Happy Xmas by John Lennon, Yoko Ono and Plastic Ono Band

This song was published in 1971. This year 2 big war begun. Pakistani army versus East Pakistan(Bangladesh) and Third India-Pakistan War. Whether John wrote this song from these wars or not is a mystery, but John must charge his wish that we should stop fighting each other. This is the famous song of Xmas song, but the lyrics of it contains John's anti-war emotion.

The lyrics of Happy Xmas

(Happy Xmas Kyoko
Happy Xmas Julian)

So this is Xmas
And what have you done
Another year over
And a new one just begun
And so this is Xmas
I hope you have fun
The near and the dear one
The old and the young

A very Merry Xmas
And a happy New Year
Let's hope it's a good one
Without any fear

And so this is Xmas
For weak and for strong
For rich and the poor ones
The world is so wrong
And so happy Xmas
For black and for white
For yellow and red ones
Let's stop all the fight

A very Merry Xmas
And a happy New Year
Let's hope it's a good one
Without any fear

And so this is Xmas
And what have we done
Another year over
A new one just begun
And so happy Xmas
We hope you have fun
The near and the dear one
The old and the young

A very Merry Xmas
And a happy New Year
Let's hope it's a good one
Without any fear
War is over, if you want it
War is over now

Happy Xmas

civil war by Guns 'N' Roses

Through the class, we listened to many rock music from Robert Johnson to Led Zeppelin. Like the music, the lyrics of the are also various such as positive, negative, chauvinistic, sex suggestive and so on. In addition to this, there are lot of anti-war rock music around us. My favorite rock band, Green Day writes many anti-war songs, so I came to be interested in anti-war rock musics.


Today, I want to introduce the anti-war music sung by various artists we learned the class.
First song is "Civil War" by Guns 'N' Roses. This is one of the most famous song of them.
The main massage of this song is "all civil war feeds rich and bury poor" and vocal Axl Rose questioned "What' so civil war, anyway?"

The lyrics of it ↓
"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." (The line of Strother Martin from the film Cool Hand Luke)

(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

Civil War 歌詞
LoveCMSの洋楽歌詞

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" (The word of Peruvian Guerilla General)

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)

This song expresses the feeling of soldiers who were regarded as sacrifice. I colored green the most direct message to us from Guns 'N' Roses and colored blue the cabal of the war.

By the way this "civil war" suggests all of the war such as WW1 or Vietnam War.


The music video of civil war
YouTube - Guns N' Roses - Civil War (Music Video)