- Cool Hand Luke
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 they're washed away by your genocide
And history hides the lies of our 'civil' wars
Did you wear a black armband when you 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've got a wall in D.C. to remind us all;
That you can't trust freedom, when it's not in your hands,
When everybody's fighting for their Promised Land
I don't need your 'civil' war
It feeds the rich while it buries the poor
You're power-hungry, selling soldiers in a human grocery store,
I don't need your 'civil' war
Look at the shoes you're 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 lives 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
Still the wars go on as the years go by,
With no love of God or our Human Rights
And all these dreams are swept aside, by bloody hands of the hypnotized,
Who carry the cross of homicide
And history bares the scars of our 'civil' wars
I don't need your 'civil' war
It feeds the rich while it buries the poor
You're power-hungry, selling soldiers in a human grocery store,
I don't need your 'civil' war
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 they're washed away by your genocide
And history hides the lies of our 'civil' wars
Did you wear a black armband when you 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've got a wall in D.C. to remind us all;
That you can't trust freedom, when it's not in your hands,
When everybody's fighting for their Promised Land
I don't need your 'civil' war
It feeds the rich while it buries the poor
You're power-hungry, selling soldiers in a human grocery store,
I don't need your 'civil' war
Look at the shoes you're 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 lives 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
Still the wars go on as the years go by,
With no love of God or our Human Rights
And all these dreams are swept aside, by bloody hands of the hypnotized,
Who carry the cross of homicide
And history bares the scars of our 'civil' wars
I don't need your 'civil' war
It feeds the rich while it buries the poor
You're power-hungry, selling soldiers in a human grocery store,
I don't need your 'civil' war
What's so 'civil' about war anyways?
2 comments:
Yup...This was one of GNR's greatest. Here's an interesting note. The first time they performed this song live was at Rock In Rio just after Desort Storm started. It was just as relevent then as it is now.
that's really cool, I never knew that. I really think that it's relevant right now too. I couldn't get this song out of my head the night I sat in my basement and watched our bombs light up Baghdad like the 4th of July. It was disbelief and shame smashed into a ball and shoved down my throat. thanks for the comment.
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