"Nightrain"
(Music: Stradlin, McKagan, Rose, Slash / Lyrics: McKagan, Rose)
We were living in the Gardener Street studio, where we had one little box of a room. We had no money but we could dig up a buck to go down to this liquor store. It happened to have this great wine called Nightrain that would fuck you up for a dollar. Five dollars and you'd be gone. We lived off this stuff.
Duff - Hit Parader March 1988

Lyrics:

Loaded like a freight train
Flyin' like an aeroplane
Feelin' like a space brain
One more time tonight

Well I'm a west coast struttin'
One bad mother
Got a rattlesnake suitcase
Under my arm
Said I'm a mean machine
Been drinkin' gasoline
An honey you can make my motor hum
I got one chance left
In a nine live cat
I got a dog eat dog sly smile
I got a Molotov cocktail with a match to go
I smoke my cigarette with style
An I can tell you honey
You can make my money tonight

Wake up late honey put on your clothes
Take your credit card to the liquor store
That's one for you and two for me by tonight
I'll be
Loaded like a freight train
Flyin' like an aeroplane
Feelin' like a space brain
One more tonight

I'm on the nightrain
Bottoms up
I'm on the nightrain
Fill my cup
I'm on the nightrain
Ready to crash and burn
I never learn
I'm on the nightrain
I love that stuff
I'm on the nightrain
I can never get enough
I'm on the nightrain
Never to return - no

Loaded like a freight train
Flyin' like an aeroplane
Feelin' like a space brain
One more tonight

I'm on the nightrain
An I'm lookin' for some
I'm on the nightrain
So's I can leave this slum
I'm on the nightrain
And I'm ready to crash an' burn
I'm on the nightrain
Bottoms up
I'm on the nightrain
Fill my cup
I'm on the nightrain

Whoa yeah
I'm on the nightrain
Love that stuff
I'm on the nightrain
An I can never get enough
Ridin' the nightrain
I guess I
I guess, I guess, I guess I never learn

On the nightrain
Float me home
Ooh I'm on the nightrain
Ridin' the nightrain
Never to return
Nightrain

 

Release info:

Nightrain

Released: September 2, 1989 (UK)

UK Chart peak: 17
US Chart peak: 93 (The Billboard Hot 100)

GEF 60 7" (UK)
Nightrain / Reckless Life

GEF 60T 12"
Nightrain / Reckless Life /
Knockin' On Heaven's Door (live)

GEF 60CD 3" CD
Nightrain / Reckless Life /
Knockin' On Heaven's Door (live)

GEF 60P Case-shaped picture
disc with sticker
Nightrain / Reckless Life


"Nightrain" from "Appetite For Destruction",
"Reckless Life" from "Live ?!*@ Like A Suicide" and "GN'R Lies".
"Knockin' On Heaven's Door" recorded live at the
Marquee in London, England 28th June 1987



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