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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Neon Black
07-29-2007

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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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I'm not a racist at least i don't think i i'm.....but

how long are you going to bring that up no one alive now was a slave and if they were they have my deepest sympathy but honestly you cant complain about that forever since you have no idea what it was like to be a slave it makes no sence to complain about how your great grand dad was a slave..sure it was horrible and it was totally inhuman but did it ever happen to you? no im not saying i do but for gods sake find something better to complain about

im part idian thats like me saying i hate all the white ppl for cheating my ppl our of land

you ****** white ppl you gave my people a bag of beeds for hundreds of acres of land then u killed us for no reason once so ever....do you think im pissed about that...nope move on with your life your not goign to be happy if your bitter about stuff that didn't even happen in your dads lifetime....

ok this song is one of my favs by guns... I have never heard of a voice like axls hes amazing

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mallorypmm
08-16-2007

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This song says what Axl thought. He is just being honest. We all have a little "race pride" in us. If you are black, you like blacks the best, if you are white, you like whites the best....it is normal to like who you are the best as well as your race. He is just saying how he feels about people that are different and how they treat him and how he is just sik of it and doesnt care.

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Macdaddy Mj
08-17-2007

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its not fucking racist, but anyone should be able to say the nigger, cuz...why should i not be able to say a word? have a lot of black friends, but...i think blacks take it too seriously, ill say it loud and say it proud, cuz this is america bitch, go cry about it somewhere else, and dont try to kick my ass over a fuckin word. freedom of speech. i sang this song at my school talent show...hehe, got mad respect from a number of ppl, who got my message, i was lucky

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Looka_gnr
10-09-2007

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http://youtube.com/watch?v=MF4wdJsrbdY

i think he explains it there pretty well

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shylock78
11-01-2007

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Slash isn't all black. He's half Jewish.

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kittehxkitteh
11-01-2007

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Some of you guys are taking this the wrong way... God. Who cares if he said something about Iranians or African Americans or Fags... Who cares it's a great song. I guess the people talking shit just don't get it. I mean, if you grew up in L.A. you'd totally understand. That's how it is here... Some one calls you a white piece of shit, you slip and say "yeah whatever nigga" and you are a racist but for some reason they aren't even thought they started it... Yeah I said it. That's the thing about racism. White people are always getting put on the spot for it, even though in my eyes, minorities are more racists than whites. Think about it, on TV shows, in real life. I mean, just being a light skinned hispanic, I get spoken shit to all day. Apparently I'm not "brown enough." Fuck that. Same with African Americans... Just because I'm light skinned they wanna talk shit... but they wont say anything to my "brown" friends. It's fucked up. But it's life. Get used to it. You will never make anyone happy.

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mikeydhh
11-29-2007

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Yes, he was expressing anger. To call the song prejudicial would be hasty - he even later says "radicals and racists, don't point your finger at me...". He's expressing anger and the fact that the one bright spot out there, that "one in a million" is a girl that's no longer in his reach, regardless of the reason. He's just upset that the one person, amongst all the idiocy of the urban life, can't be around for him. This girl he looks fondly upon is likely wasting away, and he even says "maybe someday we'll see you before you make us cry", assuming that she'll die first. Reminiscent of "Jane Says" by Jane's Addiction.

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convexconcave
01-19-2008

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Can't we all just get along?

This song is him giving his views, which would be perceived by many people as racist and homophobic etc. When he says 'don't point your finger at me' he is telling people who are ready to attach him for the views he has just expressed to back off. He does have the right to freedom of speech after all even if the things he says are deeply offensive and ignorant.

I think as well as a big 'fuck you' to political correctness this song was probably intended to raise loads of controversy and publicity for GnR.

