Em Look at your young men fighting
G Look at your women crying
Em Look at your young men dying
GD/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
GD/F# The way we've always done before
 
A5A#4A7
E5 My hands are tied
GD/F# The billions shift from side to side
E5 And the wars go on with brainwashed pride
GD For the love of God and our human rights
Em And all these things are swept aside
GD/F# By bloody hands time can't deny
E5 And are washed away by your genocide
GDA And history hides the lies of our civil wars
B/AC/AD/A
GBm D'you wear a black armband when they shot the man
Em Who said "Peace could last forever"
GBm And in my first memories they shot Kennedy
EmCDGBm I went numb when I learned to see so I never fell for Vietnam
EmG We got the wall of D.C. to remind us all that you can't trust freedom
BmEm When it's not in your hands when everybody's fightin'
CD For their promised land And
GBmEm I don't need your civil war
GBmEmCD It feeds the rich while it buries the poor
GBmEm You're power hungry sellin' soldier In a human grocery store Ain't that fresh
GBmEmCD I don't need your civil war
Em Look at the shoes you're filling
G Look at the blood we're spilling
Em Look at the world we're killing
GD/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
GD/F# And I don't want to hear no more
 
A5A#4A7
E5 My hands are tied
GD/F# For all I've seen has changed my mind
E5 But still the wars go on and the years go by
GDEm With no love of God or human rights 'cause all these dreams are swept aside
GD/F# By bloody hands of the hypnotized
E5 Who carry the cross of homicide
GDA And history bears the scars of our civil wars
GBmEm I don't need your civil war
GBmEm It feeds the rich while it buries the poor
GBmEm You're power hungry sellin' soldier In a human grocery store Ain't that fresh
GBmEmCD I don't need your civil war
 
GBmEm I don't need your civil war
GBmEm It feeds the rich while it buries the poor
GBmEm You're power hungry sellin' soldier In a human grocery store Ain't that fresh
GBmEmCD I don't need your civil war
 
GBmA I don't need one more war
GBmA I don't need one more war
B/AC/AD/A (fade out)