Guns N' Roses
Breakdown
Use Your Illusion II (1991)

Tune down 1/2 step

D  G  G7  A  G A D/F♯ G G A D  w/ sifflotage

D(7)  piano 

       D                      a b
We all come in from the cold
   Csus2                    c d
We come down from the wire
    G/B                              b c      Asus4    f♯  e
An' everybody warms themselves to a different fire

     D
When sometimes we get burned
      Csus2
You'd think sometime we'd learn
    G/B                                          Asus4
The one you love is the one that should take you higher

          G                     D/F♯    Asus4/E (D)
You ain't got no one you better go back out and find her

D  Csus2  G/B  Asus4  x 2

G  D/F♯ Asus4/E D  puis  piano

G(6)  D(sus2)  G(6)  D(sus2)

            D
  Just like children hidin' in a closet can't tell
         A
  What's goin' on outside
                  G7
  Sometimes we're so far off the beaten track
            D
  We'll get taken for a ride

       G                    A
  By a parlor trick or some words of wit
    D/F♯             G
  A hidden hand up a sleeve to think
           G                                                     A
  That the one you love could hurt you now is a little hard to believe
      A                                               D      D
  But everybody darlin' sometimes bites the hand that feeds

G(maj7,6)  x 2  *Ow*

D(6/4)

  When I look around
  Everybody always brings me down
  Well is it them or me well I just can't see
  But there ain't no peace to be found

  But if someone really cared
  Well they'd take the time to spare
  A moment to try and understand another one's despair
  Remember in this game we call life that no one said it's fair


G(maj7,6)  x 2  w/ Ooh

                   D                      G
    *Ow* breakdown   (let me hear it now)
              G                      D
    Breakdown   (let me hear it now)
           D           G                      G
    (Yeah)   breakdown   (let me hear it now)
         Asus4      A      
    Aayh       a-ya   (get down with yo' bad self)  alright

D  Csus2  G/B  Asus4  x 2  w/ solo et cris

G  D/F♯ Asus4/E

D  Csus2  G/B  Asus4  x 2  w/ passes de Matt

G  D/F♯ Asus4/E

     D                                           (doux)
I've come to know the cold
  Csus2
I think of it as home
                  G/B
When there ain't enough of me to go around
    Asus4
I'd rather be left alone

But if I call you out of habit                   (rembarque)
I'm out of love and I gotta have it
Would you give it to me if I fit your needs
Like when we both knew we had it

      G                A
  But now the damage's done
      D/F♯                  G
  And we're back out on the run
            G                                           A
  Funny how everything was roses when we held on to the guns
  A                                                        D    D
  Just because you're winnin', don't mean you're the lucky one

G(maj7,6)  x 2  w/ Ooh

              D                      G
    Breakdown   (let me hear it now)
              G        Asus4  A
    Breakdown   (yeah)
              D           G                      w/ riff
    Breakdown   breakdown
                         G      A  g c A
    (Let me hear it now)   aayh      a-ya
    
Csus2  D  x 12  w/ solo

"There goes the challenger being chased by the blue blue meanies on wheels. The
vicious traffic squad cars are after our lone driver. The last American hero, he -
the electric centaur, the demi-god, the super driver of the golden West. Two nasty
Nazi cars are close behind the beautiful lone driver. The police cars are getting
closer - closer... Closer to our soul hero in his soul mobile. Yeah baby. They
about to strike, they gonna get him, smash! rape! The last beautiful free soul on
this planet.  (D  \)  But... it is written if the Evil Spirit arms the Tiger with
claws, Brahman provideth wings for the Dove. Thus spake the Super Guru."
(cf. Vanishing Point)

- Did you hear that?        w/ piano grave