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The lyrics refer to a guy who kills his girlfriend because he doesn't want her to leave him. Crue bass player Nikki Sixx originally said he took the story from a newspaper headline, but later interviews reveal that he might have just made the whole thing up.
The video was banned from MTV, even though it wasn't particularly violent (except for the lyrics). (thanks, Doodle - St. Augustine, FL, for above 2)
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GO MOTLEY!!!!*NIKKI SIXX IS SO SEXY*
He ended up recording it on tape & delivering it to Nicole as a joke. She got it :). And he threatened to break Jack's knee caps.
"I guess it's a take on Taxi Driver in the sense that if you really love somebody, you would kill them so nobody else can have them, right?"
...it's in Nikki Sixx's book Heroin Diaries. pp99-101
he didn't actually break Jack's knees. In his book it says he "phoned some local bikers and hired them". But then it says, "Nicole just phoned me screaming and crying and telling me that I was a sonofabitch for getting Jack's legs broken....Shortly after Nicole phoned, my contact called and apologised, saying that they hadn't been able to get jack...It came on the news that, by pure coincidence, Wagner had fallen over during filming that day and broken his knee on the soundstage."
pp 102
:)
Nikki found out the girl he was going out with at the time was cheating on him *stupid woman whoever she is* with a guy who had a song called 'You're All I Need' and Nikki wrote this song as a response. He eventually turned it in to her. And of course it became a song.
Here's a little fact: Jon Bon Jovi said that Motley Crue must have written 'the greatest pop song ever' in reference to 'You're All I Need' and Doc Magee (their producer) told him to go back and read the verses.