Reading null's journal

More than 10 years old, but so true with what's going on now - and one hell of a good song. :-)

Guns N'Roses - 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
Ow, oh no, no, no, no, no

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 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
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
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
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no uh-oh-uh, no uh-oh, uh no
I don't need one more war

I don't need one more war
No, no, no, no uh-oh-uh, no uh-oh, uh no

(What's so civil 'bout war anyway?)

"*sigh* Some men are really hard to manipulate!" - Orchid

I love this song, man! i grew up on this shit.

you know, i used to resent older people when we were kids because they used to talk about their music in their "good old days" and scoffed at groups like GNR. i just dismissed them for being old.

now, i'm the one who can't relate to the music scene. i totally liked the late '80s groups like GNR. in the '90s i loved grunge. smashing pumpkins was also a favorite later on. but now i hardly listen to anything. the song you quoted, for example, "Civil War,"--how does any boy band or girl group song of this age actually come close to this song in terms of quality of form and content?

i used to think grown-ups were lame and closed-minded. and old. now i feel so old too. take this radio rock program featuring classics that i listen to. when i was a kid, they played pink floyd on the classic rock program. last week, i almost fell off my chair when listening to it-- they were playing metallica.

“To God, there is no zero. I still exist.” Scott Carey, The Incredible Shrinking Man

Hm, yes, well, im a 15 year old and i WORSHIP Billy Joel. enough said. mind you, i was rasied by an extremely musical family so it's not all that surprising that i have rather...eclectic taste in music.

-Mel :D

Look at me! I'm a prostitute robot from the future!

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 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

I don't think you could possibly understand how well that this relates to the way we (as soldiers) feel over here. We know the American people are being duped by CINC but it's not like we can do anything about it...we are sick and tired of all the
BS.

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

I don't think this should have to be given context to what is happening here in Iraq..watch the news and if you can't figure it out, please go play blindfolded in oncoming traffic.

Much props for bringing this up null

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