Voodoo Child (Slight Return) / Civil War / Voodoo Child (Slight Return) (Live In Las Vegas, Thomas & Mack Center - January 25, 1992)

Lyrics

[Instrumental Intro] *Whistling* [Bridge] 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 And I don't wanna hear no more [Verse 1] My hands are tied For all I've seen has— side to side And the wars go on and the years go by For the love of God and 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 war [Guitar Solo] [Verse 2] 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 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, and [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 fuckin' fresh? I don't need your civil war Ooh, no, no, no, no-whoa, no-whoa, no [Guitar Solo] [Bridge] Look at the shoes you're fillin' 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 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 and the years go by 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 wars, yeah [Guitar Solo] [Spoken Word 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 fuckin' fresh? I don't need your civil war No, no, no, no-whoa, no-whoa, 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 (your civil war) No, no, no, no-whoa, no-whoa, no [Guitar Solo] [Outro] I don't need one more war No, no, no, no-whoa, no-whoa, no What's so civil about war, anyway? [Instrumental Outro] *Whistling*