Лирика альбома “Use Your Illusion I” [1991]

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Продажи альбома: Use Your Illusion volume I & II, продано 2 миллиона копий альбома за первую неделю. Полностью было продано 7 миллионов копий в США, и более чем 300,000 в Англии. The total number is probably a little more than 15 million copies worldwide.

Позиция в чартах: #2 в США.

Общее количество — более чем 15 миллионов копий во всем мире.
Название: Use Your Illusion I
Дата релиза: 17сентября 1991
Лейбл: Geffen
Треки: 16
Продолжительность: 75:32
Продюсер: Mike Clink & Guns N’ Roses
Видео: Live And Let Die, Don’t Cry, November Rain, The Garden, Garden Of Eden, Dead Horse
Синглы: Don’t Cry, Live And Let Die, November Rain
Самый лучший хит: November Rain
Известные люди, которые помогали в записи альбома: Skid Row, West Arkeen, Amy and Stuart Bailey, Duff’s dogs, Mike Clink, Alice Cooper, The Cult, Adam Day, Tim Doyle, Richard Duguay, Erin Everly, Mike Fasano, Fuck You St. Louis, Earl Gabbidon, David Geffen, all at Geffen, Doug Goldstein, Guns N’ Fuckin’ Roses, Don Henley, Shannon Hoon, Paul Huge, Del James, Robert John, KNAC, Lenny Kravitz, Dave Lank, Kurt Loder, Adam Maples, Andy Morehan, Tom Mayhue, Jim Mitchell, Michael Monroe, MTV, New York for «Get In The Ring», Sean Penn, Iggy Pop, Queen, Riki Rachtman, Josh Richman, Rolling Stone, The Rolling Stones, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Stephanie Seymour, Mike Staggs, Jussi Tegelmann, Steve Thompson, Michael Barbiero, Lars Ulrich, The West Hollywood Sherriff’s Dept, Miichelle Young, Tom Zutaut и семьи группы.

01. Right Next Door To Hell

 

Название: Right Next Door To Hell

На альбоме: Use Your Illusion I

Продолжительность: 3:00

Продюсер: Mike Clink & Guns N’ Roses

Ударные: Matt

Басс: Duff

Ведущая и Ритм гитара / 6-String Bass: Slash

Ритм гитара: Izzy

Вокал: Axl

Бэк-вокал: Slash, Duff, Izzy

Песню написали: «Right Next Door To Hell» была написана Axl, Izzy, и Timo Caltia (Hanoi Rock) . Izzy написал всю музыку, кроме части хора.

Написана: «Right Next Door To Hell» была написана в 1990.

Написана о: «Right Next Door To Hell» была написана под впечатлением 30 октября 1990. Сосед Эксла вызвал полицейских и обвинил его в нападении с пивной бутылкой, за то, что Эксл не выключил музыку.

Лирика:

I’ll take a nicotine, caffeine, sugar fix
Jesus don’t ya git tired of turnin» tricks
But when your innocence dies
You’ll find the blues
Seems all our heroes were born to lose
Just walkin’ through time
You believe this heat
Another empty house another dead end street
Gonna rest my bones an sit for a spell
This side of heaven this close to hell

Right next door to hell
Why don’t you write a letter to me yeah
I said I’m right next door to hell
An so many eyes are on me
Right next door to hell
I got nowhere else to be
Right next door to hell
Feels like the walls are closing in on me

My mamma never really said much to me
She was much too young and scared ta be
Hell «Freud» might say that’s what I need
But all I really ever get is greed
An most my friends they feel the same
Hell we don’t even have ourselves to blame
But times are hard and thrills are cheaper
As your arms get shorter
Your pockets get deeper

Right next door to hell
Why don’t you write a letter to me yeah
I said I’m right next door to hell
An so many eyes are on me
Right next door to hell
I never thought this is where I’d be
Right next door to hell
Thinkin’ time’ll stand still for me

Fuck you
Bitch

Not bad kids just stupid ones
Yeah we thought we’d own the world
An gettin’ used was havin’ fun
I said we’re not sad kids just lucid ones yeah
Flowin’ through life not collectin’ anyone
So much out there
Still so much to see
Time’s too much to handle
Time’s too much for me
It drives me up the walls
Drives me out of my mind
Can you tell me what this means…huh?

02. Dust N’ Bones

Название: Dust N’ Bones

На альбоме: Use Your Illusion I

Включена в: «Live Era ’87-’93»

Продолжительность: 4:57

Продюсер: Mike Clink & Guns N’ Roses

Ударные: Matt

Басс: Duff

Ведущая и Ритм гитара / Vocal Box: Slash

Вокал/ Ритм гитара: Izzy

Пианино/ Орган: Dizzy

Бэк-вокал: Axl, Slash, Duff

Песню написали: «Dust N’ Bones» написана Izzy, Duff и Slash. Izzy и Duff написали лирику, Slash cнёс свой вклад в часть музыки.

