We are right to know!

[Mysterious_Guy]

Every poet needs to think of someone/something to write about poetry and feelings; they even can use all kind of words to make it right but i wonder if this time axl?s just using his imagination to write new gnr?s lyrics? Maybe he?s inspirited by somebody these days? Does it all have to do with old memories or something like that? This new album will contain good lyrics like the old stuff? i ever knew axl might shock the planet with his lyrics but will it be the same this year??

 It may sound just like a simple question to dig the poetry of axl but I?m so sure that it?s very interesting to analyze the new gnr songs, especially when we all will pay for!

[King Sand]

Thank you!  This post made me laugh!

Oh, what is "poesy"? 

[Mysterious_Guy]

Thank you!? This post made me laugh!

Oh, what is "poesy"??

poetry 

[Skunk]

I'm really big into poetry and words and i've always loved Axl's lyrics. There was a quote from Tommy a while back about Axl's lyrics being better on the new stuff than the old, and some people thought maybe he was just comparing it to more AFD than UYI stuff because of what they play live, but it made me wonder. I definitely feel a lyrical difference in the new songs, from OMG on. Maybe the difference isn't as big as from AFD to UYI to some, but i'm not talking about a new level of deep or heartfelt (because some of the UYI lyrics are as deep as they get), but more like a stylistic difference. The old lyrics i think were more often in an everyman voice, and now Axl isn't afraid to be a little cryptic or abstract, which i like.
I think you'll see some really simple lyrics, espescially in choruses, the kind that make you wonder how nobody has written them before, but then you'll also see some really complicated expressions too.
I think Breakdown is a great example of Axl at the top of his game lyrically - obviously there are many others, but it seems representative. However, when you listen to the new songs it's not just the same ability to turn a phrase and hit on powerful expressions, but there also is a new sense of poetry and even layered meaning. There are deep and obscure allusions, falun gong, bedouins, catcher in the rye, etc. Also there's a kind of metaphor that sometimes runs a little deeper, and i think the chorus of Madagascar shows that off. Then in some lines he even shows a kind of distinct voice, a way of phrasing that stands on it's own... correct me if i get it wrong, but the line i'm thinking of in The Blues is something like "what i thought was beautiful don't live inside of you anymore." That's an amazing line.

So yeah, i'm excited, and there better be liner-notes! 

[Axlfreek]

roses are red,
violets are blue,
axl is a good poet,
and so are you.

[Mysterious_Guy]

I'm really big into poetry and words and i've always loved Axl's lyrics. There was a quote from Tommy a while back about Axl's lyrics being better on the new stuff than the old, and some people thought maybe he was just comparing it to more AFD than UYI stuff because of what they play live, but it made me wonder. I definitely feel a lyrical difference in the new songs, from OMG on. Maybe the difference isn't as big as from AFD to UYI to some, but i'm not talking about a new level of deep or heartfelt (because some of the UYI lyrics are as deep as they get), but more like a stylistic difference. The old lyrics i think were more often in an everyman voice, and now Axl isn't afraid to be a little cryptic or abstract, which i like.
I think you'll see some really simple lyrics, espescially in choruses, the kind that make you wonder how nobody has written them before, but then you'll also see some really complicated expressions too.
I think Breakdown is a great example of Axl at the top of his game lyrically - obviously there are many others, but it seems representative. However, when you listen to the new songs it's not just the same ability to turn a phrase and hit on powerful expressions, but there also is a new sense of poetry and even layered meaning. There are deep and obscure allusions, falun gong, bedouins, catcher in the rye, etc. Also there's a kind of metaphor that sometimes runs a little deeper, and i think the chorus of Madagascar shows that off. Then in some lines he even shows a kind of distinct voice, a way of phrasing that stands on it's own... correct me if i get it wrong, but the line i'm thinking of in The Blues is something like "what i thought was beautiful don't live inside of you anymore." That's an amazing line.

So yeah, i'm excited, and there better be liner-notes!?

anyway i'm still afraid of robin, the guy seems to be crazier than axl, he's been writing a lot of songs, so sooner or later the band will have another point of view that'll disappoint the fans, I guess axl should think about it before it?s getting more and more weird, God only knows what?ll happen!