Jon Bon Jovi married his childhood sweetheart Dorothea in 1989 and they've had four children together: a daughter, Stephanie, and three sons, Jesse, Jacob and Romeo. This song takes a journey through the circle of life, where suddenly the child becomes the parents and the parents are getting older. "I couldn't have written a song like that at 24," the singer told UK newspaper The Sun. "But when you think about mortality, your own kids and your parents getting older, there's a time and a place for it. I'm there now."
The song touches on the theme of parenthood: Fathers love daughters like mother love sons Jon Bon Jovi's family inspired the lyric. The frontman said he sat down to write a song for his children, and after a while he "realized I was writing it about my entire family, my children, my wife and my parents."
The group released the song as the fifth single from Bon Jovi 2020 on February 1, 2021. Though love is a theme that runs throughout the album, this is a rare personal moment for the singer, as most of the other tracks explore different aspects of unconditional love for the world.
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