Написана в: «Dust N’ Bones» was written in or before 1989.

Дополнительная информация: На репетиции в 1989 году , Duff исполнял «Dust N’ Bones».

Лирика:

He lost his mind today
He left it out back on the highway
On «65»

She loved him yesterday
Yesterday’s over
I said okay
That’s all right
Time moves on
That’s the way
We live an hope to see the next day
That’s all right

Sometimes these things they are so easy
Sometimes these things they are so cold
Sometimes these things just seem to rip you right in two
Oh no man don’t let ’em get ta you

She loved him yesterday
He laid her sister
She said O.K.
And that’s all right
Buried her things today
Way back out deep
Behind the driveway
And that’s all right

Sometimes these women are so easy
Sometimes these women are so cold
Sometimes these women seem to rip you right in two
Only if you let ’em get to you

Ya get out on your own
And you take all that you own
And you forget about your home
And then you’re just fuckin’ gone

There’s no logic here today
Do as you got to, go your own way
I said that’s right
Time’s short your life’s your own
And in the end
We are just
Dust n’ bones

03. Live And Let Die

Название: Live And Let Die

На альбоме: Use Your Illusion I

Включена в: «Greatest Hits», «Use Your Illusion», «Live And Let Die» [Single]

Продолжительность: 3:02

Продюсер: Mike Clink & Guns N’ Roses

Ударные: Matt

Басс: Duff

Ведущая и Ритм гитара / 6-String Bass: Slash

Ритм гитара: Izzy

Пианино: Dizzy

Синтезатор: Johann Langlie, Axl

Вокал, клавишные: Axl

Хор: Matthew McKagan, Rachel West, Robert Clark, Jon Trautwein

Бэк-вокал: Axl, Shannon Hoon

Песню написали: «Live And Let Die» написана Paul и Linda McCartney для The Wings.

Написана в: «Live And Let Die» написана в 1973.

Дополнительная Информация: «Live And Let Die» играла в фильме «Grosse Point Blank».

Лирика:

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 which we live in
Makes you give in and cry
Say live and let die
Live and let die

What does it matter to ya
When ya got a job to do
Ya got to do it well
You got to give the other fella hell

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 which we live in
Makes you give in and cry
Say live and let die
Live and let die

04. Don’t Cry

Название: Don’t Cry

На альбоме: Use Your Illusion I

Включена в: «Greatest Hits», «Live Era ’87-’93», «Use Your Illusion», «Don’t Cry» [Single]

Продолжительность: 4:43

Продюсер: Mike Clink & Guns N’ Roses

Ударные: Matt

Басс: Duff

Ведущая и Ритм гитара : Slash

Ритм гитара : Izzy

Вокал: Axl

Бэк-вокал: Axl, Shannon Hoon

Песню написали: «Don’t Cry» была написана Axl и Izzy. Izzy написал большую часть музыки, Axl и Izzy написали лирику.

Написана в: «Don’t Cry» была написана в 1984 или 1985.

Дополнительная информация: Tracii Guns вероятно написал некоторые части гитары. Иззи Стредлина не было на видео «Don’t Cry».

Каверы: Shannon Hoon [Live], Mogwai [Live]

Лирика:

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
Somethin’s changin’ inside you
And don’t you know

Don’t you cry tonight
I still love you baby
Don’t you cry tonight
Don’t you cry tonight
There’s a heaven above you baby
And don’t you cry tonight

Give me a whisper
And give me a sigh
Give me a kiss before you
Tell me goodbye
Don’t you take it so hard now
And please don’t take it so bad
I’ll still be thinkin’ of you
And the times we had…baby

And don’t you cry tonight
Don’t you cry tonight
Don’t you cry tonight
There’s a heaven above you baby
And don’t you cry tonight

And please remember that I never lied
And please remember
How I felt inside now honey
You gotta make it your own way
But you’ll be alright now sugar
You’ll feel better tomorrow
Come the morning light now baby

And don’t you cry tonight
And don’t you cry tonight
And don’t you cry tonight
There’s a heaven above you baby
And don’t you cry
Don’t you ever cry
Don’t you cry tonight
Baby maybe someday
Don’t you cry
Don’t you ever cry
Don’t you cry
Tonight

05. Perfect Crime

Название: Perfect Crime

На альбоме: Use Your Illusion I

Продолжительность: 2:22

Продюсер: Mike Clink & Guns N’ Roses

Ударные: Matt

Басс: Duff

Ведущая и Ритм гитара: Slash

Ритм гитара: Izzy

Вокал, Звуковые эффекты: Axl

Песню написали: «Perfect Crime» была написана Izzy, Slash и Axl. Axl написал лирику, Izzy и Slash написали музыку.

