sixtus Posted February 11, 2006 Share Posted February 11, 2006 (edited) beside the old discussions about the lyrics...does anyone know who the hell axl means with the chorus.."maybe someday we'll see you..before you make us cry..ya know we try to reach you..but you're much too hide..."who is the "shooting star, the one in a million" ? ! Edited February 11, 2006 by sixtus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaddisonmoore Posted February 11, 2006 Share Posted February 11, 2006 he means meim his shooting star Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maximo Posted February 11, 2006 Share Posted February 11, 2006 he means meim his shooting star Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MetaSouL Posted February 11, 2006 Share Posted February 11, 2006 (edited) I think you mean "much too high" rather than "hide". Anyway, here's what Axl said about the chorus:"One in a Million" was written while sitting in the apartment of my friend West Arkeen, who's like the sixth member of the band. I wrote it at his house, sitting around bored watching TV. I can't really play guitar too well, I only play the top two strings, and I would write a little piece at a time. I started writing about wanting to get out of L.A. , getting away for a little while. I'd been down to the downtown-L.A. Greyhound bus station. If you haven't been there, you can't say shit to me about what goes on and about my point of view. There are a large number of black men selling stolen jewelry, crack, heroin and pot, and most of the drugs are bogus. Rip-off artists selling parking spaces to parking lots that there's no charge for. Trying to misguide every kid that gets off the bus and doesn't quite know where he's at or where to go, trying to take the person for whatever they've got. That's how I hit town. The thing with "One in a Million" is, basically, we're all one in a million, we're all here on this earth. We're one fish in a sea. Let's quit fucking with each other, fucking with me." - Axl Rose, Rolling Stone 1989Or there's this version, not to far from what he said in RS:"....then later on the chorus came about because I was like getting really far away, like ‘Rocket man’, Elton John. I was thinking about my friends and family in Indiana, and I realized those people have no concept of who I am anymore. Even the ones I was close to. Since then I’ve flown people out here, had’em hang out here, I’ve paid for everything. But there was no joy in it for them. I was smashin’ shit, going fuckin’ crazy. And yet, trying to work. And they were going, « Man, I don’t wanna be a rocker any more, not if you go through this ». But at the same time, I brought’em out, you know, and we just hung out for a couple of months - wrote songs together, had serious talks, it was almost like bein’ on acid cos we’d talk about the family and life and stuff, and we’d get really heavy and get to know each all over again. It’s hard to try and replace eight years of knowing each other every day, and then all of a sudden I’m in this new world. Back there I was a street kid with a skateboard and no money dreamin’ ‘bout being in a rock band, and now all of a sudden I’m here. And it’s weird for them to see their friends putting up Axl posters, you know? And it’s weird for me too. So anyway, all of a sudden I came up with this chorus « You’re one in a million », you know, and « we tried to reach you but you were much too high ...." - Axl Rose, Kerrang, 1990 Edited February 11, 2006 by MetaSouL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOOSIER GUNZ Posted February 11, 2006 Share Posted February 11, 2006 great poststhanx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave-gnfnr2k Posted February 11, 2006 Share Posted February 11, 2006 beside the old discussions about the lyrics...does anyone know who the hell axl means with the chorus.."maybe someday we'll see you..before you make us cry..ya know we try to reach you..but you're much too hide..."who is the "shooting star, the one in a million" ? !I thought he said much too HIGH, its not hide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duff_mckagan21 Posted February 11, 2006 Share Posted February 11, 2006 cool post!duff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T Patten Posted February 11, 2006 Share Posted February 11, 2006 I've never read that before, cool posts... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr.Q Posted February 11, 2006 Share Posted February 11, 2006 Great post.by the way "One in a million" is one of my favorite GNR songs.mr>Q Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixtus Posted February 11, 2006 Author Share Posted February 11, 2006 (edited) meta..thank you very much..that make things much more clerarer for me now..and i do agree with Q....i really love and like the song..one of their best tracks ever!... thats also whyi started this topic...what i am surprised: axl and a skateboard? :) i guess it was just a phrase... Edited February 11, 2006 by sixtus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bianca bailey Posted February 12, 2006 Share Posted February 12, 2006 I think it's one of the greatest songs ever about leaving home, facing lots of difficulties and then making it big time. It's more of an accousticversion of Welcome To The Jungle, still as powerful, but much more controversial. