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Genre: Music
Date of upload: Jun 16, 2009 ^^
Rating : 4.873 (1,512/46,234 LTDR)
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I was a 15/16 year old in 1997 watching this on a VHS. I had been through a trauma, while also suffering abuse at home. The caption ‘The Lord didn’t bring me this far to leave me now’ literally saved my life. I didn’t want to be here, but being obsessed with Bon Jovi gave me a reason to fight. I’m not religious, but that gave me hope when I was desperate for hope.
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Many years ago I had a friend who hated stuff like Bon Jovi and was into bands like Sabbath and Maiden.
We worked for the same company, but I was at one of the stores and he was a mobile mechanic, so we didn't see each other that often.
One day he comes in to do his usual rounds, and he came into the shop and I was playing my music as I always did at work and this song came on.
He wasn't really paying attention for most of it and had never heard the song before, but then it got to THAT guitar solo and he turned around and said "Damn this guitar is amazing, this band sounds awesome". When I told him who it was he could not believe it. It didn't suddenly make him a Jovi fan, but he defo stopped slagging them off after that.
And for years after I would bring it up "You remember that time you really liked Bon Jovi?" ha ha
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One of the things i really love about this song is how many ways you can interpret it. To me it's a tragic song about a man going after oil and life fucking him over, with him eventually dying from thirst in the desert praying to jesus just like many others who did the same thing, to others it's a song about being able to overcome adversity. I do think it's the best song in the Bon Jovi catalogue at least from what i've heard (heard these days has some great stuff) but this song is just incredible. And that's not even mentioning the insane guitar solo
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@samharper4926
4 months ago
Who's listening to this masterpiece in 2024?
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