Bon Jovi: Bed of Roses Meaning

Song Released: 1993

Bed of Roses Lyrics

Sitting here wasted and wounded
at this old piano
Trying hard to capture
the moment this morning I don't know
'Cause a bottle of vodka
is still lodged in my head
And some blond gave me nightmares
I think that she's still in my bed
As I...

1. cjwachsmuth

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   Dec 31st 2008 !⃝

   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.
2. closer

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   Aug 30th 2008 !⃝

   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...
3. anonymous

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   Nov 13th 2007 !⃝

   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

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