这首estranged由枪花乐队的主唱Axl.rose创作，写于1989年以前。具有双重人格，脾气暴躁的axl曾说过：“我们不想为了当大明星而胡编乱造，我们的作品是精心构思出来的.”正因为如此，创作出的作品令人感觉达到灵魂深处。   

Axl: Estranged写的是明知道了爱没有回应，却不得不面对，不得不寻找出口 。这就像是被整个世界抛离，而你却什么都做不了。因为所有你希求的和为之努力的，都注定没有结果，而你对此完全无能为力。

Axl: 这首歌是关于我自身的感觉，以及和Erin婚姻的破裂——我是多么不想看到这一结果。还有那所有的友情、亲情，你知道——它们都不得不结束了。

Axl: 你的内心还是有情感的，不想要分手，仍然在意他人，不愿看到他们受伤害。这首歌写给Steven、写给我的家人、Erin、还有Stephanie

正是在这样的背景下，axl创作出了这首感触人心的estranged

axl虽然脾气暴躁狂放不羁，可作品所表达的情感却细腻入微，直达灵魂深处——在斡旋回荡的乐曲和歌者宽广音域的唱诉宣泄中，如断梗飘萍般的人生伤逝被淋漓尽致地挥洒而出

Well I jumped into the river too many times
to make it home

Estranged

When you're talkin' to yourself
and nobody's home
You can fool yourself
You came in this world alone
(Alone)

So nobody ever told you baby
how it was gonna be
So what'll happen to you baby
Guess we'll have to wait and see
One, two

Old at heart but I'm only 28
And I'm much too young
to let love break my heart
Young at heart but it's getting much too late
To find ourselves so far apart

I don't know how you're s'posed
to find me lately
An what more could you ask from me
How could you say that I never needed you
When you took everything
Said you took everything from me

Young at heart an it gets so hard to wait
When no one I know can seem to help me now
Old at heart but I mustn't hesitate
If I'm to find my own way out

Still talkin' to myself and nobody's home
(Alone)

So nobody ever told us baby
how it was gonna be
So what'll happen to us baby
Guess we'll have to wait and see

When I find all of the reasons
Maybe I'll find another way
Find another day
With all the changing seasons of my life
Maybe I'll get it right next time
An now that you've been broken down
Got your head out of the clouds
You're back down on the ground
And you don't talk so loud
an you don't walk so proud
Any more, and what for

Well I jumped into the river too many times
to make it home
I'm out here on my own, an drifting all alone
If it doesn't show give it time
To read between the lines
'Cause I see the storm getting closer
And the waves they get so high
Seems everything we've ever known's here
Why must it drift away and die

I'll never find anyone to replace you
Guess I'll have to make it thru, this time
Oh this time
Without you

I knew the storm was getting closer

And all my friends said I was high
But everything we've ever known's here
I never wanted it to die

伤离

形单影只私语时
四下无人顾
惶惶自欺
茕茕孑立
此行独往身当寂

前途尽是缥缈路
何人曾肯道天机
浮生最是无常事
苦猜度
待天意

韶华当时心已老
纵春光迎面
凭爱摧心碎
青葱年华已难追
忍却步
各分飞

怎堪矫饰做无情
犹恐相逢恰梦醒
何言未曾惜君在
人去也
尽成空……
妄留逝水实非易
举目无相助
光华荏苒岁将暮
遍寻归时路

怎看透
蹊径重新
晨彤又秀
几多年华待从头

痴心呓语收覆水
琢瑕返璞复何求
轻狂少年今何在
云雾散
傲气收

数投沧海寻源处
心魂惟自远漂游
终无言
且为此句
但做静候

狂浪渐高风渐近
倾卷无尽
尽是相识
忍能回首

君自归去欢情短
遗恨犹在
寂寥可堪
我道狂风忽再起
乘云直上九重天
不舍故知遥别去
心虽念
行渐远……