Kings Cross

 The fire happened a significant time after the album was released, there is no connection 

Young people coming from poverty and unemployment in the North East headed to London 

Kings Cross is the station they arrived at 

The tramps, homeless, hanging round begging were a reminder that you might not make it and could end up like them, worse than you had it 

The Streets Paved With Gold myth about London goes back to Dick Whittington 

This song is a stark welcome to reality to those arriving

The man at the back of the queue was sent
To feel the smack of firm government
Linger by the flyposter, for a fight
It's the same story every night
I've been hurt and we've been had
You leave home, and you don't go back

Only last night I found myself lost
By the station called King's Cross
Dead and wounded on either side
You know it's only a matter of time
I've been good and I've been bad
I've been guilty of hanging around

So I went looking out today
For the one who got away
Murder walking round the block
Ending up in King's Cross
Good luck, bad luck waiting in a line
It takes more than the matter of time

Someone told me Monday, someone told me Saturday
Wait until tomorrow and there's still no way
Read it in a book or write it in a letter
Wake up in the morning and there's still no guarantee

"American Reckoning"

 I read through all the comments below before adding my own George Floyd was a criminal, a drug dealer on drugs while committing yet another crime resisting arrest Floyd once held a gun to the belly of a pregnant woman Jon is a father himself Comments below say various things including one saying they are not a Bon Jovi fan anymore The melody is sweet and the lyrics in many ways are touching But they are totally misdirected From These Days onwards Jon has been a multi millionaire writing songs about a world he long left behind During quarantine isolation rich old men like Jon were living as far from real society as anyone could be This song shows how far away he now is It's hard to not blame him, though he is writing a story based on something on TV that may have not been real t him Many people believe Floyd deserved what he got and that it should have happened sooner Am I next ? If s mother saw Floyd holding a gun to a pregnant womens belly would she have said that ? Police should have killed that piece of shit years ago This has nothing to do with Race it never did

George Floyd Between 1997 and 2005 served 8 jail terms including drug possession, theft and trepass 2007 aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon, entered an apartment as a gang of six, held gun to pregnant woman stomach, sentenced to five years Who are you singing the song for Jon ? Who exactly are you grieving for ?

If George Floyd had broken into your home Jon with his gang of big black men, while Dorothea was pregnant with Jake, Stephanie or Jesse, and put his gun against her stomach, would you be singing a song about him ?

DJango castration

 The best payback would have been a progressive combination to maximise the suffering

 Castration here as that was standard

This crap about bleeding out in wrong, slaves were regularly castrated, same method used on steers, and the hot end of the knife would cauterise the wound 

There is a method to castrate that doesn't even need cauterisation, you can look up a clip of that if you're curious

First stage, castrate him

Second stage a public naked whipping 

Have him watch his wife get gang raped first by the white farm hands, then the slaves 

Then give him to the Mandingo for sparring practice, the added advantage that your prize Mandingo, the one we saw earlier, gets better for the practice and wins you more fights

 Finally give what's left of him to the mines for the ending as described 

Mr Olympia

 Haney competed in 91 to win his 8th putting him one ahead of Arnold's 7 

There would have been no point in him competing in 92 to try for a 9th 

Dorian came second in 91 Dorian has stated that if Haney had turned up in 92, then he, Dorian would still have won and been Mr O that year 

Dorian would have dethroned Haney the same way as Jay dethroned Ronnie after Ronnie got his 8th, no 9th for Ronnie, and there would have been no 9th for Haney

 Did Haney stay away because he knew Dorian would beat him? Or did he always know he would retire undefeated once he had his 8th?

Haney had his long run, then Dorian, then Ronnie 

Nasser, Shawn, Flex and Kevin were all runner up under Dorian, usually made up the top four, and any of them could have theoretically won on their year if they unseated Dorian 

Ronnie was way down the list so when Dorian didn't come out for his seventh, any of these four should or could have won that year 

So it was decided somewhere that Ronnie would be put into first place and stay there 

 Nasser, Shawn, Flex and Kevin should each have had a Sandow and held the title at least once in their career, the same way Samir and Dickerson did

1992 

Dorian

 Kevin 2nd 

Shawn 4th 

Ronnie 16th his Olympia debut

1993 

Dorian 

Flex 2nd

Shawn 3rd

 Kevin 5th

 Ronnie no sign

1994 

Dorian 

Shawn 2nd 

Kevin 3rd 

No Flex 

Ronnie 15th

1995 

Dorian 

Kevin 2nd 

Nasser 3rd 

Shawn 4th 

Flex 8th 

Ronnie 11th

1996 

Dorian 

Shawn 2nd 

Kevin 3rd 

Flex 4th 

Ronnie 5th

 Nasser scored 3rd disqualified

otherwise 96 would be

Dorian 

Shawn 2nd 

Nassar 3rd

Kevin 4th

Flex 5th

Ronnie 6th

a chance to have them all together in a classic lineup 

1997 

Dorian last Olympia

Nasser 2nd 

Shawn 3rd 

Kevin 4th 

Ronnie 9th

1998 

Ronnie first win 

Flex 2nd 

Nasser 3rd 

Kevin 4th

 Shawn 5th

We have Flex, Nasser, Kevin and Shawn occupying the runner up top five slots right through there 

In 98 anyone of them could have been number one, with the other three lining up behind them 

Somehow Ronnie comes from lower down the pile to win the show, with the four of them lining up after him 

With Dorian we saw him come 2nd to Haney in 91 then inherit the title in 92 

Jay came up the ranks and held second for consecutive years until he won 

So how did Ronnie jump over the four top guys and then stay there ?

 

Victims of a sudden impact are some of the hardest to treat. 

It’s not just the collision that injures them, it’s everything after, the centrifugal force keeps them moving; tossing them from vehicles, throwing them through windshields, slamming their internal organs into the skeleton, their bodies are injured over and over again. 

So there’s no way to know how much damage is actually been done until they stop. 

You can't prepare for a sudden impact. 

You can't brace yourself. It just hits you. Out of nowhere. 

And suddenly the life you knew before is over. 

Forever.