Civil War

Guns 'N Roses

CIVIL WAR



"WHAT WE'VE GOT HERE IS FAILURE TO COMMUNICATE.

SOME MEN YOU JUST CAN'T REACH...

SO, YOU GET WHAT WE HAD HERE LAST WEEK,

WHICH IS THE WAY HE WANTS IT!

WELL, HE GETS IT!

N' I DON'T LIKE IT ANY MORE THAN YOU MEN." *

(whistle)



Look at your young men fighting

Look at your women crying

Look at your young men dying

The way they've always done before



Look at the hate we're breeding

Look at the fear we're feeding

Look at the lives we're leading

The way we've always done before



My hands are tied

The billions shift from side to side

And the wars go on with brainwashed pride

For the love of God and our human rights

And all these things are swept aside

By bloody hands time can't deny

And are washed away by your genocide

And history hides the lies of our civil wars



D'you wear a black armband

When they shot the man

Who said "Peace could last forever"

And in my first memories

They shot Kennedy

I went numb when I learned to see

So I never fell for Vietnam

We got the wall of D.C. to remind us all

That you can't trust freedom

When it's not in your hands

When everybody's fightin'

For their promised land

And



I don't need your civil war

It feeds the rich while it buries the poor

Your power hungry sellin' soldiers

In a human grocery store

Ain't that fresh

I don't need your civil war

Ow, oh no, no, no, no, no



Look at the shoes you're filling

Look at the blood we're spilling

Look at the world we're killing

The way we've always done before

Look in the doubt we've wallowed

Look at the leaders we've followed

Look at the lies we've swallowed

And I don't want to hear no more



My hands are tied

For all I've seen has changed my mind

But still the wars go on as the years go by

With no love of God or human