[Intro]

 "What we've got here is failure to communicate
  Some men, you just can't reach
  So you get what we had here last week
  Which is the way he wants it
  Well, he gets it
  An' I don't like it any more than you, men."


[Verse]

Em
Look at your young men fighting
G
Look at your women crying
Em
Look at your young men dying
    G                  D/F#
The way they've always 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                D/F#
The way we've always done before

A5  Aadd#11  A7

              E5
My hands are tied
    G                            D/F#
The billions shift from side to side
        E5
And the wars go on with brainwashed pride
        G                   D
For the love of God and our human rights
    Em
And all these things are swept aside
   G                           D/F#
By bloody hands time can't deny
        E5
And are washed away by your genocide
    G                  D                 A
And history hides the lies of our civil wars

B/A  C/A  D/A


(WAH RIFF)

              G                       Bm
D'you wear a black armband when they shot the man
         Em
Who said    "Peace could last forever"
           G                   Bm
And in my first memories they shot Kennedy
Em                  C          D       G              Bm
I went numb when I learned to see so I never fell for Vietnam
           Em                                     G
We got the wall of D.C. to remind us all that you can't trust freedom
          Bm                     Em
When it's not in your hands when everybody's fightin'
             C C        D D
For their promised land and


[Chorus]

G           Bm             Em
   I don't need your civil war
G               Bm                       Em     C C  D D
   It feeds the rich while it buries the poor
G                Bm                          Em
   You're power hungry sellin' soldiers in a    human grocery store, ain't that fresh
G           Bm             Em     C C  D D
   I don't need your civil war


[Solo]

G    Bm    Em
G    Bm    Em    C  D
G    Bm    Em
G    Bm    Em    C  D


[Verse]

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                D/F#
The way we've always 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              D/F#
And I don't wanna hear no more

A5  Aadd#11  A7

              E5
My hands are tied
    G                               D/F#
For all I've seen has changed my mind
              E5
But still the wars go on and the years go by
        G              D
With no love of God or human rights
       Em
'cause all these dreams are swept aside
   G                           D/F#
By bloody hands of the hypnotized
    E5
Who carry the cross of homicide
    G                  D                  A
And history bears the scars of our civil wars

B/A  C/A  D/A


(WAH RIFF)


(A  B/A  C/A  D/A  F/A  C/A)
 "We practice selective annihilation of mayors and government officials
  For example, to create a vacuum
  Then we fill that vacuum
  As popular war advances
  Peace is closer"


[Chorus]

G           Bm             Em
   I don't need your civil war
G                Bm                       Em     C C  D D
   It feeds the rich while it buries the poor
G                Bm                          Em
   You're power hungry sellin' soldiers in a    human grocery store, ain't that fresh
G           Bm             Em        C C  D D
   I don't need your civil war, no no .........

G           Bm             Em
   I don't need your civil war
G           Bm             Em     C C  D D
   I don't need your civil war
G                Bm                          Em
   You're power hungry sellin' soldiers in a    human grocery store, ain't that fresh
G           Bm             Em        C C  D D
   I don't need your civil war, no no .........


[Solo out]

G           Bm           Em
   I don't need one more war

G     Bm     Em     C C  D D
G     Bm     Em

G           Bm           Em        C C  D D
   I don't need one more war, no no .........


[Outro]

B/A  C/A  D/A  (fade out)

What's so civil 'bout war anyway?