Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Civil War; Guns Nʼ Roses

Well, now that the blog has already a good variety of posted songs, I’ll, over this week, update only the Guns N’ Roses songs, even because the band has a lot of whistling songs. I guess one week won’t be enough. Maybe one month won’t... xD

And we’ll start with “Civil War”. This song was done by Axl, Slash and Duff McKagan; Axl and Duff wrote the lyrics and Slash composed the melody. McKagan said in a interview with the Rockline radio: “Basically it was a riff that we would do at soundchecks. Axl came up with a couple of lines at the beginning. I went in a peace march, when I was a little kid, with my mom. I was like 4 years old. For Martin Luther King. And that’s when: ʻDid you wear the black arm band when they shot the man who said: 'Peace could last forever?’. It’s just true-life experiences, really”.

This song is politically charged, with many historical and popular references. It doesn't mean only the American Civil War, althought the whistlings are part of the song “When Johnny Comes Marching Home” a song (which became its hymn) made by Patrick Gilbert (under his pseudonym Louis Lambert) to his brother-in-law who was in the battlefield during the American Civil War.

We have too the inicial speech, which is sampled from the 1967 movie “Cool Hand Luke”; this famous speech happened when the protagonist Lucas Jackson (Paul Newman) try to escape from prision and he’s captured, then the director, known only by Capitan (Strother Martin) says it in front of the other prisioners. Here is the strech, it's very cool see the man who speaks the beginning of Civil War:



And the other speech is quoted from a peruvian general, called “Camarada Artemio”. Maybe they chose it because it sounds quite controversial stating it’s necessary to anihilate to obtain peace.

And that’s all! Ah! Found these infos here and here! Below, lyrics, audio, music video and the general’s picture!

"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 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
I don't need one more war

I don't need one more war
Whaz so civil 'bout war anyway

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