filly July 18th, 2005 01:54AM  

I Love this song. In Vh1's Storytellers before playing this song Bon Jovi had said that this song was written in a hotel suit. He had asked the hotel for a piano in his room and after all that effort he had gone out insteed of writting a song, so in the morning Bon Jovi feeling bad had sat down with a hang over and wrote this song hence "Sitting here wasted and wounded at this old piano"

It's a beautiful song, I love it.

anonymous November 13th, 2007 03:49PM  

The one above is partly right- well it is right but it has ommited part- jon said in an interview in 2000 when asked if he had ever cheated he said yeah I haven't been an angel and I'm not proud of it but you know that's what bed of roses was about that blonde in the song was really lying next to me and the line I was trying to capture the moment was me trying to work out what the hell I had done

closer August 30th, 2008 08:52PM  

I think this song is just a pure romantic love song. I think the story goes that there was a wedding on, and that jon asked if he could use the piano to write some songs (as the blonde giving him nightmares was his blonde telecaster that he was struggling to write with). He also explains during the concert "an evening with bon jovi" that while in on the long break between New Jersey and Keep the faith Jon was albe to mature and grow as a person, a lover and a songwriter, maybe its a reflective song...

cjwachsmuth December 31st, 2008 01:52PM  

I think that someone he loved or someone that he knew very well died. He's mourning over that person and knows that by 'laying you down on a bed of roses' is that he's letting them go off to a better place. He knows that they're on a bed of roses and probably happy when he is down here, mourning and sad, on a bed of nails (unhappiness). I'm also guessing he's at a funeral. He's saying that he doesn't want to let them go, but he has too, and he wants them too know that they are in his heart and mind and that he cares about them. So to wrap it up, he's at a funeral and his loved one is the dead person. He's hung over from drinking his pain away, and he's miserable. The person who passed away, though, is gone and most likely happy.

anonymous January 13th, 2009 09:25AM  

I've listened to this song several times and have comee to the conclusion that he is having an affair and his wife found out and she has decided that she needs space from him, so he sleeps with his blond mistress to ease his pain of having not being able to be with his wife. He wakes up with a hangover and all that comes with it. He said he'd spend a kings ransom just to see her. When he says he wants to lay her down on a bed of roses i think he means he wants to soften or ease he pain by treating her better. He's hurting therefore he is sleeping on a bed of nails. He says he'd defend her no matter what. He loves his wife and just has a mistress to pass time thouh he knows where his heart lies. He admits that he doesn't understand life and trust and love... This is a song meant for a true love that he realises he had and never recognised

anonymous April 25th, 2009 08:39PM  

I've listened to this song thousands of times, probably my favourite song of all time, and my interpretation of it is a bit different from some others on here. I agree with the piano thing, that sounds plausible, but it's obviously a guy waking up with a stinking hangover. He's away from home a lot, hence the 'I'm so far away, each step that I take's on my way home. A king's ransom in dimes I'd give each night to see through this pay phone' and clearly misses his wife. But he's managed to help the pain of being alone by sleeping with some blonde one night stand. I don't see any hidden meaning here, just some rat-bastard guy feeling guilty about doing the horizontal mamba with some easy lay. Yeah it's a love song, but with some very dubious undertones. And that's why I love it. If I'm wrong please don't tell me, or else you might ruin the whole song for me.

anonymous August 13th, 2009 02:30AM  

i believe it is about a rockstar, who lives most of his life on the road and lives far away from home. Whilst always drinking he is always thinking about his long distance relationship with his wife that he loves.