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i absolutely love the song, imo it's one of the band's best tunes. mind you, each to their own.
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How can anyone like this song? It's not fun at all, it's boring, the title of the song makes me want to vomit, the riff is horrendous and derivative, there's no solo and it contains the word tragical which as far as I am aware isn't even a real word, it's just been created to make the chorus work. How lazy is that? People waving their arms about in the crowd doesn't make it a good song.

One of the worst Bon Jovi songs ever, don't even dare compare it to 99 In The Shade which is a cool rocking song.
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What's the definition? In my dictionary I only see tragedy, tragic and tragically.
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What's the definition? In my dictionary I only see tragedy, tragic and tragically.
Holly shit people are picky as hell on this board just as to appear smart.


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–adjective
1. characteristic or suggestive of tragedy: tragic solemnity.
2. extremely mournful, melancholy, or pathetic: a tragic plight.
3. dreadful, calamitous, disastrous, or fatal: a tragic event.
4. of, pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of tragedy: the tragic drama.
5. acting in or writing tragedy: a tragic actor; a tragic poet.
6. the tragic, the element or quality of tragedy in literature, art, drama, etc.: lives that had never known anything but the tragic.
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trag·i·cal (trāj'ĭ-kəl) Pronunciation Key
adj. Tragic: "You take too tragical a view of matters" (John Fowles). "He assumes a sudden look of tragical sobriety" (Scott Turow).
So I assume it's been used before.

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very sad; especially involving grief or death or destruction; "a tragic face"; "a tragic plight"; "a tragic accident" [syn: tragic]

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How can anyone like this song? It's not fun at all, it's boring, the title of the song makes me want to vomit, the riff is horrendous and derivative, there's no solo and it contains the word tragical which as far as I am aware isn't even a real word, it's just been created to make the chorus work. How lazy is that? People waving their arms about in the crowd doesn't make it a good song.

One of the worst Bon Jovi songs ever, don't even dare compare it to 99 In The Shade which is a cool rocking song.
Well, that's cool.
I disagree on every point, but it was cool to hear your opinion.
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It's not a bad song...
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So I assume it's been used before.

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I wasn't being that picky and it wasn't some desperate attempt to look smart. I had never heard the word and it didn't appear in any dictionary I've ever seen so I indicated that I didn't think it was a real word. Someone then replied that tragical was a word but didn't elaborate so I was just curious where he or she had got this from. When I disagree with someone I normally give an explanation. You have now proved their point and I stand corrected. It actually makes the song ever so slightly less irritating now I know that isn't a made up word. I still hate it though for the other reasons I mentioned. People are obviously welcome to disagree!
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I wasn't being that picky and it wasn't some desperate attempt to look smart. I had never heard the word and it didn't appear in any dictionary I've ever seen so I indicated that I didn't think it was a real word. Someone then replied that tragical was a word but didn't elaborate so I was just curious where he or she had got this from. When I disagree with someone I normally give an explanation. You have now proved their point and I stand corrected. It actually makes the song ever so slightly less irritating now I know that isn't a made up word. I still hate it though for the other reasons I mentioned. People are obviously welcome to disagree!
I don't see what would be so bad about making up a word. It's not laziness on their part, because the chorus doesn't need it at all, it doesn't exactly rhyme with 'invincible'. Lewis Carroll invented many words as well, does that make his stories bad? I think it would be in keeping with the offbeat, slightly nonsensical nature of the song. Tis like a nonsense poem done Bon Jovi style .... Jabberwocky meets Livin' On A Prayer if you will
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personally i really enjoy it- it reminds me of being at school, the friends i made there... i like the characters: how they kind of think that they're superstars but are actually just kind of a joke. reminds me of me and my mates when we were at school and used to raid the green room and go to lessons in fancy dress.

i think to me personally this one of my favourite songs just because it makes me think of those friendships and the fun we used to have. but i like it because there's a lot of memories to the song which i put there, rather than it being one of the band's greatest.
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