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Behind me Now Lyrics

All my best days are behind me now
Photographs tell of my wedding vows.
And if you want heroes then i'd sail up to the stars
For all i got beneath my skin are tears and scars.

I've walked in these shoes ten thousand miles
Been through all...

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  1. anonymous
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     Jan 25th 2017 !⃝

    This song is sung from a woman's perspective, delivered in a metronomic style to indicate a despondent mind when relaying graphic details, (to people who would never be able understand), of her experience. She was directly and personally involved in one of the most horrific tragedies that has ever occurred in American history. "What was it like to watch your true love and the father of your unborn child die when he didn't have to?" This was the question judges, reporters and friends would ask her, after surviving the 4/14 Titanic Accident of 1912.

    Madeline Talmage Force Astor's husband would help his pregnant wife onto a life boat, only to be told, (when asked if he could get on the boat because his newlywed wife was pregnant), that he had to stay behind on the sinking ship, because "No men were allowed on the life boats of a sinking ship."

    Yet bobbing on the icy sea, she had to watch the ship go down, and her husband (of less than a year) sail unnecessarily to the stars, (in his painful death- But, there are more painful ways to go, as Madeline will learn: a cross and nails, for one.) There was room for 15 more people in the lifeboat! But try telling this to a judge in 1912. Thanks to the "heros" that wouldn't let her husband on the life boat, their son would never know what it was to have a father. "Thanks a whole hell of a lot for your stupid heroic thoughts!" And, "Thank you God, parents and fairytales for the dreams of happily ever after!" She had to thank the views of 1912. Give her the dream of true love and then just strip in the worst way away from her. Watch him die when there is room in the boat! The screaming, crying, fire and ice. God and men might as well drowned her with him for what was to follow.

    The minds of 1912 wouldn't believe she loved him. "Nobody could walk in her shoes." They could only see she was enjoying her dead husband's money, and the money she received from the Titanic Disaster Fund. "Oh why so broken hearted? You're a rich, high-society bitch." Apparently, back then people just enjoyed the money. Unless she stayed alone, locked sadly in mourning. You're not allowed to feel joy ever again. Thank goodness this is the 21st century. Her millionaire husband left her a stipend on the condition that she never remarry. So she had, what was called, "lonely dollars."

    Maybe her son needed a father or whatever, but she married a childhood friend - her 2nd husband. She lost her "friend" 15 years later to divorce. She tried a 3rd time, a more passionate marriage-bed could be the answer. She married a boxer. That marriage lasted 4 months, ended in divorce. She was 39. She died 7 years later in 1940.

    Happily ever after didn't happen for Madeline Talmage Force Astor.

    A perfect life that would have been a good choice to save, destroyed in confusion of what it means to be a hero. A Dad for the kid, and a family man, probably would've been a good save for everyone. Thanks God! This world is definitely not heaven...just a reminder, he says to Madeline. He might've been mad because "governing society" killed his son, because what human can think straight, when:
    1. the air is ice cold
    2. it's realtime sink or swim and
    3. you are required to follow society's rules?

    But all that is Behind MadelinE (ME) Now. Her happy spirit is off with her first husband with stories of how she tried but couldn't find love without him.

  2. anonymous
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     Jan 25th 2017 !⃝

    This song is sung from a woman's perspective, delivered in a metronomic style to indicate a despondent mind when relaying graphic details, (to people who would never be able understand), of her experience. She was directly and personally involved in one of the most horrific tragedies that has ever occurred in American history. "What was it like to watch your true love and the father of your unborn child die when he didn't have to?" This was the question judges, reporters and friends would ask her, after surviving the 4/14 Titanic Accident of 1912.

    Madeline Talmage Force Astor's husband would help his pregnant wife onto a life boat, only to be told, (when asked if he could get on the boat because his newlywed wife was pregnant), that he had to stay behind on the sinking ship, because "No men were allowed on the life boats of a sinking ship."

    Yet bobbing on the icy sea, she had to watch the ship go down, and her husband (of less than a year) sail unnecessarily to the stars, (in his painful death- But, there are more painful ways to go, as Madeline will learn: a cross and nails, for one.) There was room for 15 more people in the lifeboat! But try telling this to a judge in 1912. Thanks to the "heros" that wouldn't let her husband on the life boat, their son would never know what it was to have a father. "Thanks a whole hell of a lot for your stupid heroic thoughts!" And, "Thank you God, parents and fairytales for the dreams of happily ever after!" She had to thank the views of 1912. Give her the dream of true love and then just strip in the worst way away from her. Watch him die when there is room in the boat! The screaming, crying, fire and ice. God and men might as well drowned her with him for what was to follow.

    The minds of 1912 wouldn't believe she loved him. "Nobody could walk in her shoes." They could only see she was enjoying her dead husband's money, and the money she received from the Titanic Disaster Fund. "Oh why so broken hearted? You're a rich, high-society bitch." Apparently, back then people just enjoyed the money. Unless she stayed alone, locked sadly in mourning. You're not allowed to feel joy ever again. Thank goodness this is the 21st century. Her millionaire husband left her a stipend on the condition that she never remarry. So she had, what was called, "lonely dollars."

    Maybe her son needed a father or whatever, but she married a childhood friend - her 2nd husband. She lost her "friend" 15 years later to divorce. She tried a 3rd time, a more passionate marriage-bed could be the answer. She married a boxer. That marriage lasted 4 months, ended in divorce. She was 39. She died 7 years later in 1940.

    Happily ever after didn't happen for Madeline Talmage Force Astor.

    A perfect life that would have been a good choice to save, destroyed in confusion of what it means to be a hero. A Dad for the kid, and a family man, probably would've been a good save for everyone. Thanks God! This world is definitely not heaven...just a reminder, he says to Madeline. He might've been mad because "governing society" killed his son, because what human can think straight, when:
    1. the air is ice cold
    2. it's realtime sink or swim and
    3. you are required to follow society's rules?

    But all that is Behind MadelinE (ME) Now. Her happy spirit is off with her first husband with stories of how she tried but couldn't find love without him.


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