Civil War


"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!

N' I don't like it any more than you men." *



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



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



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

I went numb when I learned to see

So I never fell for Vietnam

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

That you can't trust freedom

When it's not in your hands

When everybody's fightin'

For their promised land



And

I don't need your civil war

It feeds the rich while it buries the poor

Your power hungry sellin' soldiers

In a human grocery store

Ain't that fresh

I don't need your civil war



Look at the shoes your 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 doubt we've wallowed

Look at the leaders we've followed

Look at the lies we've swallowed

And I don't want to hear no more



My hands are tied

For all I've seen has changed my mind

But still the wars go on as the years go by

With no love of God or human rights

'Cause all these dreams are swept aside

By bloody hands of the hypnotized

Who carry the cross of homicide

And history bears the scars of our civil wars



"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" **



I don't need your civil war

It feeds the rich while it buries the poor

Your power hungry sellin' soldiers

In a human grocery store

Ain't that fresh

And I don't need your civil war

I don't need your civil war

I don't need your civil war

Your power hungry sellin' soldiers

In a human grocery store

Ain't that fresh

I don't need your civil war

I don't need one more war



I don't need one more war

Whaz so civil 'bout war anyway




14 Years



I try and feel the sunshine

You bring the rain

You try and hold me down

With your complaints

You cry and moan and complain

You whine an tear

Up to my neck in sorrow

The touch you bring

You just don't step inside to 14 years

So hard to keep my own head... that's what I say

You know...I've been the beggar...

I've played the thief

I was the dog...they all tried to beat



But it's been

14 years of silence

It's been

14 years of pain

It's been

14 years that are gone forever

And I'll never have again



Your stupid girlfriends tell you

That I'm to blame

Well they're all used-up has-beens

Out of the game

This time I'll have the last word

You hear what I say

I tried to see it your way

It won't work today

You just don't step inside to 14 years

So hard to keep my own head...that's what I say

You know...I've been the dealer...

