The sound of gunfire, off in the distance …
“Civil War,” Guns N Roses
“Echo Wars,” Peter Case
“Emotional War Games,” Tonio K.
“Everybody Loves a Holy War,” Mark Heard
“Hate and War,” The Clash
“He War,” Cat Power
“Heartbreak Warfare,” John Mayer
“Holy War,” Matthew Sweet
“Indian Wars,” Bruce Cockburn
“Life During Wartime,” Talking Heads
“Post-War,” M. Ward
“Rich Man’s War,” Steve Earle
“War,” Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
“War Pigs,” Cake
“When the War Came,” The Decemberists
I’m sticking here to songs with the actual word “war” in their titles. A list of songs about war would be too long — longer even than a list of songs about trains. It’d be a really good list, though, so maybe we’ll try that some future Friday.