List of anti-war songs
Some anti-war songs lament aspects of wars, while others patronize war. Most promote peace in some form, while others sing out against specific armed conflicts. Still others depict the physical and psychological destruction that warfare causes to soldiers, innocent civilians, and humanity as a whole. Many of these songs are considered protest songs, and some have been embraced by war-weary people, various peace movements, and peace activists.
General pacifist and anti-war songs
| Year | Song | Artist |
| 1966 | "7 O'Clock News/Silent Night" | Simon & Garfunkel |
| 2009 | "21 Guns" | Green Day |
| 1984 | "99 Luftballons" | Nena |
| 2005 | "Against" | Mischief Brew |
| 1968 | "American Eagle Tragedy" | Earth Opera |
| 2004 | "American Idiot" | Green Day |
| 1980 | "Army Dreamers" | Kate Bush |
| 2023 | "Asteria" | Xandria |
| 1901 | "The Battle Hymn of the Republic, Updated" | Mark Twain |
| 1974 | "Billy, Don't Be a Hero" | Paper Lace, Bo Donaldson & the Heywoods |
| 1988 | "Blackened" | Metallica |
| 1963 | "Blowin' in the Wind" | Bob Dylan |
| 1980 | "Bombs Away" | The Police |
| 1984 | "Born in the U.S.A." | Bruce Springsteen |
| 1971 | "Bring the Boys Home" | Freda Payne |
| 2019 | "British Bombs" | Declan McKenna |
| 1996 | "Bulls on Parade" | Rage Against the Machine |
| 1968 | "Butcher's Tale" | The Zombies |
| 1964 | "Chimes of Freedom" | Bob Dylan |
| 2005 | "M.I.A." | Avenged Sevenfold |
| 1990 | "Civil War" | Guns N' Roses |
| 1959 | "La Colombe" | Jacques Brel |
| 1963 | "Come Away Melinda" | Harry Belafonte |
| 1969 | "Cranes" | Rasul Gamzatov / Yan Frenkel / Mark Bernes |
| 1966 | "The Cruel War" | Peter, Paul and Mary |
| 2011 | "The Cruel Wars" | The Dreadnoughts |
| 1971 | "El Derecho De Vivir En Paz" | Víctor Jara |
| 1954 | "Le Déserteur" | Boris Vian |
| 1972 | "Dialogue" | Chicago |
| 1986 | "Disposable Heroes" | Metallica |
| 1987 | "The Dogs of War" | Pink Floyd |
| 1967 | ", Mrs. Ward" | The Idle Race |
| 1980 | "Не стреляй!" | DDT |
| 2005 | "Empire" | Dar Williams |
| 1965 | "Eve of Destruction" | Barry McGuire |
| 1968 | "Everybody's Cryin' Mercy" | Mose Allison |
| 1969 | "The Fiddle and the Drum" | Joni Mitchell |
| 1995 | “Зезагаш” | Alimsultan Imam |
| 1995 | "Foggy Dew" | Sinéad O'Connor |
| 1973 | "For the Peace of All Mankind" | Albert Hammond |
| 1971 | "Lady in Black" | Uriah Heep |
| 1970 | "Child in Time" | Deep Purple |
| 1971 | "Children of the Grave" | Black Sabbath |
| 1987 | "War inside My Head" | Suicidal Tendencies |
| 1971 | "The Park" | Uriah Heep |
| 1971 | "Simon the Bullet Freak" | Uriah Heep |
| 1984 | "Fight Fire With Fire" | Metallica |
| 1967 | "For What It's Worth" | Buffalo Springfield |
| 1984 | "For Whom the Bell Tolls" | Metallica |
| 1969 | "Fortunate Son" | Creedence Clearwater Revival |
| 1969 | "Galveston" | Glen Campbell |
| 1980 | "Games Without Frontiers" | Peter Gabriel |
| 1974 | "The Gates of Delirium" | Yes |
| 1998 | "The General" | Dispatch |
| 1980 | "Generals and Majors" | XTC |
| 2024 | "Generation D" | Trèbé Repus |
| 2022 | "Gimme Hope | Asian Kung-Fu Generation |
