Every Rose Has It's Thorn - Poison (cover-live by Bill Sharkey)

Every Rose Has It's Thorn (Poison, 1988). Live cover performance by Bill Sharkey, Home Studio, Hawaii Kai, HI. 2025-06-18. "Keeping the Oldies & Classics Alive"

"Every Rose Has It's Thorn," written by Bobby Dall, C. C. DeVille, Bret Michaels and Rikki Rockett, was Poison's 5th top 20 hit landing at the top no. 1 position on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1988 (Whitubrn, 2013). "Michaels wrote [the song] in response to a failed love affair with his girlfriend, Tracy Lewis. After playing at a bar in Dallas, Texas, Michaels called Lewis at her Los Angeles apartment and heard a man's voice in the background. The next day, the disconsolate Michaels took his acoustic guitar with him to a Laundromat and wrote the song right there . . . He said that the rose was his career taking off, and the thorn was the fact that it was costing him his relationship with his girlfriend" (songfacts, 2025).

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Lyrics:

We both lie silently still in the dead of the night
Although we both lie close together we feel miles apart inside
Was it somethin' I said or something I did?
Did my words not come out right?
Though I tried not to hurt you
Though I tried
But I guess that's why they say

Every rose has its thorn
Just like every night has its dawn
Just like every cowboy sings his sad, sad song
Every rose has its thorn
Yeah, it does

I listen to our favorite song playin' on the radio
Hear the DJ say love's a game of easy come and easy go
But I wonder does he know
Has he ever felt like this
And I know that you'd be here right now
If I could have let you know somehow I guess

Every rose has its thorn
Just like every night has its dawn
Just like every cowboy sings his sad, sad song
Every rose has its thorn

Though it's been a while now
I can still feel so much pain
Like the knife that cuts you the wound heals
But the scar, that scar remains

I know I could have saved our love that night
If I'd know what to say
Instead of making love
We both made our separate ways

And now I hear you found somebody new
And that I never meant that much to you
To hear that tears me up inside
And to see you cuts me like a knife, I guess

Every rose has its thorn
Just like every night has its dawn
Just like every cowboy sings his sad, sad song
Every rose has its thorn