Get In The Ring |
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| Title: Get In The
Ring On Album: Use Your Illusion II Running Time: 5:39 Produced by: Mike Clink & Guns N' Roses Engineered by: Mike Clink Mixed by: Bill Price Audio: N/A Single: No Video: No |
Drums: Matt Bass: Duff Lead and Rhythm Guitars: Slash Rhythm Guitar: Izzy Piano: Dizzy Vocals: Axl Background Vocals: Duff Written by: "Get In The Ring" was originally written by Duff. Axl wrote the rant about the press, while Slash wrote some of the music. Written in: "Get In The Ring" was probably written in or before 1989. Additional information: The song was originally titled "Why Do You Look At Me When You Hate Me", but the title was changed since the band thought it was too long. The vocals were recorded in Toronto, at the Metalworks Recording Studios on June 9, 1991. "Get In The Ring" was the last song the band recorded for "Use Your Illusion". Mick Wall was mentioned because he misquoted Slash several times. The band also thought some articles he wrote did not represent the truth. |
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| Lyrics | |
| Why do you look at me when you hate me Why should I look at you when you make me hate you to I sense a smell of retribution in the air I don't even understand why the fuck you even care And I don't need your jealousy yeah Why drag me down in your misery And when you stare don't you think I feel it But I'm gonna deal it back to you in spades When I'm havin' fun ya know I can't conceal it 'Cause I know you'd never cut it in my game- Oh no And when you're talkin' about a vasectomy- Yeah I'll be writin' down your obituary- history! You got your bitches with The silicone injections Crystal meth and yeast infections Bleached blond hair Collagen lip projections Who are you to criticize my intentions Got your subtle manipulative devices Just like you I got my vices I got a thought that would be nice Id like to crush your head tight in my vice- Pain!! And that goes for all you punks in the press That want to start shit by printin' lies instead of the things we said That means you Andy Secher at Hit Parader Circus Magazine Mick Wall at Kerrang Bob Guccione Jr. at Spin What you pissed off cuz your dad gets more pussy than you? |
Fuck you Suck my fuckin' dick You be rippin' off the fuckin' kids While they be payin' their hard earned money to read about the bands They want to know about Printin' lies startin' controversy You wanta antagonize me Antagonize me motherfucker Get in the ring motherfucker And I'll kick your bitchy little ass PUNK! I don't like you, I just hate you I gonna kick your ass Oh yeah! Oh yeah! You may not like our integrity yeah We built a world out of anarchy Oh yeah! And in this corner weighing in at 850 pounds - Guns N' Roses Get in the ring Yeah "Yeah this song is dedicated to All the Guns N' fuckin' Roses fans Who stuck with us through all the fucking shit And to all those opposed... Hmm...well" |
| Live Performances | |
"Get In The Ring" was never played live - mostly because Axl thought it was enough to have the song on the album. Notable Performances:
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| In Their Own Words | |
| Duff: There's a song called "Why do you look at me when
you hate me". It's about the press. It's like "why do you look at me when you
hate me, why do you look at me when you know I hate you too." It's about the press
writing shit they have no idea about. And so... if they're being so hardcore about us and
they don't like us, why do they write about us? It has something to say about them. Axl: "Get In The Ring" was a song that was… basically put together by Slash and Duff and… I came up with the… with the low vocal part. And Slash and I wrote that part together. We wrote different verses. And we wrote a whole song that when the whole band actually had the song together, the words didn't fit the arrangement of the song. And so, we were in Toronto, playing a show in Toronto. And we had one last song to re… to finish recording, that was "Get In The Ring". So, we went in the studio and just kind of started putting things together. And then Duff decided that I should express my feelings about how we've been treated by the press, because that was his initial concept for the song, and that I should just go for it. And I was kind of like: "Are you sure? You sure I should do this?". And then Tom Zutaut, of Geffen, was there and he was like: "Go for it." So I got behind the mike and went for it. And everybody was really happy and we just decided to do it.1 Axl: This naming names, and things like that, were because most bands can't afford to express how they feel about how they're treated in the press, because they need the press so much. And I know that this could hurt us, but we're in a position where I think we owe it to ourselves, and we owe it to an element of the public, to explain a bit what's going on… When a magazine prints… umm, interviews out of context, or they print parts of things you said, or they make up interviews, or they say all different kinds of things that don't really have anything to do with the band. Someone reading an interview of Guns N' Roses doesn't know what to think about us. And since this whole thing is about expression, the expression is, you know, being tampered with, and I wanted the people that buy these magazines to realize… From certain magazines, they're not really getting the whole story, when they pay their money to find out what's up with Guns N' Roses, or any other band. And this was also something for other bands. You know, maybe… maybe Guns N' Roses is still keep getting crap… But maybe somebody else won't get that much crap, or they'll decide to stand up for themselves a bit more, and not let themselves be treated… umm… so carelessly. I mean… An artist is expected to be, you know… so responsible in his music, or true to his art. And you know, the same thing doesn't necessarily seem to apply with the press. Umm, we're not trying to… umm, you know, mess with the liberties of the press. We just would like it to be a bit more responsible in dealing with… the people that… are helping them sell their magazines. You know, it's kinda like: "We're on the same side, aren't we? Why are…" You know, why is someone trying to shoot it down with lies or something. Or distort the truth. Umm, I don't have time for that. And there's a lot of people that are upset and put out phony interviews, because we wont talk with them. The same way you wouldn't talk with somebody you know that like, you talk with them and every time you talk to this person that's supposed to be your friend, a bunch of things happen in your life. Umm, a bunch of problems and you finally realize… it's just not good for me to associate with that person. So, that we don't associate with certain magazines. But then they'll run: "Exclusive interview with Axl Rose" and da, da, da. And it's not an interview I've done. I haven't done an interview with certain magazines for over three or four years. But yet they'll run an exclusive interview and a 13-year-old kid will go buy that magazine, thinking he's, you know, hearing what I have to say. And he's not. Or these magazines will take parts of interviews from other magazines and, you know, put it in such a way to make themselves look favorable to their readers. You know, that like, I'm supporting that magazine. And then we decided to take this opportunity to… say that we're not supporting certain things. Or we're not supporting certain practices or ways of reporting. And that's about it.2 Axl: Duff said it all in one song - it’s called
"Why Do You Look At Me When You Hate Me" and it’s just bad-assed.3 |
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