Year: 1991 - Album: Greatest Hits
Written by McKagan , Rose , Slash
Tuning Eb: (Eb-Ab-Db-Gb-Bb-Eb) Intro: Em G Em G D/F# (2x) "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 anymore than you, men." Em Look at your young men fighting G Look at your women crying Em Look at your young men dying G D/F# The way they've always done before (Em G Em G D/F#) Em Look at the hate we're breeding G Look at the fear we're feeding Em Look at the lives we're leading G D/F# A B/A C/A D/A The way we've always done before Em (or E5) My hands are tied G (or G5...) The billions shift from side to side D/F# Em And the wars go on with brainwashed pride G D/F# For the love of God and our human rights Em And all these things are swept aside G By bloody hands time can't deny D/F# Em And are washed away by your genocide G D/F# A B/A C/A D/A And history hides the lies of our civil wars (Em G Em G D/F# (2x) G D'you wear a black amrband Bm When they shot the man Em Who said "Peace could last forever" G And in my first memories Bm7 They shot Kennedy Em C D And I went numb when I learned to see G Bm So I never fell for Vietnam Em We got the wall of D.C. to remind us all G That you can't trust freedom Bm7 When it's not in your hands Em When everybody's fighting C D For their promised land G Bm Em (or G5 B5 E5...) And I don't need your civil war G Bm7 Em C D It feeds the rich while buries the poor G Bm Your power hungry sellin' soldiers Em In a human grocery store Ain't that fresh G Bm Em C D G I don't need your civil war (G Bm7 Em G Bm7 Em C D)2x Em Look at the shoes you're filling G Look at the blood we're spilling Em Look at the world we're killing G D/F# The way we've always done before Em Look in the doubt we've wallowed G Look at the leaders we've followed Em Look at the lies we've swallowed G D/F# A B/A C/A D/A And I don't want to hear no more Em My hands are tied G For all I've seen has changed my mind D/F# Em But still the wars go on as the years go by G D/F# Wuth no love of God or human rights Em 'Cause all these dreams are swept aside G D/F# By bloody hands of the hypnotized Em Who carry the cross of homicide G D/F# A B/A C/A D/A And history bears the scars of our civil wars (Em G Em G D/F#(2x) (A B/A C/A D/A F/A C/A) "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." G Bm Em I don't need your civil war G Bm7 Em C D It feeds the rich while buries the poor G Bm Your power hungry sellin' soldiers Em In a human grocery store Ain't that fresh G Bm Em C D And I don't need your civil war G Bm Em I don't need your civil war G Bm Em C D I don't need your civil war G Bm Your power hungry sellin' soldiers Em In a human grocery store Ain't that fresh G Bm Em C D I don't need your civil war G Bm Em I don't need one more war G Bm7 Em C D G Bm Em G Bm Em C D G And I don't need one more war Whaz so civil 'bout war anyway?