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duff_rose

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We have this thing called "song presentation" in my English class where we have to play a song from youtube and then tell about it and analyse the lyrics for the rest of the class.

So far we have only been presentated shite songs, so I wanna present them some Guns or something along those lines...

A GN'R song with some serious/interesting lyrics - any ideas?

(Other suggestions than My World and Cornshucker, please..!) :)

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the garden

x2

or better.. I've always found the lyrics fit better if you think of the girl he was in love with being a metaphor for a drug habit (I know you guys are gonna shout out saying "he was never addicted" and all of that... the lyrics just seem to fit better that way)

especially this part;

If I were you, I'd manage to abhore the invitation

Of promised love that can't keep up with your adoration

Just use your head, and in the end you'll find your inspiration

To choose your steps and won't regret this kind of aggravation

about using drugs to find inspiration, but he's saying it's not worth it, just use your head instead, dummy

and with this part;

I never wanted you to be so full of anger

I never wanted you to be somebody else

I never wanted you to be someone afraid to know themselves

I only wanted you to see things for yourself

I'd imagine him singing it to himself as if the drugs changed what he felt like and his behavior even though he just wanted to see things for himself...

anyone can read what they see out of the lyrics, which is what makes them great I guess

EDIT: and on the subject of 'The Garden'.. I've always thought of it as a song on peer pressure into the "magical" world of drugs (?) some of my friends are very into drugs so that may alter my views on some song's meanings lol

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Guest Len B'stard

Bad Apples i think'd be a different and interesting one, a comment on the plasticity and false-ness of...i dunno, consumer society, "the american dream"...maybe?

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Catcher in the Rye seems easiest as you can relate it to book, then debate etc.

Civil War could be another, anti-war, JFK.

Outside of Guns I'd go with Dylan, Like a Rolling Stone has easy to tell story behind it involving Warhol, Edie Sedgewick.

homework must be easy now cos of wikipedia.

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