#3 - "Hell Is For Children" - Benatar/Giraldo Song Stories Contest
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
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Thank you so much for all of your stories from the first two episodes of the "Benatar/Giraldo Song Stories Series”! Here's the third episode featuring “Hell Is For Children” and this song has turned out to be an unexpectedly powerful experience in the impact it has had on people.
In this contest, each week we share a video of us sharing the story behind an important song from our career and ask you to share your own stories on how the song has become part of your lives. We’ll give away a signed copy of the new album to our favorite story, but what we really want is to just hear from everyone since it’s just as much your music as ours now! Post your stories as a comment here on this video!
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The first time I heard this song was on my mom's copy of the "Best Shots" album, and at the time, I was hiding the fact that I was being molested by our next door neighbor at the age of 6! Sadly my mom found me at 7 years old, after all of this had happened to me, with "Hell Is For Children" playing on repeat on a little boombox I had, in the bathroom with my wrists slit because I didn't want to live in the hell that I was in! In the mental hospital after that, I sang this song every day for two straight weeks, screaming with Pat at the end and bawling once Neil's solo kicked in crying out "Tear it up Neil! Tear it up!"
This song saved my life and if I ever got to meet Pat and Neil, I would thank them for creating such a powerful song that I will say literally saved my life, because their lyrics expressed everything that I was going through!
Pretty much described my life with an abusive next door neighbor as well as an abusive Step Parent.(Both were drunks).
Not to mention I was also bullied in school.
All of this due to my life long seizure medicine regimen leaving me defenseless against them and the bullies at school.
How I didn't end up dead from Suicide is a miracle in itself.
To so many domestically abused kids in my youth this meant so much. Thank you.
Powerful. love pat benatar.
I will never forget hearing this song for the first time. I was in 8th grade. YOU said it out loud. You said it was WRONG. This song was a first step to normal, to knowing it wasn’t me, to knowing there were others. I am a huge fan and listen to your music often. I listened to this song many, many times through the years. When I saw you in concert (tonight) I never expected to react emotionally to this song. I was in tears, mostly in gratitude for that first step. I looked around and I was not, by far, the only one. The other “one in seven”s were also wiping away tears. From the bottom of my heart, thank you for this song. You have no idea..... Oh, and normal feels wonderful!
This gave me goosebumps. Music can be so healing, and some people really need that medicine! I'm so sorry for what you've gone through and appreciate sharing how this amazing creation truly helped you.
This song was so groundbreaking during this time.Although it doesn't relate directly to me,most of U.S. know someone who is,or has suffered from some form of abuse,unfortunately.😥🤐😣
I heard this song and I always wished you would come and save me. Thank you for speaking up!! Just knowing someone was there fighting for us!!
Be nice I was only 10 so fantasy’s where still there…. A little bit!
Music is an international language
Thank you.
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This song….my childhood in a song. When you released this, i broke down in tears in my boyfriend’s car listening to the lyrics on the radio. He was speechless, he knew some if the abuse, but not the worst parts. But this song gave me power, and permission to tell my truth.
Now, I’m a mother and grandmother, and grateful the abuse wasn’t passed down because I found the strength to confront it and work through the scars it left.
So looking forward to seeing you perform with P!nk this October! And thank you for shining a light on the darkness with this song.
I remember this song when it came out. I was 6. I didn't know my life wasn't normal but did know it was hell. Was trying to find a national organization for adult survivors of abuse and support for community to report. Family doesn't. All I found was one, which had support for the abusers. That would be like RAINN having articles to support rapists. No interest to me but an organization that supports those who went through hell, hell yes. Anyone know of one? Thank you.
It instantly hit home. My father would beat me because I reminded him of my mother. She would upset him, he would get drunk and than it was on. You made the song just right. Seemed like you were quiet talking about the bad parts and then I could release my anger etc at the chorus. Seemed you were the only ones that understood. You never know how much you helped my sister and I get through those years. It's ancient history now. But that song was like no other. Thank You both.
I am so sorry you went through that abuse from a person that should of protected you it happened to me too my alcoholic dad beat me and belittled me but he had good qualities when he was sober
Brilliant. Children suffer in silence, before they even have the ability to form words. Thank you for being a voice. As a survivor, I agree, this conversation must be at the forefront: why is childhood hell for so many kids in this country?!"
Growing up being abused as a child this song is my mantra!! Thanks for writing this song!!
This song weighed very heavily on me as a kid. I cried a lot when I heard it. My brother had the album Crimes of passion and I used to play a lot in my bedroom. I was severely abused myself growing up by my mother. I don’t blame her so much because she was severely abused herself. Growing up out of the depression in Queens New York they had absolutely nothing. I’m pretty sure my mother was whipping post. When I was born, we lived in Brooklyn New York. My dad was in the Navy. Eventually, we moved to Newport Rhode Island for a better life. My parents got divorced when my father left the Navy and my mother didn’t want to go back to Brooklyn so we stayed in Newport but we had to move into a project. That’s when I started being abused, pretty much all the time. When I look back at those days, there were some of the hardest of my life. This song reminds me of how strong I was as a child, and how far comes since. It’s just one of the many reasons why I loved you guys so much. Thanks again! And sorry if you see edited in any of my binge posting of you guys because I’m just seeing all of this awesome content. I’m voice texting on my phone.
