"Civil War" by Guns N' Roses - This song reminds me of today's bullshit

[Ignacio Upton]

....With all the shit that Bush is putting us through today, I feel that by looking at songs with similar themes, that I can put what's going on in perspective. For example, in this thread, I chose to post "Civil War" by Guns N' Roses.



"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

http://www.lyricsdomain.com/7/guns_n_roses/civil_war.html

[TAPat]

1. The G&R cover of

"Sympathy for the Devil" comes to mind... :headbang:

[Ignacio Upton]

2. Kick!

[Bluzmann57]

3. Sort of hard to find now, but a song comes to mind

"Two Hangmen" by Mason Proffitt. Sample of lyrics.
"As I rode into Tombstone on my horse, his name was Mack
I saw what I'll relate to you going on behind my back
The folks it seems were up in arms, a man now had to die
For believing things that didn't fit the laws they'd set aside
The man's name was I'm a freak, the best that I could see
He was an executioner, a hangman just like me
I guess that he'd seen loopholes from workin' with his rope
He'd hung the wrong man many times so he turned to hope
He talked to all the people from his scaffold on the square
He told them of the things he found, but they didn't seem to care
He said the laws were obsolete, a change they should demand
But the people only walked away, he couldn't understand
The Martial's name was Uncle Sam, he said he'd right this wrong
He'd make the hangman shut his mouth if it took him all year long
He finally arrested freak and then they sent for me
to hang a fellow hangman from a fellow hangman's tree
It didn't take them long to try him in their court of law
He was guilty then of thinkin', a crime much worse than all
They sentenced him to die so his seed of thought can't spread
and infect the little children, that's what the law had said
So the hangin' day came round and he walked up to the noose
I pulled the lever, but before he fell, I cut him loose
They called it all conspiracy and then I had to die
So to close our mouths and kill our minds, they huing us side by side."

I wish I could find out some info about the writers, etc. but this is an extremely difficult recording to find. It came out and took dead aim at the Nixon administration. The rumors around college campuses at the time was that the Nixon gang was trying to get it banned. If it came out today, it most likely would not see any airtime whatsoever. But the band is called Mason Proffitt. They were a country-rock type of band. And they weren't too bad either. This tune seems relevant now as well.

[Ignacio Upton]

4. Interesting lyrics

If anyone wants to post their own on this thread, feel free to do so. :)