Homeless Persons' Memorial Day Top 100 Songs
Song #44
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Twisted Sister
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Although the band is often considered glam metal for its image, Frontman Dee Snider considers the term to be inappropriate. Twisted Sister are also ranked No. 73 in VH1's 100 greatest artists of hard rock.
In 1986 the band released their fourth album Come Out and Play. The title track featured Dee Snider clicking bottles together saying "Twisted Sister, come out and play" several times in the beginning, a reference to the 1979 cult classic movie The Warriors, when the main villain, Luther, chants "Warriors, come out to play" while clicking bottles together as well. The album included four videos ("We're Not Gonna Take It", "I Wanna Rock", "Leader of the Pack" and "Be Chrool to Your Scuel") tied together by scenes of Dee Snider in a metal scrapyard being visited by kids and others questionables in need of advice to their problems, to the tune of "Come Out and Play".
"Out on the Streets" is found on side two of Come Out and Play and was written by Dee Snider. There seems to be a concept of life on the streets that surfaces in each song on the album. Not necessarily in relation to chronic homelessness as is known by those experiencing it, but more of a gang-related lifestyle of life on the streets. So, here is two different lifestyles that basically pound the same turf, so as to speak, and it's not that difficult of a stretch of the imagination that people from either lifestyle share some of the experiences such as being lonely, sleepless nights, feeling isolated and that no one cares. These are typical of experiences shared by chronically homeless persons as well.
In 1986 the band released their fourth album Come Out and Play. The title track featured Dee Snider clicking bottles together saying "Twisted Sister, come out and play" several times in the beginning, a reference to the 1979 cult classic movie The Warriors, when the main villain, Luther, chants "Warriors, come out to play" while clicking bottles together as well. The album included four videos ("We're Not Gonna Take It", "I Wanna Rock", "Leader of the Pack" and "Be Chrool to Your Scuel") tied together by scenes of Dee Snider in a metal scrapyard being visited by kids and others questionables in need of advice to their problems, to the tune of "Come Out and Play".
"Out on the Streets" is found on side two of Come Out and Play and was written by Dee Snider. There seems to be a concept of life on the streets that surfaces in each song on the album. Not necessarily in relation to chronic homelessness as is known by those experiencing it, but more of a gang-related lifestyle of life on the streets. So, here is two different lifestyles that basically pound the same turf, so as to speak, and it's not that difficult of a stretch of the imagination that people from either lifestyle share some of the experiences such as being lonely, sleepless nights, feeling isolated and that no one cares. These are typical of experiences shared by chronically homeless persons as well.
I walk alone
Through sleepless nights
I'm just another number
Somethin' just ain't right
Searchin' for something
In this human zoo
Kaleidoscope of faces
Maybe, maybe it might be you
I feel like i lost my way
Things get darker every day that i stay
You're out on the streets
Livin' on your own
You're out on the streets
So far from home
When you're out on the streets
You can't understand what's goin' on
You're out on the streets
Your heart's your only home
The mind it wanders
Through shattered dreams
Hours pass in seconds
And my heart it screams
I can't fight the past
I force back all of my tears
'cause there ain't no turnin' back
Minutes, minutes turn to years
Someone listen to my prayers
Can't help feelin' no one cares, no one dares
You're out on the streets
Livin' on your own
You're out on the streets
So far from home
When you're out on the streets
You can't understand what's goin' on
You're out on the streets
Your heart's your only home
Maybe there's a place for me
Is my dreaming to be free, fantasy
You're out on the streets
Livin' on your own
You're out on the streets
So far from home
When you're out on the streets
You can't understand what's goin' on
You're out on the streets
Your heart's your only home
You're out on the streets
You're livin' on your own
You're out on the streets
So far, so far from home
When you're out on the streets
I can't understand what's goin' on
You're out on the streets
Your heart's your only home
