Lyrics for One In A Million as interpreted by mike

One In A Million Lyrics
1,2,1,2,3,4
(Whistle)
Guess I needed sometime to get away
I needed some piece of mind
Some piece of mind that'll stay
So I thumbed it down to Sixth and L.A.
Maybe a Greyhound could be my way
Police and Niggers, that's right
Get out of my way
Don't need to buy none of your
Gold chains today
I don't need no bracelets
Clamped in front of my back
Just need my ticket; 'til then
Won't you cut me some slack?
You're one in a million
Yeah, that's what you are
You're one in a million, babe
You're a shooting star
Maybe someday we'll see you
Before you make us cry
You know we tried to reach you
But you were much too high
Much too high, much too high,
Much too high, yes, ow!
Immigrants and faggots
They make no sense to me
They come to our country
And think they'll do as they please
Like start some mini Iran,
Or spread some fuckin' disease
They talk so many goddamn ways
It's all Greek to me
Well some say I'm lazy
And others say that's just me
Some say I'm crazy
I guess I'll always be
But it's been such a long time
Since I knew right from wrong
It's all the means to an end, I
I keep it movin' along
You're one in a million
Oo, you're a shooting star
You're one in a million, babe
You know that you are
Maybe someday we'll see you, Oo
oh, Before you make us cry
You know we tried to reach you
But you were much too high
Much too high, Oo, much too high
Yeah,
Much too high, huh, no, no, oh
Ow!
Radicals and Racists
Don't point your finger at me
I'm a small town white boy
Just tryin' to make ends meet
Don't need your religion
Don't watch that much T.V.
Just makin' my livin', baby
Well that's enough for me
You're one in a million
Yeah that's what you are
You're one in a million, babe
You're a shooting star
Maybe someday we'll see you
Before you make us cry
You know we tried to reach you
But you were much too high
Much too high, ow, much too high,
Much too high, much too high
Yeah, yeee, yeah, yeee, igh!
Ow! Much too high
(Oh, much too high, ah,
much too high, ah, much too high
much too high, ow, much too high)*
*Whispered with gradual fade out

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UseYourIllusion
06-19-2002

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great song, raised a little controversy, but still a great song :)

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pimpin__stoner
09-16-2002

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great.....wut r u on...its fuckin amazing

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Pickles the I
04-14-2003

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If you read Axl's explanation on the cover of GN'R Lies, he explains that the song is an over generalisation and gives all the reasons why he wrote it. It's very true to some extent: I've had Indian shop owners giving me the evil eye in their shops like I don't belong there when he doesn't even speak proper English. I haven't been hassled by the cops, but my bro and his mates were pulled up once by some punk cops who tried to hold just about anything they could against them. And I've never had a dark guy try and sell me stolen goods... but I've had a dark guy in Nike shoes and jacket with a Sony CD player ask me for money for the train saying he's broke. I can only assume those items were stolen. I don't have anything against the groups mentioned in this song, but yeah... I guess I see where Axl's coming from to some extent. Where I live, I can walk through the city streets and a black guy will call me a "white c***", but when I retaliate with "f***head", I'm a racist all of a sudden and I have him and 20 of his mates beating the crap out of me.
I feel sorry for Axl because he felt he needed to write that song.

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inchainsfreak
04-16-2003

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This song is about all the thing that were pissing off axe at the time when he was trying to make. So i tumb it do to sixth and la maybe a grayhound could be my way. This was wrtten when he was poor and trying to make it. did anyone know that axe was in the army? Its true he was a tanker!!!!

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Badfish64
05-06-2003

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This song came out when I was in the 8th grade and I thought it was fucking insane for the lyrical content, and if I said I loved it people would judge me a racist but I am now 26 and I think it is fucking genius. Also I've never seen Mr. Roses Balls but I'm guessing they are fucking huge.

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Charlie the man
04-15-2004

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One of Gn'R's best songs. 5 outta 5.

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heirophant
10-18-2004

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There's a big difference between black people and niggers. Blacks being the calm, intellegent, cool ones that actually have a head on their shoulders. Niggers being the idiotic jackasses that try to hold something against me because i'm white, or try to find any reason to use random violence on someone.

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Sniperwulf 2
11-02-2004

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"Immigrants and faggots
They make no sense to me
They come to our country
And think they'll do as they please
Like start some mini Iran,
Or spread some fuckin' disease
They talk so many goddamn ways
It's all Greek to me"
Can anyone explain this without him being some racist asshole?

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hellfirecan
12-31-2004

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It is not any different than that rap shit out there putting down whites. It goes both way, but when a white guy does it he is a racist.

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shake82
02-07-2005

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ok im not black or white so dont think im being racist.. infact this song isnt really racist if you really think about it.. axl is singing about himself... he is using racial steryotypes and grouping to give the song depth and get his point across... he is basically pissed off with everyone and only wants to rely on himself... if you listen closly enough... talks about being a small town white boy... which is a steryotype of an ignorent redneck... talks about not needing religion which is forced upon many people???.. just enjoy the song and take it with a grain of salt... dont read too deep into it!!!

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larzan
03-04-2005

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I understand if you guys read those lines like it been written in a racist way. but I don't think Axl had something against black men..cause you know, Slash is a goddamn mulatto!

