Guns N' Roses
Civil War
Use Your Illusion II (1991)

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"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." (Strother Martin)

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Look at your young men fighting
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Look at your women crying
Em
Look at your young men dying
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The way they've always done before

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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

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  My hands are tied
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  The billions shift from side to side
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  And the wars go on with brainwashed pride
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  For the love of God and our human rights

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  And all these things are swept aside
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  By bloody hands time can't deny
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  And are washed away by your genocide
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  And history hides the lies of our civil wars

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D'you wear a black armband when they shot the man
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Who said "Peace could last forever"?
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And in my first memories they shot Kennedy
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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

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    And I don't need your civil war
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    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, no no no no no

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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                 w/ petites notes
Look at the leaders we've followed
Look at the lies we've swallowed
And I don't want to hear no more

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  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 rights

  'Cause all these dreams are swept aside
  By bloody hands of the hypnotized
  Who carry the cross of homicide
  And history bears the scars of our civil wars

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"We practice selective annihilation of mayors and government officials for
 example to create a vacuum then we fill that vacuum as popular war advances.
 Peace is closer." (Peruvian guerilla general)

    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
    And I don't need your civil war, no no no no no

    I don't need your civil war                (double time)
    I don't need your civil war
    Your power hungry sellin' soldiers in a human grocery store, ain't that fresh
    I don't need your civil war, no no no no no oh no oh no

    I don't need one more war
    (solo)
    Ooh, I don't need one more war, no no no oh no oh no

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- Whaz so civil 'bout war anyway ?

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