a. Don’t Cry
The First Stanza
Talk to me softly l.1 Theres something in your eyes l.2
Dont hang your head in sorrow l.3 And please dont cry l.4
I know how you feel inside l.5 Ive been there before l.6
Somethins changin inside you l.7 And dont you know l.8
From the stanza above, the researcher found that Axl could see Stephanie’s
unspoken words through her eyes. It can be seen on the second and seventh line of the stanza:
Theres something in your eyes l.2
and
Somethins changin inside you l.7.
Axl felt that something wrong had happened to his relationship. That
something
was when Stephanie was opening her eyes to the harsh realities of life; e
specially the life reality in Rock n’ Roll or Punk Rock environment at that time, where true “love” is almost impossible to find, because men and women in these
scenes tend to be “adventurous” and go around with different whores. Axl knew what felt by Stephanie inside her heart at that time because he has
experienced the same problem and the same mistakes in the past; and that was the
reason why Axl stated in the fifth line on the first stanza:
I know how you feel inside l.5.
Axl loved Stephanie very much and he didn’t want her to fall in sorrow. After a long time, Axl realized that he was the one to blame, so now he admits for the
mistakes he has done to Stephanie. In the other hand, actually he didn’t want to do
the same mistakes he had done in the past. The sixth line of the stanza
Ive been there before l.6
implies that Axl has experienced something bad due to his relationship in the past with Erin Everly his former wife. This fact can be found
in Axl’s biography.
The Second Stanza
Dont you cry tonight l.9 I still love you baby l.10
Dont you cry tonight l.11 Dont you cry tonight l.12
Theres a heaven above you baby l.13 And dont you cry tonight l.14
Axl tried to calm Stephanie down by saying: “
Dont you cry tonight, theres a heaven above you baby
”
.
Axl realized that Stephanie was truthful and faithful to him, and she was
willing to give him her love as long as he wasn’t doing the same mistakes; or simply let’s say that Stephanie was a good person while Axl wasn’t.