Voodoo Child (Slight Return) / Civil War (Live in New York, Ritz Theatre - May 16, 1991)

By Guns N’ Roses

On Use Your Illusion (Super Deluxe)

Released on November 11, 2022

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[Instrumental Intro]

*Whistling*


[Bridge]

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


[Verse 1]

My hands are tied

The billions shift from side to side

And still the wars go on with brainwashed pride

Love of God and human right

And all these dreams are swept asidе

By bloody hands time can't deny

And are washеd away by your genocide

History bears the scars of our civil war


[Guitar Solo]


[Verse 2]

D'you wear a black armband when they shot the man

Who said, "Peace could last forever"?

And in my first memories, they shot Kennedy

And I went numb when I learned to see

So I never fell for Vietnam

We got the wall in D.C. to remind us all

That you can't trust freedom when it's not in your hand

When everybody's fightin' for their promised land


[Chorus]

And I don't need your civil war

It feeds the rich, while it buries the poor

You're power-hungry sellin' soldiers in a human grocery store

Ain't that fresh?

I don't need your civil war

No-no-no, no-woah, no-woah, no


[Guitar Solo]


[Bridge]

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 hurt we've wallowed

Look at the leaders we followed

Look at the lies we swallowed

And I don't wanna hear no more


[Verse 3]

My hands are tied

For all I've seen has changed my mind

But still, the wars go on with brainwashed pride

With no love of God or human right

And all these dreams are swept aside

Bloody hands of the hypnotized

Carry the cross of homicide

And history bears the scars of our civil war


[Guitar Solo]


[Interlude]

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]

I don't need your civil war

I don't need your civil war (It feeds the rich, while it buries the poor)

You're power-hungry, sellin' soldiers in a human grocery store

Ain't that fresh?

I don't need one more war (Your civil war)

No-no-no, no-woah, no-woah, no

(I don't need your civil war)

(Feeds the rich while it buries the poor) I don't need one more war

Your power-hungry, sellin' soldiers in a human grocery store

(Ain't that fresh, baby?)

I don't need your civil war

No-no-no, no-woah, no-woah, no


[Guitar Solo]


[Outro]

I don't need one more war

No-no, no-woah, no-woah, no

What's so civil about war anyway?

*Whistling*

Please bear with us with our taking our time and shit but

I swear, I can't go to re—

I can't rehearse unless I got somethin' like this happen

I mean, you can work on a r— song, on a song

And you can work on recording it 'til hell freezes over

But if you're gonna play it again, you guys are the only thing that make it fuckin' worthwhile