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"Brownstone" is a slang term for heroin "Mr. Brownstone": Slash relates that the song was written by him and Izzy Stradlin while they were at Izzy and his girlfriend Desi''s apartment. He states that they were sitting around, complaining about being heroin addicts, when they started improvising lyrics and music . When they had the lyrics all together, they wrote it down on the back of a grocery bag and brought it to Axl. Slash says the lyrics describe a typical day in the life of Slash and Izzy. Read more on Last.fm.