Right Next Door to Hell

By Guns N’ Roses

On Use Your Illusion I

Released on September 17, 1991

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[Intro]

Yeah


[Verse 1]

I'll take a nicotine, caffeine, sugar fix

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

But when your innocence dies, you'll find the blues

Seems all our heroes were born to lose

Just walkin' through time, you believe this heat?

Another empty house, another dead-end street

Gonna rest my bones, sit for a spell

This side of heaven is close to hell


[Chorus]

Right next door to hell

Why don't you write a letter to me?

I said I'm right next door to hell

And so many eyes are on me

Right next door to hell

Got nowhere else to be

Right next door to hell

Feels like the walls are closin' in on me


[Verse 2]

My mama never really said much to me

She was much too young and scared to be

Hell, Freud might say that's what I need

But all I really ever get is greed

And most my friends, they feel the same

Hell, we don't even have ourselves to blame

But times are hard and thrills are cheaper

As your arms get shorter, your pockets get deeper


[Chorus]

Right next door to hell

Why don't you write a letter to me?

'Cause I'm right next door to hell

And so many eyes are on me

Right next door to hell

I never thought this is where I'd be

But I'm right next door to hell

Thinkin' time will stand still for me


[Bridge]

Fuck you

Bitch


[Outro]

Not bad kids, just stupid ones, yeah

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

I said we're not sad kids, but lucid ones, yeah

Flowin' through life, not collecting anyone

So much out there, still so much to see

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

It drove me up the wall and drove me out of my mind

Can you tell me what this means? Come on