This song was originally written and performed by Bob Dylan for the soundtrack to the 1973 film Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid. GNR’s version is featured in 1990’s Days of Thunder.

The song is about an officer… Read More [Intro: Axl Rose]

Ooh, ooh

Hey

[Verse 1: Axl Rose]

Mama, take this badge from me

I can't use it anymore

It's gettin' dark, too dark to see

Feels like I'm knockin' on heaven's door

[Chorus: Axl Rose]

Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door, hey, hey, hey-hey, yeah

Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door, ooh

Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door, ooh-oh, yeah

Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door, aye-hey, yeah

Ooh-oh, yeah, oh, yeah, aw

[Verse 2: Axl Rose]

Mama, put my guns in the ground (Ooh)

I can't shoot them anymore (Ooh)

That cold black cloud is comin' down (Ooh)

Feels like I'm knockin' on heaven's door (Ooh)

[Chorus: Axl Rose]

Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door, hey, hey, hey-hey, yeah

Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door

Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door, ooh, yeah

Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door, aye-aye, yeah

Ooh

[Guitar Solo]

[Spoken: Josh Richman]

You just better start sniffin' your own rank subjugation, Jack

Because it's just you against your tattered libido, the bank, and the mortician, forever, man

And it wouldn't be luck if you could get out of life alive

[Outro: Axl Rose, Choir & Both]

Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door, hey, hey, hey-hey, yeah

Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door

Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door, ooh, yeah

Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door

Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door, ooh, no, no, no, woah-ooh-oh

Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door

Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door, no, no, no, woah, no

Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door, woah-woah, woah-yeah

Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door

Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door, ooh, yeah

Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door

Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door, woah, woah, woah

Woah, woah, yeah, oh