Civil War Lyrics and Chords
Tuning: D# Standard
Verse 1
Em
Look at your young men
Fighting
G
Look at your women crying
Em
Look at your young men
Dying
……G
The way they’ve always
D/F#
Done before
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
The way we’ve always
D/F#
Done before
A A
……………………Em
My hands are tied
…….G
The billions shift from
Side to side
…………..Em
And the wars go on
With brainwashed pride
………….G
For the love of God
…………..D
And our human rights
…….Em
And all these things
Are swept aside
…..G
By bloody hands
Time can’t deny
…………..Em
And are washed away
By your genocide
……..G
And history hides
…….D A
The lies of our civil wars
Music:
…………………….G
Did you wear a black armband
……………….Bm
When they shot the man
Who said
Em
…Peace could last forever
………………G
And in my first memories
………..Bm
They shot Kennedy
Em
I went numb when
…C D
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
…………….Bm
When it’s not in your hands
……….Em
When everybody’s fighting
……………….C D
For their promised land
And
G Bm Em
… I don’t need your civil war
G Bm
… It feeds the rich
………………………….Em C D
While it buries the poor
G Bm
… Your power hungry
Selling soldiers
……Em
In a human grocery store
Ain’t that fresh
G Bm Em
… I don’t need your civil war
…..C D
Oh no, no, no, no, no
Music:
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
The way we’ve always
D/F#
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
And I don’t want to hear
D/F#
No more
A A
……………………Em
My hands are tied
……G
For all I’ve seen
Has changed my mind
………………..Em
But still the wars go on
As the years go by
…………..G
With no love of God
…..D
Or human rights
………..Em
‘Cause all these dreams
Are swept aside
…..G
By bloody hands
Of the hypnotized
………Em
Who carry the cross
Of homicide
……..G
And history bears
……..D A
The scars of our civil wars
Music:
[ I don’t need your civil war
It feeds the rich
While it buries the poor
Your power hungry
Selling soldiers
In a human grocery store
Ain’t that fresh
I don’t need your civil war
No, no, no, no, no, no,
No, no, no, no, no, no ] – 2
I don’t need one more war
Music:
I don’t need one more war
No, no, no, no uh-oh-uh,
No uh-oh, uh no
