Guns N’ Roses – ‘Nightrain’

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Loaded Like A Freight Train!

It’s not a party until you play ‘Nightrain’ by Guns N’ Roses! This concert staple was written in 1985 and featured on the band’s debut album Appetite For Destruction in 1987. It serves as both a time capsule of the days when the boys of Guns N’ Roses were too broke to afford anything but cheap liquor, and a tribute to their favorite cheap brand of California wine, Night Train Express.

‘Nightrain’ sums up Guns N’ Roses perfectly; it’s rowdy, it’s loud, and every bit in-your-face as the band that wrote it! It’s electric and definitely a song that makes you want to get up and move, a feeling that even Slash recalls feeling every time he plays it!

Bottoms Up: The song was ranked eighth on Guitar World’s list of the “Top 10 Drinking Songs.”

All in all, this is one of my favorite Guns N’ Roses tunes. It may not have made any of their greatest hits albums, but songs that are this much fun don’t really need to be considered greatest hits – they stand on their own just fine. With solo duties shared by both Izzy Stradlin and Slash, highlighted by Axl’s powerhouse voice roaring its way through the song, ‘Nightrain’ is one that’s stood the test of time!

+ Nightrain lyrics +

Loaded like a freight train
Flyin’ like an aeroplane
Feelin’ like a space brain
One more time tonight, look out

Well I’m a west coast struttin’
One bad mother got a rattlesnake suitcase under my arm
Said I’m a mean machine been drinkin’ gasoline
An’ you can make my motor hum

Well I got one chance left in a nine live cat
I got a dog eat dog sly smile
I got a Molotov cocktail with a match to go
I smoke my cigarette with style
An’ I can tell you honey you can make my money tonight

Wake up late, honey put on your clothes
And take your credit card to the liquor store
Well that’s one for you and two for me by tonight

I’ll be loaded like a freight train
Flyin’ like an aeroplane
Feelin’ like a space brain
One more time tonight

I’m on the nightrain, bottoms up
I’m on the nightrain, fill my cup
I’m on the nightrain, ready to crash and burn, I never learn

I’m on the nightrain, I love that stuff
I’m on the nightrain and I can never get enough
I’m on the nightrain, never to return, no

Loaded like a freight train
Flyin’ like an aeroplane
Feelin’ like a space brain
One more time tonight

I’m on the nightrain
I’m on the nightrain
I’m on the nightrain
Ready to crash an’ burn

Nightrain, riding the nightrain
I’m on the nightrain
Never to wake up

Nightrain, riding the nightrain
Riding the nightrain
I guess I
I guess, I guess, I guess I’ll never learn

Loaded like a freight train
Flyin’ like an aeroplane
Feelin’ like a space brain
One more time tonight

Oh, loaded like a freight train
Flyin’ like an aeroplane
Feelin’ like a space brain
One more time tonight, yeah

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