Genius Meanings
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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 (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 – It's So Easy
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In Steven Adler’s (band’s drummer) autobiography, he says that as the band got more popular, it became almost too easy to find a girl to hook up with after shows. He said girls/
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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 (Ft. Sebastian Bach) – Sorry
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“Sorry” has been interpreted to be about Slash, the fans, other former members of GnR, the media, and everything in between. Vocalist/frontman Axl Rose himself said this about the
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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 – 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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Kendrick Lamar – FEAR.
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On “FEAR.,” Kendrick explores three instances of true terror at ages 7, 17, and 27, respectively. In the first verse, he explores the fear he experienced growing up in the hood
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Guns N' Roses – There Was a Time
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An incredibly layered and complex song by Guns N' Roses, “There Was a Time” features a mellotron, violins, choirs and multiple synthesizers.
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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. 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 – 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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Scorey – Guns And Roses
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[Intro] / (Ayo, 'Larri, this shit fire) / [Chorus] / If we never speak again, would you be better off alone? / Since you claim all your feelings for me just dead and gone / Staring
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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 (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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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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