"Pretty Tied Up" (subtitled "The Perils of Rock n Roll Decadence") is a song by the rock band Guns N' Roses. Written by rhythm guitarist Izzy Stradlin, it appears on the band's 1991 album Use Your Illusion II. The song opens with the sounds of a coral sitar played by Stradlin.
Stradlin's lyrics may have been inspired by a bondage encounter with a dominatrix and her client, which he described in an interview:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Tied_UpMy Mexican friend Tony took me to meet this woman named Margot at her house. She gave us some tequila or something and she goes in the bedroom and we walk in and there's this big fat naked guy with an onion in his mouth. He's wearing women's underwear and high heels and he's tied up with duct tape against the wall. Me and Tony were like, What the fuck is going on here? Cracking up laughing. She was this dominatrix chick.
Socrates je napisao/la: ↑17 feb 2026, 13:19
Samo prva strofa i refren od Pretty Tied Up je o susretu sa dominatrix. Izzy je to uvezao sa suludim životom rokenrol zvijezdi i pretjerivanjem u svakom pogledu. Mnogi se slažu da je pjesma njegova najava da odlazi iz benda uskoro, jer je nemoguće preživjeti normalan takav životni stil.
"Once there was this rock n' roll band
Rollin' on the streets
Time went by and it became a joke"
Socrates je napisao/la: ↑17 feb 2026, 16:53
Nema se puno šta proširiti, osim što se Izzy i Slash slažu da je pjesma začeta kad je Izzy bio pod žestokim uticajem heroina. Treća strofa je o heroinskoj ovisnosti.
Neka šira tema pjesme je kako se bilo koji čovjek nosi sa životnim stilom koji nije održiv na duge staze. On je ovdje pričao prepuštanju hedonističkoj bujici kad si slavan, ali svaki insan može postati žrtva svojih ovisnosti i nesavršenosti.