Hangin' on your street

I was the dog...they all tried to beat



But it's been

14 years of silence

It's been

14 years of pain

It's been

14 years that are gone forever

And I'll never have again



Bullshit and contemplation

Gossip's their trade

If they knew half the real truth

What would they say

Well I'm past the point of concern

It's time to play

These last 4 years of madness

Sure put me straight

Don't get back 14 years

In just one day

So hard to keep my own head

Just go away

You know...just like a hooker she said

Nothin's for free

Oh I tried to see it your way

I tried to see it your way




Yesterdays



Yesterday, there was so many things

I was never told

Now that I'm startin' to learn

I feel I'm growing old



'Cause yesterday's got nothin' for me

Old pictures that I'll always see

Time just fades the pages

In my book of memories

Prayers in my pocket

And no hand in destiny

I'll keep on movin' along

With no time to plant my feet



'Cause yesterday's got nothin' for me

Old pictures that I'll always see

Some things could be better

If we'd all just let them be



Yesterday's got nothin' for me

Yesterday's got nothin' for me

Got nothin' for me



Yesterday, there was so many things

I was never shown

Suddenly this time I found

I'm on the streets and I'm all alone



Yesterday's got nothin' for me

Old pictures that I'll always see

I ain't got time to reminisce old novelties



Yesterday's got nothin' for me

Yesterday's got nothin' for me

Yesterday's got nothin' for me

Yesterday



Yesterday




Knockin' On Heaven's Door



Mama take this badge from me

I can't use it anymore

It's getting dark too dark to see

Feels like I'm knockin' on heaven's door



Kn-kn-knockin' on heaven's door

Kn-knockin' on heaven's door

Kn-knockin' on heaven's door

Kn-knockin' on heaven's door



Mama put my guns in the ground

I can't shoot them anymore

That cold black cloud is comin' down

Feels like I'm knockin' on heaven's door



Kn-kn-knockin' on heaven's door

Kn-knockin' on heaven's door

Kn-knockin' on heaven's door

Kn-knockin' on heaven's door



"You just better start sniffin' your own

rank subjugation jack 'cause it's just you

against your tattered libido, the bank and

the mortician, forever man and it wouldn't

be luck if you could get out of life alive"*
 


Kn-kn-knockin' on heaven's door




Get In The Ring



Why do you look at me when you hate me

Why should I look at you when you
 
make me hate you too

I sense a smell of retribution in the air

I don't even understand why the fuck 

you even care

And I don't need your jealousy yeah

Why drag me down in your misery

And when you stare don't you think I feel it

But I'm gonna deal it back to you in spades

When I'm havin' fun ya know I can't conceal it

'Cause I know you'd never cut it in my game
 
Oh no

And when you're talkin' about a vasectomy

Yeah

I'll be writin' down your obituary

History



You got your bitches with

 the silicone injections

Crystal meth and yeast infections

Bleached blond hair, collagen lip projections

Who are you to criticize my intentions

Got your subtle manipulative devices

Just like you I got my vices

I got a thought that would be nice

I'd like to crush your head tight in my vice

Pain!!



And that goes for all you punks in the press

That want to start shit by printin' lies
 
Instead of the things we said

That means you

Andy Secher at Hit Parader

Circus Magazine

Mick Wall at Kerrang

Bob Guccione Jr. at Spin,

What you pissed off cuz your dad gets more
 
pussy than you?

Fuck you

Suck my fuckin' dick



You be rippin' off the fuckin' kids

While they be payin' their hard earned 

money to read about the bands

They want to know about

Printin' lies startin' controversy

You wanta antagonize me

Antagonize me motherfucker

Get in the ring motherfucker

And I'll kick your bitchy little ass

Punk



I don't like you, I just hate you

I gonna kick your ass, oh yeah! oh yeah!



You may not like our integrity yeah

We built a world out of anarchy oh yeah!



And in this corner weighin in at 850 pounds,

Guns N' Roses



Get in the ring

Yeah!



Yeah this song is dedicated to
All the Guns n' fuckin' Roses fans

Who stuck with us through all the 

Fucking shit

And to all those opposed...

Hmm...well




Shotgun Blues



I got the shotgun blues

Shotgun blues

I said I don't know what I did

But I know I gotta move

I got the shotgun blues

Shotgun blues

I can't wait here forever

I got too much here to lose



An now you're blowin' smoke

I think you're one big joke

Me...I gotta lot to learn

An I'm still waitin' for the heads to turn

You say I walk a line

Fuck they move it every time

You walk a mile in my shoes

And then you tell me 'bout singin' the blues

You get what you pay for

An freedom's real high priced

An while your rippin' off children

Somebody's fuckin' your wife

It's never made a difference

It's only how you survive



I got the shotgun blues

Shotgun blues

I said I don't know what I did

But I know I gotta move

I got the shotgun blues

Shotgun blues

I can't wait here forever

I got too much here to lose

An now you ask me why

I said it's do or die

I'll stick it right in your face

And then I'll put you 

In your motherfuckin' place

And you...you can suck my ass

An I think it's so low class

Me...I'm just so concerned

I'm still waitin' for your ass to burn

Ooooh you want a confrontation

I'll give you every fuckin' chance

With your verbal masturbation

Me...I just like to dance

How's that for provocation

I'm just makin' a stance

An I'm tired of the frustration

Of livin' inside of your lies

And I'm wired on indignation

I said somebody's got to die



I got the shotgun blues

Shotgun blues

I said I don't know what I did

But I know I gotta move

I got the shotgun blues

Shotgun blues

I can't stay here forever

I got too much here to lose

I got the shotgun blues

Shotgun blues

Listen motherfucker

You're about to pay your dues

I got the shotgun blues

Shotgun blues

If you're goin' up against me

Then you know you're gonna lose

I know

I know (there's ways - that we - can find)

