Particularly controversial was the part of the song where the immigrant offers Now don't tell anybody what I wanna do It's not fun being an illegal alien, sexual favors from his sister as a bribe to If they find out you know that they'll An illegal alien, O.K. let him cross the border. This was edited never let me through. from radio versions of the song.

This song was #13 in Blender Consideration for your fellow man magazine's list of the 50 Worst Songs It's no fun being an illegal alien Ever. Wouldn't hurt anybody, sure fits in with It's no fun being an illegal alien my plan

Over the border, there lies the promised Songlyrics: land Down at the office had to fill out the Got out of bed, wasn't feeling too good forms

So don't tell anybody what I wanna do If they find out you know that they'll never let me through.

It's no fun being an illegal alien,

It's no fun being an illegal alien,

It's no fun being an illegal alien,

It's no fun being an illegal alien.

CD1, song 8: Now the government wants to build I see strip malls from sea to shining sea Who's Gonna Build Your Wall? ­ Tom Russell (2007) A barrier like old Berlin 8 feet tall

Songfacts: But if uncle Sam sends the illegal’s home It’s the fat cat white developer This song deals with the immigration Who’s gonna build the wall? Who’s created this whole damn squall issue in the United States. Many It’s a pyramid scheme of dirty jobs politicians under the George W. Bush administration tried to quell illegal Who’s gonna build your wall boys? And who’s gonna build your wall? Mexican immigration by erecting a fence along the U.S.‐Mexico border and deny Who’s gonna mow your lawn? benefits to illegal’s who are in the Who’s gonna cook your Mexican food Who’s gonna build your wall boys? country. In this song, Russell points out that Mexican immigrants are doing the When your Mexican maid is gone? Who’s gonna mow your lawn? work that allows rich people to live an affluent lifestyle at relatively low cost: Who’s gonna cook your Mexican food jobs like landscaping, cooking and housekeeping. Who’s gonna wax the floors tonight When your Mexican maid is gone?

Down at the local mall? Songlyrics: Who’s gonna wash your baby’s face? Who’s gonna wax the floors tonight Who's Gonna Build Your Wall lyrics Who’s gonna build your wall? Down at the local mall?

I’ve got 800 miles of open border Who’s gonna wash your baby’s face? Right outside my door Now I ain’t got no politics Who’s gonna build your wall? There’s minute men in little pick up So don’t lay that rap on me trucks Left wing, right wing, up wing, down We’ve got fundamentalist Moslem's wing Who’ve declared their own damn war We’ve got fundamentalist Jews We’ve got fundamentalist Christians

They’ll blow the whole thing up for you

But as I travel around this big old world There’s one thing that I most fear

It’s a white man in a golf shirt With a cell phone in his ear

Who’s gonna build your wall boys?

Who’s gonna mow your lawn? Who’s gonna cook your Mexican food When your Mexican maid is gone?

Who’s gonna wax the floors tonight Down at the local mall? Who’s gonna wash your baby’s face?

Who’s gonna build your wall?

CD2, song 1: Don't let the bastards ground you down And letting you play Laugh and Be Happy ­ Randy Newman (2008) Laugh and be happy So let them be happy

Songfacts: A simple thing to do Smile right in their face Newman told Mojo magazine that this Live in your dream Pretty soon you're going to taking their place sarcastic song of advice to immigrants And your dream will come true was aimed at Hispanics.