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ChrisG
02-03-2008

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This is a highly emotional song for me. I have no clue as to what motivated Axl to lash out at the world, but the one thing I value above all else in art is sincerity. This tune paints a picture describing exactly the emotions of some "small town white boy" as he first sets foot in L.A., and encounters people and situations he is profoundly unfamiliar with and understandably frightened of (Rose is originally from small town Indiana).
Even if it is not autobiographical (it probably is), it is a stark portrait of a young man who has never interacted with anyone who wasn't white protestant and is freaked out by his first exposure to the hostile and apathetic "big city." Writers such as Cormac McCarthy, William Burroughs, and J G Ballard often wrote about psychopaths and the nadirs of human degradation, but that did not mean the authors themselves were sadistic, violent beasts. The object of art, so the saying goes, is to hold a mirror up to reality. "One in a Million" reflects a certain reality, not necessarily shared by the majority, nakedly and without the filter of political correctness.
Not all white people have it made in the shade. A lot of racism, in fact, arises from the anger that poor, disenfranchised whites feel. You spend your whole life hearing about how America is the greatest land of opportunity the world has ever seen, and yet you're still shit-poor, your family business reliant upon moonshine and methamphetamine, and people who've been in the country a month are treating you like scum? Damned right you're going to be angry and not entirely sure who to blame for your lot in life.
I don't care if this was purposefully controversial; it was poignant when I was twelve years old, it is godd---ded poignant now.

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Yoorayneeum238
02-03-2008

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To everyone who feels that any group has "the right" to be racist against any other group, well, you yourself are an ignorant racist.

My family immigrated to the United States from Germany at the turn of the 20th century. None of my ancestors owned slaves in America, obviously, and more than likely were slaves themselves over a thousand years ago.

But I guess black people who had ancestors owned by white people who have no connection to me can be as racist as they want to to me, right? Even though I can in no possible way be part of the oppressive group.

With biased hate-crime laws and AFFIRMATIVE ACTION, black people are no longer an oppressed group. They are given so many advantages it isn't funny.

Axl's controversial lyrics bring light to these facts, and expose "reverse racists".

I am not racist, I feel everyone should be equal. But stereotypes, advantages based on race, and ignorance fuel racism, and steps must be taken to eliminate such threats, then everyone can reach equality, and racism will all but dissapear in America, and the world.

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frobishlumpkin
04-06-2008

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This song isnt racist in any way, there isnt any reason to debate about recism. The point, IMO, is how people use their origin (white boy from a small town) to justify their ignorance. All of the stuff he sasy that is controversial is supposed to come off that way, and I dont think under that context there is a problem with the word nigger.

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TouchMyPegina
05-28-2008

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I love people that write "I'm not a racist, but...". If you aren't a racist you know how wrong these lyrics are. There would be no "BUT...." Axl's not that tough. If he was such a tough guy he wouldn't have denied the actual meaning of this song and did so many duets with elton john to prove he's not a homophobe. He would have said "yes, the meanings right there, don't like it, i dont care.". That's one of the things I hate, axl rose is one of the biggest moron in rock n' roll history, but on the contra...one of the greatest frontmans, songwriter and a kickass piano player. I think he's Great musician and I love GN'R(this band was the first band I heard at age 9, I'm 19, and I still love 'em) , but I refuse to be some moronic fan that stand up for his racist, homophobic and womanizing lyrics. Sometimes you have leave the personal feeling at home to REALLY enjoy the music.

Oh and..The acustic guitar solo is great! I can listen to that over and over agian. ^_^

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Mr. Brownstone
06-09-2008

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I honestly don't think this song is racist at all... I think it is probably a pretty acurate interprataition, of taking the bus in East LA.

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Mr. Brownstone
06-09-2008

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I thought the second verse was hilarious... " Immigrants and faggots!"

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Ummagumma69
06-14-2008

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Probably the best song from "Lies".

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skibum8713
06-14-2008

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This isn't Randy Newman. It's not a character. It's not ironic. It's not pointed or satirircal. Axl Rose is just a shitty lyricist and a racist homophobe.

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Ummagumma69
08-01-2008

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By the lyric, 'Much too high', hes probably referring to drugs.

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dark_eyez_666
09-03-2008

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it's about the ways that people think about life.