Написана в: «Perfect Crime» была написана до 1986.

Лирика:

Kickin’ back in the shadows
Got no need for the light
Who’s sorry now old timer
Look at how you’ve spent your life
Scroungin’ for change
To put some money in your pocket
My how scratch does burn
Laughin’ at the suckers as you pissed it away

But I got the time and I got the muscle
I got the need to lay it all on the line
I ain’t afraid of your smoke screen hustle
It’s a perfect crime
Goddamn it it’s a perfect crime
Motherfucker it’s a perfect crime
I said it’s perfect

Keep the demons down
And drag the skeletons out
I got a blind man followin’ me in chains
I said he’s fun to watch
When the world has stopped
An I think he’s got somethin’ to say
«You wanna fuck with me, don’t fuck with me-
‘Cause I’m what you’ll be so don’t fuck with me
If you had better sense
You’d step aside from the bad side of me
Don’t fuck wit’da bad side o’ me
Stay away from the bad side o’ me
Don’t fuck wit’da bad side»

T minus 1:09 and counting

Ostracized but that’s all right
I was thinkin’ about somethin’ myself

1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8

Call on everybody who’s got last rites
Said it’s better if you locked ’em away
Runnin’ through the visons
At the speed of light
Won’t ya let me be
Motherfucker just let me be
Goddamn it better let me be
Don’t ya know ya better let me be…

Perfect crime
Goddamn it it’s a perfect crime
Motherfucker it’s a perfect crime
Don’t cha know
It’s a perfect crime

06. You Ain’t The First

Название: You Ain’t The First

На альбоме: Use Your Illusion I

Включена в: «Use Your Illusion»

Продолжительность: 2:35

Продюсер: Mike Clink & Guns N’ Roses

Ударные: Matt

Басс / Акустическая Гитара: Duff

Акустическая Гитара: Izzy

Slide Dobro: Slash

Вокал: Izzy, Axl, Shannon Hoon

Тамбурин: Tim Doyle

Песню написали: «You Ain’t The First» написал Izzy.

Написана в: «You Ain’t The First» написана до1990.

Лирика:

I tried so hard just to get through to you
But your head’s so far
From the realness of truth
Was it just a come on in the dark
Wasn’t meant to last long
I think you’ve worn your welcome honey
I’ll just see you along as I sing you this song

Time can pass slowly and
Things always change
You day’s been numbered
And I’ve read your last page
You was just a temporary lover
Honey you ain’t the first
Lots of others came before you woman
Said but you been the worst
Sa’ you been the worst

So goodbye to you girl
So long, farewell
I can’t hear you cryin’
Your jivin’s been hell
So look for me walkin’
Down your street at night
I’ll be in with another
Deep down inside
Deep down inside

«To the bar»
«That’s a take!»

07. Bad Obsession

Название: Bad Obsession

На альбоме: Use Your Illusion I

Продолжительность: 5:26

Продюсер: Mike Clink & Guns N’ Roses

Ударные: Matt

Басс: Duff

Ведущая и Ритм Гитара: Slash

Ритм Гитара: Izzy

Пианино: Dizzy

Саксофон / Гармоника: Michael Monroe

Вокал: Axl

Бэк-вокал: Izzy

Песню написали: «Bad Obsession» написана Izzy и West Arkeen.

Написана в: «Bad Obsession» была написана в 1985.

Дополнительная Информация: В ранних демо-версиях «Bad Obsession» Иззи был на вокале.

Лирика:

I can’t stop thinkin’
Thinking ’bout sinkin’
Sinkin’ down into my bed
I call my mother
She’s just a cunt now
She said I’m sick in the head
She said you ain’t special
So who you foolin’
Don’t try ta give me a line
But I can’t stop thinkin’ ’bout
Seein; ya one more time
(Oh no)
But I already left you
And you’re better off left behind

It’s a bad obsession
It’s always messin’
It’s always messin’ my mind
It’s a bad obsession
It’s always messin’
It’s always messin’ my mind

Too bad you’re fucked up

I used to be wasted
Always tried to take it
Take it down into my vein
I call the doctor
He’s just another
He said I’m sick in the brain
He said you ain’t special
So who you foolin’
Don’t try ta give me a line
But I can’t stop thinkin’ ’bout
Doin’ it one more time

(Oh no)
But I already left you
And you’re better off left behind (Oh yeah)

Aw it’s a bad obsession
It’s always messin’
It’s always messin’ my mind
It’s a bad obsession
It’s always messin’
It’s always messin’ my mind

So bad…

Boy

It’s a
It’s a
Heads up
It’s a bad obsession
It’s always messin’
It’s always messin’ my mind
Now it’s a bad obsession
It’s always messin’
It’s always messin’ my mind

But I can’t stop thinkin’ ’bout
Doin’ it one more time
(Oh no)
See I already left you
And you’re better off left behind
(Oh no, oh no)
It’s a bad obsession
And you’re always messin’ my mind
See I already left you
And you’re better off left behind
Uh huh…no

Maybe you’ll do better next time
PUNK!!