Come wackin', wackin', wackin' Be a red sun shining Songlyrics: Like old man trouble In a sky so blue I know what's going on here Wackin' on their front door Blackbirds singing in the trees Ain't no great mystery Going to send you packin' Be a real silver lining You'll lost faith in yourselves All in double Up there for me and you Clear as it can be You ain't going away no more Listen to me You can whine all you want to Listen to me Drown in your misery Laugh and be happy

Or you can listen to me Don't you ever wear a frown Now the country that we're living Listen to me Get right back on your feet To be the good old U.S.A. Whenever they knock you down That's right Laugh and be happy Laugh and be happy It's never been about keeping you out Don't you ever wear a frown Believe me when I say It's about letting you in Everything is going to go your way

You've been on top of the world

CD2, song 2: And the things of the earth they make Meet me on the Matamoros banks Matamoros Banks ­ Bruce their claim Springsteen (2005) That the things of heaven may do the Songfacts: same Your sweet memory comes on the evenin' wind This song is about plight of illegal Goodbye, my darling, for your love I give immigrants who cross the Mexican God thanks, I sleep and dream of holding you in my border each day. Matamoros is a city in arms again Meet me on the Matamoros Mexico bordering Texas. The lights of Brownsville, across the Meet me on the Matamoros river shine Songlyrics: Meet me on the Matamoros banks A shout rings out and into the silty red river I dive For two days the river keeps you down I long, my darling, for your kiss, for your Then you rise to the light without a Over rivers of stone and ancient ocean sweet love I give God thanks sound beds A touch of your loving fingertips Past the playgrounds and empty I walk on sandals of twine and tire tread Meet me on the Matamoros switching yards My pockets full of dust, my mouth filled The turtles eat the skin from your eyes, with cool stone Meet me on the Matamoros so they lay open to the stars The pale moon opens the earth to its Meet me on the Matamoros banks bones

I long, my darling, for your kiss, for your Your clothes give way to the current and Meet me on the Matamoros river stone sweet love I give God thanks Meet me on the Matamoros 'Till every trace of who you ever were is The touch of your loving fingertips gone Meet me on the Matamoros Meet me on the Matamoros banks

Meet me on the Matamoros CD2, song 3: Malicia veo en tus ojos desprecio en tu Me necesitas tu a mi mas why mas que Migra – Santana (1999) corazon yo a ti Songfacts: Me necesitas tu a mi mas why mas que yo a ti This song is in protest to what was Es hora de reconocer que todos somas formerly the Immigration and una voz Me necesitas tu a mi mas why mas que Naturalization Service (now part of the yo a ti Department of Homeland Security) and Abrasa el concepto venimos de la misma their raids of undocumented immigrants voz Me necesitas tu a mi mas why mas que yo a ti in the United States. But instead of inciting violence, the song preaches peace between Americans and Me necesitas tu a me mas why mas que immigrants. yo a ti Migra Migra pinche Migra dejame en pas "Migra" is slang in Spanish for the Me necesitas tu a me mas why mas que Immigration and Naturalization Service. yo a ti People people let's love one another I The jingling at the end of the song is Me necesitas tu a me mas why mas que know we know how Santana himself with sleigh bells. yo a ti

Me necesitas tu a me mas why mas que yo a ti Songlyrics:

Migra Migra pinche Migra dejame en pas People people let's start together let's do Migra Migra pinche Migra dejame en pas it right

People people let's love one another I Malicia veo en tus ojos desprecio en tu know we know how corazon

