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Originally Posted by misterfive
However one time in the car I had a chance to really listen to it since I just popped it in and as if for the first time I listened to the part about the father abuse. Then I remembered the way my father abused me in ways I care not to mention. In any case when I heard that I was tearing up and getting kind of upset as if it reminded me of the pain of those memories.
Finally I understood metaphor of the song, I haven't seen my father for many many years yet those memories were as fresh as they were yesterday. The song made me feel a little more secure in myself cause it let me know that such events seem as fresh as if they just happened but life is too short to focus on the bad things cause there is always so much to look forward to.
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Without plastering my personal life all over the internet it was a story like this that made me "find" Meat Loaf and my favourite song, Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through.
I was 7 with a lot going on, and Bat II became an escape route, it was another world that I'd step into and stay there for hours (because we all need a Narnia!). I listed to the lyrics of Objects and it seemed odd, almost meant to be, that Meat was singing those lyrics of the second verse, but it was Rock and Roll Dreams that grabbed me. I can, with my hand on my heart, say that that song changed, if not saved, my whole life.
I think in our darkest days we all need something to pull us through, to keep our chins up and stay focussed, and that's what R&RD did.
"I treasure you love, I never wanna lose it
You've been through the fires of hell,
and I know you've got the ashes to prove it.
Remember everything that I've told you,
and I'm telling you again that it's true.
You're never alone 'cause you can put on the 'phones,
and let the drummer tell your heart what to do".
Right, that's enough deep and meaningful for today...off to think about whether Wario's onto something with this Jim/Masculine thing...
