To: Axl
You were just a child when you ran away
Just thinking about where your heart will take
Young and naive searching for that rockstar dream
That cost you so much just to get at the peak
Started out with nothing more than friends
Even with some issues you still made it day by day
A small garage is all you had, no food, no home, no place to hide
Along your mates still made it out,
Even when things got tough no one backed out
Beautiful lyrics and melodies but still unknown
How could that be possible?
Still I couldn’t have known
So much talent just in one place
And people still missed it what a shame
One thing I knew is that sound
Was something still not found
A diamond in the rough that is what it is
That looks like a rock but the real piece its inside
All bands trying so hard,
To replicate that unusual sound
So unique, so profound
Lyrics that got to everyone’s heart
Even the strongest weren’t so smart
Through melodies so fascinating and unheard
Broke through every wall and standard ever made
Combining genres that don’t even mix
Like ice cream and bacon that don’t even click
A rock ballad who would’ve thought?
Something so beautiful and powerful
Like a rose and a gun
But nothing lasts forever
An unfortunate bitter fact
That is inevitable
Even if we wished
Friends and foes fell along the way
But you didn’t care and kept going anyways
All of them wanting to move on
Go for different paths to go alone
Still you forced them to stay
Keeping that fake illusion
That wasn’t working anyways
Everything just got worse
Drugs and music don’t mix well, not at all
Kick everyone out, when it didn’t work
Eventually they all left with no remorse
You alone on top of the world
Kept the name of the gun and the rose
Living the illusion it was the same as before
Everyone else living their lives
Being happy and not in a lie
Even though everything went downhill
Your memories will remain forever still
People loved you for who you were
For the emotion and the adrenaline that they felt
Concerts and tours all around the world
It wasn’t the same as before
Looking for fame anywhere else
But the memory still lies where everyone was there
One day lying in the bright blue sky
Reminiscing of my childhood memories
Your beautiful memory just lives on,
I will keep the nice things and forget about the worse ones.
Your music connected people even those with nothing in common,
Like north and south, yet they lie in the same globe
That bright blue sky and a sweet childhood will remain by
Young and naive, that is what I was
When my dad told me sweet child o mine
Don’t cry no more, this illusion you so desperately want
In this November rain is just not worth crying for