Do the lyrics ruin the song?

Correction, don't tell it to a NYer or North NJite. For the rest of America and the world, it was something they saw on TV. For a NYers it was a horror we saw and experienced personally that will stay with us for the rest of our lives. That's what it boils down to.

Hmm... never thought of it that way. I thought the music in Open All Night was most nursery rhyme-like. But the lyrics sure weren't.

You got that right

Kathleen

I couldnt care less about lyrics, the tune is all Im looking for. But there are some songs that have more meaning than others, and you are thinking during them, like Saturday Night, Letting You Go, Damned (a song I tend to get the same images in my mind every time). But I don't judge any song on its lyrics, becausethey don't write terrible songs, to me at least.

let me ask you something: I'm not trying to be pessimistic or cruel, and 9/11 was terrible, but if the same thing had happened in the UK, would there have been as much media attention in America as there was about 9/11 in the UK? Until like the 13th that was all that was on the news.

saz

i don`t like Tokyo road lyrics....
but i love i got the girl,never say goodbye, everyday.

"You Give Love a Bad Name" and "Bad Medicine" fall into this catagory. I'm just not sure what I'm supposed to do with those on a lyrical level...

In all honesty, very few of Bon Jovi's lyrics carry much originality. If someone's bored count up the number of songs that rhyme "die," "cry," and "lie." They aren't all bad, don't get me wrong. But, they are certainly a band that leans toward the heavy side of cliche.

For me, though, Bon Jovi has rarely been about intellectual stimulation. It's more about the emotion behind the songs, than the words used to convey those emotions.

in the these days album...jon dedicates it to HIS family like richie tic and dave dont have no family rite and at the back of the cd booklet he writes this long tank you thingy in his own hand writing and stuff its like hes the man ...hes the band hes everything...even in interviews and stuff...when reffering to the bj records...he says stuff like"MY record"..for god's sake HE NAMED THE BAND AFTER HIMSELF...his ego is way oversized...*sigh*
he thinks hes hell of a greah eh...

Is it in the realm of possibility that you are way over-analyzing?

no he didn't, the record company did to capitalise on the limited success of runaway.

and it is his record, as much as it is richie's.