Album: G 'N' R Lies (1988)

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• One, two, one, two, three, four
  Guess I needed some time to get away
  I needed some peace of mind
  Some peace of mind that'll stay
  So I thumbed it down to sixth in L.A.
  Maybe a Greyhound could be my way
  
  Police and niggers, that's right
  Get outta my way
  Don't need to buy none of your
  Gold chains today
  Now don't need no bracelets
  Clamped in front of my back
  Just need my ticket, 'til then
  Won't you cut me some slack
  
  You're one in a million
  Yeah that's what you are
  You're one in a million babe
  You're a shooting star
  Maybe some day we'll see you
  Before you make us cry
  You know we tried to reach you
  But you were much to high
  Much too high
  Much too high
  Much too high
  
  Immigrants and faggots
  They make no sense to me
  They come to our country
  And think they'll do as they please
  Like start some mini-Iran
  Or spread some fucking disease
  And they talk so many goddamn ways
  It's all Greek to me
  
  Well some say I'm lazy
  And others say that's just me
  Some say I'm crazy
  I guess I'll always be
  But it's been such a long time
  Since I knew right from wrong
  It's all the means to and end and
  I keep it moving along
  Hey, hey, hey, yeah
  
  You're one in a million
  You're a shooting star
  You're one in a million babe
  You know that you are
  Maybe someday we'll see you
  Before you make us cry
  You know we tried to reach you
  But you were much too high
  Much too high
  Much too high
  Much too high
  
  Radicals and racists
  Don't point your finger at me
  I'm a small town white boy
  Just tryin' to make ends meet
  Don't need your religion
  Don't watch that much TV
  Just makin' my livin' baby
  Well that's enough for me
  
  You're one in a million
  Yeah that's what you are
  You're one in a million babe
  You're a shooting star
  Maybe some day we'll see you
  Before you make us cry
  You know we tried to reach you
  But you were much too high
  Much too high yeah, yeah, yeah
  Much too high
  Much too high
  Much too high yeah, yeah, yeah
  Much too high
  Much too high
  Much too high
  Much too high
  Much too high
  Much too high Writer/s: Duff Rose McKagan, Izzy Stradlin, Saul Hudson, Steven Adler, W. Axl Rose
  Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 12

• Gmc Tech from CaliThis is a perfect song for all the current turmoil that seems to have taken over the political climate and social issues of today I have absolutely no problem with it and should be played at demonstrations and rallies
• Blake from LodiAxl Rose has reason not to like gay people, as he was sexually abused by his father as a kid. Not everyone has to agree with the LGBTQ stuff they're forcing on us, anyway, and he shouldn't have used that word, because it's horrible, but he can still disagree with gay people.
• Du16694 from New YorkIt's one of their best songs imho. If someone just bleeped out the words they didn't like and listen to the raw aggression of the track it's GnR in their prime they will never write like that again it's of a pure rock music of young people before they really hit the big time hungry for making it in the industry and was fighting to be heard. To me the track sounds like a fusion of punk, hard rock, and folk. The guitar leads are amazing and the tonal aggression in the vocals are peak Axl. I really try to not let lyrics bother me as I also enjoy rap music as well and would not be able to enjoy it if I took to heart everything that was being said. When listening to GnR it's not just the lyrics and vocals there is also a great band with perfect chemistry playing as well.
  
  There was a time this would just be considered mainstream punk rock. The sex pistols would wear swastikas on stage not because they were fascists but to get people worked up. It's from a different time for or better or worse which is gone. I haven't heard anything in the last 20 years that sounds as good as early GnR. And I am not some old fart railing about the good o days I am just 31 but I grew up with this music as well as grunge from my parents. Even grunge has a rawness that I don't hear artists today coming close to repeating. Who knows maybe another Cobain or Axl type character will come around again with live instruments, aggression and bring back this type of rock music.
• Missie from Fort Worth TexasI think Axl wrote a song that most people would be afraid to write today...he simply said his thoughts and or the thoughts of a young White American man. Agreed the lyrics were very controversial at the time and still are, that being said I think it's a great song, from the perspective of a white guy that just don't want to be bothered. Axl Rose and Slash are one of Americas best as far as song writing goes... and I loved them then and I love them now...
• Miles from Vancouver, CanadaThe cover of G N' R Lies bears a resemblance to the cover of the John Lennon and Yoko Ono album Some Time in New York City, which contains the song "Woman Is the Ni--er of the World". Axl has mentioned that song in his defence for the lyrics. Coincidentally, Some Time in New York City is also a half-studio/half-live hybrid.
• Joel Gunderson from Duluth, MnGuess nobody noticed the Spanish style within the song. Yes the lyrics are controversial. However Axl does not represent all white men.
  Gark from Ghana clearly does not get it with his comments. Unless it was tongue in cheek he or she made some idiotic comments.
• Gark from Sago, Ghanawe have to remember that whites, especially white males, enjoy child porn, raping children and killing people and animals with guns. axl seems upset that gay people, black people and immigrants do not share the love of these activities. white males need to understand that most non-white males do not share a love of abusing children and killing people and then he would not be so angry. ever notice how NOBODY writes songs about how bad white males are, even though they love to abuse children and kill people, yet so many white males write songs about how they hate everyone who isn't white and male...?
• Asa from Boston, MaIf Axl is not a bigot, as his fans will struggle desperately to prove, then he made a pretty strange choice of words in this song. If his problem is with thugs and rapists, he should say so, rather than project his anger on all blacks and gays.
• Jason from State Of Fitz, NjI can't imagine another artist ever coming out with soemthing like this. Axl was a true artist. The only one who would have tried would be John Lennon.
• Jake from Fayetteville, NcGet off Axl's nuts. I agree with him. If a black dude wrote something like this, everyone would agree with him and sympathize with "how hard it is for a black man to make it in society."
  
  Besides, my man slash is black.
• Jason from State Of Fitz, Njgreat song, completley misunderstood. if your white and walking through a bad neighborhood the first verse is completely true
• Danny from New Britain, CtAXL IS NO RACIAL BIGOT, although he is a dick head. this song was about the pissed off america of the 1980's, always trying to act tough but in essence, sticking together

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