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dark_eyez_666
10-14-2008

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this is a dark sarcastic song, it's also telling about the different views that people have, with positive and negative involved, it's about life, this is like something that I would write, it's not meaning that Axl's racist or homophobic, for those of you that can't understand dark sarcasm, get a brain, this song is basically a lesson but half of the "American"
population won't get it and will get it mixed up, not unusual for people today, why the fuck am I the only one on here who understands? jesus-fuckin'-christ.

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Cleanruss
01-28-2009

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Look this song is easy to understand.
Axl is a small town white boy who moved to L.A. (a very busy melting pot of all different kinds of people)
basically what hes saying is, he needs a break from this fast life thats going on in L.A.
Some people can hang and others cant, Axl couldnt ,so he got on a greyhound and left to get away from it all.
All the racist stuff is how he sees everyone,
the thing with the niggers selling him chains and bracelets
he looks at is as "fuckin nigger trying to sell me stolen shit"
but he doesnt know they are stolen, the black guy is trying to make money
so he can make ends meet
the immigrants who come to this country, join up with their people cuz they are not used to american ways
its tough to make it here, especially when you are a foreigner, they have their culture, but dont want to be oppressed by their countries dictators and communism
he sees it as them "changing america for the worse"
when in fact this country is founded by immigrants and got its start by immigrants
the faggot part, he sees it as them spreading disease
well straight people catch aids and hiv and herpes too
so hes just stupid about that, hes probably just homophobic

he even labels himself
as a simple small town white boy.
hes mad at the world, he feels hes above everyone else
to me when he sings

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

to me it means that he has friends or family that care about him and they too also deal with the everyday shit that he deals with, only thing is hes letting it get to him
hes on a whole other level then they are, he is fed up with it!
they say maybe someday we'll see the real you axl not this crazy racist axl who ,maybe, says something to the wrong person and gets killed
we're trying to help you and understand that this is life, but he doesnt want to hear it, hes mad at the world!

to me its a great song, cuz we've all been there.

but you never can tell with axl cuz he became a nut in the early 90's
he thought he was the voice of a generation, and after a while people got tired of hearing his bullshit

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WhiteDeath
03-09-2009

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Not to be racist, but i love the song, and i dont find anything wrong with it. It's completly true, immigrants comin in our counry takin over, and queers spreadin diseases. Most rappers are racist dick holes, saying cracker all the time, but they dont get in trouble cuz that would be racist towards African Americans. It's not fair really. I'm not saying i hate other races. I have friends that match the colors of the rainbow. I'm not racist. In fact, im so not racist, i call my black friend cracka.

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JaivonBrown
04-04-2009

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The way I see it Axl is talking about the people that bothered him on his way to Los Angeles. And if you listen to the chorus it will probably tell you that he thinks a girl is above all of the people he's talking about incluiding himself. And he also said before a welcome to the jungle performance that some guy tried to fuck him in a hotel in st. louis. And if a straight dude experinced that he would have some bad things to say about gay people. I don't know what to say about the immigrant stuff.

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Thundermane
05-07-2009

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I agree with Sniperwulf, "Immigrants and faggots..." and so on, is just racist, fuck axel rose.
There is no excuse or compromise against it, he is an asshole.

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californiagirl
06-17-2009

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honestly how ignorant can some of you be?
leaving comments like "the difference between blacks and ni****s'
like DO YOU NOT THINK?
EVERYONE IS A GOOD PERSON.
YOU MAKE MISTAKES, AND SOMETIMES YOU LEARN FROM THEM, SOMETIMES YOU DON'T.
PEOPLE( AND BY PEOPLE I MEAN ANY FUCKING RACE INCLUDING YOUR OWN.) FUCK YOU OVER, SHIT HAPPENS.
YOU GET OVER IT. ITS APART OF FUCKING LIFE. everybody is their own fucking person, don't DEFINE a person from their race.
and i don't care what fucking colour you are. if i hate YOU and your white, I JUST HATE YOU. i dont hate your fucking colour.
like honestly, i don't believe in colour. all i see is the person

ps. how long is it going to take to get this through peoples heads?
there are different races in this world, face the fucking facts.
obviously everyone was put on this world for a fucking reason.

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