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22 Aug, 2012

What Could Have Been Love

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The band releases, What Could Have Been Love, from their album, Music From Another Dimension!. Tyler:

Marti and I had both been through divorce: Do you ever have feelings about that? Do you ever think about that? It started from there: ‘What could have been love, it should have been the only thing that was ever meant to be, couldn’t see what was right in front of me.’ So many people are getting divorced now. When you’ve got kids, you still love the mother a little bit. Anyone worth their soul will admit it.

Aerosmith - What Could Have Been Love

21 Dec, 2000

Jaded

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The band releases their song, Jaded, from their album, Just Push Play. Tyler:

When I hit on the melody for Jaded, it was so phenomenal that for a while I was scared to do anything more with it. I didn’t even tell the band.

Aerosmith - Jaded (Live From The Office Depot Center, Sunrise, FL, April 3, 2004)

9 Nov, 1989

Janie’s Got A Gun

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The band releasesJanie’s Got A Gun, from their album, Pump. Tyler:

That song is about a girl getting raped and pillaged by her father. It’s about incest, something that happens to a lot of kids who don’t even find out about it until they find themselves trying to work through some major f–king neuroses.

Aerosmith - Janie's Got A Gun

15 Aug, 1989

Love in an Elevator

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The band releasesLove in an Elevator, from Pump. Tyler came up with the lyrics, but was concerned that the title was too juvenile. Perry told Tyler that they already had a song called Dude Looks Like A Lady which worked out very well for them, so they opted to keep the title to the song.

Love In An Elevator (Live From The Office Depot Center, Sunrise, FL, April 3, 2004)

6 Oct, 1977

Draw the Line

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The band releases their song, Draw The Line, from their album with the same nameTyler explains the line from the song, “she was a wet nap winner”:

A wet-nap is something that you wipe babies’ asses with. Back in the day, if you were lucky enough to grab a stewardess on a plane and you came out of the bathroom, all you had to clean up with was a wet-nap. The best lyrics are like the scrambled eggs you have in your head about a situation. And I’ve got this uncanny way of weaving s–t together.

Aerosmith - Draw The Line (Live From The Office Depot Center (Sunrise, FL), April 3, 2004)

27 Mar, 1977

Back in the Saddle

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The band releases their song, Back in the Saddle, from their album, Rocks. Tyler decided to use the cowboy theme for the song after talking with producer Jack Douglas about using the “back in the saddle” line as a way of expressing that the band was back with a new album and ready to rock hard.

Back In The Saddle (Live From The TD Waterhouse Center, Orlando, FL, April 5, 2004)

27 Jun, 1973

Dream On

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The band releases their song, Dream On, from their self titled album. Tyler:

It’s about the hunger to be somebody: Dream until your dreams come true. This song sums up the s–t you put up with when you’re in a new band. Most of the critics panned our first album, and said we were ripping off the Stones. That’s a good barometer of my anger at the press, which I still have. Dream On came of me playing the piano when I was about 17 or 18, and I didn’t know anything about writing a song. It was just this little sonnet that I started playing one day. I never thought that it would end up being a real song.

Aerosmith - Dream On (Live From The Office Depot Center, Sunrise, FL, April 3, 2004)