“It’s the same old song,
You’ve gotta be somewhere at sometime,
And they never let you fly.
It’s like broken glass,
You get cut before you see it,
So open up your eyes.”

— Ronnie James Dio

"Stand Up and Shout" on Holy Diver (1983)
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American singer 1942–2010

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