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Re: Lyric discrepancies in the CD booklet
The last verse in Chinese Democracy in Rock Band:
You think you got it all locked up inside
And if you feed 'em enough they'll die
It's like a walk in the park from a cell
Now you're keeping your own kind of hell
When your Great Wall rots blame yourself
While their arms reach out for your help
And you're out of time
Re: Lyric discrepancies in the CD booklet
Handsome B. Wonderful wrote:The last verse in Chinese Democracy in Rock Band:
You think you got it all locked up inside
And if you feed 'em enough they'll die
It's like a walk in the park from a cell
Now you're keeping your own kind of hell
When your Great Wall rots blame yourself
While their arms reach out for your help
And you're out of time
oh i thought we were offering examples of what we thought they could be or what we were hearing. rb's seem to be right on. mine seemed close to it and hadn't been mentioned yet.
Chinese Democracy wrote:While their arms reach up for your help
how about..."and they're all freaked out for your health" ?
Re: Lyric discrepancies in the CD booklet
I'll edit this post as things go along!
Chinese Democracy:
It don't really matter
Gonna find out for yourself
No, it don't really matter
Gonna leave this thing to
Somebody else
If they were missionaries
Real-time visionaries
Sittin' in a Chinese stew
To view my disinfatuation
I know that I'm a classic case
Watch my disenchanted face
Blame it on the Falun Gong
They seen the end
And you can't hold on now
'Cause it would take a lot more hate than you
To end the fascination
Even with an iron fist
More than you got to rule the nation
When all I've got is precious time
It don't really matter
Guess I'll keep it to myself
Said it don't really matter
It's time I look around
For somebody else
'Cause it would take a lot more time than you
Have got for masturbation
Even with your iron fist
More than you got to rule the nation
When all we've got is precious time
More than you've got to fool a nation
When all I've got is precious time
It don't really matter
I guess you'll find out for yourself
No, it don't really matter
So you can hear it now from somebody else
You think you got it all locked up inside
And if you feed 'em enough they'll die
It's like a walk in the park from a cell
Now you're keeping your own kind in hell
When your Great Wall rots blame yourself
While their arms reach out for your help
And you're out of time
Riad N' the Bedouins:
Riad and the Bedouins
Had a plan and thought they'd win
But I don't give a fuck 'bout them
'Cause I am crazy
Oh my salvation
And all my frustrations
Caught in the lies, no one had wove as well
Somewhere in time
Where only I could tell
Riad and the Bedouins
Say that's a war that you can't win
But I have had enough of them
And who can blame me
Sands of time and desert winds
Nomads and barbarians
I won't bend my will to them
You aggravate me
Oh my salvation
And all my frustrations
Caught in the lies, no one had wove as well
Somewhere in time
Where only I could tell
Oh, sweet salvation
Like all my frustrations
Caught up in lies, no one had wove as well
Somewhere in time
Where only I could tell
Oh, sweet salvation
And all my frustrations
Caught in the lies
If you had wove so well
Somewhere in time
Then only I could tell
Riad and the Bedouins
Had a plan and thought they'd win
Riad and the Bedouins
Crossed the line and lost again
I.R.S.:
Is it true
What they
Say of
You
Gonna call the president
Gonna call a private eye
Gonna get the IRS
Gonna need the FBI
There's not any more
That I can do
All the reasons
That you gave
I'd follow you
To where you'd lead
And if that'd be
The end of time it's true
Wouldn't be the first time I've been wrong
Wouldn't be the last
I'm sure I've known
With all the rumors I could tell
Somethings didn't work so well
Well, anyway it feels the same
When you first told me you were gone
So long ago but I still held on
Through all the motions the love and the sex
And that's the truth and here's the worst yet
Would it even matter the things that I'd say
You made your mind up and gone anyway
And there's no use now in dragging it on
Shoulda seen it coming all along
Well, it's true
I had
My doubts of you
Gonna call the president
Gonna call myself a private eye
Gonna need the IRS
Gonna get the FBI
Gonna make this a federal case
Gonna wave it right down in your face
Read it baby with your morning news
With a sweet hangover and the headlines too now
I bet you think I'm doing this all for my health
I shoulda looked again babe at somebody else
Feeling like I've done way more than wrong
Feeling like I'm livin' inside of this song
Feeling like I'm just too tired to care
Feeling like I done more than my share
Could it be the way I've carried on
Like a broken record for so long
I'm gonna call the president
I'm gonna call a private eye
Gonna get the IRS
Gonna need myself the FBI
What shall I do
If I
Gave my heart to you
It's such a crime
You know it's true
Gonna call the president
Gonna get myself a private eye
Gonna need the IRS
Gonna get the FBI
Gonna make this a federal case
Gonna wave it right down in your face
Read it baby with your morning news
