14 Years - Intellectual

[Verse 1: Izzy Stradlin]

I try and feel the sunshine, you bring the rain

You try and hold me down with your complaints

You cry and moan and complain, you whine and tear

Up to my neck in sorrow the touch you bring

You just don't step inside to, to fourteen years

So hard to keep my own head, that's what I say and you know

I've been the beggar, I've played the thief

I was the dog they all tried to beat

[Chorus: Izzy Stradlin & Axl Rose, Axl Rose]

But it's been fourteen years of silence, ιt's been fourteen years of pain

It's been fourteen years that are gone forever and I'll never have again, well

Your stupid girlfriends tell you, that I'm to blame

Well, they're all used up has-beens out of the game

This time I'll have the last word, you hear what I say?

I tried to see it your way, it won't work today

You just don't step inside to, to fourteen years

So hard to keep my own head, that's what I say, you know

I've been the dealer hangin' on your street

I was the dog they all tried to beat

[Chorus: Izzy Stradlin & Axl Rose, Axl Rose]

But it's been fourteen years of silence, ιt's been 14 years of pain

It's been fourteen years that are gone forever and I'll never have again, well

Yeah, it's been nada

Bullshit and contemplation, gossip's their trade

If they knew half the real truth, what would they say?

Well I'm past the point of concern, it's time to play

These last four years of madness sure put me straight

You don't get back fourteen years in just one day

So hard to keep my own head, just go away, you know

Just like a hooker, she said, "Nothin for free"

Oh, I tried to see it your way, I tried to see it your way