Guns N' Roses
Civil War
Use Your Illusion II

(Slash / McKagan / Rose)


[Verse 1]


Look at your y

oung men fight

ing

Look at your w

omen crying

Look at your y

oung men dying
             
The way they'v

              
e always done 

      
before


Look at the ha

te we're breed

ing

Look at the fe

ar we're feedi

ng

Look at the li

ves we're lead

ing
             
The way we've 

              
always done be

    
fore

    

              
My hands are t

      
ied
             
The billions s

              
hift from side

             
 to side
            
And the wars g

o on with brai

nwashed pride
             
For the love o

              
f God and our 

            
human rights
       
And all these 

things are swe

pt aside
             
By bloody hand

              
s time can't d

              
eny
            
And are washed

 away by your 

genocide
             
And history hi

              
des the lies o

             
f our civil wa

         
rs

    

             
D'you wear a b

              
lack armband w

        
hen they shot 

the man
             
Who said     "


Peace could la

st forever"
             
And in my firs

              
t memories the

  
y shot Kennedy
            
I went numb wh

             
en I learned t

            
o see so I nev

            
er fell for Vi

etnam
            
We got the wal

              
l of D.C. to r

              
emind us all t

        
hat you can't 

trust freedom
            
When it's not 

              
in your hands 

      
when everybody

's fightin'
             
For their prom

     
ised land And


[Chorus]

            
    I don't ne

             
ed your civil 


war
             
    It feeds t

            
he rich while 

              
it buries the 

     
poor
             
    You're pow

            
er hungry sell

              
in' soldier In

  
 a      human 

grocery store 

ain't that fre

sh
            
    I don't ne

             
ed your civil 

      
war


[Solo]


[Verse]


Look at the sh

oes you're fil

ling

Look at the bl

ood we're spil

ling

Look at the wo

rld we're kill

ing
             
The way we've 

              
always done be

    
fore


Look in the do

ubt we've wall

owed

Look at the le

aders we've fo

llowed

Look at the li

es we've swall

owed
             
And I don't wa

              
nt to hear no 


more

    

              
My hands are t

      
ied
             
For all I've s

              
een has change

                   
d my mind
              
But still the 

   
wars go on and

 the years go 

by
             
With no love o

              
f God or human

             
 rights 'cause

              
 all these dre

     
ams are swept 

aside
             
By bloody hand

              
s of the hypno

              
tized
        
Who carry the 

cross of homic

ide
             
And history be

              
ars the scars 

             
of our civil w

            
ars


[Chorus]

            
    I don't ne

             
ed your civil 

    
war
             
    It feeds t

            
he rich while 

              
it buries the 

           
poor
             
    You're pow

            
er hungry sell

              
in' soldier In

              
 a      human 

 
grocery store 

Ain't that fre

sh
            
    I don't ne

             
ed your civil 

                
war

            
    I don't ne

             
ed your civil 

    
war
            
    I don't ne

             
ed your civil 

    
war
             
    You're pow

            
er hungry sell

              
in' soldier In

              
 a      human 

 
grocery store 

Ain't that fre

sh
            
    I don't ne

             
ed your civil 

                
war

            
    I don't ne

             
ed one more wa

     
r
            
    I don't ne

             
ed one more wa

     
r

Whaz so civil 'bout war anyway?


[Outro]

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