Tuning: Eb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb (1/2 step down)
Chords all moved down 2 semi-tones
Dm F
Look at your young men fighting, look at your women crying
Dm F C Dm F Dm F C
Look at your young men dying, the way they've always done before
Dm F
Look at the hate we're breeding' look at the fear we're feeding
Dm F C G
Look at the lives we're leading, the way we've always done before
Dm F C
My hands are tied, the billions shift from side to side
Dm F C
And the wars go on with brainwashed pride, for the love of God and our human rights
Dm F C
And all these things are swept aside, by bloody hands time can't deny
Dm F C G...
And are washed away by your genocide, and history hides the lies of our civil wars
Dm / F / Dm / F / C...
F Am Dm
D'you wear a black armband when they shot the man who said "Peace could last forever"
F Am
And in my first memories they shot Kennedy
Dm A# C F Am
I went numb when I learned to see so I never fell for Vietnam
Dm F
We got the wall of D.C. to remind us all that you can't trust freedom
Am Dm A# C
When it's not in your hands when everybody's fightin' for their promised land and
F Am Dm F Am Dm A# C
I don't need your civil war. It feeds the rich while it buries the poor
F Am Dm
You're power hungry sellin' soldiers in a human grocery store ain't that fresh
F Am Dm A# C
I don't need your civil war
[Solo] F / Am / Dm / F / Am / Dm / A# / C x2
Dm F
Look at the shoes you're filling, look at the blood we're spilling
Dm F C
Look at the world we're killing, the way we've always done before
Dm F
Look in the doubt we've wallowed, look at the leaders we've followed
Dm F C G...
Look at the lies we've swallowed, and I don't wanna hear no more
Dm F C
My hands are tied, for all I've seen has changed my mind
Dm F C
But still the wars go on and the years go by, with no love of God or human rights
Dm F C
'cause all these dreams are swept aside, by bloody hands of the hypnotized
Dm F C G
Who carry the cross of homicide, and history bears the scars of our civil wars
Dm / F / Dm / F / C...
F Am Dm F Am Dm A# C
I don't need your civil war. It feeds the rich while it buries the poor
F Am Dm
You're power hungry sellin' soldiers in a human grocery store ain't that fresh
F Am Dm A# C
I don't need your civil war
F Am Dm F Am Dm
I don't need your civil war I don't need your civil war
F Am Dm
You're power hungry sellin' soldiers in a human grocery store ain't that fresh
F Am Dm A# C... F
I don't need your civil war
What's so civil 'bout war anyway?