What Is Axl Singing About Now?

[gcluskey]

Listening to the lyrics of Guns N Roses songs in the past Axl sings about drink, drugs (Nightrain, Mr. Brownstone, Bad Obsession), girls, love (Sweet Child, November Rain, My Michelle, Think About You) sex (Rocket Queen), the streets (Jungle, Paradise City)...basically there's alot of lyrics about sex, drugs and rock n roll. What's Axl singing about now in his new songs?? Anyone want to construe some of the lyrics?

[stolat]

And the war! Don't forget he also wrote about the war!
(Can I mention the war........and did I get away with it.....)

[LIGuns]

the War? War in general..Civil War was written prior to Dessert Storm..It's not a protest in any way..Something I alay respected Axl/GN'R for. Being as big as they were they stayed away from preaching their political views towards th fans.
Back in 1990 a partyicular rant/intro for Double Talkin' Jive was dedicated to Bush and Clinton after Ross Perot briefly dropped out of the election. Yet Axl stayed away from telling everyone who to vote for.

[Dr. Blutarsky]

the War? War in general..Civil War was written prior to Dessert Storm..It's not a protest in any way..Something I alay respected Axl/GN'R for. Being as big as they were they stayed away from preaching their political views towards th fans.
Back in 1990 a partyicular rant/intro for Double Talkin' Jive was dedicated to Bush and Clinton after Ross Perot briefly dropped out of the election. Yet Axl stayed away from telling everyone who to vote for.

Nothing errks me more than an artist telling his audience who to vote for.

[stolat]

the War? War in general..Civil War was written prior to Dessert Storm..It's not a protest in any way..Something I alay respected Axl/GN'R for. Being as big as they were they stayed away from preaching their political views towards th fans.
Back in 1990 a partyicular rant/intro for Double Talkin' Jive was dedicated to Bush and Clinton after Ross Perot briefly dropped out of the election. Yet Axl stayed away from telling everyone who to vote for.

Nothing errks me more than an artist telling his audience who to vote for.

But didn't they get criticised for playing WW2 footage as a stage backdrop - I read about that somewhere......

[Wooody]

Axl loves Bono 

[Bill 213]

It seems that for the majority of the new songs....Axl seems to be singing about getting screwed over by various different people.

Be it the Blues, Madagascar, Better, IRS

[vicente]

I think he is writing mostly about Stephanie...

:: Vicente ::

[Schwarzgold]

the War? War in general..Civil War was written prior to Dessert Storm..It's not a protest in any way..Something I alay respected Axl/GN'R for. Being as big as they were they stayed away from preaching their political views towards th fans.
Back in 1990 a partyicular rant/intro for Double Talkin' Jive was dedicated to Bush and Clinton after Ross Perot briefly dropped out of the election. Yet Axl stayed away from telling everyone who to vote for.

Nothing errks me more than an artist telling his audience who to vote for.

Why? Politics is a part of our life, as everything else that is sung about. I like bands with a political attitude, because it's part of my everyday life.

Okay, someone who wants to tell me what I have to vote - that sucks, hands down. But artists who tell me what THEY think about politics? Great.

[Neemo]

The Break up with Stephanie Seymore, Steph's kid Dylan, The Breakup of GnR in the 90's, all the lawsuits he had against him....basically the last 10 years of his life in which he wasnt in the public eye

[Axlfreek]

He's obviously singing about china

[supaplex]

He's obviously singing about china

and you forgot democracy

[BlowUpYourVideo]

He's obviously singing about china

And Madagascar. He's very geographical.

[gcluskey]

On first look at the lyrics of the Blues it appears to be a love song about a love lost, perhaps a maybe a girl but I couldn't help wondering if Axl could've been singing about the love lost between himself and Slash. The song is called 'the Blues' which Slash is famous for playing. "...you know I didn't want to be you, now there's a hell I can't describe..." Might he be referring to their differences in musical direction? Then Axl was abandoned by all band members and left to pick up the pieces which could've been 'hell' for a while. "What I thought was beautiful don't live inside of you anymore" Axl might have felt he'd lost that precious bond with Slash that helped them write great music together.
This is simply a possible interpretation of the song, I'm not saying thats what it is about but it might be...read the lyrics and think about Slash...

The Blues Lyrics (Guns N Roses)
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Guns N Roses - The Blues Lyrics


All the love in the world couldn't save you
All the innocence inside
You know I tried so hard to make you
To make you change your mind

And it hurts too much to see you
And how you left yourself behind
You know I didn't want to be you
Now there's a hell I can't describe

So now I wander through my day
Trying to find my way
Still these feelings that I felt
I said to you and no one else

And no it's not going to change
I know it's gone, still I'm used
And that's nice to hang on someone
A change that's bittersweet

That's called the blues

Don't know just what I should do
Everywhere I go I see you
You know it's what you planned, this much is true
What I thought was beautiful don't live inside of you anymore

I don't know just what I should do
Everywhere I go I see you
You know it's what you planned, this much is true
What I thought was beautiful don't live inside of you anymore

What this means to me
The more I know you believe
What I thought was you now
Has got more that it changed on you

What I thought was true
The more that I might know is you
What I thought was you
Is only memories, distant

[Neemo]

some people think thats about steph taking Dylan away from him

[horsey]

Axl loves Bono?

what's that about to be funny ?
wierd if ya ask  me lol.

[gcluskey]

Dylan must be around 16 or 17 now?

[FunkyMonkey]

And in the only print interview he has given over the past 10 years, with Rolling Stone in early 2000, he stressed that the lyrics to most of Chinese Democracy, the never-ending forthcoming Guns N'Roses album, will tell his side of the Seymour affair. "I hope [Seymour's son Dylan] hears it when he grows up, if he ever wants to know the whole truth."

http://www.heretodaygonetohell.com/articles/showarticle.php?articleid=91

[Beefy]

If you want to see it then you can find ways to relate most of the new songs to the old band, particularily Chinese Democracy and Madagascar, but I'm sure the real motivation and inspiration behind these lyrics run a bit deeper than this. I'm sure the break-up of the old band plays its part in Axl's think although I don't think it's quite such a large part as some people make it out to be afterall what self respecting musician would want to have an album into which they've had a considerable input where every other track has the singer pining about lost relationships with previous bandmates?

[gcluskey]

Alot of people don't give a shit what some artists are singing about... I wouldn't say Axl would directly target his ex-bandmates in his songs but on reading the lyrics one could easily imagine they could be. It was the same when Pink Floyd released 'A Momentary Lapse of Reason' & 'The Division Bell' without Roger Waters. Some of those songs particularly on TDB sound like David Gilmour is singing about Roger Waters.