Right Next Door to Hell (Live in New York, Ritz Theatre - May 16, 1991)

By Guns N’ Roses

On Use Your Illusion (Super Deluxe)

Released on November 11, 2022

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[Spoken Word]

This is a song called "Right Next Door to Hell"


[Verse 1]

I'll take a nicotine, caffeine, sugar fix

Jesus, don't you get tired of turnin' tricks?

Your innocence dies, you'll find the blues

All our heroes were born to lose

Just walkin' through time, believe this heat?

Empty town, dead-end street

Rest my bones, sit for a spell

Side of heaven is close to hell


[Chorus]

Right next door to hell

Why don't you write a letter to me?

Right next door to hell

So many eyes are on me

Right next door to hell

I got nowhere else to be

Right next door to hell

Feels like the walls are closin' in on me, hah!


[Verse 2]

My mama never really said much to me

Much too young, scared to be

Freud might say, what I need

All I really ever get is greed

Most my friends

We don't even have ourselves to blame

But times are hard, thrills are cheaper

As your arms get shorter, pockets get deeper


[Chorus]

Right next door to hell

Why don't you write a letter to me?

Right next door to hell

So many eyes are on me

Right next door to hell

Got nowhere else to be

But I'm right next door to hell

Like the walls are closin' in on me


[Bridge]

Fuck you


[Guitar Solo]


[Outro]

Not bad kids, just stupid ones

Thought we'd own the world an' getting used was havin' fun

We're not sad kids, lucid ones

Flowin' through life, not collectin' anyone

So much out there, still so much to see

Too much to handle, time's too much for me

Drives me up the wall, out of my mind

Can you tell me what this means, huh?