08. Back Off Bitch

Название: Back Off Bitch

На альбоме: Use Your Illusion I

Продолжительность: 5:01

Продюсер: Mike Clink & Guns N’ Roses

Ударные: Matt

Басс: Duff

Ведущая и Ритм Гитара: Slash

Ритм и Ведущая Гитара: Izzy

Вокал: Axl

Бэк-вокал: Slash, Duff

Песню написали: «Back Off Bitch» была написана Axl, Paul Tobias, Chris Weber и Slash. Tobias написал большую часть музыки, Weber играл на гитаре в Hollywood Rose. Лирику написал Axl.

Написана в: «Back Off Bitch» была написана до 1981.

Написана о: бабушке Эксла, Анне Линдтнер.

Лирика:

Oh baby, pretty baby
Oh honey, you let me down honey
I ain’t playin’ childhood games no more
I said it’s time for me to even the score
So stake your claim,
Your claim to fame
But baby call another name
When you feel the fire,
And taste the flame

Back off, back off bitch
Down in the gutter dyin’ in the ditch
You better back off, back off bitch
Face of an angel with the love of a witch
Back off, back off bitch
Back off, back off bitch

Makin’ love
Cheap heartbreaker, broken backed,
Nasty ballbreaker, stay out of my bed, outta my head
If it’s lovin’ you,
I’m better off dead

Back off, back off bitch
Down in the gutter dyin’ in the ditch
You better back off, back off bitch
Face of an angel with the love of a witch
Back off, back off bitch Back off, back off bitch

Emotions ripped, gone on a binge
Life lipped, I said you’re off the hinge
Tellin’ lies of such fame and glory
I don’t even wanna hear your story

Back off, back off bitch
Down in the gutter dyin’ in the ditch
You better back off, back off bitch
Face of an angel with the love of a witch
Back off, back off bitch
It’s such a pity that you’re such a bitch

Back off, back off bitch
It’s time to burn-burn the witch
Back off, back off bitch
Back off, back off bitch
Back off, back off bitch
Bitch
Bitch
Bitch
Bitch
Hey wha’d’ya think he’s tryin’ to say there, anyway?
I think it’s something each person’s supposed to take in their own special way
Fucking bitch

09. Double Talkin’ Jive

Название: Double Talkin’ Jive

На альбоме: Use Your Illusion I

Продолжительность: 3:21

Продюсер: Mike Clink & Guns N’ Roses

Ударные: Matt

Басс: Duff

Ритм Гитара / Вокал: Izzy

Ведущая и Ритм Гитара / Классическое Guitar Solo: Slash

Акустическая Ритм Гитара: Duff, Slash

Бэк-вокал: Axl

Песню написали: «Double Talkin’ Jive» написана Izzy.

Написана в: «Double Talkin’ Jive» была написана в мае 1989.

Написана о: «Double Talkin’ Jive» частично была адресована Motley Crue — Vince Neil.

Лирика:

Found a head and an arm in a garbage can
Don’t know why I’m here
Livin’ on the run for oh so long
I gotta go collect
Double talkin’ jive
Get the money motherfucker
‘Cause I got no more patience
Double talkin’
-I got (lies)-
No more patience man

Back in town an’ all new friends
They sayin’ how ya been?
Fucked up and outta place
That’s how I felt back then
Double talkin’ jive
Get the money motherfucker
‘Cause I got no more patience
Double talkin’
-I got (lies)-
No more patience man
You dig what I’m sayin’?!

10. November Rain

Название: November Rain

На альбоме: Use Your Illusion I

Включена в: «Greatest Hits», «Live Era ’87-’93», «Use Your Illusion», «November Rain» [Single], «Yesterdays» [Single], «Estranged» [Single]

Продолжительность: 8:55

Продюсер: Mike Clink & Guns N’ Roses

Ударные: Matt

Басс: Duff

Ведущая и Ритм Гитара: Slash

Ритм Гитара: Izzy

Вокал, Пианино, Клавишные: Axl

Синтезатор: Axl, Johann

Бэк-вокал: Axl, Matt, Shannon Hoon, Stuart Bailey, Izzy, Duff, Dizzy, Reba Shaw

Песню написали: «November Rain» была написана Axl.

