Slash - 30 Years To Life Lyrics
So the story goes
This is a tale that must be told
For what could be your destiny
You never know
I never even tried
But until you know
When you’re lost and down
You come to trouble in time
It was a cold December
A rip city night
In a steel toe rage
Made a big mistake
Now I’ll be doing time
I was running with the order
I was running out of time
Now for me there is no quarter
I don’t want to be here
I don’t want to die
Serving 30 years to life
What I did I can’t deny
Now the sorrow in my heart will never fade
I remember it so well
The night I sent that boy to Hell
Lord, I’m sorry for the error of my ways
They sent me on a mission
Out to earn my stripes
Should have known damn well
When the curb stomp fell
Things would never be right
I was running with the order
I was running out of time
Now for me there is no quarter
I don’t want to be here
How many nights I've cried
Serving 30 years to life
What I did I can’t deny
Now the sorrow in my heart will never fade
I remember it so well
The night I sent that boy to Hell
Lord, I’m sorry for the error of my ways
‘Cause now I know
Now I know
I was wrong and I can’t let this go
I know
Now I know
I am sorry
What a wretched soul
What a big mistake
Now I’m growing old
18 years or more to go
I waste way in this cage
I’m all alone
That’s how the story goes
This is a tale that must be told
For what could be
Your destiny
You never know
‘Cause when you’re running with the order
You’re only running out of time
Now for me there is no quarter
I didn’t want to be here
I don’t want to die
Serving 30 years to life
What I did I can’t deny
Now the sorrow in my heart will never fade
My regret I know it well
But it’s too late to save myself
Lord, I'm sorry for the error of my ways
So the story goes
This is a tale that must be told
For the sorrow in my heart will never fade
So the story goes
This is a tale that must be told
Yes I’m sorry for the error of my ways
Other Lyrics by Artist
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Slash 30 Years To Life Comments
Very Good!!
This Song i Dedicate to my Sexy Fiance 0:00
Aerosmith total haha
This Song Kick's total Ass,4:27
J'ai eu du réseau dans un cimetière en m'allongeant sur une tombe de pauvres! Ma pote était à côté et je le lui ai prouvé : bon on a attendu une plombe ! Ça l'a fait ! Un truc chelou de plus 😆😇
Love me some /SLASH \ keep grinding
This is fucking awesome 😎🎸😎🤩😁❤️💚🧡💛💜💙😃😄😍🤘👍🤘😍😎🎸🎩🎩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩😍🎸🎸🎸😎🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸😊😍😍😍😍😍😍😍👍👍👍👍👍🤝👍🎩😎🎩😍😍👍
Hi, Good morning. I have contacted you regarding a charity concert in London, with the Mayor sponsor ship. None a you answer to my letters yet. I had a vision, as student to the International open academy, that you and your colleagues from both your previous and actual rock bands can make a naked calendar for charity, the same like in Marigot Hotel, using your guitars as the old rock player in Love actually. If good Idea, please answer to my letters.
Elena.
This isn’t Slash’s actual YouTube account, and you must be deluded to think they’d chose you for something as silly as that; I mean charity, really?
😉 el mas mimado de la argentina!!!!
WOW !! THIS ´S BLOWING MY MIND AWAY !!!! ;) ;)
For h😆
You can watch the live performance at Rock am Ring 2015. It' s epic 😎
Im Happy about this song
OmG !! IT'S Awesome !!
Buena rola!!!
Just making it clear... When people say that it sounds like Paradise City, I'm thinking they only mean the first 10 seconds 😂 Same tempo, it sounds similar
My favourite
Love this album!!!
KICK ASS MAN 😎😎😎🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘😘🎸🎸🎸🎤🎤🎤
Fame. It is handed to people these days. But is is a blessing to still have the ones who fought for it alive and well. Lets go!
B-B-Bitchin' Frickin' A!!
That dude knows how to play a guitar
Slash nunca me pareció un buen guitarrista :v
Que música foda essa , Slash é o cara
ohne worte .. bestes intro solo aller zeiten!!!!!
less talking more listning
I love this grooove!!!! Sounds "WOW"!
I think I figured out the story this song tells. The main character was in the military, deserted, and killed either a fellow soldier or one of his superiors. This is his song from after being sentenced to prison for 30 years to life.
