What we've got here is failure to communicateÂ
Some men you just can't reachÂ
So you get what we had here last week,Â
which is the way he wants itÂ
Well, he gets itÂ
N' I don't like it any more than you menÂ
Look at your young men fightingÂ
Look at your women cryingÂ
Look at your young men dyingÂ
The way they've always done beforeÂ
Look at the hate we're breedingÂ
Look at the fear we're feedingÂ
Look at the lives we're leadingÂ
The way we've always done beforeÂ
My hands are tiedÂ
The billions shift from side to sideÂ
And the wars go on with brainwashed prideÂ
For the love of God and our human rightsÂ
And all these things are swept asideÂ
By bloody hands time can't denyÂ
And are washed away by your genocideÂ
And history hides the lies of our civil warsÂ
D'you wear a black armbandÂ
When they shot the manÂ
Who said "peace could last forever"
And in my first memoriesÂ
They shot KennedyÂ
I went numb when I learned to seeÂ
So I never fell for VietnamÂ
We got the wall of D.C. to remind us allÂ
That you can't trust freedomÂ
When it's not in your handsÂ
When everybody's fightin'Â
For their promised landÂ
AndÂ
I don't need your civil warÂ
It feeds the rich while it buries the poorÂ
Your power hungry sellin' soldiersÂ
In a human grocery storeÂ
Ain't that fresh
I don't need your civil warÂ
Ow, oh no, no, no, no, noÂ
Look at the shoes you're fillingÂ
Look at the blood we're spillingÂ
Look at the world we're killingÂ
The way we've always done beforeÂ
Look in the doubt we've wallowedÂ
Look at the leaders we've followedÂ
Look at the lies we've swallowedÂ
And I don't want to hear no moreÂ
My hands are tiedÂ
For all I've seen has changed my mindÂ
But still the wars go on as the years go byÂ
With no love of God or human rights
'Cause all these dreams are swept asideÂ
By bloody hands of the hypnotizedÂ
Who carry the cross of homicideÂ
And history bears the scars of our civil warsÂ
I don't need your civil warÂ
It feeds the rich while it buries the poorÂ
Your power hungry sellin' soldiersÂ
In a human grocery storeÂ
Ain't that freshÂ
I don't need your civil warÂ
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, noÂ
I don't need your civil warÂ
I don't need your civil warÂ
Your power hungry sellin' soldiersÂ
In a human grocery storeÂ
Ain't that freshÂ
I don't need your civil warÂ
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no uh-oh-uh, no uh-oh, uh noÂ
I don't need one more warÂ
I don't need one more warÂ
No, no, no, no uh-oh-uh, no uh-oh, uh noÂ
Whaz so civil 'bout war anyway?Â