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[edit] Black Arm Band

I have a question about the following line: "Did you wear the black arm band when they shot the man who said: 'Peace could last forever'?" I assume the black arm band signifies something. Can anybody explain?

I am almost certain that it's a reference to Martin Luther King, Jr. KyuzoGator 19:38, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The peruvian guerilla leader

Do anyone know who this guerilla leader is?

[edit] America Civil War

Guns n' Roses vocalist Axl Rose uses Confederate clothes and Union clothes intechangeably in his Live renditions of "Civil War," so, contrary to the bias on this page - it IS indeed (also) about the American Civil War.

It seems as though Wikipedia's pernicious liberal bias, is, again, here at play.

  • Yet, does this song even make sense in context of the American Civil War? The "dual meaning of the word civil" is used incorrectly, and besides, there are at least 8 or 10 meanings in any good dictionary.
  • I challenge you to find one direct reference to the American Civil War in the lyrics of this song. I find it exceedingly strange that strict NPOV is seen as a "liberal bias" by the True Believers... KyuzoGator 19:36, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] why civil war was released?

GN'R released this song first on a benefit album, then on Use Your Illusion II and then as single but why have they made such a song? And why have they released it in 1993 as a single? Please help me! Thank you!

"Civil War" is a Guns N' Roses song (written by Axl Rose, Slash and Duff McKagan), originally appearing on the 1990 album "Nobody's Child", a fundraising compilation for Romanian orphans. It is a protest song about war, that amongst other things say that a civil war only "feeds the rich while it buries the poor". Notably, the United States was involved in no major military operations at the time of its recording, so it is mostly thought of as a tribute of sorts to 1960's anti-Vietnam protest songs.

I may be mistaken, but wasn't there that whole Gulf War thing going on at the time? The Gulf War (1990–1991)

"Nobody's Child" was released on July 24, 1990, about a week before Iraqi troops crossed the border into Kuwait. If one is really desparate for a contemporary American military operation to link the song to (notwithstanding the lack of any evidence thereof), the most recent prior operation was the December 1989 invasion of Panama to depose and arrest Manuel Noriega. Airbornelawyer 07:57, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] clarify

"a Peruvian militant general", get an actual name. Sherurcij (Speaker for the Dead) 00:57, 14 July 2007 (UTC)