 Genius Meanings
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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 – Perfect Crime (2022 Remaster)
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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 – 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 (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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 (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 – Shotgun Blues (2022 Remaster)
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[Chorus] / I got the shotgun blues, shotgun blues / I said, I don't know what I did, but I know I gotta move / I got the shotgun blues, shotgun blues / I can't wait here forever, I
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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 – 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 (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 (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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – November Rain (2022 Ver.)
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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
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – Only Women Bleed / Knocking On Heaven's Door (Live In New York, Ritz Theatre - May 16, 1991)
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[Intro] / Man lies right at you / He's your life's mistake / All you're really looking for is an even break / [Verse 1] / Mama, take this badge from me / I can't use it anymore
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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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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 – 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 – 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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The Holocaust (Ft. Road Block) – On the High Side of the Sky
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[Ninja Scroll sample] / {*horse neighs then gallops past*} / {*smash followed by man groaning*} / Jubei : No! I know the way now / So leave me alone alright? / Stoneface : Not
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