I love Bon Jovi. I think he is hotter now than back in the day, and I was a screaming hormonal teeneybopper during his heyday. You Give Love A Bad Name is awesome. Dead or Alive rocks.
But the words to "I'll Be There For You" have got to go down as some of the gheyest, most horrific, pandering to the lowest common denominator lyrics in the history of music. Even as a teenager, I thought they were innane and vapid. It's like someone tried to find as many lame metaphors as possible to cram into one stupid song, while making sure they all rhyme. NO creativity. They could have been written by some trucker hat and wife beater wearing bammer inbred whose sister wife done kicked him outta the trailer...
But I will bet that many a guy in the 80s got makeup sex by calling into the Delilah show and "dedicatin' this hyar song to my baby cuz I messed up bad an' I wanner tuh know them other girls twern't nothin'. I luv yew, Judy. I swar."
And Baby you know my hands are dirty
But I wanted to be your valentine
I'll be the water when you get thirsty, baby
When you get drunk, I'll be the wine 
I'll be there for you
These five words I swear to you
When you breathe I want to be the air for you 
I'll be there for you
I'd live and I'd die for you
Steal the sun from the sky for you
Words can't say what a love can do
I'll be there for you
And I wasn't there when you were happy
I wasn't there when you were down
I didn't mean to miss your birthday, baby
I wish I'd seen you blow those candles out 
Damn, they suck.
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