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