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Red, White and Jersey

Bon Jovi

3:36•glam metal, rock • Album Red, White and Jersey / Hollow Man (with Bruce Springsteen) • 2025-08-29

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Description

Youth smells like gasoline from a convertible, sticky linden trees in August, and a radio turned up too loud, where every song seems to be written “about us.” The simple dreams of seventeen-year-olds - to reach New York with a glance and believe that the world fits into two hearts and one state map. It's funny, naive, but all the more precious for that: blue skies, blue eyes, and the belief that summer will never end. And even though it's long gone, memory preserves it in red, white, and blue colors - a little like a flag, a little like a teenage vow of “forever.”

Engineer, producer, composer, lyricist: John Shanks

Vocalist, producer, composer, lyricist: Jon Bon Jovi

Sound recording: Obi O'Brien

Sound recording: Caleb D. Allen

Sound recording: Chris Lord-Alge

Second sound engineer: Brian Judd

Second sound engineer: Grayson Smith

Sound recording: Ted Jensen

Second sound engineer: Chris Granger

Composer, Lyricist: Ashley Glenn Gorley

Composer, Lyricist: Casey Brown

© 2025 Captain Kidd Corp., under exclusive license to Island Records, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc. ℗ 2025 Captain Kidd Corp., under exclusive license to Island Records, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc. ©

Lyrics and translation

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I knew before I knew ya
That you were gonna be the one
Slow dancing in the fast lane
That's just what we do where we come from
When you lean in to kiss me
Said, "Boy, you don't deserve me"
Yeah, we started cracking up
But now, look at us, look at us, look at us
Yeah, we held on tight
Looking up all night at the lights of New York City
When you're seventeen, those basic dreams where you're dreaming right there with me
It ain't no surprise that your blue eyes still feel like home to me
We'll always be red, white, and Jersey
That summer with the top down
We were singing along to American Girl
Big diamond in a small town
When it was you and me against the world
Yeah, we both didn't know any better
That we'd live like that forever
Yeah, we held on tight
Looking up all night at the lights of New York City
When you're seventeen, those basic dreams where you're dreaming right there with me
It ain't no surprise that your blue eyes still feel like home to me
We'll always be red, white, and Jersey
Now, where have all the summers gone?
Here we are, still going strong, going strong, going strong
Yeah, we held on tight
Looking up all night at the lights of New York City
When you're seventeen, those basic dreams where you're dreaming right there with me
It ain't no surprise that your blue eyes still feel like home to me
We'll always be red, white, and Jersey
Red, white, and Jersey
Red, white, and Jersey

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