I know

I know


You think anyone with an I.Q. over fifteen

Would believe your shit...fuckhead

Nothin' but a fuckin' pussy




Breakdown



We all come in from the cold

We come down from the wire

An everybody warms themselves

to a different fire

When sometimes we get burned

You'd think sometime we'd learn

The one you love is the one

That should take you higher

You ain't got no one

You better go back out and find her



Just like children hidin' in a closet

Can't tell what's goin' on outside

Sometimes we're so far off the beaten track

We'll get taken for a ride

By a parlor trick or some words of wit

A hidden hand up a sleeve

To think the one you love

could hurt you now

Is a little hard to believe

But everybody darlin' sometimes

Bites the hand that feeds



When I look around

Everybody always brings me down

Well is it them or me

Well I just can't see

But there ain't no peace to found

But if someone really cared

Well they'd take the time to spare

A moment to try and understand

Another one's despair

Remember in this game we call life

That no one said it's fair



Breakdown

Let me hear it now

Breakdown

let me hear it now

Yeah

Breakdown

Let me hear it now

Breakdown

let me hear it now

Get down with yo' bad self

Alright



I've come to know the cold

I think of it as home

When there ain't enough of me to go around

I'd rather be left alone

But if I call you out of habit I'm out of love and 

I gotta have it

Would you give it to me if I fit you needs

Like when we both knew we had it

But now the damage's done

And we're back out on the run

Fun how ev'rything was roses

When we held on to the guns

Just because you're winnin'

Don't mean you're the lucky ones



Breakdown

Let me hear it now

Breakdown

Yeah

Breakdown

Breakdown

Let me hear it now



"There goes the challenger being chased

By the blue blue meanies on wheels

The vicious traffic squad cars are after 

our lone driver

The last American hero

The-the electric sintar

The demi-god,

The super driver of the golden west!

Two nasty Nazi cars are close behind

The beautiful lone driver

The police cars are getting closer-closer...

Closer to our soul hero in his soul mobile

Yeah baby!

They about to strike, They gonna get him, 

Smash! Rape!

The last beautiful free soul on this planet



But...it is written if the Evil Spirit arms the Tiger with claws

Brahman provided wings for the Dove

Thus spake the Super Guru" *

"Did you hear that"




Pretty Tied Up (the perils of rock n' roll decadence)



I know this chick she lives down on Melrose

She ain't satisfied without some pain

Friday night is goin' up inside her...again

Well crack the whip

'Cause that bitch is just insane

I'm serious



She's pretty tied up hangin' upside down

She's pretty tied up an you can ride her

She's pretty tied up hangin' upside down

I can't tell you she's the right one

Oh no, oh no, oh no

Once there was this rock n' roll band 

Rollin' on the streets

Time went by and it became a joke

We just needed more and more fulfilling- 

Uh-huh
Time went by and it all went up in smoke

But check it out

She's pretty tied up hangin' upside down

She's pretty tied up an you can ride her

She's pretty tied up hangin' upside down

Ohh I can't tell you she's the right one

Oh no, oh no, oh no



Once you made that money it costs more now

It might cost a lot more than you'd think

I just found a million dollars

That someone forgot

It's days like this that push me o'er the brinks

Cool and stressing

(Pronounced:Kool ranch dres'ing)



She's pretty tied up hangin' upside down

She's pretty tied up an you can ride her

She's pretty tied up hangin' upside down

And I can't tell you she's the right one

Oh she's the right one...(etc.)



(But I can tell you a thing or two

'Bout somethin' else

If you really wanna know-Know what I'm sayin')