| 1986 | "Gimme Peace on the Earth'" | Modern Talking |
| 1973 | "Give Me Love " | George Harrison |
| 1969 | "Give Peace a Chance" | Plastic Ono Band, John Lennon |
| 1987 | "Gods of War" | Def Leppard |
| 1963 | "Gone the Rainbow" | Peter, Paul and Mary |
| 1966 | "La Guerra Di Piero" | Fabrizio De André |
| 1962 | "La Guerre De 14–18" | Georges Brassens |
| 2013 | "Gun" | My Chemical Romance |
| 1987 | "Gun Shy" | 10,000 Maniacs |
| 1983 | "The Gunner's Dream" | Pink Floyd |
| 2007 | "Gunslinger" | Avenged Sevenfold |
| 2010 | "Half a World Away" | Joe Cerisano |
| 1966 | "Handsome Johnny" | Richie Havens |
| 1971 | "Happy Xmas " | The Plastic Ono Band |
| 2010 | "Harmony" | Never Shout Never |
| 1969 | "Harold Land" | Yes |
| 1976 | "Harvest for the World" | The Isley Brothers |
| 1996 | "Hero of the Day" | Metallica |
| 1992 | "Heal the World" | Michael Jackson |
| 2008 | "Hero of War" | Rise Against |
| 2007 | "Heroes And Martyrs" | Bad Religion |
| 2024 | "Hind's Hall" | Macklemore |
| 2024 | "Hind's Hall 2" | Macklemore, anees, MC Abdul & Amer Zahr |
| 1991 | "Hole in the Bucket" | Michael Franti |
| 2004 | "Holiday" | Green Day |
| 2010 | "Holy War" | Asia |
| 2019 | "Home Back" | Jinjer |
| 1968 | "The House at Pooneil Corners" | Jefferson Airplane |
| 1985 | "How Many Tears?" | Helloween |
| 2006 | "Hymn for the Dead" | Anti-Flag |
| 1965 | "I Ain't Marching Anymore" | Phil Ochs |
| 1987 | "I Don't Want to Be a Hero" | Johnny Hates Jazz |
| 1984 | "I Hope You Get Drafted" | Dicks |
| 2009 | "I Know" | The Proclaimers |
| 1982 | "I Love a Man in a Uniform" | Gang of Four |
| 2020 | "I Want to Die in a War" | Jreg |
| 1971 | "I'd Love to Change the World" | Ten Years After |
| 1960 | "If I Had a Hammer" | Peter, Paul and Mary |
| 1974 | "I'm Asking You, Sergeant, Where's Mine?" | Billy Connolly |
| 1954 | "I'm in Korea" | J. B. Lenoir |
| 1971 | "Imagine" | John Lennon |
| 1981 | "In the Army Now" | Bolland & Bolland |
| 1981 | "Invisible Sun" | The Police |
| 1983 | "It's a Mistake" | Men at Work |
| 2001 | "Jet Fighter" | Butthole Surfers |
| 1962 | "John Brown" | Bob Dylan |
| 2002 | "John Walker's Blues" | Steve Earle |
| 1867 | "Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye" | Traditional |
| 2013 | "Johnny S'en Va En Guerre" | Les Sales Majestés |
| 1976 | "Johnny Was" | Bob Marley & the Wailers |
| 1955 | "Les Joyeux Bouchers" | Boris Vian |
| 1989 | "Jennifer Lost the War" | The Offspring |
| 1989 | "Kill the President" | The Offspring |
| 1994 | "Genocide" | The Offspring |
| 2014 | "Killing Strangers" | Marilyn Manson |
| 2013 | "Krieg Kennt Keine Sieger" | Saltatio Mortis |
| 1971 | "La riva bianca, la riva nera" | Iva Zannichi |
| 1974 | "La La Peace Song" | Al Wilson, O. C. Smith |
| 1980 | "Last Chance" | Shooting Star |
| 1950 | "Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream" | Ed McCurdy |
| 1973 | "Lay Down Your Arms" | Doron Levinson |
| 1986 | "Lay Down Your Guns" | Emerson, Lake & Powell |
| 2013 | "Letters Home" | Radical Face |
| 1979 | "Little Boy Soldiers" | The Jam |
