 Genius Meanings
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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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Wings – Live and Let Die
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The beloved theme of James Bond’s eighth movie, where Roger Moore made his debut as 007. The song was so popular that many fans don’t know Paul and Linda McCartney wrote it for a
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Paul McCartney – Live and Let Die (Live / 2002)
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[Verse 1] / 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 ever
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Kool G Rap & DJ Polo – Live and Let Die
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The title track off “Live and Let Die”, Kool G. Rap raps about his life in the violent areas of New York, trying to make a profit running with street gangs.
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Paul McCartney – Live and Let Die (Live at Citi Field)
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[Verse 1] / 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 ever
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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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Paul McCartney – Live and Let Die (Live / 1989)
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[Verse] / 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 ever
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Anekka – Live and Let Die - Rua Do Cosmos Mix
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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 ever changin / In
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Guns N' Roses – Pretty Tied Up (Live In New York, Ritz Theatre - May 16, 1991)
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[Verse 1] / I know this chick, she lives down on Melrose / She ain't satisfied without some pain, ooh / Friday night is going up inside her again / Well, crack the whip, 'cause
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Billy Joel – Live and Let Die
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[Verse 1] / 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 ever
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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 – 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 – 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 – Yesterdays (Live In Las Vegas, Thomas & Mack Center - January 25, 1992)
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[Verse 1] / Yesterday, there was so many things I was never told / Now that I'm starting to learn, I feel I'm growing old / 'Cause yesterday's got nothing for me / Old pictures
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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] (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 – 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 – 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 – 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 (Ft. Shannon Hoon) – Don't Cry [Original] (Live In New York, Ritz Theatre - May 16, 1991)
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[Spoken Word : Axl] / See that homeboy? / [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
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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 – 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 (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 (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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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 – 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 – This I Love
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A song that goes way back to 1993. In ‘93, Axl told Hit Parader:
I wrote and recorded a new love song that I want on the next record called “This I Love,” that’s the 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 – 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 – 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 – 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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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 – 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 – 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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