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this is the solo for the best song ever made.
this is probably the only correct one there is tabbed.
enjoy
e------------------------------------9------------------------|
B-------------------------------------9h12p9--12b-12br-9------|
G-8h9---8h9----8h9-11~--8h9p8--8h9----------------------9-----|
D----11~----11~--------------9~---11~-------------------------|
A-------------------------------------------------------------|
E-------------------------------------------------------------|
e---------------------------------------------9---------------|
B---------------------------------9h10-12p10-9--12p10p9-------|
G-11b-14-11br-89-8~--8-9'--8-9-11----------------------------|
D-----------------9~------------------------------------------|
A-------------------------------------------------------------|
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e---------------------------------------19p17p16h17p16--------|
B---------------------9h12-14---16b--19-----------------------|
G-11-9p8h9p8~-----9h11----------------------------------------|
D-------------9h11--------------------------------------------|
A-------------------------------------------------------------|
e---16---------------------19b~-------------------------------|
B-19--19p17p16--17p16-----------------------------------------|
G-------------18-----18p16------------------------------------|
D-------------------------------------------------------------|
A-------------------------------------------------------------|
E-------------------------------------------------------------|
/joel
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Brian Average |
#1 by Brian Dempsey at Aug 18, 1972 at 2:26 PM EST |
| Skid Row is amazing. Their songs really have meaning behind a lot of them. Are you guys ready for a long one [[hehe]]?! To me, this song is based on Ricky's suicide... I could be interpreting it wrong, b/c this was made way b4 my time [[and the music video tells the story for you]]... but a lot of what is said in it I think has a deeper meaning. First off, through the whole song he's talkin about Ricky's hard times in life, and like that's all he'd ever had. He was only 18, and he had his whole life ahead of him... the line "your crime is time" doesn't refer to literal jail time... maybe it's saying that the only crime he committed was letting time take him away, and giving in to the hardships that were happening at the time. Maybe it means the time he has to spend now will be the time he spends gone...the time he should have had to spend the rest of his life. Then it says "Fought like a switchblade so no one could take him down."... like no one could defeat him.. maybe when at the end, when it says "He fired his six-shot to the wind - that child blew a child away."... it means he took himself away. Afterall, who better to defeat u when u r undefeated than yourself. this was one of my brothers favorite songs... he loved it. Really, all he had in common with it was his dependancy on alcohol, and how careless he was with life. He was only 18... with his whole life to go... and he took it from himself. Like it says, "You can't think of dying when the bottle's your best friend"... dying wasn't an issue to him, it's not real, and not something that he thought could happen to him. This song reminds me a lot of him... all of it... maybe my opinion is just biased... I'm only 14, and this song was a ways b4 my time, but this is what it means to me.... | |
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Satan SAF! Rhythm Player |
#2 by Satan SAF! Lucifer at Dec 25, 1977 at 10:49 PM EST |
| Best song From Skid Row, ever. And I heard them all. | |
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dylan Average |
#3 by dylan markus at Sep 27, 1979 at 11:21 AM EST |
| one of my favourite songs, skid row rock! | |
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Max Wanna Be |
#4 by Max Contreras at Mar 11, 1981 at 3:23 PM EST |
| I SHOULD ALSO POINT OUT AT THE TIME OF KASSO'S ARREST AMERICA WAS IN THE GRIP OF A SATANIC PANIC, DURING WHICH EVERY PERSON THAT COMMITED ANY SORT OF CRIME AND ALSO ENJOYED HEAVY METAL WAS PORTRAYED IN THE MEDIA AS BEING LED TO EVIL BY WHATEVER BAND THEY WERE PICKING ON AT THE TIME. OZZY OSBOURNE, JUDAS PRIEST AND ACDC WERE ALL SINGLED OUT FOR THEIR "EVIL" INFLUENCE ON TEENAGERS (KASSO WAS WEARING A HIGHWAY TO HELL ACDC T-SHIRT AT THE TIME OF HIS ARREST, A FACT THE MEDIA SOON EXPLOITED TO THEIR OWN SENSATIONALIST ENDS). BY ADDRESING THE ISSUE OF DISENCHANTED YOUTH IN THIS SONG SKID ROW CLEVERLY POINTED OUT TO THE WORLD, KIDS WERE MORE LIKELY TO GO BAD DUE TO A POOR UPBRINGING RATHER THAN THE TYPE OF MUSIC THEY WERE LISTENING TO WHILST ALSO AT THE SAME TIME STANDING UP FOR THEIR PEERS AND HEROES (SUCH AS JUDAS PRIEST) THAT HAD EXPERIENCED THESE SORT OF WITCH-HUNTS IN THE MEDIA. FOR THIS WE SALUTE YOU! | |