| 1983 | "A Little Good News" | Anne Murray |
| 1986 | "Live in Peace" | The Firm |
| 2006 | "Living With War" | Neil Young |
| 1990 | "Love Can Build a Bridge" | The Judds |
| 1973 | "Love Train" | The O'Jays |
| 1970 | "Lucky Man" | Emerson, Lake, and Palmer |
| 1973 | "Luglio, Agosto, Settembre " | Area |
| 1982 | Lysistrata | Utopia |
| 2012 | "Machine Gun to Keiyōshi" | Asian Kung-Fu Generation |
| 2008 | "Make Dub Not War" | Quantic Presenta Flowering Inferno |
| 2006 | "Mama" | My Chemical Romance |
| 1977 | "Man of War" | The Jackson 5 |
| 1985 | "The Man's Too Strong" | Dire Straits |
| 1991 | "March for Me, Die for Me" | Cyclone Temple |
| 1997 | "March With Me" | Montserrat Caballé and Vangelis |
| 1963 | "Masters of War" | Bob Dylan |
| 2016 | "A Matter of Habit" | Moddi |
| 1962 | "May There Always Be Sunshine" | Lev Oshanin / Arkady Ostrovsky / Maya Kristalinskaya |
| 2003 | "Meneer De President" | K3 |
| 1986 | "Method to Your Madness" | Metal Church |
| 1971 | "Military Madness" | Graham Nash |
| 1973 | "Mind Games" | John Lennon |
| 1961 | "Miss Guéguerre" | Léo Ferré |
| 1982 | "Mothers, Daughters, Wives" | Judy Small |
| 1964 | "Mr. Lonely" | Bobby Vinton |
| 2015 | "Murder Song " | Aurora |
| 1993 | "Né en 17 à Leidenstadt" | Jean-Jacques Goldman |
| 1970 | "Never Kill Another Man" | Steve Miller Band |
| 2008 | "No.9" | Asian Kung-Fu Generation |
| 1980 | "No Dudaría" | Antonio Flores |
| 1984 | "No Fuckin' War" | Dicks |
| 1976 | "No Man's Land" | Eric Bogle |
| 2018 | "No More" | Disturbed |
| 1978 | "No More Trouble" | Bob Marley & the Wailers |
| 1983 | "No Remorse" | Metallica |
| 2024 | "Nobody’s Soldier" | Hozier |
| 2018 | "Non mi avete fatto niente" | Ermal Meta and Fabrizio Moro |
| 1983 | "Not Now John" | Pink Floyd |
| 1970 | "Ohio" | Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young |
| 1988 | "One" | Metallica |
| 1997 | "One More Parade" | Phil Ochs |
| 1969 | "One Tin Soldier" | The Original Caste, Coven |
| 2007 | "Our Solemn Hour" | Within Temptation |
| 1961 | "Pacific Blues" | Léo Ferré |
| 1982 | "Part III" | Bad Religion |
| 1988 | "Part IV " | Bad Religion |
| 1972 | "The Patriot's Dream" | Gordon Lightfoot |
| 2002 | "Paz Y Amor" | Gisela |
| 1981 | "Peace" | Roger Lee Hall |
| 1971 | "Peace Train" | Cat Stevens |
| 1977 | "Peace Will Come" | Tom Paxton |
| 1970 | "Peace Will Come "" | Melanie Safka |
| 1972 | "People, Let's Stop the War" | Grand Funk Railroad |
| 2000 | "Pick Up the Bones" | Alice Cooper |
| 1982 | "Pipes of Peace" | Paul McCartney |
| 1986 | "Plantas Embaixo do Aquário" | Legião Urbana |
| 1972 | "Political Science" | Randy Newman |
| 2002 | "Poor Places" | Wilco |
| 1971 | "Power to the People" | John Lennon |
| 1958 | "Prayer for Peace" | Perry Como |
| 2002 | "Prisoners of War" | Funker Vogt |
| 1969 | "Prologue, August 29, 1968" | Chicago |
| 1976 | "Protocol" | Gordon Lightfoot |
| 2015 | "Psycho" | Muse |
| 1987 | "Put Down That Weapon" | Midnight Oil |
| 1985 | "Querida Milagros" | El Último de la Fila |
| 1969 | "Questions 67 & 68" | Chicago |
| 2018 | "Raise Your Banner" | Within Temptation |
