Plastic Jesus

[Mike]

Songfacts - Plastic Jesus

Forever linked with this scene. After Luke has learned of his mothers passing, he heads for his bunk, every man clears out of the area to allow Luke some time, alone, to grieve.

"Well, I don't care if it rains or freezes, long as I got my plastic Jesus, sittin' on the dashboard of my car. Comes in colors, pink and pleasant, glows in the dark cause it's irridescent take it with you when you travel far. Get yourself a sweet Madonna, dressed in rhinestones sittin' on a pedestal of abalone shell goin' ninety, I ain't scary, 'cause I've got the Virgin Mary, assurin' me that I won't go to hell. Get yourself a sweet Madonna, dressed in rhinestones sittin' on a pedestal of abalone shell goin' ninety, I ain't scary, 'cause I've got the Virgin Mary, assurin' me that I won't go to hell."

This is a great film.

Selected in 2005 to be added to be preserved in the United States National Film Registry.

"What we got here, is ... failure to communicate"

[Earth-Angel]

^ Civil War - Guns & Roses link for you

[Mike]

^ Civil War - Guns & Roses link for you

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[Earth-Angel]

"What we got here, is ... failure to communicate"

Guns 'n Roses - 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." *

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 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 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

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

What's so civil 'bout war anyway?

[Mike]