Children never forget
Hell is for hell. Hell is not for children or anyone, you matter . Thank you for such a powerful, painful message and song.
Hell is for hell!! Great shredder!!! I knew i wasn’t alone & hurting as a kid back then!! It gave me hope that some folks care. 🏆🎸👏✝️👏🎸
Update, some google searching and I found a support group for survivors. They don't have an online chat, similar to RAINN that provides support via other survivors, one on one and the privacy vs. a public community group or calling when you need to vent or know where those support agencies are and don't want someone to overhear you. They asked me to build it/spear head it. Putting my personal experience/traumas from the age of 4 and my tech skills and trauma/advocacy training to the purpose they were meant. All of it, resulting in something better than what I went through and continued to, because I never faced that monster under the bed. The more support, the more we speak, the more others are heard and can do the same. Stop the silence. Now, this song is my power anthem vs. my anger at the childhood I never had.
I would love to see and meet Pat Benatar in person, and meet her face to face, because I have listened to her music since the 80s, and when I was in highschool.
My stepfather beat and molested me.This song gave me the fire to stand up to him and say NO MORE!!!!!
When I was a pre-teen, I was in a Wednesday evening church service, when one of the microphone cables started picking up AM radio and "Hell Is For Children" was playing.
Awesome song and awesome purpose. Now write and record a song about human trafficking... mostly children but others as well. Beware you are taking on the most powerful in your industry. But slavery must end.
Exactly
All children matter. All kids count. Make a dog happy fix a cat donate to a local not for profit animal or children's charity nearest you
congrats gang, you are finally in the RNRHOF.
Best live version of this song? Friday's. Classic.
I see you both as good if not better than Elton John and Bernie Taupin of the USA. No one has given you two the credit you deserve as collaborators. I hope one day you get the reckoning you deserve. I've been fallowing your work since 1980 and I love you two so much.
i'm a 54 year old, marine corps disabled veteran, in about 1985 i borrowed a friends cassette and put my heahphones on, heard this song, at the time i was hholding a wet rag to my mouth to stop the blood after my mom had just "loved" me again .... the opening lyric "they cry in the dark so you can't see their tears" hit me so hard! thank you for wrting/ singing this song .... i was not alone, i know hundreds of people have told you ... but thank you
A lot of people back then perceived that Hell Is For Children was not about abuse BUT it is where all children should go to ie Hell....but obviously a lot did not exactly listen to the lyrics of the song.
Thank you Neil and Pat for this awesome track , you brought a light to something that for the longest time was kept hush hush and always in the dark . This track means a lot to me because I suffered psychological abuse for about 6 months in my childhood before CPS stepped in , and my wife was constantly abused by her family as a child. You helped so many people like myself , my wife , and countless others with this awesome track. Thank you @BenatarGiraldo
My 11 year old daughter is going to be singing lead vocals on this for School of Rock at a local food hall. It is a great song with a powerful message. One doesn’t realize but music performance is a platform which entails responsibility and gives a voice to individuals and to issues. School of Rock gives the music performance platform to children which is so empowering, especially in sharing issues that directly affect children.
I cry every time I hear this. I replay it over and over. Crying every time. It's exactly what I need from time to time. Releasing. Thank you.
Survivors, in my opinion, need to release this pain. Those that don't risk inflicting others. It's not intentional. We're just broken. It's a lifelong affliction. And it's something nobody wants to hear about.
Courage is your friend. Very courageous piece of art. Courage is the best strategy I am aware of. As survivors carry enough pain to do horrific things. Healing and moving on past all these things is the goal. This is such an honest heartfelt song. I imagine it will be seen as such forever. It transcends time.
The world over for generations, children have suffered abuse in silence and many still do today. Contrast that to the suffering that children go through today that is in the open and yet mostly receives a blind eye.
You two were such a powerful force in the music industry. I, as a young girl instantly felt empowered to endure things I couldn't control or walk away from in life. Your voice, the way you carried yourself, the intoxicating melody. I'm quite certain that you mothered a lot of us in our youth through your profoundly intelligent lyrics. You guys are a force of nature, so much more than just a music duo. I am going to take this time to thank you for your contribution to those of us that had/have an ear to hear.
This song got me through a very abusive upbringing Thank you for bringing awareness to this topic. It made me realize that it wasn't normal to being treated the way I was and gave me the strength to finally stand up for myself. So thank you both kindly 🦁
I need ya’lls health & fitness secrets! You two look so good!!!
Benatar belongs in the Hall of Fame Now!! She's earned it and Deserves it!! Stop the BS
you two then Martina McBride .... 💕💕💕
We are feeling humanity together ❤️
I love you Pat and your Husbend
Thank u pat
I am farrow a perfect person
I believe
YOU didn't mention that religious groups thought differently of the song? I HAVE A SURPRISE FOR THIS: a religious book pointed out that 2 of your songs "Looking for a Stranger" & "Evil Genius" contain SATANIC BACKWARDS MESSAGES. I have played them myself and they are there garbled but still there.