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"

Interlude: Ebm Gb Db 

Verse 1:
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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

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Verse 2:
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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

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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

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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, 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:
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And    I don't need   your civil war
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  It feeds the rich,   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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Verse 4:
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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:
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                     My hands are tied

Verse 5:
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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

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Solo 3:
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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:
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  I don't need   your civil war
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  It feeds the rich,   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
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I don't need your civil war
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  I don't need your civil war
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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 4:
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I don't need one more war
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I don't need one more war

Outro:
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What's so civil about war anyway?