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Sir Stuff Professional |
#5 by Sir Stuff at Apr 19, 1982 at 9:37 PM EST |
| THIS SONG IS LOOSELY BASED ON TEEN KILLER "THE ACID KING" RICKY KASSO, INSTEAD OF KILLING HIS FRIEND WITH A KNIFE LIKE IN REAL LIFE, IN THE SONG HE SHOOTS HIM. THE SONG ILLUSTRATES THAT ANY KID BROUGHT UP IN A VIOLENT OR UNCARING ENVIRONMENT CAN MAKE BAD DECISIONS AND END UP IN JAIL, THE REAL LIFE RICKY KASSO COMMITED SUICIDE BEFORE HIS TRIAL SHORTLY AFTER BEING JAILED. ULTIMATELY IT IS SAYING KIDS USUALLY GO BAD FOR A REASON, A POPULAR THEME FOR SKID ROWS MUSIC IS HOW YOUNG PEOPLE AND THEIR SENSE OF BRAVADO ARE OFTEN BERATED OR MISUNDERSTOOD ALIENATING THEM FROM SOCIETY AS A WHOLE. AND TO SETTLE YOUR ARGUMENT YES THIS IS ONE OF THE GREATEST ROCK SONGS EVER WRITTEN WITH INTELLIGENCE AND TRUE FEELING BY A TRULY GREAT BAND. THIS ALBUM IS ESSENTIAL FOR ANY REAL ROCKER REUB | |
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HIYA Wanna Be |
#6 by HIYA at Jan 29, 1985 at 5:07 PM EST |
| Too bad an awesome band like Skid Row will forever be associated with 80's hair. They deserve a much better fate. Really more in the category of Guns and Roses, and had they stuck around longer they probably would have given Gn'R a run for their money. | |
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David Average |
#7 by David Eldridge at Dec 20, 1989 at 5:25 PM EST |
| You think this is one of those ordinary songs but its not people do not do not realize the song lyrics but this song is awesome | |
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Dylan Rhythm Player |
#8 by Dylan Fitzgerald at Aug 3, 1991 at 12:35 AM EST |
| this is an amazing song. but omgosh that story is really sad oldskoolpunkder23 seriously i almost cried when i read that. | |
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Joshua Wanna Be |
#9 by Joshua graham at Feb 21, 1994 at 12:34 AM EST |
| What the hell is wrong with you, ohwhocares? Skid Row's music is still amazing today- it's not like it's changed. People just listen to such crappy music today they can't appreciate a masterpiece such as this. Skid Row rules, and always will. | |
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Corey Average |
#10 by Corey La Plante at Jan 8, 1999 at 4:10 AM EST |
| No, I don't think he went to jail in the literal sense... The 18 and life has more to do with the fact that he can do nothing to change his circumstance. He's essentially living a life where he's trapped and unable to better himself. He grew up in the on the street, knocked a girl up, had a shotgun wedding, and now he's going to raise a kid just like him. This song represents the endless circle of poverty and the hopelessness of those trapped within it. At what point does a person realize that their dreams of a better life are pointless? The song is a lot deeper than just some kid going to jail for life... | |
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mat Wanna Be |
#11 by mat bar at Apr 26, 1999 at 3:35 AM EST |
| When I personally heard this song for the first time, I figured it was about finishing high school, and now having the rest of your life waiting for you. Anticipating your unknown destiny and finding your identity's to speak. I relate it to Trapt's song "Still Frame". Watching the video and re-reading the lyrics, the song basically relates to a hard-life outsider (Ricky) who acted and lived tough, and that same recklessness got him a life sentence, with no chance to correct his naive youth-teenage lifestyle. Goes to show, some people don't get second chances in life. | |
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robert Professional |
#12 by robert cunningham at Feb 13, 2006 at 3:15 PM EST |
| a person who messed his life up.... what we now call bums, or homeless people. | |
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ed Average |
#13 by ed lubecki at Jun 7, 2006 at 12:11 AM EST |
| My uncle gave me a record of these guys like 10 yrs ago and gave me there tapes like 4 and i heard this song, it reminded me of my buddy, he just got out of school hardcore fucker, drank everynight, shot up alot, smoked crack dope, he was all into that shit, and tequila was his #1 drink, and one night we were sitting around a fire, and we all had a bottle of Jack Danniels and a beer can comes flying over the fence and we go and look to see who it was, and it was some fucking wiggers, so the dumb ass my buddy was starts chasing after them and he was gone for an hr so my other buddy wa slike where the fuck is he lets go check on him, we drove around for like 1 hr and we found him in a park fucking crying, he killed a fucking 14 yr old, he was 20 and yeah hes in jail till hes 90 and i dont think hes gonna make it, learn from a fools mistakes not your own | |
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