Lyrically I like to use themes that make the listener use his or her imagination, and to give a little of the lessons I've learned in my own life. Th… - Ronnie James Dio

I am not an Atheist or an anti-God person but my beliefs are that you do not have to go to a place to worship, you don't have to go to a house to do that and that God resides in you and me and so does the Devil and heaven and hell is where we live on this earth. If the God that everyone prays to is such a wonderful God he wouldn't have people suffering so horribly as they are.

Summer nights are colder now,
They've taken down the fair,
And all the lights have died somehow,
Or were they ever there?

It correlates itself with the way almost all of the people in this country believed in Richard Nixon up until the time he decided he was going to take a leap off the tower and fell flat on his ass and became just a little lump of blood and putty. That was my way of saying that the common man will always rise above the leader who oppresses them.