Civil War

[Intro]
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"What we've got here is failure to communicate
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Some men,  you just can't reach
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So, you get what we had here, last week
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Which is the way he wants it Well,
he gets it
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   And I don't like it  any more than you men"
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[Verse 1]
D#m
Look at your young men fighting
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Look at your women crying
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Look at your young men dying
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The way they've always done before

[Bridge]
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[Verse 2]
D#m
Look at the hate we're breeding
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Look at the fear we're feeding
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Look at the lives we're leading
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The way we've always done before

[Bridge]
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                     My hands are tied

[Verse 3]
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The billions shift from side to side
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And the wars go on with brainwashed pride
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For the love of god and our human rights
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And all these things are swept aside
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By bloody hands time can't deny
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And are washed away by your genocide
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And history hides the lies    of our civil wars

[Bridge]
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[Solo 1]
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[Interlude 1]
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    D'you wear a black armband when they shot the man
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Who said   peace could last forever?
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And in my first memories,
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they shot   Kennedy
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I  went numb when I learned to see
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So I never fell for Vietnam
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We got the wall in D. C.
to remind us all
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That you can't trust freedom when it's not in your hands
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When everybody's fightin' for their promised land

[Chorus]
C#/F F#            A#m              D#m
And    I don't need   your civil war
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  It feeds the rich,
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   while it buries the poor
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  Your power hungry, sellin' soldiers in a   human grocery
store
Ain't that fresh?
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  I don't need   your civil war

[Solo 2]
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D#m F# A#m D#m B/F# C#/F F# A#m
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[Verse 4]
D#m
Look at the shoes you're filling
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Look at the blood we're spilling
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Look at the world we're killing
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The way we've always done before
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Look in the doubt we've wallowed
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Look at the leaders we've followed
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Look at the lies we've swallowed
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And I don't want to hear    no more

[Bridge]
G#5 Ddim/G# G#7 C#/G#                 D#m
                     My hands are tied

[Verse 5]
     F#
For, all I've seen has changed my mind
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But still the wars go on,
as the years go by
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With no love of God or human rights
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And all these dreams are swept aside
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By bloody hands of the hypnotized
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Who carry the cross of homicide
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And history bears the scars    of our civil wars

[Bridge]
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[Solo 3]
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D#m F# C#/F D#m F# C#/F

[Interlude 2]
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   We practice selective annihilation
Of mayors and government officials
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For example, to create a vacuum
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Then we fill that vacuum
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As popular war advances
Peace is closer

[Chorus]
F#            A#m              D#m
  I don't need   your civil war
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  It feeds the rich,
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   while it buries the poor
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  Your power hungry, sellin' soldiers in a   human grocery
store
Ain't that fresh?
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  I don't need   your civil war
        A#m             D#m
I don't need your civil war
F#        A#m             D#m
  I don't need your civil war
B C# F#           A#m
       Your power hungry,
                    D#m
sellin' soldiers in a  human grocery store
Ain't that fresh?
F#        A#m             D#m B C#
  I don't need your civil war

[Solo 4]
F#
        A#m           D#m F# A#m D#m B C# F# A#m D#m
I don't need one more war
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        A#m           D#m B C#
I don't need one more war

[Outro]
F#
What's so civil about war anyway?