| 1979 | "Ratziti Sheteda" | Uzi Hitman |
| 1982 | "Remember the Heroes" | Sammy Hagar |
| 1992 | "Rest in Peace" | Extreme |
| 2018 | "The Reckoning" | Within Temptation |
| 1967 | "Requiem for the Masses" | The Association |
| 1968 | "Revolution" | The Beatles |
| 1985 | "Ride Across the River" | Dire Straits |
| 2006 | "Right in Two" | Tool |
| 2005 | "Road to Joy" | Bright Eyes |
| 1992 | "Rooster" | Alice in Chains |
| 2012 | "Royay E Ma" | Ebi, Shadmehr Aghili |
| 1972 | "Sale Away" | Randy Newman |
| 1962 | "Sag Mir, Wo Die Blumen Sind" | Marlene Dietrich |
| 1971 | "Sam Stone" | John Prine |
| 2018 | "Sayōnara Soldier" | Asian Kung-Fu Generation |
| 1970 | "Shir LaShalom" | Lehakat HaNachal |
| 1982 | "Short Memory" | Midnight Oil |
| 1984 | "Showdown" | Jefferson Starship |
| 1966 | "The Side of a Hill" | Paul Simon |
| 1968 | "Six White Horses" | Henson Cargill |
| 1968 | "Sky Pilot" | The Animals |
| 1970 | "Sloth" | Fairport Convention |
| 1984 | "Soldados" | Legião Urbana |
| 1971 | "Soldier Blue" | Buffy Sainte-Marie |
| 1962 | "Soldier Boy" | The Shirelles |
| 1986 | "Soldier of Plenty" | Jackson Browne |
| 2005 | "Soldier Side" | System of a Down |
| 1981 | "Soldiers" | ABBA |
| 2011 | "Soldier's Angel" | Stevie Nicks |
| 2006 | "Soldier's Poem" | Muse |
| 1987 | "Soldiers of Love" | Liliane Saint-Pierre |
| 1971 | "Soldiers Who Want to Be Heroes" | Rod McKuen |
| 1969 | "Some Mother's Son" | The Kinks |
| 2008 | "Something to see" | Tracy Chapman |
| 1972 | "State of Union" | Chicago |
| 1995 | "Still Spinning Shrapnel" | Skyclad |
| 2010 | "Stop the War" | Sugar Blue |
| 1970 | "Stop the War Now" | Edwin Starr |
| 1982 | "Stories of a Hero" | Frank Marino |
| 1985 | "Stupid, Stupid War" | Dirty Rotten Imbeciles |
| 1967 | "Suppose They Give a War and No One Comes" | The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band |
| 2011 | "Survivor Guilt" | Rise Against |
| 2005 | "Sweet Neo Con" | The Rolling Stones |
| 1992 | "Systematic Execution" | Malevolent Creation |
| 2005 | "Tassavor Kon" | Siavash Ghomayshi |
| 1991 | "Tell Me Why" | Genesis |
| 1985 | "Territories" | Rush |
| 1971 | "That's What I'd Like to Know" | Colonel Bagshot |
| 2016 | "The Sun Is Not Down" | Gotch |
| 1964 | "The Times They are a-Changin'" | Bob Dylan |
| 1964 | "There but for Fortune" | Phil Ochs |
| 1967 | "There Won't Be Many Coming Home" | Roy Orbison |
| 1981 | "They All Look the Same" | Grace Slick |
| 2009 | "This Is War" | Thirty Seconds to Mars |
| 2017 | "This Is War" | Bush |
| 1969 | "To Susan on the West Coast Waiting" | Donovan |
| 2003 | "To Washington" | John Mellencamp |
| 1978 | "Too Much War" | Inner Circle & the Fat Man Riddim Section |
| 1993 | "Too Young to Die" | Jamiroquai |
| 2010 | "Trigger-Happy Hands" | Placebo |
| 1959 | "Turn! Turn! Turn!" | Pete Seeger |
| 1984 | "Two Tribes" | Frankie Goes to Hollywood |
| 1993 | "Under the Same Sun" | Scorpions |
| 1971 | "Ungena Za Ulimwengu " | The Temptations |
| 1964 | "Universal Soldier" | Buffy Sainte-Marie / Glen Campbell |
| 1989 | "Unity" | Operation Ivy |