With a sweet hangover and the headlines too
It's not anymore that I can do
There Was a Time:
Broken glass and cigarettes
Writing on the wall
It was a bargain for the summer
And I thought I had it all
I was the one who gave you everything
The one who took the fall
You were the one who would do anything
The one who can't recall
Where she was while she was sleeping
In another woman's bed
Or the doctor's or their lawyer's
Or a stranger that she met
If there's nothing I can gain from this
Or anything at all
It'd be the knowledge that you gave me
When I thought I'd heard it all
It was a long time for you
It was a long time for me
It'd be a long time for anyone but
Looks like it's meant to be
Social class and registers
Cocaine in the hall
All the way from California
On the way to your next call
To those non-negotiations
To simulate a cause
For the betterment of evils
And your ways around the laws
That keep you up and sitting pretty
On a pedestal or bed
And now you're sleeping like an angel
Never mind who gave you head
If there's something I can make of this
Or anything at all
It'd be the devil hates a loser
And you thought you had it all
It was a wrong time for you
It was a wrong time for me
It was the wrong time for everyone but
Looks like I got to see for myself
If I could go back in time
To the place in my soul
There all alone
Lonely tear drops
Are calling you
But I don't wanna know it now
'Cause knowing you
It won't change a damn thing
But there was a time
Yeah, there was a time
I didn't wanna know at all
Didn't wanna know at all and I don't wanna know it now
Yeah, there was a time
Didn't wanna know at all
I didn't wanna know at all and I don't wanna know it now
I would do anything for you
There was a time
I would do anything for you
I would do anything for you
There was a time
I would do anything for you
There was a time
I would do anything for you
Yeah, there was a time
Didn't wanna know at all
I didn't wanna know it all and I don't want to know it now
I would do anything for you
Didn't wanna to know at all
I didn't wanna know at all and I don't wanna know it now
There was a time, there was a time
Sorry:
You like to hurt me
You know that you do
You like to think
In some way
That it's me
And not you
You like to have me
Jump and be good
But I don't want to do it
You don't know why
I won't act the way
You think I should
You thought they'd make me
Behave and submit
What were you thinking
'Cause I don't forget
You don't know why
I won't give in
To hell with the pressure
I'm not caving in
You know that I
Got under your skin
You sold your soul
But I won't let you win
You talk too much
You say I do
Difference is nobody cares about you
You've got all the answers
You know everything
Why nobody asked you
Is a mystery to me
I'm sorry for you
Not sorry for me
You don't know who in the hell to
Or not to believe
I'm sorry for you
Not sorry for me
You don't know who you can trust now
Or you should believe
You should believe
You don't know who you can trust now
Or you should believe
You close your eyes
All well and good
I'll kick your ass
like I said that I would
You tell them stories they'd rather believe
Use and confuse them
They're numb and naive
Truth is the truth hurts
Don't you agree
It's harder to live
With the truth about you
Than to live with
The lies about me
Nobody owes you
Not one goddamn thing
You know where to put your
Just shut up and sing
I'm sorry for you
Not sorry for me
You don't know who in the hell to
Or not to believe
I'm sorry for you
Not sorry for me
You chose to hurt those that love you
And won't set them free
Won't set them free
You chose to hurt those that love you
And won't set them free
You don't need
Anyone else to be
Sorry for you
You've got no heart
You can't see
All that you've done for me
I know the reasons
You tear me apart
Prostitute:
Seems like forever and a day
If my intentions
Are misunderstood
Please be kind
I've done all I should
I won't ask of you
What I would not do
Oh, I saw the damage in you
My fortunate one
The envy of you
Why would they
Tell me to please those
That laugh in my face
When all of the reasons
They've taught us
Fall over themselves
To give way
It's not a question
Whether my heart is true
Streamlined
I had to pull through
Look for a new
Beginning on you
Oh, I got a message for you
A better way
It's what I got to do
Forgive what you have
For what you might lose
What would you say
If I told you that I'm to blame
And what would you do
If I had to deny your name
Where would you go if I told you
I love You
And then walked away
And who should I turn to
If not for the ones
That you could not save
I told you when I found you
If there were doubts you
Should be careful and unafraid
Now they surround you
And all that amounts to
Is love that you fed by
Perversion and pain
So if my affections
Are misunderstood
And you decide
I'm up
To no good
Don't ask me to
Enjoy them
Just for you
Ask yourself
Why I would choose
To prostitute myself
To live with fortune and shame
When you should
Have turned to the hearts
Of the ones
That you would not save
I told you
When I found you
All that amounts to
Is love that you fed by
Perversion and pain
Catcher In The Rye:
When all is said and done
