华丽金属（Glam Metal），也被开玩笑地称为“长发金属”（Hair Metal），兴起于里根时代，是20世纪70年代华丽摇滚和朋克的变种，以西好莱坞日落大道的娱乐场所为中心，风靡一时。Poison是后来者，直到1986年才发行了首张专辑，但他们很快就成为了这一领域最伟大的名字之一。

印在唱片封套上的男人留着黑色的胡茬，发达的肱二头肌上印着纹身，拿着吉他，叼着香烟，状若沉思。令人困惑的是，这位原本男子气概十足的摇滚歌手却有着一头长及肩膀的光泽金发，戴着金质首饰，用口红将嘴唇染成撩人的艳红色。用空中铁匠乐队的话来说，这家伙看起来像个女人。

他就是Poison乐队主唱Bret Michaels，正为分手而忧伤。正是这次分手启发他创作了“Every Rose Has Its Thorn”。这首歌被辑录于1988年的专辑“Open Up and Say…Ahh!”并在日后成为Poison乐队最成功的单曲。它雄踞美国榜首长达三周，代表了加州华丽金属的巅峰。这位看上去像个女人的家伙后来再也没有这样的热情了。

“Every Rose Has Its Thorn” was written while they were touring their first album, Look What the Cat Dragged In.Late one night after a Dallas show, a homesick Michaels rang his girlfriend, an exotic dancer in LA.The rocker was horrified to hear a male voice answer the phone.“Now, a female voice, that I could've lived with, you know what I'm saying?” he recalled.“Hell, I may have even welcomed it! But another guy …It broke my heart.”

“Every Rose Has Its Thorn”是在他们第一张专辑Look What the Cat Dragged In的巡回演出期间完成的，在一场达拉斯的演出结束后，深夜，想家的Michaels打电话给他在洛杉矶做脱衣舞女郎的女友，令他惊恐的是，电话里传来一个男人的声音。”然后，她的声音传来。我本以为我们会携手人生，你懂我的意思吗？”他回忆道，“见鬼，我本期待她的声音，但那个男人…这令我心碎”。

All the pain was poured into “Every Rose Has Its Thorn”.The song opens with a plaintive sigh and strummed acoustic chords.“We both lie silently still in the dead of the night,” Michaels sings ponderously.But when guitarist CC DeVille makes a swaggering entrance with a brooding solo, the mood shifts.The drums kick in, the music swells up and Michaels' voice acquires a certain lip-smacking relish for the infidelity he is supposedly lamenting.

他将所有的痛苦倾注于“Every Rose Has Its Thorn”。这首歌以一声哀怨的叹息和吉他和弦开篇。“在黑夜的死寂中，我们静静地躺着，” Michaels沉重地吟唱。但当吉他手CC DeVille以一段深沉的独奏突然切入，情绪开始变化。鼓点响起，音乐渐强，Michaels的声音似乎是在细细品味这场本应令他哀恸的背叛。

Lyrical contraries recur.Roses have thorns, nights have dawns, a couple lie close but “feel miles apart inside”.To have these juxtapositions sung by a man in lipstick and make-up adds a weird gravity to Michaels' doggerel.

充满矛盾的歌词再次出现。每朵玫瑰都有刺，就像每个黑夜都有黎明，一对共眠的情侣“内心却远远分离”。这些矛盾的共存由一位涂着红唇，浓妆艳抹的男人唱出来，这为Michaels蹩脚的歌词增加了一种奇特的庄重感。

Somewhere in the depths of “Every Rose Has Its Thorn” lie Shakespeare's sonnets.Number 35, to be precise—the one in which the poet forgives the “master-mistress of my passion” for a “trespass” against his love.“No more be grieved at that which thou hast done”, he tells the androgynous youth.“Roses have thorns …”

莎士比亚的十四行诗给了“Every Rose Has Its Thorn”一些深层次的影响。准确地说，是第三十五首，讲述了诗人原谅了他“热爱的情人”背叛爱情的“罪行”。“不要再为你所做的事忧愁”，他告诉这位双性化的年轻人。“玫瑰都有刺……”

词汇总结

pour into注入；倾注；不断地（大量地）流进

All the pain was poured into “Every Rose Has Its Thorn”.

他将所有的痛苦倾注于“Every Rose Has Its Thorn”。

Swaggering大摇大摆地走路，昂首阔步

But when guitarist CC DeVille makes a swaggering entrance with a brooding solo, the mood shifts.

但当吉他手CC DeVille以一段深沉的独奏突然切入，情绪开始变化。

juxtaposition[ˌdʒʌkstəpə'zɪʃn]

n.并列;并置;毗邻

To have these juxtapositions sung by a man in lipstick and make-up adds a weird gravity to Michaels' doggerel.

这些矛盾的共存由一位涂着红唇，浓妆艳抹的男人唱出来，这为Michaels蹩脚的歌词增加了一种奇特的庄重感。