Guns N' Roses: Welcome to the Jungle Meaning

Song Released: 1987

Welcome to the Jungle Lyrics

Welcome to the jungle
We got fun 'n' games
We got everything you want
Honey we know the names
We are the people that can find
Whatever you may need
If you got the money honey
We got your disease

Chorus:
In the jungle
Welcome to the...

1. anonymous

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   Mar 16th 2010 !⃝

   UH, No. Welcome to the Jungle is about when the band went to New York, by bus, to find a gig. They never made it cuz they partied all night. On a city bus, a black (African- American) guy goes, Do you know where you are son? You're in the Jungle, Welcome, and you're gonna die.
   From the Book "Appetite for Destruction"

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2. mark09

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   Sep 30th 2009 !⃝

   I think its bout drugs liek everyone else. I also think that the jungle is the state of mind you are in when you are under their influences. People who experienced should know. Its like your in your own world. Nothing bothers u cus u dont care. But you need money for it.
3. anonymous

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   Jun 18th 2009 !⃝

   This is a song about drug abuse.we got your disease is tlaking the drugs for the person.
4. anonymous

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   Mar 17th 2009 !⃝

   Honestly, when axl was doing time in an indiana state prison, There were three sections of the prison (I can't remember the name of the prison at the moment) The left being schooling area, right being working area, and the center "the jungle" was for people who were either constantly in trouble, or just didn't want to work or do schooling, axl was in the jungle, and his time there is what he based the song off of (honestly, I don't think I'll ever be back to this site but go ahead and bash away, you know I'm right, because I was in there with axl when he wrote it)
5. anonymous

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   Mar 7th 2009 !⃝

   This song basically talks about how axl when he first arrived to l.a. didnt expect everything he saw, he started to see the dark side of the city and began experimenting with DRUGS, SEX, AND PROSTITUTES, im not saying the prision thing is not right because is kind of the same.
6. anonymous

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   Feb 26th 2009 !⃝

   axl and a friend hitched to new york, and an old black man said to him, "you know where you are? you're in the jungle. you're gonna die." a few years later, he hitched to L.A. to find izzy. he wrote the song about his experiences in L.A. and the grittier side of things. pretty obvious song.
7. anonymous

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   Feb 9th 2009 !⃝

   This idiot at my school today thinks this song isn't about sex...if you got money honey we got your disease?....thats self explanitory
8. axemanwolf25

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   Feb 8th 2009 !⃝

   ok hold up just one second ok!? this song was based on the prison that axl was held in. "welcome to the jungle! your gonna die!" think about it! throw somebbody in jail is like throwing someone into a jungle full of hungry creatures waiting to eat your soul!!! guns n roses was the shit... but if you want my opinion, guns n roses went straight to hell the second slash got booted!!
9. anonymous

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   Aug 5th 2008 !⃝

   This song is definitly about drugs
   look at these parts from the lyrics
   
   -If you got the money honey
   We got your disease
   
   -You can taste the bright lights
   But you won't get them for free
   
   -And when you're high you never
   Ever want to come down, so down, so down, so down YEAH
   
   -Watch it bring you to your
   It's gonna bring you down!
   
   In The Song Jungle Means Like A Place Where All Junkies,Potheads,Crackheads, Etc. Etc.
   
   And When He Says I Wanna Hear You Scream Its Because I Think In My Opinion Though, That When She Gets High Or Whatever Drug She Takes She Might Get Raped But That's My Opinion
   
   
   P.S
   This Song Is Awesome
   
   Guns N Roses Rock <33!
10. anonymous

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    Jul 22nd 2008 !⃝

    Welcome to the jungle
    We got fun 'n' games
    We got everything you want
    Honey we know the names
    We are the people that can find
    Whatever you may need
    If you got the money honey
    We got your disease
    
    The disease refers to drugs, probably Heroin because Slash did a lot of that. The jungle is of course the big city.
    
    Welcome to the jungle
    We take it day by day
    If you want you're gonna bleed
    But it's the price you pay
    And you're a very sexy girl
    Very hard to please
    You can taste the bright lights
    But you won't get there for free
    In the jungle
    Welcome to the jungle
    Feel my, my, my, my serpentine
    I,I, wanna hear you scream
    
    
    Tasting the bright lights refers to a drug, and there saying that she's whoring herself for the drugs. My serpentine is probably his penis.
11. Roxxi

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    Jun 23rd 2008 !⃝

    This song is talking about life in the music business. When Axl says "you can have anything you want but you better not take it from me", he's referring to competition. I <3 THIS SONG!
12. Chaosruler385

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    Jun 4th 2008 !⃝

    THIS SONG IS ABSOLUTELY ABOUT SEX!!!!!!!!!!!
    
    all the money references
    "If you got the money honey"
    "But it's the price you pay"
    "But you won't get them for free"
    point to prostatute
    
    "Serpintine""Bright light"both might mean sperm
    
    "We got your disease"STD
    
    "I wanna watch you bleed"
    "If you want it you're gonna bleed"
    Clearly obvious
    
    "We got fun 'n' games"
    "And you're a very sexy girl"
    "Watch it bring you to your...knees,"
    ABSOLUTE DUH!!
13. anonymous

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    Feb 17th 2008 !⃝

    You know what I think it's about? it's about drugs sex and a bad city full of hookers.
14. gokuten554

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    Feb 1st 2008 !⃝

    FOR ME THIS SONG IS ABOUT A HAIRY PUSSY (Welcome to the jungle
    We got fun 'n' games
    We got everything you want)WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE THE PUBS (In the jungle
    Welcome to the jungle
    Watch it bring you to your knees, knees
    I wanna watch you bleed ) I WANNA WATCH U BLEED SHE LOSES HER VIRGINITY
    
    (We got your disease ) WE GOT UR DISEASE, AIDS

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15. thedeem0n

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    Jan 11th 2008 !⃝

    YOU ALL HAVE IT WRONG...ESPECIALLY THE GUY WHO SAID IT'S ABOUT NEW YORK CITY, & THE NO-NOTHING ASSHOLE WHO SAID THAT IT WAS ABOUT THE VIETNAM WAR
    
    It's really about the Sunset Strip Music Scene in the Late 80's/Early 90's. & how All the SHIT Involved with a band making it big can fucking SWALLOW AN ENTIRE BAND WHOLE & PUKE IT BACK OUT INTO A PUDDLE OF PISS...Which (if you can recall...) is ACTUALLY what fuking happened to Guns N Roses...Which is Why Chinese Democracy STILL HASN'T FUKING COME OUT & why we didn't hear SHIT from Saul Hudson (Saul Hudson=Slash) between "The Spaghetti Incident?" (1993) and Velvet Revolver's Contraband (A Decade Later in 2003)...And if you Actually *LISTEN* to the song Fall to Pieces...it's NOTHING but Sweet Child O' Mine with the licks and solo's Re-Arranged and Lyrics that are like what happened in the Break-up between Axl & his "Sweet Child O' His" only Axl became Scott Wieland instead...so uuuh he did a little be less Heroin...Maybe?! but Probably not...

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