My World


Title: My World
On Album: Use Your Illusion II
Running Time: 1:23
Produced by: Mike Clink & Guns N' Roses

Engineered by: Mike Clink
Mixed by: Bill Price

Audio: N/A


Single
: No
Video
: No
Keyboards, Drums, Effects: Axl, Johann Langlie
Vocals: Axl


Written by: "My World" was written by Axl.
Written in
: "My World" was written in 1990 or 1991.
Lyrics
You wan'da step into my world
It's a sociopsychotic state of bliss
You've been delayed in the real world
How many times have you hit and missed?
You cat-scan shows disfiguration
I wanna laugh myself to death
With a misfired synapse
With a bent configuration
I'll hold the line while you gasp for breath
You wanna talk to me
So talk to me
You wanna talk to me

You wanna talk to me
You wanna talk to me
You wanna talk to me
You wanna talk to me
You wanna talk to me
You wanna talk to me
You can't talk to me
You don't understand your sex
You ain't been mindfucked yet
Let's do it
Let's do it
Let's do it
Oh my distorted smile
Guess what I'm doing now
Live Performances

"My World" was never performed live by Guns N' Roses.

In Their Own Words
Axl: "My World" happened when we're sitting and were bored. We've been working on "Live and Let Die" the whole night and it was early in the morning. I'd been listening to a lot of industrial music and all of a sudden I said, 'Hey man, let's do something. Let's see what happens. Let's just make it short and sweet and see what we come up with.' In three hours we wrote and recorded the song."1

Axl: We were also on 'shrooms. A friend of mine had stuck some mushrooms in my tea and I didn't know it. All of a sudden we were being really mellow. So it was kind of a socio-psychotic state of bliss.2


Izzy: There was one song on that record that I didn't even know was on it until it came out, "My World". I gave it a listen and thought, 'What the fuck is this?'

Axl: There was a certain focus we all wanted to keep for Illusion l and II, but when l did "My World", everyone dug it and wanted it on the record.3

Axl: It's something I needed to get out of my system.