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My Michelle Alt. Lyrics


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Hey Marc, I read an interview of Michelle Young a few years ago, she was asked if she heard the mean version of My Michelle, so was there some early demo with alt. mean lyrics of the song?

The demo's which I have heard, it has the same lyrics as the one on the Record. Do you know about this alt lyrics version?

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No the lyrics that are on the record are the mean ones. At first Axl put together some nicer lyrics but then decided to make it more real. However the first couple of times they played the song Axl sang the first few versus slow and in a calm voice and then let loose on the chorus.

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Axl: We have a song about a girl I met called Michelle, and when I’d written it all nice I thought, That’s not how it really is. So I wrote the real story down, kind of as a joke. The first lines go: ‘Your mommy works in porno/Now that daddy’s not around/She used to love her heroin/But now she’s underground.’ She and her dad ended up loving it. It’s a true story, and that’s what works, I think [sounds Magazine, April 1987].

Axl: I knew a girl named Michelle and she became a really good friend of the band and I was going out with her for a while. It's a true story. Slash and some other members of the band said that it was too heavy to say to poor, sweet Michelle; she'll freak out. I'd written this nice sweet song about her, and then I looked at it and thought that really doesn't touch any basis of reality. So I put down an honest thing. It describes her life. This girl leads such a crazy life with doing drugs, or whatever she's doing at the time, you don't know is she's going be there tomorrow. Every time I see Michelle, I am really relieved and glad. O showed her the lyrics after about three weeks of debating, ans she was so happy that someone didn't paint just a pretty picture. She loves it. It was a real song to her, not something hokey [Geffen Press Kit, 1987]

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