Locomotive



Gonna find a way to cure this loneliness

Yeah I'll find a way to cure the pain

If I said that you're my friend

And our love would never end

How long before I had your trust again

I opened up the doors when it was cold outside

Hopin' that you'd find your own way in

But how can I protect you

Or try not to neglect you

When you won't take the love I have to give

I bought me an illusion

An I put it on the wall

I let it fill my head with dreams

And I had to have them all

But oh the taste is never so sweet

As what you'd believe it is-

Well I guess it never is

It's these prejudiced illusions

That pump the blood

To the heart of the biz



You know I never thought

That it could take so long

You know I never knew how to be strong

Yeah, I let you shape me

But I feel as though you raped me

'Cause you climbed inside my world

And in my songs

So now I've closed the door

To keep the cold outside

Seems somehow I've found the will to live

But how can I forget you

Or try not to reject you

When we both know it takes time to forgive



Sweetness is a virtue

And you lost your virtue long ago

You know I'd like to hurt you

But my conscience always tells me no

You could sell your body on the street

To anyone whom you might meet

Who'd love to try and get inside

And bust your innocence open wide



'Cause my baby's got a locomotive

My baby's gone off the track

My baby's got a locomotive

Got ta peel the bitch off my back

I know it looks like I'm insane

Take a closer look I'm not to blame

No



Gonna have some fun with my frustration

Gonna watch the big screen in my head

I'd rather take a detour

'Cause this road ain't gettin' clearer

Your train of thought has cut me off again

Better tame that boy 'cause he's a wild one

Better tame that boy for he's a man

Sweetheart don't make me laugh

You's gettin' too big for your pants

And I's think maybe you should

Cut out while you can

You can use you illusion-

Let it take you where it may

We live and learn

And then sometimes it's best to walk away

Me I'm just here hangin' on

It's my only place to stay at least

For now anyway

I've worked too hard for my illusions

Just to throw them all away



I'm taking time for quiet consolation

In passing by this love that's passed away

I know it's never easy-

So why should you believe me

When I've always got so many things to say

Calling off the dogs a simple choice is made

'Cause playful hearts

Can sometimes be enraged

You know I tried to wake you-

I mean how long could it take you

To open up your eyes and turn the page



Kindness is a treasure-

And it's one towards me you've seldom shown

So I'll say it for good measure

To all the ones like you I've known

Ya know I'd like to shave your head

And all my friends could paint it red

'Cause love to me's a two way street

An all I really want is peace



But my baby's got a locomotive

My baby's gone off the track

My baby's got a locomotive

Got ta peel the bitch off my back

I know it looks like I'm insane

Take a closer look I'm not to blame

No


Affection is a blessing

Can you find it in your sordid heart

I tried to keep this thing ta-gether

But the tremor tore my pad apart

Yeah I know it's hard to face

When all we've worked for's gone to waste

But you're such a stupid woman

And I'm such a stupid man

But love like time's got its own plans



'Cause my baby's got a locomotive

My baby's gone off the track

My baby's got a locomotive

Got ta peel the bitch off my back

I know it looks like I'm insane

Take a closer look I'm not to blame

Yeah

If love is blind I guess I'll buy myself a cane




So Fine




How could she look so fine

How could it be she might be mine

How could she be so cool

I've been taken for a fool so many times

It's a story of a man

Who works as hard as he can

Just to be a man who stands on his own

But the book always burns

As the story takes it turn

An leaves a broken man

How could she be so cool

How could she be so fine

I owe a favor to a friend

My friends they always come through for me

Yeah

It's a story of a man

Who works as hard as he can

Just to be a man who stands on his own

But the book always burns

As the story takes it turn

An leaves a broken man

If you could only live my life

You could see the difference you make to me 

To me

I'd look right up at night

And all I'd see was darkness

Now I see the stars alright

I wanna reach right up and grab one for you

When the lights went down in your house

Yeah that made me happy

The sweat I make for you

Yeah...I think you know where that comes from


Well I'd look right up at night

And all I'd see was darkness

Now I see the stars alright

I wanna reach right up and grab one for you

When the lights went down in your house

Yeah that made me happy

The sweat I make for you

I think you know where that comes from


How could she look so good(So good)

How could she be so fine

How could she be so cool

How could it be she might be mine




Estranged



When you're talkin to yourself

And nobody's home

You can fool yourself

You came in this world alone

(Alone)


So nobody ever told you baby

How it was gonna be

So what'll happen to you baby

Guess we'll have to wait and see

One, two


Old at heart but I'm only 28

And I'm much too young

To let love break my heart

Young at heart but it's getting much too late

To find ourselves so far apart



I don't know how you're s'posed

To find me lately

An what more could you ask from me

How could you say that I never needed you

When you took everything

Said you took everything from me



Young at heart an it gets so hard to wait

When no one  I know can seem to help me now

Old at heart but I musn't hesitate

If I'm to find my own way out



Still talkin' to myself and nobody's home

(Alone)