CD2, song 4: is, then she hooks up with an ex on the Miss Little Havana Miss Little Havana by Gloria Estefan dance floor, he calls her — 'Come let's (2011) party' — you get a couple of songs 17 with a body just like a model where they are back together and then Songfacts: I heard that she was in that superstar at the end she realizes he's still a dog cabana The first nine tracks of Cuban‐American (laughs) ... It was fun to do." Dancin' as if she just hit the lotto singer‐songwriter Gloria Estefan's 11th Though Gloria is herself a Cuban émigré studio album tells the tale of a young girl living in Miami, the story is not But that will amount to ze ze ze zero who hooks up with the wrong guy in biographical as the only lover she has Miami after moving there from Cuba. All had has been her husband, Emilio the tracks on the album were written or Estefan. The singer told The Associated So co‐written by Pharrell Williams of The Press who Miss Little Havana Neptunes. represents. "Miss Little Havana is a It is just the same scenario Speaking to The Associated Press, typical story of any young girl that has Mom's at work and daddy's never home Estefan said that Miss Little Havana dreams, that wants to break out and be free. Those were some of my dreams as wasn't originally conceived as a story. Idle hands lookin' for time to blow She explained: "Oddly enough, when we well. Obviously I come from a different were writing, we did not set any kind of kind of background that kept me very And get some freedom parameters, we were just feeling out close to the family for a long time, but I how each one works, and that's a very was actually 17 when I joined the band. So although it's not exactly my story, it's intimate process. But it wasn't until we She ain't payin' attention finished writing the nine songs ... (that) I any girl that is looking for something, that has dreams and aspirations, and of told Pharrell, 'Pharrell, there's a story Her mind's in the air here.' I put the order of the album course sometimes the men get in the actually together to emphasize that story way, because you're looking for love and Life is so hard ... (and) then, he didn't know I did this, sometimes you hook up with the wrong And no one cares but I picked three little ... phone on ‐ I've been lucky that I didn't." messages (I got from Pharrell) after one of the songs, and I thought, 'I'm going to emphasize even more this thing.' ... Miss Songlyrics: There ain't no angels to whisk you away Little Havana tells the story of who she So wisen up ok So wizen up ok Abre los ojos

Miss Little Havana Open up your eyes

17 with a body just like a model Miss Little Havana Abre los ojos I heard that she was in that superstar 17 with a body just like a model Open up your eyes cabana I heard that she was in that superstar Abre los ojos Dancin' as if she just hit the lotto cabana Open up your eyes But that will amount to ze ze ze zero Dancin' as if she just hit the lotto

But that will amount to ze ze ze zero Miss Little Havana Dos...She's beginning her life on her own 17 with a body just like a model Brand new place but she don't have a If he says it's a secret phone I heard that she was in that superstar C'mon let's fly away cabana Matter of fact the only thing she owns Girl, don't believe it Dancin' as if she just hit the lotto Is her freedom Those guys tell lies all day But that will amount to ze ze ze zero

He'll never keep it But that will amount to ze ze ze zero She ain't payin' attention He will tell everything But that will amount to ze ze ze zero Her mind's in the air Everyone will know But that will amount to ze ze ze zero Life is so hard Uh‐oh no lotto But that will amount to ze ze ze zero And no one cares

Open up your eyes There ain't no angels to whisk you away CD2, song 5: but lived on as a touring production "Sonny move out to the country" Movin' Out (Anthony's Song) ­ Billy from 2004‐2007. Joel (1977) But workin too hard can give you a heart Billy Joel told USA Today July 9, 2008: attack Songfacts: "In the song, there's the sound of a car peeling out. That was (bassist) Doug Tou oughta know by now (you oughta The lyrics refer to the New York Stegmeyer's car, who at the time had a know by now) working‐class immigrant masculine '60s‐era Corvette. He took his little tape Who needs a house out in Hackensack? ethos, in which wage‐earners take pride machine in the car and hung the at working long hours to afford the microphone out the rear end, and Is that what you get with your money? outwards signs of having "made it" in started burning rubber, screeching away America. The character "Anthony" from his house. questions if owning a house in Hackensack (a suburb of New York city) At the end, we went on and on and on It seems such a waste of time is worth the effort, while "Sergeant and they faded it out. We were just If that's what it's all about O'Leary" works 2 jobs in hopes of one having too much fun playing, we day owning a Cadillac. couldn't stop! We'd look at Phil Mama if that's movin up then I'm movin (Ramone, the album's producer) and out Joel first wrote this song to a soft ballad he'd just go, 'Ah, just keep going, who mystery tune he had in his head. When knows how much of this we're going to he performed it for his band in the use, just go with it.' The education of studio, they informed him WHERE he self‐editing is a good process to learn." Sergeant O'Leary is walkin the beat got the tune ‐ it was identical to Neil Sadaka's "Laughter In The Rain." At night he becomes a bartender Embarrassed, Joel changed it to a more Songlyrics: He works at Mister Cacciatore's down on rocking tune. Sullivan Street Anthony works in a grocery store, In 2002, The stage production Movin' Across from the medical center Out opened on Broadway. The show was Saving his pennies for someday. based on Joel's songs, and he won a Tony He's tradin' in his Chevy for a Cadillac Award for the orchestration. The Mama Leone left a note on the door Broadway production closed in 2005, You oughta know by now (you oughta She said know by now) And if he can't drive with a broken back

