CINDERELLA - "Long Cold Winter"

This song has a deep meaning for me.  I was in a very trying period of my life as a young man and suffering with a deep depression.  I purchased Cinderella's "Long Cold Winter" album expecting a raucous glam fest like their first album "Night Songs."  What I got was a mostly introspective blues oriented album that seemed to coincide with this very painful period in my life where I was losing hope and contemplating ending my pain.  I listened to this album and especially this song through a bleak winter of isolation and self-pity.  Over and over again I felt each note like a dagger in my heart.  But I did not end my life.  Spring came around and the weather was magnificent and beautiful scantily clad girls were everywhere.  I left my self-imposed exile and began to live again.  For years I could not listen to this song or the Cinderella album "Long Cold Winter" because it was just too painful.  But eventually I did and realized these songs were now a tribute to my endurance and strength, not just a period of illness or suffering.  Long cold winters will come and go, but know we all have the capability to survive and thrive.  Mourn and cry for what was lost.  But also know Spring is coming.  You have the strength to change and endure.  Never give up on yourself.  Love will find you.