Civil War (Live in Tokyo / 1992)

Lyrics

[Instrumental Intro] *Whistling* [Bridge] Look at your young men fightin' Look at your women cryin' Look at your young men dyin' The way they've always done before Look at the hate we're breedin' Look at the fear we're feedin' Look at the lives we're leadin' The way we've always done before [Verse 1] My hands are tied The billions shift from side to side And the wars go on with a brainwashed pride For the love of God and 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 wars, yeah [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 And 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' Look at the blood we're spillin' Look at the world we're killin' 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 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 with a brainwashed pride With no love of God or human rights 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 [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 woah, 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 one more war No, no, no, no woah, no woah, no I don't need one more war No, no, no, no woah, no woah, no [Outro] What's so civil about war anyway? *Whistling* [Guitar Solo]