SONGS BY JOHN LUCKEN
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    • Archive I >
      • There's a place
      • Rejoice in the sun
      • Tomorrow & Yesterday
      • Travelin Man
      • One Step Beyond
      • The Dream
      • Right Then
      • Goodbye
      • Resolutions
      • The Nightmare
      • Solitaire
      • For You
      • The One
    • Archive II >
      • The Ways of Change
      • Lose Your Love or Die
      • Though You're Gone Today
      • Hello There Little One
      • Pacifier/Complicator
      • Love
      • Warning
      • Forever Evergreen
      • Those Times We Had
      • On Our Way
      • Nasty Habits
      • Slow Poke
      • War Child
      • Summer Breeze
      • Anytime Anywhere
      • Time Capsul
    • Archive III >
      • State of Mind
      • Tribute
      • Second Thought
      • Back Alley Blues
      • I Told You So
      • It Just Don't Hurt Anymore
      • Persecution Complex
      • Anxiety
      • Rock-n-Roll Star
      • Interlude in E/Triumph
      • Trouble-Maker
      • We Can Make a Difference
      • On Such A Night As This
      • Beyond Words
      • Voyager
      • The Uncelebrated
      • I'll Be Back For You
    • Archive IV >
      • Early Saturday Morning
      • I'm Leaving You
      • Friends are Friends
      • Renaissance
      • Another Buck
      • Days' Done
      • Haywire
      • Thing's aren't what they Seem
      • One
      • Baqtasia
      • The Seed
      • Loneliness
      • Dreamspun Reality
      • Try one more Time again
      • Tangled Lives
      • Derelict Shuffle
      • Heat Up
      • Our Love
    • Archive V >
      • Never Going Home
      • Come What May
      • Hide Away
      • Way Back When
      • Home
      • Heaven's Gate
      • Atlantis
      • No Matter
      • Another World
      • Say Your Prayers
      • Finding my way Back
      • Boogie Blues
      • Over the Crest of a Wave
      • Reasons People Change
      • Not Far Beyond the Dream
      • How Many Times
    • Archive VI >
      • Someway,Somehow,Somewhere
      • Sunrise
      • Instrumental 1
      • Instrumental 2
      • HalfWay
      • Fade Back-to Reality
      • Confusion
      • Take as you Give
      • Test of Time
      • Nothing can stop you
      • Steamroller
      • Doin' it Right
      • Easy
      • Impact
      • Sooner or Later
      • Melancholy Monday
      • Judgement Call
      • City of Thieves
      • No Rest for the Wicked
    • Archive VII >
      • Prologue
      • The Promise
      • Keyz Teeze
      • By The Way
      • I've seen you out there
      • Headline Story
      • American Dream
      • Say what you Mean
      • Outta sight-Outta mind
      • Roller Coaster
      • Oh well
      • 1976
      • Small Town Boy
      • After the Fall
      • Dolphin Sonata
      • Wake Up-It's Not A Dream
    • Impact-Ground Zero >
      • Steam Roller
      • Nothing Can Stop You
      • Sooner or Later
      • Confusion
      • No Matter
      • City of Thieves
      • Tomorrow & Yesterday
      • Fade Back-To Reality
      • Doin' it Right
      • Second Thought
      • No Rest for the Wicked
      • Try One More Time Again
    • Impact-Critical Mass >
      • Keyz Teeze
      • On Our Way
      • WarChild
      • Tangled Lives
      • Easy
      • Impact
      • The Uncelebrated
      • Though You're Gone Today
      • By The Way
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  • What Else?
    • Resist >
      • Election Day 2020
      • Election Day 2018
      • Wake Up-It's Not A Dream
      • Partisan Political Message
      • March For Our Lives
      • Democracy Awakening
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    • Earth Day >
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Note: This page is from 2016

                              Democracy awakening
                                                &
                                  Democracy Spring


These two organizations are hosting events in April to draw attention to excessive
corporate influence in our government & election process & the corrosive effect of
big money on nearly every aspect of society,exacerbated by the Supreme Courts
Citizens United ruling. The events begin with a 10 day 140 mile march from the
Liberty Bell in Philadelphia to Capitol Hill in Washington DC.,April 2nd-April 11th.
From the 11th to the 16th there will be peaceful sit-ins & non-violent civil disobedience
action to draw attention to these issues & more under the dome of our capitol,"the
peoples house". On the 17th there will be a "Rally for Democracy" on the capitol lawn
culminating in a final day of direct action on the 18th a "Congress of Conscience".
I urge everyone to get involved in their own way,by participating,contributing or at
least paying attention & caring about the direction of society & the corrupting influence
of money ​in our politics. I don't want to get too political on my website but I have been politically active since I was 18 & haven't missed a chance to vote ever. My songs reflect my strong belief in justice,equality,peace,conservation & the American way.

                 Please learn more about these events at: Democracyawakening.org & Democracyspring.org


Another Buck is a song about money I wrote when I was 21.Pretty rough & not really finished,but kind of goes with the theme of this page. I just noticed I didn't sing all the words on the recording that were written. May have to revisit &
 update this one someday.
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Another Buck

                                               Here's one about activism.

We Can Make A Difference

   In the 1960's & 70's, when I was growing up,there was a thing called a Protest Song..
Musicians with a social conscience used the song to covey messages of justice,peace
& environmentalism and protest war,greed,corruption & brutality. Quite a few of my songs have elements of protest in them,but you don't hear it much anymore in popular music,probably so as to not offend corporate sensibilities. You have to try to not be 
too preachy & write a song for the moment,but not be too dated. Songwriting is a great
way to express frustration with the world in a constructive way! Here's one I wrote in
1982 called Heat Up, also on my Archive IV, that I'll release here in June 2016.

 


Heat Up
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