20 Protest Songs That Matter: No. 9

'World Wide Suicide'
--Pearl Jam (2006)

Rebelling Against: Operation Iraqi Freedom!

Like a lot of veteran rockers, Eddie Vedder has become a campaigner in middle age, trashing George Bush with an amusing baseball metaphor in "Bushleaguer" – "Born on third, thinks he got a triple." There's nothing metaphoric about 'World Wide Suicide,' which rages against the Bushies and their Iraq war: "Tell you to pray, while the devil's on their shoulder."
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