Catcher In The Rye

Album: Chinese Democracy (2008)
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  • When all is said and done, we're not the only ones
    Who look at life this way, that's what the old folks say
    But every time I'd see them makes me wish I had a gun
    If I thought that I was crazy, well, I guess I'd have more fun
    Guess I'd have more fun

    Ooh, the Catcher in the Rye again
    Ooh, won't let you get away from him
    It's just another day like today

    You decide 'cause I don't have to
    And then they'll find and I won't ask you
    At any time or long hereafter
    If the cold outside's as I'm imagining
    It to be, oh, oh

    And na-na-na, na-na-na-na
    Na-na-na-na, na-na-na-na

    Ah, na-na-na
    Ah-ah-ah

    Ooh, the Catcher in the Rye again
    Ooh, won't let you get away from him
    It's just another day like today

    When all is said and done, we're not the only ones
    Who look at life this way, that's what the young folks say
    As if they'd ever change as that were mine to say
    But every time I'd see them makes me wish I had a gun
    If I thought that I was crazy, well, I guess I'd have more fun
    'Cause what used to be's not there for me
    And ought to for someone that belonged
    Insane, like I do

    And na-na-na, na-na-na-na
    Na-na-na-na, na-na-na-na
    And na-na-na, na-na-na-na
    Na-na-na-na, na-na-na-na

    On an ordinary day, not in an ordinary way
    All at once, the song I heard, no longer would it play
    For anybody or anyone
    That needed comfort from somebody
    Needed comfort from someone
    Who cared to be not like you and unlike me
    And then the voices went away from me
    Somehow, you set the wheels in motion, now haunts our memories
    You were the instrument, you were the one
    How a body, took a body, you gave that boy a gun
    Took our innocence beyond our stares
    Sometimes, the only thing we counted on when no one else was there
    Ah-ah, ah-ah
    Ah-ah
    Ah-na, na-na, na-na Writer/s: Dizzy Reed, Paul Tobias, Robin Finck, Tommy Stinson, William Rose
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, THIRD SIDE MUSIC INC, Third Side Music Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group, Wixen Music Publishing
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • Dino from Bandung, IndonesiaAccording to Axl in the last chat, the song is inspired by what's referred to sometimes as Holden Caulfield syndrome. He'd think for most those lines are enjoyed as just venting, blowing off steam, humor or some type of entertainment where it may be how others seriously live in their minds. When he came up with the focus, he got a call from the director of Imagine wanting a bunch of money to make a documentary, had a guy sending him strange packages about Lennon and serial killers etc., and the web started calling him Salinger with no one knowing what he was writing. He figured he was on the right track at least for a song.
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