Написана в: «November Rain» была написана до 1983.

Лирика:

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

‘Cause nothin’ lasts forever
And we both know hearts can change
And it’s hard to hold a candle
In the cold November rain

We’ve been through this such a long long time
Just tryin’ to kill the pain

But lovers always come and lovers always go
An no one’s really sure who’s lettin’ go today
Walking away

If we could take the time
To lay it on the line
I could rest my head
Just knowin’ that you were mine
All mine
So if you want to love me
Then darlin’ don’t refrain
Or I’ll just end up walkin’
In the cold November rain

Do you need some time…on your own
Do you need some time…all alone
Everybody needs some time…on their own
Don’t you know you need some time…all alone

I know it’s hard to keep an open heart
When even friends seem out to harm you
But if you could heal a broken heart
Wouldn’t time be out to charm you

Sometimes I need some time…on my own
Sometimes I need some time…all alone
Everybody needs some time…on their own
Don’t you know you need some time…all alone

And when your fears subside
And shadows still remain
I know that you can love me
When there’s no one left to blame
So never mind the darkness
We still can find a way
‘Cause nothin’ lasts forever
Even cold November rain

Don’t ya think that you need somebody
Don’t ya think that you need someone
Everybody needs somebody
You’re not the only one
You’re not the only one

11. The Garden

Название: The Garden

На альбоме: Use Your Illusion I

Включена в: «Use Your Illusion», «Estranged» [Single]

Продолжительность: 5:18

Продюсер: Mike Clink & Guns N’ Roses

Ударные: Matt

Басс: Duff

Ведущая и Ритм Гитара / Slide Guitar / Акустическая Гитара: Slash

Акустическая Гитара: West Arkeen

Вокал: Axl, Alice Cooper

Бэк-вокал: Axl, Shannon Hoon

Песню написали: «The Garden» была написана Axl, West Arkeen, и Del James. TМузыка была написана West Arkeen, Del и Axl написали лирику. Часть спел Alice Cooper.

Написана в: «The Garden» была написана до 1988.

Написана о: «The Garden» написана о Charles Manson и о семье Мэнсона.

Лирика:

You know you’re all alone
Your friends they aren’t at home
Everybody’s gone to the garden
As you look into the trees
You can look but you don’t see
The flowers seem to tease you at the garden
Everybody’s there, but you don’t seem to care
What’s it with you man, and this garden

Turned into my worst phobia
A crazy man’s utopia
If you’re lost no one can show ya
But it sure was glad to know ya
Only poor bows take a chance
On the garden’s song and dance
Feel her flowers as they wrap around
But only smart boys do without

You can find it all inside
No need to wrestle with your pride
No you ain’t losin’ your mind
You’re just in the garden
They can lead you to yourself
Or you can throw it on the shelf
But you know you can look inside
For the garden

I wasn’t really scared
Lost my virginity there
To a gypsy with blonde hair
But now no one seems to care
Like a mouse inside a maze
Wandering round for days
With a smile upon my face
I never wanna leave this place
Only poor boys take a chance
On the garden’s song and dance
Feel her flowers as they wrap around
But only smart boys do without
Turned into my worst phobia
A crazy man’s utopia
If you’re lost no one can show ya
But it sure was glad to know ya

Bye, bye
So long, bye. bye
It’s glad to know ya
Bye, bye
Bye, bye
Aw… so long

12. Garden Of Eden

 

Название: Garden Of Eden

На альбоме: Use Your Illusion I

Продолжительность: 2:40

Продюсер: Mike Clink & Guns N’ Roses

Ударные: Matt

Басс: Duff

Ведущая и Ритм Гитара: Slash

Ритм Гитара: Izzy

Вокал, Клавишные, Эффекты: Axl

Синтезатор: Axl, Johann Langlie

Бэк-вокал: Dizzy, Duff, Slash

Песню написали: «Garden Of Eden» написана Axl и Slash.

Написана в: «Garden Of Eden» былда написана до1989.

Лирика:

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

You got a glass jawed toothache
Of a mental disease
An they be runnin’ round back
See ’em line up on their knees
‘Cause the kiss ass sycophants
Throwin’ penance at your feet

When they got nowhere to go
Watch ’em come in off the streets
While they’re bangin’ out front
Inside their slammin’ to the cruch
Go on an throw me to the lions
And the whole damn screamin’ bunch
‘Cause the pissed-off rip-offs
‘R’ everywhere you turn
Tell me how a generation’s’
Ever supposed to learn
This fire is burnin’
And it’s out of control
It’s not a problem you can stop
It’s rock n’ roll