We're not the only ones
Who look at life this way
That's what the old folk's say
But every time I see them
Makes me wish I had a gun
If I thought that I was crazy
Well, I guess I'd have more fun
Guess I'd have more fun
The catcher in the rye again
Won't let you get away from him
It's just another day
Like today
You decide
'Cause I don't have to
And then they'll find
And I won't ask you
At anytime
Or long hereafter
If the cold outside's
As I'm imaging
It to be
The catcher in the rye again
Won't let you get away from him
It's just another day
Like today
When all is said and done
We're not the only ones
Who look at life this way
That's what the young folks say
As if they'd ever change
As to that were mine to say
But every time I see them
Makes me wish I had a gun
If I thought that I was crazy
Well, I guess I'd have more fun
Guess I'd have more fun
'Cause what used to be's not there for me
And ought to for someone
That belonged
Insane
Like I do
On an ordinary day
Not in an ordinary way
All at once the song I heard
No longer would it play
For anybody
Or anyone
That needed comfort from somebody
Needed comfort from someone
Who cared
To be
Not like you
And unlike me
And then the voices went away from me
Somehow you set the wheels in motion
That haunts our memories
You were the instrument
You were the one
How a body
Took a body
You gave that boy a gun
You took our innocence
Beyond our stares
Sometimes the only thing
We counted on
When no one else was there
Madagascar:
I won't be told anymore
That I've been brought down in this storm
And left so far out from the shore
That I can't find my way back, my way anymore
Oh no, I won't be told anymore
That I've been brought down in this storm
And left so far out from the shore
That I can't find my way back, my way anymore
Forgive them that tear down my soul
And bless them that they might grow old
And free them so that they may know
That it's never too late
For the many times what seemed like a memory
I've searched and found the ways
You used to lure me in
Oh, I found the ways
Oh, Why it had to be
Mired in denial and so afraid
If we ever find it's true
That we have the strength to choose
Oh, freedom or the chains
We held together
(Quotes)
I won't be told anymore
If we ever find it's true
That I've been brought down in this storm
That we have the strength to choose
And left so far out from the shore
Oh, freedom or the chains
That I can't find my way back, my way anymore
We held together
I won't be told anymore
If we ever find it's true
That I've been brought down in this storm
That we have the strength to choose
And left so far out from the shore
Oh, freedom or the chains
That I can't find my way back, my way anymore
We held together
Shackler's Revenge:
I've got a funny feeling
There's something wrong today
I've got a funny feeling
And it won't go away
I've got an itchy finger
And there'll be hell to pay
I'm gonna pull the trigger
And blow them all away
Don't ever try to tell me
How much you care for me
Don't ever try to tell me
How you are there for me
I don't believe there's a reason
I don't believe it
I don't believe there's a reason
I don't believe it
I've got a wicked demon
His hunger never fades
I've got an empty feeling
I won't be home today
Don't ever try to tell me
How much you care for me
Don't ever try to tell me
How you are there for me
I don't believe there's a reason
I don't believe it
I don't believe there's a reason
I don't believe it
I don't believe there's a reason
I don't believe it
I don't believe there's a reason
I don't believe it
No one is stopping you from
Doing what you want to do
No one is stopping you now
Stopping you now
I don't believe there's a reason
I don't believe it
I don't believe there's a reason
I don't believe it
I don't believe there's a reason
I don't believe it
I don't believe there's a reason
I don't believe it
Street of Dreams:
All the love in the world
Couldn't save you
All the innocence inside
You know I tried so hard to make you
Oh, to make you change your mind
And it hurts too much to see you
And how you left yourself behind
You know I wouldn't wanna be you
Now there's a hell I can't describe
So now I wander through my days
And try to find my ways
To the feelings that I felt
I save for you and no one else
And though as long as this road seems
I know it's called the street of dreams
But that's not stardust on my feet
It leaves a taste that's bittersweet
That's called the blues
I don't know just what I should do
Everywhere I go I see you
Though it's what you planned
This much is true
What I thought was beautiful
Don't live inside of you
Anymore
I don't know just what I should do
Everywhere I go I see you
Though it's what you planned
This much is true
What I thought was beautiful
Don't live inside of you
Anymore
What this means to me
Is more than I know you believe
What I thought of you now has cost more than it should for me
What I thought was true before
Were lies I couldn't see
What I thought was beautiful
Is only memories
Oh oh oh
What'd I tell ya
Oh oh oh
That's what I'd tell ya
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Inside of you
Better:
No one ever told me when
I was alone
They just thought I'd know better, better.
