Reinventing Axl Rose

We want a band that plays loud and hard every night

That doesn't care how many people are counted at the door

That would travel one million miles and ask for nothing

But a plate of food and a place to rest

Strike chords that cut like a knife

It would mean so much more than a T-shirt or a ticket stub

They would stop at nothing short of a massacre

And everyone would leave with the memory there was no place else in the world

This was where they always belonged

We would dance like no one was watching

With one fist in the air

Our arenas just basements and bookstores across an underground America

With this fire we could light

With this fire we could

Two, three, four

Just gimme a scene where the music is free

And the beer is not the life of the party

There's no need to shit talk or impress

'Cause honesty and emotion are not looked down upon

And every promise that's made and bragged

Is meant if not kept

We'd do it all because we have to, not because we know why

Beyond a gender, race, and class, we could find what really holds us back

Let's make everybody sing

That they are the beginning and ending of everything

And we all are stronger

Than everything they taught us that we should fear