I read it on a wall
It went straight to my head
It said «Dance to the tension
Of a world on edge»
We got racial violence
And who’ll cast the first stone
And sex is used anyway it can be
Sometimes when I look out
It’s hard to see the day
It’s a feelin’ you can have it
It’s not mine to take away

Lost in the garden of Eden
Said we’re lost in the garden of Eden
And there’s no one’s gonna believe this
But we’re lost in the garden of Eden
This fire is burnin’
And it’s out of control
It’s not a problem you can stop
It’s rock n’ roll
Suck on that

Looking through this point of view
There’s no way I’m gonna fit in
Don’t ya tell me what my eyes see
Don’t ya tell me who to believe in
I ain’t superstitious
But I know when somethin’s wrong
I’ve been draggin’ my heels
With a bitch called hope
Let the undercurrent drag me along

Lost in the garden of Eden
Said we’re lost in the garden of Eden
And there’s no one’s gonna believe this
But we’re lost in the garden of Eden

Most organized religions make
A mockery of humanity
Our governments are dangerous
And out of control
The garden of Eden is just another graveyard
Said if they had someone to buy it
Said I’m sure they’d sell my soul

This fire is burnin’
And it’s out of control
It’s not a problem you can stop
It’s rock n’ roll
Lost in the garden of Eden
(An we ain’t talkin’ about no poison apple or
some missin’ rib ya hear)
Said we’re lost in the garden of Eden
And there’s no one’s gonna believe this
Said we’re lost in the garden of Eden
This fire is burnin’
And it’s out of control
It’s not a problem you can stop
It’s rock n’ roll

13. Don’t Damn Me

Название: Don’t Damn Me

На альбоме: Use Your Illusion I

Продолжительность: 5:17

Продюсер: Mike Clink & Guns N’ Roses

Ударные: Matt

Басс: Duff

Ведущая и Ритм Гитара: Slash

Ритм Гитара: Izzy

Орган: Dizzy

Вокал: Axl

Песню написали: «Don’t Damn Me» была написана Axl, Dave Lank и Slash. Лирику написал Axl, музыку Slash. Вклад Dave Lank неизвестен.

Написана в: «Don’t Damn Me» была написана до 1989.

Написана о: «Don’t Damn Me» был ответ тем, кто не согласен с Экслом.

Лирика:

Don’t damn me
When I speak a piece of my mind
‘Cause silence isn’t golden
When I’m holding it inside
‘Cause I’ve been where I have been
An I’ve seen what I have seen
I put the pen to the paper
‘Cause it’s all a part of me

Be it a song or casual conversation
To hold my tongue speaks
Of quiet reservations
Your words once heard
They can place you in a faction
My words may disturb
But at least there’s a reaction

Sometimes I wanna kill
Sometimes I wanna die
Sometimes I wanna destroy
Sometimes I wanna cry
Sometimes I could get even
Sometimes I could give up
Sometimes I could give
Sometimes I never give a fuck

It’s only for a while
I hope you understand
I never wanted this to happen
Didn’t want to be a man
So I hid inside my world
I took what I could find
I cried when I was lonely
I fell down when I was blind

But don’t damn me
When I speak a piece of my mind
‘Cause silence isn’t golden
When I’m holding it inside
‘Cause I’ve been where I have been
An I’ve seen what I have seen
I put the pen to the paper
‘Cause it’s all a part of me

How can I ever satisfy you
And how can I ever make you see
That deep inside we’re all somebody
An it don’t matter who you wanna be
But now I gotta smile
I hope you comprehend
For this man can say it happened
Cause this child has been condemned
So I stepped into your world
I kicked you in the mind
An I’m the only witness
To the nature of my crime

But look at what we’ve done
To the innocent and young
Whoa listen to who’s talking
‘Cause we’re not the only ones
The trash collected by the eyes
And dumped into the brain
Said it tears into our
Conscious thoughts
You tell me who’s to blame

I know you don’t wanna hear me cryin’
An I know you don’t wanna hear me deny
That your satisfaction lies in your illusions
But your delusions are yours and not mine
We take for granted we know the whole story
We judge a book by its cover
And read what we want
Between selected lines

Don’t hail me
An don’t idolize the ink
Or I’ve failed in my intentions
Can you find the missing link
Your only validation is living your own life

Vicarious existence is a fucking waste of time
So I send this song to the offended
I said what I meant and I’ve never pretended
As so many others do intending just to please
If I damned your point of view
Could you turn the other cheek

But don’t damn me
When I speak a piece of my mind
‘Cause silence isn’t golden
When I’m holding it inside
‘Cause I’ve been where I have been
An I’ve seen what I have seen
I put the pen to the paper
‘Cause it’s all a part of me
Don’t damn me
I said don’t damn me
I said don’t hail me
Don’t damn me

14. Bad Apples

Название: Bad Apples
На альбоме: Use Your Illusion I
Продолжительность: 4:27
Продюсер: Mike Clink & Guns N’ Roses
Ударные: Matt
Басс: Duff
Ведущая и Ритм Гитара: Slash
Ритм Гитара: Izzy
Пианино: Dizzy
Вокал: Axl
Бэк-вокал: Izzy, Duff, Matt, Dizzy

Песню написали: «Bad Apples» была написана Axl, Izzy, Duff и Slash.
Написана в: «Bad Apples» была написана в 1989.

