dissident

protester; a person who dissents from some established policy

Heard in 31 songs (27M+ combined views) — most famously in "Are You What You Want To Be?" by Foster the People.

Updated August 4, 2026

Songs Featuring “dissident

Foster the People - Are You What You Want To Be?

Time: 1:00

Well, I gave her what I got but couldn't handle her broken heart

The right words in the hands of dissidents with the fire

Yeah, will rip apart the marrow from the bone of the liars

Foster the People - Are You What You Want To Be?

Live - Heaven

Time: 0:06

You have the power to believe

Another dissident

Take back your evidence

Live - Heaven

Otep - Rise Rebel Resist

Time: 1:18

The geeks, the savages

Rogues, rebels, dissident devils

Artists, martyrs, infidels

Otep - Rise Rebel Resist

Revocation - Dismantle the Dictator

Time: 0:54

Military industrial.

Exterminating the dissident voice.

A military nation.

Revocation - Dismantle the Dictator

Phoenix - Fences

Time: 0:34

Your necessary silhouette

Unknown, join the dissi-dissi-dissidents

Got carried away

Phoenix - Fences

Pearl Jam - Dissident

Time: 0:55

When she couldn't hold, oh, she folded

A dissident is here

Escape is never the safest path

Pearl Jam - Dissident

Spiritbox - Constance

Time: 1:14

Memories dissident

Spiritbox - Constance

Ministry - Señor Peligro

Time: 0:57

Invasion is imminent

Keeping down the dissidents

Killing is his business

Ministry - Señor Peligro

Killswitch Engage - Abandon Us

Time: 0:30

By my own volition, isolated and set free

The symptom of your violence and the dissident in me

Untrusting of the promise of a figurehead to lead

Killswitch Engage - Abandon Us

Slayer - Public Display of Dismemberment

Time: 0:31

And it's safe to say there is no other way

With lawless arrogance and savage dissidents

Public display of dismemberment

Slayer - Public Display of Dismemberment

Moussa - Animals

Time: 2:34

Déconseillé aux gens dits sensibles

Pourvu que tu peux ser-dan sur mon son ou celui des dissidents

Pas d'ici, enfant du ciment, pas besoin de te faire un dessin

Moussa - Animals

Mudvayne - Burn the Bridge

Time: 1:04

My wrath, I'll just live my own life

So violent, so dissident, no more requiem, so I lament

So simple, to revere, to respect, down and left for dead

Mudvayne - Burn the Bridge

Third Eye Blind - Danger

Time: 2:24

You lost your taste for danger

(I used to be a dissident citizen)

(I used to be a dissident citizen)

Third Eye Blind - Danger

Immortal Technique - Open Your Eyes

Time: 2:25

And while some used missionaries and donations to off set this abuse, other countries and companies were blatant with their crimes, using war, disease and sanctions that killed millions, they supported corrupt governments that were almost like the old slave masters in their oppression of the people, because their loyalty was to those who enable them, enstored them and kept them in power, they became the bastard children of American industry, kleptocracy, government's of thievery, they protected the corporations and went to war against their own people to preserve those profits

The puppet rulers were given billions of US tax dollars to fund civil wars, right wing death squads, execute political dissidents, sympathetic clergy and even overthrow democratically elected governments and so the age of revolution began again, they painted it as godless terrorist versus the free world and the market

But the free market has never been free, because the market does not regulate itself, it is manipulated like a puppet and it survives because of its image, destroy the image and the enemy will die

Immortal Technique - Open Your Eyes

Dying Fetus - Fate of the Condemned

Time: 3:11

Nothing to prevent us from killing foreign extremists

Violent dissidents we butcher and incinerate

Lowest on the food chain, they deserve to be slaughtered

Dying Fetus - Fate of the Condemned

Kreator - Combatants

Time: 1:24

Plantin' dread inside the heart

Dissidents come forth, ascendin' from suburbia

Toxicity will never be the end nor the start

Kreator - Combatants

Epica - Deter the Tyrant

Time: 4:44

Wild efforts to gag dissidents

Will ever fail in the end

Epica - Deter the Tyrant

Cattle Decapitation - We Are Horrible People

Time: 1:58

O the savages, the ravagers of the pleading, standing there bleeding

Tears of the innocent - turned into mammalian dissidents

We the people -- we the terrible

Cattle Decapitation - We Are Horrible People

Francis Cabrel - Lisa

Time: 3:11

Un beau jour c'est certain tu t'envoleras

Lisa, accrochée aux ailes des oiseaux dissidents

Francis Cabrel - Lisa

Paradise Lost - Jaded

Time: 0:15

Opaque the dissident establishment

That we all suffer

Paradise Lost - Jaded

Morbid Angel - Inquisition (Burn With Me)

Time: 0:32

Burn!

Won't you come burning, all the dissident ones?

Come and walk the line, and you will burn with me

Morbid Angel - Inquisition (Burn With Me)

Pinegrove - Flora

Time: 0:59

Nothing's shining like I feel like it should

And the birds sing dissident tunes

Singing the sadness of the afternoon

Pinegrove - Flora

Thomas Dolby - Dissidents

Time: 1:42

Dip the fuse in the kerosene

I too become a dissident

Thomas Dolby - Dissidents

High on Fire - Nemesis

Time: 0:59

Eyes of the god, sombering souls

Dark is the cape, a dissident's face

Holy the war, laying in wait

High on Fire - Nemesis

D.R.I. - War Crimes

Time: 0:01

And you thought you'd be a hero

And not a dissident

War Crime!

D.R.I. - War Crimes

Voivod - Chaosmöngers

Time: 1:05

To control all the risk

Searching for dissidents

Hyper assassins

Voivod - Chaosmöngers

billy woods - Soft Landing

Time: 0:49

Dissonant cadence

Free political dissidents from they cages

But leave 'em open

billy woods - Soft Landing

The Get Up Kids - Symphony of Silence

Time: 0:52

Argumental dissidents

A lesson loses meaning

The Get Up Kids - Symphony of Silence

Public Enemy - He Got Game

Time: 1:46

One out of one million residents

Being dissident, who ain't kissin' it?

The politics of chains and whips

Public Enemy - He Got Game

Plasmatics - Brain Dead

Time: 1:05

Radiation roaches got you on the run

Soldiers for the DNA, dissidents are put away

Dragged off in the dead of night, disappear without a sight

Plasmatics - Brain Dead

DEMAGO - Le frisson du vent

Time: 1:17

L'entendez-vous?

Entendez-vous les dissidents, les sirènes de la vanité

Les visages au loin vont bientôt s'effacer

DEMAGO - Le frisson du vent