Take me down to the paradise city
Where the grass is green
And the girls are pretty
Such brilliance begs one question.
"is that Bill Shakespeare?"
That was a rock anthem song.....
Not supposed to be deep
I have heard their basic themes in many bands before them. Yeah, they boozed, drugged and partied but until your drummer or lead singer kills themself then you are a lightweight group of posers
You *do* know that the chorus of that song started as a joke, right?
Here’s a better example of Rose’s poetry. It didn’t get released until the Use Your Illusion albums, but it was written about the same time as AFD:
Just like children hiding in a closet
Can’t tell what’s going on outside
Sometimes we’re so far off the beaten track
We’ll get taken for a ride
By a parlor trick or some words of wit
A hidden hand up a sleeve
To think the one you love
could hurt you now
Is a little hard to believe
But everybody, darling, sometimes
Bites the hand that feeds