Howard Aronson

Well this is another tune about my addiction and basically a lot like the others just different words you know that I know I have to do something about my problem and if I don't I could die I don't think anyone who hasn't been through it really knows what it's like, although they do have friends and family or you know someone that they know that is going or going through it. We all can have some empathy, and some compassion, for anyone that's in the throes of addiction. My Hope is that someday the world will recognize mental illness and how that precludes the addiction and be more cognizant, patient, and understanding of mental illness. It's too much prejudice against people with mental illness today. Now I'm not excusing anyone who commits crimes such as murder and things like that, and blame it on their mental addiction or mental illness. They are merely reasons but they're not excuses that can be excused. This song is also about being humble and giving back once you get sober. Someone like me who's been trying to get sober and stays over since I was 29, and I'll say it again I'll be 62 in March of 2022, my problem is never being humble enough to recognize that I too can be blind to my addiction and my mental illness. Being humble, and then reaching out to help others, will help me carry on with a much more peaceful life.

The song is about a couple who is knee deep in their addiction. If they don't go for help they'll never make it they have to realize that love is stronger than anything in this world and it conquers all. If they don't get help they will never make it in the world, and throw away a relationship that is once in a lifetime. Song is about hope, healing, love, strength, compassion, empathy, the power of god, and knowing that addiction over anything can be beat.

This is another song about addiction and the struggles that one has in their mind to try and stop the behaviors that come with it. It's really a hard thing to do, when you're in the throes of the disease. It's even more challenging, when you have mental illness to go with it. My adhd, bipolar, depression, and anxiety, along with PTSD, have kept me from achieving some of the things that I really wanted to and know that I could have. The medication works but doesn't totally work. The rest of that is up to me. Has this song depicts, it's all up to the wielder.

a thing regarded as representative or symbolic of something else, especially something abstract. This is a metaphor. It can also be a figure of speech. I believe that death is a metaphor for life. The two are intertwined, or are they one in the same. I guess there's no real definitive answer. Again this song is about someone who probably doesn't regard life as too important and just lives life with abandon. No regard for self, or others for that matter. Just a selfish type of existence

The song you know as most of my songs are a rock ballads maybe some heavy metal maybe some country and blues mixed in there probably more blues and rock than anything. I'm sure that we all know someone who lies to your face and smiles at the same time they're pretty convincing and a lot of times you believe them. They're the ones that stab you in the back, and keep on smiling. I guess I can relate because I was one of those people at one point in my life. When I was an addict, well I still am, but not active in my addiction, I would ask people for things, con people for things most of the time money, and all with a smile on my face. I'd be a great actor if I wanted to put my mind to it. When I moved to Hollywood in 1982 to be a writer and an actor and a comedian, the only person I lied to the most was myself. But there were lots of other people along the way that I fooled. But in the end I was the fool. None of my goals that I set for myself when I moved out there were reached, because of my active addiction. So this song is really about someone who wants told me that I'm the best liar they have ever seen or been around or heard. But I wasn't fooling her and she was the one who really started me on the path of taking a look at myself. Today I don't lie as much, but I will admit that it's tough sometimes not to fall back into the Trap. I do thank God that I'm clean and sober today and I try to be as honest with God as I can be on a daily basis. My advice to anyone who reads this or hopefully wants to buy these lyrics is to be honest with yourself, and say, this is the best goddamn song I've ever read. LOL