Garden Of Eden

(Slash/Rose)

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 they're slammin' to the crunch
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 s'posed 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 so 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 something'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 goverments 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
Said 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

Don't Damn Me

(Slash/Lank/Rose)

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 a 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
An 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 crying
An I know you don't wanna hear me deny
That your satisfaction lies in your illusions
But your delusions are yours an 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 attentions
can you find the missing link
Your only validation is in 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

Don't damn me when I speak a piece a mind
'Cause silence isn't golden
when I'm holding it inside
I've been where I have been
An I've seen what I have seen
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

Bad Apples

(Slash/McKagan/Stradlin'/Rose)

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
An 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 hell
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 piece 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 breathin' 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 breathin' 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!!

Dead Horse

(Rose)

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 you're tryin' too
To understand this life,
that we're all going 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

But 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 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
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'
Ooh yeah I'd be smilin'
No way I'd be smilin'
Ooh smilin'

Sick of this life
Not that you'd care
I'm not the only one
With whom these feelings I share

Coma

(Slash/Rose)

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
An someone to tell me
what the fuck is going on
Goddamn it!

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

Help me
Help me
Help me
Help me
Bastard

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

Zap him again
Zap the son of a bitch again

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 if 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
But 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

Right Next Door To Hell

Artist/Band - Guns N' Roses
Album - Use Your Illusion I
Song - Right Next Door To Hell

Yeah,

I'll take a nicotine, caffine, sugar fix,
Jesus don't you get tired of turning tricks,
But when your innocence dies you'll find the blues,
Seems all our heroes were born to lose,
Just walking through time, you believe this heat,
Another empty house, another dead end street,
Gonna rest my bones and 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?,
I said I'm right next door to Hell,
And 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 to be,
Hell, Freud might say that's what I need,
But all I really ever get is greed,
And 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?,
I said I'm right next door to Hell,
And so many eyes are on me,
Right next door to Hell,
I never thought this is where I'd be,
But right next door to Hell,
Thinking time will stand still for me,

Fuck you...,
Bitch,

Not bad kids, just stupid ones,
Yeah, we thought we'd own the world and getting used was having fun,
I said we're not sad kids just lucid ones, yeah,
Flowing through life not collecting 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?,

Dust N' Bones

Artist/Band - Guns N' Roses
Album - Use Your Illusion I
Song - Dust N' Bones

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 and 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 to you, (Oh yeah... oh yeah)

She loved him yesterday
He laid her sister, she said okay,
An 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, (Oh, oh yeah)

Yo get out on your own
And you take all that you own,
And you forget about your home,
And then you're just fucking gone,

(Guitar Solo)

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,
Dust n' bones,
Dust n' bones,

That's alright, (Dust n' bones)
That's alright, (Dust n' bones)
That's alright, (Dust n' bones)
That's alright, (Dust n' bones)
That's alright, (Dust n' bones)
That's alright, (Dust n' bones)
That's alright, (Dust n' bones)
That's alright, (Dust n' bones)
That's alright, (Dust n' bones)
That's alright,

Your dust n' bones, yeah,

Live And Let Die

LIVE AND LET DIE

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 world
In wich we live in
Makes you give in and cry
Say live and let die
Live and let die

What does it matter to you
When you got a job to do you 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 in this ever changin world
In wich we live in
Make you give in and cry
Say live and let die
Live and let die

Perfect Crime

Artist/Band - Guns N' Roses
Album - Use Your Illusion I
Song - Perfect Crime

Oooohhh...,

Kicking back in the shadows,
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 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 a perfect...,

Keep the demons down and drag the skeletons out,
I got a blind man following me in chains,
I said he's fun to watch when the world has stopped,
And I think he's got something 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 with the bad side of me,
Stay away from the bad side of me,
Don't fuck with the bad side...,

(T-Minus 1:09 and counting)

Ostracized but that's all right,
I was thinking about something myself,

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight,

(Guitar Solo)

Call on everybody who's got last rites,
Said it's better if you locked them away,
Running through the visons at the speed of light,
Won't you let me be,
Motherfucker, just let me be,
Goddamn it, better let me be,
Don't you know you better let me be...,

Perfect crime,
Goddamn it, it's a perfect crime,
Motherfucker, it's a perfect crime,
Don't you know it's a perfect crime

You Ain't The First

Artist/Band - Guns N' Roses
Album - Use Your Illusion I
Song - You Ain't The First

"Rolling?... one, two, three, one, two, three."

"Two, three, one and..."

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, things always change,
Your 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've been the worst,
Said you been the worst,

So goodbye to you girl, so long, farewell,
I can't hear you crying, your jivin's been hell,
So look for me walking, down your street at night,
I'll be in with another, deep down inside,
Deep down inside,

Bad Obsession

Artist/Band - Guns N' Roses
Album - Use Your Illusion I
Song - Bad Obsession

I can't stop thinking, thinking about sinking,
Sinking 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 fooling?,
Don't try to give me a line,
But I can't stop thinking about,
Seeing you 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 messing,
It's always messing my mind,
It's a bad obsession,
It's always messing,
It's always messing 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 fooling?,
Don't try to give me a line,
But I can't stop thinking about,
Doing 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 messing,
It's always messing my mind,
It's a bad obsession,
It's always messing,
It's always messing my mind,

So bad... boy,

(Guitar Solo)

It's a...,
It's a...,
Heads up,

It's a bad obsession,
It's always messing,
It's always messing my mind,
Now it's a bad obsession,
It's always messing,
It's always messing my mind,

But I can't stop thinking about,
Doing 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 messing my mind,
See I already left you,
And you're better off left behind,
Uh huh, uh huh,

Maybe you'll do better next time... punk,

Back Off Bitch

Guns And Roses - Back Off Bitch




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 neme
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 s'posed to take in their own special
way
Fucking bitch

Double Talkin' Jive

Artist/Band - Guns N' Roses
Album - Use Your Illusion I
Song - Double Talkin' Jive

Found a head and an arm in the garbage can,
Don't know why I'm here,
Living 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 and all new friends,
They saying how you 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 saying?,

November Rain

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, ohhh yeahhh
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

The Garden

"No I won't"

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, yeah,

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 boys take a chance,
On the garden's song and dance,
Feel her flowers as they wrap around,
But only smart boys do without,

(Guitar Solo)

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, oo yeah,

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 around for days,
With a smile upon my face,
I never wanna leave this place,
Only poor boys take a chance,
On this gardem's song and dance,
Feel her flowers as they wrap around,
But only smart boys do without,
Turned into my worst phobia,
It's 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, (Oooohhhhhhhh...)

Bye bye,

Aww... so long,