Bon Jovi - These Days
If you love all nineties music, from hip hop artists like 2Pac and Outkast to big-haired rock bands like Bon Jovi and Alice In Chains, then you are sure to agree that the nineties was one of the greatest eras of all time for music.
It takes a truly talented band to continue making great music decade after decade. Bands like Bon Jovi and the Red Hot Chilli Peppers have been making music for more than 20 years and are still releasing albums and touring today. However, there were an awful lot of bands, like Tonic and Rob Zombie, who have more or less been forgotten about. If you haven't forgotten these bands and you normally listen to their songs on Spotify while you're on the PC playing partycasino.com or sending out a few emails, then this blog post will remind you of another rock band who were huge in the nineties and still remain internationally popular today.
Bon Jovi first formed in 1983 and their song Runaway brought them to fame. Led by 50 year-old Jon Bon Jovi, the rock band have been making music together for almost thirty years now. In the nineties the New Jersey band decided to go back to their roots by playing only a select number of concerts in their home town. Their 1992 album Keep the Faith featured hit songs including Bed of Roses, Sleep when I'm Dead and In These Arms.
Their 1994 Cross Road album featured Bon Jovi's most famous love ballad - Always. It topped the charts for six months and reached number 1 in 21 countries.
Two yeas later the band released These Days. Their music style had significantly changed compared to their previous lively, rock and roll style. The These Days album was much more mellow and depressing sounding. This was particularly reflected in songs including My Guitar Lies Bleeding in My Arms and It's Hard Letting You Go; the lyrics are very depressing and dark. It's thought that the band became depressed over pressures to release another album so soon after Cross Road.
Lyrics
"These Days"
I was walking around, just a face in the crowd
Trying to keep myself out of the rain
Saw a vagabond king wear a styrofoam crown
Wondered if I might end up the same
There's a man out on the corner
Singing old songs about change
Everybody got their cross to bare, these days
She came looking for some shelter with a suitcase full of dreams
To a motel room on the boulevard
I guess she's trying to be James Dean
She's seen all the disciples and all the "wanna be's"
No one wants to be themselves these days
Still there's nothing to hold on to but these days
These days - the stars seem out of reach
These days - there ain't a ladder on the streets
These days are fast, nothing lasts in this graceless age
There ain't nobody left but us these days
Jimmy shoes busted both his legs, trying to learn to fly
From a second story window, he just jumped and closed his eyes
His momma said he was crazy - he said, "Momma, I've got to try.
Don't you know that all my heroes died?
And I guess I'd rather die than fade away."
These days - the stars seem out of reach
But these days - there ain't a ladder on the streets
These days are fast, nothing lasts in this graceless age
Even innocence has caught the midnight train
And there ain't nobody left but us these days
I know Rome's still burning
Though the times have changed
This world keeps turning round and round and round and round
These days
These days - the stars seem out of reach
But these days - there ain't a ladder on the streets
These days are fast, love don't last in this graceless age
Even innocence has caught the midnight train
And there ain't nobody left but us these days
These days - the stars seem out of reach
These days - there ain't a ladder on the streets
These days are fast, nothing lasts
There ain't no time to waste
There ain't nobody left to take the blame
There ain't nobody left but us these days
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