Лирика:

Diamonds and fast cars
Money to burn
I got my head in the clouds
I got these thoughts to churn
Got my feet in the sand
I got a house on the hill
I got a headache like a mother
Twice the price of my thrills
And it’s a cold day,
It’s a continental drift
I said this traffic is hell
Can you give me a lift
An I’ll try to paint a story
Got your pictures to tell
Yeah you got to make a living
With what you bring yourself to sell

I got some genuine
Imitation
Bad Apples
Free sample
For your peace o’ mind
Only $9.95

I got my camera back from customs
Got my law fees up to date
Hell they musta seen me comin’
Ain’t this life so fuckin’ great

When the shit hit the fan
It was all I could stand
Yeah, well I’m a frequent flyer
My body’s breathing while it can
But what I don’t understand is that
My world ain’t gettin’ no brighter
If I could touch the sky
Well I would float on by
While everybody’s talkin’
Hell I’m just another guy
If it were up to me
I’d say just leave me be
Why let one bad apple
Spoil the whole damn bunch

Gold and caviar
Now why’nt you pour my apathy
I’d have all my bases covered
If I could teach my hands to see
But now we’re down in the deep end
Where they’d love to watch you drown
I said your laundry could use washing
We’ll hang it up all over town
I said Hollywood’s like a dryer
An we’re down on Sunset Strip
An you’ll be suckin’ down the Clorox
‘Til your life’s all nice and crisp

When the shit hit the fan
It was all I could stand
Yeah, well I’m a frequent flyer
My body’s breathing while it can
But what I don’t understand is that
My world ain’t gettin’ no brighter
If I could touch the sky
Well I would float on by
While everybody’s talkin’
Hell I’m just another guy
If it were up to me
I’d say just leave me be
Why let one bad apple
Spoil the whole damn bunch

When the shit hit the fan
It was all I could stand
Yeah, well I’m a frequent flyer
My body’s breathing while it can
But what I don’t understand is that
My world ain’t gettin’ no brighter
If I could touch the sky
Well I would float on by
While everybody’s talkin’
Hell I’m just another guy
If it were up to me
I’d say just leave me be
Why let one bad apple
Spoil the whole damn bunch
Why let that one bad apple
Spoil the whole damn bunch
BOY!!

 15. Dead Horse

 

Название: Dead Horse
На альбоме: Use Your Illusion I
Включена в: «Use Your Illusion»
Продолжительность: 4:16
Продюсер: Mike Clink & Guns N’ Roses

Ударные: Matt
Басс: Duff
Ведущая и Ритм Гитара: Slash
Ритм Гитара: Izzy
Вокал, Акустическая Гитара: Axl

Песню написали: «Dead Horse» написал Axl.
Написана в: «Dead Horse» написана до1986.

Лирика:

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 searchin’ for answers
That never appear

But maybe if I looked real hard I’d
I’d see your tryin’ too
To understand this life,
That we’re all goin’ through
(Then when she said she was gonna like wreck my car…I didn’t
know what to do)

Sometimes I feel like I’m beatin’ a dead horse
An I don’t know why you’d be bringin’ me down
I’d like to think that our love’s worth a tad more
It may sound funny but you’d think by now
I’d be smilin’
I guess some things never change
Never change

I met an old cowboy
I saw the look in his eyes
Somethin’ tells me he’s been here before
‘Cause experience makes you wise
I was only a small child
When the thought first came to me
That I’m a son of a gun and the gun of a son
That brought back the devil in me

Sometimes I feel like I’m beatin’ a dead horse
And I don’t know why you’d be bringin’ me down
I’d like to think that our love’s worth a tad more
It may sound funny but you’d think by now
I’d be smilin’
I guess some things never change
Never change

I ain’t quite what you’d call an old soul
Still wet behind the ears
I been around this track a couple o’ times
But now the dust is startin’ to clear
Oh yeah!!!

