Catcher In The Rye Lyrics:

[newgnr]

By far the best new song lyrically.  I think if we heard the final version of this song, it would be better than the final version of Better or TWAT or IRS.  Love this song.

[BabyGorilla]

Are you guys still bickering such mundane things as which syllable does the first word in the second-line of the first stanza start with? I thought we had moved on from that and started a discussion into the meaning behind the words.

I'm a little disappointed (although not surprised) that a certain somebody who called me ignorant about the song's meaning has yet to speak his mind about his theories about the lyrics yet I have written about a page of my interpretation and I don't even like the song.

[Jonathan]

Possible update to the last stanza:

Took our innocence, beyond our steps,
sometimes we only think we got it all when no one else is there...

That must be it, thanks.

[Mobenrad]

Catcher In The Rye is by far a great piece. It starts off with a piano riff that happens to be a bitch-slap to the face that makes you think "QUEEN". The great part of this song is that it has no real guitar riff. It is always changing.

Longer review coming soon.

[Olorin]

Possible update to the last stanza:

Took our innocence, beyond our steps,
sometimes we only think we got it all when no one else is there...

That must be it, thanks.

Yeah that sounds more like it.

Although I think it is " Took our innocence beyond our stares" or "Took our innocence beyond odd stares"

[Siliconmessiah]

Yeah, but "Beyond my stance" makes sense...

[ssiscool]

i prefer this song to the others 

[Mal Brossard]

Possible update to the last stanza:

Took our innocence, beyond our steps,
sometimes we only think we got it all when no one else is there...

That must be it, thanks.

The last line doesn't sound right to me.  "All when no one else is there" doesn't fit with the pause that's in the song.

I have it down as "Sometimes you only think you got it while alone (pause) and changed."  Whatever the word after "and" is, it starts with a J or a CH sound.

This is one that'll be argued over until it finally comes out in album form.

[shaun]

Catcher in the Rye is the only leaked song i don't like. Better, IRS, There was a Time are superior. Dare i say it, Silkworms had more going for it then Catcherin the Rye.

The track Chinese Democracy is another track i dislike.

At the up and coming NY shows i sure hope they play the Blues and Madagascar, as it'll be interesting to see if these songs have been adjusted in any way since 2002.

[Scree]

Actually I found CITR the most intelligent of the leaked tracks. To me it not only deals with the literatusre in question but also looks at the Lennon/Chapman aspect of it. Perhaps people aren't familiar with the linterature and this leads to the boring aspect.

The song I feels DOES deal with the aspect of "teenage insanity" or what is thought to be of it. If you haven't read the book do so. The only bad reviews of it I have seen or heard are that the person "didn't get it" which is fair enough. I could relate to the book on quite a few levels so thats what brought this song out above the rest. Axl really caught the feeling of it and the whole real life incident I thought.