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    Default Van Halen started the “Woke Movement” with this song

    THE DREAM IS OVER by VAN HALEN planted the seed in the American psyche to “WAKE UP”.
    Just like their song HOT FOR TEACHER inspired a generation of gorgeous teachers to hook up with their students, THE DREAM IS OVER took it one step further and challenged the populace to “WAKE UP” to the nonsensical zeitgeist controlling their lives.



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    Quote Originally Posted by Darby View Post
    THE DREAM IS OVER by VAN HALEN planted the seed in the American psyche to “WAKE UP”.
    Just like their song HOT FOR TEACHER inspired a generation of gorgeous teachers to hook up with their students, THE DREAM IS OVER took it one step further and challenged the populace to “WAKE UP” to the nonsensical zeitgeist controlling their lives.



    Yup, pretty much. And "Black and Blue" started the Black Lives Matter movement. And the Blue Lives Matter one as well, it turns out.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Darby View Post
    THE DREAM IS OVER by VAN HALEN planted the seed in the American psyche to “WAKE UP”.
    Just like their song HOT FOR TEACHER inspired a generation of gorgeous teachers to hook up with their students, THE DREAM IS OVER took it one step further and challenged the populace to “WAKE UP” to the nonsensical zeitgeist controlling their lives.



    Nah Man, BLACK AND BLUE is about “pussy” according to Sammy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Darby View Post
    Nah Man, BLACK AND BLUE is about “pussy” according to Sammy.
    What??!?!?!?!
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    Thought this would get the Fudd hammer by now, but hey!... even the Affleck thread got some traction.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Darby View Post
    THE DREAM IS OVER by VAN HALEN planted the seed in the American psyche to “WAKE UP”.
    Just like their song HOT FOR TEACHER inspired a generation of gorgeous teachers to hook up with their students, THE DREAM IS OVER took it one step further and challenged the populace to “WAKE UP” to the nonsensical zeitgeist controlling their lives.



    The Dream Is Over is actually about a Supergroup called 'The Dream' that Sammy was fixing on leaving VH to set up.

    It featured Sammy on vocals, Debbie Gibson on Guitar, Dave Grohl on Bass and Phil Collins on Drums.

    When it all unravelled, this was Sammy's way of telling the fans why he decided to stay in VH despite the critIcal reaction to OU812.

    I bet Debbie would've been hard to lick in that band. What could've been.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Speedway View Post
    The Dream Is Over is actually about a Supergroup called 'The Dream' that Sammy was fixing on leaving VH to set up.

    It featured Sammy on vocals, Debbie Gibson on Guitar, Dave Grohl on Bass and Phil Collins on Drums.

    When it all unravelled, this was Sammy's way of telling the fans why he decided to stay in VH despite the critIcal reaction to OU812.

    I bet Debbie would've been hard to lick in that band. What could've been.
    Debbie would’ve been better than Vic.
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    Is Runnin' With The Devil actually about DLR's cross country days in high school with his teammate Beelzebub?
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    I'm the One is actually about the location of the lost Night's Templar Treasure if you take the tempo of the song, add all the fret numbers Ed plays, divide it by the number of syllables in DLR's lyrics, then square that by the harmonic frequency of MA's backing vox, line that numeral up with its corresponding variable in the Fibonacci sequence, then count backwards from its location to the beginning of the sequence and divide that number by pie, the answer's main number is the latitude location, and the decimal remainder is the longitude location.

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    Quote Originally Posted by joezlo View Post
    I'm the One is actually about the location of the lost Night's Templar Treasure if you take the tempo of the song, add all the fret numbers Ed plays, divide it by the number of syllables in DLR's lyrics, then square that by the harmonic frequency of MA's backing vox, line that numeral up with its corresponding variable in the Fibonacci sequence, then count backwards from its location to the beginning of the sequence and divide that number by pie, the answer's main number is the latitude location, and the decimal remainder is the longitude location.

    Boom.
    I knew all of that the first time I heard it. Fairly obvious.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Darby View Post
    THE DREAM IS OVER by VAN HALEN planted the seed in the American psyche to “WAKE UP”.
    Just like their song HOT FOR TEACHER inspired a generation of gorgeous teachers to hook up with their students, THE DREAM IS OVER took it one step further and challenged the populace to “WAKE UP” to the nonsensical zeitgeist controlling their lives.

    ...
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    I always thought Megadeth started the woke movement...


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