Genius Lyrics
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Guns N' Roses – Breakdown
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“Breakdown” is written by Axl Rose and is one of the most distinguishable songs off the album as it opens with a banjo. As Slash explained:
That’s a five-string banjo tuned to
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Guns N' Roses – Breakdown (2022 Remaster)
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[Verse 1] / We all come in from the cold, we come down from the wire / An' everybody warms themselves to a different fire / An' sometimes we get burned, you'd think sometime we'd
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Guns N' Roses – Civil War
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Before its release as the opening track on the Guns N' Roses album Use Your Illusion II in 1991, “Civil War” first appeared on the 1990 charity compilation Nobody’s Child: Romanian
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Green Day – 21 Guns
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“21 Guns”, the second single off 21st Century Breakdown, is a power ballad that questions war and shows a narrator looking for peace. When taken on its own out of the 21st Century
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Guns N' Roses – You Could Be Mine
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“You Could Be Mine” is one of Guns N' Roses' greatest hits. Many remember it for being the theme song of Terminator II: Judgment Day. Axl Rose and Izzy Stradlin co-wrote this song
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Guns N' Roses – Coma
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Appearing on Use Your Illusion I, the longest Guns N' Roses song (so far) is the 10 minutes, 14 seconds long chorus-less “Coma”. Lyrically, the song is one of their heaviest
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Guns N' Roses – Mr. Brownstone
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“Mr. Brownstone” was only released as a promotional single in the UK ahead of the release of Appetite for Destruction in 1987. It was featured as the B-Side of both “Welcome to the
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Guns N' Roses – Paradise City
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A Guns N' Roses masterpiece, usually the last song in every setlist, “Paradise City” was the sixth track for debut studio album Appetite for Destruction, and upon its single
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Guns N' Roses – Welcome to the Jungle
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Guns N' Roses introduces itself with a hard-hitting ode to a wild place that can tear anyone apart. No wonder it’s their usual setlist opener (except in the Chinese Democracy tour
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Guns N' Roses – Yesterdays
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“Yesterdays” was the third single to be released from the 1991 Guns N’ Roses album, Use Your Illusion II. Although the power ballad never achieved the same levels of success in the
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Guns N' Roses – Sweet Child O’ Mine
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“Sweet Child O’ Mine” is the 9th track of Guns N’ Roses’ debut album Appetite for Destruction. The song became GNR’s most successful single, topping the Billboard Hot 100.
The
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Guns N' Roses – Dead Horse (2022 Remaster)
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[Intro] / Sick of this life, not that you'd care / I'm not the only one with whom, these feelings, I share / Nobody understands quite why we're here / We're searching for answers
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Guns N' Roses – Estranged
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The third song in the unofficial “Del James trilogy” including “Don’t Cry” and “November Rain.”
The director of the music video, Andy Morahan, said:
By the time we got to ‘
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Guns N' Roses – Nightrain (Live In Las Vegas, Thomas & Mack Center - January 25, 1992)
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[Spoken Word] / Vegas! You wanted the best / Well they didn't f**king make it! / So here's what you get! For Hollywood! / Guns N' Roses! / [Train Horn] / [Intro] / Loaded like a
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Guns N' Roses (Ft. The Waters) – Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
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This song was originally written and performed by Bob Dylan for the soundtrack to the 1973 film Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid. GNR’s version is featured in 1990’s Days of Thunder.
