Use Your Illusion II

(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
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
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 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

(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 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 cryin'
An i know you don't wanna hear me deny
That your satisfaction lies in your illusion
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 attentions
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

(stradlin / mckagan / slash)


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.
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


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

(arkeen / james / rose)


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 boys 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 blond hair
But now no one seems to care
Like a mouse inside a maze
Wandering round 4 daze
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

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

(stradlin / caltia / rose)


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 mama 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?

(huge / rose)


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
S'posed to take in their own special way
Fucking bitch