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Guns N' Roses - Civil War Lyrics

Song details
TitleCivil War
ArtistGuns N' Roses
AlbumGreatest Hits [2004], Track 6
Use Your Illusion II [1991], Track 1
GenreMetal, Rock
Duration08:08
Rank6,678 (−2,833) history »
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Song lyrics
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.
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
corrected on 10-10-2010


44 comments, showing 1 to 25page 1 of 2

 Song comments
  25-10-2012 16:20 musicmadman1 
musicmadman1
 
65 posts
Love love love this song!
  18-08-2010 03:39 metmovies 
metmovies
 
78 posts
one of their best !!!! beautiful....sad but true.......
  24-12-2007 13:20 grobian 
grobian
 
3 posts
everything in the song is great, but the lyric is the best that guns accomplished!
  27-08-2007 01:15 singmeanythingx 
singmeanythingx
 
234 posts
BRILLANT.
completely brilliant.
the blackwrist band symbolizes peace.

peace+love.
  26-10-2006 12:52 Sejuji 
Sejuji
 
133 posts
suuuuuuuuuuuuuper one of my [b] songs
  19-05-2006 04:50 Shaboy 
Shaboy
 
235 posts
GnR runs the show

i dont neeeeed your civil war
  11-05-2006 02:28 PurpleChicken 
PurpleChicken
 
21 posts
"...they shot the man who said 'Peace could last forever,' and in my first memories they shot Kennedy"
awesome song!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  25-04-2006 23:27 cash1money1kyle 
cash1money1kyle
 
1 posts
The speech at the beginning of the song from the movie Cool Hand Luke.
  20-01-2006 23:47 ThatJohnny 
ThatJohnny
 
1,724 posts
* offtopic :
I just wrote pretty much a whole page of stuff here, but apparently, the pop-ups wouldn't let med and pressed me back to the last page. >.

I'll make it short this time..

This, just as all other original GnR songs, is a 100% perfect.. Couldn't be better.. The day someone says this song ain't good, I'm probably gonna beat him down first and then ask him why.. Brilliant.
  20-01-2006 23:29 Nice_1 
Nice_1
 
23 posts
Hell Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This Song ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  17-12-2005 06:51 Ed_harris 
Ed_harris
 
121 posts
Luv dis song soooooooooooooo much! Yeah!
  27-08-2005 21:38 coolin 
coolin
 
5 posts
just love this song its got every thing really nice and axl just the best singer ever
  01-08-2005 23:21 jiet 
jiet
 
1 posts
How do they come up with songs like this.. It's amazing. And like some of you already've said, play it to.. let's say Bush!
  01-08-2005 19:21 LunarDragon 
LunarDragon
 
3 posts
awesome lyrics. this has got to be the best anarchy song of all time. mad love the the GnR people. ^_^
  31-07-2005 17:50 glassocean 
glassocean
 
71 posts
This is one of my favourites! I've said this before but slash is a great guitarist! And Axl is so good!
  18-07-2005 21:19 stratocracker 
stratocracker
 
5 posts
The first part of the song came from the movie cool hand luke
GN'R
  31-05-2005 00:32 EnterMetal22 
EnterMetal22
 
7,354 posts
Great song
  25-05-2005 03:19 ImSpicey 
ImSpicey
 
79 posts
love this song..... _:
  14-04-2005 21:43 Double_talkin 
Double_talkin
 
1 posts
Its Cool hand luke. Thats the movie.
  11-03-2005 18:35 Mickeline 
Mickeline
 
32 posts
Does anyone have the lyrics for SEX, DRUGS AND ROCK N' ROLL with Guns N' Roses? Can't find them anywhere!
  11-03-2005 00:30 canibalcorps666 
canibalcorps666
 
14 posts
i love this song but does anybody know what movie that first part is from? :
  10-03-2005 01:11 julizabethilion 
julizabethilion
 
8 posts
*tear* such a sad song well to me anyway i love it its amazing
  09-03-2005 19:22 SilverStar001 
SilverStar001
 
776 posts
love this song !!!!!!
* offtopic :
No need for all those smileys though
  23-02-2005 13:00 ad_man 
ad_man
 
18 posts
awesome song, the lyrics are amazing. i dunno where axl comes up with it, but thank god he does...
  22-02-2005 06:36 AlienationEd 
AlienationEd
 
9,757 posts
They shot the man who said "Peace could last forever"

Thats all well and good.

What the f**k is Axl on about?

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