Chinese Democracy
(??)

It don’t really matter
You’ll find out for yourself
No it don’t really matter
You’re gonna leave this thing to
Somebody else

You think we’re missionaries
Real time visionaries
Sitting in the Chinese stew???
To view my dis-infatu-ation
I know that I’m a classic case
Watch my disenchanted face
Blame it on the Falun Gong*
It’s to the end and it can’t hold on now

Cause it would take a lot more hate than you
To stop from fascination
Even with an iron fist
Our baby got to rule the nation but all I got is
Precious time

It don’t really matter
You’re gonna find out for yourself
No it don’t really matter
I guess you’ll do this thing to
Somebody else

Cause it would take a lot more time than you
I've got more masturbation????
Even with an iron fist
Our baby got to rule the nation
but all I got is
Precious time
Our baby got to rule the nation
but all I got is
Precious time

It don’t really matter
Gonna keep it to myself
No it don’t really matter
So you can hear it now from
Somebody else

You think you got it all locked up inside
And if you beat them all up they’ll die
Then you’ll walk them home for the cells
Then now you’ll dig for your road back to hell
And with your ???? makes you stop
As if your eyes were their eyes you can tell
In your lack of time

Thanks to Jonathan Lee who provided the lyrics to this song with additional help from ChineseD13, Scee, and Mike R .


"Chinese Democracy" has only been played live once (Las Vegas, NV - Jan 1, 2001).

The story behind the song
Axl - "The movie Kundun was on about the Dalai Lama. "..." I was, I was getting ready to, to leave, you know the TV was on and it was the end of the movie, and the Dalai Lama is about to cross over the border, to you know, be in exile for the rest of his life from his own country. And he looks back at uh, at the men who helped him, and you know he’s escaped the Chinese government. And he, and he looks back at them and he waves and they wave at him and then they show a scene where he looks back at them again and he sees everyone of them dead. Because he knew they would be killed, they knew that in helping him they would be killed.
   And uh, you know the emotion, in this next song its, that’s all that’s about it. It’s not like an intelligent song; it doesn’t have the answer to anything. "..." And its not necessarily pro or con about China, its just that right now China symbolizes one of the strongest, yet most the oppressive, countries and, governments in the word. And we are fortunate to live in a free country. And so in thinking about that it just kinda upset me, and we wrote this little song called "Chinese Democracy."