Interpretation - The more things change

This is one of four new songs on the second 'Greatest hits' album by Bon Jovi. It's about the change in different parts of our lives like the society and our personal life, but also about the change in the music industry and the band itself.

In the first part the narrator says that even if 'the new improved tomorrow isn't what it used to be' and we got the feeling that everything is differnt, it is just the same as before because 'Yesterday keeps comin' 'round, it's just reality'. So, he tells us that everything is still the same even if it looks different from the outside and gives an example : 'It's the same damn song with a diffrent melody'. To go on the narrator describes other situations in life like 'The market keeps on crashin', tattered jeans are back in fashion, 'stead of records, now it's MP3s'. All this stays the same just like the people: 'I tell you one more time with feeling, even though this world is reeling, you're still you and I'm still me'.

In the chorus the narrator seems to talk about the band itself as another example: 'The more things change the more they stay the same, the same sunrise, it's just another day, if you hang in long enough they say you're comin' back, just take a look, we're living proof and baby that's a fact'. These lines tell us that the writers are extremly proud of their achievements, in particular of their longevity for which they name  as main reason that they have always been theirselves. Even - or maybe because - there has been a lot of change through their career they always stayed Bon Jovi - the biggest rock band in the world.