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Just like children hidin in a closet can't tell what's goin on outside... sometimes we're so far off the beaten path we get taken for a ride.

I think UYI is so much better lyrically than AFD!!!  AFD is more raw, but UYI is more ecclectic.

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There are so many great lines. That's what sets GNR apart from everyone else.

My favorites -- in no particular order:

"I bought me an illusion

And I put it on the wall

I let it fill my head with dreams

And I had to have them all .. "

And ".. I worked too hard for my illusions

Just to throw them all away .. "  ... Locomotive

(Speaks volumes about turning dreams into reality).

"When I find all of the reasons

Maybe I'll find another way

Find another day

With all the changing seasons of my life

Maybe I'll get it right next time .. " ... Estranged

(Tells us to learn from our mistakes, pick ourselves up and go on).

".. And when your fears subside

And shadows still remain

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 nothing lasts forever

Even cold November rain... " .. November Rain

(Awesome words)

"... I've been where I have been

And I've seen what I have seen

I put the pen to the paper

'Cause it's all a part of me ....." .. Don't D*mn Me

(For the writers out there  ;))

".. 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 D*mn Me

(Don't make rush judgments about people)

".. Sick of this life

Not that you care

I'm not the only one

Whom these feelings I share

Nobody understands

Quite why we're here

We're searching for answers

That never appear.. " .. Dead Horse

".. Welcome to the jungle

We take it day by day

If you want it you're gonna bleed

But it's the price you pay .. " .. Jungle

(Sometimes it takes hard work and sacrifice to achieve goals).

And of course -- Can't forget:

".. And I don't worry about nothing no

'Cause worrying's a waste of my f*ckin' time." .. Mr. Brownstone.  ;D

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"Sowin' all your wild oats

In another's luxuries

Yesterday was Tuesday

Maybe Thursday you can sleep

But school starts much too early

And this hotel wasn't free

So party till your connection call

Honey I'll return the key"

I get up around seven

Get outta bed around nine

And I don't worry about nothin' no

Cause worryin's a waste of my...time

Now I get up around whenever

I used ta get up on time

But that old man

he's a real muthafucker

Gonna kick him on down the line

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 T.V.

Just makin' my livin', baby

Well that's enough for me

SIN CITY

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i'll just write one that for me is the strongest ,though kind of "rough" the way it's told :

"i see you standing there

you think you're so cool

why don't you just

f*ck off !

"

now imagine the guy with the trendy clothes and shoes standing with a glass of vodka lemon in the club ,looking (on purpose) to the infinity and pretending to hardly move with the crap music it's playing at the moment. That guy is the guy who thinks he is cool and most time is accepted as "cool" by people. But he's only a pretender, he is a simple cool-wannabe because someone told him that doing all those things would make him cool. i hope you understand what i mean. this situation characterizes our societies big time : there's no honesty in the way of acting of most people, everything is fake and done on purpose. and that's what makes the line incredible : it says "f*ck off" to that situation, it's a most cruel line but also so real and so human crying out for a little honesty in a world of lies and pretending. and it is said by a bunch of still innocent kids who have not been corrupt yet by money or fame, which means it is not a line "created" in order to make a new album but a line felt in their soul and expressed in a desperate way.

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-Coma:

  Suspended deep in a sea of black

      Ive got the light in the end

      ive got the bones on the mast

      Well ive gone sailing, ive gone sailing

-14 years:

  These last four years of madness sure put

      me straight, dont get back 14 years in

      just one day

-Locomotive:

   Gonna find I way to cure this loneliness

       yeah i will find a way to cure the pain

       if I said you are my friend

       and our love would never end

       how long before i had your trust again

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Not quite GNR lyrics, they're Izzy's but they are my favourites  :P

"imagine you can run it all on your own,

you talk about it but you got nuthin to show,

year after year, you keep going nowhere"

Hehe wonder who he is singing about...

I was here before you, no matter what you do, you think about that first, yeh I was here before you!

Wonder who is means here too....  ;D

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"their outta get me, they me, i'm f**kin inocent..."

"i'll be loaded like a freight train, flyin like an aeroplane, speedin like space brain one more time tonight."

"You know where the f**k you are? your in the jungle baby, wake up time dieeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!"

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I drink an Drive everything's in sight

I make the Fire but I miss the FireFight

I hit the Bull'seye every night .

I just love the way that Flows together and it's Reckless " do what I want " attitude .

 This is awesome too " That ol' man he's a real mutha F*cka , gonna kick him on down the line .

 That just personifies how tough addiction is and the way the lyrics bring it to life is  cool .

 Peace GnR Nation   8)

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 A while back when I only used to post on the message board I posted the exact same question. It got loads of replies just like it has here. I've never been able to come up with one specific lyric or line that I think is the best but I do think that Axl wrote the truest lyric of all time as simple as it is. "Loves' so strange" from Locomotive, over and over again.  What else has ever held more truth to it? My favorite lyric of all time for me is " Why  does it come as a surprise, to think that I was so naive. Maybe didn't mean that much but it ment everything to me" form Nine Inch Nails' song That's What I Get. I guess not so much by the lyrical genius but just by the way it is sung. Also it's applied to me more than once.

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or it could be modified for todays gnr "show's supposed to start around 10:30, we get on stage around 1:00, i dont worry about it no more cos it's expected from me all the time"....

lol. Good one.  ;D ;D

..  My favorite lyric of all time for me is " Why  does it come as a surprise, to think that I was so naive. Maybe didn't mean that much but it ment everything to me" form Nine Inch Nails' song That's What I Get. I guess not so much by the lyrical genius but just by the way it is sung. Also it's applied to me more than once.

Trent has written some really awesome lyrics. I agree.

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