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxlRocks Posted February 12, 2006 Share Posted February 12, 2006 meta..thank you very much..that make things much more clerarer for me now..and i do agree with Q....i really love and like the song..one of their best tracks ever!... thats also whyi started this topic...what i am surprised: axl and a skateboard? :) i guess it was just a phrase...Axl and Izzy both used to skateboard. A few pics of Izzy exist, one in which he is skating. Axl is seen in one picture with a board, but none of him skating exist, as far as I know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Revolver Posted February 12, 2006 Share Posted February 12, 2006 beside the old discussions about the lyrics...does anyone know who the hell axl means with the chorus.."maybe someday we'll see you..before you make us cry..ya know we try to reach you..but you're much too hide..."who is the "shooting star, the one in a million" ? !I thought he said much too HIGH, its not hide.yeah I think so too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixtus Posted February 12, 2006 Author Share Posted February 12, 2006 beside the old discussions about the lyrics...does anyone know who the hell axl means with the chorus.."maybe someday we'll see you..before you make us cry..ya know we try to reach you..but you're much too hide..."who is the "shooting star, the one in a million" ? !I thought he said much too HIGH, its not hide.yeah I think so tooyeah..of course he sang "much to high"..i looked in the lyrics afterwards..to be honest i always thought he sang "much too hide"..thats why i was wondering who he meant meta..thank you very much..that make things much more clerarer for me now..and i do agree with Q....i really love and like the song..one of their best tracks ever!... thats also whyi started this topic...what i am surprised: axl and a skateboard? :) i guess it was just a phrase...Axl and Izzy both used to skateboard. A few pics of Izzy exist, one in which he is skating. Axl is seen in one picture with a board, but none of him skating exist, as far as I know.really?? i didn't know that..i would really like to see a pictue with axl even just holding a skateboard..do you have it perhaps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxlRocks Posted February 12, 2006 Share Posted February 12, 2006 (edited) meta..thank you very much..that make things much more clerarer for me now..and i do agree with Q....i really love and like the song..one of their best tracks ever!... thats also whyi started this topic...what i am surprised: axl and a skateboard? :) i guess it was just a phrase...Axl and Izzy both used to skateboard. A few pics of Izzy exist, one in which he is skating. Axl is seen in one picture with a board, but none of him skating exist, as far as I know.really?? i didn't know that..i would really like to see a pictue with axl even just holding a skateboard..do you have it perhaps? Yeah hold on....http://www.rnb.hpg.ig.com.br/axlgrn4.jpgSorry so small. A bigger one exists, I have it, but have no way to upload it.And Izzy actually skatinghttp://www.annagnr.com/images/izzy%20skate01.jpgI thought that was cool. I wonder how good they were?... Maybe Chef knows. :chef: AR, AC Edited February 12, 2006 by AxlRocks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixtus Posted February 12, 2006 Author Share Posted February 12, 2006 (edited) meta..thank you very much..that make things much more clerarer for me now..and i do agree with Q....i really love and like the song..one of their best tracks ever!... thats also whyi started this topic...what i am surprised: axl and a skateboard? :) i guess it was just a phrase...Axl and Izzy both used to skateboard. A few pics of Izzy exist, one in which he is skating. Axl is seen in one picture with a board, but none of him skating exist, as far as I know.really?? i didn't know that..i would really like to see a pictue with axl even just holding a skateboard..do you have it perhaps? Yeah hold on....http://www.rnb.hpg.ig.com.br/axlgrn4.jpgSorry so small. A bigger one exists, I have it, but have no way to upload it.And Izzy actually skatinghttp://www.annagnr.com/images/izzy%20skate01.jpgI thought that was cool. I wonder how good they were?... Maybe Chef knows. :chef: AR, ACohhhh thx!! if someone has told me yesterday that axl skated in his old days...i could'nt believe it Edited February 12, 2006 by sixtus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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