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? Stigels of Elektra

 "Our hours in love have wings; in absence crutches."
                                                    Colley Cibber


  HIDDEN ARTICLE #2, THE 49TH IN TOTAL (WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT?)

 Some years ago I got across the below text on a tape sent to  me
by, I think, er, a friend of mine. And only recently I got across
it again,  on Meat Loaf's "Bat out of Hell II - Back Into  Hell".
It's the spoken part of a song called "Wasted Youth",  and if you
read  it out loud and with a lot of heavy emotion it  will  sound
close to what it does on the CD.

      "Wasted Youth" / "Love, Death and an American Guitar"
                (I think this is by Jim Steinman)


                     I remember everything!
 I remember every little thing as if it happened only yesterday
                    I was barely seventeen...
          and I once killed a boy with a Fender guitar
    I don't remember if it was a Telecaster or a Stratocaster
         but I do remember that it had a heart of chrome
                and a voice like a horny angel...
    I don't remember if it was a Telecaster or a Stratocaster
        but I do remember that it wasn't at all...easy...
  It required the perfect combination of the right power chords
           and the precise angle from which to strike
           The guitar bled for about a week afterwards
  and the blood was sweet, dark and rich, like wild berries...
         The blood of the guitar was chuck...berry...red
           The guitar bled for about a week afterwards
                 but it rung out beautifully...
 And I was able to play notes that I had never even heard before
   So...I...took my guitar and I smashed it against the wall!
                 I smashed it against the floor!
     I smashed it against the body of a varsity cheerleader!
            Smashed it against the the hood of a car!
           Smashed it against a 1981 Harley Davidson!
                  The Harley howled in pain...
                   The guitar howled in heat!
         And I ran up the stairs to my parents' bedroom
       Mummy and daddy were sleeping in the moonglight...
                    Slowly I opened the door,
    creeping in the shadows right up to the foot of their bed
             I raised the guitar high above my head
           and just as I was about to bring the guitar
            crashing down upon the centre of the bed
                  my father woke up screaming,
               "Stop! Wait a minute! stop it boy!
                 What do you think you're doing?
    That's no way to treat an expensive musical instrument!"
                             I said,
           "God damn it daddy! You know I love you...
  but you've got a hell of a lot to learn about rock and roll!"
 

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