So nobody ever told us baby

How it was gonna be

So what'll happen to us baby

Guess we'll have to wait and see



When I find out all the reasons

Maybe I'll find another way

Find another day

With all the changing seasons of my life

Maybe I'll get it right next time

An now that you've been broken down

Got your head out of the clouds

You're back down on the ground

And you don't talk so loud

An you don't walk so proud

Any more, and what for



Well I jumped into the river too many times 

to make it home

I'm out here on my own, an drifting all alone

If it doesn't show give it time

To read between the lines

'Cause I see the storm getting closer

And the waves they get so high

Seems everything We've ever known's here

Why must it drift away and die



I'll never find anyone to replace you

Guess I'll have to make it thru, this time 

Oh this time

Without you



I knew the storm was getting closer

And all my friends said I was high

But everything we've ever known's here

I never wanted it to die




You Could Be Mine



I'm a cold heartbreaker

Fit ta burn and I'll rip your heart in two

An I'll leave you lyin' on the bed

I'll be out the door before ya wake

It's nuthin' new ta you

'Cause I think *we've seen that movie too



'Cause you could be mine

But you're way out of line

With your bitch slap rappin'

And your cocaine tongue

You get nuthin' done

I said you could be mine



Now holidays come and then they go

It's nothin' new today

Collect another memory

When I come home late at night

Don't ask me where I've been

Just count your stars I'm home again



'Cause you could be mine

But you're way out of line

With your bitch slap rappin'

And your cocaine tongue

You get nuthin' done

I said you could be mine



You've gone sketchin' too many times

Why don't ya give it a rest

Why

Must you find

Another reason to cry



While you're breakin' down my back n' 

I been rackin' out my brain

It don't matter how we make it

'Cause it always ends the same

You can push it for more mileage

But your flaps r' wearin' thin

And I could sleep on it 'til mornin'

But this nightmare never ends

Don't forget to call my lawyers

With ridiculous demands

An you can take the pity so far

But it's more than I can stand

'Cause this couchtrip's gettin' older

Tell me how long has it been

'Cause 5 years is forever

An you haven't grown up yet



You could be mine

But you're way out of line

With your bitch slap rappin'

And your cocaine tongue

You get nuthin' done

I said you could be mine

You should be

You could be mine




Don't Cry (alt lyrics)



If we could see tomorrow

What of your plans

No one can live in sorrow

Ask all your friends

Times that you took in stride

They're back in demand

I was the one who's washing

Blood off your hands



Don't you cry tonight

I still love you baby

Don't you cry tonight

Don't you cry tonight

There's a heaven above you baby

And don't you cry tonight



I know the things you wanted

They're not what you have

With all the people talkin' it's drivin' you mad

If I was standin' by you how would you feel

Knowing your love's decided

And all love is real



An don't you cry tonight

Don't you cry tonight

Don't you cry tonight

There's a heaven above you baby

And don't you cry tonight



I thought I could live in your world

As years all went by

With all the voices I've heard

Something has died

And when you're in need of someone

My heart won't deny you

So many seem so lonely

With no one left to cry to baby



An don't you cry tonight

An don't you cry tonight

An don't you cry tonight

There's a heaven above you baby

And don't you cry

Don't you ever cry

Don't you cry tonight

Baby maybe someday

Don't you cry

Don't you ever cry

Don't you cry

Tonight




My World



You wan'da step into my world

It's a sociopsychotic state of bliss

You've been delayed in the real world

How many times have you hit and missed?

You cat-scan shows disfiguration

I wanna laugh myself to death

With a misfired synapse

with a bent configuration

I'll hold the line while you gasp for breath

You wanna talk to me

So talk to me

You wanna talk to me (7 times)

You can't talk to me

You don't understand your sex

You ain't been mindfucked yet

Let's do it (3 times)

Oh my distorted smile



Guess what I'm doing now





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