Civil War (Live, 2012)

Lyrics

[Spoken Intro: Strother Martin] [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] And I don't like it any more than you men *Whistling* [Bridge] Look at your young men fightin' Look at your women cryin' Look at your young men dying The way they've always done before Look at the hate we're breedin' And look at the fear we're feedin' And look at the lives we're leadin' The way we've always done beforе [Verse 1] My hands are tied The billions shift from sidе to side And the wars go on and the years go by For the love of God and our human right 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 war Ooh [Guitar Solo] [Verse 2] 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 So I went numb when I learned to see So I never fell for Vietnam We got the wall in 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 [Chorus] 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 No, no, no, no-woah, no-woah, no [Guitar Solo] [Bridge] Look at the shoes you're fillin' And look at the blood we're spillin' And look at the world we're killing The way we've always done before And 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 wanna hear no more [Verse 3] 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 our human right And 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 war Ooh! [Guitar Solo] [Interlude] 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 [Chorus] 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 No, no, no, no-woah, no-woh, no 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 No, no, no, no-woah, no-woah, no Your power-hungry sellin' soldiers in a human grocery store Ain't that fresh I don't need one more war No, no, no, no-woah, no-woah, no [Outro] What's so civil 'bout war anyway?