Lyrics for Dead Horse as interpreted by mike

Dead Horse Lyrics
Sick of this life
Not that you'd care
I'm not the only one with
whom these feelings I share
Nobody understands, quite why we're here
We're searchin' for answers
That never appear
But maybe if I looked real hard I'd
I'd see you're tryin' too
To understand this life,
that we're all going through
(Then when she said she was gonna like
wreck my car... I didn't know what to do)
Sometimes I feel like I'm beatin' a dead horse
An I don't know why you'd be bringin' me down
I'd like to think that our love's
worth a tad more
It may sound funny but you'd think by now
I'd be smilin'
I guess some things never change
Never change
I met an old cowboy
I saw the look in his eyes
Somethin' tells me he's been here before
'Cause experience makes you wise
I was only a small child
When the thought first came to me
That I'm a son of a gun and the gun of a son
That brought back the devil in me
But sometimes I feel like
I'm beatin' a dead horse
An I don't know why you'd be bringin' me down
I'd like to think that our love's
worth a tad more
It may sound funny but you'd think by now
I'd be smilin'
I guess some things never change
Never change
I ain't quite what you'd call an old soul
Still wet behind the ears
I been around this track a couple o' times
But now the dust is startin' to clear
Oh yeah!!!
Sometimes I feel like I'm beatin' a dead horse
An I don't know why you'd be bringin' me down
I'd like to think that our love's
worth a tad more
It may sound funny but you'd think by now
I'd be smilin'
Ooh yeah I'd be smilin'
No way I'd be smilin'
Ooh smilin'
Sick of this life
Not that you'd care
I'm not the only one
With whom these feelings I share

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AeroLed286
04-06-2003

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I like how it starts off like a quiet number but then gets nice and loud. Then it slips back to Mono quietness.

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hattie
05-08-2003

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i agree, its great at the beginning with some nice acoustic and vocals and then goes into riproaring electric an shouting. great contrast GREAT song!

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cougar10
12-10-2004

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This is definetly one of my favoritest Guns N Roses song. It rocks.

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locutus
02-17-2006

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@kasey: what stuff are you on? I would like to try it ... well, maybe.

It's about how sometimes you feel like you are trying to make it ... in life ... in love but there's no result. You just don't feel it's worth even trying any more. But then if you try enough (times) you just might succed (... I been around this track a couple o' times, But now the dust is startin' to clear).
This song has a great powerfull drive. I like it.

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gunnergirl89
02-19-2006

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This song is clearly about Axl's ever struggling relationships and his struggles for acceptance in life. If you look at the time line in which the song was released it was when GNR took its first real turn for the worst and its also when Axl's second marriage failed. It is also when he was diagnosed with depression and all that stuff I mean he's suicidal at that point in his life. "Sick of this Life, Not that You'd care. I'm not the only one with whom these feelings I share"

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ColdenScence
02-28-2006

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AXL PLAYING GUITAR ??????!!!!!!!!!!
FUNNY JOKE !!!!
HA... HA... HA...

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Regos the Sane
06-16-2006

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It's obviously a recorded suicide note. Listen to the ending- the song finishes, then he stops the tape and rewinds it.

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mikeythings
07-31-2006

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agree with gunnergirl, think its fitting it runs fluidly into coma, a song which i think is a suicide attempt

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deafmusiclover
08-07-2006

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This WHOLE album runs so fluidly together..especially the last two songs. I like how Axl sings that he's "still wet behind the ears" yet the band now is one of the better bands in history.

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x-euthanasia-x
01-20-2007

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Oh god i love this song it's really emotional, axl displays his knowlege of his own naiveity, and "Sick of this life
Not that you'd care
I'm not the only one with
whom these feelings I share" almost seems to scream out that axl realises some of the people who hear his music will not understand or empathise with him, yet "I'm not the only one with
whom these feelings I share" says someone out there has always felt the same. Axl sings about wasting his time, and i sorta agree that it may be focused on a suicide attempt

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spooner113
07-08-2007

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its about being depressed after trying hard in a rough time but seeing no progress.
great song badly under rated

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Macdaddy Mj
08-17-2007

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dude...he is playing guitar at the beginning, I thought it was strange first, but he is. anyway, i dont like the beginning, it scared me away from listening, but then...i fell in love with the song.

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coldcomfort87
09-17-2007

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apparently no one grasps the idea of nihilism. Axl isn't looking for acceptance in life, and its not about trying enough times till you succeed either. that's not nihilism, Axl is a true nihilist, he was saying he sees it in people in their eye, saw it in the eye of a stranger when he was a child, what is it he saw. He saw the utter pointlessness of life when compared to death. A true nihilist doesn't get depressed about shit not working out, they don't care. It's just that when things don't work out, that's when people look harder and see what he's been hiding even when he was "happy." This song is about how he finally realized himself a nihilist, and he speaks to the audience when he says "It may sound funny but you'd think by now; I'd be smilin'"
he's saying that if by now he's not seeing a point in life he never will, and by stating that it "might sound funny" he puts emphasis into "not that you care" This statement and tone is expecting YOU the audience, and the rest of the world not to understand him or the "others" he's run into.

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thankgodforbeef21
07-14-2008

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Axl Rose is a lyrical genious. I understand him so well. The best people are cursed with the worst things. With his strugles that this song clearly spells out and everything. I love you Axl :)

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the_music_man
10-16-2008

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I can't describe how much i relate to this song. I think Axl may be the most underated lyricsmith of all time. He is a f ucking genius.

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