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Old 12-06-2017, 08:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Alphavictim View Post
Songfacts is not overtly reliable, and really, turning the first verse of Bed of Roses into a metaphor for the music business just sounds like it's trying to protect the band's image more than anything. I'm sure you folks would find a way to interpret Damned in a manner so it's really about Jon resucing stray kittens from the rain.
I don't believe Bed of Roses was ever about infidelity. I always took it as being about his career. Damned, on the other hand, I do take as being about his infidelity.

By infidelity, I do mean post-marriage... not during their on-again/off-again years in the 80s.
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