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Chinese Democracy has finally arrived. One of the most highly anticipated albums in rock history, the long-awaited Chinese Democracy marks the first album of new material from Guns N’ Roses since 1991’s simultaneous release of Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II. With a frenzied energy, Guns N’ Roses arrived on the music scene in the mid-’80s and rock was never the same. Now the enormously influential G N’ R is ready to rock once again.

Chinese Democracy (Black Frog/Geffen Records) will be available globally on November 23 on CD and vinyl (accompanied by a free digital download of the tracks), and as a separate digital album.

Produced by Axl Rose and Caram Costanzo, Chinese Democracy includes 14 tracks. The title track and first single from the album, “Chinese Democracy“, will be released to radio at 5:00 am eastern time today. Two of the recordings have been recently released–”Shackler’s Revenge” debuted September 14 in the “Rock Band 2″ videogame and “If The World” debuted October 11 in the film Body Of Lies.

“The release of Chinese Democracy marks a historic moment in rock ‘n’ roll,” said Irving Azoff and Andy Gould, Guns N’ Roses’ co-managers, “and we’re launching with a monumental campaign that matches the groundbreaking sound of the album itself. Guns N’ Roses fans have every reason to celebrate, for this is only the beginning.”

“Guns N’ Roses redefined the American rock band and became a global music icon,” added Steve Berman, President, Sales and Marketing, Interscope Geffen A&M Records. “We’re incredibly excited that Chinese Democracy will be heard worldwide through Geffen Records and the Universal Music Group.”

Seventeen years ago, the two previous original albums from one of rock’s most intense and compelling bands, Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II, were issued simultaneously, a first for any contemporary artist. Debuting #2 and #1, respectively, they featured three gold hits with “November Rain” (#3), “Don’t Cry” (#10) and the previously released Top 30 “You Could Be Mine” from the film Terminator II: Judgement Day, plus another Top 40 with “Live And Let Die.” Each album went seven times platinum.

The band’s 1987 full-length debut Appetite For Destruction has sold more than 28 million copies worldwide (18 times platinum in the U.S.) and is among the biggest-selling albums in history. The #1 album notched three Top 10 hits–the gold anthem “Welcome To The Jungle” and #1 “Sweet Child o’ Mine” plus “Paradise City.” 1988’s #2, five times platinum G N’ R Lies yielded the gold Top 5 “Patience.” After the Use Your Illusion duo, 1994’s “The Spaghetti Incident?” cover album reached #4 and platinum.

In 1999, a live album earned gold and in 2004 the band’s only Greatest Hits collection peaked at #3 and earned quadruple platinum. Overall, Guns N’ Roses has sold more than 90 million records worldwide.

Source: Geffen

Crash diet of reds’n'ludes
A shot of vitamin C and a bottle of booze
Too stupid to live with nothin’ to lose
In your one track mind now
Where’s that leave you?

Drink’n'drive white lightning faster baby
Takin’ your last ride
Now better be so careful or you’ll be dead before you time
Sorry you took mother’s car now

Tears in my eyes, baby please don’t go
You bet (?!) one too many, now one for the road
fresh outta detox, fresh from jail
Took your rehabilitation and you drove me to hell

Drink’n'drive white lightning faster
Takin’ your last ride
Better be so careful or you’ll be dead before your time
Sorry you took mohter’s car now

Too soon, you thought … ?!
Too late for the pressure and strain
Too bad for those who don’t believe it
Ruby street still calls your name

[guitar solo]

Itchy trigger finger and the race to be alive
Smokin’ a cig while you drink’n'drive
With no control in your life ahead
You’re never gonna see if you wind up dead

Drink’n'drive white lightning faster
Takin’ your last ride
Better be so careful or you’ll be dead before your time
Drink’n'drive white lightning baby
It’s always on your mind
Push or pull your limits baby, do it one more time
Break it down
Break it down
Somethin’’s changin’, somethin’’s breakin’
You gotta be a brother, ‘coz ?! your family
?!…. Oh make it
Sweet mystery, Ooohhhh
If you don’t care about yourself
Would you please leave me alive
Oooohhhh…
You gonna
You gonna drink’n'drive
Oooohhhhh, Yeeaaah

(Slash / McKagan / Rose)
Special Thanks Niven / James

“What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.
Some men you just can’t reach…
So, you get what we had here last week,
which is the way he wants it!
Well, he gets it!
N’ I don’t like it any more than you men.” *

Look at your young men fighting
Look at your women crying
Look at your young men dying
The way they’ve always done before

Look at the hate we’re breeding
Look at the fear we’re feeding
Look at the lives we’re leading
The way we’ve always done before

My hands are tied
The billions shift from side to side
And the wars go on with brainwashed pride
For the love of God and our human rights
And all these things are swept aside
By bloody hands time can’t deny
And are washed away by your genocide
And history hides the lies of our civil wars

D’you wear a black armband
When they shot the man
Who said “Peace could last forever”
And in my first memories
They shot Kennedy
I went numb when I learned to see
So I never fell for Vietnam
We got the wall of D.C. to remind us all
That you can’t trust freedom
When it’s not in your hands
When everybody’s fightin’
For their promised land

And
I don’t need your civil war
It feeds the rich while it buries the poor
Your power hungry sellin’ soldiers
In a human grocery store
Ain’t that fresh
I don’t need your civil war

Look at the shoes your filling
Look at the blood we’re spilling
Look at the world we’re killing
The way we’ve always done before
Look in the doubt we’ve wallowed
Look at the leaders we’ve followed
Look at the lies we’ve swallowed
And I don’t want to hear no more

My hands are tied
For all I’ve seen has changed my mind
But still the wars go on as the years go by
With no love of God or human rights
‘Cause all these dreams are swept aside
By bloody hands of the hypnotized
Who carry the cross of homicide
And history bears the scars of our civil wars

“We practice selective annihilation of mayors
And government officials
For example to create a vacuum
Then we fill that vacuum
As popular war advances
Peace is closer” **

I don’t need your civil war
It feeds the rich while it buries the poor
Your power hungry sellin’ soldiers
In a human grocery store
Ain’t that fresh
And I don’t need your civil war
I don’t need your civil war
I don’t need your civil war
Your power hungry sellin’ soldiers
In a human grocery store
Ain’t that fresh
I don’t need your civil war
I don’t need one more war

I don’t need one more war
Whaz so civil ’bout war anyway