EariosRandomness Why a soldier/superior, I think that he killed a boy (you know a child) and it was considered a war crime.
EariosRandomness the way I’m listening, he was with a gang “running with the order” and they told him to kill someone “out to earn my stripes/should have known damn well when the curb stomp fell” and he got thrown in jail for it.
Sounds to me like a biker gang initiation
Big mistake
Killer Tune and Myles is younger, better singer than washed up Axl.
@***** I agree I have been impressed with Axl's singing and "New Hair". lol..I saw GNR in Dallas during the UYI tour in the early 90's and AXL ruined the show. He was 2 hours late to venue and came on stage in full "Fucked up as Hell" mode. Cussing us out and complaining about the crowd throwing things. Well an outdoor concert in the Texas heat waiting an extra 2 hours for an ASSHOLE to show up makes Texans want to shoot you no less than throw shit at you. Needless to say I have been pissed at AXL ever since.
Myles sounds good for a 47 year old man.
Axl sounds shit
Very very sad.... but very very true....
2019 axl is light years away from miles...
and my brother says that Zakk Wylde and Dimebag is better than Slash lol
+Rafael Dal I do not like you calling my brother satantic idc about the gothic part but do not call my brother satantic, we're both actually Christian so if you'd do me a favor do not comment on my comment again
Zakk maybe, maybe not. But Dimebag was pretty damn good.
I like Guitarists that didn't get shot.
They are imo
yeahhhhhhhh;D i love slash style;D its fucking amazing!:D
Why is everyone saying this sounds like Paradise City?? Only the first part of the intro does just a little bit
MuroPecca Absolutely not
Slash brought it all back.
muy buena cansion lml
HUE HUE HUE BR INVADINDO
HUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUE BR? HAUEHAHEHAHEHHAE
Vocês são muito rock in roll
For what could be your destiny you’ll never know
This may sound similar to paradise city because slash wrote both:). He has a style and a pattern in his guitar. A lot of pentatonic scales and similar riff combinations. Every guitarist has a particular style. That's his way to play. You can make a diffrent song just by changing his "tempo".
Ma come cazzo spaccano porca troia! Myles = voice of God
Italianooo!
My favorite band. Slash's guitar and Myles' vocals give me thrill.
Klau Karolyi k oimockc
biggest like ever :D
Just bought this album, it is too bloody good
Drums sounds like paradise city. Another great song from Mr Slash
The only thing that resembles Paradise City is the drum part of the intro. Outside of that, totally different. The guitar sounds nothing like Paradise City at all.
yeah because this really sounds like paradise city, are you all deaf?
Yep, but someone has said "Everything has been invented already". Try to write a song and then you will compare it to everything what sounds similiar.
personally i think my riffs are very different from most but slayers dead skin mask and spill the blood have basically the same riff (still awesome)
+Haaris Raja its like a mix of beggars & hangers on (Snakepit)
and paradise city!
just because hes using a slide doesnt mean it sounds like beggars and hangers on
LOL But they're similar
Why does everybody say it sounds like Paradise City. I don't hear no similarities. Just an awesome song
first seconds and drums, but fuck it, this song it's awesome :)
Emil Lindholm yeah I here no paradise city
BUT STILL AN AWESOME SONG!
No. No paradise city.
Its his trade mark sound, what he does with a guitar will sound like guns and roses as well as velvet revolver and anywhere else he plays. Great music each time though
this isn't paradise city guys ... not even close
This whole album blows away "Chinese Democracy" track for track...
You can sense the melodic sensibility behind Appetite and Use Your Illusion lies mostly in Slash - it's not just a tone similarity. Slash has his signature tone, but the chord progressions throughout the whole album stand in contrast to Axl's solo work to reveal who was really the heart of G'n'R...wow...Just like Dave and Sammy and Gary were all in Eddie Van Halen's band, so Axl was in Slash's band.
You can see why Axl wanted to tear it all down - if Slash is involved, then the music bears his signature. It explains why "Chinese Democracy' doesn't sound ANYTHING like what people really love about G'n'R - it explains why "Chinese" is just a baffling experiment with a bunch of different and amazing players, but it still seems to be missing something. And what it's missing is right here in this song and every other song on that album - Slash's sense of what makes a tune rock and roll...
