In their most simplistic forms,

1) Runaway is about a bit of an out of control young girl. I think Jon said he was inspired to write it from making his daily trip in and out of NYC and passing all the hookers on the side of the street. I guess this song was an imagioning of who one of these girls is and who she got to where she was.

2)The lyric "I'm feeling like a Monday but Someday I'll Be Saturday Night" is obviously a metaphor for a person who is feeling as low as s/he can be but wont give up because s/he's sure that someday they'll be back on their feet and feeling as good as they can again, ie, feeling like a Saturday Night. It's all written in the third person, the first introduces us to Jim and Billy G and then by the first chorus it becomes much more universal. Easily the most uplifiting song ever written.

3) August 7, 4:15 was written about the mysterious hit-and-run death of Kathrine Korzillus, who is the daughter of Bon Jovi's manager Paul Korzillus. Even to this day the crime has never been solved despite Jon even appearing on the tv show "Unsolved Mysteries".

4) "Janie....." was written accoriding to Jon one night after he and his wife had a huge fight and she kicked him out of bed, he said he went into the bathroom and wrote that song right there. It's obvious then that the lyrics are a plea from Jon to his wife not to leave him. I guess the reason he used the name Janie was to give it a more universal feel.

That's pretty much all their about without going into alot of detail.


Phil