Results for “Guns N’ Roses”

Artists

Guns N’ Roses Guns N' Roses is an American hard rock band formed in Los Angeles, California, in March…

Songs

Don't Cry

Guns N’ Roses

A power ballad of consolation addressed to a partner at the end of a relationship, where the narrator offers comfort and…

heartbreak and consolation emotional exhaustion the gap between comfort and resolution

A Rose Is Still a Rose

Aretha Franklin

Aretha Franklin plays elder counselor to a wounded young woman, using the image of a rose to insist that sexual betrayal doesn't…

self-worth after betrayal intergenerational female solidarity resilience

Rose

Conway Twitty

This is a cover of the ballad best known from Bette Midler's version, built entirely around a single extended metaphor comparing…

risk versus fear resilience and renewal cynicism about love

God & Guns

Lynyrd Skynyrd

A straightforward political anthem in which the band positions itself against an unnamed politician's agenda, defending rural,…

cultural identity and rural pride gun rights religious faith as national foundation

Coming Up Roses

Elliott Smith

A hallucinatory address to a self or double, tracking a slow poisoning that the speaker frames as a kind of blooming. The song…

addiction and self-destruction dissociation from the self toxic inheritance

Acuff-Rose

Uncle Tupelo

A short, plainspoken tribute to country music's staying power, built around the songwriting publishing house Acuff-Rose as…

musical heritage comfort and companionship everyday transcendence

Iron Rose

Cannibal Ox

"Iron Rose" is a showcase track built almost entirely around a single conceit: iron as both weapon and armor, a metaphor for…

hardness as survival poverty and resilience self-mythologizing through wordplay

I'm That Type of N***a

The Pharcyde

A posse-cut style boast track from The Pharcyde's early catalog, built around a call-and-response taunt asking who's in charge,…

braggadocio masculine posturing hip-hop lineage and skill claims

English Rose

The Jam

A brief, almost hymn-like ballad in which a wandering narrator catalogues distant travels only to insist, again and again, on…

homecoming fidelity romantic idealization

Running Gun

Marty Robbins

A gunfighter's confession and death, told in first person, tracing a life of violence that has outrun the man's capacity to feel…

the cost of violence doomed romance fatalism and reputation

Guns and Cigarettes

Atmosphere

A boastful, self-lacerating rap that inflates its own legend while puncturing it in the same breath. Slug swaggers through…

ego vs. self-doubt fame and ambition loneliness on the road

Giving Up the Gun

Vampire Weekend

A meditation on retired warriors and burned-out rebels, using the image of a decommissioned weapon to talk about aging out of…

aging and obsolescence nostalgia for youthful intensity loss of purpose

Honeysuckle Rose

Anita O’Day

This is Anita O'Day's vocal-jazz treatment of the Fats Waller standard, a breezy declaration of infatuation built entirely on…

infatuation sweetness as metaphor public admiration

Machine Gun

Portishead

A stark meditation on self-recrimination dressed as spiritual crisis, delivered over one of the coldest, most mechanical beats…

guilt and self-blame failed salvation isolation

There Goes My Gun

Pixies

A minimal, chant-driven fragment built almost entirely from four repeated phrases, this song trades narrative for atmosphere --…

paranoia violence betrayal

Roses And Cigarettes

Ray LaMontagne

A spurned lover sketches a woman trapped in a stale domestic life and a faithless affair, while he himself can't let go of the…

infidelity and jealousy obsessive longing domestic decay

Blue Rose

Lizz Wright

A quiet botanical meditation that uses a flower's life cycle as a stand-in for a certain kind of person or soul — unguarded,…

hidden beauty solitude and visibility nature as self-portrait

Poetic Machine Gun

Buzzcocks

A speaker pitches his own verbal outpouring as a weapon of seduction — a "poetic machine gun" that's supposed to get someone…

failed seduction language as weapon/drug male bravado vs. rejection

F.I.N.E.

