Civil War Lyrics » Guns N Roses : The Civil War Lyrics / Civil War Song Lyrics by Guns N Roses is from The Album Use Your Illusion II (1991). The Civil War Song is Sung by Guns N Roses. The Civil War Song Music is Produced by Guns N’ Roses & Mike Clink. The Civil War Song Lyrics is Written by Duff McKagan, Slash & Axl Rose. The Civil War Song is Released on Sep. 17, 1991. The Civil War Song is Presented by .
Civil War Song Details :
| Song | Civil War |
| Singer | Guns N Roses |
| Music | Guns N’ Roses & Mike Clink |
| Lyrics | Duff McKagan, Slash & Axl Rose |
| Release Date | Sep. 17, 1991 |
| Label | |
| Album | Use Your Illusion II (1991) |
Civil War Lyrics » Guns N Roses
[Spoken Intro:
Strother Martin
]
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
*Whistling*
And I don’t like it any more than you men
[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 the wars go on with brainwashed pride
For the love of God
and our human rights
And all these things are swept aside
By bloody hands, time can’t deny
And are washed away by your genocide
And history hides the lies of our civil wars
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About Guns N Roses’s Civil War from Use Your Illusion II (1991)
Before its release as the opening track on the Guns N’ Roses album
Use Your Illusion II
in 1991, “Civil War” first appeared on the 1990 charity compilation
Nobody’s Child: Romanian Angel Appeal
. It was also released as an EP in 1993 and included on the band’s
Greatest Hits
album in 2004.
In his autobiography, Slash stated that the song was initially an instrumental he created before the Japanese leg of the
Appetite for Destruction
tour. Later, Rose would write the lyrics and shape it into a full song. Because it was recorded in 1990, it is the only song on the
Use Your Illusion
albums to feature Steven Adler playing drums, due to his playing being negatively affected by his heroin habit—the final cut is a mix of 20–30 takes, mixed to allow the rest of the band to be able to follow it properly. First played live at
Farm Aid
in 1990, this also marked original drummer Adler’s first and last time performing the song.
Created as an anti-war protest song, it features lead vocalist Axl Rose whistling the song
“When Johnny Comes Marching Home,”
which was written during the American Civil War. Other featured samples are speeches from a
Peruvian Shining Path guerrilla general
and the 1967 movie,
Cool Hand Luke
.
Duff McKagan explained the origins of “Civil War” during
an interview on
Rockline
:
Basically it was a riff that we would do at sound-checks. Axl came up with a couple of lines at the beginning. And… I went to a peace march, when I was a little kid, with my mom. I was like four years old. For Martin Luther King. And that’s when: “Did you wear the black arm band when they shot the man who said: ‘Peace could last forever’?” It’s just true-life experiences, really.
However, that line is not actually a direct quote of MLK; it’s more of what Duff took away from his message.
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