Often impressed with Axl's insightfulness...
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
Did you catch that?
And the wars go on with brainwashed pride
they literally go to war.. to protect..
For the love of God and our human rights
but end up putting all this aside while doing it...
And all these things are swept aside
and instead bringing on a nightmare.
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
An' 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
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When everybody's fightin'
For their promised land
oh... the irony
"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."
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