Below are some songs - some of them are just straight quotes from the authors, because I think the words are worth reading, while others are slightly modified.. [and I always mark the modifications] so that they read more like what I think the hidden meaning in the song is.

Anyway, enjoy.

There's a man workin' in a field
Sees the rain and it's burnin'
He's sayin' this can't be real
As he sees the color of the fields turnin'
Far away the men too busy gettin' rich to care
Close their eyes and let it all out into the air
Hopin' nobody else would care

Look out any window
Look out any open door
Look out any window
See what's going on in the world around you

There'a a man working on a boat
Pullin' lines from the water
Just trying to stay afloat
Fillin' the nets is gettin' harder
Far away they bend the rules so secretly
Close their eyes and let it all out into the sea
Hopin' nobody else would see

Look out any window
Look out any open door
Look out any window
See what's goin' on in the air around you

Far away too many leaders let them get their way
Close their eyes and let it all out into the bay
Say they'll clear it up another day

Look out any window
Look out any open door
Look out any window
See what's goin' on in the air around you

Look out, look out for the big boys
tellin' you everything they're gonna' do
Look out, look out for the fat cat builder man
turnin' this into a waste land
Look out, look out for the back room boys
that say the smoke is gonna' blow away
Look out, look out for the men who say it's okay
sittin' in a building far away

	--- Bruce Hornsby, 'Look Out Any Window'
From the musical 'Rent'. Sections have been cut to slightly change the way the song parses. This is not accidental. The cut sections have been marked.

	Don't breathe too deep
	Don't think all day
	Dive into work
	Drive the other way
	That drip of hurt
	That pint of shame
	Goes away just play the game
	You're living in America
	At the end of the millennium (or the beginning ;-))
	You're living in America
	At the end of the millennium
	Leave your conscience at the tone
	And when you're living in America
	At the end of the millennium
	You're what you own

	[ ... snip ... ]
	
	Just tighten those shoulders
	Just clench your jaw until you frown
	Just don't let go or you may drown
	You're living in America 
	At the end of the millennium
	You're living in America
	Where it's like the twilight zone
	And when you're living in America
	At the end of the millennium
	You're what you own

	So I own not a notion	
	I escape and ape content
	I don't own emotion
	I rent

	What was it about that night
	Connection in a isolating age
	For once the shadow gave way to light
	For once I didn't disengage

	[ ... snip ... ]
	
	I quit dying in America
	At the end of the millennium
	We're dying in America
	To come into our own
	And when you're dying in America
	At the end of the millennium
	You're not alone..

Another classic - Hammer and a Nail, by the Indigo Girls 



Clearing webs from a hovel
A blistered hand on the handle of a shovel
I've been digging too deep I always do
I see my face on the surface
I look a lot like Narcissus
A dark abyss of a emptiness
Standing on the edge of a drowning blue



I look behind my ears for the green
And even my sweat smells clean
Glare off the white hurts my eyes
I've got to get out of bed, get a hammer and a nail
Learn how to use my hands
Not just my head i think myself in a jail
Now I know a refuse never grows
From a chin on a hand in a thoughtful pose
Got to tend the earth if you want a rose

Had a lot of good intentions
Sit around for fifty years and then collect the pensions
By seeing the road to hell, and just where it starts
But my life is more than a vision
The sweetest part is acting after making a decision
You start seeing the whole as the sum of it's parts


I look behind my ears for the green
And even my sweat smells clean
Glare off the white hurts my eyes
I've got to get out of bed, get a hammer and a nail
Learn how to use my hands
Not just my head i think myself in a jail
Now I know a refuse never grows
From a chin on a hand in a thoughtful pose
Got to tend the earth if you want a rose

My life is part of the global life
I found myself becoming more immobile
When I think a little girl in the world can't to anything
A distant nation my community, and a street person my responsibility
If I have a care in the world, I have a gift to bring


I look behind my ears for the green
And even my sweat smells clean
Glare off the white hurts my eyes
I've got to get out of bed, get a hammer and a nail
Learn how to use my hands
Not just my head i think myself in a jail
Now I know a refuse never grows
From a chin on a hand in a thoughtful pose
Got to tend the earth if you want a rose

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