Background
As with most of the songs on These Days,"Hey God" is one of Bon Jovi's darker songs. It brings together different stories of people living on the edge of breakdown and despair,such as a father who claims his family are "two paychecks away from living out on the street",a single mother with a wayward son who has been convicted of killing a police officer,and a young man growing up in the ghetto. Throughout the course of the song,each of these characters cries out for spiritual help.
Richie Sambora said that his inspiration for the song came when he was sitting in his limo and made eye contact with a derelict huddling in a cardboard box on the pavement. Sambora's sense of guilt at this was immense and discussed the incident with Jon Bon Jovi,who was inspired by the view out of the window from 57th St. and Broadway in New York,where a man wearing an Armani suit was next to a man who's sleeping on the street. They then wrote the song in Jon's basement.
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