At least he can polish the fenders

You should never argue with a crazy mind

You oughta know by now..

You can pay Uncle Sam with the overtime Is that all you get for your money?

And if that's what you have in mind Yeah, if that's what you're all about

Good luck moving up, 'cause I'm moving out

I'm moving out.

CD2, song 6: So let me hear you scream if you're with So let me hear you scream if you're with My People ­ The Presets (2007) me me Songfacts: In a the March 25, 2008 issue of Rave So let's head in your room lovely Still the celebration haunts magazine, lead singer Julian Hamilton explains that the song is about I'll follow all around the world for you Today I heard it on the radio immigrants coming to Australia only to And you'll find out tonight, oh it's a You've gone and found a way to get me be detained. Said Hamilton: "I wanted to world of extreme out from this place write a song about this horrible phenomenon where people come out here in search of a better life and we lock them up. I felt so horrible about the Oh, they'll take all our ceremony Soldiers on the waterfront way we treat these destitute people that They'll never find a happy hope for you They wanna ship me far away I wanted to write a desperate sounding song. The line 'let me hear you scream if But know that's not the only chance I'll find my way tonight so I can find my you're with me' could be understood to you'll get, yeah you'll see way to you come from the perspective of someone who is locked up, needing to hear that there are people outside who are behind him and supporting him." Oh, I'm here with all of my people I'm here with all of my people

The song's promo won "Best Video" at Locked up with all of my people Locked up with all of my people the 2008 ARIA Awards. So let me hear you scream if you're with So let me hear you scream if you're with me me

Songlyrics:

I'm here with all of my people I'm here with all of my people I'm here with all of my people

Locked up with all of my people Shut down with all of my people Shut down with all of my people So let me hear you scream if you're with Party time all of my people me So let me hear you scream if you're with me

