Genius Meanings
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 (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 – Bad Obsession
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“Bad Obsession” is about tackling drug abuse and addiction, which had haunted the band since before they had become famous written by Izzy Stradlin and West Arkeen. Michael Monroe
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Guns N' Roses (Ft. Alice Cooper) – The Garden
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“The Garden” is the 11th track off 1991’s “Use Your Illusion” and features guest vocals from Alice Cooper and Shannon Hoon.
The lyrics are about drug use and addiction, and the
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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 – 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 – Bad Apples
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“Bad Apples” is commonly thought to be about Guns N Roses' temptation of taking drugs (or “Bad Apples” as they are nicknamed in the song) out of boredom and to escape their hectic
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Guns N' Roses – Right Next Door to Hell
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Right Next Door To Hell is the first song off 1991’s Use Your Illusion I.
Axl has stated that the lyrics are about his then-neighbor Gabriella Kantor, who accused him of
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Guns N' Roses – Speak Softly, Love (Love Theme From The Godfather) (Live In Las Vegas, Thomas & Mack Center - January 25, 1992)
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[Instrumental]
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Guns N' Roses – Live and Let Die
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A cover of Paul McCartney and Wings' song, originally written for the 1973 James Bond film of the same name.
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Guns N' Roses – Garden of Eden
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[Intro] / It's a critical solution, and the east coast got the blues / It's a mass of confusion, like the lies they sell to you / [Verse 1] / You got a glass-jawed toothache of a
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Seal – Kiss from a Rose
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“Kiss from a Rose” is a song from Seal’s second eponymous album, Seal II. The song was first released as a single in July 1994. Re-released in 1995, it was included on the Batman
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Guns N' Roses – Dead Horse
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“Dead Horse” is the second to last track on Use Your Illusion I. Based on the expression “beating a dead horse”, the lyrics are about trying to rebuild yourself after a failed
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Guns N' Roses – Don't Damn Me
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“Don’t Damn Me” is 13th track in the album Use Your Illusion I, released in 1991. Presumably, the track was created as a response to the controversy surrounding Guns N' Roses after
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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 – Double Talkin' Jive
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Izzy Stradlin wrote the song after police found human body parts in a garbage can in the vicinity of their recording studio. It is a wonderful mixture of the energy of Appetite for
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Guns N' Roses – Perfect Crime
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[Intro] / Oh / [Verse 1] / Kickin' back in the shadow / Got no need for the light / Who's sorry now, old-timer? / Look at how you've spent your life / Scrounging for change to put
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Guns N' Roses – You Ain't the First
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“You Ain’t the First” plays more like a boozy acoustic blues than the hard rock or heavy ballads the band was known for. Izzy Stradlin and Axl Rose share double vocal duties, while
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Guns N' Roses – Live And Let Die (2022 Remaster)
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[Pre-Chorus] / When you were young, and your heart was an open book / You used to say, "Live and let live" / (You know you did, you know you did, you know you did) / But if this
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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 – 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 – November Rain (2022 Version)
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[Instrumental Intro] / [Verse 1] / When I look into your eyes / I can see a love restrained / But, darlin', when I hold you / Don't you know I feel the same? Yeah / [Chorus] / '
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Guns N' Roses – Welcome to the Jungle (Live in New York, Ritz Theatre - May 16, 1991)
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[Spoken Word : Axl] / We dedicate this to usually to like every big city where in / If it wasn't for LA. And for spending some time starting here in / New York, We wouldn't never
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Guns N' Roses – Dust N' Bones (2022 Remaster)
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[Intro: Izzy Stradlin] / He lost his mind today / He left it out back on the highway / I-65 / [Verse 1: Izzy Stradlin] / She loved him yesterday / Yesterday's over, I said, "Okay
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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 – Voodoo Child (Slight Return) / Civil War (Live in New York, Ritz Theatre - May 16, 1991)
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[Guitar Intro] / *Whistling* / [Bridge] / 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
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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 – 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 – Back Off Bitch
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“Back Off Bitch” was written before the band’s 1987 debut album, Appetite for Destruction. The song was also played during Guns N' Roses concerts before the release of Appetite for
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