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Dominican Phenom
04-17-2005

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It's the only GN'R song I despise simply because it is attacking me: an immigrant. GN'R is my fave band however because: 1) Axl was probably generalizing and 2) GN'R is much more than just Axl. I agree however with the thing somebody said up there about the difference between a nigger and a black person. And yeah its kind of unfair for a white person to talk shit about blacks but when a black person comes with the "white men cant jump" bullshit they are not racist. It is unfair.

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04-17-2005

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This song isnt about being a racist or whatever... it just shows Axl's dissapointments. He was going trough hell and to me he talks about ppl he sees in his life... he doesn't point a finger at a whole race if you read the words well: Radicals and Racists
Don't point your finger at me
I'm a small town white boy
Just tryin' to make ends meet...
He just was dissapointed cause he's life wasn't going like he imagined it. and musically it's a very good song.

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nothingwrongwithme
05-22-2005

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I feel this song is talking about a guy who gets pissed off at the world, and then kind of thinks he's above it. Then there is what people are saying to him, with the whole your one in a million deal, it's like he's thinking he's better than everyone else everywhere, angry and hateful because people haven't treated him with respect. People are saying "hold on there, your feeling pretty high and mighty, but come back down a bit before you end up getting yourself hurt" all the racial slurs and such are just showing his despise for the HUMAN race, not any one in particular. The line about being a smalltown whiteboy is like saying that you judge me and hate me for what i am, well, i hate all of you. He hates the "boxes" that people are put in, and doesn't feel like it's fair, but if they're going to do it to him, he's going to give it right back. I really like this song, and listen to it almost daily, but i don't think it's meant to disrespect anybody, but more show them that disrespect is there, that people judge each other.

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Farhad
05-28-2005

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I hate axl because of this song.coz he insulted all the iranians by this lyric and i'm persian too!

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Philadelphia Eagles
07-07-2005

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Fuck this song and fuck GNR, especially Axl fucking Rose. And fuck all you homophobic, racist dipshits.

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mayorbill11
07-09-2005

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I agree with 'nothingwrongwithme's assesment of the song.

also, not liking the song because he talks shit about iranians is a stupid reason, there are rap songs i like that talk shit about white people, even though they're talking about rich white people, i should still probably be offended, but grow the fuck up. :\

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Sniperwulf 2
07-16-2005

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"but I don't think Axl had something against black men..cause you know, Slash is a goddamn mulatto!"
Actually, it was either on Behind the Music or the Story of: that Slash admitted that he was offended by the lyrics.

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super_unknown_
08-30-2005

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The lyrics are perfectly clear. In typical gnr "I don't give a f***" style he's saying all the taboo things that people think all the time, but are afraid to say. It's a great song and much needed in todays over-pc world where it's ok for one ethnic group to blurt predjudiced slurs to their hearts content while the other has to bend over backwards to please them. In fact, it was ahead of its time. I think the song is aimed at racists. If you say "don't be racist" then those people aren't going to listen to you. If you come down to their level and say what they're thinking, then you've got your attention. After singing his racist comments to anonymous individuals, he then points out to them in the chorus "You're one in a million", which to me is saying that every "nigger" he comes across is one in a million, and he's not going to let that one ignoramus bother him. I don't think he was extending the word "nigger" to black people in general, and as the front of the album cover points out, he was extremely generalizing and wasn't trying to offend. Because this is what racists do - they generalize one experience to a whole race. I used "nigger" as an example - the same applies for "immigrants", "police" & "faggots". As for slash saying he was offended, I saw that program too, but these days Axl and Slash have fallen so far out with each other that they'll say anything to get a dig in.

This is yet another great song from a truely great band.
PS - I love the way he confirms what he just said with "that's right" after saying the word "niggers", obviously well aware of how people will react... "did he just say niggers???"

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Farhad
09-17-2005

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mayorbill11! you're a fucking dumbass

I just said: I hate Axl, NOT THE FUCKING SONG!
In fact, i'm in love with this song! particularly it's solo!
Can u do me a favor?
First read the comments properly, then open your mouth like a pregnant cow, PLEASE!

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jetziger
10-09-2005

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One In A Million is quite probably the best protest song ever to come out of rock music. Axl's criticisms of LA (and by definition, American and Western society) are acidic and spot-on. He was attacked for bucking the politically-correct orthodoxy and daring to speak the truth (which we are all thinking, anyway). On that track Axl is a voice crying out in the spiritual wilderness.

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rocknroll
10-11-2005

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amazing song! Axl has alot of balls and wrote some very smart but provocative stuff. way to go

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in_the_secret_show
12-09-2005

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i don't know, pisses me off. i'm not black, i'm not gay, i'm not an immigrant.. but it just does.

god you don't write a song like that when your GUITARIST is black man.
and it pissed slash off.

axl kinda pisses me off in general. well.. more like, saddens me. i don't know, i LIKE guns n roses stuff, but i feel like he kinda betrayed the rest of the band and all.

i was always more of a slash person.

i know the n word supposedly wasn't pointed at black people, but fuck, he put immigrants and gay people didn't have a right to be in america. what the HELL?

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in_the_secret_show
12-09-2005

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i'll give credit to him for being honest. but i won't pretend i agree. or like it.

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in_the_secret_show
12-09-2005

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and maybe black people have quite a bit going against white people to have a RIGHT to say shit about us.

they weren't holding us slaves were they?

150 years ago isn't all too long. despite what anyone says.

and that'll be all i say. have fun commenting against me. :)

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