"Cool drink of water, such a sweet surprise."

When the record label refused to release their album unless they added a radio-friendly single, Jani Lane wrote the lyrics over the span of about 8 minutes on the back of a pizza box. He was basically doing the malicious compliance thing and wrote "Cherry Pie" as a giant "fuck you" to the label execs. This backfired extravagantly when the label loved it so much that they changed the title of the album at the last minute and only promoted that one track for radio airplay. It's pretty fucked up, because they were more of a blues rock-oriented act than straight-up dumb guy glam butt rock. Then Nevermind hit just over a year later and it was a goddamned Cretaceous-Paleogene event for the hair metal scene anyway.