NEW YORK, Aug 24 — Bon Jovi have announced their departure from Mercury Records with an angry song on their final record for Mercury, The Guardian reported today.

The title track of the new album Burning Bridges, which you can listen to below, features the lyric: “After 30 years of loyalty, they let you dig the grave / Now maybe you can learn to sing or strum along / Well I’ll give you half the publishing / You’re why I wrote this song.”

The band’s lead singer Jon Bon Jovi was quoted by Billboard as saying: “This hits it right in the head and tells you what happened. Listen to the lyrics because it explains exactly what happened. And that’s that.”

He said the new album had originally been intended as a fan souvenir record to accompany a tour of Southeast Asia. Instead it was refashioned into a collection to fulfil the group’s contractual obligation to Mercury, The Guardian added.

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Bon Jovi recorded 13 studio albums with Mercury over the course of more than 30 years.