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

(whistle...)

An' 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

Do 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

You're 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 e ample you 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

You're power hungry, sellin' soldiers

In a human grocery

store, ain't that fresh?

I don't need your civil war

I don't need your civil war

What's so civil 'bout war anyway?