 Genius Meanings
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Guns N' Roses – ABSUЯD
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[Refrain] / Listen, motherfuckers, to the song that should be heard / Back down in the gutter's more than you deserve / Screaming fucking banshee, you know that's what you are
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Guns N' Roses – Patience
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One of the Guns N' Roses' most famous and beautiful songs. This song was the main single of their second album G N' R Lies.
Played with only three guitars, it remains one of rock’
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Guns N' Roses – Rocket Queen
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The song was named after Barbi Von Grief, a girl Axl was infatuated during GNR’s club days. As stated in Slash’s autobiography, Barbi “Rocket Queen” Von Greif was only 18-years old
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Guns N' Roses – Silkworms
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[Verse 1] / Listen motherfuckers to this song that should be heard / Dragged down in the gutters, it's more than you deserve / Screaming fucking banshee, you know that's what you
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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 (Ft. Shannon Hoon) – Don’t Cry
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“Don’t Cry” is a Guns N' Roses melodic ballad off their 1991 album Use Your Illusion I.
It was one of the first compositions written by Axl Rose and Izzy Stradlin while in Los
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Guns N' Roses – One in a Million
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Released as the final track on 1988’s GN'R Lies, “One In A Million” would prove to be one of Guns N' Roses' most controversial songs.
The song is said to be semi-autobiographical
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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 – 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 – 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 – Since I Don't Have You
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Originally a 1958 doo-wop single by The Skyliners, “Since I Don’t Have You” is considered to be among some of the best heartbreak ballads ever recorded.
Guns N’ Roses later
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Guns N' Roses – My Michelle
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Axl Rose writes an ode to his friend Michelle Young, inspired by her wanting a song about her. Only Axl failed to make a “Michelle ma belle” straightforward ballad and wound up
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Guns N' Roses – November Rain
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This piano ballad grand masterpiece became the signature song and the centerpiece of their simultaneous twin double album releases Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II.
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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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Guns N' Roses – Used to Love Her
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A humorous murder ballad, Izzy wrote it after he heard a song on the radio about a guy who’s girlfriend bothered him. It is actually about Axl’s dog, originally recorded in an
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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 – Monsters
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[Refrain] / The monsters can't get me / The monsters can't get me / The monsters can't get me / The monsters can't get me / [Verse 1] / A tour-de-force of an evil old passion / A
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Guns N' Roses – It Tastes Good, Don't It?
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A juvenile song that the band wrote as a joke. They performed it live, with Axl introducing it as “This is Guns N' Roses’s version of a rap song”
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Guns N' Roses – Free Fallin'
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She's a good girl, loves her mama / Loves Jesus and America too / She's a good girl, crazy 'bout Elvis / Loves horses and her boyfriend too / It's a long day livin' in Reseda
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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 – Rocket Queen (Live Rock in Rio)
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If I say I don't need anyone / I can say these things to you / 'Cause I can turn on anyone, just like I've turned on you / I've got a tongue like a razor / A sweet switchblade
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Guns N' Roses – Bohemian Rhapsody
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Mama just killed a man, Put a gun against his head / Pulled my trigger, now he's dead / Mama, life had just begun / But now I've gone and thrown it all away / Mama, ooh, Didn't
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Guns N' Roses – Black Hole Sun
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[Verse 1] / In my eyes, indisposed / In disguises no one knows / Hides the face, lies the snake / The sun in my disgrace / Boiling heat, summer stench / 'Neath the black the sky
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Guns N' Roses – Shallow
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You sit and cry, girl / I know the weight is gone / I told that I would fly, girl / But never learned to walk / You survived to fight it off / And killed myself / Please give me an
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Guns N' Roses – Cornshucker
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[Spoken] / You wanna come on? / Okay / She's very [?] / Uno, dos, no ... / Uno, dos, tres, quatro / [Intro] / My heart is full of love for you / I wanna get right next to you / (1
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Guns N' Roses – The Blues
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The early version of Street of Dreams was known as “The Blues”
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Guns N' Roses – Sail Sway Sweet Sister
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[Chorus] / Sail away sweet sister / Sail across the sea / Maybe you'll find somebody / That will love you half as much as me / My heart is always with you / No matter what you do
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Guns N' Roses – It Tastes Good, Don't It? (Full Live Version)
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“It Tastes Good, Don’t It” was one of GN'R’s early attempts at fusing rap with rock, and it came at a time when hip-hop was sneaking into the mainstream. Rose had been a fan of the
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Guns N' Roses – You're Crazy (Acoustic)
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A song off their famous debut album, “You’re Crazy” was later re-made on their next album GN'R Lies. With great instrumentation by Slash, Stradlin, and Adler and raw vocals by Rose
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Guns N' Roses – Every rose has it's thorns
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We both lie silently still / In the dead of the night / Although we both lie close together / We feel miles apart inside / Was it something I said or something I did / Did my words
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Guns N' Roses – Pretty Tied Up (Live)
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The pearls of rock 'n' roll decadence / I know this chick, she lives down on Melrose / She ain't satisfied without some pain / Friday night is goin' up inside her again / Crack the
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Guns N' Roses (Ft. Izzy Stradlin) – Bad Obsession - Demo
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[Verse 1] / I can't stop thinkin' / Thinkin' 'bout sinkin' / Sinkin' down into my bed / I called your mother / She's just another / You know she's sick in the head / She ain't
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Guns N' Roses – Bad to the Bone
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On the day I was born / The nurses all gathered 'round / And they gazed in wide wonder / At the joy they had found / The head nurse spoke up / And she said "leave this one alone
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