I'm here with all of my people

Locked up with all of my people

I'm here with all of my people

Shut down all of my people

And it feels so and it feels so good

And it feels so and it feels so good

And it feels so and it feels so good

And it feels so and it feels so good

And it feels so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so

I'm here with all of my people

Locked up with all of my people

So let me hear you scream if you're with me

I'm here with all of my people CD2, song 7: that clearly rubbed this "small town recording this song: "We had a big One In A Million ­ Guns N' Roses white boy" up the wrong way. disagreement about it, and the more I (1988) argued about it, the more adamant he Regarding specifically "Faggots," Rose was about putting it out there. It Songfacts: said, "I've had some very bad probably says a lot about our experiences with homosexuals" adding relationship. This song caused a great deal of that when he was hitchhiking as a controversy because of its explicit teenager a homosexual tried to I'm sure he was aware of my heritage, references to "Immigrants and faggots" sodomize him, which led to the man but at the same time he had his own and its use of a certain racial epithet. The ending up on the wrong end of Axl's point of view that he was trying to put song led to the group being banned from razor. Rose was born in Lafayette, across, which he's spoken about plenty. I an AIDS benefit concert in New York. Indiana on February 6, 1962, and had a wasn't surprised at the level of Front man Axl Rose apologized in turbulent youth which was colored by controversy it caused. There'd been a lot advance for causing offense on the some very negative experiences of attention towards homosexuality at album sleeve. Later he went further, including this encounter. that time and as always ‐ to racism and explaining exactly why he wrote the stuff, and I think the tone of that song song. In a second interview with the same was offensive. It didn't shock me that it magazine, in April 1992, Rose said "I've In an August 1989 interview with the was so controversial. It was just the way had my share of dealings with aggressive it was put, the words it used. magazine Rolling Stone, Rose said the gays, and I was bothered by it." song was written in the apartment of I'm not one to harbour regrets. I didn't West Arkeen, "who's like the sixth Rose is no racial bigot; the band's agree with it when it came out and still member of the band." It was inspired guitarist, Slash, was born July 23, 1965, don't, but no one really cares about it partly by his experience of the Los the son of a white Englishman and a any more. It was unfortunate at the time, Angeles Greyhound bus station and black American woman. He grew up in but it is what it is and what's done is seeing people getting ripped off by street Stoke‐on‐Trent but later moved to done. You know what, I don't think hustlers ‐ hence the unflattering California where the band was formed, about it any more. It was a big deal when reference to young black men. and although he was no juvenile it came out but I haven't heard it in so delinquent he is clearly cut from the long. I don't think it did us any harm, not The verse about "Immigrants and same cloth as Rose. faggots" referred to being treated by in the long run." immigrant workers in convenience Slash recalled to Q magazine April 2010 Despite his bad experiences with stores like you don't belong, something the fight he had with Rose about homosexuals, Axl performed Bohemian Rhapsody with Elton John at the 1992 Won't you cut me some slack Or spread some ****ing disease "Concert For Life" at Wembley Stadium. The concert was a tribute to Queen lead And they talk so many God damn ways singer Freddie Mercury, who died of You're one in a million It's all Greek to me AIDS the year before. Yeah that's what you are

You're one in a million babe Well some say I'm lazy Songfacts: You're a shooting star And others say that's just me Yes I needed some time to get away Maybe some day we'll see you Some say I'm crazy I needed some peace of mind Before you make us cry I guess I'll always be Some peace of mind that'll stay You know we tried to reach you But it's been such a long time So I thumbed it. Now it's six in L.A. But you were much to high. Since I knew right from wrong Maybe a greyhound could be my way Much too high... It's all the means to and end I'm

Much too high... I keep it moving along Police and ******s, that's right Much too high... Hey, hey, hey, yeah Get outta my way

Don't need to buy none of your Immigrants and fagots You're one in a million Gold chains today They make no sense to me You're a shooting star Now don't need no bracelets They come to our country You're one in a million babe Clamped in front of my back And think they'll do as they please You know that you are Just need my ticket 'till then Like start some mini‐Iran Maybe some day we'll see you Before you make us cry Maybe some day we'll see you

You know we tried to reach you Before you make us cry

But you were much to high You know we tried to reach you Much too high But you were much too high Much too high Much too high

Much too high Radicals and racists Don't point your finger at me I'm a small town white boy

Just tryin' to make ends meet Don't need your religion Don't watch that much TV

Just makin' my livin' baby Well that's enough for me

You're one in a million

Yeah that's what you are You're one in a million babe

You're a shooting star CD2, song 8: Cause I jack for similac, **** a Cadillac Without a face Without A Face ­ Rage Against The Machine (1996) Survive one motive no hope

Songfacts: Cause every sidewalk I walk is like a Yeah, I tried ta look back ta my past long tightrope lost The song discusses the problems which faced Mexican immigrants going into Yes I know my deadline sire, when my A blood donor ta tha land owner America, and how America were life expires holocaust building a "Berlin Wall" at the border to I'm sendin' paper south under tha Pops heart stopped, in came tha air drop stop the immigrants coming in. barbed wire Flooded tha trench he couldn't shake tha Lead singer Zack De La Rocha (from the Tha mother of my child will lose her toxic shock "Live and Rare" disc): "It seems as soon mind at my grave as the wall of Germany fell, the US Maize was all we needed ta sustain government was busy building one It's my life for their life so call it a free between the border between the US and trade Now her golden skin burns, insecticide Mexico. Since 1986 as result of a lot of rain the hate talk and hysteria that the the "Por vida" and our name up on tha stall Ya down wit DDT yeah you know me government of the United States has I took a death trip when I tried ta cross been speaking, 1500 bodies have been tha white wall Raped for tha grapes, profit for tha found on the border. We wrote this song bourgeois (?) in response to it." Walk unseen past tha graves an tha gates, born without a face War tape boomin' path is Luminoso