No one ever told me when
I was alone
They just thought I'd know better, better
The hardest part
This troubled heart
Has ever yet been through now
Was heal the scars
That got their start
Inside someone like you now
For had I known
Or I'd been shown
Back when how long it'd take me
To break the charms
That brought me harm
And all but would erase me
I never would
Or thought I could
No matter what you'd pay me
Replay the part
You stole my heart
I should have known you're crazy
If all I knew
Was that with you
I'd want someone to save me
It'd be enough
But just my luck
I fell in love and maybe
All that I wanted was
Now I know you better
You know I know better
Now I know you better
So bittersweet
This tragedy
Won't ask for absolution
This melody
Inside of me
Still searches for solution
A twist of faith
A change of heart
Cures my infatuation
A broken heart
Provides the spark
For my determination
No one ever told me when
I was alone
They just thought I'd know better, better
No one ever told me when
I was alone
They just thought I'd know better, better
All that I wanted was
Now I know you better
You know I know better
Now I know you better
I never wanted you to be so full of anger
I never wanted you to be somebody else
I never wanted you to be someone afraid to know themselves
I only wanted you to see things for yourself
All that I wanted was
Now I know you better
Now we all know better
All that I wanted was
If I were you
I'd manage to
Avoid the invitation
Of promised love
That can't keep up
With your adoration
Just use your head
And in the end
You'll find your inspiration
To choose your steps
And won't regret
This kind of aggravation
No one ever told me when
I was alone
They just thought I'd know better, better
No one ever told me when
I was alone
They just thought I'd know better, better
Re: Lyric discrepancies in the CD booklet
1.) Chinese Democracy
@ 3:50
You think you've got it all locked up inside
And if you beat 'em enough they'll die
It's like a walk in a park from a cell
And now you're deep in your own kind of hell
When your brain will rot by yourself
While their arms reach out for your help
And you're out of time2.) Better
@ 1:30
This melody
Inside of me
Still searches for solution4.) Street Of Dreams
@ 3:59
[...] has cost more than it should for me
@ 4:23
[...] what I'd tell ya
5.) If The World
that last 2 lines on the song as listed in the booklet do not occur
If the world would end
And our love slipped away7.) Catcher In The Rye
@ 3:23
And if they'd ever change
As to that who am I to say9.) Riad N' The Bedouins
this part is repeated twice in the booklet but the actual song only does it once
Riad N' The Bedouins
Say that's a war that you can't win
But I have had enough of them
And who can blame meSands of time and desert winds
Nomads and barbarians
I won't bend my will to them
You aggravate meOh, my salvation
N' all my frustrations
Caught in the lies no one had wove as well
Somewhere in time
Where only I could tell12.) Madagascar
First off I wanna say that the actual formatting in the booklet for the lyrics on this song is terrible.
@ 2:21 the lyric book says the lyric is
My'd own denial [...]
to me that makes abosolutely no sense, i could swear it says
Mired in denial [...]
@ 3:22
"Fear!"
Movie Quote: Detective William Somerset (portrayed by Morgan Freeman), Se7en, 1995; written by Andrew Kevin Walker
On Maddy it sounds more like My Indenial to me....
Re: Lyric discrepancies in the CD booklet
Now you're keeping your own kind in hell
When your Great Wall rots blame yourself
I always thought it was:
Now you're deep in your own kind of hell
When your Great Wall rots blame yourself
Admittedly I'm shite at transcribing though 
edit: Added this thread to the main Chinese Democracy discography thread
