{"id":1174,"date":"2009-08-22T12:53:04","date_gmt":"2009-08-22T10:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alwaysrocknroll.wordpress.com\/?p=85"},"modified":"2009-11-16T17:10:07","modified_gmt":"2009-11-16T15:10:07","slug":"stories-behind-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinartarhan.com\/blog\/stories-behind-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"Stories behind songs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\">I love a song with good lyrics. Vocals and music are incediblty important to me too, but I am not one of those people who don&#8217;t pay attention to the lyrics. Because the story is right there. Since I am a rock fan, the songs I listen to are full of different stories. Romantic, funny, passionate, dreamy, hopeless, hopeful&#8230;it can go on forever. But sometimes the lycris are not talking about what you thing they are or sometimes the situation is deeper than you think.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Think about the start of this century. Before the downloading mania. New CDs could be expensive so often I would stick to old casettes. And I remember the funny looks on the clerks&#8217; faces when I looked for Poison. God forbid-if you listen to something from the 80s and 90s. Of course some bands remain more popular through the years like Bon Jovi or Metallica. But when you go to a person who is only aware of eithert the current charts or just know the 70 stuff  like Zeppelin and Floyd, you are in for a funny reaction. Anyhow, I searched and finally found a Poison album.It was the best of. And the band had thought of including the stories behind the songs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>* &#8220;Life goes on&#8221; :<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">I used this song in a story of mine (Yeah, I write stories with dialogues and write the name of the song that I think will go with the scene). The character is slowly coming to terms with her boyfriend&#8217;s death. It has been a little over a year. She was madly in love with him and surviving his loss has been an extremely painful process. The lyrics go something like this:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">&#8220;So I pretend youre here by my side, tonight on this lonely ride&#8230;I keep telling myself that :<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Life goes on while youre miles away and I need you<br \/>\nTime goes on as night steals the day Theres nothing I can do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>* &#8221; Something to believe in&#8221; :<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">It has a similar story.\u00a0 It is also about loss, having been written after a loss of band members&#8217; friends:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">&#8220;I tried all night not to break down and cry<br \/>\nAs the tears rolled down my face<br \/>\nI felt so cold and empty<br \/>\nLike a lost soul out of place&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>&#8220;Every rose has its thorn&#8221; :<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">However, &#8220;Every rose has its thorn&#8221; has the fun story. The lyrics contain these verses:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">&#8220;Every rose has its thorn<br \/>\nJust like every night has its dawn<br \/>\nJust like every cowboy sings his sad, sad song<br \/>\nEvery rose has its thorn&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">We naturally think the girl is the rose and the thorns are her flaws and\/or the difficulties in their relationships.It turns out the girl is thorn and the rose is poison&#8217; s career: the girl dumped bret for a guywwiith more money. then the song becomes a hit and bret becomes more popular than that guy will ever be.It is not a romantic  song. It is just mistaken for one.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>&#8220;You give love a bad name&#8221;:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">* This Bon Jovi song is rumored to have been written after Diane Lane, with whom Jon Bon Jovi dated before marrying his wife. Watching Diane&#8217; s movies, she just seems so pretty and sweet- well, but I guess she does give love a bad name in the movie &#8220;Unfaithful&#8221; where she cheats on her husband (played by Richard Gere). I am pretty sure if I was Diane and Jon wrote a song like this about me, I would be pissed. But being a die-hard Bon Jovi fan; all I can say is:the story behind the song doesn&#8217;t matter much here. It is fantastic and and an all-time classic:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">&#8220;Shot through the heart<br \/>\nAnd youre to blame<br \/>\nYou give love a bad name<br \/>\nI play my part and you play your game<br \/>\nYou give love a bad name&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_87\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-87\" style=\"width: 352px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-87\" title=\"1209146243_f\" src=\"http:\/\/alwaysrocknroll.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/08\/1209146243_f.jpg?resize=352%2C500\" alt=\"Diane Lane and Jon Bon Jovi. So 80s.\" width=\"352\" height=\"500\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-87\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diane Lane and Jon Bon Jovi. So 80s.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love a song with good lyrics. Vocals and music are incediblty important to me too, but I am not one of those people who don&#8217;t pay attention to the lyrics. Because the story is right there. Since I am a rock fan, the songs I listen to are full of different stories. 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