One motive no hope ah, born without a I'm headed north like my name was kid Songlyrics: face 'Cisco Uh! Got no card so I got not soul Walk unseen past tha graves an tha To survive one motive no hope, ah Life is prison, no parole, no control gates, born without a face It's hard ta breathe wit Wilson's head around my throat Tha jura got my number on a wire tap One motive no hope ah, yeah, born without a face Strangled and mangled another SS curtain call

When I tried ta cross tha white wall

When I tried ta cross tha white walls

Walk unseen past tha graves an tha gates, born without a face

One motive no hope ah, born without a face Walk unseen past tha graves an tha gates, born without a face

One motive no hope ah, born without a face

You say fortify, reaction, you divide

And you say fortify, reaction, reaction And you say fortify, reaction, reaction You say fortify, reaction, you divide

CD3, song 1: [Chorus] Everything you've known Prayer Of The Refugee ­ Rise Against (2006) Don't hold me up now

Songfacts: I can stand my own ground [Chorus] This song is about an immigrant or a I don't need your help now refugee trying to make ends meet in You will let me down, down, down! So open your eyes, child America. He faces frequent discrimination at the hands of the people Don't hold me up now Let's be on our way and government. I can stand my own ground Broken windows and ashes

I don't need your help now Are guiding the way Songlyrics: You will let me down, down, down! Warm yourself by the fire, son Keep quiet no longer And the morning will come soon We are the angry and the desperate We'll sing through the day I'll tell you stories of a better time The hungry, and the cold Of the lives that we've lost In a place that we once knew We are the ones who kept quiet And the lives we've reclaimed

And always did what we were told Before we packed our bags [Chorus] And left all this behind us in the dust But we've been sweating while you slept We had a place that we could call home so calm Don't hold me up And a life no one could touch In the safety of your home (I don't need your help, I'll stand my We've been pulling out the nails that ground) hold up Don't hold me up

(I don't need your help)

No! No! No! Don't hold me up! (I don't need your help, I'll stand my ground)

Don't hold me up!

(I don't need your help, I'll stand my ground) Don't let me down, down, down, down, down!

CD3, song 2: Songlyrics: 'Cause when your skin starts burning, Refugee ­ Lostboy! AKA (2010) All those flowers in the wasteland, You can feel the planet turning, Songfacts: All that time beneath those skies There's no transition, nothing sets you This is the opening track from Simple charcoal grey. right. Minds frontman Jim Kerr's solo debut album, which was released under the But, every moment in the shade there, And when your roof starts falling, alter ego name of Lostboy! AKA. Nourished by a force that flies from far There's no place, no place to crawl in, away. Kerr currently lives in the small town of Hope transmitting, returning to your Taormina on the East Coast of Sicily. In And we will say: Come to me, refugee, let plight. an interview with the Daily Mirror, me be the one one who frees you. where he explained this song, he references the Sicilian island of When you're calling, when you're calling, Lampedusa, which is notable as a staging refugee. And we will say: Come to me, refugee, let post for illegal immigrants. Said Kerr: me be the one who heals you. "To me, Refugee is a voice that's dying to Yes we will say: Come to me, refugee, let When you're toiling, crawling, refugee. be heard. It sounds like young man's me be the one who bleeds now. music. Refugee is a word that's always in When you're falling, where you're Yes we will say: Come to me, refugee, let the headlines, especially in Italy. The crawling, refugee. me be, I will conceal you. difference between LostBoy! and Simple Minds is that at a certain point in my When you're calling, when you're calling career the song would have been called refugee. Lampedusa . It would have been all very All those poets in the basement, obvious ‐ a cry for change. Lostboy! says Yes we will say, we will say. Still haunted by the ancient crimes of it's about what's in my head ‐ he's a spiritual refugee. I liked where I grew up yesterday. but I was attracted to the esoteric and Like those flowers in the wasteland, When you're falling, when you're falling, there was a point where it couldn't contain my imagination. Through music They will rise with open eyes and point And we will say, we will say, and books I found a different kind of the way. When you're falling, life." When you're calling refugee.

