About Guns n' Roses - Street of Dreams

wow... this is going to be a first song for a first post. I am kinda excited about this, yet I am also scared as hell, since I WILL try to interpret song in my own way. Some would have different ideas about a song so they can disagree with me. I am totally fine with that. I don't care if a person starts to curse. As long as it's logical enough to argue, I will try to share my ideas with people about a song....and we can have a discussion about it...

Well let's go ahead and talk about a song lol.

Recently, Guns n' roses produced an album for first time in more than 10 years...It's called as "Chinese Democracy." I kinda waited years to see this album because it took the most money among any other CDs. It's very interesting because I know that Axl Rose, a frontman of Guns n' Roses, used more than 10 years and more than 1 million dollars to produce this ALBUM...

Well, I am not going to argue whether album was worth enough to wait more than 10 years or not including other issues such as qualities, styles, etc....

I recently bought this album from Bestbuy (of course....) and began to listen about it. Well to be honest, most songs already have been either leaked or heard from Guns n' Rose's past tours...
Among songs in this album, there is a song called "Street of Dreams."

Street of Dreams... first of all, a title of this song kinda made me to believe that it would a balladish rock song (slow and dramatic song)... and I was right lol...It starts with a piano intro and one of my friend told me that it reminds me "Elton John, period." Well, Axl would agree that too since Elton John's works influenced some songs of Guns' n roses....

and then Axl's soulful voice covers a whole song along with orchesra, guitar, bass, and drums....
Some fans that love old works of Guns n' roses wouldn't appreciate his voice...Axl used to have an aggresive tone of his voice and most time, he sang songs aggresively.... But this time, he sang it so smoothly even I was kinda surprised... wow ....he can sing lol ....well, some medias appointed him as one of the top 100 vocalists that are important....I thought it was kinda exaggerated since he used to sing songs with only one tone (well... most of time) but recently he tries to sing clearly....and this song proves itself .....

The song did not have any killing riffs like "Welcome to Jungle" or crazy guitar solo like "Sweet Child O mine." Yet, Axl's soulful voice covers whole song and an orchestra made it more intense.
The most important part of song I believe is lyrics of this song...

Basically, you guys can get lyrics from the internet so lol... but yea, if he or she read it, it's kinda poetic and also complex, too... It seems to be complex because lyrics itself is talking about a part of ....life...lol.... A main character talks about a person who he love, like, or whatever...and claims that he or she has changed....

Well, in real world, almost every person does change himself, herself, or "itself" for many purposes...simply in order to "live." And that could hurt other people who are near those who have changed.... However, in reality, a person (as long as they don't die too early before they even start to enter the society...lol and this can happen to you all, too) is going to face lots of problems and because of those, some decide to change their attitude, characteristics, behaviors, whatever they have lol...In this song, a main character mourns himself or herself because still could not believe that a person he adimre...(or whatever) changes and all he or she believes now is just memories... I guess a main dude feels pity or feels sad about it....I can see a scene through lyrics: this guy is walking down on the "street" and is still "dreaming" about past......

"Street of Dreams" can approach some people with its own epic sounds and an atmosphere of songs but....I think lyrics of this song is the best part of itself.....