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
Did 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 you’re 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
I don’t need your civil war
What’s so civil ’bout war anyway?
Another relevant GNR song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulvmdYMyT80
[Verse 1]
Guess I needed some time to get away
I needed some peace of mind, some peace of mind that’ll stay
So, I thumbed it down to 6th in L.A
Maybe a Greyhound could be my way
Police and niggers, that’s right, get out of my way
Don’t need to buy none of your gold chains today
Now, don’t need no bracelets clamped in front of my back
Just need my ticket, ’til then, won’t you cut me some slack?
[Chorus]
You’re one in a million, yeah, that’s what you are
You’re one in a million, babe, you’re a shooting star
Maybe someday we’ll see you before you make us cry
You know we tried to reach you, but you were much too high
Much too high, much too high, much too high
[Verse 2]
Immigrants and faggots, they make no sense to me
They come to our country and think they’ll do as they please
Like start some mini Iran, or spread some fucking disease
They talk so many God damn ways, it’s all Greek to me
Well, some say I’m lazy and others say that’s just me
Some say I’m crazy, I guess I’ll always be
But, it’s been such a long time since I knew right from wrong
It’s all the means to and end, I-I keep it moving along
Hey, hey, hey, yeah
[Chorus]
You’re one in a million, yeah, you’re a shooting star
You’re one in a million, babe, you know that you are
Maybe some day we’ll see you before you make us cry
You know we tried to reach you, but you were much too high
Much too high, much too high, much too high, oh
[Guitar Solo]
[Verse 3]
Radicals and racists, don’t point your finger at me
I’m a small town white boy just trying to make ends meet
Don’t need your religion, don’t watch that much TV
Just making my living, baby, well, that’s enough for me
[Chorus]
You’re one in a million, yeah, you know that you are
You’re one in a million, babe, you’re a shooting star
Maybe someday we’ll see you before you make us cry
You know we tried to reach you, but you were much too high
Much too high, much too high, oh, much too high
[Outro]
Much too high, much too high, much too high
Much too high, much too high, much too high
And before anyone gets their knickers in a twist about the lyrics above, you should look back to what was happening with censorship back in the late 80s and early 90s and what lyrics get used today, go look at some Cardi B for example.
Tipper Gore was pushing for music censorship whilst he husband was pushing global warming. What a pair eh?
Beautiful, thankQ for sharing & reminding me…