Sometimes I feel like I’m beatin’ a dead horse
And I don’t know why you’d be bringin’ me down
I’d like to think that our love’s worth a tad more
It may sound funny but you’d think by now
I’d be smilin’
Ooh yeah, I’d be smilin’
No way I’d be smilin’
Ooh smilin’

16.Coma

Название: Coma
На альбоме: Use Your Illusion I
Включена в: «Live Era ’87-’93»
Продолжительность: 10:12
Продюсер: Mike Clink & Guns N’ Roses

Ударные: Matt
Басс: Duff
Ведущая и Ритм Гитара: Slash
Ритм Гитара: Izzy
Вокал: Axl
Звуковые эффекты: Bruce Foster, Johann Langlie
Bitches: Susanne Filkins, Patricia Fuenzalida, Rose Mann, Monica Zierhut-Soto, Michelle Loiselle, Diane Mitchell

Песню написали: «Coma» написана Axl и Slash. Axl написал лирику, Slash написал музыку.
Написана в: «Coma» была написана в 1989 или 1990.

Лирика:

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 to this…
world again
Now I feel as if I’m floating away
I can’t feel all the pressure
And I like it this way
But my body’s callin’
My body’s callin’
Won’t ya come back to this…
world again
Suspended deep in a sea of black
I’ve got the light at the end
I’ve got the bones on the mast
Well I’ve gone sailin,’
I’ve gone sailin’
I could leave so easily
While friends are calling back to me
I said they’re
They’re leaving it all up to me
When all I needed was clarity
And someone to tell me
WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON
GODDAMN IT!

Slippin’ farther an farther away
It’s a miracle how long we can stay
In a world our minds created
In a world that’s full of shit

HELP ME
«OK, let’s get this guy in the program please,
we’re losing him.»
«Start an IV please.»
HELP ME
«Come on… his airways…
someone’s got to protect his airways. I want two …»
«Where’s the defibbrilator?»
HELP ME
«Two IV’s over here please. That’s two more now.
We’re losing him.»
«Let’s go.»
HELP ME
«OK, we’re starting to lose this guy. Where’s the crash cart?
I want his airways protected, two IV’s.»
BASTARD
» … slow motion here. This guy’s goin …»
«Let’s get him in ER.»
«… goin out on us.»
«Who’s got the defibrillator?»

Please understand me
I’m climbin’ through the wreckage
Of all my twisted dreams
But this cheap investigation just can»t stifle all my screams
And I’m waitin’ at the crossroads
Waiting for you
Waiting for you
WHERE ARE YOU

No one’s gonna bother me anymore
No one’s gonna mess with my head no more
I can’t understand what all the fightin’s for
But it’s so nice here down off the shore
I wish you could see this
‘Cause there’s nothing to see
It’s peaceful here and it’s fine with me
Not like the world where I used to live
I NEVER REALLY WANTED TO LIVE

«OK, we’re starting to lose this guy.
I want that IV and his airway protected!»
«Let’s get some people in here!»
«Get the crash cart please, we’re losing this guy. He’s goin…»
«Give me an airway please.»
«… goin under.»
ZAP HIM AGAIN
«How ’bout an IV stat?»
«OK … you better protect the airway,
you’re starting to lose him.»
ZAP THE SON OF A BITCH AGAIN

«Listen to me, Axl are you listening here?
No, don’t walk away from me! Get back over here!»
«…such a fuckin’ prick, I am so…»
«…bullshit all the time.»
«All he wanted to was have sex, sex, sex, all the time.»
«… gonna take a shit anymore.»

«I love you.»

Ya live your life like it’s a coma
So won’t you tell me why we’d wanna
With all the reasons you give it’s
It’s kinda hard to believe
But who am I to tell you that I’ve seen any reason why you
should stay
Maybe we’d be better off
Without you anyway
You got a one way ticket
On your last chance ride
Gotta one way ticket
To your suicide
Gotta one way ticket
An there’s no way out alive
An all this crass communication
That has left you in the cold
Isn’t much for consolation
When you feel so weak and old
But is home is where the heart is
Then there’s stories to be told
No you don’t need a doctor
No one else can heal your soul

Got your mind in submission
Got your life on the line
But nobody pulled the trigger
They just stepped aside
They be down by the water
While you watch ’em waving goodbye
They be callin’ in the morning
They be hangin’ on the phone
They be waiting for an answer
When you know nobody’s home
And when the bell’s stopped ringing
It was nobody’s fault but your own
There were always ample warnings
There were always subtle signs
And you would have seen it comin’
But we gave you too much time
And when you said
That no one’s listening
Why’d your best friend drop a dime
Sometimes we get so tired of waiting
For a way to spend our time
An «It’s so easy» to be social
«It’s so easy» to be cool
Yeah it’s easy to be hungry
When you ain’t got shit to lose
And I wish that I could help you
With what you hope to find
But I’m still out here waiting
Watching reruns of my life
When you reach the point of breaking
Know it’s gonna take some time
To heal the broken memories
That another man would need
Just to survive

Use Your Illusion I