[Spoken Intro: Strother Martin]What we've got here is failure to communicateSome men, you just can't reachSo you get what we had here last weekWhich is the way he wants itWell, he gets it*Whistling*And I don't like it any more than you mean[Bridge]Look at your young men fightingLook at your women cryingLook at your young men dyingThe way they've always done beforeLook at the hate we're breedingLook at the fear we're feedingLook at the lives we're leadingThe way we've always done before[Verse 1]My hands are tiedThe billions shift from side to sideAnd the wars go on with brainwashed prideFor the love of God and our human rightsAnd all these things are swept asideBy bloody hands, time can't denyAnd are washed away by your genocideAnd history hides the lies of our civil wars[Instrumental Break 02:00-02:27][Guitar Solo][Verse 2]D'you wear a black armband when they shot the manWho said, "Peace could last forever"?And in my first memories, they shot KennedyI went numb when I learned to seeSo I never fell for VietnamWe got the wall in D.C. to remind us allThat you can't trust freedom when it's not in your handsWhen everybody's fightin' for their promised land[Chorus]And I don't need your civil warIt feeds the rich, while it buries the poorYou're power-hungry, sellin' soldiers in a human grocery storeAin't that fresh?I don't need your civil warOoh, no, no, no, no, no, no[Instrumental Break 03:24-03:52][Guitar Solo][Bridge]Look at the shoes you're fillingLook at the blood we're spillingLook at the world we're killingThe way we've always done beforeLook in the doubt we've wallowedLook at the leaders we've followedLook at the lies we've swallowedAnd I don't wanna hear no more[Verse 3]My hands are tiedFor all I've seen has changed my mindBut still, the wars go on as the years go byWith no love of God or human rightsAnd all these dreams are swept asideBy bloody hands of the hypnotizedWho carry the cross of homicideAnd history bears the scars of our civil wars[Instrumental Break 05:01-05:29][Guitar Solo][Interlude]We practice selective annihilationOf mayors and government officialsFor example, to create a vacuumThen we fill that vacuumAs popular war advancesPeace is closer[Chorus]I don't need your civil warIt feeds the rich, while it buries the poorYou're power-hungry, sellin' soldiers in a human grocery storeAin't that fresh?I don't need your civil warNo no no no no no no no no no no noI don't need your civil warI don't need your civil warYou're power-hungry, sellin' soldiers in a human grocery storeAin't that fresh?I don't need your civil warNo no no no no no no no no no, no, noI don't need one more warOoh, I don't need one more warNo no no, no woah, no woah[Outro]What's so civil 'bout war anyway?
