Seventeen-year-old Miley Cyrus really was wise beyond her years singing this Poison classic.

At just 17 years old, former The Voice Coach Miley Cyrus delivered an epic cover of one of the biggest rock songs of the 1980s: Poison’s soaring break-up power ballad “Every Rose Has Its Thorn.”

What to know about “Every Rose Has Its Thorn” by Poison
Using a simple but potent metaphor, the song is about a cheating partner whom the singer still loves, blaming themself for the relationship falling apart. Released in 1988, “Every Rose Has Its Thorn” was the band’s only number-one hit stateside and has since become their signature song.

“I was trying to capture being at that point in your relationship where it’s not officially over, but it’s over,” Poison’s lead singer Bret Michaels told Louder Sound. “There I was, out on the road, getting to play music for a living, which was the rose. But then there was my exotic dancer back in LA, who I was positive would never cheat on me. Or so I thought. That was the thorn.”