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


Look at the shoes your 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 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


"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" **


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
I don't need your civil war
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
I don't need one more war


I don't need one more war
Whaz so civil 'bout war anyway

I still get chills when I hear that song.

It's rather uncanny how that song hits so many points right on the nail head, huh?

It is uncanny how appropo that is.
A song for the ages.
I know Axl is an ass but he's a genius when it comes to music.
I remember arguing with my ex-hub about GNR when we bought their first album.
He thought they were one hit wonders.
I won the bet.

That song RAWKS!

I've always thought that it was Axl that wrote "Civil War" yes. But I am not 100% certain.

Here's a little review on it. http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=civil%20war

some of the best RAWK songs ever, but some of the biggest duds. Go figure.

Seems to have lost his fire, huh? Too bad. One of the greatest R&R bands of all times. IMHO, that is! :)

on edit: Saw them in the summer of '91 (?) in Denver. First concert after the St. Louis riot. Best concert I've ever seen.

Oh man!!! I am so jealous... God I wish I could have seen them in concert. Unfortunately I never had the opportunity. At the time when they were touring; the girl I was with did not like R&R, nor letting me out of her sight. So I was pretty much banned from going to Rock concerts at that time.. :cry:


*Sigh*. Now on reflection; I should of just went anyway.. Oh well, we live and learn..