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Guns N' Roses – Get in the Ring
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Originally written by Duff McKagan as ‘Why Do You Look At Me When You Hate Me?’, the song is a message from Guns N Roses to the Rock N' Roll journalists of the early 90’s who
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Guns N' Roses – Dust N’ Bones
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This classic and yet under-appreciated track features Izzy Stradlin on lead vocals, with Axl Rose providing high harmonies in the background. It focuses on the struggles of
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Guns N' Roses – I Was Only Joking / Patience (Live In New York, Ritz Theatre - May 16, 1991)
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[Spoken Word : Axl] / This is something that made me sick here and on a radio / I Think it made everybody in our band sick here and on a radio / But it's something we can all use i
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Guns N' Roses (Ft. Duff McKagan) – T.V. Eye
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[Intro] / Lord! / Stop it! / [Verse 1] / See that cat? / Yeah, I do mean you / See that cat? / Yeah, I do mean you / [Chorus] / She got a TV eye on me / She got a TV eye / She got
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Guns N' Roses (Ft. Shannon Hoon) – Don't Cry (Alternate Lyrics)
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Only the vocal tracks differ from the original version, and even then only in the verses. However, in those verses, not only are the words entirely different, but the meter and
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Guns N' Roses – Welcome To The Jungle (Live In Las Vegas, Thomas & Mack Center - January 25, 1992)
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[Verse 1] / Welcome to the jungle, we got fun and games / We got everything you want, honey, we know the names / We are the people that can find whatever you may need / If you got
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Guns N' Roses – Estranged (2022 Remaster)
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[Pre-Chorus] / When you're talkin' to yourself and nobody's home / You can fool yourself, you came in this world alone (Alone) / [Chorus] / So nobody ever told you, baby, how it
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Guns N' Roses – Rocket Queen (Live In Las Vegas, Thomas & Mack Center - January 25, 1992)
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[Spoken Words : Axl] / Alright! Before we get into this next tune. i want to get some Houselights on these f**kers. Can we do that? ok / This f**king Las Vegas almost didn't make
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Guns N' Roses – Locomotive (Complicity)
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The song “Locomotive” was written in a house Slash and Izzy Stradlin rented in the Hollywood Hills following the Appetite for Destruction tours. It is often praised by fans because
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Guns N' Roses – Madagascar
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The title of the song along with lyrics in chorus draw a parallel with the island of Madagascar off the coast of eastern Africa and a general feeling of being outcast from the
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Guns N' Roses – You Could Be Mine (2022 Remaster)
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[Instrumental Intro] / [Verse 1] / I'm a cold heartbreaker, fit to burn and I'll rip your heart in two / And I'll leave you lyin' on the bed / I'll be out the door before you wake
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Guns N' Roses – Civil War (2022 Remaster)
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[Spoken Intro: Strother Martin] / 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
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Guns N' Roses – 14 Years
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As one of the few Guns N’ Roses songs sung almost entirely by former rhythm guitarist Izzy Stradlin, “14 Years” was only performed live up until his departure in 1991. The song
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Guns N' Roses – Get In The Ring (2022 Remaster)
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[Intro] / Yeah, c'mon / [Verse 1] / Why do you look at me, when you hate me? / Why should I look at you, when you make me hate you too? / I sense a smell of retribution in the air
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Guns N' Roses – My World
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“My World” was Axl experimenting with industrial and rap influences. The short track was written and recorded in three hours and according to Axl, written while under the influence
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Guns N' Roses – Coma (2022 Remaster)
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[Verse 1] / Hey, you caught me in a coma and I don't think I wanna / Ever come back to this world again / Kinda like it in a coma 'cause no one's ever gonna / Oh, make me come back
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Guns N' Roses – So Fine
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A love song written and mainly sung by bassist Duff McKagan as an homage to Johnny Thunders.
I actually got to jam with him one time back in ’80, maybe ’81, and I played drums
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Guns N' Roses – Locomotive [Complicity] (2022 Remaster)
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[Verse 1] / Gonna find a way to cure this loneliness / Yeah, I'll find a way to cure the pain / If I said that you're my friend and our love would never end / How long before I had
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Guns N' Roses – 14 Years (2022 Remaster)
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[Verse 1: Izzy Stradlin] / I try and feel the sunshine, you bring the rain / You try and hold me down with your complaints / You cry and moan and complain, you whine an tear / Up
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Guns N' Roses – Shotgun Blues
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“Shotgun Blues” is thought to either be about the media or Vince Neil of Motley Crue after an incident that occurred between Neil, Izzy Stradlin and Axl Rose at the 1989 VMAs.
At
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Guns N' Roses – Pretty Tied Up (The Perils of Rock N' Roll Decadence)
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Opening with the sounds of a coral sitar played by Izzy Stradlin, “Pretty Tied Up” highlights the excess of the Rock N' Roll lifestyle.
During an interview in 1992, Stradlin
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Guns N' Roses (Ft. Shannon Hoon) – Don't Cry [Original] (2022 Remaster)
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[Verse 1] / Talk to me softly, there's something in your eyes / Don't hang your head in sorrow and please don't cry / I know how you feel inside, I've, I've been there before
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Guns N' Roses (Ft. The Waters) – Knockin’ On Heaven's Door (2022 Remaster)
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[Intro: Axl Rose] / Ooh, ooh / Hey / [Verse 1: Axl Rose] / Mama, take this badge from me / I can't use it anymore / It's gettin' dark, too dark to see / Feels like I'm knockin' on
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