CD3, song 3: He will make your mug shots disappear Love or leave her, yellow fever Sign In Stranger ­ Steely Dan (1976) Sure, it's all in the game Songfacts: [Chorus] And who are you Donald Fagen and Walter Becker are rarely forthcoming about Steely Dan's You zombie Just another scurvy brother songs. This song was said to be the name Be born again my friend of a club Fagen was in as a child. However, the lyrics sound as if there is a Won't you sign in stranger [Chorus] man named PePe helping fugitives and immigrants get new identities. Do you like to take a yo‐yo for a ride

Songlyrics: Zombie I can see you're qualified Have you heard about the boom on Walk around collecting Turkish union Mizar Five dues

People got to shout to stay alive They will call you sir and shine your shoes They don't even have policeman one

Doesn't matter where you been or what you've done Or maybe you would like to see the show

You'll enjoy the Cafe D'Escargot

Do you have a dark spot on your past Folks are in a line around the block

Leave it to my man he'll fix it fast Just to see her do the can‐can‐Jacques

Pepe has a scar from ear to ear [Chorus] CD3, song 4: Was it anything like that when you Turning away he remembers he once The Immigrant ­ Neil Sedaka (1974) arrived? heard a legend Songfacts: Dream boats carried the future to the That spoke of a mystical magical land heart of America called America This was released as the B‐side to "Laughter In The Rain," helping it get People were waiting in line for a place exposure to become a success of its own. by the river Similar to "Ferry Cross The Mersey" by It was time when strangers were Gerry and the Pacemakers, it's one of his welcome here more socially relevant songs. Though it It was time when strangers were Music would play they tell me the days was meant to protest the US welcome here were sweet and clear government's refusal to grant John Lennon permanent resident status, Music would play they tell me the days It was a sweeter tune and there was so many read it as a commentary about the were sweet and clear much room sometimes hostile reception that immigrants got in the United States at It was a sweeter tune and there was so That people could come from the time, an issue that's even more much room everywhere relevant today. That people could come from everywhere It was time when strangers were Songlyrics: welcome here Harbors open their doors to the young Now he arrives with hopes and his heart Music would play they tell me the days searching foreigner set on miracles were sweet and clear Come to live in the light of the big L of Come to marry his fortune with a hand It was a sweeter tune and there was so liberty full of promises much room

Plains and open skies bill boards would To find they've closed the door they That people could come from advertise don't want him anymore everywhere There isn't anymore to go around CD3, song 5: In the morning, she is waiting And take her by her hand The Refugee ­ U2 (1983) Waiting for the ship to sail And take her to this promise land Songfacts: Sail away This was an attempt to contrast the experience of Irish‐American War, war immigrants with African‐Americans. War, war She's a pretty face

Fellow Irishman Bill Whelan is credited Her papa go to war But at the wrong time as producer, although Steve Lillywhite, who produced their first 2 albums, also He gonna fight, but he don't know what In the wrong place worked on it. Whelan would go on to for produce Riverdance. War, war War, war U2 never performed this live. She's a pretty face Her papa go to war Her mama say one day Her mama say one day Songlyrics: She's gonna live in America He's gonna come back from far away War, war Yeah, America