I gotta say, when I listened to this album the first time and each successive time, I get a chill from the total deja vu from being out at midnight at Tower Records on Sunset on the night when "Use Your Illusion" came out - and what ties "Illusion' is Slash as well. I get the feeling from listening to this record that Slash was biding his time for a long time and wasting his time in a bottle hoping or waiting for G'n'R to somehow get back together. This is the first Slash record that really feels like he just said "FUCK IT." and decided to let it all out in full force. People who think this record sucks don't know their rock and roll from a fucking hole in the ground.
You can have all the nu-metal, death-metal, black-metal, nickelback, complainer-rock blither and it can't even hold a candle to this stuff. And why am I not surprised that Myles is the frontman for TWO of the very best rock bands in the world today...? Hearing this record and the stuff Alter Bridge is putting out gives me a thrill and real hope that rock and roll will make a real comeback in the future...
No, it really doesn't blow away Chinese Democracy. Axl and Izzy were the heart of Guns N' Roses.
Axl was just as important to GnR as Slash
Slash & Myles seem brilliant 2gether, & their music is very cohesive! Thats 1 of 3 probs I had with CD. It also had no nasty, " heavy blues" guitar that Gnr was💓4 ! & th thing that bothers me most is Axl can't sing!! He sounds like a Tom cat dying from hairballs! Imo if u can't sing, don't front a band! It probably took Axl 10yrs literally to lay vocal tracks down 4 that Lp! I've got a real fkn problem with paying tonof $$to see som tonedeaf assclown screech off pitch 4 couple hrs!! I wouldn't pay 2 c VH 4 that reason with Dave as singer
@Andy Vargas nope, sorry
I appreciate SLASH. Tyler and Perry.
i did not hear paradise city until someone mentioned it, still a great song
I could care less what it sounds like... IT STILL IS GREAT
So the story goes
This is a tale that must be told
For what could be your destiny
You never know
I never meant to be here
I never even tried
But until you know when you're lost and down
You'll come to trouble in time
It was a cold December
I wept day and night
In a steel-toed rage, made a big mistake
Now I'll be doing time
I was running with the order
I was running out of time
Now for me there is no quarter
I don't wanna be here
I don't wanna die
Serving 30 years to life
What I did, I can't deny
Now the sorrow in my heart will never fade
I remember it so well
But now I'm sat here bored to hell
Lord, I'm sorry for the error of my ways
They sent me on a mission
Out to earn my stripes
Should've known damn well when the kerbstone fell
Things would never be right
I was running with the order
I was running out of time
Now for me there is no quarter
I don't wanna be here
I'm really not surprised
Serving 30 years to life
What I did, I can't deny
Now the sorrow in my heart will never fade
I remember it so well
But now I'm sat here bored to hell
Lord, I'm sorry for the error of my ways
'Cause now I know, now I know
I was wrong and I can't let this go
I know, now I know
I am sorry, what a wretched soul
Oh, what a big mistake
Now I'm growing old
18 years I've got to go
I waste way in this cage
I'm all alone
That's how the story goes
This is a tale that must be told
For what could be your destiny
You never know
'Cause when you're running with the order
You're only running out of time
Now for me there is no quarter
I didn't wanna be here
I don't wanna die
Serving 30 years to life
What I did, I can't deny
Now the sorrow in my heart will never fade
I remember it all went well
But it's too late to save myself
Lord, I'm sorry for the error of my ways
So the story goes
This is a tale that must be told
For the sorrow in my heart will never fade
So the story goes
This is a tale that must be told
Yes, I'm sorry for the error of my ways
it is in the description
Lol its the night i sent that boy to hell not But now I'm sat here bored to hell
you fuck head.... this isn't Paradise City! YOU TRY TO WRITE A SONG, FACES OF SHIT!
ha..ha.. paradise city
not very creative .. Anastasia was twisted version of SCOM now this .. Paradise city rip off
Why is it a rip off slash was part of the writing of Paradise city! This is a great song.
I'm not saying it's a rip off. just that is not very creative - so many years after PC Slash is still playing the same notes just a little different . My opinion of course :)
anastasia is nothing like scom.... anastasia riff was made by accident in the godfather solo made in stoke.... what are you on about
Yes, you are saying that it's a ripoff.
Ach fick. Dich doch einfach
Take me down to the paradise city!!!!
OMG what can i say !!!!!!!