Aerosmith

A high-octane, deliberately trashy rocker built from innuendo and bravado, F.I.N.E. is Aerosmith leaning fully into the…

sexual bravado self-justification hedonism

I Love Rock 'n' Roll

The Jesus and Mary Chain

A blunt, unadorned testimony from a band built on noise and feedback, stripping away the usual JAMC fatalism to state a plain…

redemption through music self-reliance anti-moralizing

Day 'n' Nite

Kid Cudi

A hypnotic, hook-driven track built around a single restless character—part self-portrait, part invented alter ego—who cycles…

loneliness insomnia escapism through drugs

Peaches N Cream

Snoop Dogg

A club-floor party track built almost entirely around a single visual: a woman dancing and the narrator's escalating attempt to…

nightlife and spectacle male desire and pursuit wealth and status display

Rose Hip November

Vashti Bunyan

A brief, hushed instrumental-scale miniature that treats a single autumn day as a small ceremony, pairing seasonal images with a…

seasonal change rural pastoral life folklore and superstition

The W.A.N.D.

The Flaming Lips

A funky, riff-driven anthem that dresses up a political fantasy of taking down authoritarian power in the language of magic…

power vs. greed collective resistance fantasy as political metaphor

T.N.T.

AC/DC

A cartoonish outlaw brags his way through a wall of guitar riffs, comparing himself to an explosive as a stand-in for raw sexual…

machismo and bravado self-mythologizing persona danger as performance

F.U.N.K.

Betty Davis

This is less a song than a spoken-and-sung roll call, a lineage claimed rather than argued for. Betty Davis treats funk as a…

musical lineage and inheritance Black artistic community funk as identity/blood

N.Y. State of Mind

Nas

A dense, almost stream-of-consciousness portrait of Queensbridge street life, delivered with a density of imagery more…

urban survival mortality and insomnia criminal economy

Day 'N' Nite (nightmare)

Kid Cudi

A moody, synth-laced character study in which Kid Cudi narrates the inner life of a third-person stand-in for himself — a…

loneliness self-medication dissociation from self

Rock 'N' Roll Children

Dio

A ballad about two young runaways whose doomed flight into the night becomes a parable for rock-and-roll outcasts generally. Dio…

youthful rebellion doomed love alienation

I'd Rather F**k You

N.W.A

A blunt, explicit parody-love-song built around a single boast: the narrator prefers sex to romance or commitment. There's no…

sexual conquest misogyny anti-romance

Róisín Dubh (Black Rose): A Rock Legend

Thin Lizzy

This is Thin Lizzy's most explicitly Irish statement, a medley that stitches together fragments of traditional ballads with a…

Irish identity and heritage oral tradition and storytelling myth and heroism

It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'N' Roll)

AC/DC

A touring rock band's complaint song disguised as a boast, cataloguing the grind of road life — theft, injury, bad hotels,…

the cost of ambition road life and touring hardship disillusionment with the music industry

Pacifics (From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack “N.Y. Is Red Hot")

Digable Planets

Digable Planets turn a Sunday in New York into an extended meditation on rest, community, and creative replenishment, moving…

urban leisure and rest Black cultural inheritance (jazz, literature, hip-hop lineage) community and belonging

Change

Mavis Staples

Mavis Staples delivers a stark, chant-driven protest song built around a single insistent demand repeated until it becomes…

gun violence unfinished freedom collective action

This Is America

Childish Gambino

This Is America pairs a buoyant, Afrobeat-inflected party chorus with a grim, fragmented verse structure that keeps interrupting…

racialized violence in America distraction and spectacle culture commodification of Black performance

When the Sh-- Goes Down

Cypress Hill

A street-level survival anthem that frames violence as an everyday occupational hazard rather than a moral crisis. The group…

street survival paranoia and vigilance gun culture

Pumped Up Kicks

Foster the People

A breezy, major-key pop song turns out to be a first-person monologue from a disaffected teenager planning a school shooting.…

alienation and isolation gun violence suburban neglect

The Long Way Around

Jackson Browne

Jackson Browne surveys a country he finds both personally and politically unmoored, moving from wry self-assessment to a catalog…

aging and self-reckoning political disillusionment gun violence

Hive

Earl Sweatshirt

This is a dense, technically showcasing posse cut built around interlocking internal rhyme and layered ad-libs, moving from pure…

technical bravado and lyrical dominance poverty and urban decay violence and gun culture

Jesus Forgive Me, I Am A Thot

JPEGMAFIA

A dense, fragmented prayer-as-flex from JPEGMafia's early catalog, where religious language gets stripped of reverence and…

religious language as vernacular survivor's paranoia fame and anonymity