estranged

ESTRANGED (9:23)
Performed by Guns N’ Roses
Written by W. Axl Rose
From the Geffen album, Use Your Illusion II
Released 1991

(Soft piano tune repeating)

When you’re talkin’ to yourself, and nobody’s home
You can fool yourself
You came in this world alone
(Whisper) Alone

(Killer guitar riffs)

So nobody ever told you, baby
How it was gonna be
So what’ll happen to you, baby
I guess we’ll have to wait and see

1, 2

Old at heart, but I’m only 28
And I’m much too young to let love break my heart
Young at heart, but it’s getting much too late
To find ourselves so far apart

I don’t know how you’re s’posed to find me lately
An’ what more could you ask from me
How could you say that I never needed you?
When you took everthing…
Said you took everything from me
Ooo, I,I, I

(Killer guitar riffs)

Young at heart, an’ it gets so hard to wait
When no one I know, can seem to help me now
Old at heart, but I mustn’t hesitate
If I’m to find my own way out

Still talkin’ to myself and nobody’s home
(Whispers) Alone

(Killer Guitar Riffs)

So nobody ever told us, baby
How it was gonna to be
So what’ll happen to us, baby
I guess we’ll have to wait and see

(Piano solo)

When I find out all the reasons
Maybe I’ll find another way
Find another day
With all the changing seasons of my life
Maybe I’ll get it right, next time
And now that you’ve been broken down
Got your head out of the clouds
You’re back down on the ground
And you don’t talk so loud
And you don’t walk so proud
Anymore
An’ what for

(Guitar Solo)

Well I jumped into the river, too many times to make it home
I’m out here on my own, an’ driftin’ all alone
If it doesn’t show, give it time
To read between the lines
‘Cause I see the storm, getting closer
And the waves, they get so high
Seems everything we’ve ever known’s here
Why must it drift away, and die?

(Guitar Solo)

I’ll never find anyone to replace you
Guess I’ll have to make it through
This time
Oh, this time
Without you

I knew the storm was getting closer
And all my friends said I was high
But, everything we’ve ever known’s here
I never wanted it to die