Guns N' Roses - Knockin' on Heaven's Door Meaning

Song Released: 1992

Knockin' on Heaven's Door Lyrics

Mama take this badge from me
I can't use it anymore
It's getting dark too dark to see
Feels like I'm knockin' on heaven's door

Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door
Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door
Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's...

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   anonymous

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   May 29th 2011 !⃝

   The song in my View is telling of how a Dying Deputy is saying to his mother that he can't do it anymore his day is done. bury him with his guns and take his badge off him as he can no longer serve as a deputy.
2. anonymous

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   Nov 14th 2022 !⃝

   I interpret this as a man who served his life in the military and was honored with a badge or medal & all looked to him as a hero. However, behind the badge is a very worn out soul n does not deserve the recognition that he is honored for. So many others had died that earned the metal's he rocks. He feels he needs to move on to heaven.
3. anonymous

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   Dec 11th 2021 !⃝

   Knocking on heavens door is my meaning knocking back until the reason is known it is unheard.like knock knock who is there lol.
4. anonymous

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   May 26th 2018 !⃝

   I interpret the song as a man who uses his guns and badges to protect him. So by his mother taking that away from him, he feels unsafe in the world, as if he is basically knocking on heavens door because so many dangerous things can happen in the world, such as death.
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   Jan 20th 2016 !⃝

   That's how Pat Garret felt after shooting Billy The Kid
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   Feb 28th 2014 !⃝

   The guns and the badge represent what the man is and what he has done in life. He can't carry the burdon of it all anymore, the end has come and he has chosen when and how to go.
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   May 24th 2012 !⃝

   i interpret it as his fight is over bury him with all he has left he can no longer carry the burden of life