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Showing posts with label Use Your Illusion 2 (1991). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Use Your Illusion 2 (1991). Show all posts

Monday, December 12, 2011

Use Your Illusion 2 (1991)

 
 
 


Civil War (7:42)
14 Years (4:21)
Yesterdays (3:17)
Knockin' On Heaven's Door (5:36)
Get In The Ring (5:41)
Shotgun Blues (3:23)
Breakdown (7:04)
Pretty Tied Up (4:48)
Locomotive (8:42)
So Fine (4:07)
Estranged (9:24)
You Could Be Mine (5:43)
Don't Cry (ALT.LYRICS)  (4:45)
My World (1:24)  


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." *
 
     (whistle)
     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 ADVANTAGE
     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
     WHAZ SO CIVIL 'BOUT WAR ANYWAY?
     (whistle)
 
*  Strother Martin – from the film Cool Hand Luke
** Peruvian Guerilla General
 
14 Years
     I try and feel the sunshine
     You bring the rain
     You try and hold me down
     With your complains
     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
     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
     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 to spin 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
     Ooh yesterday's got nothin' for me
     Yesterday's, Ooh got nothin' for me
     Got nothin' for me, yeah
     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
     Ooh yesterday's got nothin' for me
     Yesterday's, Ooh 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
     Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door
     Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door
     Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door
     Knock-knock-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
     Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door
     Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door
     Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door
     Knock-knock-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"
     Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door
     Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door
     Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door
     Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door
     Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door
     Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door
     Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door
     Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door
     Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door