She's the refugee Help me I see your face War, war How can you help me? I see you staring back at me She's a refugee

War, war She's coming back, she's coming, keep In the evening you company She's the refugee She is waiting War, war Her mama say one day Waiting for her man to come She's a refugee She's gonna live in America Her mama say one day

She's gonna live in America

CD3, song 6: From their boats of iron Hung on the wall, shared the room The Royal Scam ­ Steely Dan (1976) They looked upon the promised land With twenty sinners Songfacts: Where surely life was sweet This is a song about people from Puerto Rico who immigrated to New York in the On the rising tide See the glory '50s and '60s hoping to secure the To New York City Of the royal scam American Dream only to find discrimination and hate from the native Did they ride into the street population. See the glory By the blackened wall The album cover of The Royal Scam features a homeless man laying on a Of the royal scam He does it all bench. Behind him are monolithic He thinks he's died and gone to heaven skyscrapers topped with the snarling heads of a wolf, snake, alligator and bear. They are hounded down Now the tale is told This dark, eerie cover sets the stage for a cynical album. To the bottom of a bad town By the old man back home

Amid the ruins He reads the letter Songlyrics: Where they learn to fear How they are paid in gold And they wandered in An angry race of fallen kings Just to babble in the back room

From the city of St. John Their dark companions All night and waste their time Without a dime While the memory of And they wandered in

Wearing coats that shined Their southern sky was clouded by From the city of St. John without a dime Both red and green A savage winter

Colors from their sunny island Every patron saint See the glory Of the royal scam

CD3, song 7: The band have a long‐running interest in Oh, it's all a joke Waving Flags ­ British Sea Power Eastern Europe, dating back to when (2008) bassist Hamilton and drummer Wood Oh went inter‐railing in the region. Part of Songfacts: the album was recorded in a Czech Frontman Yan (British Sea Power band forest and the single was launched on Are here of legal drinking age, on members use just one name) told The January 10 2008 at the Czech embassy in minimum wage London. Sunday Times January 6, 2008 that this Well, welcome in song, which celebrates freedom of movement, was written to counter the From across the Vistula, you've come so antipathy with which Eastern European Songlyrics: very far immigrants are often greeted: "It seems to me we need intelligent, good‐looking You are astronomical fans of alcohol All waving flags people with taste to come in and breed So welcome in with us. Basically, [some Britons] don't like them because they're willing to Are rising in the East and setting in the We're all waving flags now work hard, but we like working hard, so West we can identify with them." Waving flags All waving flags The lyric, which hails the migrants as But don't be scared "astronomical fans of alcohol" was inspired by guitarist Noble while We're all waving flags now watching an Uefa Cup football match on And you, you will be here for a while television, spotting the phrase "fans of Waving flags alcohol" on a banner held by fans of the And it's all a joke Czech team Slavia Prague. But don't be scared Oh, it's all a joke The lyric, "From across the Vistula, you've come so very far" references the Oh River Vistula, Poland's longest and most And you, you will be here for a while famous river, which roughly splits the And it's all a joke country into two. Here is my pride Here is my life

It just tastes good

Especially tonight

(Oh welcome in)

Oh welcome in, we are Barbarians

Oh welcome in, cross the

Oh we can fail, against the sea

No we won't fail, against the sea So walk away

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Thank you all the musicians in the world who focused on this important issue.

Thank you to all the people who put the songfacts and songlyrics on the world wide web so that I could find them and spread them.

Thank you Jose Tomas Giraldo for the lay‐out of this booklet.

Second P.I.T. action: December 17, 2011: LE SUD, curator Gilbert van Drunen, Rotterdam/Netherlands First P.I.T. action: November 18, 2011: Seminar with Journal of Aesthetics and protest ‐ growing critical dialogues, Organizer Marc Herbst, Malmö Art Academy, Sweden