Comparison Songs

COMPARISON - GIVE PEACE A CHANCE and REVOLUTION.

I’m going to compare the songs, Give peace a chance by John Lennon, and Revolution, by Beatles.

Music is used to express feelings, frustrations and desires. And in the 1960s became to be used as a means of protest. One of the bands that brought this form of protest was The Beatles, protesting against the Vietnam War.

Revolution is a hard rock, written by John Lennon, in 1968, during the Vietnam War. This song was inspired by political protests in early 1968, against the Vietnam War.

Give peace a chance is a rock, written by John Lennon too, in 1969, during the Vietnam War.

In this song John Lennon wants to ask for peace. This song became the anthem of the anti Vietnam-war movement, and was sung by half a million demonstrators in Washington on 15 October 1969. This song is a message in favor of the peace movement.

The both songs are against the Vietnam War, but in Give peace a chance John Lennon ask for peace as a way to protest the war. You see it in this part, “all we are saying is give peace a chance”. And he criticizes the revolution, in this line. But you can see that in Revolution, John Lennon is against the war, but he doesn’t know if he wants a revolution or not. He says here in the first part that he wants to change the world, but in these lines he says “But when you talk about destruction, don’t you know you can count me out/in.” He wrote the two version of this line, you can count me in, and you can count me out, because he was undecided about his feelings, he knew that he wanted to change the world, he wanted to protest the war, but he didn’t know how, with a revolution or not. This is different in Give peace a chance, because here he knows the way he wants to protest the Vietnam War, asking for peace. Then the song Revolution can be similar or different with Give peace a chance. Because if he uses the line, “Don’t you know you can count me out”, it’s similar to the song Give peace a chance, because in both he wants to protest, and to change something, but with peace, without destruction. But if he uses the line “Don’t you know you can count me in”, it’s different from Give peace a chance, because then he wants to protest with a revolution, destruction, that is the opposite of peace.

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