| 2006 | "Unknown Soldier" | Breaking Benjamin |
| 1968 | "The Unknown Soldier" | The Doors |
| 1973 | "Us and Them" | Pink Floyd |
| 2008 | "Violet Hill" | Coldplay |
| 1993 | "Vrede" | Ruth Jacott |
| 1967 | "Waist Deep in the Big Muddy" | Pete Seeger |
| 2021 | "Waiting on a War" | Foo Fighters |
| 1979 | "Walked in Line" | Joy Division |
| 1984 | "Walking on a Thin Line " | Huey Lewis and the News |
| 1976 | "War" | Bob Marley and the Wailers |
| 1986 | "War" | Bruce Springsteen |
| 1970 | "War" | Edwin Starr |
| 1984 | "War" | Frankie Goes to Hollywood |
| 2003 | "War" | Joan Osbourne |
| 1998 | "War?" | System of a Down |
| 1988 | "Война" | Kino |
| 1994 | "War Again" | Oingo Boingo |
| 1987 | "War Baby" | Mick Jagger |
| 1970 | "War Pigs" | Black Sabbath |
| 1997 | "War Pimp Renaissance" | Lard |
| 1984 | "The War Song" | Culture Club |
| 1972 | "War Song" | Neil Young and Graham Nash |
| 1967 | "War Sucks" | Red Krayola |
| 2006 | "War Sucks, Let's Party!" | Anti-Flag |
| 2017 | "War TV" | Gerry Cinnamon |
| 1980 | "Wardance" | Killing Joke |
| 1992 | "Wargasm" | L7 |
| 2008 | “Warm Winter” | Seth Sentry |
| 2004 | "Warrior" | Steve Earle |
| 2015 | "Wars for Nothing" | Boggie |
| 1980 | "Washington Bullets" | The Clash |
| 2023 | "Watergun" | Remo Forrer |
| 2007 | "The Way the Wind Blows" | Rush |
| 1981 | "We Don't Need the Army" | Slime |
| 1971 | "We Got to Have Peace" | Curtis Mayfield |
| 1965 | "We Gotta Get Out of This Place" | The Animals |
| 1967 | "We Love You" | The Rolling Stones |
| 2011 | "Welcome to Your Wedding Day" | The Airborne Toxic Event |
| 1966 | "Welterusten meneer de president" | Boudewijn de Groot |
| 1964 | "What Are You Fighting For" | Phil Ochs |
| 2002 | "What If We All Stopped Paying Taxes?" | Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings |
| 1965 | "What the World Needs Now Is Love" | Hal David/Burt Bacharach |
| 1971 | "What's Going On" | Marvin Gaye |
| 2002 | "What's Left of the Flag" | Flogging Molly |
| 1974 | " Peace, Love, and Understanding" | Nick Lowe |
| 1990 | "When Hell Breaks Loose" | Peer Günt |
| 2014 | "When Two Empires Collide" | Jinjer |
| 1961 | "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" | Pete Seeger |
| 2003 | "Where Is the Love?" | Black-Eyed Peas |
| 2010 | "White Flag Warrior" | Flobots |
| 1980 | "Who's Gonna Win the War?" | Hawkwind |
| 1975 | "Why Can't We Be Friends?" | War |
| 1973 | "Why Can't We Live Together" | Timmy Thomas |
| 1979 | "Why Go to War" | William Onyeabor |
| 1964 | "With God on Our Side" | Bob Dylan |
| 2011 | "The Words That Maketh Murder" | PJ Harvey |
| 2014 | "World Peace Is None of Your Business" | Morrissey |
| 1981 | "World Turned Upside Down" | Dick Gaughan |
| 2004 | "World War" | Yellowman |
| 1981 | "Wozu Sind Kriege Da?" | Udo Lindenberg |
| 1969 | "The Yard Went on Forever" | Richard Harris |
| 1979 | "Yihye Tov " | David Broza |
| 2003 | "Your Revolution Is a Joke" | Funeral for a Friend |
| 1971 | "Yours Is No Disgrace" | Yes |
| 2007 | "Zero Sum" | Nine Inch Nails |
| 1994 | "Zombie" | The Cranberries |
| 1976 | "Zombie" | Fela Kuti |