The song also mentions John F. Kennedy's assassination with the lyrics: "and in my first memories they shot Kennedy," as well as the battle for civil rights and the Vietnam War. On September 27, , Duff McKagan explains where the song came from in 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 in 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. Edit Lyrics. Civil War song meanings.
Add Your Thoughts 99 Comments. General Comment My take on this song is that while the rich use wars to make themselves richer, the victims are those sent out to die. They are often led to believe that they are on a holy crusade, when all they are really doing is fighting to allow those in power to become more powerful.
Their cause is never realized, and in the end, they die for nothing. No Replies Log in to reply. There was an error. General Comment civil war is a metaphor , he sees the world as one not drivided into countrys, states, cities, and providences and all the wars and conflict that take place on planet earth, is a civil war slickvic on March 19, Link.
My Interpretation Definitely the most underrated Guns 'n' Roses song! Here's what I think. 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 - A plea to the people in power to realize what war does to people, and how history continually repeats itself all the time and how some people never seem to to realize it.
My hands are tied The billions shift from side to side - my favorite line. And the wars go on with brainwashed pride For the love of God and our human rights - "brainwashed pride"- other citizens around him happy to make war, to kill communists Vietnam , and think America is doing a "good thing".
And all these things are swept aside By bloody hands time can't deny - Says how his protests and other's protests are ignored by those with blood on their hands president , and how the facts are denied by those in power.
Feb 6, 7. Feb 6, 8. Feb 6, 9. Posts: 9, Jeeze lettus all break out the Paisleys and pick along. Please visit my page. Feb 6, Posts: 3, Great album, song, band - a fan here. This is from a Kennedy speech in June at the American University. I dunno who he was referring to. Doesn't seem like it would be Kennedy since he's referenced in the next line, but then again, this is GnR we're talking about, not a scholarly brain trust.
I never did find this quote attributed to anyone specific other than the GnR song. Axl sings those sentences with a very strange voice, I mean with a very grave and serious voice, this way to sing add a heavy atmosphere.
An atmosphere like this one makes understand the listenner that the talk is serious. 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.
Then, in the lyrics, verbs in imperative remind the address, and moreover include a strenght and a boldness in the denounciation. The repetition of « Look » many times in the sound show this. There is a violent vocabulary like : « fighting », « dying », « genocide », « civil wars », « homicide ». This vocabulary adds to the song a gloomy atmosphere. About the chorus, we can see a denounciation of the way to lead the country because this is a « brainwashed » and this thing doesn't respect the « human rights ».
Furthermore, the puwerful are the only person in charge of the war, we see it in : « your genocide ». But with the war, the conflict is also in the country, the change of person « your » to « our » show this aspect that is strenghtly denounced by Guns 'n' Roses.
American in Vietnam. D'you wear a black armband When they shot the man Who said, "Peace could last forever. The next verse is talking about M. King and J. Kennedy, the three first sentences for King and the two next for Kennedy. Then Vietnam is mentionned, and after there is an example of the brainwash of the United State.
G'n'R explain here their anger against this government who does not care of people, but just of the strenght of United State. 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 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.
Then, G'n'R are protesting against the powerful, besides they said that the war is a processus with help rich instead of poor.
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