Don't know what you got, till its gone

Probably the best metal ballad ever

Cinderella

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Song facts:

This was Cinderella's highest charting single, peaking in the US at #12. Dan MacIntosh prefaced in our interview with Tom Keifer of Cinderella that the band offered more depth of emotion and sincerity than their Glam Rock counterparts. This song is a perfect example - using it as a soundtrack you can steal yourself back in time where you remember someone, somewhere, and even now you can never say for sure where it went wrong. Maybe you do know where it went wrong. The pain was still the same.

Keifer commented: "I'm sure some songs I write, people relate to more than others. Probably ones we call hits, right?"

The song was recorded at Bearsville Studios in the rolling hills west of Woodstock, New York. Bands often recorded here so they could reflect and get away from it all. Tom Keifer's lyrics of sorrow and forgiveness are accompanied by soaring minor guitar chords, the chords of sadness. Envision inside your mind the beautiful countryside as a painted background surrounding the band as they recorded this beautiful ballad that stirred our emotions on a personal level.

This song was featured in the 2008 film The Wrestler, starring Mickey Rourke. It was also used in a 2003 episode of South Park.

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