The Sopranos Theme Song Was Inspired By Real-Life Murder: Still Wanna Keep Humming It?

True Soprano fans will not just read these words, but sing it. The theme song to the series had a huge impact on how the show was received by the audience.

Right after the famous HBO logo appeared on the screen, the show's credits rolled, with Tony driving through Jersey and pulling into his driveway while Woke Up This Morning of Alabama 3 played.

This song fit the darkly humorous mob drama so well, that fans started to wonder if it was written especially for the series. Well, it wasn't.

But we can say that somehow the show inspired them to write it. Or better to say, the one thing that happened literally in every episode of 6 seasons: murder.

The only difference is that this exact murder happened not on the screen, but in real life.

The Alabama 3 songwriter Rob Spragg told Ladbible that the Sopranos theme song was inspired by the case of Sara Thornton, a domestic abuse survivor in England.

In the end of the 80s she murdered her husband by stabbing him while he was resting on the sofa. No, Sara wasn't mental. She was just simply tired of her husband's repeated threats towards her and their young daughter.

Still, Thornton was convicted of murder in 1990. Her lawyers tried to argue that she was desperate to protect herself.

Ultimately, the jury did not find her guilty of murder but did charge her with manslaughter. And in six years she walked out of prison as a free person.

"After years of abuse, she just had enough. So she woke up one morning and decided to go and get herself a knife. That would have been the lyric, but it didn't quite sound right, so we changed it to gun. The rest is history," Spragg told Ladbible.

Still, despite the fact that the song was written about a woman, it really may seem to represent the main character Tony Soprano. Because every morning he wakes up and gets himself a gun…