Also if one plunders the Poison catalog -- or, you know, like the entire catalog of all rock music ever -- looking for lyrical cliches, it'll be, as Tom Keifer might say, a long cold winter.
For the record, "Every Rose Has Its Thorn," is good, but not even in the Top 10 of Poison songs.
I'll detail said Top 10* in a book due out in 2014. Tentative title: The Encyclopedia of Pop Metal. Forewards by Donald Dokken, Herman Rarebell, and Mac. I hope to get blurbs from Lonn Friend, Riki Rachtman, and Kyle Kyle, the original Bang Tango bassist.
*"Ride the Wind" is #1!